Hello friends welcome to today's video my name is Lee I hope you're all doing well and in this video we're going to go through all the tips and tricks for how to best catch Alpha Pokemon in Pokemon Legends RCS. Alpha Pokemon are probably one of the best new features that we've got in Pokemon Legends RCS. I mean there are a bunch of really cool features that we've had in Legends RCS but I think Alpha Pokemon are definitely a big draw of this. They're variant of any Pokemon that are available but they're bigger, they're more aggressive and they're pretty much more difficult to catch. You can approach catching the Alpha Pokemon in a very different amount of ways. You can kind of go head on with them, attack them, you can go stealth mode. But in this video I'm going to go through a bunch of methods and probably my favourite ones with how best and easiest to catch these Alpha Pokemon. So let's hop into game and we'll kick off with probably the strongest Alpha Pokemon that we've got available in Legends RCS and that's going to be a god jump. You can just see it over the top here. Now normally there are like I say a bunch of ways to kind of approach catching these Alpha Pokemon. Like I say one of the ways is to attack them head on. We've got to be a little bit careful here. This is probably a good time to talk about an item that kind of helps disguise you and make you not noticed by these Alpha Pokemon and that is the stealth spray. It's not going to make you like invisible to them but it will make you harder to see and it will make it easier for you to kind of sneak around them there. So just want to be aware the other item that we're going to talk about right now is a smoke bomb. A smoke bomb if there on is no grass area then the smoke bomb is your best friend. Like this god chomp it's level 85 so you're going to have to be far enough into your playthrough to be able to get it. But with having no cover in this area it makes it even more difficult. So you're going to really need to take advantage of things like smoke bombs to give you cover at least and as long as you are in here you can stand up you don't need to crouch. God chomp won't be able to see you and especially if you've got that stealth spray active then it makes it a lot easier. The other thing that you can do is have a look at a particular Pokemon's Pokedex entry. If we come to God chomp you can see that God chomp has got its preferred foods and this can be the same for all Pokemon. Now God chomp likes honey grains and beans so if you've got any of these items here you can use these to distract the Pokemon and kind of take their attention off you for a moment while they're eating. It makes them easier to catch as well and you can also get kind of a prolonged period while they're eating if you have these items with cakes. Now you can get these recipes so you there you see you've got a bean cake there we've got their grain cake and we've got the honey cake. So this God chomp's actually sleeping and this is a good kind of another good thing to say. If the Pokemon's sleeping when you are approaching it it's going to be less active obviously not going to be spotting you so much. So you're going to have a way easier time sneaking up on it as well. So you'll be able to tell it's sleeping obviously it will be normally lying down or something like this but if we go to lock on with a Pokeball with it you're going to see the green marker here and these markers here kind of indicate how easy it is going to be to catch. Now God chomp here going to be very easy to catch because it is sleeping we're disguised and that marker will change as soon as it gets up. So if we just throw a sticky glob at it because a sticky glob is another item it's a bit like a mud ball but even for the strongest alphas you're going to be able to use the sticky globs to kind of stun these Pokemon. It takes about four to stun an alpha Pokemon so you can see if we can do this just wake it up a bit and we'll see we'll see. So there we've got one oh here we go it's going to start you're gonna have to be one two three four are we hitting it oh we're not there we go okay so you can see we can hit it there and then we can just throw a Pokeball at it I don't know if this is going to be able to catch it or not maybe it's pretty strong nope there we go so you can see that's that's one method to doing it with the sticky globs for sure that is a method for you to kind of approach the alpha Pokemon now if you get into a bit of a situation there where you you don't catch it and it attacks you and you're kind of risking getting knocked out and you want to avoid use Braviary it's probably the best kind of thing to use to get away from these alpha Pokemon at least in my experience just keep an eye on your screen as well with your stealth sprays as soon as that wears off you'll get a message saying that stealth sprays worn off and you'll need to reactivate a new one because otherwise you'll be more not spoiled by the the alphas so if we drop down here we'll try and approach it again and we'll do the food method so again you want to have your stealth spray on and we got our smoke bombs we've got any left there we go okay we'll drop a smoke bomb down just here that'll give us a bit of extra cover and we'll use one of our bean cakes here and we'll see if we can kind of preoccupy Garchomp enough to sneak up on it with let's see if we can go a giga tin bowl because that's always the style points I feel is it gonna go for the bean cake kind of want to approach it from the back as well if you can get a backshot on these Pokemon it's a lot easier now this is a little bit tricky because we're a bit open here we have got a stealth spray on we want to drop a smoke bomb just so it gives us that cover it's spot us because our stealth sprays worn off as well we left that a little bit too late and yeah it's gonna come for us which is not ideal so yeah we'll try this again I think Garchomp's probably one of the most difficult ones to catch so it's kind of interesting that we can do all these things with it as I say if it does spot you you just want to fly away and just wait until that red kind of eye marker disappears spot us again so we've not been as sneaky as we could have been so we're gonna just approach this from a different angle now and I'm gonna try the bean cake again because we couldn't really get that to work so what you want to do is try and throw in a direction away from where you are so hopefully that kind of draws the Pokemon with its back to you that would that's the most ideal scenario here and you can see here that Garchomp's eating it's markers gone to green and you can gig it some ball at this time just sneak up on it with the self-seria activated we've got the smoke screen has just worn off but that was kind of protecting us and then we've got the Garchomp so that's one way to do this and now we use a different example here we are in the Crimson Merelands and we've got an alpha Rosarade here and you can see here if we come out of the grass you'll be able to see the kind of you'll hear your volume change for one and you'll also see this kind of silhouette appear around your your eye line but as long as you're in the grass you can kind of hide you still got to be careful stealth spray is something I would recommend still but then you're not gonna need the need for any sort of things like smoke bombs now you can see it's got a decent ish catch rate right now but again what you can do is just highlight it and then click down it'll bring up its Pokedex entry and you can see again what foods it's gonna like like the salts mushrooms and honey so didn't mean to throw a pokerball on it you can do that but there are better ways to to approach in it this is one way of approaching it I guess okay another really good example after the Rosarade was kind of failed although it wasn't really a fail I guess it was just a good example of showing you how you can kind of use the grass to sneak up on them not have to battle them and then go from there what I was trying to explain at the time was sometimes when you come across an alpha Pokemon they're gonna be other Pokemon around you you're gonna have to be aware of you're gonna have to be make sure you are stealth use the grass cover if you've got it and you're gonna have to make sure that they're not alerted to you so the grass here is a very good cover for this here across and what you can do is you can lock on as soon as you're locked on it'll bring us Pokedex entry up if you press down and then you can have a look at the food some mushrooms honey grain and beans and what we want to do is try and find some sort of cake the cakes are the best because they're gonna mean that it takes a lot more time for the alpha to eat it and we'll just show you here so this hair across here it's gonna go for this in cake and you'll see it's yellow now it's green okay so that instantly makes it easier to catch right and you can see the amount of time that it takes for a cake to be eaten now if we go to just say just a bit of honey and this is a considerable amount of time that you're gonna have a lot of time to sneak up on it it's gonna be distracted and pick it up now it's finished eating it goes back to yellow now if our stealth spray has worn off so we need to be a bit careful but if we throw just a normal bit of honey out and we can see it will have the same sort of effect but you won't have as long and without a stealth spray and it isn't as strong either so you're not gonna have as good chances to get it now gigaton balls are an almost guarantee and you want to go for the back shot sneak up on it and then hopefully that is gonna be a wait oh and then you want to dodge out it's gonna is it gonna spot us yet it's not spot us get your stealth spray back on as soon as you can get into the cover and hope it hasn't spotted you it has bought us I think it has bought us has it no I don't think it has so there is ways you can kind of distract it with the honey cake quickly get that honey cake on and then we can wait for it to start eating we've got that green and now you can just sneak up on it gigaton ball it we can pretty much touch it get that gigaton ball there and because it's green gonna have a better chance to catch it and that should lock it in and there you go you see so there are ways to do it quite stealthily you don't need to engage in battle obviously there are ways that you can kind of just battle Pokemon as well if they are an alpha if you've got a strong enough Pokemon team and you can come and battle the alphas because they're gonna give good payouts with with items etc and it's also maybe an easier way for you to approach it rather than going down a route where you have to play that kind of the stealth mode now as you see when you approach an alpha like this this is gonna be one of the first ones you're probably gonna come across in obsidian field lands and it will notice us and as soon as it notices us you can just engage in battle with it and you're gonna have a few ways to approach this you can throw a pokeball straight at it or you can just attack it kind of weaken it a little bit you can see they're all gonna be very high levels and once you've weakened it a little bit you can then just approach to throw a pokeball at it ultra ball whatever you want at it and then that should be a way to catch it so this is probably the most simple kind of straightforward method but like I say you want to be able to utilize the items that you you've got access to the sticky globs are gonna be a really good one the smoke bombs are gonna be a way for you to have cover and then the cakes as well and these can all be obtained from in jubilee village okay so when you're in jubilee village you're gonna have access to the shop area of the trader here and I will be doing a video on how to unlock all the items from the trader here you can see here you've got all your pokeballs you've got your healing items but you've also got access to the stealth spray the sticky globs and the smoke bombs and also the scatterbanks as well as well as all the cakes they're not too expensive and especially if you know how to farm money in this game do check out my latest money guide where you can go and just really really farm money very easily or farm items for money very easily and then when you've got the items for the money it's probably best to buy the items rather than farming them yourself because you can craft all of these items but I would say this chap the crafting store is the one to come to you can buy your crafting materials here to make the sticky globs smoke bombs and and everything that you're gonna need as well as your kind of pokeballs as well and the item cost is way cheaper here and you can also buy the recipes from this chap as well so you can see here I've got the sticky glob recipe there you've got a star piece if you want that and then you've got all these other kind of cake recipes bean cakes and everything that you're gonna need to to kind of craft these items so you can see here and craft some some honey cake if you want dazzling honey and cake lure base that's all you kind of need so it's easy enough to get all of these items that you need to take out into the field and make this process a lot easier so like I say check out my money farming guide on the channel because it is gonna make just getting these items a lot easier to take out on the field and hence it'll make catching the alphas way way easier so I hope friends you found this video useful there are a lot of tips in here but primarily it's just about being stealthy it's about not having to engage in battle and if you do you've got the option to either throw a Pokemon added or play around with it have a bit more fun with the sticky globs try and stun them and things like that and then catch them that way and it's it I find it a lot of fun going I love the stealth mode in this game that you can apply that to catching the Pokemon and you've always got a chance to get a shiny alpha as well so if that does happen make sure to drop a safe straight away if it goes wrong then at least you can come back in and it should still be shiny for you to catch but have fun hope you found these tips and tricks useful and ways to approach an alpha Pokemon and something that you might apply in your own games if you've got your own methods definitely let me know down the comment section below I love hearing about how other people are approaching catching these alphas I go and head on are you going to just be like man I'm not taking any medicine or do you like the more hikashi ninja style and sneak up on them and try and get them that way friends thank you so much for tuning in as always the support on the channel is amazing thank you so much do check out the other legends RCS content that we've got on the channel and thank you so much again we'll be back for another video very soon on the channel until then take care of yourselves as always and bye bye


We have Silver Up $0.27, $23.08 an ounce, Light Sweet Crew up $0.91, $76.99 a barrel, notes and bonds. The 10-year down 5 ticks, trading $1.2908, 30-year off a full point plus 2 ticks at $1.5627, and $KingDollar. $15 up $41 ticks, trading $96254, Euro is at $112, the yen is at $116.12 and the British Pounds at $135 to $1 at US Dollar, and this is going to get really intriguing folks because you get over to the spy and what you have here, we should have got a lot more volume on the spy even though it gave it up on price, but the bottom line is that you're going to have a confirmed ABC structure on the way up. You took out $478.81, we went to $479.98. We need 47 million chairs, we've done 43. So that's telling me that guess what, this 500 and the spy is still game. Now, different ballgame inside, well not quite the different ballgame, but this is what you have in the cues. The cues that you have, they very well could have been an ABC structure up too, and in fact they still can be. That being said, however, bottom line, they came down with an expansion of volume. So what we're going to do out here today, you get $45 million so far, we'll probably do about $60 million. That being said, when we went downtown on the 16th of December, well we did $82 million. So you're going to need a lot more selling inside of the cues than we actually had today in order to basically get to the low end of this consolidation, which is the $377. We definitely had huge divergence out here, whereas the Dow Industries took out its high. And if we take a look at the volume characteristic in the Dow Industries right now, let's see. So we're dealing with, it's going to be easy to deal with, that's for sure, but we're dealing with the 30th. Yeah, we're going to, the Dow Industries will say it's an ABC up too, so it's a big one too by the way, because your B point would be $36,680 and your A point is $34,660. So what did I say, $38? $36. So you got a couple thousand points here to get you up to $38,200. Stay right there folks, come right back.


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It seems like it's a bit of a new wave coming into the series and we're starting to get some new results. We're both young, we both let it hang out a little bit more than probably the others, you know, because we're young and wild, you could say. Dan is, like, as you see him on TV, he's a lovely kid and obviously he's got a great future ahead of him and I'm sure that he's going to be well-champing in the near future. About him? I don't care. I like the way he rides, I think he's got a pretty cool style. He rides really well in Australia, he's obviously an Australian champion. Yeah, Jack's doing really well for himself and for the country and hopefully he can be out there in the end. I don't look at anyone down the pits, you know, I'm here to do my job, I'm here to race for myself and chase that dream of mine. The new things for the guys and something you don't do every day. That was a lot of pressure for that one, you know, it's massive, I think 55,000 people, it's in Poland, you know, where the sport's the biggest. Because this is a track you don't ride on every day, so you're trying to, like, find the lines, find the cambers, find the right seat, the track's 45,000, 50,000 people, it's quite a rush. Rock solid, Jack Holder's been this evening. Taking the semi-final and, you know, it popped out and, yeah, made my first final and I couldn't believe that, I was happy just to get anything in the final. I made another good start and I was in front, I was gone.  Yeah, I've seen this red flash in the corner of my eye and I was like, no, no, no. Oh, Holder was so close to winning his first Grand Prix. This is the unfair decision for, they should have declared the race, I think, 100% after that, that was no point in that race that the second place rider was going to pass, Jack.  Jack, hey, I feel sorry for you a little bit, mate. Welcome to Tetro here in North-East Germany. It's round four of the SGP World Speedway Championship. Being as authority on heat could be wrong today where he just blew everyone late on in his final session too. It amazed us in Tetro that he went half a second faster than everyone, maybe nearly a second for most of the guys in the field in the qualifying. First rider to select for second semi-final is Dan Buely. Please select your colour. Dan selects the red gate position. Next to make the selection is Jack Holder and Jack selects the yellow gate position. You know, gate one, you couldn't really lose, I didn't feel like the way the track was, you know, it was almost a golden ticket. But, you know, it was nothing for certain in sport and, you know, I just had a small problem at the start. This drama, oh, he's going to be, he's going out of time. Can you believe this? Unbelievable. Has that bike just given up the ghost? No, he's trying to start it, makes him think it. It wasn't even, I wasn't angry, it was just disbelief and then, you know, after five minutes, you know, all you can do is kind of just, you know, kind of laugh at it. Oh, that's a huge blow for Dan Buely. You've got to feel for him there. He's the best man on the track that was in her meeting. Such a disappointment for Dan Buely. I just need to, you know, get better in that final part of the meeting and start scoring some points but, you know, 100%. You know, I feel really good on the bike and the team's awesome, you know, they're doing an awesome job and just down to me now to kind of put the pieces together. To be honest, before the GP Milleau, I wasn't even sure if I should be racing on the Saturday. Good to see Buely in his first final, should have made a final earlier on her campaign truth, but could he get on the roster tonight? I had pretty much just a terrible two weeks, just kept crashing every weekend. He's really winding it up, but the grip is not out there for him to do his usual thing. There was a little root on the inside and it was pretty hard to catch it, but when you did hit it, you just had so much speed that if you missed it and went too far, you lost so much speed. So he missed it, I called it and that was it really. I don't even know if I was happy on the podium, just being such a tough week and with just so much going on and kind of relieved, but I don't know what. It was just a strange emotion, just pretty special to be honest. It felt completely different to anything else when I won before. I can't really clap, sorry mate. It was a pretty complicated sort of break that I did, I did a pretty good job and yes, very painful. A reserve replacement Jack Holder will be replaced by Chris Holder after injury. Very frustrating. It really hurt me a little bit because I was sitting third and I had a pretty good points gap between fourth place and so on, so that was very disappointing. Fifth place, but he's not far behind Martin, actually. It seems to happen, doesn't it? You come back from injury and then something like that happens. I didn't think it would be, you know, that painful and, you know, the first race that, I mean, pretty much straight on it was an ideal. You know, I knew they were going to try and push me around a little bit, you know, though I'm injured so they're going to try and, you know, if I go down then maybe I'll be out of the meeting or anything like that, so I knew it was going to be tough. The aggressive stuff from the Australian comes round the outside, picks the front down and back straight for Jack Holder. It was getting worse and worse and, you know, I was doing good, so I just had to keep going with it and I had my brother and my girlfriend in the pits, you know, just trying to massage it and do whatever they could.  I won two races and was feeling good and just need one point from the last ride and to be honest I think I have the best gate at every chance to make it. To be honest, when I just maybe nudged forward a little bit and then launched into the tapes, just, you know, at that moment I was pretty gutted, you know.  I guess as long as you can kind of learn from it and just, you know, be better in the future and it's okay, but I'm sure, you know, in the moment it's good. It's an amazing feeling. That one was definitely special, you know, from the pain that I had gone through, you know, leading up to it. I probably came back a little bit too early, but as I said, you know, I was in the points hunt for a medal, so I had to do what I had to do. I'm just getting better and better and it's only the beginning.


Hey, thank you so much. While we're fiddling with Pables and bits and pieces here, I'm really, really happy to be here this morning. And I went to bed early. And for once, I don't have that Sunday morning Drupal Camp headache. And I'm really, really grateful that, so I say this a couple times here, who's been to a pre-note at a DrupalCon? Oh, that's awesome. So all of you, thank you for getting up that early, you know, twice a year. That's really, really important. Thank you all for coming this morning as well. I really understand that it's tough to do this a lot. And I'm very, very grateful. This is the fifth time I'm speaking at a Drupal Camp London. I'm actually really, really proud of that. I realized last year that I had been at a speaker at every single CXO of a Drupal Camp London and had never been. And that, I don't know, that feels cool. That feels great. And I love doing my part. And I want to tell you just a little bit about what I do off the cuff. And before we get into this, so Drupal Camp London is actually special to me. And I really think that this is possibly the best Drupal Camp in the world. We can argue about that camp. You know, there are some great events. We have great community. We have great colleagues around the world. The bad camp is amazing. And there are others that are really, really great. But this one also holds a special place in my heart. One of the early talks I gave at the CXO, I don't actually don't remember which one it was. Business value of Drupal. AIDS went to choose to use Drupal 7 or Drupal 8, like all these topics that we've got over in the last few years. So what I do, I try to understand what you all build with code at some useful level and then figure out how that benefits people and explain it to them. You know, a lot of my talks will be called the business value of something. I'm talking about the business value of contribution at Word Camp in a couple of weeks here in London. And I love that. And I love being able to tell the business people, hey, so down in the geek trenches, this is what we do and this is what we care about. And I love telling you people that actually this stuff that we do, it can make the world better and it can do all these things. And I love that. And I tweet about it and I really, really love talking with people on my podcast, all that stuff. But the moments that are the best for me, someone came up to me at Drupal Camp, and they said, hey, so I went to your talk at Drupal Camp London in 2013. And when I went home, I started a business in France and I have my own Drupal company. I feed my family with Drupal because of your talk. And that's it. That's a hefty responsibility. I'm a marketing guy.  So I've been doing Drupal since 2005. And this is really my home. And thanks for having me this morning. Now, you're all doing it wrong. No one wants a website. I'm kidding. Yes, so I do a podcast and you can find me online. And please subscribe on my tunes. I put the whole archive back up. And it's one of my favorite things to do. And today, listen, selling Drupal is not enough anymore. And there are other ways to look at what we do to help businesses today and help our own businesses today. And I don't just want to talk in the abstract. I have a bunch of examples from our community about people who I think are doing their Drupal businesses in a way that's right and that's helpful. And I want to share some of my thoughts about how you can go and do something like that. Two, I talk with a lot of people. And the last couple of years of the Drupal 7 release cycle were pretty tough. And I had a lot of discreet private conversations with the people along the way. But sitting here today, how many of you will admit that you had pipeline problems, you had difficulties that the Drupal 7 cycle in the end was pretty tough? No one that's OK. Oh, OK. Yeah, so yeah, that was tricky, right? We took a little bit long to get Drupal 8 out of them. Now, with Drupal 8's release, and now it's been out for a year, and now it's getting the amount of awesome that is being added with every point release, all of you people who put your hand up, are you all doing better now? I hope really hope you are, OK? Who's not? I'm sorry to hear. Maybe, hopefully, I don't know. So a lot of people that I talk with end up being in Europe, and APAC, and so on. But in the United States especially, and in some other places, there's this thing called the Drupal Blues that's been going around. Who's heard of the Drupal Blues? My understanding is that there are people who are not doing any better, even though the Drupal 8 is out and we've got this incredible toolkit, and I was looking at it, and I was trying to figure out what it was, and I think I spotted a pattern after a few conversations with some people. But I think it's because a lot of us are selling Drupal. I think we're selling websites. We're selling code, or we're selling coding. Now, 10 years ago, just having a website was transformational in business terms. Not everybody did. Nowadays, everyone does. A lot of people don't know why they do, and they don't do much with it, but having a website doesn't transform your business. And you need something especially good-looking, or especially powerful, or especially functional, somehow, for a website to be special now. And a website is often only important nowadays. If it's driving a lot of data to you and you can do something with that data, it's not just a, otherwise it's just a kind of a fancy display ad, right? And I hate to say this, but your skillset, the ability to make functional, powerful, attractive websites, which was transformational 10 years ago, which was a good base to build a business on, is also a commodity now, right? Talk with Tim Deeson about this. He says the work that used to be complex for bespoke, even using Drupal, is increasingly being provided by standardized libraries or SaaS platforms. Clients are bringing in simpler tasks in-house and are more comfortable managing digital production teams than ever before. What were previously high-value complex solutions are increasingly becoming commoditized, and clients' expectations are evolving. Digital agencies are facing competition from the automation of some of their production services, standardization of some services through SaaS, and so on. I believe it's more important than ever for agencies to understand how they're creating value for clients. So this is what I want to get to. I have this idea of the value chain and where you sit on the value chain. And if you're at the bottom of the value add chain, if somebody comes to you and says, put the log in here and make the background purple, and I want to slide through there and my blog there, you're not actually delivering any value. And you need to move up the value chain.  And that's what I want to talk about today. So my first example is the company where I was the 18th employee and we're now hitting 800. So this is either the most recent or the second most recent corporate mission statement thing. You get that when you turn into a giant whatever it is that AQUI is. Global organizations use the AQUIA platform to deliver experiments. Well, there's no Drupal in there, OK? So look at AQUIA. And AQUIA is a great example of exactly what I'm talking about. AQUIA is, let's see, nine years old. And when we figured out a business model, we offered SLA-based support for Drupal. And then we figured that really to provide successful Drupal experiences, we needed to build the hosting platform. The hosting platform became the cloud thing. And with the spam fighting and with the uptime in the backups and all this stuff, five, six years ago, the ability to do that was transformational. Nobody else did support before we did it. Lots of people do now, and that's good for our ecosystem. But all of these things let us build a business model and grow and succeed. And I contend, however, given that we have very worthy competition in the hosting space. Thank you. And in the support space and in professional services space and all these things, people need these. But a lot of this is commodity now. The ability to run a great secure hosting platform is not magic. So this is no longer transformational. We do all of these things still, but our focus is no longer on building that business. It delivers revenue. It delivers very important services for clients. But it's not transformational. So Acre has been undergoing a change for the last couple of years. And I think this year it's actually going to become visible. What we're doing now is helping large organizations, especially, be successful at their businesses in the digital age. So you'll see the lift three personalization tool. It actually works. It's really cool. And the hosting platform is getting an update. But there's all these services focused on, how do we deal with chatbots? How do we deal with the internet of things? How do we go forward with the way the digital world is changing? And the word Drupal isn't there. We still do Drupal. We still host Drupal. We still provide all these services built on and around Drupal, but Drupal itself isn't the focus. We're adding value in the ability to do complex business in the digital age. So that's been a pivot that we're undergoing. And I think it's going to happen now visibly. Nowadays, WordPress and Wix and Squarespace will deliver you a perfectly decent looking, performing functional site. And we have no bottom end of the market except the sites that we build for our own friends and family and schools and communities. It's not much of a business proposition to be building small sites at this point. And frankly, it's a big question for a lot of people if you even need a website anymore. I think on principle and because we're open source people and because we want to defend the open web, we need to maintain our own properties and we need to build our own communities. But a lot of people will tell you having a presence on Medium is perfectly good enough. Having a page on Facebook is good enough. A friend of mine paid 1,500 euros this week to take over a blog that already has an audience and so on. And it's about Jin and that's a small passion of mine. And it's very interesting. I have some bottles that she doesn't have so I'm going to feature them on her blog and we were talking about this and it's really interesting and even more interesting. She gets sent a bottle of gin a week to review. But that blog is just a Facebook page, right? So what does she need to do to build analytics to communicate with her audience? She does nothing, right? That's really tricky for us. It's really, really tricky. It's not a good answer. So the bottom end of our market is kind of being eaten away. It's really dangerous. There's been a lot of angst about Drupal 8. But I think that Drupal 8 is not the problem, right? The changes in Drupal 8 haven't created these problems for us. We've been given this incredible toolset. All these amazing possibilities and the rate of change in Drupal 8 lets us do much more interesting things. And I think we should use this to have more interesting conversations with our potential clients and we get to build more interesting stuff, right? So we have this problem that not enough of us are delivering value beyond code. We need to think about that. So how do you stay relevant today? Well, you shouldn't sell Drupal. Been saying that. You need to offer actual business value. Now, you might have experience or insights into a particular thing. Is Ronald here this morning? He didn't make it. Ronald grew up in Cyprus and his family has a tourist property. And a decade later, we have Rumofar, right? He knew about that vertical and he made something in code that solves this problem to that state. That's a great way to go forward. You could build something with Drupal and then sell it. You could make a product of some kind. But you might, like, actually use Drupal in a way to facilitate other kinds of change and other kinds of business things happening. Who has seen the Golden Circle? It's a pretty familiar concept. I've been fascinated by it ever since I saw it. Shout out to this guy, Simon. Simon, he's done a couple of other things that are really interesting. It's worth checking him out. And he has a book called, It Started with the White. So who wants to tell me I need to volunteer? What do you do? What do you do? What does your company do? You make software that makes movies. And who here builds websites? What do we do? We build websites. Yeah. Oh, come on. This is a Drupal camp. So this Golden Circle thing, if we start with this question, what do you do? Well, you know, we sell Drupal. I want a website. What do you want? I want a website. It's the wrong way to go about this. There's this idea that you have to start with the why. You have to understand why you're doing something before you can get to how you might do it to get into the actual actions that you take. So as Tim Deeson says, nobody wants a website. And so I talk with Megan Sanaki a lot preparing this. And she and I are talking a lot about she comes from this really hardcore business background. Actually, she worked for Hewlett-Packard and all sorts of things before she came to Drupal. And we've been talking about this a lot and trying to figure out how to help move our community forward and think about Drupal differently. And she says, you need to, well, it says there, right, everything it says on the slide. Plus, right, so create new opportunities for people, but knowing Drupal is not enough. It's only part of the solution. So you have to figure out why? Why is someone coming to you? Why would someone work with you? No one wants a website. What do people want? They want happier customers. They want better informed, Tim built a medical website. I want better informed surgeons. I want surgeons to know how to do the latest technique on me if they have to operate on me. And I need a digital strategy to do that, right? I don't need a website for surgeon training, let's say, because you might decide not to build a website at all today. There might be another delivery channel. So Tim explains this concept of what Megan calls a consultative sale. We're always looking at what are the KPIs that'll actually measure the business impact of the platform that we're going to build rather than who should be the biggest on the homepage. And whenever we get into those debates, we know that we've lost sight of some key goals and things for the business that really matter. We are typically engaged by clients at a business value level. They may want to monetize content or be more effective at engaging with a key user category. We work backwards from key business outcomes, the why, to deliver a solution. And after launch we work with them to continue to optimize its performance. And Tim, I did a podcast with him recently, it's online. Tim gave me the best paradigm yet that I've found for thinking about where to, how to think about delivering value for clients. If you're told what to do, right? Put me the login box there and make the background that color. That's one level. Do for me is the first level. Help me think is the next level. And if you get to help me think, then you're already starting to use your skills and expertise and adding value to the project because you can get into the UX side of things. So I have these goals. Help me figure out what features on this website would help me get to that goal. And that's like, that's a better place. You're actually, what you know adds value to that project. But where you want to be, you want to have partners and clients who come to you and they say, think for me, right? That's strategy. They come to you saying something like, I need all of the surgeons in Europe who do heart surgery to understand these training techniques. What are we going to do about it? That's a nice brief tab, right? Then you can figure everything out. You can work on an overall strategy, you can have a strong digital element if it needs to, but it's an open brief to solve this important problem. And that gets you much, much higher in this commoditization curve that gets you in a position of expertise where you can charge the proper amount for your time and so on. And all of the other phases are easy to nearshore or offshore or automate, but when you're an expert and I'm thinking for you, I'm helping you with this stuff. It's very, very hard to replace. And it'll help you, it should help you sell better and it should help you retain those clients and build working relationships with them over time, right? Because you're adding something that no one else can and you're adding something that can't be cheaply replaced somehow. So, right, and clearly like the silent corollary here is you shouldn't really compete on cost because competing on cost will take you straight into the space that you don't want to be in. Lucas Fisher, morning Lucas, hey. So Lucas runs a really nice agency in Switzerland called Netnode, they've been around for a long time, clearly successful at what they do. And so this one business model that works in adding value is being a full service agency providing strategy and all these sort of things. And Lucas says, most of the time people contact us because they need a new website. Now we have two options. We can create a website and make money, right? Or we can ask the client what they want to achieve with that project. And that lets your agency build a roadmap based on proper strategy, maybe starting with a website but then we can have conversations about inbound marketing, tracking e-commerce processes and so on. And the money shot from Lucas is we use Drupal as our core framework for all sorts of applications like websites, content portals or marketing solutions but honestly, Drupal does not create value for our clients, right? It's Lucas and his team that create value for the clients. Now you've got this, you know, Drupal not creating value, you've got this huge toolkit, you've got a Swiss Army knife here in Drupal that has got a massive amount of capabilities that a lot of people haven't thought about yet. All of the possibilities of decoupling, all of the possibilities of running federated content and having a central repository and all of these things. And the multi-limb, well, I mean, whatever it is, there's so much in Drupal that we can talk about so you can help other businesses move into a white space to do something new. You can use that thing to start new conversations, right? And that's great because you can show them new places that they could be getting value, new things that they could be doing and that's using your insight into the platform and your knowledge of how the technology works but thinking about what kind of value it could deliver that they're not taking advantage of yet. And that's a huge advantage for us. So if you find yourself competing on price, if you find yourself in a space where there's a lot of people doing the same things and gosh, I gotta get another, I gotta get a couple months out, not sure how we're gonna pay the bills, give another discount, that's uncomfortable. Go find something else that you can do with Drupal. Go to a space that's less crowded, right? If everybody's selling shoes, this is a dumb analogy, but look, if everybody's selling shoes, right?  Go and think about doing something different with the tool set that you know how to use and find people out there. And this will help you avoid the problems that we have with the globalization and selling hours and all of that stuff and you can protect your margins while remaining competitive but simply finding new ways to compete. So to do that, right, to find a new white space, you can use this, you can use this golden circle and you need to analyze, you need to find your why, you need to find your why. So analyze how the world is going, analyze what's going on here, analyze what sort of things people are going to need and paint a vision, set up a vision, you can call it the poll star, the MIT, I think business school talks about setting a poll star goal, right? So your company might be doing all these things now and you get revenue from that, but if you have a goal where you want to get to, right, and you've analyzed your situation, you find your white space, you find a more competitive area and you want to move to that, right? Then you can start to figure out how to set metrics so that you can start turning what you do, you need to make money with what you've been doing but you can figure out how to start turning your company towards being that new thing and it's really, really tricky. You have to challenge the status quo and get to doing a new thing, right? But maybe you can sell to new customers, you sell this new different thing, right? Or maybe you figure out something that you can do on top of what you've been doing and just increase your business that way. I mean, there's a thousand ways to do this but you set a new goal, right? And then how you're going to get there, set the new metrics, figure out what the, and then you can go and do the actions that'll take you to being where you are but first you have to understand why. Why do we work? Where could we be, right? How could we build a business to get us there? Now we do it and if you do it in the wrong order, if you start with the what, like how we build a new product and we're going to contribute to open source and we're going to do that thing, how do you measure? How do you know when you've succeeded? How do you know when you're getting there? How do you know that you're doing it? Right, you cannot measure it, right? And if I've learned, and it's been some hard lessons, okay, but in eight years of interacting with this world, one of the strongest things that I've learned is you need to have a definition of success that's measurable and actionable, okay? So set a why so that you can transform your organization in a measurable way and if you're not succeeding, right? Let's be agile, do a new thing but that's the only way that you're gonna know if you're doing the right things. And I think this maps really nicely onto this value delivery concept that Tim Deeson talked about that he let me in on, you know, if you start with the what, that's just kind of do this thing. Why am I doing this? It doesn't matter, just do that thing, right? And how do you do it? What features can we use to achieve my goals? Well, that's already better, right? But if we decide on our goals together and then implement them, I think that's a good way to look at it. So talking about some colleagues, some people that we know in our community who are doing this, there are a bunch of full service agencies. So full service agencies who can really provide a really broad spectrum of services that's a great way to go. Their pipelines have remained relatively healthy and relatively stable throughout the D7 cycle because they're not just delivering D7 or D8, right? ZivTech in Philadelphia is, at least, I don't know how it compares to other people's businesses, but the stuff that Alex Urivic-Aklesburg admitted to me that ZivTech does, makes it sound like it's one of the fullest full service groupal agencies that I've ever heard of and it's pretty funny.  They do, at last, consulting as do camera and wilding. SEO content services, documentation, design, they do consulting, they do testing, they offer training. They, you know, plus they build websites, plus they do all sorts of other open source, and the list he wrote me is just, is crazy, right? But that's one, that's a great way to build a business. The thing that's interesting though is Alex says we build websites as well as SaaS applications for our clients and ourselves, and we've recently spun out ProboCI, which is the best QA tool ever, fact. He wrote that in all caps in the email. While some of ZivTech's work does involve regular website design and build sorts of projects, the majority that falls into a couple of buckets that tend to lead to much longer and deeper relationships with our clients. So product, building products, outsourcing staff and so on. So they just do a lot of things and figure out how to deliver value as they go. And Alex says they're constantly looking for new opportunities, just like, oh you need that thing, we'll do that, we'll do that, we got it, we got it. So they're like full, full, full, full service. Another thing though is you can do products, right? And selling a product is really attractive, right? Earn money while you sleep, right? And it's really, really hard to go from being a services company to your products company, and we've seen a lot of people try, and it's hard to know if you're getting a product right, but one way that seems to be really, really promising, right? And it seems to be popular in our community in the last few years, and I think it's a really, really good idea. If you have to do it anyway, because you need to automate something that you do every day, like there's at least a 50% chance that other people are gonna need that too, right? So if you look at products like Amazie.io and PlatformSH, especially Amazie had to build, had to build hosting infrastructure in Switzerland because Swiss data protection location and privacy laws are extremely strong, and the Swiss stand alone and proud, right? So Amazie had to build hosting infrastructure, and it's a bunch of really, really clever people, and they thought, well, we're working internationally and we have this office in Texas and we have this office in South Africa. Like that's, okay, let's try selling this thing. Like we have to build it and maintain it anyway. Worst case, it could make us some money too. That's a good idea, right? Commerce guys went along for years and years and years, and finally, because of how Dominant Tornoux thinks, especially in Robert Douglas, like eventually they got more interested in how to host and support and run great commerce projects than actually doing commerce projects, which is why you now have a commerce guys and a PlatformSH, right? But hosting was something that they felt they needed and they built it, right? ProboCI, you have to do QA to be in a serious agency, so they've built a product that's doing QA. Rumify is an exception to this, I think, and I think Open Inbound is an exception to this and Aqualift is probably something else again. Rumify, as I mentioned, is Ronald and now some other people who build tourism SaaS products that also happen to be some Drupal modules and distribution, and they wanted to go into that business and they had some very specific ideas about building tourism portals and so on, and so they expressed that in code. Lucas got very frustrated with using HubSpot and decided to build it better and I've played around with it a little bit. It is super cool. Talk with this guy today. Open Inbound is now inbound marketing for SMEs and it's affordable and it's interesting and he built it all in Drupal Lake. Thank you, it's really cool. You... What's up? No, I genuinely, I'd really, really genuinely think it's cool and Acquia, because we're in this sort of completely the other end of this space, you know, personalization is a really, really big deal and we bought a company that was doing it and we have now made that into something that's really, really worth checking out and so let's talk about some of these products here. Let's talk with Dave Ingram and our primary business is still the cloud platform and the support offerings and so what we have here is we have this running business that's making us money, right? This is the shape that I was running before and we take our cloud platform very, very seriously. Now we have this personalization tool and we wanna, our poll star is digital transformation and digital business and all this new stuff that's coming, right? So Lyft is a product that very, very clearly points to this new world of digital business and we have added that on to our current businesses it's an add-on, it's a cross-sell, up-sell, you can buy it at the beginning of the project, you can add it on later, it's now, the technology is far enough that you can add it to non-druple stuff and you can add it to existing drupal sites and it works quite well. So we built a product that enhanced what we were doing and pointed us to our new goal. So, you know, we're actually like in this case, Akwi is walking the walk of the talk, I'm talking and Lucas pointed out this thing, you know, that selling ours, right, is not really scalable and it's really attractive if you can have a thing that people really want to use and they give you 10 quid, 100 quid, whatever it is a month to use it and then you focus on making that better, right? And you focus on like what's the next feature and how to make it more reliable and how to take it to the next, you know, level of scalability, it's a great model once you get 100 customers, once you get 1,000 customers, right? That's a great way to transform from selling your ours to actually having a much more balanced revenue stream, right? Runeify again and I just want to point out that this is talking about, you know, they use drupal to build this thing that has strictly, utterly, absolutely nothing with drupal. So this is an example of taking this wonderful CMS that we have put together for ourselves and putting it to a really, really good internal purpose. Oh, on the way, I think they've done it right, they've open sourced a lot of the distro, like that's all nice. But in business terms, we, the community, gave them this fantastic tool set with which they are now able to build these businesses. They don't want to be in the delivering code game and they're certainly not delivering drupal in any way. Their long-term vision is to provide booking solutions and business models on top of those booking solutions and they even say some of the products will be based on drupal and some won't. It doesn't matter, we want the best tool for the job. So Adrian says, given that our goal is not to operate as consultants selling custom development services, we're about providing solutions that meet our customer's needs out of the box and that's a great way to think about building the product. Running a little short on time, but I think we can do this. I'm gonna go really quickly on this one despite the fact that I think this is one of the coolest, coolest, most interesting companies that I've met in a while. So Dominique Dekouman on the right and his business partner Sven Papermans have built this company called Dropsolid and Dropsolid is kind of a drupal agency and they were sick of working for other people in the agency world and they're like, okay, we're gonna make our own company. And they sat down and they put together a vision statement that said, the vision of Dropsolid is to create value, time, and freedom. And that's pretty abstract, right? We're gonna create value, time, and freedom. Because they go on, we miss the freedom as employees to innovate, develop our talents, and contribute. So we look at drupal as a business solution. We don't see code. We see connections between all the people, community, commercial, ecosystem, and users, and so on, working together to make drupal the solution that it is and the solution it provides to businesses. So when they got started, I just wanna paint this picture for a second because I find it really, really fascinating. So they were the agile partner to solve the business need, like they're doing everything right. I'm not teasing them anyway, I'm really serious about it. But so they started their business by building a platform as a service internal tool that they call James the Drupal Cloud Butler, right? And James the Drupal Cloud Butler is, they use it to build experiences more easily and collaborate better internally. So right from the beginning, they built themselves a Drupal tool to do better business. They were delivering websites, right? But internally, they had productized this vision, okay? And on top of James, they have still an internal product called Jenny, and Jenny is a site spinning machine, they call it, right? But the idea is, this is a customer facing tool with which customers can come and spin up their own sites quickly and easily. Allah the old Drupal Gardens, Allah WordPress.com and so on. So now they have an internal product with an external facing product that lets people spin up websites on top of it. Who cares? And when I was at this point in their initial presentation when I met them, I was really at who cares? Because while Drupal Gardens didn't work, and WordPress.com was definitely eating our lunch, and I don't see how you get any advantage out of this, okay? But cool drops. Cool drops is a product built on top of Jenny, okay? So SMEs know that they need personalization and know that they need digital marketing and know that they need analytics and nobody knows how to do it at the low end of the market. And all of us know that we now need it. And suddenly it's affordable and suddenly it's there and nobody knows how to do it. So they sell cool drops to SMEs and they say, hey, you know, and they sell it to agencies who deliver WordPress versions of this now. You know, as a service, you can wipe with label this too. So they deliver a ready to use Drupal website, right? But they sell it as a digital strategy and marketing support package and they sell a certain number and like in a level in multi-layered offering, they sell actual time with actual marketers. Like here, let's build this campaign. Let's look at your analytics from last month. Like that they sell actual expertise on top of analytics, website and everything but they're selling business value. They're saying, hey, you butcher shop, carpenter, auto repair shop, you can now operate digitally. Like you can build your business like the biggest players have until now. Now it happens that they're selling Drupal, right? Cause some of the upsellers like a more powerful site and the fact that it's a Drupal site if anything takes off, if anything gets really interesting, they can spin it straight out of cool drops and Jenny and James and like do whatever they want cause it's still Drupal but they're selling a value vision to people who've never had value vision sold to them before. And this is an amazing white space, it's incredible. Just fantastic idea and they're growing and they're hiring people and they're based in Ghent and I'm really, really deeply impressed with the precision of their vision and execution on this so far. And I think it's a real, real inspiration to us and they're very happy to talk with other people in Drupal about what they're doing. Very, very, very interesting to me. I wanna point out that you can actually sell Drupal and sell coding and sell exactly that expertise that I said you shouldn't. If you productize it, if you're a plan, right? If you're a business modelist, whew, look at all those Drupal agencies that everybody's got too much work and not enough time we can help you out. A Nexus in Costa Rica, sells developer time, team members to capacity, burstable, whatever you wanna call it, to North American Drupal shops. Softescu based in Romania do great projects on their own. They're a great agency, they're great contributors, like thank you, that's all really, really real. They're also, they'll sell you the capacity that you need. They'll sell you code, right? They'll sell you somebody typing for some number of hours in a language of your choice, right? So that is, in my view, productized. Even though I say you can't sell code, I think that they've figured out a way to monetize that and make that an actual product, too. So I need you to admit that. You have to understand your customers' problems, okay? Even if somebody comes to you asking for a website, you really, really need to dig deeper and you need to try and solve the problems that you can discover with them, not just make something shiny for them. You need to figure out what the KPIs are that measure the business impact of what you could build with them, right? So, Megan says this really, really interesting thing. And like the part of it is what keeps the business manager up at night? It is not about choosing Drupal forward press or Adobe, you know? How are they measured? How is this person measured for success in their year? Maybe it's a superior customer experience. Maybe it's creating compelling ways to upsell customers to grow revenue, like Aquilista, right? So if you approach these people and you say, let me show you a Drupal, right?  You need to figure out what their business goals are. You need to be a partner with them and you need to help solve their problems together with them, you know? And Drupal might not even come up in the conversation, right? Even if you end up building their solution in Drupal, it might just not be important. It might be the fact that you understand what they're doing and you can come to an agreement of what they need and how they're gonna get to where they need to get. So I talked about this situation where I think some people in our community are still selling Drupal and I think you shouldn't and that's not adding enough value anymore and how the bottom end of the market is essentially gone for us. I showed some conceptual, I tried to talk about some concepts about how to move up this value-add chain. Some people in our community who are doing it with the same tools that we have at our fingertips every day and hopefully, you know, giving you some ideas about how you can do this too. This is an advertisement. A friend of mine has started a company that does exactly this sort of strategic thinking and also does communications and so on and they'd be very happy to talk with you about how you could do this or how you can do transformation and so on. That would be cool. So remember that you have to be on the why end of the conversation. That's the big takeaway from Tim. Make sure you're thinking about the why. Lots of super cool people put media materials freely available and licensed online. Thank you to all of these people. You have been accredited. Our closing words from Alex UA. It will be the best thing. It will be the best stuff in the history of stuff. Go do that thing. Go build that thing. Go build the best stuff in the history of stuff. Thank you. That was awesome. Press the button. Love this stuff. Am I on? No, when it goes green. Here we go. You made me now. Thank you very much, Jan. That was awesome. So much to take away from that and Simon Sinek is obviously a legend. We traditionally open this to the floor for questions. So if anyone's got any questions, just drop your hand and Alex will come over. Glamorous assistant. So when you were talking about the planning stage and both your pivoting or not, and all that. A little while ago I saw a really cool video, an MIT professor, with his hoodcopter grown things that he'd taught how to fly autonomously. He explained that the way that they worked out what to do next was to plan, to get exactly how long, five seconds in advance, where they were going to be, but then execute like 50 milliseconds of that plan. And then we plan. Oh, that's okay. That means exactly what. And if you change milliseconds for months, plan the four to eight months further in advance. B-hag. And then what? You know the B-hag. So anyway, that's perfect. So you execute a long time, you plan for a long time. Yeah.  And then you caught on to exactly what I'm talking about. So there's a business concept called the Big Hairy Goal, the B-hag. And so what is it that you wanna be in five years? Or 10 years? That, where could you go? All right. And what does that mean? What do you have to, where do you have to be in two years to be getting there and what do you have to be in a year? Okay. Good stuff. Nice. Fine. What can you do in the next 90 days to get there, right? And 90 days later, you have to see how you work. You know, sprint retrospective, we can call it in our terms, right? Where are you at? And actually, is it still the same? And what do I have to do in these? And so it's exactly what you're talking about. You need to be agile. You need to be realistic. You need to be iterative. You can't sort of just stubbornly, you know, you could stubbornly drive yourself into the ground, but of course, we're smarter than that. Jeff, fight. One more question for them. Who is your coffee up on? Oh, we're done. So there was a company called Habitat, which was a really, really popular furniture company. They did high-end furniture for high prices for expensive people with lots of money. And they no longer exist because Ikea, who basically do the same sort of furniture at a discount price compared to Habitat, in the end, Habitat got bought by Ikea. And now I think they're just websites. That's all the stuff to them. And it's a pattern that as you move up market, you get competitors entering at the low-end of the market who also grow into your space and eat your lunch. Now, the whole eating your lunch thing should sound very familiar, but with WordPress, so I'm thinking how do you protect the low-end of your market which you're not so interested in anymore, in anymore, but if you don't protect, you get eaten. I think that applies to Drupal in a really big way because we're very upscale, but at the same time, Oracle maybe will want a thing for medium-sized companies. Yeah, I see the picture a little bit differently. I said, and it is true, that Wix and Squarespace and WordPress and what have you have taken the bottom of our market. And it's very, very hard for me to picture a way to put together a company today where I could build 5K or 10K projects and consistently and survive. Maybe there's a lot of subtlety to this, but I wonder if it matters because I sort of picture an evolution. I sort of picture instead of up and downwards, what if this is sort of a progression and we're just not going to do that because we, Drupal, right, are going to power native apps and because we work really, really well behind Ember and React and because we can power chat box and because we can be the API provider for web services, which is the next explosion with the internet of things and what have you, the fact that Drupal 8, does anybody know, because you could know, what my favorite feature of Drupal 8 is? There's one and it's one check box. It's my favorite feature in all of Drupal 8. Paragraphs is really cool. Paragraphs is really cool, but my actual favorite feature of Drupal 8 is that any view can be a rest. And that means if you know how to use the Drupal UI, you can build APIs and web services. So Drupal's really good at consuming data and it's now really, really good at outputting data and you know how to build a view because you build Drupal websites. You now know how to build a web service and build a business based on data, right? And that view can feed an app or a, you can sell movie, whatever it is, movie-less things, weather reports, mathematical formulas based on your, knowing how to pull other data together and then put it together. So we have the opportunity to do amazing new things that very few people, you know, very few other projects, like open source, whoever, we have incredible tools that can allow us to move into these other spaces. And I still will probably build websites for my local school or charity or my own user group. But as of, I don't know if it matters that that piece of the box is, I mean it's very, very competitive, right? So being eaten from the bottom, at the end of painting yourself in the road, and that we're not doing that. How should we do that? Give them a loud P. Even though we don't use it, we should make Drupal incredibly easy to install and incredibly easy for the first 10 years. Somebody's doing that. Wait, who was in Davos? What was the guy's name who was there? There is a nonprofit here in the UK that's building like a simplified Drupal, that's basically Drupal with an installation wizard. And they're literally going to places like the Congo where you'll have a petrol station, which is shack 100 miles from anything with petrol and glass bottles. But they have an internet connection. They have wireless internet. And so these people are online in some form. They might have never touched a computer. And there's this, I'm gonna have to look it up. Martin quested exactly. He did this amazing presentation at Drupal Mountain Camp about these installation wizards and these simple people where people who've never used a computer before and hour later they have a Drupal site. And that fulfills exactly our classic mission of enabling less technical users to use the stuff that we can code by putting all the power in the UI, take it to a new level. And so actually a vision like that is a way for us to, I don't know if it's the lower end, but it certainly helps us fulfill some really, really important communication missions in the world and maintain the origins of our project. Martin quested, yes. I forget what the organization is called, but he's on Drupal.org. He's doing, it's all in Drupal 7 right now, but they promised me a Drupal 8 release later this year. We're gonna have to say thank you so much. There's so many questions and we can get out of there. Thank you.


Brooding gas and buildings is one of the biggest sources of climate pollution in our cities and a risk to health and safety. So of course a U.S. federal court just made it even harder for us to solve the problem. In 2019, Berkeley, California made history by becoming the first city to require new buildings to be all-electric by blocking gas hookups and new construction. Now after over 100 municipalities and some states have similar policies, a gas industry funded lawsuit just invalidated Berkeley's policy. Is this bad news? Absolutely. But is it the end of the building electrification movement? Not even close. Berkeley's approach to achieving an all-electric future is just one way to get there. The truth is there are many ways a city or state can achieve the same thing without being impacted by this rule. In fact, many existing policies might not need any changes at all. Just small tweaks. The leaders in this movement are creative and committed. Depending on where they are, communities can use building codes, efficiency standards, pollution mitigation measures, incentives, and more to electrify their buildings in spite of this lawsuit. Now is the time for local leaders to stand against the fossil fuel industry. Whether your community has already embraced building electrification or is just learning about it, there are plenty of paths forward. Head to safesadies.earth.org to see how your community can prioritize an all-electric future. And sign up at safesadies.earth.org to join us on January 24th for a discussion with local leaders and lawyers on the front lines of this movement.


Good afternoon or good evening. You can go to Germany, but you cannot become a German. You can go to Ireland, but you cannot become an Irish. You can go to Norway, but you cannot become a Norwegian. But anyone from any corner of the Earth can come to the United States and become an American. Welcome back to a Nation of Immigrants, a new talk show program featuring the lives of immigrants, cultural diversity, and knowledge. Brought to you by Sincton, Hawaii, and the Kingsfield Law Office. Today, we have the extreme honor and the pleasure to welcome our good friend, the honorable Justice Paul Anderson from Minnesota Spring Court. Justice Anderson is a native of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and a graduate of Eden Prairie High School, the University of Minnesota Law School, MacLaster College. He had a very long legal career. After law school, he first became Assistant Attorney General of Minnesota State Department. Then later, he was in private practice with a major law firm in Minnesota before he was appointed to Chief Judge of Minnesota Court of Appeals. Later, he was appointed to Minnesota Spring Court. Then he was re-elected in 1996, 2002, and 2008. And a few years ago, he reached mandatory retirement age. But Judge Anderson retired from Minnesota Spring Court, but he's extremely active in the community and in the state. He continued to lecture globally, writes about law and participant in various boards like Minnesota History Society and Minnesota State Capital Restoration Committee. Welcome, your honor. It is a pleasure to be with you today. And I hope that you asked tough questions. I like tough questions. Doesn't bother me because I know I control the answers. Chang, you know that, right? I know. Thank you, John. You've been asking questions to the lawyers in your court. And I just thrilled to have this opportunity to ask you questions. But my fourth question is, and this is a program about immigrants. And we are so delighted to have you, a native Minnesota, but you are still immigrants. I quoted a paraphrase of President Regan's talk about anybody can come to the United States and become American at the beginning of the show. But there is another quote I want to share that from FDR. Remember, always remember, everybody, including you and me, are descendants of immigrants. So you are also a descendant of immigrants. You are a third generation immigrant, I believe. Yep. And there is a lake in Minnesota called Anderson Lake. And I believe the lake was named after your family. And so you are really part of the Minnesota history. Please tell more about yourself and your family and how do they settle in Minnesota. First of all, I should correct. I think I was listed as Irish-American. I'm actually Scotch-Irish-American. I hate to disappoint some of your viewers who are of the green, because my ancestry is of the orange, tracing back to John Knox in Scotland. But Eden Prairie, Anderson Lakes is where my Scotch-Irish Anderson's, coming from Northern Ireland, settled when they first came here. That was in 1855. And so the southern part of Eden Prairie was basically settled by Scotch-Irish. Dairy farmers. My family was dairy farmers. I tell people is that I grew up milking cows. My color of my tractor is green and the cows were holstein. But I'm very proud of that farm background. But I'm also very proud of my ethnic background, which is the Scotch-Irish. And then the other side is Norwegian. The Anderson, Scotch-Irish, the Holden, the Palsons came from Norway. And both sides came because they were seeking a better life. Not only for themselves, but this is very true of the immigrants. They wanted something better for their children. And Norway was very depressed from my grandmother and my grandfather's families came, as was Ireland. I mean, they had the famine overpopulated. So the opportunity, and this is very key here, they saw the opportunity to come to the United States and be better. And now I'm going to go back to something that's for the time of our founders talking about our country, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our founders took seriously the pursuit of happiness. It comes from Aristotle. And they saw that their goal of our government was to provide the maximum opportunity for the maximum number of people to achieve happiness. And that is so much a part of the immigrant experience because they believe that mandate. They believe that promise from America's founders. So that's why they came here. Thank you so much. That's a lovely, lovely story about your family history. So what you just said just struck me and we discussed this before. What make American American? And because you're from your ancestors from Norway and Scotland and I obviously from different part of the war and we have so many friends from other parts of the war but there is a shared identity as American. And what exactly, and we have different religious belief. You know my religion, I know your religion, we respect each other's religion but we worship different deities. So what exactly make American American? How do we find the common ground? And how do you, how do you ancestors settled with different people from different ethnic groups and a religious background? You know, we'll come back to this probably a bit later because religion has always played an important role in the immigrant experience in America. And we have our constitution does not, by the way the constitution is not a Christian document as some people say it is. It's designed to accept and tolerate and more than tolerate to accept and embrace other religions. And so that was key that our founders came out of the age of enlightenment and they were convinced that so much pain and suffering was imposed upon the world because of religious conflict. So they said, no, our country is gonna be based on the rule of law. We're not gonna let anyone religion dominate but we're gonna let the people practice the religion that they have. So that was one of the other reasons that immigrants came here is that they were escaping religious oppression in other countries. I mean, in Norway, I mean, you had to be Lutheran and well, my ancestors were Methodists and so they could practice Methodism here. And, you know, as my Scotch-Irish ancestors were Presbyterian going back to John Knox. I like to kid people at the local law school named for Thomas Moore. I said, I can't call him St. Thomas Moore because he killed too many of my relatives. And so when they came here, they understood the nature of religious conflict and tried, at least my ancestors did, tried to downplay them. They were welcoming to people of other faiths because they thought that that was a big part of this country, which was based upon the premise that the rule of law shall prevail and the rule of law is neutral when it comes to religion. Doesn't always work out that way. A lot of religious oppression in America, but anyway, that's the fundamental premise underlying. Great, thank you for your insights. And I totally agree with you that the rule of law and the non-religious constitution is our sheer value. And, but you too mentioned that the immigrants changed the face of America and your ancestors were settled in Minnesota three years before even Minnesota become a state. I believe our state become a state in 1858 and your ancestors settled here three years earlier than that. And how do you view and the face of the United States has been changed by different influx of immigrants from your ancestors time to today? Well, first of all, I have to start with the premise that America has been blessed. It has been enriched by the immigrant experience because they bring so many of their own cultural experiences in the broad base. So I think as a people historically, we got a few problems right now had tended to be fairly broad minded. They needed to, you know, accept others. And, you know, it's a work in progress, you know, America.  And they came out of that with a bonding experience of who we are as America. We've lost some of that. We got too much elitism going on, but that is one experience. The Civil War for the North in particular was another bonding experience. So many immigrants came and fought in the war, particularly my ancestors. I mean, they revered Father Abraham. I mean, as that he was a uniting force. And so immigrants came and one of the things that held them together was their belief in their faith and what Lincoln believed in. And so we've had any number of these unifying experiences that have counteracted the experiences that would cause division. And so we got to study those. We got to appreciate them and we got to really relish them because they are so much a part of who we are. Absolutely, it beautifully said. Judge, I think that I feel extremely blessed to be a Minnesotan and very blessed to get to know you and your wife and other great Minnesotans. And I have to say, call myself biased, but I think Minnesotans is very different from other parts of the country. And even United States is a nation of immigrants, but Minnesota is particularly welcoming to immigrants. And they are some other states are not that as welcoming as the state Minnesota. And when we have a previous group of immigrants well-established, well-settled, there is a trend they might oppose to newcomers. But I don't really see that in our state. So what's your general comments of this opposition to the changing face of America and the new wave of immigrants from particular parts of the world? So if I try to pat myself on the back as a Minnesotan for your last statement, I am going to injure my elbow because it's not completely true. I mean, we have our bad moments in history. Minneapolis in the 20s and 30s was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. The most recent mayor of Minneapolis, who is Irish, his mother worked up on Summon Avenue and she would encounter signs that said, no dirty Irish need apply.  And so there was always this level of, treating people as different and discriminating but there was also something, okay. Now I don't want others to take offense but Minnesota has a strong Northern European background. Northern Germany, Scandinavia, Swedish, Norwegians, which goes with it as a kind of a belief is to let people live their lives. And so we've been very accepting of others because there's just that fundamental belief that others have a right to belong and they would be welcome. And so we were very welcoming to the Vietnamese and particularly the Hmong, they're not Vietnamese, they're the Highland people from Vietnam, we have a very strong Hmong community. And the interesting and wonderful thing about it is, the parents came here and now their children are so much a part of what makes Minnesota better. They're involved in business, they're involved in government, they're involved in education. We've also, we're welcoming to the Somalis. And this is another thing, there's a certain difficult aspect to it because different religion, but that's the history of it. When the Catholics came, the Anglicans were petrified that the Pope would come and be part of it. And then there was the bias against the Jews. And so if you're Muslim, there's still some residual bias to that, but there's a roam up in the state capital where I was part of the restoration. And it's completely devoted to the contributions of Muslim Minnesotans all around the room. There are probably 30 pictures of Minnesotans of the Muslim faith who have been and are still are making contributions to the state. So we put a premium on education and communicating how different people have made us better. So that's the best I can say for it. It's just a little bit of a tradition, but there are a lot of bumps along the way where we didn't do so well. I appreciate your honesty, Judge. I came to this state 19 years ago and I can honestly to say that I think this is the right place and I don't really experiencing racial discrimination and I appreciate the changing faith of America. Let's- Before you leave that, I mean, it's a sad thing that's happening right now is that I do not like some of the current leadership is basically tries to pick out and identify and vilify people who don't resemble them. They know the old Anglican view. And so that's, we can't ignore that, but with respect to yourself, and I think you might agree this, there were people here who recognized that you were a person of talent. And so, I mean, there was a certain self-interest in being good to you, Chong, because a lot of people recognize, hey, this guy's got something to offer and we're gonna take advantage of it. Am I right? Well, I appreciate your confidence in me, Judge, but when I walk in the dogs, I don't think anybody can know what I do to make a living, but Minnesota has been called the Canada in the United States or the Northern Europe in the United States. I think we all agree it is a very good place to live and it is a very good place for immigrants. Well, some say that we're all Canadian wannabes. I don't agree with that. There's some truth to that. They are, definitely they are. And next question is about your global travel.  You travel to China four times to lecture. You travel to a Republic of Georgia or Salvador, the Philippines, Russia, Tunisia, Libya, there's so many countries. You travel, you lecture about US constitution, criminal law, appellate procedure and all of these different travel in the past decade or two. My question to you is the more you travel, do you feel like the more people are the same or the more you see people are different? First of all, confession, all right? I probably took more away from those foreign experiences being those foreign countries and learning about then I gave. I mean, I can say unequivocally my experience internationally has enriched me in measure. Now to your question. Oh my gosh, that's a simple answer. We are all human beings. There is a certain sameness about us. Now the sad thing is that in some countries they have less of a democratic experience than we do here in the United States and less of a commitment to the rule of law. But most of the people that I engaged with in those countries who wanted that, they wanted their country to be fair and equal with respect to all people. They wanted there to be opportunities. And that's what they hope to gain from me is some insight into what has made America the way it is and what it is. And one of the things I tell them, what we tell them, tradition, you got to establish the traditions that value what's important in a free and open society. And you've got to value the rule of law.  You know, many people, you know, they want to be controlled and controlling of others. Merrick Garland, our attorney general said something that is very much encapsulated as what we are. No one in America is above the law. No one, absolutely no one. You are not allowed to act with the impunity. Now, sometimes we're a little slow about getting it right, but I have faith and confidence that our democracy with its traditions are strong enough that it will carry in. There will be any number of people who want to put themselves above the law. But I think in the end, those traditions and that commitment is going to carry us through even what I consider some current difficult times. That's what makes us better. That's what sets us apart. And the sameness is that most of the people I encountered in all these other countries wanted the same thing. And they looked to the United States for basically, you know, tell us how we can get there if we're not there now. Thank you, Your Honor, very well said. We are waiting for attorney general's next announcement. Don't wait. We are short on time, but I do want to ask you one very important question.  They are all important, but I don't want to miss the opportunity to ask the question I really want to ask before we conclude our program is you are a little bit older than me, I believe. And I always ask myself what I would do differently and in my 20s. And I'm going to ask you this question to you as well. And if you were to give some advice to younger self of you in your 20s, what would you say? Easy for me to answer that. I really truly believe that our country, America is a land of opportunity. Not as good for some as others, but you could. And so my advice to young people is show up. Look for these opportunities that life presents you with. Show up for those opportunities and you'll get an experience. Now the experience in each case is not always good. I showed up for a school board and served and then I got defeated in an election and I was devastated. But as I look back on it is that I learned from that election and that defeat that there's life after defeat. And the thing that is important is you do what you believe is right regardless of the consequences. So that's a lesson I took with me when I served on the Supreme Court. I said, I don't care what the public repercussions for me personally will be as long as I am convinced that I am doing the right thing. I'm making the right choice. And so you show up for opportunities. You got to be lucky. But then Seneca said, no luck is when preparation meets opportunity. So the other piece of advice is prepare yourself for opportunity. Get an education, get experience. So when the opportunity comes you can show up for it and you take advantage of it and you'll get these lessons. Now here's the interesting thing is when you take those lessons away it helps you spot other opportunities that you can show up for. And the thing about that is that when you keep showing up it's not a circle. It's not a box. It's an upward expanding spiral. You keep showing up having experience lessons. So what can happen? This farm kid who grew up milking cows out in the rural community eating prairie can wind up on the Supreme Court be respected nationally, internationally and lecture. So my thing is look for opportunities, be prepared for them and show up and have the experience that they give you and take those lessons onto your next opportunity. Blend it. Thank you so much your honor. We are extremely honored to have you here on our show and your advice. And being show up and be prepared is definitely something I will pass on to the younger generation. Well, we have the great privilege and honor to have Justice Paul H. Anderson from Minnesota Supreme Court, global traveler, third generation, Scott Erich, Norwegian immigrants. Very proud, very proud. Very proud, absolutely. And proud Minnesota and most importantly, thank you judge, really appreciate your time. It was indeed a pleasure, sir. Thank you. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. 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