is the restructuring of the CDC. So story today out that the head of the CDC is announcing a massive restructuring of the agency that they recognize that they completely failed. They failed with COVID and they're failing now with monkeypox and that a complete restructuring is necessary and required. And they are putting certain things into place. There is a strategy. There's a, I mean, great. It's certainly good to hear somebody admit their mistakes. Doesn't happen a lot on the chat on my, on the chat of my show. And it doesn't happen a lot in our society. And it certainly doesn't happen a lot in government. The CDC messed up COVID almost as bad as one could imagine messing it up. It's hard to imagine doing a worse job than they did. I don't think it has to do with the specific personalities. I think it has to do with the fact that they don't know what their mission is and they don't know what their job is. And it's not clear that the way their job and mission are defined is, makes the job possible. I think it sets it up, sets it up for failure. We'll talk about that. I mean, I don't want to have to go through the whole series of errors and mistakes and failures of the CDC. And we probably don't even agree on what all of them are. But it's long. And it started from day, from the day COVID really was discovered to be an issue. From the day that the information was that there is a contagious coronavirus spreading in China and likely to become a global phenomena. The CDC screwed it up from that day on. They got very little right. Now, part of that without a doubt is the fault of the Trump administration, the particular people in primarily Trump is stupidity, ignorance and evasion in the first couple of months of this issue, primarily in January, February of 2020 where the keyword was evade, evade, evade, evade, pretend it doesn't exist and pretend it went away. But it's not just that. It can't just be blamed on Trump even though Trump certainly played an important role of it. I mean, my view is just on the basis of how Trump responded to COVID and how Trump managed to use the boss, right? How managed the COVID response. Just on that basis, he shouldn't be present again.  No matter what that job is. Again, I'm gonna put it on the side even if you take out Trump, it wasn't Trump who forced the CDC to say, oh, no, no, you have to use out test. We don't allow private testing labs to design their own tests. It wasn't the CDC that finally when they did produce their own test, it didn't work. That had nothing to do with the Trump that had to do with the CDC.   It completely messed up and provided the wrong guidance to states and localities about contact tracing and about everything that you're supposed to do that the CDC knew was supposed to do in terms of dealing with pandemic. Sadly, I think that the restructuring that was announced today about the CDC is nowhere near enough because partially it does not really indicate what the purpose of the CDC is and what the scope of the CDC is. I think one of the biggest problems with the CDC is that its mission is way, way, way too broad because it starts and ends with the concept of public health and it's not clear what public health really means. It's not clear that there is such a thing as public health. There is such a thing as a government's job and responsibility vis-a-vis contagious diseases. That I think is you need a government function around that. You need somebody like the CDC to manage a response to a contagious disease, a deadly contagious disease, not a regular contagious disease but a deadly contagious disease. And none of this, by the way, has anything to do with the experts or not experts or anything like that.  You can make mistakes. I mean, I don't get this, oh yes, experts, that's the problem. No, I mean, we want experts. We love experts. If anything, we want better experts. Experts will make fewer mistakes. Experts will make better predictions. You know, life would halt to a stop if we didn't have experts. So this is not, I mean, slamming the CDC is not slamming experts. I think it's a problem of a mission that cannot be attained. It's trying to manage healthcare. It's trying to manage hospitalization. It's trying to figure out what optimal levels of, I don't know, infection, testing, hospitalizations are. Instead of narrowing the scope of what you're supposed to do. And in the case of the CDC, the scope is to identify a contagious disease and provide individuals, the public, with the tools and the capabilities to test and to isolate. And in cases of a very deadly disease, the government should get involved in testing and isolating people who have the disease. But that's it. It's not about manufacturing tests which the CDC got in the business of doing. It's not about an endless stream of diseases out there. It's about contagious, deadly contagious diseases. That's the only thing the CDC should be worried about. Not about public health. Not about other aspects of health. Not about, not even about really in a free market at least. Not even about hospital capacity. Hospital capacity should be a worry and a concern of hospitals. Now, we don't live in a free market. So it's hard to say the government should intervene when the government is regulating hospital capacity, when the government doesn't allow the market to adjust to hospital capacity, when the government basically controls hospital capacity. So yes, the CDC has to manage that today, but it should get out of that business. States, state regulators, federal regulators should get out of the business of telling hospitals how many beds they can have. What kind of emergency facilities they can construct? They should get out of the business of particularly private hospitals, of telling private hospitals what they can and cannot do. So the CDC should not be in the business of telling people to mask up or not to mask up. It should not be in the business of forcing airlines to mask or not to mask. It shouldn't be in the business of telling people to vaccinate or not to vaccinate. In a free market, I mean, the CDC can provide data because it has access to a lot of data. It can provide information. It can even provide general recommendations based on their physicians. But those recommendations shouldn't be to us, the public. What do we know? They should be recommendations to doctors, to hospitals, to clinics. And then we as the public should be guided by our doctor. And yeah, it's really important who you choose as your doctor. So what needs to be restructured is the whole conception of the CDC. One of the complaints about the CDC that people have made is it didn't have enough budget. No, my argument is it had way too much budget, has way too much money, way too much power, way too much influence, and its scope of operations is way too large. Focus, infectious diseases, deadly infectious diseases, testing, isolating, data, broad recommendations to doctors, clinics, and hospitals. That's it. Instead, let me read to you some of the recommendations. You need to share scientific findings and data faster. Yes, but again, with whom and for what? And only reason this is required today is because all this research is being funded by the government and, but it shouldn't be. Okay, so release scientific findings and data more quickly in response to the need for information and actions and be transparent about agencies' current level of understanding. Yeah, be honest, be transparent. That goes back to the state secrets. What the CDC knows should not be a secret. The CDC should be 100% transparent about what it knows, what it doesn't know, what it's erred, what it's made mistakes about. So that's good. Prioritize public health communication. And a lot of this is about communication. Oh, sorry, translate science into practical, easy to understand policy. No, CDC should not be involved in policy. The CDC should explain what's going on, what's happening, should provide the data. Again, should make sure that testing is happening and people are being isolated, they need to be isolated, and that's it. And to the extent that there's a lot of data and they're accumulating a lot of data, release that data. The translate science into practical, easy to understand policy should be done by local authorities, should be done by private individuals, should be done by doctors, should be done by scientific, I don't know, organizations. And there can be competition around that, around figuring out what the right behavior should be. The government should have no policy around these things. They wanna implement a standardized policy development process for implementing guidance documents that would be vetted appropriately. I don't even know what that means. But a lot of this has to do with we need to be better communicators. This is the next one. Prioritize public health communication. Prioritize and enhance public facing health communication practices and staff expertise. Yeah, they could have done a much better job communicating. No question, but that's not the failure. And again, it's not clear to me that it's the CDC that should be communicating these things. They should provide information and data and we individuals should be responsible for ourselves. We'll get to individual responsibility in a minute. Promote results-based partnerships. Whoops, the article just disappeared on me. Where did it go? There it is. Work more effectively with our public health partners to accomplish result-oriented goals and work to address the limitations of a siloed approach to solving major public health problems. Develop a workplace prepared for future emergencies. Again, I mean, this all sounds like McKinsey came in, some consultant came in and gave the five bullet points on how to make the CDC more effective. But what is the job of the CDC? What's the strategy? What's the purpose? And how do we limit the CDC to its purpose instead of driving policy, instead of driving any decision that an individual makes instead of driving all that? Shouldn't it just be sticking to what it's supposed to be doing and what it's responsible for doing? So limit, shrink, get coming out of the way. And one of the complaints, I read this in one of these articles about this restructuring. So the CDC's been criticized of its different policies, lift quantities, both quantities, all this stuff, and it changes its mind all the time and it goes back and forth. But one of the biggest criticisms they have, and this is the problem that the CDC faces, right? And this is, I think the problem we all face. One of the criticisms from doctors and public health experts is that the agency is embracing personal responsibility of a public health when it is responsible for the later ladder. And this is the problem with public health is there is no such thing as public health. All there is is individual responsibility. And what the agency should be embracing fully and it's never embraced, not really, is personal responsibility, individual responsibility and providing individuals with the data, with the knowledge, with the information, with the menu of options and letting individuals and their doctors make decisions for themselves. That was always should have been what was done, providing data, information, testing capabilities. I think the state has a role in isolating with a deadly disease, but in this case, they completely screwed up the testing and isolating. But beyond that, all it is is data, information, options, no policy, let individuals and doctors and health professionals make decisions for themselves. And I don't want to get into arguments about what the particular policies, what the particular options, what all this stuff, because did they produce misinformation and so on? I mean, were they right or were they wrong? They were wrong often, but so is everybody.  So the fact that experts made mistakes means nothing to me. I still want experts and lots of them. I just don't want experts running the world. I want to be able to choose my experts. I want to get guidance from the experts I choose and I want those experts to be incredibly knowledgeable with a lot of information. All right, thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


I don't know if you remember the Sierra text adventure games like King's Quest or Space Quest But I don't have firsthand experience So these are the text games where you'd be like get knife and then it'd be like I don't understand what knife is and then you have to be like get dagger And then it'd be like I got the dagger and you'd walk around with this very old bitmap to animation So these were in the early 80s. I don't like talking to a bank, you know Colin Yeah, like one of those bad space systems, right? So so these types of enter games I remember they just came out as a Right after I was born and I sit and I play them with my dad and And on the basis of playing these computer games. I actually learned to read and write before I entered school just because By playing and actually reading on the screen to having this interactive process That was very driven to not have my dad in the loop to be able to play the games by myself I I just ended up learning to read and write so that's now, okay, so so computers were always a part of my life I'm a hacker born and bred. I started coding in C around when I was around 10 years old just face glued to the computer screen all the time and and It turns out that I'm like I just really enjoyed doing it I like coding under pressure at coding things correctly. I represented the United States in the computer programming Olympiad in high school when I went to Harvard. I was on the computer programming team there We got eighth place in the world. I think that's pretty good and and then after after I am after I graduated Harvard, I was like, well, what do I want to do? What do I think is interesting and I've always been drawn to what I think is the most applied and for me at the time I took a class from a bright young professor or Dan Malomet and I was like and he talked about statistical and data-driven natural language processing and I was like this this is important this data-driven approach is I think going to be Very important. I want to learn about it This is the right way to do artificial intelligence to use a lot of data to use a lot of statistics This is what I want to learn and I study it under Dan and And I started focusing on natural language processing But I realized I was not so interested in the linguistics per se, but more the the the large-scale machine learning behind it My approach has always been you know You can always sit down and take a human and put them in the loop and start engineering do doing doing the manual engineering But that can only get you so far. What you really want is approaches that are very automatic and general purpose Because then they have the most widespread applicability So I've always been pushing in in my research to try and take a step back and do the most general thing possible When I submitted my thesis in 2006, I read about this I read this tech report. It hadn't been published yet about this wacky new thing called deep learning and deep learning It was a highly ambitious attempt to move us closer to artificial intelligence But not only that it was methodical and elegant and it worked and I was like I think deep learning is what I really want to focus my energy on I spoke to the At this time, there are only three labs in the world working on it I spoke to all three of them and I decided I wanted to go to Montreal and learn about it I spent the past three years in Montreal with Professor Yau Shou Ben-Gio studying deep learning with especially applications to language processing text analysis and And it turns out it turns out that these three guys were right deep learning Is now the next big thing in machine learning and artificial intelligence It's a 300 researchers showed up at a workshop on it Which is very big considering the size of the community the academic community DARPA and NSF are now funding initiatives in deep learning and and I think they're right I think that it's kind of like how support vector machines SVMs were very popular five or ten years ago This deep learning thing is going to have a huge impact coming out. So so AI is sort of coming back I mean when I was a child there was sort of this big AI push, but it just didn't work Right, so that's the thing. So we all got disillusioned. Is that how? Exactly. So so so what's oldest new again, right? So so so because yeah I hope I hope it's still the case so so In the 50s and 60s, there were a lot of wild claims being made. Oh, just give us 10 or 20 years We'll solve this whole AI thing. We'll have like talking robots and they'll drive for you yada yada yada, right? and when And they over-promised and under-delivered and when it didn't work Everyone really became disillusioned and AI became a dirty word and it and it was for a very long time and I think due to the efforts of certain researchers who said, okay, you know what like it's time to stop like like, but it's time to stop just looking at Just models and approaches that we know can't solve AI, right? Let's Like we know we're not going to solve AI in the next five or ten years But let's at least start trying things that can can plausibly move us forward towards AI instead of just Just refining things that we know will never move us closer to AI and and and that's what they did applying I think methodological and scientific practice To to actually moving closer to this goal and and it does actually it has a has a media applications in industry That's a that was that was the essence of my try to talk is what what what's on the horizon? That you could apply an industry right now, but you just haven't heard of yet So your talk actually was the buzz of today. So I mean it was a pack house There's a couple of problems with the AI one is that it's expensive, right? Yeah, to research and actually to maintain so where's that funding coming from is that going to be private? Or is it going to be government? So I think Well, you know, honestly, it's one of these things that early on I think it's it's it's a As with anything new You know only only Only people that are either very dedicated to it or have a lot of resources can take advantage of it and then get a head start but recently there's been a lot more interest and I think that with Honestly, I'm a big advocate of open notebook science and code sharing. I always share my code So when people start sharing code, I think that's when When it really starts making making more waves also just recognition More widely in industry. I mean that that was one of the reasons it was important to me to come and speak at Trout a Conference about about these things. So the economic driving forces When it comes to marketing, we've known who you were we know what you did, but we didn't know why you did it So as it comes down into that me aspect AI and natural language processing actually it's kind of moving forward of the intention base Actions. So that that's one approach there. They're also the the other thing is that these techniques like you could take a lot of existing problems You know say like risk analysis, which is something the machine learning is very commonly applied to And you could take these deep learning approaches and actually get higher accuracy So you can use it on not just to try and tackle new problems Which I think is more speculative risky But also perhaps more opportunistic if you want to really try and push the envelope You could also just take what you're working on right now and then try and improve it and make it more sophisticated No, I'm let me say one thing. I'm actually an advocate of use the simplest thing possible Okay, if what you're doing right now works, okay, don't change it, right? Only if You're seeing like diminishing returns from big data All your competitors are using big data and then you need to eke out more of a competitive advantage because big guys No longer an advantage That's when you'd start using more sophisticated algorithm So it you should only really do it if it's going to provide a qualitative Improvement to your product. I'm not an advocate of just use the new fangle thing so a lot of it is also threat assessment property Relief so let's say wildfire modeling earthquake modeling and one of the things that natural language is helping with is moving that forward Because we can take pre-existing data sets for days, but what's the randomness of data, right? So is that something that you're interested in is the randomness of data? Could you say the question sure so? data as has a Has laws that we abide to we can understand what's happened What we're trying to understand with AI is what might happen. So randomness of data. How do you enter that into it? Yeah, so It seems like they're two parts of this question one There's this question of what do you do with time series and this this is still a very active question So I can't I can't really comment too much on that But the interesting thing about these new approaches is that the really base on trying to find as much structure and pattern and signal and the data is possible and that's essentially What what has driven these algorithms forward trying to find structure and then using this structure and these patterns to actually Enhance the predictive ability. Yeah, so what do you what do you make of IBM Watson? I mean interesting project. You've seen it. Obviously. I mean I I think So I'm of two opinions. Um, so so on the one hand, um, I you know, as I said, my approach is Always do the most general thing and really try and take a step back and and take humans out of the loop and really push That as far as possible. So, you know, their their approach is different They they're actually using a lot of human engineering, right? But then on the other hand when you're talking about the real world What you do is you take a general-purpose approach and then you start adding humans into the loop to get that extra mile So in that sense, I think it's really interesting to see well How far they can can they push it because that's the that's the real question What is the upper bound right now? How far can they take it? And I think I think it's great to see that in industry So are you following any of the work at the Kurzweil Institute? I mean, what are your thoughts on? Obviously what he's he's put forth over and over is different than what I believe is a I Um, I'm not familiar with his work to comment on it in a serious way So obviously the idea of singularity, right the idea of singularity I think is much different than actual performance or Validity of AI so how do you know when it's ready as far as application? I guess I'm I'm very much of I'm very much user driven So my approach is really if it satisfies a user need if it actually creates value for people then it's ready and And a lot of the time that doesn't mean artificial intelligence, right? It just means maybe something that works good enough on a specific problem So when basically when the users say that they like it is is is my answer You're thinking five years right now. It's a kind of a goal Well, it depends what problem we're talking about. Okay, right? So sentiment analysis right now a lot of people are working on it. My impression is that it's not actually that good maybe for a Qualitatively like qualitative improvement in sentiment analysis a few years I'm also I'm also an optimist, you know, if you were to ask me when are we going to have like robot cars? my I would say you know Ten years, but I'm an optimist So that's that's for full for full automation for some automation. We're almost there. Yeah. Yeah So Joseph, where do you go from here?  Now. What do you want to do right? So I was doing I was doing my postdoc for three years in Montreal as I said and from my perspective I always really wanted to build applications and and put things into practice So for me the postdoc was really just sharpening my knives and right now.  I Recently quit my academic post. I've been doing a consultancy Essentially I consult on when there's a large-scale machine learning or natural language processing question Or for that matter you want to take your data and monetize it. That's my sweet spot In general I'll decline gigs unless they're of particular strategic importance to my consultancy because I've identified a certain class of problems They consider of particular importance in utility So I'm not consulting full-time There's actually one of the main problems I'm working on is if you have a very large unstructured collection of information text documents You know pattern something like that and you want to organize it you want to make it navigable You want to make it explorable? How do you do that? So that's one of the products that I'm licensing right now So if people want more information about you and and I mean how can I follow you? Where can they go? I mean sure. Um, so I mean you can always You can always just send me an email Just Google me and it'll be easy to figure out my email address Besides that I want to point out so so I started on a Q&A forum and people actually have questions about machine learning natural language processing big data I started Q&A forum called it's the meta-optim that's name one company meta-optimized Q&A forum and And so if you had a question like what clustering algorithm should I use? There's a lot of folk wisdom that hasn't been commonly shared and now there's actually a forum for people to come together It's actually incredibly popular both in academia and industry It's got a large mind share among people that do machine learning natural language processing It's in it's a tremendous resource So that's one thing I just want to put out to the audience if you have questions about this sort of thing That's the right form in fact I think it's the most popular forum for machine learning natural language processing big data on the web right now So we here with Joseph Turian Really interesting discussion. Let me tell you what I've learned here in addition to many things of it forget books fire up The laptop and start coding And then and then sorry, sorry, honey. I got four kids Oh, no, no, I mean, I think I think it is great, but I also love paper Okay, so you read as a child. Oh, yeah, I think I think you know, you can't be something tactile You can't be something you can agree. Okay. So okay good So so don't forget books but but definitely fire up the laptop and start coding support vector machines been there done that Let me make one more comment about coding. Okay, so I've always I've always I've been saying this to my friends recently that um That basically like it I really feel like if you can't code nowadays It's like being in the 18th century and not being able to fence, you know It's like it was one of these things that maybe you could get on with your life and not be able to fence But you really it's a skill you really should have you know, if you if you want to be able to like like Well, yeah, okay now support that your comment about SVM was really interesting to me I first heard first learned about them probably about three years ago And it basically that was old news by then for guys like you and I was hoping that it would solve a data classification problem But it really hasn't but anyway, and then AI John old is new. Okay, so there's there's hope Find ways to make qualitative improvements to products and presumably lives and when the user loves it, you're there Yeah, right and then Google Joseph Turian if you want more information and check out the meta optimized Q&A forum Yeah, sounds like a great resource for people. So great


I'm Carly with Lenovo and I'm here to talk to you about the new ThinkPad X1 Fold, the world's first foldable PC. Announced today at CES, this product will be coming in mid-2020. It is a 13.3 OLED screen, 4 by 3 aspect ratio. So 13.3, you can put it up? Yep, so you can, it's a 13.3 OLED screen with a 4 by 3 aspect ratio. Nice. You have a stand there where you can use the keyboard in front of it. Is it Bluetooth? Yeah, it's not connected right now though. So it's Bluetooth, Bluetooth connection for the keyboard, the keyboard. So it's touch? It is touch. So it is touch, touch screen full PC power. So it's running Windows 10 Pro and it has Intel inside. Which Intel? It's Intel's, they just announced it today, they're hybrid technology, so Intel Core Hybrid Technology. Hybrid? Does that mean it's ARM and X86? I'm joking. So there's a hybrid going on here and in the middle it has an ice bezel, it feels flat. Yes, we spent four years working on the hinge design and since it is a plastic OLED it actually does a little bit of stretching so that it gives with the product when you bend. It stretches? Yeah, it kind of stretches out, stretches out and moves with the product. So a lot of engineering has gone into designing this product so that it is durable since it is a ThinkCad. So it's a ThinkCad name which means it's going to go through a lot of rugged testing to make sure that it's going to withstand everyday use. What's the price? Starting at $24.99, mid-2020. Any specific time in 2020? We don't have a specific date to announce. All right. Lifetime warranty? So we expect it to be about a three to five year lifespan. So just like a typical laptop, three to five year lifespan. There will be different warranty options based on the geography.


We're on the outer beach at Cape Cod at Nosset, and we're looking at where the ocean has been cutting back a little bit of the bluffs to reveal what's behind. Now most of the cape is sand and gravel. It's outwashed from the glaciers from the Ice Age, but what we see here is the filling of a lake. A block of ice fell off the glacier, was buried in sand and gravel, and then melted out to leave a low spot, a lake which is filled with peat that you see here. The peat is the remains of dead plants, and if you look very carefully you will see within the peat many of the dead plants. On top here are grasses of the modern world, but they are not down in the material.  They fill with this stuff. When you see a lake on the landscape, you should ask yourself, why is this here? Because something recent has happened to make the lake.


Would that excite you? Today, we're going to be talking about how to build a life that you love, a life that you don't want to escape from and a life that you are excited about. Now, as you think about it, it seems obvious that every single person should want to build a life that they love, right? So many, so many people should, every single person, every single person should be building a life that they absolutely love. They don't want to try to escape from. But if that's the case, why do so many people not love their lives?   And so I want to ask you before we dive in, do you love your life? Like do you love every single aspect of your life? Or are there certain pieces of your life or many pieces of your life? We're like, ah, yeah, I don't, I don't really like that. I don't really like that, that, that job that I have that person to my life. I don't like any of that because for me personally, I think that I should be, and I think that you should be building a life that I'm in love with in every single aspect. I think you should be building a life that you're in love with in every single aspect.  And I don't know about you, but I want to be working towards building a life that I love every single day.  Absolutely. But over the past 14 years, I feel like I've been pulling out the weeds, the things that I don't want in my life and replanting flowers in places of all of those weeds. So if, if your life was a garden, you know, and you're looking at it, would you see more flowers in your life or would you see more weeds in your life? And if you see more weeds, what are you going to do to go through and actually start to pull them? Because there's nobody else that can pull those weeds, whether that's the job that you have, the family, the people that you surround yourself with, the person that you're in a relationship with, all of those things can either be flowers or weeds and you need to go through and take an actual assessment and figure out exactly what it is that you want in your life and how you need to get each of those things as well. And I'm going to say something I think that, that that might kind of surprise a lot of people built, like waking up one day and having a life that you want and love is not going to happen. A life that you actually love is built. It's something that you have to put a lot of intention into. It's built intentionally and it's built meticulously, like going through every single aspect of every single day and going, do I want to keep this here or do I want to get rid of it? A perfect life is built. It's not like you just wake up one day and go, Oh, holy s***, this is perfect.  No, you have to plan it. You have to plan it. You have to check it. You have to check it every single week, check it every single day and you have to execute on everything that you want in your life. Everything in your life though is changeable. That's just beautiful because one of the things that really holds people back from building the life that they love is that they feel like they're stuck in the life that they have.  It's going to seem like it's near impossible. It's going to seem like, well, I guess I'm just not going to get it this life. I guess I'm not going to get it this, this round. And you've heard me talk about a friend of mine who was the number 30 employee in Facebook and he was fired from Facebook a year before they went public and he missed out on about $180 million because of the fact that he was fired and he started to go into a depression. And when he noticed he was going into a depression, he was there for a while. He started sitting around and going, man, I don't, I don't like being depressed anymore. I'm going to, I'm going to figure out a way to be happy. And so what he did was he made a happiness list. Every single thing that makes him happy. It could have been music. It could have been, you know, walking his dog. It could be certain food. It could be certain people. It could be conversations. It could be a movie. He made a massive list of every single thing that makes him happy. And what he did was every single morning, he would look at that list and then he would look at the things that he had to do today and he would say, how can I bring as many of these things from this list into my day? And the quote that I love that he told me was that I will not leave my depression or my happiness left up to chance. I'm going to be in control of it.   What is it that just makes you feel more alive?  If you were to build a life that you love, what is a essential piece that you would want to make sure that you have?  So let's do it together. If you have a pen and paper, this would be a really good time to pull it out. Let's go through as many aspects of your life as we possibly can. Right? So let's, let's bring the first thing in. Let's just, let's just go hard from the very beginning. You're significant other, right? Is this someone that you actually do love? Or is this someone that you feel like maybe you're just, you know, making sure that you're not lonely anymore? You know, be honest with yourself. It's okay. You're the only one that's here that's talking to me and listening to this, right? So be honest with yourself. You know, are there, maybe you do love them, but maybe there's certain aspects of them in certain aspects of your relationship that you want to change. Okay. So what do we want to do? We take a list and we make a list of everything that we love. And then we make a list of needs to change, right? Maybe that the, maybe the person needs to change. It needs to be a completely different person, or maybe you and that person need to change a little bit in the way you show up to the relationship, maybe say, okay, yeah, I do love this person.  And what happens? Well, I'll do something. She'll do something.  And then what happens? It just explodes and it explodes because none of us are willing to actually have a conversation in the time that we're supposed to have a conversation. So, okay. What do I love about this person? What are the surnames? I love their adventure. I love how they're, you know, so goofy. I love these things. Okay. I want to deepen these things that I love. And if I haven't needs to change lists, I need to bring this up with them and actually start to figure out what we need to do together to change it. Perfect. Now we've at least got a little bit of a plan, don't we? Now we can start to build a relationship that we love. Great. Let's go into our friendships. Let's look at all of our friends. Who do you love? Who are the people that are there for you? What do you love about them? What are the ways that you want to show up to that relationship with them even deeper? Let's go deeper into it. Okay. Now let's go into the needs to change list. Well, you know, there is this one friend that's always negative. I can try to change them, but I probably can't.   You know, is there certain aspects of this person or this relationship with them that I want to change or maybe just change it completely and spend less time with them and start spending time with maybe a new acquaintance that will pull me into the person that I want to be. Right. Something to think about. All right. Let's keep going. What about your family? You know, your, your relationship with your parents, relationship. Obviously you can't change your parents. You can't change your brother and sister. You can't change any of those people. What do you love about them? How can you deepen the certain aspects that you love about them? Did you spend more time in that aspect that you love with them? And then on the other side, what are the things that you don't love that you do want to change? Oh, yeah. Well, I feel like, you know, this person, I feel like my dad's really surface level and he doesn't really go deep with me and he's not really an emotional guy and doesn't really open himself up. Is there a way to crack him open and maybe start to have some real actual legitimate conversations so I can feel like I know this person. Right. You can go through every single relationship and start to ask yourself, what is it that I love about it? What is it that needs to change? Okay. All right. Let's go to the next aspect. What about your job or your career? Okay. What is it about your job or your career? Do you love your job or is it just something that you're doing to make money? Right.  Isn't it? Like, why, why would you just, just automatically go, yeah, well, I hate my job, but it's the way that I pay the bills. Right. Okay. I understand that. But can you make a transition plan and say, okay, I can't leave today. But I could come up with a way to, to be gone and to be doing something different in 365 days. Okay. That makes me feel good. Okay. So let's, let's come up with a need to need to change. What is it that I would like my job to look like? What is it that I would like my career to look like? Maybe I do like where I am, but maybe I don't like the position that I'm in. I want to actually get a promotion. Okay. What do I need to do to change that? What do I need to do to get a promotion next 365 days? And you start coming up with an actual plan to get you to where you want to go in your career, in your job as well. Perfect. Let's keep going. Let's say that you have a business. Okay. What do you love about your business? You know, what do you hate about your business? What are the things that you want to change about your business? Think about that. What about the people that you work with?  You know, you start to think about that and go, yeah, maybe I do have these people on my team that I'm not really a hundred percent in love with. They're not really the best person, but I hired them a couple of years ago. And when you look at it, you're like, actually, this person could be producing way more if I had a better person in that position. Maybe I should let this person go.  Maybe I need to let them go. Right. So think about that. What about the house that you have? Are you in love with your house? Maybe you are. Okay. Are there certain aspects of your house that you want to change? Oh, yeah, there are certain aspects of my house. I want to change it. It's always too dirty. Okay. Well, that's something that we can work on. All right. So what do I need to do to change it to make sure the house isn't as dirty as it is? Maybe you don't love your house. What is the house that you love? You know, how much would it cost to buy that house? Maybe you don't have the money for it right now. What do you need to do in order to figure out how to get that money? And what you do is you start going through every single aspect of your life and you make a plan. You just figure out what needs to be done. What about the car you drive? Do you love the car you drive?  What do you need to do to figure out what is the car that you want? Okay. Figure out what it is. How much does it cost you? Go test drive that freaking thing so we get you more excited about it. And then you're more likely to work to try to get that thing. Okay, great. That's the car that I want. I know what it is. I know how much it's going to cost me. I know exactly how much monthly payment is going to be if I were to put down X amount of dollars. Okay, what do I need to do to get that money to drive that car? You know, it's not about just acquiring, but it's also thinking, you know, maybe I feel better about myself when I'm driving this and I show up better to where I'm going. Your car's a part of it. What about your clothes? Is there clothes that you don't like?  I haven't bought clothes in a really long time. Okay, well, style's changed in the past 10 years. Maybe you don't look as good as you thought you used to back in the day. And you're like, I need to change this. All right, well, let me change exactly the clothes that I'm wearing.  Maybe you want to hire somebody to teach you what to wear.  Right. I don't know what it is, but figure out what it is that you want. What about your mindset? What are different aspects of your mindset that you don't like? Oh man, you know what? I talk negatively way too much to myself. I need to stop talking negatively to myself. How come I come up with a plan to not talk as negative to myself? Right? What do I love about the way that I talk to myself? Well, I build myself up. I'm a positive person. I'm more optimistic, whatever it is. Figure out what you love about the way that you talk to yourself, the way that your mindset is, and then figure out what you need to change. What do you love? What do you need to change? What about your morning routine? What's your morning routine look like? Right?  You just go through with a fine tooth comb and you figure out what you like, what you don't like, and how can you make sure that you're building a life of just the things that you want?  How can I make sure that every single thing that I do is something that I love?  How can I make sure that every single action that I take is something that I absolutely love?  How can you make sure that every single person you come in contact with is not somebody that brings you down, not somebody that's negative, but somebody who you absolutely love, that wants the best for you and empowers you to be better? Perfect. What about every thought that you think?  And I know that some people listening to this, it's going to go in one ear and out the other, and you're not going to make a plan. And you're just going to go, ah, yeah, well, this is a great episode on to the next one instead of actually taking a plan and figure out what it is. Realize that you can go through every single aspect of your day and start to make changes in everything that you do. Start to make change in every single thing that you have. And realize that your life is not going to change right away. It takes time to change the person that you're with. It takes time to change the place that you live. It takes time to change the career that you have, the job that you have, the employees that you have, whatever it is. It takes time for change to happen.  Would that excite you?  Would that excite you? Hell, yeah, it would. Well, it's absolutely possible, but it requires you to step up to figure out what you love, what you don't love and start to work past it. What's crazy about it is that some people, like if you really think about it, some people are more intentional about putting hard work into their jobs.   It blows my mind that some people take their jobs more serious than they take their life. Right? So imagine if you and I are creating a business, we're going to go in as business partners. What are we going to do? We're going to create a business plan first. We're not just going to go, hey, we're just going to sell this product and see what happens. No, we're going to come up with a business plan and figure out exactly, okay, what's the marketing look like? What's the sales look like? What's the shipping look like? What's the this look like in the pictures and photography and all that stuff. We're going to build a business plan. Right.  Think about that for a second. That's the first thing. Now, if we're business partners, we're going to at least have quarterly reviews, aren't we? If you work for a business, you guys have quarterly reviews in what you do. So do you have quarterly reviews in your life? Well, what are you doing? Why don't you try to figure out a way to start coming up with quarterly reviews? See if you're on track to hitting your goals. The same way that if you're on a sales team, you're going to have quarterly reviews. What else are you going to have? Weekly meetings. See how today, how this week went. You're going to look back and look forward, see what you're working for, see what's going on. And then what are you going to do sometimes? My team and I have a morning huddle every single morning. Every morning I talk to my team.  Or you just kind of see in what happens? If you're not fully satisfied with your life, it might be because you've just not been intentional. You haven't been having quarterly meetings. You have no plan. You have no quarterly meetings. You have no weekly meetings. You have no morning huddles. Of course, you're not where you want to be because you might not even know where you want to be at this point. And it's some, it's just, it's just so crazy that some people take their job that they hate more serious than the life that they have in the life they're trying to build. So what would happen if you took your life as serious and planned out your life as serious and as intricately as you do your business or the company that you work for? Where would your life be in a year, five years, 10 years down the road if you took your life that seriously? And it's simple. It's not hard, but it takes time. You have to plan it out. Figure out what you want. Make a plan. You're going to have to work for it. You're going to have to review it often. And then you're going to have to adjust. Things are not going to work out exactly the way that you want. It's going to take some time. But isn't it worth it? If this is your life, shouldn't you be taking this more serious than anything else that exists? Because this is your life. This isn't anybody else's life. And the more that you take this seriously, the more it affects every single person you come in contact with. So if you want to build a life that you want, it doesn't, you don't just wake up and it's given to you. It's something that's planned meticulously. It's reviewed often. And it's going to require you to execute every single day.  And that's all that really matters.  And I'm going to ask you this question. Who's not on your side 100%? Maybe it's time to let them go.


I now have the honor and privilege of introducing the awardee for government to Ms. Faith Corneal. Faith works at the state department where she started as a presidential management fellow and over the next 15 years she racked up a series of remarkable energy and economic accomplishments in overseas and headquarters assignments and she has since risen to her current position where she manages a 25 million dollar year power sector program in the state's Bureau of Energy Resources. In this position she helps partnering governments strengthen their electricity markets and power systems by providing technical assistance with foreign policy goals of advancing decarbonization, grid resiliency, clean energy investment and greater electricity access. The reach of her team's influence extends to many countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Here are just a few examples in Ecuador, that country's first ever international tenders for wind and solar projects. In the Caribbean the first energy sector loan guarantee program with a commercial bank in Jamaica which de-risks lending for clean energy projects by guaranteeing up to 50% of the loan amount. In Costa Rica a new regulatory framework for distributed power generation which incentivizes investments in rooftop solar. In Vietnam and Thailand new regulations to help integrate variable renewable energy, distributed energy generation and battery storage onto the grid. In Southern Africa amended grid codes to increase renewable energy and tariff models for solar energy. Under her leadership US assistance goes a long way to advance clean energy goals in far away places with significant benefits for the people who live there and indirectly for the rest of the world. Faith holds master's degrees in public administration and international affairs from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a bachelor's degrees in international affairs in Spanish from the University of New Hampshire where she graduated summa cum laude. Please welcome Faith Corneal recipient of the 2021 US C3E award in government for and I quote advancing policies, regulations or incentives that support the development, deployment and diffusion of clean energy. Faith congratulations and the floor is yours. Thank you very much Bob. I would like to thank the C3E initiative Department of Energy, Stanford, MIT, Texas A&M and their partners who made this symposium possible. It is an incredible honor to receive the C3E award for my work at the US Department of State our foreign ministry. I would like to thank a few people who gave me room to run and grow along the way. Professor Janet Gold, Ambassador Melavitsky, Matt Rooney, Paul Hooper, my husband Carl and my parents, Rosengine. I'd also like to thank the Bureau of Energy Resources or ENR colleagues who work on behalf of the American people every day. Helping foreign governments develop stronger energy markets has real impact. ENR is the State Department's team that carries out the president's energy policy overseas and conducts us energy diplomacy. We work to ensure that global markets are stable, our foreign partners are more energy secure, and today more than ever that governments deepen commitments to the energy transition. So I would like to share insights how ENR's power sector program does that. And if there are young professionals listening today, especially women, I hope you come away believing that you too can have an energy career. The world needs your ideas and we all have a role to play. Energy is a national security issue. When governments lack independence over their energy infrastructure they are vulnerable to coercion and market shocks. Energy poor countries have a harder time investing, attracting investment, and bringing in jobs or keeping the businesses they already have from leaving. In the U.S. we sometimes take for granted that our schools and streets are well lit, that we have hot water or that hospitals have refrigeration for vaccines. In many parts of the world the grid has not yet arrived and lack of power is a health and safety issue where there's power for several hours a day, it's not reliable or affordable, and this all limits a country's ability to fight poverty, including here in the U.S. Governments want to close these gaps but face many competing demands. Countries may be risky places to invest and this increases cost where they lack experience with advanced technologies. Governments we work with want to increase reliance on renewable power but they need lots of help. Our power sector program brings in independent consultants, legal and financial advisors, U.S. electricity regulators and grid operators and renewable energy experts. We recommend changes to laws or regulation, suggest technical norms, provide trainings on distributed generation or integrated resources planning. Grid operators and regulators from Southern Africa or the Caribbean learn from PJN, KISO or regulators from here in D.C. We help on transparent tenders to invite qualified companies in. We share the expertise of DOE energy labs to fund studies or train engineers. In Vietnam we are helping the grid operator manage an influx of solar of over 16 gigawatts in under two years. That's more than the combined power supply of Central America. Two weeks ago when E&R held an energy policy dialogue we also announced a battery storage pilot project. It's just a great example of technical assistance and policy coming together to advance U.S. foreign policy goals. In this case we're supporting a more energy secure Vietnam that is increasingly reliant on renewable energy using battery storage with U.S. technology and decreasing investment in coal. This is a glimpse of U.S. energy diplomacy and how we help governments through these transitions. Cooperation provides tools to go forward and just as important the confidence and that's where our foreign power sector program comes in and this can have much broader benefits for our countries beyond energy. It's so fitting that today's symposium occurs as leaders meet in Glasgow to push for net zero growth. To our future leaders in energy you too can be an energy diplomat, a climate negotiator, a policymaker, a regulator, an electrical engineer or a power market economist. We need innovators and scientists to design tomorrow's solutions. We need energy efficiency experts, engineers and construction workers to build them. We need lawyers to review the deals, bankers to invest and we need insurance agents to protect investments against climate risk. We will always need communicators, collaborators, risk takers, problem solvers to thread these efforts together as the world's response to climate change. Whatever your path may be there is a role for you because energy and climate intersect with everything we do. C3E is an amazing honor because it recognizes the contributions of women to the energy transition. It provides a network of people dedicated to helping women succeed and to decarbonization. Thank you again to C3E and its many partners for amplifying what an exciting time it is to be an energy. Thank you.


We're actually here in the new house. We are here with JCG. Today is on the camera. We have the roommates and of course we have the fourth roommate who is right around the corner. Schlatt! Yay! The fourth roommate, we have a friend with a good socks and he just picked it up and said, If he doesn't have any good socks in his current house. So once he saw that, he was just like, hey, let's get to it. Yeah, Schlatt's going to be moving in with us. It's going to be good. And we're going to go furniture shopping today. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. The plan is, is we're going to go through today and we're going to measure some stuff. And I think we're going to focus on certain parts of the house. So, of course, I mean, you guys have seen my house in the house tour videos, but this is the first time my house has been on three. So that's kind of cool. So we're going to go and do, we're going to measure a little bit because we're going to focus on the living room, the kitchen, and maybe a little bit outside for me. So that's the plan.  I'm going to keep that. We always do the shadow. Big thanks to Cutie Cinderella for helping us with the interior decoration. Yeah. She gave us a little bit of a fantastic job. We appreciate her so much. And at first, here, this is my concern is if it wasn't for her, I couldn't afford this. But she, she, she went to have Zeus. Yeah, she paid for half of it. So that was really, really cool of her to pay for the furniture. It's like a housewarming gift from Cutie Cinderella. So you can, you know, just kind of sit here and it's really, really awesome. So yeah, a big shout out to Cutie Cinderella for that. Yeah, it's really good. It's sturdy. Yeah, it's very sturdy. We don't, I think we should nail it in. Yeah, I think we should. We should nail it in, actually. Yeah, we should nail it in. I don't know where it goes. Oh, oh, I see. Oh, that's if you want to make it like a smaller fridge. Yeah. No, I'll get, I'll get these out of here. Yeah. So you know, this is, this is good? Yeah, I think it was good the way it is. Okay. Uh, I bought this for measure, but I don't actually know what I need to measure. We can start with our heights first. Okay, that's a plan. Measure heights and then we can lay down. Yes. And then we'll hang up. So we'll have like, okay, this is like two Js and an S fans. They're like, they're like, this is three and a half slats. Yes. I think that's a good way of doing it. I feel, I feel really tall today. I got my tall shoes on. Five feet. Okay. Oh, six feet. Six feet. Oh. You sure? Yeah, man. You're six feet tall. You sure? Try it. Try it again.  These seven and a half feet tall. I literally have no idea. I can't, I know a lot about things. This is one of those things I don't really know the thing. You know what I mean? Okay. So 23 and a half feet.  Right? Right. And there needs to be space on that side too. Yeah.  I think I didn't want to measure it. We need to measure the walls. We need to measure it from this wall to that wall. Right. That's what we got here. Does anybody write this down? Sure. Write it down for us. I want to chat. We need to chat, chat. We want you to take some notes. Okay. This is from wall to wall. It's like 16 feet. So we basically have like 16 feet to work with that's out of the walkway.  Yeah. But I already have, I have a couch at home. I should have measured the couch at home before we came here. It's an old couch. Yeah, it's an old couch. It's brown.  Yeah, it's good. It's a bad couch. No, it's good. It matches the walls. Wow. You want like a gray, like a light gray couch to match the walls and stuff. It's all about that contrast. Yeah, but I think if we get a gray couch, it'll match the walls. Yeah. So then you might think it's a wall. No, that's not how that works. I think it's a couch. You know what? I wanted a love sack couch. Those like sectional. Is it sectionals? Yeah, the sectionals. Yeah. Because you can just move those around. You could literally like if somebody, you need a bed. You can just mash them together and turn it into a bed. Like, I can't tell if you're being serious. Oh, I'm serious. You want it to be big. No, no, no. Have you seen the sectionals? No. There are couches that you can take apart and you can move around. They're like super, super expensive. Bro, this is literally just a sectional couch. They make use of it. No, no, no. It is. No. It's a sectional.  No. Sack. I get it because it's a love sack.  It doesn't even look like a bean bag or anything. Sectionals. Those fuckers won't try to say it. What about a double U shaped couch? Double U couch. Okay. And then you have it now. You notice what? Yeah, they were going to fix all of it. It's like on E. What is it? They said they were going to fix all that stuff.  I would now want to live here. I'll tell you that right now.  This is a good house. It's got a few minor problems, but like, it's a good house. Wait, how come it is jutting out so far, that rock? I said, I said the thing, look, there's 15 feet by 16 feet here. Okay, so now what? What kind of couch should she recommend? How do we, what kind of house, what kind of house do we go? Or what kind of couch should we go? Do you want to, do you want to judge? Yeah, but just fly. What if the couch, come here Finn. Here's what I'm thinking, right?  What do you mean? It's your phone. Where'd it go?   Okay, here we go. So look, there's the wall. S-Fan, S-Fan, there's the wall, right? These two spots need to stay open because that's into the master. Yeah. This is, you know, over there. So what if the couch comes like this?  Like a double. No, no, no. In. And then it stops there. And then you have like a little, little laid down area right there. Oh, I see what you're saying. I think that's, I think that's the one. Yeah.  But that's easy entrance from anywhere over there. You don't have to walk, you know, to get into the you.  Yeah, like a, like a, it's like a J. Yeah. It's me. Yeah. Yeah, it's a J couch. Okay. So we have a couch here. I want to have, not a couch, but like, we should put like a breakfast. I want to have like a little, in that table. Oh, okay. Kind of like, kind of like on this house. I think on this house is like actually really good. So we did 16, 16 before feet of space each side. So this is 13 and a half feet. Oh, here's the outdoor bathroom. That is a rug. Do you need a rug in the bathroom? I feel like rugs in bathrooms.   I mean, not intentional. You know, what in Rome? Yeah. You know, it's great about this outside. It's great because you can poop with a view. You know, you just sit right here and just look out to the, the wilderness. It's great. Um, okay. So I guess we should, we should measure this area too. Right. And that's kind of what we're going to be looking at. What we're going to look at today is best of that to us. So I feel like it makes sense to measure. But like, it's, I mean, it's not going to be too big. Right. Yeah. I feel like if it was a tiny house, maybe we should measure the, I think anything will fit here. Yeah. We'll just put like a, maybe like a, a couch, a table, maybe another little, right? The important thing to notice how much higher we are up in Mizz. Yeah. We're taller. We're taller. Why is the stove so small? It's, I, I'm not the guys, I ran out of money. Okay. I had to buy a cheap stove. I will get a better stove later, but we ran out of money. So we had to, we just had to get something that works. That's it. You're not getting a lower chat. Who are we supposed to talk to? I don't know if we need to talk to anybody, but like, I have to talk to Ashley. Ashley is going to walk up to us and be like, no, excuse me. You guys can't film in here. Who's here the other day? Looking for my couch. I wound up going to some other place while the fire train here blows. The couch. The first thing. The first thing. So here's what we need to do. We want to do, man, I just bought that couch though. I kind of want to wait a second.  It's not. Someone used to tell you this.  Yes it is. It's too small. Cutie said it was good. It's too small. I think it's big. It's too small. But I got, I got to do something with that couch. Oh, look at this. It's a chair with cup holder. Oh God, it's got LED on this. It's a gamer recliner. Recline, bro. Hello. How are you going? We called. We called the break-in beforehand. She said she'd let both 20 hours in. Okay. No problem. I just bought a house. And I have no furniture. And I'm basically doing like a vlog style video of trying to get a bunch of new furniture and all kinds of stuff or at least looking at everything. But I want to get like a list of everything. Take it back. Talk to my designer, the interior designer about it and be like, hey, these are the things I saw at the store. These are what I want. And she's going to help me like go through sort it out and see like, okay, this would fit here. This would fit here. And then. Is there a certain style you're trying to go for? Good. Yeah. Good, good. I think is the style I'm looking for. Yeah. So, yeah. We're going to look around. And I guess if we have questions, we'll be able to use them. My name is Louis. Happy to have you guys. I hope you get to the point where we need help. The store is going to be laid out by different styles. So this side of the store is going to be a little bit more farmhouse and shabby chic style. While this side of the store appears, our analogy was a little bit more midsection, modern and contemporary. Then we have a little bit more traditional furniture in the back. Okay. So that's what's out there as well. Cool. So we're probably going to be more there in there. Okay. I'm probably just going to get confirmation from my manager. Yeah. I just think we need to just in case. Cool. All right. Well, let me just take this picture. Okay. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you so much. I think, I mean, I think we should start here. Right? Because if he says this is more like modern-ish style. Oh. But so, so I guess they just like, they, they put together like rooms. Oh, that's cool. So you break your ankle. So we probably don't want this one then. Man, I don't know what to do with my current cache though. Oh, there's a USB port in this one. A 3.0. Is it USB? Is it a gamer cache? Wait, look at this. Whoa. This is kind of cool. Can you sit on it? Oh, this is, this is fairly nice. Why do they all get, they all have like switches, man. Yeah, they're like different now. These are so complex. I, I feel like, I feel like if they, caches that have switches, like these are, have a higher chance of breaking. But man, this is comfy. It is nice. This is comfy. Oh, you're cheating. Oh my God. It's got, it's massaging me. Wait, really? It's massaging me. Did you hit that button? What's in there? Oh my God. More USB ports. No, I like the USB. No, man. And outlets too. This cache is going to be listening to you. Is that Alexa? Alexa. Reclined. The entire cache is in Alexa. Alexa. Oh my God. Oh my God. Jeez. Keep going. Dude, this is actually like, I can sleep on this. Yeah, but the thing is this, man, you can only fit. There's a lot of space to only be able to fit two people on. Yeah, but like if we just, if we get this, we don't have to buy pets. That's not true. We can all just sleep on the couch. This is $7,000. We should get this sectional then. This looks like a race. Dude, this has LEDs under it. It's got LEDs under it. Double tap. You know, you know what this is? This is a... A theater seat. Yeah. This is the kind of seat that they should have in a media room. Or like a modern looking apartment.  Really? Yeah. For 500 months. No, actually, this isn't that bad. It's 22 months. For 500 months. No, this is actually a good one. 2200. We'll just get you on a 500 month subscription. 100 months. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your grandparent... Your grandkids will be paying them. Yeah, sure. Couch will be long gone. There are no rugs here. Jay was right. These are all... These are all really thin. See, this is kind of the color... This is kind of the color of my couch. This is the color of my couch. You don't want it to look like that, though. You got no brown in there.  What's going on? I can't get away from it. I mean, this couch is these days. They're different. They're gonna listen to you. Oh. That looks comfy. Literally my couch. This is almost literally my couch. Almost like the style. Oh, actually, yeah. Like... Oh, this looks soft. Except it's... Except... It has a... I'm not feeling it. That looks good. That looks good. How comfy. Yeah. It's a little too upright. See. Okay. Okay. This is the one. This is the section. This is... Oh, it's the J. Oh, man. It's the J. It's the J. Left arm, chest, eyes, sectional. It's not. I just don't like it. Yeah. I don't like the texture.   Your scalp feels like this. Yeah. Does yours feel like this? No. It's a little softer than this. What about this one? Also the J. It's definitely a sectional. But is this too dark? I want to say no. I... I totally see what you're saying. Hold on. Cutie Cinderella. Are we doing the right thing? Good style. Cool. Yeah. Okay. So we got... We're on the right track. Oh, dude. This looks so comfy. Yeah, it does. Oh. Oh, my gosh. It's too dark. But... Don't sew it in there. Oh. Dude, this is a comfy couch. Oh. Oh. Oh. The S-Fant. This is good. This is good. This is it. This is the cap. I think this is it. But we need a... You don't think black would be a bad choice? What's wrong with that, though? I think we need a dark floor. Why are you taking an opinion from someone who won't be there 99% of the time? Okay. The reason why we need Cutie Cinderella's opinion is because we need a woman's opinion. Okay. We don't have a woman's touch to this house. And there's a... Like, it's just life. It's just how it is. It is just natural. Like, we don't know what we're doing. The house is just going to be full of men. Yeah. Okay. And you need to have a woman's... Like, a third-party woman's touch, something... Girls are better at this than guys. And we don't know any girls. So, we just... Well, we know them. But now I'm going to be living there. You need the woman's touch. Yeah. I agree. But this... I think this is great. It's just... I think it's your layout thing. It's 59 bucks. That's 500 bucks. Oh, it's called a lever net. This is cheaper than my current cashier's. Available pieces. You can buy more with it. My current cashier's $3,000. Let's see if we can get the full, like, top-down view of the cash pieces. Yeah. What was that guy's name? Will. You sure? Yeah. Because that's what I thought it was. And then I was like, no, that's not it. Trust yourself. So, we think this is really comfortable. But... Just the way I raise them. You think it might be a little bit too dark? Yeah. Yeah, like a lot of clients. But also, we like how the other sectionals have like a layout area. Cool. Yeah, that's called a chase. This one doesn't have a chase option, unfortunately. The only thing we could do if you wanted to just kind of push it up against the side of the sofa. Right. Yeah, that's... So, is there something similar to this, maybe, that you guys have in the store? That has a chase? No. I do have that guy right there that is a lighter version. But it's not going to have a chase. Cutie, what do you think? We have a friend. Her name is Cutie. Okay. So, I'm not just randomly calling somebody Cutie. Yeah. That's cool, too. Yeah. I like this color even more, to be honest. Yeah. Me, too. Yeah, it's a little bit more like... Ooh. Oh, this is nice. Yeah. This is good, dude. Yeah, I like it down personally. I think down's good. So, like we said, living room, kitchen, and outdoor living area. That's kind of what we wanted to look at today. I think a couch is important. I don't know what I'm going to do with my current couch because I just bought that like a year ago. See, this one, though, is a nice color. I'm telling you, the color is nice, but man, like, there's just something about this one that it's just... It's the feel of the fabric. You know what I mean? You don't like it? No, I like it. Oh. Like, I'm like, this is like a cozy couch. Like, I could sleep on this. I think this table will fit in our house good. Oh, dude, this... You got to have it. You know what that is? You just got to have it. Dude, that's one of those things that's like, it just like speaks to you. Yeah. How much is this? We should just buy that. Oh. We just leave with that. That's the only thing. Like, doesn't this like speak to you when you look at it? Like, seriously, look at this. That's speaking Spanish to me, I don't know. Dude, well, you got to get bilingual, dude. I'm telling you, it's the future. It really... I'm thinking about just buying this. Is that just a vase? Yeah. You going to put anything or not? No, I don't want to ruin it. Okay, you're right. Let's go to the patio outside area. I like this. This is nice. Like the... This is the outdoorsy look. Like the crosshatch. Yeah, I think that you'd want a table too. Yeah, we are going to want a table out there. Oh, this is probably not like a fire. Like a little fire in the middle of the area. Ooh. Yeah. They can't because it spills and then runs it. Oh, dude, a bench. Ooh. A bench might be the play. A bench? 76 bucks. Nice. It's modular too. Look at that. Fully modular. Power supply, 850. Fire pit table. Dude, this is like a good color scheme too. I know. Isn't that a good color scheme for the house? This might just be the guy. Inside. We got this stuff for the inside. No, honestly, like... Fire pit table. Inside. I didn't know it was fire pit. Like no joke, that might be the guy. Is this good? The wicker. It's classic for outdoor stuff. Can we get a table that we can grill on? Like a grill table hybrid? Like the Korean barbecue? Yeah. Not for cheap. Not for cheap, man. You'd have to hook it up to gas though. You'd have to hook this up to gas. Yeah, I think... Why don't you put a propane tank under here? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you probably put a propane tank in here. Propane and propane accessories. I'm high in hail. Do I have it, Bobby? Ooh. This is for Jay, for sure. Oh, this is comfy. I like leather for, like, chairs, for sure. Yeah. This one I hear kind of has the same memory foam that the cat and helper has. Yeah. So when you look inside, there's two foam types.  This is also a pink grade, which is a higher death foam. So that one's going to be like you're sleeping on memory foam. Yeah, okay. Okay, so if you'd like to take naps on your sofas, this is one of the best ways to do it, because this one will last long. Yeah. Awesome. So anyway, the one-year payments would start, like, let's say it comes in a month. Yeah, it comes in a month, and then you can stand up for the first time. Nice. Awesome. If you have any other questions, I'll just let you know. Awesome. Great. Thanks so much. Streamer finance is a couch. What? I was just listening. Look, it's chat. It's good to know knowledge. What's so hard to understand about that?


Hello everyone, welcome back to another Photoshop tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to straighten an image in about 60 to 90 seconds. And not only am I going to show you how to straighten it, I'm going to show you how to take out the tilt, and I'm going to show you how to do it without cropping any pixels or without changing your image size. So this is a pretty cool technique. It's kind of new to Photoshop. Let me show you. And you'll see here, this is the left side was the original, right side is the adjusted version. Okay. Good. There. Without all that out of the way, let's go ahead and start from scratch. I'm just going to delete this. I'm just going to grab the image and it is in my pictures folder and off we go. Start your timer. Good. Here we go. All right. I'm clicking the first step I zoomed out and now I'm going to go ahead and straighten it. Here we go. First step, click on the crop tool. When you do that, you're going to get a few options. The first one you want to make sure is selected as content aware. Make sure there's a check mark beside it. Also make sure delete crop pixels is not selected. Lastly, original ratio is what we want in this box here. We want it to be just like the original. Now let's go ahead and click on this straighten icon. You can hover over it and you'll see that it can depress. Click on straighten and now we're going to draw a line that we believe to be the horizon line in this case. But this is kind of where we want it to straighten to. So this is the straighten line and that looks just about right as I've got it. Let go of it. Presto. You'll see here that it's made some changes and it was quite tilted. However, because we've got content to wear on, we're going to click the check mark and it's going to do a little bit of thinking. And then once it's done that, it's going to refill it just like it did here. It's straight in the image. It's pretty much bang on perfect. That's how you do it guys. Thanks for watching. Tell more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.