Or it might have been on HBO now to think about it because we were watching Game of Thrones. It could have been an HBO Excellent. Um, this is an inside Jerry's brain call on Wednesday, May 1st the 1st of May 2019 We have as our topic does 2020 indicate some kind of a generational tipping point and we're just starting to dip into the conversations Ken was telling me about a short trailer that he had just watched From young people saying we're coming or we're we're mad as hell And we're not going to take it anymore to borrow an old phase Yeah, it was it was very inspiring and caught both my wife and I by surprise. I'm trying to remember it could have been We sort of squat on our next door neighbors HBO and showtime and so we we're watching billions of game of thrones on there It was on that or on a disc that I got from Netflix, but it was very powerful I was like, wow, that's hopeful. That gave me a jolt of yes, it's good to see this I hope this gets out there and spreads. I really hope this is going to be the case That'd be great. I'd love that and So I'll describe the moment Kevin Jones said he appeared to say that he was going to be on the call right now, which I would love But I don't see him yet on the call So I will trust that if he's gonna make it he's gonna make it So let let me just describe the moment. I had a couple weeks ago in Boulder And I'll I'll since this is inside Jerry's brain. I have a little bit of Moderators permission to overshare my brain. So as I talk, I'll kind of come here because I created this thought in my brain As I was having that notion And I was I was sitting at the conference on world affairs that which April and I have gone to now for Three years in a row and the conference on world affairs is a My brain is a little slow. Well, that's interesting There we go the conference on world affairs is a All volunteer event that happens over five days and you get put on some panels That are kind of your own sweet spot and you get put on some panels that that are not So I was on a panel late in the week on the opioid epidemic And I'm like not an expert there, but had a fun time anyway But at the very beginning the first panel I sat down to listen to was about gen z And I'm typically a little leery of generational descriptions and trying to generalize from generational descriptions And boomers are this and extras are that and so on and so forth So I don't know that I want to connect the thought I had specifically to gen z But I do want to connect it to young people because it suddenly dawned on me. I was watching there were two young people on the panel And they were highly capable. They were both They were both from Europe, so they were both having a great time And I realized that there were a whole bunch of different things that had to do with young people who were kind of In different ways fed up and about to take action Maybe the most notable of those most recently is Greta Thunberg Who starting at age 12? Yeah, hey Michael, welcome to call Greta Thunberg who at age 12 now she's a bit older Started speaking out and has spoken in front of the United Nations and so forth And what's really interesting is She wants people to act as if this was world war two level of emergency And everybody's like gosh, isn't it cool that a young woman can speak like that and they don't they don't pick up and start doing stuff So she's getting you know Mobilizing school strikes for climate change, which I've got here in my brain And a bunch of other things basically saying look look people the houses on fire You older generation have had many chances to work on this and you're really screwed it up And so we're going to do something about it So that's one and then the Marjorie Stonem Douglas students the Parkland students after the shooting And there've been way too many shootings way too often In fact, if I go here, here's the Stoneman Douglas shootings I have a thought in my brain for school shootings, which is depressingly Full of Of shootings that happened here we go Well, that's interesting my brain is not There we go, so here here are school shootings in my brain from Columbine to you know all of Virginia Tech to a whole bunch of others and The msd students have been very different from Others and mobilized and spent a year on a bus going around the country talking about this I don't know exactly what they're up to at this very minute But I was really motivated by by their response that with never again boycott an array A bunch of other things coming out of The The parkland students Then I realized that my favorite candidate in this Coming electoral cycle my favorite candidate so far is Pete booty judge Who is Seizing people's imagination and he sees my imagination at the very beginning when he had an interview On the late show And he just sat there and every answer he gave Was better than I could have imagined the answer be And I was like, oh, okay, and and He's now been you know under the spotlight for quite a while and we will see how this plays out and there's still two years until election time But I realized that one of the things that Pete answered when he was asked Hey, isn't it crazy that you're going to be 39 if you're elected you'll be 39 You'll be younger than jfk everybody else And his answer is you know, it's first it's audacious for anybody to imagine being president Nice answer and then he says but this is really about generational change That that the older generations have fallen down on the job and the current generations in charge are sort of Proving this and we need to step in step up and make this change Well, you know now that we can so that was great and then and then I also had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others doing the Green New Deal Leading proposals to tack the tax the rich medicare for all a series of one would would consider, you know, New Dealey very social democratic kind of proposals that are getting a tremendous amount of traction and the undemonization of the term socialism For at least some proportion of the population. I should also include that universal basic income is one of these very very interesting Sort of bipartisan kind of things where you'll see kato institute and some conservative people coming out in favor of some form of universal basic income as well as a whole bunch of other people thinking about it So these were all the kinds of things that that Provoked me to start saying a If these things can start pulling together maybe they can actually Cause a large shift in terms of who represents us in terms of what policies get proposed and how things get done And then b How do we help that happen? I mean that that's my own sort of goal role desire in this is to help catalyze this generational tipping point because I pretty much agree with the descriptions I just I just gave you that that you know the older generations have fallen down on the job and are in Vapor lock politically they're you know, they there there's been intentional Division divisiveness of the body politic we cannot get shit done and And we've got to break through somehow so that that's my opening premise and I'd love anybody to take it in any direction you'd like and Todd Do you it sounds like your audio problems are resolved if you want to unmute and jump in? Yes, it seems like resolved And and I I don't have I just found out about this five minutes ago and I've got I've got a little time so I wanted to hop on join see what's and Happy to happy to Participate for a little bit, but yeah, thanks. Thank you. That's great. Um, does any of this does any of this either Rub you the right way or rub you the wrong way? Oh, so so right as the the father of a 21 year old who's about to graduate from the new school In two weeks I'm really I'm really aware of her what the work and the thinking that she's doing and what she's you know ready to take on and You know, the one way I'm supporting is supporting her Trying to partner with her because I I think she's um She's got a lot, you know, a lot of energy ideas and and currency and so, um, yes, yes and And just seeing you know, I'm here at the impact hub in Oakland Uh, I work out of out of the space and there's you know, just looking around it's it's mostly You know young vibrant folks that are out to make an impact in the world and uh Again trying to connect with them and support them and in every way So yeah Thank you. And I think that notion of how do we how do we make ourselves good allies without coming in and saying We know better It's really big. I think that's that's super important Um Cool that your daughter's at the new school the new school has great history Like it was a place of massive social change back before world war two Basically a lot of refugee thinkers showed up at the new school and formed the basis for tremendous, uh body of work Yeah, she's she's soaked it all in she's studying media culture and uh capitalism studies and the the papers Now is called, uh Like thought bubbles No, yeah thought Yeah, the thought bubbles Uh segregated memory and fossilized distrust in american democracy Wow So she's thought bubbles. What was it? What was the second one segregated distrust? segregated memory And fossilized distrust in american democracy So I've I've only read the the two page proposal and I was like, whoa, you're you're putting it all it's Start very well put And I can't wait to read the paper. Yeah, exactly. That's beautiful. Um Fabulous, thank you. Uh, and thanks for jumping in. Nice to nice to make make your acquaintance and feel free to jump in at any point This is all very informal. Um Michael any any thoughts on on the The starting point here and you are muted There you go Many thoughts. Um, nothing very coherent You always say that Michael and then you come out with something going in No, no pressure, huh? Yeah, no pressure at all Well, you know, I think it's it's when the going Gets crazy the crazy gotta get going sort of time that there's a match here There's certainly something happening the PCs are Not as much falling into places falling apart the De-fossilization in some respect But it's going to be a crazy ride so, um The more we are in enabled to empower these um fresh initiatives the In the medieval age of 60 Yeah So, no, I think that you your take on it the sort of Things that are showing up. Yeah, perfect. Yeah. Thank you. Also, um, not a young person's thing But a really nice cross-generational thing that's happening and spreading quickly is this extinction rebellion set of protests Um that are being extremely creative about how to do nonviolent social action Um, so I'm really liking that and it's funny because Donald trump in particular The way he ran and the way he's acted as president has normalized crazy So so in the previous president's administration It was no drama obama during eight years of obama tenure. There were zero scandals zero None, right which also meant that for eight years He was basically operating within a straight jacket That that he didn't have a lot of elbow room to do much of anything his his was a an administration of compromises and of getting a few things done but really really Not being able ever to be seen as angry or anything like that and and now we have a president Who's completely normalized waking up in the morning and having a tantrum on anybody Who's crossing his mind or fox and friends on twitter and making the news that way and on we go on that That's a normal beginning of a day in the current president's administration and a piece of what i'm thinking about is Okay, good. Uh, I hate that that's happened. What does crazy look like from the other side? Can we take that elbow room? Can we take that leeway?  Yeah, you're suddenly much lower volume than before Cool and hold that thought Um If either of you'd like to jump in Please feel free Well, I liked I liked what you said earlier about supporting them without Without being you know Overdoing you know like how with my daughter, you know, I I'm like I don't want to like here's how to do it You know, I want her to come to me, but she sees the work I'm doing and she gets inspired and she asks questions that I'm not like, you know It's it's a balance and uh You know I'll kind of wait for folks to come to me before Like hey, I've got I've got the way to go and Go ahead. I'm done. The other Well, a group I want to bring in is Ashoka and thinking about the work that they're doing in supporting uh innovation innovative leaders And uh that work Yeah, I agreed Um And I had a thought that just like fled my mind a moment ago. Sorry Ken, do you want to jump jump back in? And now we don't hear you at all Try again make a noise Now you're frozen The freezing is gone Uh, you're I see your lips moving, but we're not hearing you. We're not hearing it. Yeah. Here we are No, no, we're not Oh, man. I feel like a cell phone commercial. Can you hear me now? Yes, only you're still really low volume, but uh, if there's any way you can speak into your mic or whatever that'll help a lot Okay It's now you need to select the right microphone. So and you go to the little microphone And the app arrow and then select external That's probably the problem. Yeah, it's not listening it from the right microphone All right In the zoom setup or in the uh system setup In since I'll be in zoom Okay One or the other Because you were louder at the beginning of the call. That was very strange. Is it has it better now? Yes For somebody I went into the zoom preferences I'm going to try that. Did you say make me sound bad? It was set all the way over to the left So I moved I moved it Working, okay Okay, go ahead. So I had this I had this this friend that we get together and have very interesting conversations And he said, you know, what's what's something on your mind and and I said my big question right now is how to be effective There's so much change going on, you know, and So many places to put our attention. We have to be very careful My experience as a facilitator is whatever you focus your attention on We focus a group's attention on grows in your awareness So, you know, he started talking about pendulum swings And I flashed back to my childhood of going to the boston museum of science They had a wonderful sand pendulum there And you'd take this pendulum and pull it all the way back and let it go And if you watched it for a little while, it didn't just swing back and forth Because of the it was hanging from a very high point in the ceiling because the earth rotation stuff It would trace in the sand this very complex We didn't realize it at the time, but it was a complexity pattern, right? and I think When people use metaphors like pendulum swings, we're thinking back and forth instead of a pendulum swinging around In cycles through a pattern where sooner or later it's going to coalesce into that particular corner or that particular area and There's very strong Signals coming converging from aOC from Greta from from the summer From generation waking up from all these things and as far as I can tell they're still flying below the radar Because they're not paid attention to by the mainstream media, but they're all over facebook. They're all over twitter They seem to be pretty well known in the bay area I don't know about the rest of the country because I'm in the bay area and that's you know, that thing But remember almost 30 years ago hearing Michael E. recite Gates's second coming and there's a line that says things fall apart that simply will not hold And what's your math is I said when the center you're not pulled, where do you go? You go to the margins you look for what's happening on the margins because that's When the center falls apart and You know You see it was abandoned by it was a huge industrial capital machine right and it was abandoned when The the daughter's she went belly up And people on the margins went in there and they've begun to reclaim land. They're they're doing urban gardening There's all kinds of very interesting experiments going on there. So I'm sensing that there's Lots happening at the margins and the question is Is there enough of a critical mass for it to bring us to that tipping point and the the fear I have is that The certainty have is that it is the fear I have is it's not going to happen in time because it doesn't happen in 2020 I'm afraid what will happen in the next four years till the next election will be so catastrophic will never recover so there's I'm paying attention to gretta's Admonition to act as if the house is on fire and I've been acting as if house is on fire for 30 years So finding ways to speak to people about it that doesn't trigger denial that doesn't trigger fear that doesn't trigger. Oh my god But that moves them to action brings me to my question of how do we be effective what you know How can we talk to people about These very challenging things And take them they're going to bump up against despair I just was was I posted a Joanna Macy interview today because we bump into despair It's it's an appropriate response When you see what's happening to the land to the water to the air to the the future generations It's an appropriate response to to be first outright outraged and then deeply saddened and into despair and if you can't Move through that at an emotional level you'll stay stuck at a cognitive level of being in denial or taking one side so I think the complexity of it is just Freaking enormous the challenges There's the cognition part. There's the emotional part. There's the social part. There's the relational part There's the ancestral part the transcendence. You know, how do we put those into? Chunks that people can digest and one thing from Joanna's View that I posted today she said, you know the work that reconnects is done in groups and there's power in speaking your your truth And your despair because it breaks the myth of isolation. We are not isolated We are inherently a collaborative and cooperative species and when you begin to say this is This is what's going on for me. This is this is my despair People are touched they move by it and they're moved to action the way that they don't get if all you're doing is yelling and being angry Mm-hmm, so those are that's I don't know how coherent that is, but that's my Look for me It's it's lovely and resonates in many different ways with things that I'm seeing and then partly um, there's a couple of sort of large dark clouds in the background one of which is that A bunch of people have discovered that they can weaponize truth and trust in in political discourse and that it's winning them elections And that social media have very poor defense mechanisms against this happening to them So there's that kind of going on which is really difficult and then right next to that is A sad truth that most people will They will prefer membership over logic meaning if they're faced the decision of saying something that's going to get them booted from their in group Or Adopting a new line of reasoning they will they will ignore the line of reasoning as inconvenient in order to stay within the in group And that's just one of humans sort of lesser less noble traits is that is that we're willing to overlook a lot of reason To get someplace never mind that sometimes the reason is complicated never mind a whole bunch of other things But even just this whole thing that membership trumps reason much of the time and I can I've got that in my brain Which I'll I'll show in a second. So so one of the things I really admire about buddha judge Is his ability to speak in ways that I can imagine people who are conservative also appreciate entirely I I also like this about his basically, uh resume Uh that he did a tour in afghanistan, you know and was in danger and Uh, you know as a mayor of a rust belt city who's done a few things not a whole bunch But a few things that are interesting and seem to be helping, you know the city and so forth. So So I'm listening with care to that because at some in some sense gretta thunberg is at the opposite rhetorical extreme Right She's saying We are in meltdown. You are ignoring it You need to wake up and act as if the house is on fire That is the opposite rhetorical and again not opposite opposite But but it's she's way at the other end of the field somehow from from Mayor pizza approach To this whole issue and and i'm acutely aware and I think many of our conversations here at inside jerry's brain Keep coming back to this notion of How do we surface these things in a way that leads us to action in a way that doesn't Distance the other diss the other ignore the other and make things worse I want to say one more thing. I went to hear larry lessig two weeks ago. He was here in center fell and I'd never heard him speak before I was very pleased with his presence and and they opened with Will durst who's a political comedian and and I got to say I laughed my ass off the guys is very funny But uh, all his better lines was, you know, traditionally the presidency is not an entry level job, which I found amusing but Larry was saying that he showed some very disturbing graphics of how You know How little power voters have And you know the amount of time that once elected congresspeople spend 30 to 70 percent of their time Dialing for dollars and they the presidential campaign happens in 14 states That does not happen in california doesn't happen in new york does not important states because Money the the the way the electoral college sets is 14 states that determine what's happened Candidates go to the big states to raise money But they don't actually go there to talk about what they're going to do and and connect with the people And then this really disturbing graphic that said, you know, um If If you're a special interest, you know, you can get stuff done But if you're the people it's flat nothing happens What was really interesting was two things he said one is that 89 his researchers on 89 percent of people are Aligned in an agreement that the system is broken that it's not serving people and it needs to change And yet nothing seems to be happening That was one interesting the second interesting Interesting thing he said was i'm actually more optimistic and hopeful now than I have been in years He too is seeing something that he thinks 2020 is going to be a turning point Collaborate on any specifics just this it's a gut thing and people i'm talking to them being the way i'm being Received so that's another, you know, it's anecdotal evidence But it was delightful to hear him say that because I know he gets around quite a bit and and you know, he's He's not always welcome in some of it with his message is not always welcome So if he's getting a better reception that speaks quite well, I think to our future Yeah, and I love his speaking style. I love the way he thinks So one of the sentences you just said or phrases you just said is that nothing seems to be happening and I will throw a contrarian thought on that which is that Donald j trump is a fire ship That who has been sent into the system to destroy it By some large proportion of his voters and so far he is succeeding He has put morons and pr hacks and lobbyists in charge of Large departments given them instructions to dismantle all the all the regs and basically leave the sign on the door But take apart everything possible the judiciary one of the things that Mitch mcconnell is doing is he's fast-tracking approvals of everybody in the judiciary So that he can load up the entire system with conservatives as fast as possible So There is stuff happening. It's just reactionary stuff that's happening. That's being I think remarkably successful If you're an evangelical christian Donald trump has been the best thing for you in five conservative administrations. I hate to say I really hate to say But but that's not nothing happening This is Obviously an important moment for me to introduce this device. This is tensegrity Yeah, this is Three things pulling in different directions and held together with string and it's the basic building block of the universe but most interestingly it's um Let's begin this the right way around you can see it there. It's a spiral You see it's spiral that way and you turn it over It's the spiral the other way So what these things are it's easy to look at them as a whirlpool because that's what it is. It's mathematics of vortex the smoke ring And the thing about these things is as you're getting into them. It just gets faster and worse Until all of a sudden the same elements are expanding you out in the other direction There's sort of an inversion of all the polarities You know it's so Well, we can't do this because this gets in the way and then we can't do that because that gets in the way and then It can't do that because this gets in the way and you're just oscillating around this this curve Right push through the other side and all of a sudden it's it's totally transcendent with no reason at all it reminds me of uh So carol quickly wrote in tragedy and hope about the sort of what what caused the lock-in of the great depression And I don't remember any of the details, but basically Each of the countries was leaning against the other country in a different way And there were all these kind of bilateral lock-ups that were terrible And nobody was willing to rip this up and change the policies and move things around So everybody was stuck for a decade In the great depression until war kind of pulled everybody out But but it looks it so it feels like it looks like the thing you were just holding up Yeah, it's sort of it's wicked problems sort of territory and You can't fix one thing because the other one pops up wakamoli around loops But then it sort of moves through some sort of a an urgency of confusion very much through the looking glass through the inversion and um It just looks different So let me throw something in that I just discovered over the last couple days because Uh, I just met a met a woman who's just moved here to portland We sat down and had coffee and she was like, I know that we've just gotten to portland But I'm about to sign up for this transition design program at CMU for a year and I'm like, what's transition design and uh, I hadn't really heard of transition design and I do collect in my brain design specialties and I'll show you Oops, it's not behaving the way I'd like it to We go So this is just a through d of design specialties from active design and activity centered design To bio design biophilic design critical design and drug and Dutch design over here So the you know this roll bar will show you more types of design, but transition design is drawing on Um The great transition idea, which is uh has been in And I think this is part of the one of the movements can that you were kind of alluding to when you were saying Hey, people have actually been working, you know people have been on deck working on this really hard and so transition towns the age of transition commons transition a whole bunch of other Transition is a is a very powerful meme here for where we're moving and how it's moving He's uh, the transition designers are also pulling on wicked problems as horse riddle kind of Defined wicked problems way back when of situations that are so complicated that you just sorry horse riddle That you think you're never going to you know get out of that kind of that kind of problem There's no real way out And then also transition design is pulling on a lot of systems thinking and sort of systems change thinking in very nice ways So I'm terry urwin is the head of the program If you go look at the transition design seminar I was quite amazed and i'm halfway through listening to this talk of hers I will share links to the talk in our chat and to this spot in my brain in our chat But i'm quite blown away by the sophisticated way in which Transition design seems to be pulling a lot of the right elements together So i'm going to try to learn more and maybe do a ijb call about transition design Because i'm finding it to be extremely amenable as a Gathering point for thinking about how to go about doing the change we're talking about Does that make sense fabulous Nice to see you have counsel of all beings in there. Have you ever done a counsel of all beings? I have not I've not What's it like? it's profound For those that don't know it a counsel of all beings is is held in and out in the natural space. I did one with john c who's one of the co-authors the joanna macy of thinking like a mountain towards a council And you're instructed to go off and spend time alone in nature and find something in nature that you feel is Under threat and find something that represents it and you come back and One by one people go around the circle and they say this is my object and it represents the dolphins or the whales or You know the trees the old trees and and you speak about what it means to you to Try to speak with the voice of whatever you're representing and also what it means to you to see it leaving and It's it's one of those portals that takes you into another dimension of being Um, where you're asked to speak on behalf of another entity.  So, uh, it's a ritual for for healing and bringing some beauty into into a destructive act It's been she's been like 25 years since I did it So I'm a little hazing on all the details, but I just remember the emotional tone to it And the other part of transition, um, there's the work of the great turning from david courtland. Joanna macy Uh-huh, which brings in one of my favorite things is working with beings in deep time So one exercise we did when I used to hang out with Joanna a lot in the early 90s And those are the group about 100 people when we were outside and we had 50 people in an inner circle and 50 people in an outer circle in the inner circle were people who were living 10,000 years from now And they would ask questions of those of us on the outer circle saying, you know Once area was their their their world is thriving and they would say what did you do to provide us with a thriving world?  You were there alive that critical turning time And what did you do? And then We did the flip side, which is their generation is actually just barely scraping by Hardly surviving at all terrible low quality life and they're say, what did you do? And again, it wakes something up in you to participate in this that that brings a Very different perspective than what you get from reading about something or or, you know, just being in your own little bubble Very few people think in terms of 10,000 year life cycles That's it's a little bit of a stretch for for most of us Well, um short termism is epidemic and I think very intentionally Also a fear the politics of fear drives people into short term thinking Basically, you know, eliminates your your short term storage You go from being able to remember like seven plus or minus two things to maybe three When you're when you're afraid and when you have no time when your time is filled with constant nonsense You also don't have time to attend to things like empathy and you know concern for for other sorts of things So all of this is very nicely reinforcing People's not paying attention to To all of this here we go. I found a nice thought three dimensions of the great turning Number one actions to slow the to slow the damage to earth and its beings to analysis of structural causes and the three creation of structural alternatives and three a shift in consciousness And if I had a nickel for all the different people who are trying to create a shift in consciousness for the better I'd be wealthy and hopefully so would be, you know, so would all the people working on that, but It's it's amazing how often this thought here is not connected to nearly enough nearly enough things because Clearly this has been happening all over the place. So here's a here's a piece by Navi Raju about bioeconomics And the frugal innovation hub and a couple other, you know, conscious society reinventing how we consume work relate and live A book that he's writing So I'm especially interested in how we can be good allies for the young generation I'm I'm I'm just very curious because I I'm happy to share all the things I've found that have been struggling with this And chewing on it over the years um I've had the great pleasure of meeting a bunch of young people who Have made more strides in understanding how the world works than I have And then really seem to get it and and They're not naive they're they they they seem well informed about what the problems are But they seem also to have like a systems perspective and other kinds of good things and surprisingly broad purview over What's happened and what's going on so So how do we become great resources and help make the links? I think a couple things come to mind one is you know one is to try to be At hand but not, you know, not telling people what to do Another one is that I think a lot of what we carry is a memory of what's gone before And stories of why it failed stories of things that actually did work But stories like that are actually helpful when you're planning looking forward And every now and then I see people, you know reinventing stuff that Somebody's already doing and you don't need to waste your breath and life energy doing because all you need to do is back Those other people and then pick the next problem, right? I see I see a bunch of that happening, but I'm trying to figure out how does how does sort of history and context Help us and then the third thing that occurs to me is making introductions and being a bridge So connecting people that need to connect And then seeing if we can be of help for whatever those new new connections make or want to do Look for opportunities to collaborate. It's not like, you know, one's leading the other or, you know, we have to offer but look for, you know Ways to bring young people into the work any work you are, you know that you're already involved in That's that's one thought Totally agree And I have a funny feeling there's many many ways and times to cooperate It's just finding our way to them and then some of us need to make a living as we're cooperating So that actually, you know layers a bunch of complexity on top of this because A lot of the work to be done Isn't hard to do but it does require time effort and focus, but it often is unpaid Um, and that's a problem because if we you know, if we've got to all figure out how to stay in the monetary economy While doing this work, that's gotta gotta get figured out somehow Maybe that comes to my mind is is more of a quality than a than a doing thing, which is having some humility um The older I get the more I realize, you know, I really don't know very much There's so much to know in the world and um, and I've seen so many young people As you were just mentioning who've got things figured out at age 25 or 30 that I like wow Where did you get that, you know, like that's amazing and so I find myself quite often humbled and um, you know, I I want to contribute and I I don't want to be that person that knows it all right As the older guy, um, and it's very odd to me to be the older guy because throughout my entire life I've always been the young person with a bunch of older people and And now if I'm finding myself in the oldest person in the room, and that's really challenging sometimes um, so along with humility is humor, you know Recognizing that I often don't know what they're talking about because they're using some Lingo that I'm not up on, you know the jargon and whatever that is for the day Um, I do have a young man that that I've met through the Institute for evolutionary leadership and I'm I check in with him once a month and we've been working on a project together and I'm kind of Informally mentoring him and I find that to be really satisfying because you know, I'm Unlike Todd, I did not have children and most of some I'm okay with that but I really like that connection with the ever generation and uh And so I need to seek out more of that because I find it's very very rewarding and as you say it's time consuming I can't be a mentor to a lot of people that's um, so Also what Todd just said about working for options to collaborate I'm pretty clear that at this point in my life as I work with groups They've got to be multi-generational We've got to bring in A big cross-section of all the generations in one role including those who are to you have to speak and those who may be too old to speak for whatever Yeah I think that's also great To mix it up and and have the listening for that Sometimes I find myself listening to young people and I really have to Ground myself and and and go okay turn off the judging mind You know, I get certain things get triggered and it's like oh, and then I'm not now I'm not listening I've been judgment. So I'm coming back to myself and really listening deeply for what what's important here. What's underneath this? Thinking about those mentor relationships is being too late So, you know, what we have to share with them and what they have what we can learn from them and their their perspective because they are Like you said, they know more than we do in some things and they're they're like Grown up in this this crazy world So it can go both ways Like we said about humility Coming with that leading with that and there's a part of Modern literacy Communicational competence that's really interesting in in the sense that Some of it is just like you want to throw your hands up and despair like, you know, instagram feeds and And all that all that kind of stuff to be like, ah, what is going on here? and then In other cases the speed with which like something can travel Um, and the power that it can have when it hits um And I think a lousy example of this but but a moment when it hit me was the koni 2012 Where there was a video made of you know, get your parents to watch this with you And send money to help get this warlord out of africa And it proved to be like really flimsy and and poorly done and whatever else But boy they get a lot of young people to sit down with their parents and say, hey, you must do something about this Like it was it was remarkable in the sense that it could really move and activate a bunch of people That it being just a video just an old school video that happened to be on a new social media platform But I'm torn because you know, some some young people are Completely into the well I guess since life might end at any moment I'll just just satisfy my my immediate wants and not worry about stuff and not work You know, everything serious seems to be too big to to make a dent in so we might as well just go on Get on the hedonic treadmill and and buck up and enjoy it Um, but then there's a bunch of other young ones. We're like, um, not so much Let's uh, let's fix this Yeah, when when I first about this And I I was uh Like all into it green new deal. No way you know and like I'm like, how can I get involved and I was like Then I heard oh, it's just young people and I felt oh no, I'm not I shouldn't go I was like on my way to a to a rally and uh, I stopped myself because I was like, oh shoot Maybe I'm too old to go and I later talked to some of you know, like no, you know And there's there are to be involved, but I'm I mean in one way, you know, it's like don't let them Do their thing and I know that like Naomi Klein's involved with them and that's that's like really good They've got support there um So now I just send them money, you know, little money every month support Yeah, yeah Are there any other uh young groups that um that Are doing interesting things like it's funny when I when I think about youth. I think often about like the Uh nerdfighteria. Are you guys familiar with that?  They're they make awesome videos online. They are youtube stars And they invented this thing which is not fighting nerds. It's actually nerds fighting worlds suck And so they put really great videos out explaining stuff in the world and then they give, you know, young people opportunities to get together and go do stuff and there's The harry potter alliance is kind of like this as well Um, but I don't know enough about what it's like inside these things and whether they're still, you know Whether the energy is growing or not or what but these are younger folk. These are like Usually like tweens Young kids who are learning stuff and doing stuff, but they're fabulous. They have a saying dftba Which means don't forget to be awesome Uh, they created a record label called dftba records Uh, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They have the project for awesome or p4a, which was a hashtag back in the day Which was actually nerd fighters on kiva Trying to sort through which kiva projects nerd fighters should back So stuff like that, right? It's it's it's just it's really interesting and amazing Um, and I won't and here's hank green and his brother john Um, so I'm trying to figure out. All right, which of these things is still has heat right now And is doing really interesting things Uh And how do we help? education And john green is the author of the fault in our stars and more recent book on abundance of catharines Uh fault in our stars got made into a movie Here it is By josh boon with some actors. We haven't heard of so there we are Yeah, this is great to hear about it. I'm sure there's a zillion more honestly. I think that they're The young people are out there and uh, you know, we're not hearing about a lot of it. It's local I look forward to spending some time with my daughter kind of checking in on this uh, I look forward to sharing that I was part of this today and Uh, kind of tapping into her thinking and Seeing, uh, you know again looking for ways to collaborate with her And support support her, you know in what she's doing So I think what I'll do is I'll set up a similar call Uh, set it out 10 days or something ahead so we can sort of marshal people And then invite as many young young capable people as we know to the call see who can show up And and see what they say see where they where they take this Um, I would love to know Those young people from uh, the call is soon all that day is daughters and her friends from india. Yeah, they were So interesting. I was really delighted. They were on the call. It's like wow, so they were great. So east East was gone for like three weeks on on summer vacation. I just saw her on a call this morning She's but she would be like the first person I would think to invite to to be on this call. So like that There's another organization called I think it's it used to be generation waking up. I think it's just gen up now um I was exposed to them when I was working at the institute for noetic sciences several years ago and they were all about You know getting young people Socially active, you know, it's you've got to go out and register to vote You've got to work on local issues. Um, and there's pretty widely spread There's many many thousands in there. So I haven't heard from them when quite some time I don't know what they're up to but I do know they exist Yeah, joshua glum is the guy that I I knew back in the day Yep, and and I haven't heard anything about them for a while, but this is what I've got um Here's generation waking up and getting a movement We're at a cliff the story of a generation is to either fall or fly is the So it's what Greta Thunberg is saying except that Greta is getting more traction somehow Why do you brought up again? There's young people there's old people And there's youngers and there's elders Uh-huh. Because you have gray hair. It doesn't mean you're an elder, you know And just because you're young doesn't mean you can't be an elder To me Greta is an example of an elder In a younger Yeah Maladoma Samay who's a initiated west african medicine man from Burkina Faso said that In many tribes in african now the older people are Making younger people Official elders making their chiefs are saying we don't know how to handle it. We need the younger generations to help them So there is a shift going on in some indigenous communities in africa Where the the elder younger Polls are being reversed kind of like what michael was talking about you suddenly turns into its opposite, you know And they're they're they're saying help us. We need your help Um, so that's pretty interesting, you know, that's happening in the indigenous world We don't usually pay a lot of attention to that here with us in the western world But I believe it has a very profound impact on us and So when I see somebody like Greta Speaking up in the way that she does which is just You know, I she's I want to Seriously, you know, I'm not I'm not some I'm just a kid who's taking science seriously and She speaks with with clarity and authenticity that is very difficult to argue with in the same way that aoc speaks, you know, she's really disarming and charming and But spot-on and and and Super smart, you know, she's not just some bimbo waitress from from new york. She's really really smart intelligent and and she's got a way of Framing things that is very inclusive without I know it polarizes those who are just turned off by her anyway, but for the rest of us I find her message to be very inclusive And I think that's another piece that is is really critical of Um, we need to be discerning about about things that are toxic But we need to be in as inclusive as we can and say even toxic people if they can Get themselves de traumatized, you know, right with qualities and everybody everybody can be healed Everybody can read be redeemed even donald trump can be redeemed, which I know would be a heretical thing to say a lot of folks, you know Um, but I have to believe that because if I don't then then we're all you know, we're all screwed Um I just flashed on something in 2006. I was at a conference on bowling and desmond tutu was there and he gave a very powerful talk and he said, you know When you call someone a monster, this was in reference to the truth and reconciliation commission You call someone a monster you absolve them of human responsibility and then you are able to become a monster yourself You can say it's a person doing monstrous acts committing monstrous acts, but you can't call someone a monster I think that's a really key thing for us to pay attention to of who we Otherwise who Donald trump is very easy to otherwise. He's a bad guy, right? And I keep going well with you know, he's a human being and and he's doing terrible things Where could I find a redemptive quality in there that I could relate to? So and I don't have one come up empty, but at least make the effort I That's the that's the that's the action is to try and find where there are shared values and get to that start there build on You know what we what we do share and agree on and then build from there It's funny. Um I think I think aoc's intentions are very inclusive I think her approach with the green new deal and with uh democratic socialism Is Kind of the all right people we're fed up trying to play your game and walk the middle course We're going to actually take a pretty strong left course Uh for social welfare and all these other things which Then becomes not that inclusive if you've been raised to demonize socialism in any way which You know every two thirds of the three quarters of the country thought, you know from the 40 50 60 70s That socialism was as terrible as communism was the worst thing that could ever happen to the world So, you know, we're trying to we're in the face of that kind of headwind or that kind of training um I remember a long time ago being in a in a group where al gore spoke and his first words were I don't understand why conservatives don't see climate change as a huge business opportunity like electrification I do not understand Why they why they don't see that or get that or want to do that? and and so I I think that the The politics and the power sort of behind the curtain are really Powerful here. They're really uh different from what we think I for example don't understand why corporate why american corporations want Anything ever to do again with health care? If I were them, I'd be saying go immediately to national health care get rid of you know Why are companies co-paying health insurance? It's a it's a handicap in global competition.  That's all it is So why do companies want to continue doing that? I don't get it Well, I I need to bow out at this time I got to jump to another thing, but I really appreciate being engaged and look forward to following up. Thank you, Todd Great, really appreciate you being here. Yeah, take care. Thanks. Bye. Bye That's right. See you and me If you want we can kick this around some more or we can fold the pub tent for now and I'll set up the the next call same topic for For the cross-generational mixing I'm just I I told you I did a big cleaning project on the grill and I skipped lunch and I just realized I'm really really hungry I need to go get myself some food before I pass out here. So excellent, but this has been uh, it's fun I really appreciate these calls and good to be connecting with you this way. So Uh, look forward to this this next call. This is a this is fun. Awesome. Thank you.


Now personally I can't remember a better time to be thinking about buying new golf clubs. 2023 has been a huge year in terms of product releases and we're only in February. Every major brand has released full line-ups on what that means is it could be the best ever year to buy new clubs apart from one element that is the bloody price of them. Putting price to one side for a minute what that means is is that with the options that are now presented to you and the amount of choice there surely is if done correctly a perfect club to suit your requirements. And in today's video I'm going to give you a perfect example of that with a range of clubs from the Callaway Paradigm line-up. Did you know right now in the Callaway Paradigm line-up alone there are 14 different options in terms of fairway woods. Now that's before you even look at Callaway Big Bertha and the Callaway Rogue Range and that potentially presents a little bit of a problem.  Well maybe but in today's video and with the help of Lewis Johnson I'm going to hopefully help you make that decision making process just a little bit more clearer and straightforward.  There is the Paradigm, the Paradigm X and the Paradigm Triple Diamond and they are all very very different. If you just look at this little overlay that I'm going to put from Callaway's website maybe pause that and just have a look exactly how Callaway describe each of those fairway woods perhaps who they're aimed at in terms of the style of golfer and also what it is you're looking for in terms of launch forgiveness spin all those types of parameters. So that's what Callaway say they do.  Today's video is brought to you in partnership with HotGolf the online golf mega store bringing you the hottest deals in golf and of course the clubs featured in today's video. Find the link to the hot golf website in the description below and check out some incredible giveaways and offers. Right so we've managed to drag Lewis out of that warm pro shop it's a bit of fresh opinion this morning mate he's even got a hat on. Yeah no clubs again. No clubs yet no clubs. I like this at the minute because I give him a bit of a surprise he knows we're doing Paradigm there's a bit of a clue there it's the three woods three very different clubs as I've just explained one that is very much aimed at the better player and then we've got the other end of the spectrum so what I want is the same as what we did the other day with the telemate stealth line up great on your opinion and mine mate I've never hit any of these have you not no no first thoughts visuals from a dress mate lovely yeah you like that don't you yeah just nice isn't it yeah it's a good job that is it's important I don't know sure they do that with a lot of players clubs now they don't put any reference on the top today no no not on this one but it comes in on the next two okay good so reference Lou is referencing the sort of alignment you normally see the Callaway Chevron yeah it's like the little Callaway V isn't it yeah they don't put it on the triple diamond range at all I'm not a fan of that as ever straight out of the bar that is a stunning ball it's a nice flight that is higher ball flight than I was expecting off it Lou yeah sounded superb oh yeah like in that yeah okay let's move on to another one before we give you your evaluation but that was a stunning strike jeez it's pretty much my fight with ball flight that though off that off like my three word that I mean I think that's perfect lovely little draw it's a little bit high and floaty but yeah I don't mind that it's kind of very nice so I've gone I've give you now this opposite end of the spectrum yeah so we've gone paradigm X which is shallower into the the the whole club face a little bit more elongated this would be there like kind of to the opposite end so it's more forgiving most forgiving yeah it doesn't sit close which now I like I like a lot of the forgiving ones they sit close and they're sort of anti and can you confirm it's the Chevron back on the alignment aid yeah yeah and you've got some really bright you know really bright white line yeah face which are quite noticeable so um easy to line up clearly a different shape but you're not too uh not too bad it's exactly getting really good strikes exactly the same flight that isn't it they're literally tracing each other but a higher ball flight which is intended yeah it's a little bit weaker didn't it but yeah very similar which is and similar in feel which maybe we've done a something recently on on another brand but they've got it to feel the same at the face okay between this end which is a which is a massive positive is this shape of contrast of the two like it it's a blend of the two well let's see them let's have a look get them both together so you definitely see the smaller isn't it yeah so the normal one's not the same as the the X it is a blend of the two it is so you get more of the shape of that one you get the visual alignment and the lines on the face cool so this is the one they're very much that's the one I'd like to look at yeah I mean it's sat in the middle in both sort of profile yeah so it looks like the better better players one you know the triple diamond but you get all the kind of alignment tools in yeah which I why wouldn't you want them that's again you know they what's been interesting to me the flight has been really good shot shape it started out probably five yards further right but they're still drew back yeah so um if you if you've got me to blind test them yeah feel yeah and flight yeah I don't think I'm gonna say no no I must admit I was a bit surprised which is a bit of a testament sir however what I will say and we'll just we'll have a look at this downrange to me the triple diamond seemed a lower spinning version even though the ball flight I don't think it was as high stronger stronger flight it was a stronger flight and I think it's potentially lower spinning because I think that the triple diamond is a lot further down should we have a look have a look yeah yeah no but overall I love them right Lou before we go so first of all let's just go up over the three shots yeah I was wrong basically because you could throw a blanket over them couldn't you yeah wrong this was about four yards I think four yards further and it was clearly it looked like it'd come off a little bit but the feedback for me was they all kind of did the same um and I'm glad I've got down here and they kind of all have done the same they feel but what surprised me a little bit is that in theory at least from the again what Callaway are suggesting each club would do that should have been in my opinion lower ball flight and lower spinning therefore I expected it to be a bit longer so I'm a bit surprised the question I've got for you now we're going to play from a fairway tight lie is there any like preference in terms of head type that you would play I'm really I'm really I like what they've done with the middle just the standard one yeah yeah yeah by blending the two in terms of the head shape is more like the triple diamond yeah but it's got all this sort of yeah so it's like nice it's ease of the you know the easy to line up the easy you know it's clearly quite that happy medium yeah I mean the thing I'm noticing down because I've asked Lou the question but I'm looking down now the one thing I don't like is on the triple diamond that black face that you referred to and is it I mean you just can't see anything yeah yeah it's not black face but it looks like from a dress and it doesn't present any loft you know so visually that is more off putting for me personally so I like to see you can clearly see the face on the other two which is weird because from a lot a loft perspective they're all the same yeah but it's obviously the way the sheep and profile matches up right I'll get out of your way which ones you're at first I'll hit the triple diamond again let's keep the same order and we'll see what yeah super ball again nice draw shape I can't believe had the ball fly is super impressive again the way that's so high I thought maybe off the tee it was just a yeah but no that's gone I mean off a tight lie there that's gone so high hasn't it yeah just I'm just gonna yeah I mean I've got that in the standard setting because I wonder whether I'd added loft for me trying it but that's 15 degrees and it's really popping it up high next one I'm a normal I mean I mean what I will say really again super sounding yeah everything about it was good what's the kind of makeup of these so it's a lot of carbon again in it's carbon but but only again yeah it's not that full wrap of carbon or whatever you referred it to that's in the driver so this is the normal so what are you hitting now just a normal one standard yeah yeah I'll tell you what they're all very high launching three yeah really high but the same I like the way it's coming back I like the way it sounds they're dead easy to pick up I think you know regardless of what it says on the tin in terms of forgiveness they're just I think I'm having it any shots to warm up and I've just it five so I'm we're waiting for the one aren't we we're waiting for the one I maybe don't hit well the point to mention is that you may be questioning not seeing any shots of mine yeah we'll have it so six shots two with each so far but off the tee and perhaps overlay them now actually first three were straight out the bat this morning slightly lower ball flights not maybe warmed up next whole things a little bit different really again what we've just seen here really high ball flight which I was super impressed with and again downrange for me no real difference in terms of distance traveled they just got there again the paradigm was slightly lower ball flight so you know what I'm feeling here is because that's the thing with fairy words you know how along shafted low lofted club off the deck yeah generally people struggle to launch them don't yeah well that's what I'm gonna see in five and seven words more more yeah but these are all 15 degree and that's going straight up with all three so well I'm gonna this is proof that fairy right all along at a minute Luke yeah unreal first of all I mean three super strikes you're not gonna be those who are right next to each other as well yeah yeah I mean I'll say again I probably said on all the videos I swear to god Lewis come up from the pro shop they were the first three shots of the morning there the second batch I don't know you do that to be quite honest with you so it's a super shot each one of them I mean from the backside of the camera watching in and if you said to me and which club have I just did I wouldn't have the foggiest one yeah because they're no difference it's a massive plus for me that it's really cool it's really impressive yeah yeah right I'm gonna swap places because I've got to give them a go off tightly on the deck nice swing that that's just incredible isn't it it's the launch on them yeah that's the surprising bit yeah we've done a lot of high lofted fairy woods in different brands haven't we but these are all 15 well I'm anti-three wood I've been that for the last year to be honest with you I've been suggesting to everybody look ignore them there's not enough loft on them and mainly because of the ability to generate enough clubhead speed to work with that 15 degrees of loft and in this case at least with that that was a standard model by the way I can't tell you how good the ball flight was and how impressed I am with that nice that's interesting again I mean interesting enough that was the X model there's a lower ball flight where it definitely came off down the bottom grooves there I think the thing we can take from that I can't tell you a lot about ball flight because like I said it wasn't as good of a strike from me personally but what I can tell you was it did it incredibly well from where it got off the club face because I think yet again if you went down there they're probably very very similar they're all going to be in the same positions I'll give the triple diamond a go great strike I mean that's just absolutely that's the best you've ever done you've hit that just goes to show doesn't it just yeah that's very easy to hit them as the top of the mound as the whole range yeah hard to knock I mean I don't know they mentioned before I picked it up that was a triple diamond I thought I might as well give it a go I hit the X the worst that was about a personal my own swing issue probably that came off the fastest it certainly felt like but again hard to know how much of that is down to the clubhead speed or swing speed of me personally again mega impressive we'll go for one more tee shot from Lou when I think it's time for a summary in it yeah well we've just decided that we've hit enough golf shots and I think enough to give a fair old opinion because yeah it might end up being similar I don't know my question was going to be to you we're still on the 16th tee here at Soliwell Golf Club three words not a bad shout off this tee nope if you had to pick one of the three what would you go with I'd have the normal you'd have the standard model just the standard I got a triple diamond yeah I've got a triple diamond in my hand I appreciate what this does if you're a better player who hits three would maybe offer tee yeah once a slightly slightly like sort of lower spinning I think it would more penetrating you know if it but if you're like me and I hit my driver a lot and you want three words would just be a three word yeah you know where you're going for power fires with it there's no reason that's so good that normal one I am got a lot more to add to that because I'd agree with everything Lou said um yeah I'm not I'm not going to add anything the three would agree like you said a lot if you want to play off the tee that is definitely we haven't done dribble data today but I think without doubt that is the lowest spinning version um and has been slightly longer ball but not overly different for me I criticised three words certainly for average golfers because they lack versatility and what I mean by that is they're okay if you want to substitute for your driver if your confidence is low but then I'm not keen on them from the fairway but what this does it was really easy to pick up this being the standard model again by the way easy to pick up but then you've got adjustability in there yeah and you've got it looks good it feels good it sounds good I think I think that's the one thing they they all feel similarly you're not sacrificing anything with that you get you get the alignment bit you get the lines on the face I think that's just as an all-round like a great club for everyone I think we'll leave them final words then for Lou great club I'd agree and all three of them I think whatever you're looking for I think Chloe have done a fantastic job with those in terms of three words um yeah absolutely superb right that's the take of an average golfer of a professional golfer the only thing that really matters is what your opinion is so either if you've tried them I'd love to know and put your detail your your own thoughts and feedback in the comment section below or if not then let me know if this might have persuaded you to give either of these a go either way thanks for watching and I will see you tomorrow night


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Now let's take problems to an entirely different scale. I'd like to introduce Sirashi Aniyan from the ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. And the title of her talk tonight is Marshmallows, Hot Chocolate and Galaxies. It's a cold winter night. He's sitting by the campfire, sipping hot chocolate. You watch the marshmallows bob up and down. And there's a blanket of stars overhead. You can see thousands of stars in the sky. But what you can't see is that surrounding the stars there is an envelope of invisible matter that astronomers call dark matter. Dark matter? Because astronomers are still in the dark about it. Visible matter, which is what makes up everything that we can see, is just one-fifth the amount of dark matter in the universe. And yet we know so little about it. What we do know is that it interacts through gravity. It helps keep the stars in their orbits around the center of the galaxy. If it wasn't for dark matter, the stars would be flung out into space, and life, as we know it, would not exist. I look at nearby galaxies to precisely calculate the amount of dark matter in them. The stars in these galaxies have a very small up and down wobble. Measuring this wobble is a direct estimate of the dark matter in the galaxy. This is similar to how your marshmallows bob up and down in hot chocolate. If it is in thick, delicious hot chocolate, it would move slower than if it was in diluted, watered-down hot chocolate. Similarly, the slower the star's wobble, the denser the dark matter in the galaxy. The up and down motion of these stars can be as low as 10 km per second, which in the grand cosmic scale of the universe is very, very tiny. Measuring this from Earth is as difficult as someone on Jupiter trying to see how fast the marshmallows in your hot chocolate are moving. I use the most sensitive instruments from around the world for this work. The result from my thesis will give us the most accurate estimate of dark matter in nearby galaxies. That gets us one step closer in trying to understand this mysterious dark matter. So, as you're sitting by the campfire, looking up at the night sky, you can't help but wonder are all the stars you see just giant marshmallows in the sea of invisible hot chocolate?


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I do appreciate you being here today I am back with another destiny 2 video and today guys I want to cover the recent Announcement of the moments of triumphs and the rewards you will be able to get this coming Tuesday on July 9 Bungie have just dropped a post to explain in what you will need to do to unlock Said rewards from the moments of triumphs and also the tribute hall too But before we go any further guys if you do enjoy the video and would like show you support you can by hitting that like button if you are new around here and enjoy daily destiny 2 videos be sure to subscribe Okay, so recent announcements by Bungie have just come under moments of triumph and they state just starting July 9 2019 moments of triumphs for year 2 of destiny 2 will become available players will be challenged to complete Triumphs that span content throughout the solar system from the Dreaming City to the EVZ this year will be fairly straightforward Completing game triumphs and unlucky wars and these are the rewards guys Complete one moments of triumph and the moments of triumph 2019 emblem complete five moments of triumph and the moments of triumph 2019 Sparrow complete 10 and moments of triumph 2019 ship complete 15 months of triumph the moments of triumph t-shirt awful become available Complete all months of triumph to unlike the moments of triumph 2019 seal and title now You can see the title on screen now with the emblems barrel ship and so forth looking pretty cool Nothing amazing not gonna lie to you guys you can also see the t-shirt on screen now And this is what they say about that this year 2019 months of triumphs t-shirt would be available through Bungie rewards Players can earn their offer code by unlocking triumph starting on Tuesday players who are signed up to receive Bungie emails Receive a notification to purchase on Fridays or they can directly receive their cause via Bungie.net slash rewards The last day to purchase the cost of my t-shirt is September 30th 2019 So these are the triumph I believe we will have to complete to unlock said loot and t-shirt Legendary Valor which is achieve any Valor rank of a legend in any season Then got crucible pinnacle arms, which I believe is unlocking revoker the vanguard pinnacle arms I believe is unlocking the Wendigold grenade launcher Nothing left to say is I believe the last story mission of the game the vault I ain't sure on I couldn't find any information on this Mythic reach a mythic division in gambit gambit pinnacle arms from guessing is unlocked a hush bowl Inheritance I couldn't find any information on all murder of mine is complete the last wish raid Valiant savior is complete the scourge of the past raid Going the distance is getting perfect scoring gambit by having all six players complete every lap before time runs out Prospector when they go Telesto Warcliffe Prime fashion and bedazzled I couldn't find any information on it It also showcases well the sources of heroes triumphs to Strikes blue long care, which I believe is completing a hundred strikes exotic arsenal I believe is unlocking every exotic weapon going for higher and challenger I couldn't find any information on fashion hero is upgrading the full solstice of heroes armor set to legendary quality Above and beyond is masterwork in any solstice of heroes armor and master smith is either Forge weapons from research frames and black army frames or it's gonna be a new triumph or an existing triumph Which shares the same name and it's upgrading every single solstice of heroes armor to master work But yeah guys those are the triumphs I do believe which we will need to do in order to unlock these rewards now next week on July 9th We also get a tribute hall and there are also 10 secret triumphs available for you to do now in game Which will count towards your triple triumphs and these are achieved by equipping any Calisthemed armor from any Leviathan raid and a menagerie The more theme gear you have equipped the faster you'll get these trumps done and completing certain things while wearing this gear Imperial foot soldier defeat enemies in strikes imperial scandal defeat enemies in gambit imperial assassin defeat enemy Guardians in Gambit into the Colosseum defeat enemy guardians in a crucible high roller complete a 100k nightfall lavish defender complete multiple threshold nightfall runs This is thought to be Over 50k I had a friend who was constantly doing over 100k couldn't get it done So I said try 200k he got it straight away Final exam completing counters in the Leviathan a succulent wish completing counters in the last wish Feast of the Empire completing counters in the scourge of the past crown of sorrow complete encounters in a crown of sorrow raid And are two unnamed ones where you have to earn valor and earn infamy and those are people the tribute hall triumphs So yeah people these are the loot awards you will get from his moments of triumphs Which comes next Tuesday with the tribute hall and on that note We have come to the end of the video people if you enjoyed the video leave them a like really does help out if you are new And who enjoy daily deaths in two videos be sure to subscribe and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


Randomized experiment is the gold standard in empirical research. However, experiments are not always feasible due to, for example, cost or ethics reason. And for that reason it is also important to understand that there are other designs that kind of like mimic experiments that we could apply when a true randomized experiment is non-feasible. In these techniques or these designs fall into pre-experimental designs and quasi-experimental designs, which are sometimes referred to as natural experiments as well. Let's take a look at what these designs are. So the idea of true experiment is that we have these five characteristics. First we have a random assignment, so we randomize people in at least two groups. So we have the treatment group and then we have the control group. Then we manipulate the main independent variable, whether one group gets treatment, other one doesn't or some other manipulation. We measure the outcome from both groups and we compare the difference. And fifth importantly, there must be experimental control in the sense that these groups, they undergo the same procedures except for the treatment. So for example in medical trials we have the medication pill and then we have a placebo pill for the control group so that both groups actually go the exact same procedure, but only one of the groups get the actual medication in the bodies. And importantly experiments do not need to be conducted in labs. So experiments can be done in the field, so you can go outside the laboratory, go to the lobby of the university, go to a real company, go to the city and do your experiment there. We can also do field trials and trial refers to trying out something. For example if we have schools we could get 100 schools to participate in a trial of an anti-bullying program and then half of those schools would implement the program, other half would be in the control and then we would compare the outcomes after the program is done or some years later. So that's the field trial. Also we can do experiments in surveys. Survey items are often tested by doing these two different forms, slightly different survey forms and then we have our sample, we divide it into two randomly and then we check for small differences in how we frame our questions cause differences in actual response. This kind of testing is also done quite often on internet, so internet companies do this, what they call A-B testing, so people receive two different user interfaces randomly and then the company checks if these two groups of people behave differently with the software. An important class of these randomized surveys is the experimental Vignette study and these studies present the informants scenario and some characteristics of the scenario are varied and then the two variations are randomly assigned to the informants and then we check if there's a difference. Again the important part is not that we have lab but the important part is that we have treatment and control random assignment and then experimental control so that the treatment and control groups only differ in the manipulation that they receive. Let's take a look at what other designs we have but before that or other designs. So experiment is the gold standard but we have designs that kind of mimic experiments. These are sometimes called pre-experimental designs and quasi-experimental designs. What exactly differentiates between quasi-experimental and pre-experimental design depends on which definition or which book you look at because the difference is not so clear cut. According to this tires definition pre-experimental design is a study where there is a treatment and observation of an outcome but there is no control group so we can only compare either the group that receives a treatment against itself from previous time point or don't do any comparisons. And then quasi-experimental design adds to that a control group but it lacks randomization and then the true experimental design of course has the five features that I discussed on the previous slide. Let's take a look at different designs that we can construct and this is the gold standard, the experiment, we have the treatment and control, we have randomization and this experimental design can be expressed with this shorthand. So we have R randomization, we have X the treatment, then we have control, the group that doesn't receive the treatment and then both groups are measured after the treatment. So this is a way of writing down an experimental design or quasi-experimental design in a short way and I'll be using this notation on the next couple of slides. Let's take a look at what these pre-experimental designs are. And Singleton Estrates lists three experimental designs, we have the one short case study, we do something X, we observe what happens O, for example, if I implement a new teaching strategy on my course and then I measure the student satisfaction of the course afterwards that will be one short case study and it's problematic because let's say that I receive a high ratings for my new teaching approach, that doesn't really tell whether the approach works or not. It's also possible that the student group just happened to like the subject of my course and the outcome had nothing to do with the teaching strategy that I applied. A second slightly better strategy is one group pre-test-post-test, so let's say that we are doing a medical trial and we measure the health of the individuals before the treatment, then there is the treatment and we measure the health after the treatment and we compare the difference. But this is not a valid causal claim or valid causal effect because it is possible that there would have been a difference in any case.  So we need to have the comparison. A third is static group comparison. So the idea here is that we have a group that receives treatment, we have a group that doesn't, but it is not randomized. And even if we have a difference here after the treatment, the problem is that we don't know if that difference is due to the treatment or if it was a difference that existed even before we did anything for the two groups. Let's compare these against experimental designs. So these are the three experimental designs or three main variants of experimental design that singletonous traits present and we can easily see that the one-shot case study can be converted to a true experiment by adding randomization and a control group. So this is the post-test only design and this one group pre-test, post-test can be converted to a true experiment by adding randomization to treatment and control as well. So typically when we go from pre-experimental to experimental, we add randomization and we add a control group. Then there's the third design, the within-subject design. These are rare in social sciences because the idea here is that we have, for example, two treatments that we compare and every individual receives both treatments. And this assumes that the treatments we can apply or administer the treatments so that one treatment does not interfere with the other one. And they are rare so I don't address them anymore on this video. But that's basically the typical experimental designs and any experimental design can be expressed as a variant or extension of these. Now what are quasi experiments? So quasi experiments are somewhere between the pre-experimental and actual true experiment designs. So we may have a non-random assignment or we lack some of the O's and X's in those previous designs. Some of the designs that are typically presented in text or quasi experiments is the separate sample pre-test, post-test design. The idea here is that we have randomization but we can, everyone receives the treatment at the same time but we can measure this and the constraint that everyone receives the treatment. So let's say that there's an important medication that people just must receive. So it would be unethical to not give it to them. And we can still test the effectiveness of the medication by randomly measuring half of the people before the medication and half of the people after the medication. Let's assume that we are here constrained that we can only measure each person once. So typically we apply quasi experimental designs when we are not allowed to or cannot afford to run a full experiment. Of course it will be better if we measure the outcome for both groups before and after and even better if we leave this as a control but we could not in this case. Then it's possible that we have a non-equivalent control group design. So the idea here is that we have pre and post measurement. We have treatment group X, we have control group non-X but we don't have randomization. So perhaps there is self-selection. Perhaps somebody else selects our treatment group or our control group. And whether we can make a causal claim here depends on what kind of assumptions we are willing to make. And then we have interrupted time series design. And this is sometimes classified as a pre-experimental design because it doesn't have a control group. But here the idea is that we have a time series of repeated measures. Then we have something happens or something or we administer a treatment here and then we follow the time series again. The idea why this could be considered as a quasi experimental design is that because of this time series nature here we can use the individual before the treatment as a counterfactual group for the individual after the treatment or the group after the treatment rather. So we can estimate the trend here before we can estimate the trend after and then we can based on those two trends we can infer what would have happened if X wouldn't be here. So that's an important quasi experimental design. These quasi experiments are sometimes referred to as natural experiments. The idea of a natural experiment or what makes a quasi experiment is a natural experiment is that there is, for example, a natural treatment and let's say that there is a company that happens to implement a paper performance program but it only does it for half the people for some reason and they are assigning randomly. So someone is randomizing but it's not us. Or it could be that there is a new policy implemented here, X and that policy is implemented independently of what happened to the outcome variable. So the idea of natural experiments is that there is something that happens to either a time series or one group but not the other and the important part in natural experiments is that the X here, whatever happens must be exogenous or at least it must be that we can make reasonable assumption that it is exogenous. So how do we then analyze, how do we find or how do we design quasi experimental studies? Typically when you do your study, you start with a research question, then you do a research design, you design the experiment, you design the treatment condition, you design the control condition and then you run the experiment. With natural experiments, this is not about design as much as it is about discovery. So if you want to do a natural experiment, then the typical way is to go and try to discover sources of natural variation in the X that you're interested in that hopefully is exogenous or at least sufficiently so that we can use the natural or quasi experimental techniques and the data analysis techniques that are used with these designs. This article by Sivak and Santoni recommends that a good way for discovering natural experiments is to look at natural experiments that have been published before. So perhaps there are some scenarios or some phenomenon that happens to generate these kind of natural experiments, then you can go and find an instance of that phenomenon and then study yourself. But these are difficult to find and perhaps that is one reason why they are not so common in management research. When you have discovered a potential natural experiment, you need to decide how you go about analysing the data. And this paper also provides a nice flow chart. And the first question that you need to ask when you have a potential natural experiment is is the assignment to treatment random or as if random? So as if random means that we can assume that it is so close to being random that it doesn't make a difference if it's not exactly random. For example, if people get to self-select into receiving medication or not receiving medication and then we measure the outcome, is this assignment random or not? To answer that question, we need to consider three different things. First, do the people have information? So do they know that they have the option to go into these two treatments? Are they aware of their health, which is our dependent variable? And if so, if they have the information, they know their health, they know that they have two options. Then the second question is that do they have incentives to use this information to have a preference to go into treatment group or control group? So for example, in the case of medication, we could assume that if people know their health, they know that the medication probably works and they know that they have the option of not having the medication or having the medication, then perhaps those people who are more sick have more incentives to be in the treatment than those people who are less sick. And then the final thing, do they have capacity? So can people actually make a decision? So perhaps you are not taking your medication yourself, but someone else is giving to you in which case you wouldn't have the capacity. If individuals have information, incentives, and capacity, then we can infer that the treatment probably is not as if random. If one of these is missing, then the as if random as Samsung is probably more defensive. The second thing that we need to consider is do you need to change treatment status? So what that basically is about is compliance and non-compliance. So if an individual chooses to go to the treatment condition and receive medication, do they actually take the medication? Or the other way, if an individual chooses to go to the control condition, is it possible that they somehow get access to the medication? So that's probably not as relevant as the first kind of non-compliance. If we have as if random and if there is no non-compliance, then we apply just normal analysis that we would apply for experimental design. So just normal regression analysis or t-test between two outcomes, depending on whether you want to add control variables or not. If there is non-compliance, then like in any other experiments, you must use instrument of variable design. So we use the treatment as an instrument. This is our explanatory variable, and then we have the outcome variable. And we use instrument of variable estimation techniques. If the treatment here is not as if random, then we have another question that we need to ask. Is it possible that there is a variable that determines, either deterministically or probabilistically, whether an individual goes into the treatment or not? And if yes, then we can apply regression discontinuity design. If no, then we basically have a correlational design. But this is a very useful flow chart, because it really simplifies the choices that you have to make, and the article itself explains the reasoning and what kind of things you need to consider when you make these three different choices here. And of course, if we don't have this possibility for regression discontinuity design, if we have an exogenous source of variation, like in observational studies, we can always use an instrument of variable design. So these quasi-experimentale designs are very usable, and they may have higher external validity than experiment, while still having quite strong internal validity. Unfortunately, they are not very common in management research. One thing that may explain this, that natural experiments are difficult to find, but this is certainly something that any researcher who works in the field should consider.


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Well, it's up everybody on the mangoes. You are awesome.  I have been out of the loop Fortunately for me not a lot went on unfortunately for the community Not a lot went on. There was uh, some bad things actually happened quite a few of them But as far as good things go the only really good thing was project stamina Announced that their alpha will be in the summer, which is great news if you are a fan of gigantic The images that you see in the background normally I have old old Paragon play going back there But these are images from faults updated map some new map art. These are high res pictures Can't tell you where I got them, but um, yeah, they're absolutely beautiful I wanted to give them the proper time for people to take a look at them So I'll just be rolling those in the background But speaking of fault that's who we're going to start with with the updates as many of you know They missed that their May 8th Alpha release date that got pushed back to either late June or early July is the last that I heard if you guys have Any updated information on that, please? Let me know now.  They did a a lumberjack skin for Boris That looks kind of cool. They did a Militant like a memorial day. I think sort of bundle skin package bundle It was I don't know how they're selling skins for a game that's not released yet, but 50% of the proceeds I guess went to COVID-19 stuff and the the skins are for twin blast steel steel being my favorite one out of the bunch Boris and Bellica and all they are just recolored. They just gave them some camo the the steel one does it just looks really really good They got their new website up and running www.playfault.com a lot of really good info in there They got the lineup and more importantly they have all the items There's a lot of items in fault that do a lot of different things You really need to research before you get into the game if you are planning on getting to into early access and playing that alpha Yeah, everything's got passives and actives and yeah Just take a look at that get a feel for what you think you might want to build before you even go in And know the pathways to get there if you click on they just have the major items at the end If you click on one, it'll show you the path to get to that item Oh, and their sale the early access bundle sale. They originally planned to do that for three weeks, but Due to steam rules, this is on steam not them. They're only able to do it for one week Moving on to over prime. They have a tournament scheduled an eu tournament. It looks like They haven't announced any of the dates or anything. So just keep an eye out for that if you want to see some over prime play They've been working on their jump pads. The game is already pretty fast. I mean Whether you agree with it or not They do have a very clear vision of making legacy but a faster version of legacy So incorporating jump pads if you you might think It's just a few more seconds faster that you get to the lane But if you've ever played any mobile whatsoever, you know that a few more seconds when your tower is going down Is uh is an eternity. So Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe it's a bad thing. I don't know I'm not really for anything that provides more movement speed and over prime I haven't actually been able to get in and play over prime since I've been back I I did it ran all the updates and tried to start it up and it crashed So I'm going to have to redownload the entire thing. So I'm kind of relying on second hand knowledge But they did they did try to implement steel apparently he was crashing the game. So the you can't pick him and uh fighter they uh The last update video I did as I said that they were going to try to introduce fighter And I thought that it might be grocks and it is grocks. They are still calling him fighter But grocks is in over prime now And it looks like they're working on decker and gadget I'm very very happy to see both of those come back in decker especially But I also was quite a gadget player back in the paragon days But decker was my first mastery. She was my first love really happy to see her coming back Hopefully they can fix the status bomb Stasis bomb my bad Predecessor nothing from them. Uh hit up smoky to see if they had any updates for me since I was kind of doing a big Roll up here. They got nothing. So we'll move on. Um, visionary visionaries got nothing either. So phoenix rising It's still out there. It's still alive. There's nothing nothing out of them a therial not too much going on with a therial They still keep adding to their little developer developer note fun facts in their discord Just keep an eye on that if you want some small updates project stamina. This is the big one This is the really good news for gigantic fans their alpha is going to be in the summer They don't really know when they're not setting exact dates.  They're they're by far the most well organized company that that I uh That I track and a lot of that is due to fancy pants or on reddit He's known as extravagant trousers, but uh, yeah really good producer working for project stamina there And then another one Revan I'll be doing an interview with these guys. I was supposed to do it like a month ago But uh, I'll be getting into it now. This is another um third person moba.  It looks like a really fun game I'll find out more about it and then get back to you guys But anyway, it is great to be back. Um Like I said, it's the the updates kind of kind of kind of sucked the biggest one being, you know false alpha being delayed but great news for project stamina And um, yeah, I'll just keep tabs on everything. I'll try and get some more, uh, some more top five plays videos done But in the meantime, uh, this is the man goos signing off you guys. Have a good one man