I want to do this desktop. OK, let me get this stuff out of the way. All right, let's run through these. Wow, I made this small, didn't I? Sorry about that. OK, all right. Let's take you through the people ops functional update. And we'll have time at the end for questions. Although I would like to make this more interactive, so maybe we'll open up in between each section or each slide. Let's talk about accomplishments first. We rebranded the feedback survey for 2017 as our stay interview. We want to focus on a couple of important things. And for Q1, we're going to do this. We're going to publish this quarterly going forward. Our first tour we launched in February. But for Q1, we focused on why people join, why they stay. And what would, if something were to happen, what would it be to incite maybe some consideration to leave? We also added some feedback opportunity about the summit that we've published separately. We're providing that feedback to the summit planners first so that they can digest it. And then we'll publish that on the summit page after we have an opportunity to go through that with them, with the team. But let's talk a little bit about the three focuses, the why people join, why people stay, and if something were to occur, what would make people consider leaving? We surveyed everybody. We got 91 people to participate. 57% of the organization is now participating. That's awesome. 91 is triple the normal. However, it's still only half the company. So I'm going to encourage everyone, whether you believe you have something to add or not, please participate going forward because your voice is important to us. The feedback we received was sincere, honest, and direct, mostly constructive and actionable, many compliments. And we appreciate that you appreciate our work, and it's great to hear those things. It's as many constructive criticisms and comments that we get on things that can change, we get an equal number of you're doing great, and we really appreciate that. And I just want to say thank you for the team works very hard, and there's a lot of things on the plate. So thank you. Your feedback was helpful in guiding us to what needs our attention the most and what needs to get on the list. Because the feedback is getting more, it's getting longer and it's getting more consistent, we've moved the feedback page off of the culture page. It was really just scrolling down and down and down. So we put that link off of that culture page and we've put that here for you. It has been merged so you can go and take a look at the feedback, the summary of the feedback. We did paraphrase, we did summarize, but it was really important that we meet the expectation of the organization. We'd gotten several pieces of feedback on Slack that people were anxious to have the results. And we got some feedback that the survey should be shared as a whole. And unfortunately, we just can't do that. We have to protect the people that participate. We make it anonymous on purpose. It is truly anonymous. If you don't put your contact information in, we have no idea who said what. However, people write in styles and if people have said something on Slack that they may also say in the survey, we could easily connect the dots and we don't want that to happen. So we have only paraphrased or summarized where there are consistent messages, where we felt that it was, we wanted to get the message across. But I am asking everyone, if you feel that you were not heard, that your message was not clearly translated based on what we published in the handbook, please reach out to me directly. Create a calendar. Let's talk for 20, 25 minutes as to your concerns. I'd really like to hear them. And I'd really like to take away the action items that we might either let you know what we're working on or let you know where it is on the list, the to-do list and get a chance to really have that conversation. I don't want people to feel like they don't have a voice and I don't want people to feel like Slack is their voice. Sometimes short messages come across and put us on the defense and we shouldn't be on the defense. We should be communicating changes and communicating what is going on and what we're feeling in a positive way. So I'll open this up for questions. If there's anything I can't see, I haven't figured out how to share and see at the same time. So let me take a minute and see if anybody has anything they want to ask in particular. I'll look back at the chat here in a minute when I stop sharing so we can also do it that way. Okay, let's take a look at the concerns. Recent accusations of misconduct in highly visible organizations like Uber have raised our awareness that we need to clarify our position. We have drafted a zero-tolerance policy, Abby actually did a lot of work on this, a lot of research on this for us. I'm going to work through and work with Sid and the executive team to make sure that we're all in agreement, which the executive team has absolutely, I've had this conversation with Yob, I've had this conversation with Sid. There is a zero-tolerance policy for any behavior resembling harassment of any kind. And that is not in question at all. You just need to get the policy down in words and get it published so that everyone is very clear of the expectation and of the comfort that this organization will not tolerate any kind of harassment. We're also building out a process where we can take claims, concerns and complaints that someone wants to lodge anonymously. We're not a brick and mortar company, so normally you'd have an 800 number or a phone number for somebody to call and process, put their message on. We took this actually an extra step and thought, well, if we have some kind of recording mechanism, we might know somebody's voice because that's what we really get to know, right? Over the hangouts and the Zoom calls that we're on. So we're researching maybe an agency that can take calls for us and they can just turn it into the words, right? That they can convey to us the message and we don't get the recordings. We think that might be the best way to take in anonymous claims. Now, we will have a process by which people can stand up and say, hey, I saw this happen and give us your information. It's most important that we actually get the information but what helps in an investigation, so the process would include an investigation, what will help Abby and I is that we know who is lodging the complaint so that we can get a full statement. However, we don't wanna curb that from happening so we'll have that extra outlet. We're still working on building that out. I'm hoping that by the end of March we have that piece built out but the policy will come out hopefully in the next two weeks. What are we planning on? We need to do some work on OKRs, obviously. Put them in place and I fully admit that with everything that's gone on I have not paid attention to OKRs as I planned or should have or would like to have. So I'm going to go back and revisit that to remind everyone that team members and managers should be tracking progress in lattice that we review the participation and the goal attainment so that we have insight as to whether our goals were set too high or too low. That we make sure that everyone understands the process and is participating actively in the process. This is becoming part of one-on-one discussions on hopefully at minimum a bi-weekly basis, not a monthly or a quarterly, worse than that a quarterly basis because our OKRs are quarterly. We designed the OKR approach to drive results and very specific and focused results. So we really need to figure out if that's what we're able to do with OKRs. And so we'll open up a feedback mechanism, an issue so that we can discuss what went well, what didn't go well, and we'll make improvements for Q2 and then further improvements as we go down. We fully expected that it was going to take us a year to improve this process to be fully functional and successful and useful. So we, though we walked into it with expectations that it would have an immediate effect, we know this is not a sprint, it's a marathon to get everyone on board and to get this in a smooth working process for the organization. We will open up Q2 OKR planning the week of March 20th. I need to work with the executive team first to review and confirm the company goals. And then from that we'll ask all of the managers to drill down and make sure that everyone on their teams has goals that shoot off of the company goals for Q2. We're also working on implementing an annual merit administration process. I know we talked about this when we implemented the comp calculator. We've been working on adjusting people that are outside of the range for the comp calculator and we, I think we made a hopeful promise that we would institute an annual merit administration process in the spring and we are still shooting for that. So I am working on the requirements this week. I wanted to define what requirements were for this because though it's extremely comfortable and a normal process for what I do, it is not something that maybe you have dealt with or have experienced before. So I wanted to be sure we put that out, what those requirements are, meaning what are the decisions, what are the business rules that we're creating. And I'm working through those by next week with the executive team. We'll roll this out to managers for input. It will be by Google Sheets. We're not big enough to have a system to help us with this so Brittany and Ernst are gonna help me put together Google Sheets that make this process as easy as possible for managers to participate in and to give us back responses quickly. So this is a new process to the organization and Brittany and I will be here to help and Abby will be here to help through the whole thing but it is something that we feel strongly that we wanna roll out pretty quickly and meet the promises that we put out that we would really take this into account for 2017. We're also developing new curriculum in Grovo. We're introducing new leadership development and IC courses at the end of March. So I'm gonna move on, I'll stop sharing so that I can see who's asking questions. And so if you will, let's see, some sharing, there we go. Let me look at chat. And I just volunteer, if you will volunteer if there's a lot in here. So if I miss something, please chime in. How's the global recruiter search going? Going really well. Sasha is putting together her short list after screening and that short list will go to the people ops team which is what we did before. And then the global recruiter, as Sasha reminded me goes through a very extensive interview process through most of our hiring managers. And so we put together that list and they will come to me before they go to that group hopefully only sending through the top three candidates to our hiring managers so that we can make a decision in the next, if I'm meeting with them at the end of this week or early next then hiring managers and say it's probably two weeks away from a decision. So we're called the job recruiter although we're a global company and so we just simplified the title. It's really about the recruiter and will be a global recruiter but it's called recruiter on the website. Can we do a LinkedIn post like we did for the SDR? We've actually got great candidates and if those candidates are not, the pipeline is really full of great candidates but if we don't find the perfect match then absolutely as Sasha said, we can do that. Not a problem. Do we care about the location? We did post for this recruiter to be in the San Francisco Bay Area. I absolutely understand we're a remote-only company but this was a specific request so that we would have someone with knowledge of startups, knowledge of the network and ability to connect us with many of the technical resources that are right there in the Bay Area. Whether we hire from the Bay Area going forward or whether we're just connected to people and other organizations that are global or that are startups. It was a decision that we made to really first look for the person in the Bay Area. People ops in the US. So we have a second position posted the employment administrator and that is not a US-centric position at all. We do have time zone requirements for support so that we can get contracts out and so that we can get the support that we need that the recruiters will need. However, I don't have a problem with that position being hired anywhere in the globe as long as they will support the mountain and Pacific time that we've asked. All right. I don't have a draft, ZJ, of the misconduct policy because I haven't done a thorough review of it and I actually have to, because it's a legal policy, I have to send it to our legal counsel to make sure that it is not headed in the wrong direction. As soon as I do that and I have something that has been approved by legal then I'm happy to share that policy. Let's see. Yep. Mark, I get you. More applicant stuff. If I've missed something, let me know. Conversation between Sean and Mark about the applicant. Elarone. Yep, yep. Great question. I believe you phrased it there, Joan made sense. Say it again. I think the way that you phrased it made sense. We were just kind of caught up in the chat about whether we're hiring NSF as a preference versus the network, anything else you said makes sense. Yep. That's the direction I've been given. Actually, the board gave us that direction and gave us an option. But it is, when I talked about it with Sid, it was, it's a great idea, right? Connect us with people that are in the same position that we are. Clement, for the annual merit administration process, will the F.E. team help me? F.E. team? Running. Running. Running. Specific, okay, all right. Levels defined. Jacob is still, so if we're talking about, yes, we're looking at all of that right now. This is brand new and there's a lot of pieces that will not be perfect, but we're, our attempt here is to be consistent and to bring data to a consistency as we roll this out. So Brittany and I will be spending this week with the basic rules and identifying where we need to have some attention in the, we are using the comp calculator as a piece of the formula. There'll be a review of where everybody is in their junior intermediate senior level as well as experience. One of the things we're going to do is go out to managers and we're gonna confirm people's experience level from a performance perspective, right? From a perspective of actual, rather than just where they fall in the calculator, but we wanna know where this person is in the experience factor categories based on really what their comparison appears and what they have from a performance perspective. Does that answer your question, Clement? Yep, thank you. Awesome, James, what would make you leave? It's hard to tell if any of these were things. So James is saying that from looking at what would make you leave, what we did there was we looked at, and they were phrased, I think very carefully, James, to tell us that if this were to change, I would consider leaving. So Brittany and I siphoned through these and pulled out, literally, that's why there's so many. There were a lot of great concerns and our focus is going to be on, if the culture changes significantly, this might not be a good fit for me. Okay, then our goal is that our culture, people like the culture and we need to work on keeping it as similar to that core culture as possible as we grow. And so those, we agree that the next survey will not ask the same questions. We feel like that's a great question to know what would make you leave so that we can focus on those things in the background, but we will ask three different questions. We are gonna keep the survey short and we'll not ask again, why would you join? Because we're gonna ask the same question again and we're not gonna ask you what would make you leave, at least not maybe, but once a year. We'll focus on two other areas in the same kind of vein. We're gonna maybe hone in on some things. The annual merit will not touch on stock options at all. The annual merit is a merit administration process for base salary only. No incentives and no stock options involved. What are you doing with the feedback from? What would make you leave? I think I just talked about that. If I didn't, somebody wanna chime in, that's fine. The actionable items taken from the survey are towards the bottom. Somebody has a comment, open the mic. Actionable items taken from the survey, those are at the bottom. Those are a work in progress, let me call it carefully. I wanted to respond to the fact that we were, we wanted to get this out. We've had several people ask, where are the results? We didn't want to continue that discussion that we were massaging the results that had, it was not the case. It was just a timing. It was just being able to look at them and translate them and paraphrase and summarize them. So the actionable items are all at the bottom. Hopefully we've answered, but we do owe you issues and links to the handbook. Again, I opted for getting this done so we could talk about it today rather than making it perfect. And Brittany and the team, Abby and I and Sasha will go in and put links to everything that has a question and something that we can link to. Mark says, oh, yeah, Elaron, answering Elaron. Sean, Elaron, if I'm, again, if I'm missing something, let me know while Robert says, why no stats about how often you saw a particular response? I can count the number. Let me give you a stat that I did pick up right away. Sid and I talked recently about the leverage that the handbook gives us and to people that are potential candidates. And it didn't sink in until I saw the results of the survey. The number of times that the handbook appeared in the very first question, what caused you to join or what interested you or why did you join, the most used word was handbook, which I thought was really awesome. It drove that point home for me.  Yes, I didn't think that was effective because we pointed out whether a comment was made once or made a number of times. And at first, I cautioned the team to put everything that was just mentioned once because one out of 160 may not be relevant. But we talked through it and we felt like it was important for every voice to be heard. So that was the logic behind that, Robert. If you wanna talk about it further, open for more discussion on that. Jim says, do we feel like we missed an opportunity to pull good people out of Uber? Well, we haven't missed any opportunities. There's more and more coming out on social media. We can certainly look to source if there are great candidates in the engineering group that are leaving Uber. So that's an opportunity I don't think is missed, but I think it's certainly out there for us. Mark, currently as a hiring manager, I see applicants. Can you Mark, chime in so I'm not reading this whole thing? Yeah, sure. So I get applications and I see a photo and a name and probably a time zone. And I know there's been a lot of studies about removing biases by hiding all that information. I was wondering if it would be possible for us to do something like that. I mean, in particular, I see a photo and they probably didn't even put it in the resume. It came from LinkedIn and so we're just grabbing it and I see the photo. And it's great when I'm having a conversation with them, but probably not great when screening them. So that was my comment. And then there's some details there about time zone. Sometimes that is important, but it probably should be specified as job requirement. If it's specific time zones and as long as they qualify in that time zone, then I probably shouldn't be aware of even what time zone we're in. We'll tell you later. Gotcha, no, these are all great considerations. I agree in the screening process that we, we can let our unconscious bias jump in there. You kind of bring two things to the table and I'll be quick because we have four minutes and I wanna make sure we open it up too for everybody to say last questions or last thoughts. We are in the midst, I've asked Sasha to work on some content for us under diversity and inclusion that will include unconscious bias to educate all of us. And so she'll be coming out with some grovo content end of March, early April to help us with that. But your points are valid, right? That if we have unconscious bias that we're just not even admitting to ourselves, those things can pose a problem. Let's, unfortunately, workable is not a great tool. And I didn't really realize that until recently when the recruiters made it very clear to me that it's not. We are looking at other tools. There is an expense to that implementation. SIDS behind, getting a great tool, but we've gotta fit in our day job and looking for that tool at the same time. Sasha's doing a great job at that. So I think we'll have more opportunity for choices and things like that and setting up better processes when we get into a better tool. Sasha, you can chime in if there is, if you have some ideas on this. Maybe we open an issue so we can discuss it further and all great ideas and great thoughts. I think there's some more information about how, what people include and don't include. And those are great pieces of information for us. I wanna open up while we have two minutes left. Does anybody have any other questions that didn't get addressed? Did I miss anything? Fantastic. I hope we provided a good update for you this time and had some really, really great information come through on the survey. We really, really appreciate your participation, your honesty and your constructive feedback. We're gonna do our best to continue to roll out great programs and pay attention to what you think is important and look forward to talking to you again next time. Have a great day.


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Hello, all you fabulous teachers. Welcome back to my channel. I hope you enjoy my last day in my long term Happy Friday everybody. It is my last day here and I'll So I don't know how much I've explained about my classroom, but I do have a student who is selectively mute and And um the student writes on a whiteboard to communicate or like writes on a piece of paper to communicate and I don't know as kind of a newer teacher getting Told there's a parent down waiting for you in the office hoping to talk to you is kind of nerve wracking. I was really nervous just because You don't know like if they're coming in to You know Want to yell at you. Sorry. I always like check to see if there's like People wanting to get my attention out out the door But you know, you just don't know you don't know if it's going to be positive or negative So she I got a call from the office and they were like, oh the student's parent is here And they like to talk to you and my first reaction is like Oh god, like what did I do? What did I say? You know, is there something is this going to be a negative experience? And she says do you want me to bring to have her come down to the classroom? Or do you want to come down to the office? and I said I'll come down to the office because If it is negative, I wanted it to be kind of been more of like a social I don't know area that has a lot of traffic and people in there as opposed to my room That's kind of like in the back of the building and stuff. So just to be safer Maybe I should have had her come down to my room. I don't know but Anyways, this parent told me that her son my student who is selectively mute is Really sad and was crying last night and is going to miss me And I It just makes me want to cry because it's like that's a student who You know, I it's not that I don't think that The teacher in here You know, I don't think she was like Wanting to not have a relationship with him, but I don't think she ever really I don't know. I don't want to assume anything, but I don't think they had a great relationship and I think Not that I've like overly tried to have a relationship But I think I've had a really good relationship in these last 30 days Then I think she did in the whole school year I don't know just just a guess.  I think she said kindergarten or he's been going to the school for a long time and has never said that about a teacher and it just makes me want to cry because it's like You know these other students If they say that like, yeah, it's like it makes me feel good. It makes my heart happy, but like to have a student who I don't know like Who the other teacher just said she like never really had a relationship with didn't really know how to like I don't know and so the fact that like These things are being told to mom and like mom's kind of secretly coming in and telling me because she said He didn't want her to come in and tell me these things like it just makes my heart really really happy and Makes me really sad. Usually. I'm not sad on these last days of school. Um I don't know.  So Just wanted to share that. Um, I don't know. Happy friday. Happy last day to me Uh It just warms my heart. All right, I'll talk to you guys later So cute this girl brought in this flower and she said she painted this little can And I love it so much. I've been really into flowers lately And that just warms my heart that I got some little flowers on my last day So usually as my gift I like to give the kids pencils So I found these ones in the target dollar spot and I'm just sharpening them right now They're kind of some fun summer ones with flamingos and mermaids and sharks and stuff So I hope they like those I also sharpened them because There's nothing worse than giving them pencils and having to have them like all stand at the sharpener for 10 minutes sharpening their pencils so these are the unsharpened ones and the sharpener kind of Conked out on me a little bit So I'm waiting for it to kind of cool down And then I will sharpen the rest of them and they came Tend in a pack So I just got three packs for three dollars and they're kind of an easy one kids use them every day And they're really cute the other kind of gift. I guess I got where these m&m's They're just the milk chocolate m&m's and some skittles. The reason I got these was because The teacher before me used these on a different day for math So I figured these would at least be okay. One of my students is allergic to m&m's. So that's why I have the skittles and Um, yeah, so these are kind of my like other gift We're gonna do a little bit of I'll show you the end of the schedule So I just wrote next to the schedule kind of what we're doing. So they're at art right now And then we're going into readers workshop. We're going to read this called trooper I think I showed you guys this earlier this week, but Basically pictures are by ebluis and it's a story from the dog's perspective on finding a home So it's really really cute and then I'm hoping we might be able to go outside and Read for a little bit and then we have friders workshop. So I'm just going to do some watercolor They need to finish up their pictures We're going to do a little bit of fun with watercolor and then they can catch up on their geometro city I'm going to go outside With them for recess We're going to have lunch together as a big class in the classroom And then math they need to finish their geometro city And then after that they can do chrome books or chests or cribbage Or generally just kind of hang out and then end of the day. We're doing some trivia to win pencils and chocolate and or Skittles. So that's kind of my day so far for my day Um, sorry, that's kind of my last day. So makes me sad, but kind of exciting as well Hi guys, so the day is over and um It was quite the day but I have some pretty flowers to bring home like I showed you guys and Yeah, I have a lot of papers that I need to bring home So that's going to be kind of tough to bring that Just because I have so many Kid give me a card So I'm just gonna try to fit All of these into my bag. Otherwise, I'm just gonna have to recycle them So Yeah So this is my wiping it down the desk. You can see I got it pretty much cleared off I just have a couple of extra pencils over here And the remote which I think I'll just wipe this guy off So crazy I'm just gonna get the table all nicely wiped off. I just got to grab my stuff and go I'm crazy. All right. I'm all geared up. Just need to Turn off the light And close the door. Bye guys


So, today we are officially closing the Anime Tutorial series, and I just wanted to share some very unexpected things that I learned while practicing this art style. Some of the things you are not very obvious, and I think before you adopt this style, there's a few things you really need to know ahead of time. Now my perspective on the Guilty Gear Anime Shaden style has completely changed from when I started learning it two years ago. I originally chose to learn this style because I assumed it would be faster than And also because I love anime. But as I got deeper and deeper into it, I started realizing that it has some unexpected benefits and unexpected drawbacks that I don't really see anyone talking about. The best way I can describe this art style is, once you get good at it, then yeah, it's really fast. Compared to the average two weeks it takes for most professionals to make a photorealistic character, it takes me about five to six days to finish a character in this Guilty Gear Anime style. So once you're good at it, it's pretty fast. However, that is once you get good at it. Being good at this style takes a really, really, really long time. Just to give you my own personal experience, I had the original model for the character done a long time ago, and I wanted to apply the Guilty Gear Anime style to her. But the first thing I learned is I had to spend a lot of time redoing all my topology because normal topology does not allow for perfect anime facial lighting. From there it took me about three or four months to get comfortable with the square UV texture and style, a few more months to understand how to most efficiently slant the UVs to fake that hand-drawn look, and probably the most difficult part was another three or four months before I could start to grasp the idea of artificially controlling all the normals. This part took the longest because it's the most frustrating and you really feel like you spend entire day after day after day feeling like you made absolutely no progress at all. After about four to five months of literally fighting shadows, I was never able to master the art of perfect facial lighting, and I definitely didn't even come close to the professional quality that most of us are used to seeing, and the patrons and I ended up hiring professionals in order to edit the normals properly. And I think it's important for you to be able to tell the difference between cheap anime shading and true professional guilty gear anime shading. Low level shading is when people just take a normal 3D model, give it a two-tone material, slap on a basic outline and call it anime. But that is really the cheapest, most superficial way you can do it, because it doesn't have square UVs, it doesn't have a slanted fake hand-drawn look, and it definitely doesn't have adjusted normals. The more skilled user will be able to make better models that will probably be able to fool you from far away, but when you start to check the model from other angles, the aesthetic will really start to fall apart. Now there are some people who get really close and can make it look good from almost every angle, but here is how you can tell the difference between a professionally done 3D anime character and an amateur 3D anime character. A properly professional shaded anime model will have perfect facial lighting from every direction. It doesn't matter where the light is, all of the face normals have been manually adjusted to ensure that every single angle gives that classic anime shading and includes the Rembrandt Triangle. If you compare this to amateur default normals or badly adjusted normals, it then becomes really obvious whether this character was done professionally or not. There is a reason why professionals charge you $2,000 per character for this art style. And that's because there are maybe four people on the planet who you can place commission orders from to get a character done this way. And these people are so busy. The commissions are always so full. One of the guys I know said that he had enough commissions lined up for the next six months and he's still getting messages for new ones all the time. This simply aren't a lot of people on the planet who have the skills needed to make characters in this style. Now you can get around this a little bit like I just gave up the perfectly adjusted normals for a more simple VTuber style face shading. But in the back of my mind, it still kind of bugs me knowing that the face normals aren't exactly completed yet.  I'd rather spend that time sculpting characters or in animation. It takes a long time before you start to become competent in this art style. And you have to forget everything you thought you knew about topology and shading in order to accomplish it. But once you do, like I said, it can be pretty fast and it looks really cool once it's complete. But the second unexpected challenge I didn't see anyone talking about is asset compatibility. If you are working on a project, you can't just have one character anime shaded.  So if you're doing anime characters, then you're probably gonna need an anime style environment, anime props and anime style special effects. And this is where I found my biggest challenge. As many of you know, I wanted to make my next game project in anime style. And I plan to stay true to that pledge. But if I had to be honest, it has seriously constrained me as a developer. For example, while I can personally make one character every six days, a lot of developers import, download or purchase assets that they don't have time to make themselves. But if you do an anime shading, you really don't have that option. Like, while you might be able to find a few anime style characters very well done that you can download or purchase online, it's almost impossible to find any anime style props. For example, normally if my game was in photorealism, if I wanted to add a lot of guns and weapons to my game, I can go online and buy 50, 4K high resolution production ready weapons for 18 bucks. And then quickly add those 50 weapons to my game. But I can't do that because everything in my game has to be in the same Guilty Gear anime style.  And I'd have to do that for every single weapon, which would on average shake me about three to four days per weapon. And I simply don't have that much time. So instead of having 50 different weapons in my game like something exciting you probably want to play, I can only have six because I only had time to apply the anime style to six different weapons. And it's kind of the same problem for everything else really too. For the game, I needed some alien looking enemies to represent the virus and germs that you fight in the game. But literally nobody in the world sells Guilty Gear shaded anime aliens. So again, instead of being able to go online and purchase a kit of ready to go production assets like a normal developer, the only enemies that are going to be in my game are the ones that I had time to make. Because the ones that I made are literally the only Guilty Gear anime shaded aliens in existence. It's the same thing for special effects. There are a lot of awesome special effects packs that you can find, but most of them are for photorealistic games. The best thing that I found is tune style special effects packs, but I still haven't had the time to really test it out thoroughly. So if you're a developer or a project manager and you're considering doing things in this style, just realize that you will not have the option of purchasing additional assets that you can easily plug into your project. At best, you can slap a two tone shader and draw an outline, but it'll usually just look like really cheap anime. However, there are some unexpected benefits to this style as well. Despite all the drawbacks, by far the most important thing that you get is beautiful looking animation. While it is probably easier to create something awesome in photorealism, the magic often disappears as soon as it starts to move. Meaning the screenshots will look great, but as soon as it starts to move, it starts to lose its beauty because people can usually tell them when a moving human is fake or real. But the Guilty Gear style is the opposite. It looks great in still images, but it looks even better in motion. So for most people watching, it just goes from cool to awesome. So my two senses basically, if you have a choice between the two styles, ask yourself, is your project for a portfolio? Is it gonna focus on still images? Or is it mainly gonna be in motion? If it's gonna be in motion, then the learning curve for the anime style shading might actually be worth the trouble. But if you're not sure and your team isn't really proficient in anime style yet, you'll probably have a much easier time in photorealism since all the assets available will be in the same style as your project by default. So I hope you find that information useful. Thank you so much for joining each video.  And as of now, the anime series is complete. If you know anyone who's interested in learning this style or is interested in seeing how it works, please go ahead and share this playlist with them. All the tutorials on my channel are completely free. And that's all thanks to the patrons and members who support this channel each month. So please give them a round of applause because if it wasn't for their continued support, I really wouldn't be able to afford to keep making the content and sharing what I learned with you guys here. If you'd like to support, please consider joining the squad. 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So good morning, and it's really my pleasure to join Sally and welcoming you to the 2017 global climate and energy project symposium. I am so pleased I got here a little early So I could hear Sally's talk because I don't usually get to hear that much Sort of nice review of what's been accomplished and boy is it impressive 15 years ago President John Hennessey announced the launch of GSEP at Stanford And he called it a revolutionary collaboration between Stanford and its industry partners Dedicating 225 million towards solving quote one of the most pressing problems We face today the generation and consumption of energy in an environmentally benign way It was one of the most pressing problems. We faced 15 years ago It was it is one of the most pressing problems. We face today It will be one of the most pressing problems we face long into the future Since then this pioneering program has really had a profound Impact on this institution, and I'd like to talk about that for a minute Thanks to the foresight and support of sponsors ExxonMobil, Schlumberger Bank of America and our past sponsors GE, Toyota and DuPont we've been able to work at a scale That's empowered a broad and deep search for solutions across a spectrum of energy fields Over the past 15 years GSEP has awarded 209 million to researchers at Stanford and other institutions To develop technologies as you heard from Sally with one big goal in mind to work towards a decarbonized future It's been a very bold effort Many areas of GSEP funded research have been considered to cutting edge for traditional funding sources Technologies ranging from all carbon solar cells and aluminum batteries to negative emissions and wirelessly charged electric cars as you just heard Now GSEP set us on a path to transform the way we pursue energy study and research at Stanford Faculty members have been encouraged to think outside of their individual areas and to take a Multidisciplinary and collaborative view of energy and climate science, and they have responded The big picture approach of GSEP has created collaboration and partnerships Among researchers in 18 different departments at Stanford including material science, biology, physics, chemistry, geological Sciences, geophysics, engineering, applied physics, and many more What I've observed from my time at SLAC and at the School of Engineering in particular is that GSEP acted like a great Attractor Allowing us to bring incredible talent to the university in the energy space and then it helped connect that talent across what is a dispersed and decentralized institution and Dispersed and decentralized intellectual landscape it helped the faculty focus on bigger challenges With the potential for better solutions Today we have more than 200 faculty with expertise in energy from renewable technologies Such as solar and wind to issues affecting policy and economics And I'm heartened to see that student interest in the energy field is growing We now offer more than 300 energy courses and a number of energy degrees But the influence of GSEP can be felt well beyond the halls of Stanford And I'd like to share with you some of those impressive numbers in Combination with the resource resources and know-how of our industry partners We've unleashed the creative energy of 200 researchers at 46 institutions worldwide funding more than a hundred projects In addition GSEP investigators have submitted 60 patent applications with 15 patents already issued The program has supported nearly a thousand students and postdoctoral researchers Many of whom are now pursuing careers in the energy sector Some of them are here. They'll be presenting posters and participating in the energy startup showcase Which features new companies with Stanford alums at the helm Now building on the strong base of GSEP We've been significantly expanding our efforts in energy research and education here at Stanford and in 2009 We established the pre-court Institute for energy through the general through a generous gift from alumnus Jay pre-court The pre-court Institute has become a hub for bringing together our growing community of energy Scientists engineers and other scholars to stimulate interaction and collaboration In addition business leaders policymakers legal experts and others are partnering with us in a quest for solutions to the world's most Difficult energy challenges more than a dozen centers and programs focused on energy research Now complement and enrich the cross-university efforts of the Institute Creating what is now 15 years later become a really broad Ecosystem at Stanford that encompasses energy climate science policy and economics Through the programs and initiatives of the pre-court Institute Stanford has been able to examine the energy field through a variety of lenses and employ a broad range of approaches and Working in this way and at this scale encourages collaboration innovation and risk-taking hallmarks of cutting-edge research This is the future of research in the energy sector Interdisciplinary thinkers who can work across multiple fields in the quest to develop transformative technologies Policies and businesses It's been a huge change at this institution over 15 years with we hope even increasing impact going into the future So looking ahead Stanford recently embarked on long-range planning to look at our future We're in the early stages of evaluating more than 2,800 ideas and proposals that have come from our community to help shape the university's future We've all been thrilled to see the energy and enthusiasm of participants across the university community It's a little too soon to zero in on specific proposals coming out of the process But we do know that the themes of sustainability are coming from all directions in our community Our mission will continue to be about education and research for the benefit of the broader world But I think the subject about which you are gathered will be front and center and it our long-range Vision will continue to have a commitment to the sustainability and environmental stewardship Which are so important for the future of our planet We've made your research underway at Stanford in the areas of renewable energy energy storage cleaner fossil fuels energy efficiency and energy policy We are making a concerted effort for the greater good And I really want to recognize a few people Well first I'd like to recognize everyone who's involved in this important research But there are a few individuals I'd like to call out I'd like to especially acknowledge the GSEP and pre-court Institute leadership teams Lynn or great to have you back Lynn Founding director of both GSEP and the pre-court Institute for Energy Chris Edwards The GSEP founding deputy director Sally Benson GSEP director and pre-court Institute for Energy co-director Arun Majumdar Pre-court Institute for Energy co-director and again Richard Sassoon GSEP managing director Thank you all for your vision and your leadership for your efforts in training and educating the next generation of leaders in energy And a heartfelt thanks to the senior leaders from our sponsor Companies who have served over the years on the GSEP management committee as technical representatives Thank you all for joining us for this year's conference Thank you for your ongoing efforts to help move the world to a sustainable future for energy. Thank you


This is weaving the world ops on Wednesday, December 1st, 2021. It's the first day of December. Last month of 2021 and the last two years have been this strange blur of pandemic. So if you keep MatterMost open, you can usually find your chats pretty easily. Is that making more sense? It does, yes. So you download it from a play store, an Apple store? Either the Apple store or I think MatterMost.com. Let me check. Let me go to MatterMost and see if there's a download here spot on their website and pass you that link. Okay. MatterMost.com should be free trial, contact sales. Well, you've already got an account. So platform, product overview, security, try MatterMost now. That's interesting. They don't say, hey, here's the app. Stay aligned. So I contribute developer pricing solutions, use cases, industries. That's all about how to use MatterMost. Channels, playbooks, boards, product overview. They do not make it simple to find the app on the website. Download MatterMost, mobile and download apps. So you're finding them better by just searching for download MatterMost? Yeah. It's a terrible website design that downloading the app is not easy. So yes, download MatterMost, mobile and desktop apps. So install the desktop app on your Mac. That's the one to do because the desktop app is nice. The iPad app is nice too. And I often use, I often get into it from my iPad and all of them synchronized. So when you've read a thread, it keeps it good. So here's macOS download, install guide, et cetera. So you found the MatterMost.com download page, right? I did, yeah. Great. So you're all set. Okay, terrific. Great. And then Stacey and I were talking about she's going to be helping be sort of operations organizer, I guess sort of Jerry Wrangler. Stacey, is that like a Jerry Wrangler? I like that. I mean, I'm like, that's actually good language because I'm quirky and just trying to help me find my way through all the different things that need to get done to start this up. So we were starting that conversation, which will continue. And Stacey, I want to make sure I've got your texting info. So why don't I give you my phone number in the chat? There's my phone number. If you want to send me a text, I will reply and then we will have that set up. Okay. I'm going to do that when I get off the phone because right now I'm on the phone. Sounds great. Sounds totally great. And then, so right now there's kind of a couple of things that I keep bonking against to get an issue set up. I had a nice call with Pete yesterday and we wrestled about a couple of things as we sometimes have different opinions about which piece to do and where to go. The thing I'm trying to, I think top priority right now is to take that, that the Thursday call where we talked about the metaverse was a really lovely call. And what I'd like to do is take a piece of that call. I don't know exactly which piece yet. I haven't listened to the call yet again and that's going to take a little time. But I wanted to take a segment like a 15 minute segment of that call and treat that as an episode of Weaving the World. And what that means then is I have to record an intro and an outro of some sort, which is podcast smelling, right? Which says, hey, welcome to the Weaving the World podcast. I'm Jeremy Kalski. Here's our website, whatever. Here's what we're doing. I have to record those. We then have to stitch those things together. Pete is creating some software that will create a website, a page where the episode, so a page for each episode of the podcast, right? There's already WeavingTheWorld.org is a little website that I'm building on Google Sites, which I happen to really like to use. It's very, very simple. It's secure. I tried to love WordPress for 15 years and fell out of love constantly. And so I've given up entirely on WordPress. So my old website, therexpedition.com, was on WordPress and I had hired a web mistress to go build it out. And she used some of her custom code to do it. And then she changed her rates because she got popular and she needed a retainer. And her monthly retainer was higher than what I planned to spend with her. So I was like, oops, can't do that. And then somebody attacked my website and I ended up having to pay more for a company called Sucuri, which I hope is a good security website for WordPress blogs. I ended up paying more for Sucuri to secure my damned WordPress site and I was paying to host it. And I was like, this is just frickin' ridiculous. So finally, and finally, it got attacked again and somehow I couldn't even log back in to the WordPress site. Couldn't figure it out. It wasn't working and it wasn't like I was going to get a lot of support from WordPress. So I gave up and I deprecated it and I rebuilt the site. Therexpedition now lives in a Google site as a pale gesture of its former glory but I'm not really doing rex anymore and I need to figure that out. So anyway, a long story to say that Google Sites has not failed me. It's very simple. It doesn't do complicated things but it does a lot of things really well, including it integrates beautifully with all Google products. So you can embed a map, a spreadsheet, a doc, other kinds of things into Google Sites very simply and elegantly and that works very nicely. So happy about that. And the plan here is to take the simple website that I've started and point to pages that Pete will set up for each episode of the podcast so that they show up on the website. And it might be that the pages exist on Google Sites and that we're embedding code that Pete creates and Stacey embedding just means that instead of Pete generating what looks like an entire web page, Pete will generate the contents of a web page and then we'll put it in angled brackets basically. We'll put a link to that whatever Pete generates automatically, we'll put that in angled brackets on a page in the Google site and that will then automatically go suck in whatever content Pete has formatted and created and make it pretty and make it look like the rest of the website. So that's probably what we're doing. And the page for each episode needs to have a link to play the full episode as a video podcast. It needs to have the transcript of the call. And because I've taken on the challenge of also doing an audio podcast, it should probably also have either a link to an audio podcast separate page or probably not or just to play the audio podcast right here kind of button. And I'm sure you've seen on podcast there's like a link with what looks like a little bar of sound of little frequency waves for the sound. So click here and it'll actually play the podcast and you can scroll back and forth and so forth. And that's kind of a baseline for each episode. Pete and I got a little stuck just on the transcript part. There's a small complication in that for the Thursday calls until now we've been using collective next slightly better account on Zoom, which automatically creates a transcript by using otter.ai. And otter is a really nice speech to text system. And when it's embedded inside of Zoom, you get speaker identification because each speaker is logged in. So now the system knows that Hank is Hank and I'm me and you're you Stacey. And so the transcript shows up pretty reasonably out of that system. Problem is the calendar invite that Hank the other Hank set up Hank Nelson from collective next setup for those calls runs out with this Thursday's call. So tomorrow is the last one of those that they set up. And I talked with Pete and we're like, do I do I ping them back and say, hey, could you extend it or do we just switch to my regular Zoom, which is what we're in right now? And people was like, let's switch to the regular Zoom. But we're losing this added feature, which for a moment it looked like we could add to my account for five more bucks a month because I'm a Zoom pro user right now. And for five bucks more, you become a Zoom business user, except for the small print at the bottom of the pricing sheet that says minimum 10 accounts. So so minimum $200 a month instead of $20 a month. And we're like, oops, not happening. So so going to, you know, so the bump up to otter plus zoom by ourselves not happening. And I think just, you know, we're figured a different way. And then Pete and I started using a system called Descript, which Pete turned me on to a while ago. And Descript is an app that lets you edit podcasts in a really brilliant way. So what happens is that you drop an audio and video and or video recording into Descript, and it automatically creates a transcript, I think using Otter's technology, but it doesn't know to identify the speakers because it doesn't know who was on what track or anything like that. It sort of does identify speaker voices. So once you identify, oh, whenever this voice speaks its Hank, and whatever this voice speaks, it's Stacy, in principle, it can sort that out through the entire conversation, because it'll know by the tone of voice or whatever who each person was. But we haven't gotten that far. And partly what happened was I started trying to process and correct the transcript, which required a lot of editing just to get to a clean transcript. There was a lot of work to do. And Descript on my machine was grinding to a halt, like my machine was unable to cope. And it was kind of comical, where I would click on a word, double click on a word in the transcript in Descript, which is its own app you install. And we'd have to wait 20 seconds until something popped up that said, oh, you want to edit that? And we're like, oh, my God, this is clearly not going to work. So as part of that, I ping Jim Rutt to see if it was okay to use some of the funds that he granted to OGM to buy a new machine. So I've ordered a better MacBook, which should be arriving by December 8th, which is fabulous. It's a needed upgrade, which will not only let me sort of edit stuff better, but also, and more importantly, I've wanted to play with how I show up in Zoom in particular, but online in general, with my brain. And so there's a bunch of apps called virtual cams or webcams that you can use. It's software that sits between, there's a camera embedded in my MacBook here. And I'm currently pointed straight at the camera. But what virtual cams do is you point to the software, which then lets you do something with the image, which then sends it to the camera, right? And one of them, an older one is called Minicam, but there's a guy I know named Phil Libin, who was the CEO of Evernote for a while. That's why I know him. And he's founded a company called, which now is charging a monthly fee, but I was on their early beta. And is a very elegant virtual cam. Like it's really nice. And it lets you do things like I could, I could, within my little window on a Zoom call, I could minimize my head and put it anywhere. I could, I could put a background in animation or whatever. And then I could take my brain and screen share my brain and make it large or whatever. I could mess around with that really nicely just while on anybody's call. Right? So is a virtual camera? Yes. Wow. So there's no hardware. It's just software and you pay them. You have a monthly subscription fee. And I don't know what it is right now. I'm hoping it's under like 10 or 15 bucks because these things add up. But my goal here is to experiment with what, you know, the place I'm trying to head is what does an OGM conversation look like between several different people who are using several different technologies? I happen to be addicted to the brain. Gene Belanger is a black belt in Kumu, et cetera, et cetera. What does a conversation among different tool users look like? And in that case, I'm not interested in how I'm trapped in this little rectangle, but I'm really interested in some new space that we can, you know, talk to each other through and with. And that's still out on the horizon, unfortunately, after almost two years of OGM. So, so the voice ID thing, so Stacy, the voice ID thing might actually be something we can collaborate on. I might also need to outsource the transcription cleanup to just someone somewhere who's really good and really fast at that and does it somewhere, you know, does it offline? And we sort of don't care where in the world they are. But I may need to find somebody who's like really good at that. Because for example, when I go to here, let me just find a tab. Here's one of Jim Rutt's shows. This is a transcript of him talking to Daniel Schmackdenberger. Let me put the link in the chat. This is a chat of him talking to, oh, good, $8.33 a month. Thanks, Hank. That's great. It looks interesting. Looks great. Yeah, it's quite powerful. There's another one called Galactic Camera, which my friend John Borthwick apparently helped fund it because he runs BetaWorks out of New York. And so I installed it and it was just ridiculous looking. I didn't look, I didn't like it at all. So I uninstalled it. I got rid of it. Many cameras, the older one, I haven't seen what they're up to now. I should go take a look. But everything I've seen about him looks pretty professional and I like a lot. So, yeah, exactly. So, so you'll see that on the episode page for the Jim Rutt show, there's a really nice transcript. Like the ante in this game, I think that the baseline is a nice transcript. And so, so Pete and I are trying to get to the point where we can automate as much of that process as possible so that there is a web page for every episode with a nice transcript, with a pointer to where the video lives, with a pointer to where the audio lives. And then the audio on the video, each need to have an intro and an outro attached to them edited in. And then the question is how much to edit the calls. And I'm trying to do this with minimal editing of the calls, because any moment you start getting into heavy editing, the moment you get into heavy editing, you are talking about time and money, because, because these are temporal media and you have to listen to them, then you have to edit, then you have to listen to them again, then you, and somebody is going to have to use a whole bunch of time to do the good editing. So I'm trying to keep the editing either automated or minimal. Descript has a really cute feature where it automatically detects ums and coughs and long pauses. And you can press a button and it'll highlight them all and then you can press another button and it'll get rid of them all. Right? So, so Descript has a bunch of really magical features that make it a really, a particularly good editing program. One of which is once it's done its transcript, you can highlight words in the transcript, remove them or move them, and it'll move that clip of audio or video around. So when you output the finished produced podcast episode, all the edits you did to the text are actually done in the video, which is like, whoa, what? Yeah. So that's quite brilliant as well. So I'm hoping that with a faster machine, I think Descript has an M1 Mac version, and Stacey, the M1 is the new chip that Apple just basically until, until these last two generations of MacBook, Apple was using Intel chips for their MacBooks.  Apple then took the chip design in-house, designed the M1 chip, and now the M1 Plus, I think it's called, which is on the newest MacBooks, which is like three times faster. Yes, I've seen all your excitement. I've been listening to you guys and watching your eyes light up at the thought of- And has more battery life. It's like insane what they've done. Exactly. And so I'm thrilled at the beginning of this, but the problem is with a new chip for software to run quickly on it, it has to be rewritten for the new chip, right? It has to run native. Otherwise, you run it in an emulator called Rosetta, like the Rosetta Stone to translate. So Stacey, an emulator means it's software that pretends to be some other hardware, right? So the M1 has an emulator called Rosetta that pretends to be an Intel Mac so that you can still run software that only runs on Intel Macs. And I pinged the brain and they said we don't have a native version for the M1, but it runs just fine in Rosetta. So that's where I'm heading, right? All of which to say that there's some mix of automation and humans that will turn into a finished podcast and a transcript and a page and all of that. And Pete and I have been wrestling to try to get to the point where we have that, and we're kind of close, but not there yet. And two months have already run by, like today is the first day of December. And I kind of had October and November to stand up some podcast episodes. So I'm actually behind schedule at this point. And then a bunch of other things have happened in the meantime, which I'll also get to, but once we've got that starting point that I've just described, that's when things get OGM-y and get interesting. So Pete took that Thursday call and he cropped it. We have a project cropped where he basically took it and deconstructed it and started baking it into the massive wiki and linking it up and a whole bunch of other really interesting things. All of which are beyond the scope of this initial phase of what I'm trying to get done kind of automatically to any new podcast episode. So the conceit of leaving the world is that we have episodes and then we have shadow episodes or behind or the making of episodes or composting episodes or we're still working and still not happy with any of the language around it necessarily. I don't have a real favorite. But there are other episodes where we look at the content of the first of the episode and then weave it into the world, into the big fungus. And that means using different kinds of tools to map the logic and the ideas and the articles that it came from, which I already do in my brain sort of by default. So I'm already doing this part. I'm looking for other people interested in doing it with other tools and I'm interested in the conversation between us and any other interested party in deepening the ideas and then representing them in some way and putting all of those different representations into the comments. And that might mean that at the end of the episode page there's a oh and this is what happened in the in the composting show and then it's just a bunch of links to a map, you know, a mind jet, a mind map that somebody creates or a Miro board that somebody writes for that episode or for a series of episodes around the same theme. That's really cool because we want, we want to have continuity and flow. We're actually looking for a shared memory that that that is actually useful. Like we're not we're not I'm not trying to stand this up because it's an interesting exercise. I'm trying to stand this up on the hypothesis that some of us will hit on some really, really interesting ways of representing stuff. Hey Pete, I was just explaining our our you are locally muted, but I think on purpose. Yes, good. Good, he'll be back. So once we have a default episode, then we book a follow up episode where we can use the transcript and then start doing some weaving into the big fungus, which I don't know what it's going to look like.  I'm trying to figure out how to edit curate and craft my brain so that it's a useful artifact in that particular way, which doesn't mean changing my behavior that much, but it means interesting ways of thinking about how I create thoughts and what I connect up.  And when I see that, and there's also the other conversation about nuclear efficient and nuclear power and all that. And I see those conversations on a mailing list that's private. And I cry a bit because when I see good ideas go by on a private mailing list, I'm like, wow, those are really interesting things are going into the bit bucket, because nobody's ever going to look them up again. And, and if they were really good thoughts and they were clear, they ought to be curated or guarded into someplace that's public facing, that's available to, to, to everybody else. Hence the big fungus and some attempt to make it visible. So Pete, I was just telling those sort of the full, the fuller story of what you and I are trying to create through some automation and some human intervention, to stand up separate pages for episodes of Leaving the World, and what what would be on the pages. I talked about the script. I talked about virtual cams. I mentioned that I've ordered a new Mac that should be coming by the 8th. And, and Stacey and I have talked about her assisting me as an ops person and we're on board. We're going to continue closing that and Stacey's on the road for what could be three weeks, but basically as of tomorrow night will be in a place where she's as good as being at home because she'll be in a stable spot, not, you know, not working out of cafes or, or doing a high wire act on the road. So that's kind of where we are. And I've been talking most of the call describing all these things. So I should stop for a little bit and see what questions Stacey and Hank and you have. Well, I tested your Jerry. So you'll see if my text came through. Cool. Let me go check. All of these thoughts on the on the mailing lists, like the threads that you just mentioned. Can they go on an OGM website somewhere beyond Matrimost? Can they be made available to people who Google the future of the of the nuclear energy or stuff like that? So yes and no. I mean, the Google group is intentionally private so that we can manage who's there to kind of minimize trolls and all of that. But there's this implied assumption that the conversation is private because it's a private mailing list, which we would be breaking by publicizing these sorts of things in a sense. So there's there's that. Is it really private? Can people see it through Google? It's private to join, but I think it's visible in Google groups. So if you were to search for it, you'd find it. If you were not a member, I think you could find it. And I think a non-member could read. Are you opening an incognito window to see if you can get to it? I am. And the first thing I have to do if I go to groups.google.com and sign in with my Google account. Right, exactly. But don't you have like 100? I only have a few. Okay. Because you could sign in with any other one that doesn't have that's not on the list, right? I could. And that would have to say maybe I will. Yeah. Okay. So Hank, to answer your question, I wouldn't want the raw conversation as it showed up on a mailing list to go straight into this artifact that I'm talking about. I was actually sitting in the shower like an hour ago. I was sitting thinking, oh, okay. So one question would be one question would be an assertion in the mind map. And for me, I was thinking about my brain. I need to add a thought that says, hey, forget about stockpicking ETFs or the way to go, because someone else does all the work of averaging. And these things tend to play out pretty well. Look at some history. And that that would be one investment approach. And then there'd be a thought above it called investment strategies. And I've got something like that. I've got investment advice for sure. I've got a whole bunch of stuff in there. But I haven't organized it into a series of investment strategies. And I certainly haven't organized it into investment strategies understandable by a teen or a young person, right? A younger person, which is kind of the goal here. And so the wisdom that came by about investing would be super interesting for me personally to curate into the brain as that series of logic steps. And then, hey, if you're on this investment advice, here's some ETFs that somebody recommended that we think are pretty stable and pretty good right now, blah, blah, blah, blah, would be interesting under that. And then there would be a different approach that says, oh my gosh, you have to take some money and put it into crypto. And then that's its own huge conversation, et cetera. And then in some other part of my brain, there's already conversations about the viability of nuclear fuel, nuclear energy, as we're trying to green the economy. And I've got a bunch of things that Amory Lovens has been saying on a different, more scientific list, which are brilliant about, and he's like pretty heavily against nuclear fuel, nuclear energy. And I was sort of reading our lists going, oh, okay, so a couple people are being convinced that nuclear needs to be part of the mix. But I don't know enough to bridge that gap and make it visible as an interesting argument that addresses the questions instead of making blanket statements, right? And so I don't really want to cut and paste just the conversations from the mailing list. I want to take those as feedstock for a different composting conversation about, oh, okay, what's the logic of how to organize this? And how does it show up in a way that is useful to a newbie coming in and trying to do this? Yeah, I'm just on the OGM website. And aside from three videos and a few links, there's not much there. That's correct. Wouldn't it be interesting to sort of at least have a list of the different threads so that people might be stimulated? Oh, if OGM is talking about these type of things, it could be very useful to me. Try a different website, hank, wiki.openglobalmind.com, which isn't going to satisfy you, but it will at least point you. And it'll give you more depth because that's the OGM wiki. wiki.globalmind.com. wiki.openglobalmind.com. So the same website, but wiki.infront. Yeah, just put wiki as the high-level identifier. And then click all pages when you get there. And the base OGM website is really simple because we're using a very simple site builder that's pointed to some markdown files. And a site builder doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles on it. So the page is really simple. Well, we don't have like a nav menu. Well, Hank said you don't have a lot of content here. Well, that too, but kind of intentionally, there's no like... It would be easy to make or read me. The homepage could have links to everything. Could be a lot longer. The reason that website is small is because the intent is that's kind of the advertising marketing site. And then one of the big links there should be to the wiki. And the wiki is where everybody edits it instead of a few people have a marketing presence for Open Global Mind to use a phrase. The mailing list is not public. Although, interestingly, if you search for Open Global Mind, all one word, you do see some references in the peer-gadget list and the KikoLab meme factory list interesting in Google groups. Okay. So I thought when I set it up that I'd set it to be public, but membership only. It appears to be private. I will go back and look at it. Well, which may be what we want. Yeah, exactly. That's still an interesting question. And partly I'm in my lifetime online, which feels lengthy now. I've seen way too many super brilliant things said in private conversations that have disappeared, right? And I'm extremely interested in the act of curating them so that they survive and live in a more concise, organized space, whatever that means. Yeah. Right. And I have a slightly different mission, which is less about organization, although I think organization is important and more about promiscuity. Right. So massive wiki is one of the things massive wiki is built to do is to make information float away kind of and recombine and do interesting things. Be fruitful and multiply. As well as also being able to be organized and look like a real website, real content. On behalf of our good friend Mr. Arena, I have to also say that there is an OGM homepage on Trove. On Trove. And there are links to the arena pages for member list. We're basically from that simple homepage. We're actually pointing over to Trove for three different lengths, right? A calendar member list and affiliated projects, something like that. Something like that. Yeah. And which is good in the sense of what OGM wants to be and is trying to be, which is like, how do we distribute our presence? How do we use? It's also kind of nice in terms of what Jordan and Lyonsburg are trying to do with this flotilla of entities, which is how do we use and combine the superpowers of each different entity to create something sort of more powerful together? Cool. And then Pete's tendency toward promiscuity, a sentence I enjoy saying, is very different from my tendency toward curation. And I think the two are good combinations together. I think that that energy, like these are polarities to manage. These are not opposites to resolve. And you only get to good curation with a lot of promiscuity. But my my feeling is without really good curation somewhere, it just turns into a jungle overnight. It's like the yard left for a little too long on its own. We had, when we lived in San Francisco, we had a yard for a while that was overrun with blackberries. And several times we tried pulling the vines.  And then they like blackberries are the cockroaches of the plant kingdom. They just keep coming back and survive almost anything until we finally took like drastic measures and got rid of them. But they were haunting us for a long time. There was also this tree in the middle of the yard at the beginning, which it turns out, I think it's called something like a Gabriel's Horn, I'm forgetting now, but it only has a scent at night. And I had these, it had these beautiful big blooms that hang that hung downward. They were beautiful. But you step on the terrace at night and it would be like somebody sprayed perfume outside. It was a really delightful smell, but the tree filled the whole little backyard. And then during the day, no scent at all. It was really cool. So it was clearly looking for nocturnal insects, I guess. So Stacey, the place that I paused my description was, oh, and by the way, I said in front of myself to also have an audio podcast for Weaving the World, which then means going to another tool like Anchor or Blueberry or something else. My preference is toward Anchor just because I've used it a little bit before and I haven't installed, but I was looking at other tools and I wasn't convinced by any of them actually. Pete, I'm wondering if there's like somebody who's done a brilliant summary and has like better recommendations than I was able to find. But that also means taking the audio portion of the podcast and then creating with that an audio podcast that plays nicely, that looks good. And one of the nice things about Anchor is that it does soup to nuts. You can start recording. You can record an episode in Anchor. You can invite guests in and record their voices and blend them in. You can add sound effects. You can edit the resulting piece. You can string together a bunch of stuff. You can then publish it and you can send it all the way to iTunes podcast or some other kinds of podcast hosting with a little icon that says, this is the pretty cover of my podcast. And all of that seems to really work. There we go. It's a hallucinogenic if you eat it. Really? Damn it. Missed that march, huh? Linked to many. I thought it was like deadly. Like you don't like, don't eat this, but hallucinogenic is interesting. Cool. Thanks. Thanks. I have to mention David Bovell and Wendy Elford and I, the garden crew, are working on a process called knowledge casting, which combines a podcast, peer reviewed journal, knowledge garden like a massive wiki, and sometimes a few other things like smart contracts and smart tokens. And we haven't rescheduled our call. We were going to sort of do a bit of a mind-null over that, which I'd love to do. And if there's an overlap between these two things and we can be knowledge gardening or knowledge casting, weaving the world calls, that's a big win from my perspective for sure. Cool. Thoughts, questions, suggestions? I would love to go over everything as a project with Stacey at some point, maybe when she's a little bit more settled in the place. Sounds good. Sounds good. So Stacey, maybe day after tomorrow, when you're like Friday or something, when you're actually settled in one place? Yeah. Or the other thing, you know, since you guys are on the West Coast, I'll be all checked into the hotel by like, you know, four or five o'clock your time and I'm available. I ran on East Coast hours, so. Oh, you're East Coast, okay. I'm around from like 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern. East Coast time. And Stacey's in North Carolina right now, on a beautiful lake. So two things. So Jerry, can I ping you like around five, four or five o'clock your time just for like five minute call and then Pete, can we, anytime you want on Friday? Yeah, that sounds great. You bet. Perfect. Yes, for me as well. Okay, great. Pete, how does that knowledge casting work? Which part? Well, the part that you're working out with David and Wendy. Suppose in trying to map the voices of Gaia, we would send out requests to all different communities, school classes, football clubs, amateur football clubs, whatever all around the world. We're doing it a little bit differently. I like the idea of just making an open call. Voicing Gaia is actually facilitated. So let me see if I can pull up like an internal document here. So the, another part of, I'm still a little bit, David's got a much finer grain sense of what's doing what, and he's got some several overlapping structures, which kind of all are doing similar things at different scales and different things. But the idea of voicing Gaia is that, that we would actually choose, you know, 10, 20 communities around the world, and then have a crew of folks that would run probably in-person workshops, collecting spoken words, drawing stuff, music, and then collating that into something what it sounds a lot like weaving the world at some point, where it's like, and all of that turns into a podcast. The other parts of knowledge casting in general include, so you've got workshops which are both fed from the knowledge commons and feed into the knowledge commons. And the knowledge commons turns into the podcast and also is connected with a peer-reviewed journal. And I think that's the key parts of it. We've got something else in collaboration with another person in Australia. We're working on something called chain fringes, a chain of conferences. So another destination voicing Gaia and several other feeds of chain fringes are heading towards Stockholm plus 50, which I think is next year. And each of the podcast series, knowledge casting series are both independent, and if you step back far enough, they're all kind of doing the same thing in different places. So voicing Gaia is one proposal that we've got outstanding. Another proposal we're working on right now is for actually a couple of them that are kind of in the pipeline. One of them is for Smart City in Southeast Asia, Smart City Development in Southeast Asia. So that community would not be workshops of different kinds of people around the world, but it would be workshops of architects and construction engineers and finance people and stuff like that, all talking about, okay, we're building this huge, we have this huge Smart City project in Southeast Asia. How is that going to come together? Another one is one that Wendy is sourcing, which is water projects in Australia. Australia is kind of a desert continent, not unlike the American West kind of. Water is a hugely important thing, and there's a bunch of organizations and conferences and legal stuff, federal legal stuff, probably state legal stuff too, that combines to make interesting in large scale kind of water things. So another chain france would be a collection of, I guess that one, Wendy's got a particular effort she's worked with for a couple years already, with different water groups around watershed in Australia. And the really interesting tension for Wendy there is there's the developed way of looking at a river, a big river, and the indigenous way of looking at a big river. She says the indigenous people look at it as source. It's a living thing. The river is literally a living thing in what I would call Western world, although I don't know how that applies to Australia. In the developed view of the non-indigenous people living and working and buying and selling stuff in Australia, the river is a resource, you know, you cut it up into acre feet or whatever, and you buy and sell it and you damn it when you feel like it, and you know, it's a it's a resource, not source. So there's that one conference that's going on, she's got a she's aiming towards a conference development workshop, etc, early 2022. That is going to be one in a series of chain frances about water around the world. Obviously, lots of people care about water and we can set up a chain france that works for water and watersheds and legalities and indigenous rights and all that kind of stuff in different places around the world. All of that goes towards Stockholm plus 50, along with, you know, smart cities and indigenous rights and, you know, lots of stuff. I feel like I did a poor job. David, if you're watching this in the future, I'm sorry. It was interesting. I like it. There's a, as you can tell, there's, you know, multiple shell multiple layers of, you know, the onion and and multiple parts of that. There's, you know, the smart contract legal stuff. There's the knowledge stuff. There's human factors and user centered design stuff. So all of that is kind of getting mixed together to do lots of different things. But, you know, weaving the world's and knowledge casting and the other stuff that we're working on are, you know, very resonant. Could it be used in that mass outreach approach that I'm interested in to contact several thousands of people and communities with specific questions about this and this is happening in your area? What does Gaia think about it? What would Gaia say? Yep. And then weave those things together? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense as an approach. Currently, something like voicing Gaia is, again, that curated is kind of a weird word, but, you know, assembled and facilitated, rather than reaching out to lots of thousands, you know, we're collecting and facilitating dozens. But obviously, you know, it's the same kind of general jack, the same kind of general human processes. Wendy in particular is also, she's hooked into Dave Stone's community. And of course, Dave Stone does and his folks do that kind of thing where they reach out into a big space of thousands of individuals and groups. Using really sophisticated sense-making tools. So, yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Well, I think it could be the voicing Gaia could be both. Yep. I agree. In fact, I haven't exchanged any telegram messages with David for a week, so I should really get back to him. You definitely should. And I'll mention it on our next call, yeah. And I would love to have some weaving the world calls about water. Just cut through that space and see what we can do there and see how that feeds the voices of Gaia, etc. So, that's a good idea. That'd be awesome. Yeah. Friend of mine. So, when I lived in Manhattan and worked for Esther, I shared a flat with Tamara Damon, whose mother was Betsy Damon, who was kind of a performance artist back in the heydays in Manhattan, and had an act called the 5,000-year-old woman, and then a bunch of other stuff, but she became a keeper of the waters. She designed a park on a city in inner China that's a city on a river, and the river was really kind of messed up. And the park she created was shaped like a fish. So, water would be siphoned off the river through the mouth of the fish, and then it would go through settling ponds, and the whole thing was a park you could walk across, but it had bubbling areas, settling ponds, other kinds of things. And to the point where the tail of the fish fed the water back into the river. And the whole thing, they gave her the key to the city, and this was 25, 30 years ago. Somewhere in the middle of China, I can find the city if you want. But super, super interesting, and she was all about waters. Cool, Stacy. I think we're about to wrap this call. So, happy driving. Thanks for being on the call. Thanks for jumping in to help, and we'll be in touch, as they say. Okay, looking forward. Talk to you at five. Yeah, bye-bye. Bye. Cool. Anything else for right now? Not to cheapen something real with fiction, but... Jerry, your description of the river and the fish reminded me of a Disney movie, Rhea and the Last Dragon, which has the same kind of thing, dragon-shaped. So, the four or five lands that the protagonist and her dragon friend have to navigate are provinces, essentially, or states or whatever around, collected around the shape of a dragon when you zoom out. And there it is. Look, dragon. I've not seen the movie. Thank you. So, I wonder if there's some connection, you know, some Disney research person. Ran into the park or something. Yeah, that'd be really fun. And I think I have a... Let me just find it. If this is... Let's see if the site is still there. I'll click on the link. I have kind of a fascination or love-hate relationship with the Disney as they stumble into cultural sensitivity and awareness. One of the most amazing things I've ever heard is that you can go on YouTube. One of the things that Disney does, because it's so big and so worldwide, is it translates its movies into 20 languages, you know, like that, including all the songs and stuff like that. And it's animation, so... Yeah, so you can go on YouTube and find one of the theme songs, the one I happen to remember is Colors of the Wind. And let's not get started on Pocahontas and the English. But you can listen to, you know, somebody's put a supercut together of 20 languages, and the song runs through 20 languages a verse at a time, you know. And it's amazing. It's like, you know, I wish I could show that to, you know, somebody from 200 years ago. Look where culture has come. And then, of course, you have to explain that. I had this... This reminds me. I probably told this story again, and I'll tell it... I probably told this story before, and I told it again. African refugee, my wife was helping out with the African refugees who speak French. And so one of them finally got out of the jail that we keep refugees in and was on his way to family in New York, I think. So we lived in Southern California near Disneyland. We had the opportunity to bring him to Disneyland for a day, which is like, you know, from the jungles of South America, starting from Africa and, you know, making a way to the U.S. and all the weird things about the U.S., and then to bring somebody to Disneyland. That's just an old trip. But he's obviously African-American, black-skinned, and I took him to the Song of the South ride, you know, and we got to go on the ride. And I tried to start explaining the Song of the South to somebody from Africa. And I couldn't really, you know, but it was a weird thing, thinking of all the cultural stuff that goes on and, you know, ends up in Anaheim. Yep, yep, entertainment. And I used to navigate the very perilous rivers of the world on the Jungle Cruise ride, so... We enjoyed the movie. Yeah.  And Dwayne Johnson does a good job of delivering. Yeah. Dwayne Johnson is an interesting character. Pete, thank you for the story. That was really nice. I like it. It's ringing your bell. I think I have heard it before from you. Kumandra. So, you know, this thing, like, did they do a good thing by compressing, you know, five, five or six, like, cultures into Kumandra? Is that a good thing or a bad thing, you know? And this is a whole intense conversation about cultural appropriation and misappropriation that rides there, right? And then how do you honor something without deluding it or stealing from it or whatever? Yep. Good question. Can you, even? Exactly. I remember watching Moana. And at the start, I was just furious with the movie. I'm like, are you kidding me? These people know exactly about all this. And I'm like, oh, that's the plot of this movie. But I was so angry at the start. I was like, good Lord, seriously? It's like I'm angry at Harry Potter. Like, he's the stupidest wizard there ever was. Like, I got really tired.  And all this thing. Why is Harry the hero and not Hermione? No idea. It should be her. Yeah, but that's the way to get people involved in it. Of course. Of course. That's the way that kids are changing. That's the way that the young girls are saying, yeah, I had the hero. Look at those seven books or seven films. Yeah. I thought it was very clever to do it that way. But they're all known as the Harry Potter series. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm a very big fan of Harry. They're not the Hermione Granger series. Yeah, but that's not subversive. That can be put aside. Why isn't there a Hermione Granger series? Why isn't there like a sequel and a prequel? And like, I'm sure there's lots of Harry Potter fanfic, unless they've been really good about stamping it out. But anyway, good. On that, on that interesting note, thank you very, very much. This has been super useful. Yeah, really enjoyed. See you on the inner tubes. Yes, bye-bye. Bye for now.