Welcome to Jalassette News. Take a top stories in cryptocurrencies and Jalassettes. And break them down to bite-sized pieces today. The black hole that is BlackRock is going to start to invest into Bitcoin futures. And we're going to take a look at why this could be good and potentially a disaster. Also, Treasury nominee Yellen is looking to curtail use of cryptocurrency. We'll take a look at what has gone in the past as far as illicit activity in cryptocurrencies and how two other people will probably just offset what the heck she's talking about. And lastly, one of my favorite authors and podcasters finally talks about Bitcoin in depth that is Tim Ferriss, author of Four Hour Workweek, Four Hour Hour Body, and Tools of Titans. And we're going to take a look at how he became successful at Bitcoin as far as being lazy, how to understand the other side of the other arguments, and what people are always talking about about how much they've made in cryptocurrency, even though they've never sold. So we'll take a look at all that. Let's take a look at what's going on the market. So today is January 21st, 11 a.m. El Paso, Texas time, and watch out quite a bit of a dip, wouldn't you say? So Bitcoin is down 8%. That's okay. It was up around $41,000. Now it's $31,000. This is just one of those things. Everything's down, I mean, for the most part. Ethereum is down 8%, there's $1,200. Not too bad. Tether's tether, unless you're an auditor, nobody really cares. Polkadot is sitting firmly in that number four spot at $16. XRP, watch out, pegged the quarter almost at $0.27. Cardano down, Bitcoin down. Let's see, who's down big time? Stellar's down. I don't understand why. I'm thinking things really changed. Actually, if you look at all these things that are going on right now as far as down, has anything changed? Did anything get hacked? Was there any type of information that came out that would really curtail the use of cryptocurrency assets? Not a darn thing. But here we are. So I like to say that these are great days. These are great days for your dollar cost to average. If you went all in at $40,000, I'm sorry. But that happens. That happened to me as well. And this is one of the things I'm always talking about on this channel. Don't go all in. Don't go all in immediately. If you would have gone in at $40,000, it kind of hurts right now. And who knows how long this dip could last. We could be here for a day, a week, or a couple months. You'd never know with cryptocurrencies and digital assets. So today I woke up and like, wow, look at the sale. And I'm happy on these days. And I went to Voyager and I picked up some more Ethereum. I picked up some more Cardano. I picked up some more, what else did I buy? A little bit of Chainlink. So yeah, it was a pretty good day for me. Now, some people will say, well, it'll bounce right back and you'll be okay if you went all in. That's true.  And now how long you want to wait? So that is what's going on in the market. So let me know what you think in the comment section. Let's move on to our first piece. First up, this is good or bad depending on which way you look at. World's largest asset manager BlackRock to invest in Bitcoin futures. First of all, who the heck's BlackRock? Well, we don't know who BlackRock is. They are enormous. They have almost 8 trillion of assets under management. That's trillion with a T. And usually when I'm talking about different companies, I'm like, that's billion with a B. But this one, that's trillion. Let me say that again. That's trillion. That's a lot of money. Good for those guys. So this looks like fantastic news because you've got Bitcoin and one of the world's largest entities getting into Bitcoin. So it sounds great, but hold on. So BlackRock filed two statements of additional information with the SEC on Wednesday. BlackRock did state global allocation fund. Both filings did say this. Certain funds may engage in futures contracts based on Bitcoin futures contracts based on Bitcoin. The two filings for the detail this, the only Bitcoin futures in which the funds may invest are cash settled Bitcoin. Let me say that again, which the funds may invest are cash settled Bitcoin futures traded on commodity exchanges registered with the CFTC. So if you read this first article, you're like, wow, futures, this is fantastic. But wait, it's cash. There is no transfer of Bitcoin. There is nothing that is on the blockchain. It is all in cash. So what does that do for us? Well, not much. Really, it doesn't do anything for us at all. And I'm going to tell you right now, I think it's a bad thing. I'm going to tell you why. So let me just take you back to 2017. Let's just take a little, little trippy back to where this all began. So the CME group, Chicago Mercatile Exchange, on December 18th, stated, hey, we're going to launch this thing called Bitcoin futures. And it's going to be awesome. I was there. And when this story broke, everybody was like, hallelujah, we've made the promised land. This is fantastic because now that institutions are here, it will only go up to the moon 20,000. That's just a stepping stone to 30 to 100,000 and it'll never go down. So this was on the 15th of December. Actually, this, this story was in December 1st. So a lot of great things happening, but let me just show you what happened. So December 15th, this is what it was. Remember, this is supposed to launch in the 18th. And then we went to the 16th. Oh, that's a pretty good number. 19, 4, not too bad. I mean, it went down a little bit, but okay. Now we had 19, 1 December 17th in anticipation of this futures launch. And then on the 18th, 18,000. And then just a couple of days later, 14,021st December. So you can look at this right now and you can say, well, you know, it's a regular four year cycle, but it just is one of those coincidences. And I'm not going to say too much about that, but we haven't had good luck with Bitcoin futures markets is all I'm going to say. And on top of that, just so you know, the Ethereum Ethereum futures market is coming February 8th, 2021. So we will see how that all works out. Let me know what you think in the comment section. But to me, when BlackRock comes in with all that money and they've got a plethora of experience with how they deal with the markets, how we want to say that it could be a very bumpy ride. Again, let me know what you think in the comment section. Let's move on to our next piece. This one, Janet Yellen. Janet Yellen is the treasury nominee and she's looking to curtail the use of crypto. And she has been in a long line of people who say that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are used for illicit activities.  That's what everybody uses. That's what the cartel uses. That's what all the different terrorist organization work and what have you. They're going to use the US dollars. So sure, I am sure that at some point, somebody used Bitcoin for illicit activities. That is very true. But for this person, Janice, just to come up here and go, you know what, really gotta control this because this is going to get out of control. You know what gets out of control? Your money printing and all the money that you're using. And on top of that, everything's using that for illicit activities. Maybe we should curtail that a little bit, but that's just me. So when I hear these stories and I keep getting comments and questions like, well, you know, because of what she said, maybe that's the reason why the market went down. True. Maybe I will just say this. This market is moved by news and sentiment. Let me say that again. This market is moved by news. And this is just a prime example of nonsense because there is no reason why the market should move in any way, shape, or form this much based on fundamentals. It's all on news.  So if Janice Yellen has come out here and go, hey, maybe we should curtail the use of cryptocurrency, everybody gets spooked, which is good for me because I just buy up more stuff. But we gotta stop this.  So if it was just Janice Yellen, and then she had other people in her organization or throughout the higher echelon of government to say, hey, we really need to look into this, maybe I'd be a little concerned. But I want you to notice something. This guy right here, do you know what this guy is? This guy, he was given a great talk at MIT about blockchain and money. And then there was another one, which is another hour long. And he talks about cryptocurrencies. He talks about Ripple, XRP. He talks about Bitcoin, a little bit about Ethereum. It's a great talk. Pretty smart guy. You know what this guy is? This is Gary Gensler. And Gary Gensler is going to be the new head of the SEC. He knows exactly what it is as far as crypto and digital assets. So I will believe that he is not going to be so heavy handed because as it says right here, he's going to start to unwind the work of his predecessor, Jay Clayton. I do not believe that Yellen really has a firm grasp of what's going on with crypto and digital assets, but I could be wrong. Maybe she's a genius on crypto. I have no idea. Gensler here, when you listen to this talk, you will get a firm understanding of just how in depth this guy is knowledgeable about crypto. On top of that, you're going to take a look at this little article that came up, former Ripple board member, and he wasn't a board member. Actually, he was an advisor. He was tapped to lead Biden's OCC. Now he's just being tapped. He's being heavily considered. But if that's the case, I mean, we had Brian Brooks, he did a great job. He was on, he was the legal counsel for Coinbase. Now we're going to have this gentleman, Michael Barr, and he was one of the advisors for Ripple. So it's safe to assume that he knows a lot about crypto and digital assets too. So if you have something in the OCC and something in the SEC, and you got Janice Yellen over here going, you know what, maybe, maybe we should do something with this because of illicit, I'm going to defer to these guys and they'll probably set her straight. On top of that, I will say this, Barr was part of the Treasury Department in President Barack Obama's administration. So if he was part of Barack Obama's administration, there's a pretty good chance Biden might be leading towards this guy where he worked on bank regulations in the form of the Dodd-Frank Act. And also, Yellen was also a part of the Treasury. So they probably know each other pretty well, and maybe they can actually talk about, hey, this is what's really going on with crypto and digital assets. Barr joined Ripple's board of advisors in 2015, though company Spurxman confirmed he was no longer a member early this week. So maybe he was a member all the way up to like, you know, a month ago or so, who knows? But this is good news. So if we're going to talk about Yellen and, you know, how awful this is to me, it's not awful. I mean, it's good for me. I get to, like I said, I get to pick up things, but in the grand scheme of things, it's just somebody who's like, you know, maybe we should do this. Anyhow, don't just think of the comments section. Let's move on to our last piece. Next up, this was a great find. I really enjoyed listening to this podcast. That's Tim Ferriss. And that's one of his business partners, Kevin Rose. And Tim, if you don't know, he made, he did these great books. I've read them all for our work week, for our body. Chef, I didn't actually read. But this one, Tools of Titans, I was reading this actually last night. It's a fantastic book. And Tim has been around for quite some time, pretty respected throughout, talked to a lot of high profile people. I mean, in that Tool of Titans book, he's got everybody in there from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Laird Hamilton, to a lot of great athletes and endurance and just everybody that you ever want to hear about as far as what's going on. So in this podcast, it was pretty long, about an hour or so. He talks in the first half hour about Bitcoin. And what I didn't know is that Tim had actually invested into Bitcoin back in early 2017. And he said, it was pretty funny because he said, I'm lazy. And the reason why I've done so well with Bitcoin is because I just kind of forgot about it. And I didn't realize what happened. Because when it went all the way to 20,000, I just kind of forgot about it. And I was going to sell it, but then something else came up and whatever.  And then he goes, now it's just going to the moon. So I got to keep it anyhow. He goes, but it's a really good case and point of just setting and forgetting it, you know, and then if you can dollar across average, like with me, what I do is I just set the recurring buy button on Voyager. And I put in like 25 bucks a day into the VGX token. That's what I do. And I just let it go. So it's pretty hard to just keep buying every single day. And you're like, buying, buying, buying, buying. But if you haven't kind of worked in the background, you're like, meh, and just kind of like just happens. And before you know, you're like, holy smokes, I got a lot of cryptocurrency. That's kind of how Tim's philosophy kind of worked out pretty well. Kind of works out okay on this end too.  And the second thing he was talking about in this article or this podcast, he says, if you really want to give a good debate, you get to understand the other side. So like on this channel, we always talk about how great Bitcoin is and how great crypto, but I'm going to start to really play devil's advocate and go on the other side and start to be like a Robini and talk and talk to you about, you know, how it could fail and how it could not might not work. Because I think it's best if we understand both sides of the argument that way when things come up and you're talking to your family, your beloved ones, whatever else, no, and they bring up these, these, these points, which being valid or not, it's good to have an answer to that. And then the last thing, and this is kind of comes back to, to what I did yesterday, he talks about how he's met a lot of people in crypto angel assets. And all these people are, he said they're all geniuses because they've all bought at like, you know, way early. And they said, yeah, I made like a couple million or I can make 500,000. He goes, and the next question I always ask them is this, well, when did you sell? Well, I didn't sell any of it. So what happened?  Does that sound like you? I will tell you right now, that sounds like me. And one of these things that I've been thinking about a lot lately is exit strategies and when to get out. So we did a live stream yesterday, didn't go so hot because it was pretty glitchy in the first couple of minutes.  But for some reason, the recording came up perfect. I don't understand why, but I was talking about my exit strategy for Ethereum. And this was a strategy I was talking about yesterday. And it's, I mean, you can find that in the description of all my videos just says ETH exit strategy, I've got the Bitcoin exit strategy, all those strategies. Well, those two, and then I got XRP exit strategy, which the XRP exit strategy is pretty awful, doesn't, doesn't play into it because that was before the SEC. So if you want a good laugh, take a look at that. But this one, I mean, it makes sense, but it's not very simple. And when I was looking at this, and I keep looking at this and looking at this and looking at this, and it's not a bad idea. But I think we can simplify it. I think we can make it better for everybody. So I'm going to end, I'm going to make a separate video today. Hopefully give it a good time. I should get time. And I call it the 80-20 rule. Actually, the 80-20 P rule, and it just goes like this. It's, I want what I'm going to do, not what you should do, because I can't give financial advice. This is what I'm going to start doing for everything. I don't believe that this next bull run 2021 is the end all be all. I think we're still very early. And we got another four years for four year cycles to really hit our strides. So for this one, I'm not going to hold on to all my crypto. I think that would be foolhardy. Now you can, you can hold it all on for the rest of your life. That's fine. But after I was listening to Tim, I was like, you know what, I really got to get on the ball and really be a little more stringent for all of my holdings based on my price predictions and the probability. So I'm going to show this with everybody later today. But again, it's super simple. It's just an 80-20 rule. You're going to sell 80%. You're going to hold 20%. Even right now, it comes out to a lot better. Look at this one, 528 versus 158. And I think it's just a better option for everybody. All right. So again, that's what I'm going to do, not what you have to do. So I will put these together for everything in my portfolio on top of everything that I have predicted on top of all the probabilities and I'll explain exactly what I'm talking about. So that is it. So thanks for watching. If you like these types of videos, there's going to be too much going to pop up on your left and right. Go ahead and check those out. Let YouTube do their magic. Also, if you haven't already done so, please consider subscribing because right now, everything that we do and everything that we talk about is news related and it really comes down to within that 12 to 24-hour time frame. So if you're not subscribed, you may not get the notifications. Also, even if you are subscribed, I still get Shadowban. That's just how it is. I got many people who say, hey, I didn't get the notification. So if it will be so kind, click on that bell and that is it because as these things roll out, this is going to be the year to really bring it home. All right. Thanks so much for watching. I'll see you on the next one.


This is my rabbi here, Mr. President, and one on your right. There. I've been so happy. Yes. These pins only write one word. Keep them even. Put that one away too quickly. Mason is signed, and I realize in education that this day comes on the birthday of a great leader, the Libby, and come just souvenirs of the occasion. I'll find the time. Thank you, Mr. President. Lots of luck. Providing for us the government of the people, by the people, for the people, rather than in spite of the people which bunch of the world suffering under tonight. We're glad that this year, 1984. This is a real pleasure to be with so many confirmed leaders in the United States for the world around us, and to know one word about it.  But tonight, believe me, I came here with some trepidation. Your warm welcome didn't exactly make me feel any easier because I'm going to do something that I haven't done in very service. I know that there are times when all is wonder whether we're being effective. And tonight, I'd like to share an account that I received that shows how God works in our lives even in the dark. Brave men will believe that the goal we saw in that place was worthy of their best and gave their best. In the end, hatred centuries old made it impossible for Lebanon to achieve peace when we and so many others answered what I said I wanted to go about.


Hello aspirant, this is Ranjit from Shankaray's academy. We expected clerical notification, of course, it released two days ago. Now, but unexpectedly, we are receiving only 6000 vacancies all over India, but actually this is state-based competition. So, we receive only 288 posts in Tamil Nadu. So, that in that 288 posts, of course, aspirants are very disappointment. But we have some hope because some banks are not reported, like around 11 banks are participating. Only 7 can be giving vacancies and the remaining 5, they say like that not reported. So, not reported means maybe they would be mentioned later on. So, they will be increasing vacancies later on. So, we are expecting around less than 500 vacancies if supposed to be announced like that. The major bank like Indian Indian Oasis Bank not reported. So, it might be reported later on. So, maybe we are getting 100 or 200 vacancies more. But anyhow, finally, we need only one vacancies among 288 because those who are looking for sincere aspirants in the examination, we need only one vacant, only one vacancies. So, let us see IBBS Club 2022, it is only for the overview. IBBS official website, IBBS.in, so that if you want to register your application, just visit IBBS.in and you will be get more information in the advertisement. So, that once you read the advertisement and how to approach and how to fill the applications, everything is given clearly given. So, reading all the annexures. Next one, post it is a clerk, participating 11 bank actually 7 only reporting, remaining 5 is not reporting. Application mode online, exam mode is also online, number of vacancies all over India 6035 in Tamil Nadu 288.  So, this is a big advantage because job location within our state. So, that many students they are looking for that exams IBBS clerical. Next one, important dates. So, IBBS clerk notifications 2022 30 June, it release notification date, then application start date 1st of July. Then next one is a preliminary examination September month, then main examination after those who cleared the preliminary they are eligible for main examination. So, main examination October month, 8th October. Then declaration of the final result means April. So, every April 1st they will be declared final result and you will be allotted which bank. So, this is a specific thing for IBBS every April they will be given an allotment whatever it is whether it is clerical PO, SO whatever it is they will be allotted final April I mean 2023 April 1st they will be allotted the bank. Next one age criteria actually the minimum age is 20 maximum age is 28 years. Of course, we have a relaxation so that from 20 minimum years maximum 20 28. So, a candidate must have been born or not earlier than 27 1994. So, clearly mentioned 27 1994. So, from 27 1994 to 17 2022. So, these are the as an date. So, before the date not less than 20 years or the same time not more than 28 years. And there is a age relaxation. So, for example, ACST adding 5 years 28 plus 5 years you can able to write. So, 28 plus 5 then other OBC you can write 28 plus 3 years. So, 31 years is a maximum age. Right. The next one physical disabilities was and disabilities like 10 years. So, that 28 plus 10 years. So, adding with that because 28 it is a maximum age then you can add with the age relaxation. So, that is supposed to be belongs to ACST category 5 years and OBC category they provided 3 years. So, next one educational qualification any recognition university by government of India approved like UG is the minimum degree that it is not required percentage. So, that UG is the minimum degree many students they ask question we are in the final year student whether we are I mean we are eligible for I mean we are eligible or not. So, your result was published before 21 7 2022 your result was published means you can able to apply the exams otherwise you cannot apply the exam. Right. Next one examination phase actually examination phase there are two phase prisms and means there is no interview. This is one of the very important thing there is no interview. So, means mark they will be considered right and examination pattern first of all let us see the prisms English numerical ability reasoning English 30 questions 30 marks numerical ability 35 question 35 marks reasoning ability 35 mark 35 question 35 marks.   So, total one hour. So, there is no composite time actually. So, sectional timing is given and one more challenge is sectional cutoff is also there at the same time overall cutoff is also there. Right. So, sectional cutoff overall cutoff both in clerical at the same time you have a sectional timing. Okay. Next one the next one is nothing but means pattern means pattern is a reasoning ability along with the computer aptitude. So, they asking 50 questions 60 marks English language 40 questions 40 marks 35 minutes even sectional timing is also there quantity aptitude 50 questions 50 marks 45 minutes general finance awareness banking awareness 50 questions 50 marks and 35 minutes. So, total 160 minutes. So, 190 questions they convert into 200 marks. Okay. So, this is also very important. This is play and vital role in your merit marking. So, this is very very important means examination problems it's only for the qualification. So, they consider merit mark only for mates. Right. Next one these are the syllabus. So, before going to syllabus we should know that how to crack preliminary examination. So, how to crack preliminary examination we have two types one is scoring area another one is non-scoring area. So, listen guys this is very simple scoring area is nothing but like let's take numeric ability number series simplification quadratic equation data interpretation the force for number series simplification quadratic equation data interpretation these four are a scoring area because once you are very strong in this four area. So, you can able to write like around you are getting out of 35 you will be securing like 30 marks you will be securing 30 marks because the previous year cutoff was 67.5 in Tamil Nadu maximum cutoff 81 in Uttarakhand right. So, the maximum cutoff 81 in Uttarakhand out of 100 what I am saying out of 100 of course it is a possible of course it is possible right because if you are looking for only the scoring area right it is definitely possible if you are very strong in scoring area at the same time if you are I mean time management plus accuracy these three are very very important right. So, these three are very very important right. The next one reasoning puzzle and arrangement inequality alpha series syllogism coding decoding blood relation directions order and ranking. So, these are very important actually we have given both problems and means right now I am going to tell you the main thing actually main area. So, these are the scoring areas only four area in mathematics only six or seven areas in reasoning. So, once you are very strong in math and reasoning definitely you can able to get 30 plus 30. So, 60 marks out of 70. So, once you are getting out of 70 again if you are securing like 60 definitely you will be getting what 70 more than 70 last time in Tamil Nadu 67.5 marks out of 100 by this time definitely more than that because last time we have a vacancy like 600 or 800 something but by this time we have only 288 right exactly off. So, in this case maybe you are like cut off it might be increases. So, whatever it is the safety thing is more than 70 or 75 plus that is scoring area please target like that because 70 to 75 marks if you are secure definitely you will be clear preliminary examinations right. So, we will be discuss about all those things how to approach scoring area what is the preparation what is the strategy we will be discuss about later ok. Thank you.


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They finally dropped the Harvest Promo. Oh my God, I'm so happy. Buy Muck Coins is the best place to get your men 20 coins, super quick delivery, awesome customer service, build the team you always wanted, and of course my code MMG is 15% off. The Harvest Promo itself is like a nostalgic good feeling because I know everything that's coming up. Cause number one in real life, it means Thanksgiving's coming up, and then winter break, and then Christmas, and then New Years. In Madden, it means harvest, and then blitz, and then zero chill. And honestly, both things are awesome. So this is just, I'm so happy right now. This is so great. I'm dropping this quick banger today, all right? I'm gonna open up. I mean, if it's good, I'll open too, but I'm gonna open up the Harvest Bundle. I'm going in with no expectations, okay? This is how you should approach everything in your life. Go in with no expectations. You're going on a date with a cute girl, and you really, really hope that at the end of the night, you just might have premarital hand-holding. Because I swear to God, if you even thought about premarital sex, I will literally end your life! Drop you this quick banger right now, and then there'll be a brand new Wheel of Mutt very soon, probably within the next two days. The reason I say that is I've been holding off recording Wheel of Mutt until this promo dropped. Because what I didn't want to do was get so far ahead of myself that the Harvest Promo dropped, but then I posted three Wheel of Muts without the Harvest Promo. So I waited, and I had to make you guys wait too, so I'm sorry. All right, I'm excited to see the Harvest. I was just gonna say the Harvest Pack animation. That's sick. You got Dexter Lawrence. I've never heard of him. Sorry, Giants fans. Okay, two straight Harvest players, and an 85 Christian Kirk. And he eats speed. I'm a big fan so far. This pack animation's filthy. I love it. That's an elite then, right? Yeah, so all the elite Harvests look like that. So this is elite two. Oh. So it's the same animation, whether it's a gold or an elite.  Well, now I'm wondering what the animation looks like if it's something really good, because none of these are particularly good. There's a ton of 92 overall Harvest players, and then there's a 94 Michael Irvin and a 94 Night Train Lane. And by the end of this, I'll definitely be able to do the sets for them. JJ Watt power up. That might actually be kinda good. Bro, if these things are just filled with the, okay, that's new. That's brand new. There was like extra leaves, right? I think maybe wonder why. 87 plus, you get the extra leaves. All right, so if I don't see the extra leaves, I'm just gonna skip the animation. I got a mud hero in this one. 85 Ryan Jensen, all right. No extra leaves, and no extra leaves, all right. And I'll trade everything into sets at the end. I'm sure I'll be able to get at least like one super good one. Nick Vigil, no extras there. Ooh, extra leaves. Oh, it's just cold. Dude, I just, I wanna get a 92. I mean, yeah, I'm sorry, Colby's Lee, but you're not what I'm looking for right now. I'll be totally honest with you. Riley, Riley Reed, Riley Reed, I wish. I'd love to have her on my team. Let me tell ya. Oh, it's Alliance player, Frank Ragnar. Okay, so maybe I'm gonna stop getting super excited about the extra leaves because do you think there's a different animation for the 92s and the 94s? My guess is they're all that same big leaf one. Got a power-up Joe Staley. Sam Darnold has a harvest card? I kinda like that. Sam Darnold, Jekeem Grant. Yo, you know this Jekeem Grant has 93 speed? Yeah, that card is dope. Yeah, I didn't feel good about that pack, I'll be honest. I feel very good about this one right here. I don't know why. Okay, I was just kidding. It was a joke. Guys, it was a joke. I'm excited to see how these sets work. I have to be like so close to these sets. All right, so now we're into the 82, 89 harvest players. That's obviously not an 86 plus. Damn, this bundle's an L.  Hey, cool. Good. I already have you. Who's the 88 and the 89 then? Cause I've only seen 86. Ah, okay. Okay, I got more big leaves. Also already have him.  That was $100. That was $100! Okay, in the comments, please comment.   I'm not mad. I am fine. I am not mad, I am fine. All right, I wanna look at these harvest sets though cause there's actually a chance like I could do something here. So these are Thanksgiving Day All-Stars. They improve based on their performances on Thanksgiving Day. Damn, this is kind of sick. So Hawkinson is gonna need three plus receptions and one plus total touchdowns. That's actually a really good bet because TJ Hawkinson gets targeted in the red zone all the time for the Lions. And three plus receptions, I guarantee you'll have more than three receptions. Oh, those are different tiers. You get one, he goes up, you get both, okay. So to get this, you just need wild cards which I have all these in the pack opening. So I got a 90 TJ Hawkinson out of it which I assume I'm gonna take. Yeah, I'll probably take TJ Hawkinson. I want him more than anybody too. That's actually really cool. The harvest masters. Okay, so there's Night Train Lane and Michael Irvin. I assume you have to put the 92 overalls in to get these fuckers. Yep, 92, 92, 92, 92. I don't even know how you get those. We're gonna figure this out together. It says it wants one gold to give me a turkey stuffer.  Odell, Zach Hertz, Quentin Nelson, Quentin Nelson's best garden league, that's a fact. Joey Bosa, that's probably really good. Ejbuye, and Adrian Amos. I would say I want Odell, but what do I want Odell for? I have like Tori Holt, Tyree Kilsimi, Watkins. I actually think Quentin Nelson is the move here. Nobody ever gets left guards, you know? So I assume you gotta power these boys up.  Add the green beans collectibles to upgrade this player. Add the rolls, add the corn, add the cranberries. All right, I'm gonna get Hawkinson first before I go anywhere. It's gonna cost me two cold Beasleys and a Shaq Thompson. And then it's gonna cost two Royce Freemans. Oh, I got a night train lane. Cool, I don't remember doing that. Look at TJ Hawkinson, I love this dude. He's actually kind of a slut. 81 speed at tight end is mediocre, but 90 catching, 89 catching traffic, 89 spec catch. This guy's gonna be a beast. And then this, this is how I power up Quentin Nelson. I'm just appalled that I'm playing this video game and I'm staring at a plate of green beans right now. Somebody at EA had to Google search green beans and put it on that card.  So I would have gotten 90 TJ Hawkinson and 92 Quentin Nelson out of this, which is kind of a W. Cranberries, check. This shit's gonna take forever. Corn, check. And I have my rolls. Okay, I've got my four side dishes. All right, it's main course time. They want an 86, 89, and then two small ones. So I can do that twice. The dilemma is do I want the Candy Dams? That stuffing looks like it would slap though. Don't lie to me. I'm taking the turkey though. I'll take the stuffing next. All right, now I can put in a bunch of little guys to get the same stuff, which I have a lot of still. This bundle is actually weirdly good, I'm thinking. If everything goes as planned here, Candy Dams, and now I just gotta do one more. And I'll have leftover players. I'll have leftovers at Thanksgiving. All right, this is the final one. This is it, there we go. Gravy, okay, I'm done. All right, come here Quentin Nelson. Now I could upgrade anybody, but I'm gonna do Quentin Nelson. I'll always be able to use a 92 left guard, so I'm gonna do him. Green beans, gravy, Candy Dams, turkey, stopping. Let's go.  I think we made out pretty clean. I got Quentin Nelson with 95s, 392 overall, I got TJ Hockinson, and I still actually have a lot of harvest players, plus everything else that I pulled. I didn't pull that much good stuff, but I got Ryan Jensen and Robert Woods, a couple other goons in there. There's also an exchange set to get you harvest players. I don't know if this is gonna be worth it or not. I just got really lucky on the exchange set. Oh, I got Cortland Sutton. He's got a little bit of zero chill in his card too, it looks like. They also have this. This is just a straight up gamble. This is literally just gambling. For 500 training, you get a wishbone pack. You get one random wishbone collectible, quick selling for an amount between 120, 500 training. I'm gonna do this three times, okay? Lucky number three. Our first one doesn't look good because it doesn't have a good animation. So this one's quick sells for 550, so I made 50 training there. Come on, come on. Let's see that gambling. I think I just got the same thing. I have now made 100 training. Shit, this is a small one.  Well, this is how they get you on gambling because I'm not stopping after three. No, I just want the biggest one. Shorter? Oh, I lost 50.  I want the big one. I want it. I want it. Dude, I assume it's gonna have a really good animation, right? I just wanna know what it looks like. Like, throw me a bone. Throw the bone.  I'll come there and clap your cheeks.  Hmm? I keep getting this one. Is there even a 2500 in there? Or is it just 550, 450, and 100? I'm doing this for you boys. I'm literally just throwing training in the garbage. Give me the 2500. I'm not gonna stop until I get it. I can't stop until I get it. That's 550, bro. Give me the one that isn't that. Yes! Yes, I got it! Let's go! Yeah, I think if I just get one more 82 to 89 overall, that I can finish a whole another 92 overall set. And I think I just got a really good one too. Cortland Sutton again. That's huge. What I needed was an 86 to 89, and I just got it. Here's the thing. I think Odell is probably the best one because he'd be really, really good. Or Joey Bosa, but I have a really good left end and I have really good wide receivers. I want this video to be a banger. I think I'm gonna go open more packs. I'm gonna open like five harvest packs with coins because I think I just need a few more golds. I really could just go buy them, probably smarter. Royce Freeman, Auden Tate, Jalen Mills, Champ Bailey, Kase Keenum. I got Cortland Sutton in this pack. Let's go! Hey, so I just filled out everything that I got. This is from one bundle, four extra harvest packs, and then one of those training packs. I am two gold players short of finishing an entire other 92. So I kind of thought this bundle was a huge L, but it turns out I got two 92 overalls. I got one 90 overall, T.J. Hawkinson, who can still get upgraded? And then all the silver's golds and random elites that I pulled, which I really could just sell for more training. Kind of a W. All right, I'll admit it. I'm a little bit intrigued to see if this Odell is good or not. I'll do Odell. And then in this next gameplay, I'm gonna do Odell, Michael Irvin, T.J. Hawkinson, Quentin Nelson. That'll be kind of sick. 88 overall, 90 overall, 92 overall, let's go. All right, we've got 92 overall. Odell Beckham Jr. here, 94 agility, 90 speed, 90 excel. Yeah, I wonder if you can put him in the power up. You can. You can power up the Thanksgiving cards because Odell potentially could be a 93. Damn. All right, I'm gonna close this video off here, guys. Thank you for watching. I wanted to get you something out quick because harvest just came out. Next video, you're gonna see Michael Irvin, Odell, T.J. Hawkinson, Quentin Nelson in action in gameplay. You're gonna see it, it's gonna be dope. I'll see you guys later. Peace out.


Hello to everybody joining us online and welcome to our product school show today. I am so excited I'm Chantelle de Grey product marketing manager here at product school and joining me today We have Jeremy Henriksen SVP of product at rippling. How's it going Jeremy? It's going great. Good evening to you. I guess in Paris. It's nice to see you Nice to see you as well. We thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate having you here We've got a pretty packed agenda of ways that we want to pick your brain and see how product is truly done at rippling So I'm gonna go ahead and just you know pass it over to you Can you tell us a little bit about your personal history how you got started in product and who you are? Sure, so maybe I'll go way back. I grew up in South Dakota born in Minnesota But grew up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I was just a shy kid to like really like like problem-solving and puzzles I was blessed with three little brothers and so I made games for them like all the time and while I didn't think of that as product What I realized kind of later in life was like the seeds of like the product first I was going to be was going to become like we're born of like creating those experiences for them and You know that later translated into like learning how to code on my Apple 2 plus and basic and writing adventure games and Eventually like you know once I got to college it became my thing and I was a computer science guy But I very quickly realized that at least for me like the engineering was like super interesting But like what I really loved was like the interactions with people around Computers around each other around computers and around other kind of computing devices And while at the time, you know, there was no like product management discipline or school or thing you could go to I realized that that was sort of where I was kind of kind of headed toward and so To make a relatively long shorty store it after I finished graduate school I was at this company called reactivity, which was part of the internet one era And no one really knew how to use the internet at the time And so we were doing consulting and starting new companies around like hey How do you use this internet thing and what interesting things can you do with it? And so in that in the process of doing that I talked with like dozens of companies that were trying to get off the ground figuring out how to build their products and That's where I really became I would say a product manager Even though I didn't have the title product manager until my next job at a guide wire back in the back of the odds And then kind of the rest of sort of history. I've been been a sort of hybrid product engineering Design person like ever since I've just kind of really loved the last of 20 years or so of doing that kind of kind of thing We definitely didn't talk about this and we are going through the questions But you said that you are into computer science is probably what you studied if you had to go back and redo your education Would you study the same thing? 100% I mean, well, okay, hold on believe so I'm also sort of a musician So maybe if I were to do it again, I would go become a conductor even though I eliminated that as a career choice in my 20s So I love music, but like if I were going to become a product manager again 100% computer science Engineering would be is the right place to start because I think as a product leader I mean, it's extremely difficult to make good choices unless you actually understand the implications of those choices in software And what it means for an engineer to actually have to build something or make a trade-off between Like getting something out tomorrow or like architecting at the right way and getting it out two days later or whatever And so I think having that deep Hands-on experience of having built stuff, you know written code and like getting pretty good at it I think is a it's a really important kind of background element to many great product leaders Amazing. Well, you know that brings us to a great segue to our next question Which is as product people we always reinforce this idea of falling in love with a problem and not just the solution So can you tell us a little bit about the problems you're passionate about solving at riffling? Yeah, sure. So I Think when I'd like to answer like a little bit of like context about how I think about like choosing places to work because rippling It's just a great example of that And for me, it's about believing that there's something like fundamentally transformative about about the thesis of the company And so in rippling's case the thesis is the problem statement is that today's systems are all super disconnected before rippling You have a payroll system and it has like your name and your email address in it and your kind of address You have an insurance system Which has the same thing of a device management system and a recruiting system and a time in the tennis system You have dozens of systems at companies and like none of them are the source of truth None of them and so what ends up happening is you have either really janky integrations between all these systems Which like poor IT people desperately try to keep up But that's that's never good enough because you also have to have human beings like update this data So if I move from here it in sunny, California to Paris, right? Well, somebody has to make that change in the system and make sure they're making the right changes at the right time and it's in It's an enormous burden and it's not fun and it's extremely error-prone And it's not good and this has happened because there's been a disaggregation of systems over the last two decades That is a big Hairy problem, especially when you extend it beyond there to like the community of like thousands of other like ancillary products that companies need to use All of which by the way are also dependent on understanding that employee data And so for me, that's just a problem That's really really rich with like possibility and like a decade's worth at least for my intellect of like of finding interesting things to think about And extremely importantly, I believe that of the many potential solutions like the one that we have chosen It's like fundamentally good for people And it's not just about falling in love with a problem for me But but it's all I have kids two kids now They're eight and six when I started this job They were you know six and four and it's really important for me to be able to tell them Hey look here's how your dad's spending time and like I'm actually making people's lives better And here's the way in which I'm making it better That's something I actually can explain to my kids now which which I value very highly Amazing well, let's dive into that a little bit more What's an example of a product that your team has launched recently or built recently that you're super proud of? Man, there's so many But I think I have to go with our global launch So maybe a month month and a half ago we announced that you know, we were going global and what does that mean for us? Well up until you know very recently We basically just served United States based companies and they're United States based employees and contractors I'm like we had integrations that would like you know allow you to pay people and you know France or UK or India or wherever But that experience is not the unified like single system experience you want And so we've done a ton of work over the last year extremely quickly to be able to say no no no Not only can we directly support like your employees in Canada and the India and the UK and everywhere else in the world And we've now been paying our own employees via our own systems the inexperience. It's like one button You don't have to do this four different times in four different places and like wait forever It's just a seamless like magical experience, which is really cool And not only can we do that but we're also about to be able to support companies that are not headquartered here Right, so if you're a Canadian company with Canadian employees You happen to have remote employees in the United States or somewhere else Well, that's gonna work too and you know and ditto for all the rest of companies and so that launch Has been has been really really fun in a number of dimensions like one It's just a complicated thing right to make that work to go from like one country to many countries to it requires a Cultural change which is one of the things I always love about companies when they go global You end up kind of have you you end up like leaving this extremely kind of United States centric point of view with Color spelled incorrectly in the word zip code in there and all those things to everybody in the company Needing to think about why what they do every single day needs to be thought of in a different like more global way and I love That transformation inside of a company that happens when you do it I'm just like really really proud of the team through have being able to like affect that transition in such like a relatively short period of time It's the second time that you mentioned that it has been a fast or short period of time that this has happened I want to dive in there Can you can you expand a little bit more on that and maybe some of the hurdles that are sometimes associated with moving fast? Yeah, so I think One has to be very very careful to say like fast does not equal bad Right fast just meet fast to me is not about like the move fast break things philosophy Facebook made famous right fast Is about focus right? It's about understanding what you need to build and not wasting time and energy and effort like doing things that you don't like That aren't productive towards your end goal and like sometimes you don't sometimes you don't have that benefit Sometimes you you don't know what the end goal is right and you have no choice But to like you know throw a spaghetti at the wall in a bunch of different ways And it's really frustrating when things don't work out But for us like we more or less know what we need the question is how do you do it? How do you do effectively in a different way and leveraging for us? You know this single source of truth that we have on the platform that we've built around that and And and and and and so going quickly is all about having a deep deep understanding of the domain and a deep deep understanding of our kind of differentiators as a platform and like getting the whole team aligned kind of toward that that set of work and Then of course like you know being demanding about timelines like wait Why why is this going to take until like February 1st? Why can't it take till January 1st and like you talk about that question, right? And you realize people have all these assumptions their heads about the things they need to do in order for it to like You know half my February 1st But like oftentimes those things are not necessary not to building a great product, right? If they're necessary to building great product then you have to do them But sometimes they're not right and so like really understanding what matters and what doesn't I think is the key to like moving Very very quickly and then of having a culture of like deciding things now Like you could wait to schedule a meeting next week with a committee of seven people or you could like call slack Call somebody like literally right now get them on the line and make the best decision You can and like are you gonna make wrong decisions every once in a while? Sure, right? But if they're reversible it's not a big deal and most of the decisions are are not that are not of that caliber And so we really really biased toward making decisions as quickly as we can I Love that for the folks who maybe are thinking of applying to work at Ripley Can you give us the sneak peek about what like are you guys using an okr framework? How are you coming up with these things that say we prioritize moving fast and making decisions quickly? So I don't think you can really capture that in in like numbers usually like of course There are numbers that we are trying to like to manage toward life Hey, how many support tickets are there or you know, how many customers are using this feature or how often are they using that thing? But for us there's a more fundamental thing which is just like when we build a new product And we don't really bring like tiny features I mean we do bring tiny features to market But like if you're a product leader here like you own the product right in the market And so the question is how do we make this a great differentiated product both for ourselves as we are our most Difficult customer by far right and then you know How do we make sure that customers are going to kind of accept and and use it and like that's the litmus test and for us It's about do you understand the ways in which having a single system of record allows you to build like a highly differentiated product? So as a product leader here, you're thinking about those things right? You're thinking about how can I create this experience? How can I think it all the way through such that like Everyone from like the VP of the function down to an employee to that manager over there to the business partner to the partner That's like using this all have this like sublime experience like going through it where it's just like is is an experience I could not have had should should they have chosen any of those system and like that's the metric And it is in some ways a subjective judgment But once you've been here for a while like it becomes like super clear like what that what that would be kind of dimensions of that subjective judgment are Very cool amazing. So how do you find ways to? Motivate your team and perform in this hyper growth scenario. You've got going on at Ripley Yeah, it helps to have the hyper growth there So so for us, it's you know, we we believe in keeping the product organization like relatively thin And what that means is that as a product leader here you come in and you have a very large scope of responsibility Perhaps even slightly unreasonably large It's it's liberally but then it's like look, this is yours You are expected to be like the expert in his zone You're expected to lead the rest of the company in doing this And so the way the way I try to motivate people is by persuading them of like the Significance and depth of that role, which is like very different from places people have usually come from And then to actually hold them accountable for it and it's in the holding accountable like wait You expect you to do that in my first week like yeah Totally, right and and people like get understanding that like this is a career accelerator, right? Because you're doing you're doing so much the scope of ownership is is so broad and then of course I'm there to coach and support them, right? I'm I'm a relatively like Hands off is probably the wrong word But like let people like do their own thing and then like either to support them or catch them or say I don't think you're approaching this right to intervene and say like here What can I do to make sure you're gonna be successful? In this and I found that you know It's not always a cultural fit like everyone slow and make a hiring mistake and like that doesn't work out But like when it does work out people are extremely motivated to like do their very very best work And and and they feel like super proud of what they've been able to build So as long as I can keep like doing things in such a way that people feel like really proud of the work They've done and feel like they're having an opportunity to have that ownership. I think we'll do okay Very cool. This is kind of just going a little bit deeper into that question But how do you find ways to support career progression of your teams? So I think career progression is a funny thing, right because different people define it differently You know, it's for some people career progression is I want to manage a lot of people That kind of career career progression is like not really here at Rivlin Like yeah, there are people who manage people but like the the objective is not to like acquire like the most massive team that you can The objective is to truly lead Your product here and become the expert like And the ideal state is like look you should be in a Parker who's our founder and has like this brilliant product Mind for like the sweetest products we have, you know All he wants is for to be able to have product leaders who whose areas he can ignore to say like look I could drop off the face of the universe for six months or for a year and come back and be blown away at the state of the product Right and that is career progression in product like achieving that ideal state Right and all of the things you have to do to go from being really really good at building a feature To like owning a product and like that is a very very long I mean that's neat 20 years like and I'm still learning right and so and so I think like Making sure that people recognize that that's that is the opportunity here. All right, and I'm look I think there are different there are different kinds of like product leadership from product ownership that that people can have and Rippling is gonna be right for some people and not for others But for people who do like that kind of style Rippling, I think it's a really great place to learn and grow through people's careers Very cool again I'm trying to give you the plug for all those folks hoping to work at Rippling Can you talk us through in a little bit more detail like what kind of roles in product teams exist at Rippling What is the area of possibility there? Yeah, I mean we have so we have roles kind of across the board I'll give us I'll give us a few examples of ones that are right now. So I mentioned the global release And so we are looking for a product leader on that team to be the leader for a number of countries in the world, right? Be the expert in Germany's already taken Germany was like one of them like France all the rest like we're going into all the major countries in the world And we need people who are willing to go deep there We are looking for a leader for our insurance and benefits products So this is like a more mature product which still has a ton of innovation particularly the roots back to the global stuff Right, we went global now suddenly we need to support global benefits in every country in the world And that that's not that's not an easy not an easy gig We have kind of earlier stage like new products We always kick off new products with just an engineer But once like we like built like that first version of product There are kind of earlier stage places where like product leaders can can be a really really great fit as well We have a few examples that within our finance suite. So there's few few kind of examples of the kinds of things we're hiring for Very cool. Very cool. Okay, you have obviously excelled as a leader And it sounds like you're pretty passionate about leading products over at Rippling Can you share some of the ways that you built up those leadership skills and how you're continuing to develop and challenge yourself today? Yeah, I learned long ago that I learned by doing like in college Like I was way better at the project courses than I was at the ones where you fill out bubbles at the end of the thing and get like test scores And so for me, it's always just been about I learned by doing I find something I'm either not good at or want to be better at or whatever and like I'll go do it And so as an example right now We're working on a couple of kind of capabilities for large customers like headcount planning and compensation pass and the like And I decided hey, this isn't right. I just like to learn no more about and so I've been working directly with a product leader kind of of that. So we've just been building the thing Together for the last couple of months Which has helped me really understand that domain particularly but also A new set of platform capabilities that we've been building which I understood at like a high level But hadn't yet gone deep on and so this kind of constantly like kind of Revisiting things that I used to know or things that are like are new or whatever something. I just try to build in To my cadence as much as as much as I can Because I find I can only be a good product leader if I actually know like the details of what's going on Very cool. I think I'm saying very cool to all of your answers, but it's because I'm finding them extremely engaging Yeah, well that's great I like to think of them as like hard-learned lessons, but also like totally wrong sometimes Everybody's going to say something else from here.  I should have been doing it that way And that's not this other way. So Um, it's good. Well, everyone's path is like the curvy way, right? There's no one way otherwise Even if there was I mean, that's why we all talk about the matrix and waking up from the matrix, right? So better to have an interesting life than a straightforward one 100% agree. Yeah So, you know, we are on the cusp of december last month of the year It's not necessarily last month at the quarter for everybody depending on your fiscal year But as we look forward to the new year, can you tell us a little bit about what are your top three goals? Going into the new year or for the new year Yeah, um So, uh, there's a set of things I can talk about and not talk about You know, obviously this global expansion piece is like enormously important to us We think that companies will only succeed in the next five or 10 years in our domain if they can serve companies globally And oddly, I think a lot of these companies are not positioned to be able to do that But we want to make sure that we are like the de facto answer there. And so that's a huge area of emphasis Um, a secondary of emphasis for us is like larger customers Um, so, you know, we have customers that range from like, you know, two people in a garage, you know To like, you know five six thousand folks Um, but we want to continuously kind of push push those boundaries up and make it a like a really great product for the 10 Thousand person company, which I think we could serve that customer today But it's not as good as I want it to be right and so we can do it We can do better and that's partly just like hey, we have to build some other products We haven't built yet And partly a few other kind of capabilities. And so that's really important to us as well Um, and again, we are our own most difficult customer here And we're never ever going to use any product other than ourselves. So I have faith that we'll do that scaling And then I would say like also the the other thing that's kind of changed structurally is like parker can only do so much Right, like he you know, he's kind of a force of nature But from a product organization standpoint The leaders of each of these functions need to be able to pull all the way up and like be The source of truth for the company on those things and historically parker has always had to dive in Because he's wanted to be really hands-on and understand the product really well But like we're out scaling that and so helping my product leaders get to a point where they can serve that function As well as parker does is a huge emphasis of of the next year Got it. Got it. Those are some some big goals that you've set out Do you think that you'll accomplish those within the next 12 months? Yes Okay, amazing. Yeah, I don't think it's be easy, right? I think and if there's things like that will go like particularly well, there's things that you know We'll struggle with right like like any journey doing something that hard, but um, One thing I have faith is our ability to execute Very cool Very cool So I want to go back on a point that you mentioned you said that you don't think a lot of companies are Fully adopting that mindset of go global or don't be here in the next decade to kind of reframe what you said Why do you think that is? Actually, don't even necessarily think it's not that they don't have that that frame of mind though, you know in our market like Many companies have grown up being like just us only or just like Germany only or just like some other company only And it's a technical problem Because like once if you baked in those assumptions like into the code Extremely deeply and the culture of the company doesn't have like this this understanding of global stuff. It's extremely difficult So like escape like that gravitational pull and so So number one, I don't think everyone's had the realization that they're gonna have to be global And then to the extent people have had the realization I just think the the path to get there Is much more difficult for some companies than others and by the way, I do think there are companies that will make it Right for sure like, you know, there's there's other smart people in the world But but um, but I think it's a challenge. It's a really challenging thing to do Well, it requires a deep commitment to a very clear path And then of course you have to have like the people that that can do the work Um, and so I think we're lucky to have all three of those but like some companies are just going to have a harder road than we are Well, maybe the road will be a little easier if they use rippling All right, let's go back to some of your more career path And your your experience growing as a product leader questions So how would you disambiguate the product career path or roadmap? Yeah, so I think um For me, I draw a distinction between People who are like really good at like the process of product management versus product Right and I I personally value the latter of those two things far more than than the former Because I think at the moment you talk about like tools and process And and like all those things you're you're not talking about the fundamental thing Which is building something that's going to be correct for the customer All right, and so You know for for my you know My personal journey has been one of having like just barely enough process to be able to like hold together Like a rational like plan Right and then everything else is about setting things up to get to the right decisions For the product or the best decisions you can make at a given point in time They're not always right But at least the best decisions you can make at a given point in time And then and my view like the best product leaders are good at that and then are really good at spreadsheets So to like, you know, talk about stuff together and then when you have to like you get good at Your or something right and then and then you have to go to mockups, but like that's that's it Right that every everything else is kind of noise And there are definitely things you need to do in order to scale companies There are definitely things you need to do in order to run large teams and those things are all fine But they're secondary Relative to getting the product as right as possible Okay, so getting that product as right as possible. I'm guessing that there is some piece of insight there about how to do that So I don't know that there's a magic a silver bullet here I mean, I can tell I can tell you what it is for me And for me, it's two things right it is number one Having as deep a possible understanding of your domain Right and that is a necessary but not sufficient Criteria and the second one is you have to have a thesis which you're applying to that problem Right something that makes your particular solution You know an order of magnitude better than whatever came before And so understanding how to apply that thesis to that problem in a way that creates a uniquely better solution Is is the kind of other the other piece of of magic and then being able to divine Like additional things that kind of kind of accrue to that thesis Like so for example at at rippling like the initial thesis was hey look You need a single system of record right and that was enough to start building something that was very different But now that's evolved to a whole platform of capabilities where Permissions that can be determined based on any attribute of the user Workflow and automation that's aware of the organization a degree of configurability that lets every company do whatever they need to do idiosyncratically A deep and and systemic reporting infrastructure Shared commenting all of these different things which were there at the beginning of the thesis But have been additive to it and now anytime you build a new product at rippling Of any scale you think through this library of differentiators and say wait a minute I can do this set of things that no one else in the market can do because I can take advantage of not just the thesis But the set of things have grown around it And so it's the combination of understanding the problem deeply and understanding the differentiators deeply That if you if you can bring it together And like stay grounded in what customers actually need which is the other hard thing to do You can build a great product Amazing We are coming up to almost time So i'm gonna close things out with one last question Which is if you had a time machine and you could go back to the very beginning to your younger self when you're first starting out What advice would you give yourself to get further in your product career? Oh man, I uh, it's a great question. I I think there are two Things that I would tell myself um Number one is that accomplishing anything significant is always hard and is always unreasonable All right, I spent a lot of time struggling when I was younger with this like balance between well How how hard do I want to work? How much do I want to commit myself to my work and you kind of have to make a call It's like if you're committed to your work or you're not but second You also have to know what else you need to be like happy and satisfied in your life And you have to you have to make sure that you construct your life So you have time for that too and while if there can be attention between those two things I think Finding as early as possible in your career like what like really understanding what you truly need what you truly care about That personal journey that introspection like you know the going through the fire like I wish I'd been able to go through more of that earlier because the point about now I'm like super happy. I have these two kids that you know, I read to every day I finished reading Lord of the Rings to my son like last weekend We're watching the movies like totally awesome Coming to a place where like I understood that's the balance. I wanted was really hard And so I wish I would have had like somebody in my life like back then who could have like Helped point me a little more in that direction Well, there's always options for mentorship with product school And I'm sure you have tons of people flooding into your dms If not before definitely after this session going well Here I am help me out. So Wonderful awesome. No, I look forward to it Well, thank you so much Jeremy for joining us. We are fully at time I'm gonna close us out with our awesome video But any last remarks that you want to give us before we switch over to that No, thank you so much. It's been it's been fun chatting with you and I appreciate the time and thanks to you to everyone Who's listening for spending time tuning in Amazing. Thank you to our wonderful audience to have a great rest of your day


Every day millions of people upload images to Instagram and spend lots of time artfully blurring them The reason Instagram filters work? Matz use mats to blur images so we can use more mats to unblurred them if needed Let's say you blurred a picture of your dog or your ex and then deleted original If I know the matz used to blur it and I can recover the original sharp image Photography is fine arts, but medical imaging isn't Let's say I have a brain scan like this image on your left There's a tumor on it, but it's blurred We can't exactly tell how the tumor looks like because this image was never shot now This is a problem because surgeons working just from this image will have a hard time finding So they can figure out how to remove it Making a blurred image sharp is an important and difficult problem to solve I don't know what Instagram filter was used. So I need to do advanced mathematics to make it clear With images we see what the naked eye may not from the human body to heavenly bodies That's why images are important in science Unfortunately, it is more common in science for images to get blurred than sharp Such images are meant to convey rich information But when blurred they're useless This is because images are captured in different ways Some using a limited amount of radio waves like ultrasound and the human body is so precious that Even using just enough radio waves to capture a nice image Could be dangerous Making a blurred image sharp is a challenging math problem think of the final sharp image as the solution to a complex set of equations a Mathematical problem is well post if the solution exists It's unique and stable if you violate one of these three Then you have what is called an ill post problem Unfortunately the unblering problem is ill post That's why it has to be approximated into a sequence of well post problems By solving each of these problems step by step We can get closer to that final sharp image that the surgeon needs Through my research tumors and brain scans will appear clearer like this image on your right And this will help surgeons remove tumors easier, but my work doesn't just help medical imaging Can also help us capture more breathtaking photos from outer space So next time use Instagram spare a thought for the poor mathematician like me was done blur things for a living


Hello everybody, and I hope you're enjoying Super Science Saturday, so the next, our next demo is called What's Up with the Weather, and in it I'll be talking about upward moving air in the atmosphere, so with that we can go ahead and roll the video. Hello everybody, and welcome to the demo What's Up with the Weather. I'm Christina Kalb, and I'm a scientist at NCAR. I've been there since 2009, and I've been part of the Weather Wizard since 2018. My area of research is thunderstorms, lightning, and computer weather models. Today, we're going to talk about upward moving air in the atmosphere, why it's important, and some of the reasons how it's caused. To do that, I need to bring in my assistant, Wizard Brian Vander Wynne. Brian also works at NCAR, and he works in the computer division, so he helps us set up programs and helps install software that we need to do our work. So, let's talk about upward moving air. Why is it important? Well, our air has a number of different molecules floating around. Some of them are water, some of them are other materials. And when we get upward moving air, and those water molecules turn to either a liquid, like the water that you drink, or a solid, such as ice, it forms clouds that we see, or precipitation. So, how do we get upward moving air in the atmosphere? Well, one way is that we can just have something at the surface pushing the air upward, or forcing the air upward, such as a weather front or a mountain. To demonstrate this, we are going to have our leaf blower here, and then we're going to see if we can suspend some ping pong balls in the upward moving air of the leaf blower. I'm going to turn this over to my assistant, ping pong ball, upward moving air. Ping pong balls move upward until they move outside of the upward flowing air, and then they fall back down to the leaf blower. Flows this air upwards, but it doesn't just disappear into space. It comes back down outside of the stream forming circulation. So, what happens if we try to lift something that's too heavy, such as the tennis ball? Too heavy for the upward flowing motion, so it fell out or wasn't able to be suspended. This is one of the ways rain can come down. How heavy does something have to be before it falls out? Well, it depends on how strong your upward moving air is. How is the ping pong ball suspended in the air? Well, Bernoulli's principle states that faster moving air exerts less pressure, and so when we put the ping pong ball in the upward moving air, it's suspended upwards. This slide shows an example of what happens when air flows upward from the leaf blower to the ping pong ball. You can see the red and blue arrows bounded by vertical lines. As air flows upward from the leaf blower, it can't go through the ping pong ball so it's deflected around, causing it to speed up. This creates low pressure immediately adjacent to the ping pong ball. In the atmosphere, low pressure is associated with clouds and precipitation. We just saw what happens when we use a leaf blower to suspend balls, but now what about a different type of object, such as toilet paper? What happens when we blow from below? The toilet paper goes up, but now we blow on top. You'll notice that this causes the toilet paper to lift upwards as well, and in this case, faster moving air horizontally across the top of the toilet paper creates low pressure, which causes it to rise. This is the same way in which airplanes get their lift and are able to fly up into the sky to take you various different places. So let's try blowing the toilet paper with a much stronger tumor there coming from the leaf blower. To do this, I need my super special magic rod placing this toilet paper on the rod so that it stays in place while the air is moving towards it. I'm going to start by placing this below the airflow in much the same way that I just did while blowing on it, and then moving it around slightly so you can see the effects of changing the orientation. Alright, Ryan, are you ready? We just saw that air moving upwards from the surface creates the clouds and thunderstorms and rising motion in our atmosphere, and also something faster moving that's over the top creates lower pressure above and we get rising motion. So I hope you enjoyed this what's up with the weather demo here Super Science Saturday. The next one is infrared is out there starting at 230. And I would like to give a special thanks to my assistant who has helped demonstrate upward moving air. Hey Tina, that was awesome to see. What a fun experiment. Thanks. We can take some questions that are starting to come in in just a second. And one thing that I was thinking of when I was watching this is that this is something that kids could try at home right if they have a leaf blower or maybe even do you think it would work with like a hair dryer. I would you just would probably need a smaller ball or, you know, even like a beach ball looks, looks larger but because it's filled with Eric can be lighter. And so that would be another thing that a lot of people may have at home that they could try themselves. Cool that might be fun of course people have toilet paper to although we may be having a shortage so be careful with your toilet paper. We actually have an interesting question that has come in about low and high pressure. Why do we need low pressure and high pressure to lift things up. So high pressure is generally not associated with lifting things up it's usually sinking motion in the atmosphere so it's the reverse and in this case you can think of higher pressure as being, you know, more dense or a lot more molecules at the surface. So the air tends to flow from high pressure to low pressure, and it doesn't just disappear off into space. So the low pressure is generally associated with the rising motion, as it flows from the sinking motion with high pressure. Okay, great thank you. There's another question. How come all of the toilet paper came off Griffin is wondering. If I hadn't locked it down on the rod, then the thing would have just blown the toilet paper off into off however far it went so it came off because I held it I held the role in place. And then the air pressure blowing at it causes it to unwind itself. It was almost kind of pushing the role to unwind huh. Exactly what I was doing like when you take your hand and you go like this but in that case you're pulling, whereas in this case, you know it's like if you put your hand on the back of the roll and go like this it's going to, it's going to unroll itself and so it's it's the pressure of the air flowing. So this makes me think of something Tina, I don't, I don't know how many of the folks that are joining us right now have joined us for the last couple but air pressure has come up, especially as Jeff was talking about extreme cloud formation. What is air pressure, what do changes in pressure have to do with weather or with clouds. So changes in pressure, low pressure is generally like I said earlier in the video associated with clouds and thunderstorms, but low pressure also tends to be associated with weather fronts, and you get different kind of clouds around different fronts. So a warm front tends to be more your flat kind of stratus based clouds in and to high sea risk whereas your cold front tends to be cumulus more clouds that are more developed they're taller in the vertical and longer. And so the cold front is usually stronger precipitation whereas the warm front is kind of more light rain like your drizzle type of precipitation. Okay, so it makes a lot of difference. And here's another question about high versus low pressure to planes fly differently in high pressure versus low pressure. So I don't know the answer to this because I have never flown a plane, but what I can say is the majority of the time the plane is in the upper atmosphere where the pressure is always just less. Really it would really be only during like landing and take off where differences in surface pressure affect the plane. But certainly the jet stream and the faster moving air above can affect the time it takes to fly somewhere. So yeah. Definitely. Danny has a couple things. Danny mentions just this is a really cool experiment. So you should try it at home to Danny. You mentioned drizzle and Danny's wondering what is drizzle. So drizzle is very light rain. When you kind of think of, you know, it's just kind of almost a mist, but it's a little bit more than a mist. That's that's what your drizzle is. Right now we don't seem to have any more questions. We'll give it another minute in case anybody wants to enter in any more questions. I have a question for you in general. Tina, how did you get into this kind of research the stuff that you study? What did you do in school? So I went to school for atmospheric science that was my degree, both my undergrad and my master's degree, and, and then I went into research after school. So atmospheric science, some places call it like meteorology program, but mine was specifically atmospheric science. Okay, interesting because we had Mike Nelson on earlier and he's a meteorologist. It's all really great, but it's all related and oftentimes what they say is atmospheric sciences is a little bit more broad, whereas meteorology is a little bit more focused just on the weather aspect of it. Although in my field, it's, it's pretty much the same. Great. And speaking of that, Danny is now wondering how many years did you study? Well, so I went to college in four, I went to college for four years and then I was in grad school for two and a half. So that's, I have six and a half years. It's a good number of years. One more question has come in while we're chatting. Nigel's wondering how is mist created. So mist is, is, can be often just thought of as like the same thing as precipitation. Well, I guess it depends on what you're referring to as mist, whether it's light precipitation or some people refer to mist as like spray off a sea. And they're, they would be created in different ways, but mist in the atmosphere is, you know, similar to precipitation, it's just a smaller particle. And just like fog is a cloud, but it's a cloud at the ground. And so mist just tends to be associated with lower clouds and very, very small rain droplets. So not a lot of upward motion. Great. It's cool. We've learned a lot about all different kinds of clouds in the last few presentations. That's been super fun. Well, it doesn't look like we have any more questions. So I'd like to just say thanks so much Tina for joining us today and, and sharing your fun experiment and I hope some of the folks who watched can go out in your yard they're on your streets, safely. A hair dryer might work. Yeah, I'll be curious. Maybe I'll try it with a hair dryer too. Yeah. Well thanks so much for joining us and thanks everybody for joining us for this session, and we are going to have another one coming up at 230 about infrared heat and radiation. So join us back then we're going to take a short break and thanks for thanks for coming today.


Nintendo Switch Insanity has reached an entirely new level this week in Japan and that maybe shouldn't be surprising considering that this is the week that Splatoon 2 comes out and the original Splatoon was extremely popular in Japan and now you have a portable console-like device that's been selling like hotcakes in Japan this whole time So let's just dive right in So there are two specific retail outlets that we know about publicly one in Osaka, one in another part of Japan that had well over 3,000 people waiting in line today just for the opportunity to potentially buy a Switch Essentially you waited in line, you were given a lottery number they drew 250 lottery numbers since they had 250 Nintendo Switches in stock and if your lottery number was drawn you were given the ability to purchase a Nintendo Switch pretty crazy and we've known they've been doing this lottery thing for a while this isn't new but the numbers definitely are this is the highest amount of people who lined up in fact one person noted at one location that when he showed up at about 8.20 or so this morning that he was number 2,600 in line and he figures by the time they started doing the drawing there was at least another few thousand people behind him meaning that we're talking about 5,000 to potentially 10,000 people that waited in a single line just for a chance to buy one of 250 Switches and there was another location that had around 3,000 people as well this is obviously insane we know in North America how hard it is to get a Switch and I'm happy to tell you guys that this Friday you'll be able to get a Nintendo Switch at Best Buy, GameStop or Target in person if you're picking up a copy of Splatoon 2 obviously that doesn't mean everyone's going to get it there's going to be limited quantities we all know this issue in Japan is an issue worldwide it is extremely difficult to get Nintendo Switches worldwide but I mean just put that in perspective I don't think there's ever been a shipment to say my local GameStop where there's been 250 Nintendo Switches you can go get but there also isn't a line of 30,000 people waiting outside to get one I mean there's 3,000 people in my area that probably want a Nintendo Switch but you know they're not waiting out line to get it to wait for an opportunity and a lottery to be able to purchase one it's like, man, you want to talk about how insane it is for that demand on the Nintendo Switch and I think this is all obviously good news for Nintendo I mean they're obviously, this thing is in such high demand in Japan alone, let alone worldwide and they're having such a hard time selling it or creating enough of them to sell that Nintendo is going to have the hottest electronic on the market the hottest consumer electronic that's not a cell phone obviously on the market for the foreseeable future I don't think Nintendo has any chance of remotely catching up to demand this year or this fiscal year I mean this is, there are already people lining up for this in weeks in the past and now people are lining up for Splatoon 2 we have Monster Hunter, Double Crosses releasing in Japan next month I mean demand for that's going to be as high if not higher than it is for Splatoon we have, you know, other games coming up, Fire Emblem Warriors all that such, there's going to be Rocket League coming Mario, I mean the momentum for the Switch right now is insane so I know a lot of people, you know, worry about oh we're, when our AAA third party is going to support it are they going to support it, isn't the machine powerful enough right now it really doesn't matter because the demand and the pace of game releases are so good right now that Nintendo just can't keep up so yeah, I'm not going to worry about third parties you know, I've talked a lot about third party games on Nintendo Switch unless there's some big breaking news with third party stuff I'm probably not going to talk about it the rest of this year I think 2018 is the year to start targeting for that where hopefully Nintendo can acquire more manufacturing parts and the part shortages on like Nan Flash starts to clean up a bit and hopefully Nintendo can catch up to demand because there's no way, you know, I talked in the past there's no way Nintendo is doing this intentionally they are not trying to short change they're not going to have 10,000 people line up and Nintendo will look at them and be like, sorry 9,750 of you, we really don't care about your money that's not the way it works, Nintendo is a business they want to sell but what this does do good is privacy Nintendo stock I first see Nintendo stock value continuing to rise because when you have such a high demand like this and you're selling out of everything you make it's going to make the value of your company rise up significantly I just hope Nintendo can meet demand before customers start becoming so frustrated that they just give up on getting to switch all together I mean imagine if you're this person that shows up every single week in Japan waiting in line and you've done this now for say a year straight you've done it 12 months straight of waiting in line and you still have not gotten lucky in the lottery that would suck it's really weird that they're even doing a lottery but I mean on the bright side I guess you don't need to wake up and go out and wait at the store you know, it's 2017 hours ahead of time anyways I just wanted to briefly bring up just how high this demand is for the switch how crazy it's getting and how I think Nintendo's pace of games is going to be fine for the rest of this year and how thankful I am to have a switch and that I did pre-order Nintendo products so the one thing where pre-ordering really does matter so yeah, I'm thankful I got my pre-order in I did it in person the moment that GameStop opened the next day after the switch was announced so I'm happy, I hope you're happy and as always, I am Nathaniel Rufflejantz from Nintendo Prime if you liked this video, you know what to do if you disliked this video, hit that dislike button otherwise, subscribe for more and if you are a subscriber, thank you so much you guys are what make this channel possible and as always folks, I'll see you in the next one