I, from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE, covering VTUG's New England Winter Warmer 2016. Now your host, Stu Miniman. Welcome back to theCUBE here live at Gillette Stadium for the VTUG 10th year of this user conference, really helping customers talk about not just the great growth of virtualization, but transitioning and understanding how clouds and DevOps are coming into play. Happy to have you on the program for the first time. Scott Harold, who's a product manager inside Red Hat. Scott, welcome to the program for the first time. Thanks for having me, Stu. All right, so you gave a keynote this morning. You know, before we get into it, tell us a little bit about, you know, kind of your background, what led you to Red Hat and what your role is inside the company. Yeah, you know, I've been in the virtualization space for about as long as most people have been. 10 to 12 years now, did a couple of books on VMware, ESX2, VI3, got a real job, got into the software business, not a consulting, came in through VisionCore. You know, way back in the early days, VisionCore, of course, was acquired by Quest Software, Quest Software was acquired by Dell. And I needed a little break, so after that I took a little time off and ended up looking for some opportunities and I saw an opportunity with Red Hat to help them drive their virtualization strategy and I figured I could probably do that. And here I am.  I mean, I think I got my first Red Hat hat, you know, 15 years ago, almost, it seemed. It's worth its weight in gold, so. Yeah, well, I mean, it feels like the hat hasn't changed a lot in those times.  But, you know, everybody knows Red Hat for Linux, but, you know, Red Hat's been doing a lot more. On theCUBE, you know, we've been lucky to really talk about what's going on and been at the center of it, at Red Hat Summit, at many other conferences. So, you know, you're heavily involved in virtualization. You know, talk about Red Hat's positioning, the solution set and, you know, what's involved. Yeah, you know, when you look at Red Hat, what's one of the things that we realize, and you're seeing that from the other, you know, traditional vendors in this space, you know, Microsoft. It's not just an operating system anymore. There's so much more to IT that if we continue to shoehorn ourselves into being just an operating system, our growth is limited. So what we're looking at is there's a lot of modernization that is happening around the market. You know, virtualization is core to a lot of that. You can't do OpenStack without the KDM hypervisor or solid hypervisor underneath. We're looking at container technologies. How are people trying to get to that next generation? And it's really interesting, because those are demands that are being driven top down from developers, but it's causing a major infrastructure and architecture challenge for traditional IT administrators. And that's where we're coming in in our position, is we still need to maintain our relationship with that, you know, traditional IT data center, but still meet the demands of the business and the developers that need to be more agile, meet the demands of the business as they move on towards needing to prevail, to provision at massive, massive scale in seconds.  You know, not only is Linux ubiquitous, but I mean, open source projects are everywhere. There's so many different pieces.    Yeah, you know, what we're looking at is, again, how we help them ease into this transformation that's happening. One of the things that we actually see and realize is traditional virtualization is actually still growing and growing fairly rapidly. There's a lot of opportunity there. So we want to continue to service aspects of that market, but we know that ultimately, we are going to lose market share to these modernization technologies. And the approach that we took at looking at that is, yes, we are good at building platforms. How can we get people into a virtualization platform? How can we get them into a cloud platform, a container platform? And one of the things that had been historically missing from Red Hat was, how do we help them manage that? And I think that's one of the things that we got in with the managed IQ acquisition and now the Red Hat CloudForms product is it actually allows people to help kind of consolidate and centralize that operational management, regardless if they want to provision something to Azure or EC2 or Hyper-V, VMware, Red Hat Enterprise virtualization, our own solutions. How do we centralize the operational aspects in the consumerization of the infrastructure, regardless of where and how this backend is configured? You know, that plays into the container strategy, it plays into the cloud strategy, and it plays into the traditional physical and virtualization space. And we see now that management really is the key to tying that together and being a good differentiator for Red Hat, taking that open source approach and really kind of being the Switzerland around all these technologies, even those that some may think that we are highly competitive with. Yeah, that's a great point, because I think back a few years ago, all the discussion was like, oh, well, VMware's dominant in the hypervisor space, what is Microsoft going to do? And then there's free-ish versions from KVM and Red Hat, Enterprise virtualization. And it needs to be, it's not just about kind of the tool of the hypervisor, it's really more about the platform, the management, helping the business solve what they need to do. Yeah, and making sure that the business has choice. Again, another core tenant of Red Hat is avoiding some of that vendor lock-in. Will we like to have the customers? Absolutely. Do we work with multiple technologies, multiple stacks? That's one of our core value propositions. And we feel that open source actually makes that easier for us. And you see us entering into some strategic relationships that two, three years ago you would have asked if you would have ever had executives from Microsoft and Red Hat standing on the same stage together. People would have laughed at you. Microsoft's changing, Red Hat's changing. We're getting more established in the market. People are realizing that. And I think from a virtualization standpoint, the best thing that happened to us was open stack. It really kind of set the stage that forced people to pause and say, wait a second, KVM's not just a toy. It has legitimacy in enterprise scale, mission critical performance. And that's been one of the best things, I think, to happen to Red Hat. Well, some of our earlier investments in KVM, getting to that point now has actually legitimized that as a solid hypervisor alternative with solid management solutions around that to give people choice and alternatives in a market that's continuing to change around us. Yeah, one of the things we've been looking at Wikibon is to really get value out of IT. It needs to be more than just kind of virtualizing the environment. What we put out a definition, what we call true private cloud. So there needs to be the automation, there needs to be management, needs to, not saying that everything goes public, public cloud, but I need to understand kind of the efficiencies and the utility that I can get from a public cloud and having some similar capabilities in whatever on-prem solution I have or if maybe I'm partnering with service providers to invite that to do that, but IT needs to get out of some of the day-to-day activities and therefore the management and orchestration layers are going to help with a lot of that. Yeah, and that's really where that cloud form strategy for us comes into play is, again, we're open, we have providers into Hyper-V, into VMware, into Rev. And regardless of what that underlying platform is, you have the same problems, you have the same operational challenges. How do I manage capacity? How do I optimize my workloads? How do I manage my provisioning and life cycle of these VMs? And then even if you take those problems and start to scale it out to cloud, one of the things that I like to mention is the concept of VM sprawl isn't limited to private cloud. You start getting VM sprawl into public cloud, now it actually costs you real money if you have these ghost instances running out on Amazon. And that needs to be controlled and we are taking that approach of supporting these multiple platforms to help people consolidate that, those operational aspects, because these are real challenges that we see them face. Okay, you used the term earlier, kind of some of the modernization that's going on. What about from the application standpoint? I guess we look at it, Linux tends to be what's underneath most modern applications. So what's Red Hat's positioning? How's Red Hat helping with the application modernization? Yeah, we see obviously a lot of demand from IT operations is always kind of stuck in the middle. We have demands from the business saying, move faster, be more competitive, be more agile than our competitors, or we lose, we fail. And at the same time, the developers have to come up with a way to do that. They need an infrastructure that can support that method and approach. So now more than ever, these developers are saying, even provisioning applications and workloads in minutes isn't enough anymore. We need to have scale in seconds. So that's where we're starting to see the cloud technologies really coming into play. If you really need that massive scale up, scale down, that's where OpenStack can help you scale out and scale in these applications. The applications do need to be built differently than the traditional physical virtual workloads that we've seen the past eight years, 10 years or so. And into, to be more agile, the applications have to be built to scale within the application and not have to rely on the infrastructure for high availability, clustering services. And when you really need massive hyperscale, massive testing, and boot times in seconds, you look at the container technologies which are now coming into play and how you also, similar problems that we see and saw with virtualization are also happening in containers. How do you treat those as groups of hosts? How do you provide high availability services to key aspects of those applications? That's where we're working with, again, more open source projects with Google around the Kubernetes initiatives and how we help manage the entire container stack and really taking a look at the application approach and Red Hat is no stranger to the application space either with a lot of the work that we've done with JBoss. And now getting into OpenShift, how we actually become an application delivery platform that meets those next generation needs and help kind of mask that. The whole concept of that DevOps role was supposed to be that person that sits between IT operations and the developers. I don't think that that role has matured the way that people had expected it to. When I talk to customers, I still go out there and I see it. We see the data center guys, people responsible for the infrastructure, really don't care what runs on the infrastructure as long as no one's yelling at them that it's slow and no one's breaking anything that forces them to go in on the weekends. And at the same time, the developers don't care where their applications run as long as they get the performance that they expect. So there's this balance that has to be done to help maintain that relationship between those two groups. And still a very interesting dynamic and something that Red Hat is still positioned very well to do.  I guess if I talk to the typical user here at this conference that said, okay, I'm comfortable with the virtualization. If I line up OpenStack containers and the application, you talk about the OpenShift and JBoss type stuff, where are customers along the readiness for it, using it, and general awareness of those technologies? We're seeing customers are using elements of that. They may be using certain portions of that in different areas. Even the same customer may be using the entire stack just completely independent of knowing that another group is running another part of that overall stack. So it's really, really hard, especially in an event like this, to have a one-size-fits-all solution. So we focused what we talked about. Today was all about virtualization and how to prepare virtualization for that movement to modernization. Is enterprise virtualization going to disappear? Absolutely not. I think that's one of the things that we've learned. Us as Red Hat, the market in general, you're not going to take OpenStack and replace your VMware environment. It's not what it was designed for. It's not going to happen. Enterprise virtualization is here to stay, but you do need to be aware of how the demands of the developers in the business are going to push for more dynamic IT, resourcing, staffing, provisioning, all these processes, and that there are other solutions out there like the OpenStack and the containers that you will hear about. It's not a threat to your job, but definitely take a look at it because you will need to know about those technologies to hold some intelligent conversations and do so and implement that in a way that doesn't disrupt the core business that you've been running. Yeah, so you bring up an interesting point. What do you see as kind of the changing roles of kind of the administrators, the people that probably understand Linux? How are they growing their skills? What's Red Hat doing to help them with kind of their career path? Yeah, Red Hat has extensive training and certification programs across all the different products that we offer. And that's one of the things that we see is the whole open source movement, the Linux administrator role has fundamentally changed over the last four years. Five years ago, when you say UNIX or Linux team, that's the group that sits in the corner that you would go above them and unscrew the light bulb so people didn't have to interact with them and they didn't have to interact with anybody and I think that is changing. We have a younger group of people coming in, even in universities. We're seeing open source technologies being taught. Python is one of the main programming languages that are being taught. Linux is being more heavily used in the academic space so we're starting to get a younger audience in here that really is kind of taking to this open source technology kind of growing up with it and I think that's kind of reinvigorating what we're doing and driving people who are traditionally Linux. Now it's not just an operating system, we have the containers, we have the virtualization aspects, the management aspects, really taking it to that next level and I think it's exciting having almost a new generation come in and reinvigorate what we've been doing, which hasn't changed even comparatively to UNIX, it's very similar methodology that's been in IT for 40 years so we have a new movement around that in which all of these new technologies require Linux knowledge or a Linux base for the containers, the cloud instances, the virtualization, it's really built around a solid Linux core. Yeah, I mean, I definitely hear lots of confirmation in the marketplace for what you're saying. When I talk to younger people that are kind of new getting into working in the IT space there are a lot of times grabbing tools out there and the open source tools are usually the ones that they're starting with and many of these pieces that are out in the marketplace are ones that have kind of come into Red Hat through acquisition and participation from Red Hat. So I guess one of the questions I'd ask in general and you don't speak for the brand and the company but when we think of Red Hat it's much more than Linux now, what's kind of the main things that you're hearing from the customers as to, we've talked to a number of them but I guess maybe summarize for us some of the main couple. Yeah, we're hearing from the customers that they're still a lot of surprise that Red Hat does more than Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The fact that we have a solid virtualization product that the investments that we have in OpenStack, the investments that we have around the various communities and the investments that we make are really all around this broader set of technologies and when you take a look at the matrix of what we're offering versus what Microsoft offers we're actually very well aligned with where the other vendors are going in the market. We're making the smart choices and we do that through community investment and energizing those that are passionate about open source to work with us, develop with us and hire a lot of people and pay them to do their dream job which also helps because they have the passion and they can make a living off of their passion which is always good. Yeah, there's an interesting dynamic in the marketplace. On the one hand, there's so many companies now that are embracing open source. You mentioned Microsoft as one example. I mean, for someone that's been in the industry for a while, I mean it's kind of shocking how much they're involved but on the other hand you say okay, how does Red Hat differentiate then if a lot of people are doing open source but most companies aren't monetizing open source the way that Red Hat does. Yeah, Red Hat, they started early and they didn't give up. They pushed incredibly hard. We started in 1999 I believe. I've only been here two and a half years so the old history, you'd have to ask somebody else but we kept at it. We had a good business model and when Linux was in, it wasn't a trusted technology. The whole open source thing was just unsure and a lot of things that Red Hat did, they just did incredibly well and internally they invested in the right areas. Top tier support, making sure that when someone has a problem with open source they weren't alone in having to go fix the problem or they weren't the ones having to go to the community to find out how to get something fixed. We provided that relationship for that customer to actually provide enterprise support and security for them. The testing that we do, the qualification of applications and hardware. Just making sure that what they get will actually run on what they purchase and it has a certified stack all the way from bare metal up to application workloads, SAP certification, Oracle certification and based off of that progression I think that was actually where Red Hat really took off is when Oracle actually said that Oracle databases are allowed to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That's when we really saw the spike from a Linux standpoint and it's something that we've been able to repeat in several different areas and kept the momentum going and turned it into over a $1 billion business. So I guess Scott, you've worked at a few companies and only been in Red Hat for two and a half years but can you say, is the culture different at Red Hat? Jim Whitehurst just wrote a book, your CEO talking about the open organization. We've talked to him about it but just want to get your viewpoint as to pair contrast other companies that you've worked at versus Red Hat. Yeah, no, the culture is open. Everything about Red Hat is open to the core and never in my life have I ever seen a company where someone can tell Jim Whitehurst that he is wrong or full of crap about something and not get fired almost immediately. We're very open to that level of input. It does have some benefits as we get a broad amount of perspective from everybody who's in engineering, who's in the business, who interfaces with customers. What that also does, of course, have some challenges is that everybody has a voice and we need the leaders to be able to trim down the right position of that voice and make business decisions based off of that and that's one of the fun challenges that I have in the virtualization space and everybody has an opinion. Not everybody's right, unfortunately, and we have to make the right choices to help us continue to drive our business forward and I think that even just that open element and the fact that people aren't afraid to say what they think may actually open my mind to alternate ways of thinking about things and that is something that I fully embrace. All right, well, Scott Harold with Red Hat, really appreciate you stopping by. I know you've got a lot of world travels left to do in the coming weeks and months. We'll be right back with lots more coverage here from VTUG at Gillette City and thanks for watching.


hey guys good morning for a couple more minutes we're in the car again we're in the car again it's just before lunch we have a masonic barbecue potluck thing to go to today later today for dinner and we needed to bring we're bringing dessert so we needed to go to the store so dessert snack yeah so we did that now we're gonna head back home again have a light lunch and get some more chores done at home that I should have done yesterday one of which is working right now I made bread so yeah got got shit to do big surprise I always click the abbreviated foul language checkbox okay so you know anyway back in the car again we went back home after doing some shopping and I got all the collage work done for the rest of August and I got everything prepped upstairs for September and I'll film getting September's journal ready but I had to get on camera right now because we're on our way to the masonic picnic and you guys mr. Bob got lost that was a lot of fun met a lot of really nice people do I remember their names no the worshipful master Bob's masonic lodge here in Oregon has decided I have a nickname because he can't seem to remember that my name is Gina so my nickname are you ready for it it's Gigi that's all right I'm all right with it growing up it was either brace face or four eyes so Gigi's fine it's a very much an improvement anyway we're gonna drive some back roads and do a little exploring on the way home yes the video you're about to see is me prepping the September daily drawing journal now as we cut away here to the footage of me at the table you'll see that I start with the cover I always start with the cover I decorate it with stickers and little bits and pieces for my stash and then I cover the whole thing with clear packing tape now I started doing this to use up some stuff in my stash you know use it or lose it well that was a big failure because I've just acquired more since then because I enjoyed doing this so I guess it's a win-lose situation I don't know anyway the next thing I do is usually print the random doodle word lists or inspiration word lists inside the cover but I realized as I was opening the book I didn't have one of them printed yet so I started with decorating the pages instead and I also had an aha moment with that in that I realized that instead of collaging creating collages on the pages I have a bunch of paper clusters that are already made why can't I just use those the answer to that is there's no reason you can of course use those so that's what I did I pulled out the paper clusters I put everything else away and I just started going to town decorating the pages some of the clusters are library pockets and some of them are not but that's good because that gives me a space that if I'm I've taken the journal with me because I'm seeing family or I'm traveling or something else specials happened I have a pocket somewhere in the journal I can put something in and I actually like that because this does usually come with me wherever I'm going it was super easy I did find with the clusters because they're a little heavier that I put my normal glue stick on the back but then also some elders glue now I use a mole skin type journal so the paper is a little thin so yes it did wrinkle the paper a little bit am I super concerned no I'm going to do on it journal on it right on it color on it things show through it shows somewhere and tear by the end of the month and I'm I'm good with that I love the way it turned out and on the very back page I ended up putting an extra library pocket which has a card in it and you know if anything special or extraordinary happens in the month I have now a card a place to put that and you know I kind of like I kind of like that idea there's also an extra page in the back because September only has 30 days and usually I take the extra page out but this time I'm not going to and again if something happens or something I want to write about or add extra pieces to I have the room for that and this is much easier to carry with me despite its thickness than a whole giant bag full of stuff is it any thicker than what they normally are at the end of the month well a little bit but honestly they get pretty puffy so if you do something like this you happen to have paper clusters laying around you do some kind of daily drawing every day I do recommend and I do love the idea of having the pages pre-decorated and then all you do is do your journaling do your writing maybe do a couple of doodles and it really I don't know if it's just breaking the blank page you know because their pages are no longer white or I don't know it's just convenient to have to not have to do that step and to be able to bypass that step I do have a few random sticker things and some washi in the front again in case I do come across something during the month that I want to add in an additional but yeah I think this was a really good idea prepping your journals ahead of time it's a thing guys I am working on a new crochet project just a sweater vest thing out of some of the wool yarn I bought when we were in Virginia and that's turning out really well I got the front done today I'll work on the back we are obviously outside we'll get going for a walk it is beautiful it's in the mid 70s a little bit of a breeze we've already eaten dinner we're gonna just go for a quick walk because it's been so hot we haven't done nearly enough of that and on the weekends when we are gonna probably go to the gym we end up not doing that because one or both where did we go where do we go the kids house the kids house helping them with their construction well he does I help with a babysitting do I look like I've been babysitting it's babysitting day the clip you just saw was filmed by my grandson junior he's only four and a half months old and he really likes playing with the camera on Omar's phone so I let him I know I'm probably not supposed to don't have the daughter anyway yeah that was a lot of fun he was real good today not that he's ever bad I mean he's only four and a half months old and when even when he's crabby he's good anyway we had a fun time today but he's gone home for the day my husband is going over there after work to help junior's dad out with construction that's going on at their house and I'm gonna just stay here I'm gonna work on my sweater that I've been working on and do some journaling and all that stuff so sounds like a good plan to me all right I'll be back okay I haven't hemmed it yet it does fit it actually fits pretty well I would probably wear a tank top underneath it because yeah it's a little low but that's the cut of the dress there's like I mean I could do some more alterations to the pattern I don't think I want to I could also just wear a strapless bra with the dress but for on camera that's as flashy as I'm gonna get anyway I like it I do think I'm gonna save the cotton one I'm gonna mark where I want the hem to be because I do think it's a little long maybe hold on maybe it's not as long as I think it is I actually think it might be nice this way so I guess I just have to hem it and then we can dye it maybe blue maybe green I don't know yet I'll be back okay you guys we not only get the mock-up done today but I'm two-thirds done with the actual garment in the real fabric you ready all right I'll be back you guys it is after seven o'clock Thursday August 24th I think I didn't vlog all day today because I was busy with junior look at that pretty son look at that anyway yeah hold on hold on yeah called myself ugly I got a love tap from the husband I'm not supposed to do that self-deprecating anyway I had the joy of babysitting junior all day today well most of the day today it was great even when he's fussy he's great anyway he wasn't that fussy he's a good mr. Bob sold one of his cars no not Adrian not the Barracuda the little red one that he used to use for his daily driver but he hasn't since before COVID so yeah so he sold it it's off to a new owner nice young man who I think is gonna get good use out of it and we're gonna look for a truck we wish him the best we wish him all the best with it anyway it is late in the day as I said but we decided after dinner it's been icky temperatures all day but now it's semi okay less icky I don't know we're gonna go get a few steps in see what we can see you guys I moved to Oregon to get away from some of this heat what the hell happened I think it followed me it's not always this hot this is yucky this is more than that all right I'll be back everybody it is 10 o'clock 3 a.m. Friday August 25th I believe family dinner night so the kids are coming over tonight for dinner and like it means I get to see junior again yay but it also means I need to go get some food so as usual we're probably making pizza tonight so I need to go get pizza fixings I also want to run a couple of other errands so we're gonna go get that done I need to repot some plants I don't want to buy new pots they're too expensive and I'm really trying to make a concerted effort to not add to I hesitate to use the consumerism but I think that's it I mean I add to it plenty enough already but where I can go reuse something or thrift for something rather than buying a new something I'm gonna do that so that includes flower pots and yeah cuz I need to replant seatbelt I need to replant some flower pots today or tomorrow and yeah so we're gonna go do that we have thunder and lightning last night like it was a thing to the point where I couldn't sleep until like it stopped like I don't know two or three o'clock in the morning it woke Bob up like nothing wakes Bob up you guys man sleeps like the dead the only thing that ever woke him up at the sound sleep was our daughter when she would start crying he was that was the only thing he ever heard but he heard the thunder and lightning last night in the rain it was yeah so it was the thing in the middle of summer and of course now it's back to 91 degrees today I guess the rainy season is coming soon okay anyway and I see in a state sale signed back that way so I have to look at that all right I'll be back I know I look like crap but it's like I don't even know what time is it 8 34 p.m. Friday August 25th 20 I don't know it's Friday I don't know what day it is yeah 25th I finished my sweater vest and I would wear it with this shirt that I have on or I have a couple of long sleeve men's shirts not with these pants because I have bike shorts on but this is cute hold on has to be blocked still but how cute is that anyway I just finished that so now I can do some daily drawing and stuff that I need to do for the night and then tomorrow we have a full day which I'll get into tomorrow all right I'll be back by the way I'll link the pattern for this sweater in the description below if I had a little more yarn I probably I would have made it a little longer but I don't know if I would have needed to honestly I think the length it is and if I wore it like this with this sort of puffy sleeved blouse or one of the men's shirts I have in here and some of my dad pants I mean this cute yeah we're just discussing the fact that I've had two cups of coffee and it's not enough because I said I feel like I'm going on the freeway not the airport we are on the freeway anyway thank you Marcia anyway we are as you can tell from Marcia I headed on to I-84 we are in Portland we are in traps a lot yeah it's Saturday morning August 26 it's 10 6 a.m. we are headed over to a car dealership to look at a car we sold one of our cars earlier this week a couple days ago and mr. Bob really wants a truck so we are headed over to look at a used truck today and we will see what happens with that shopping and stuff today and of course as soon as we get in the car I've got messages chats and it's to do you want videos on YouTube and all kinds of YouTube stuff going on which I'm trying to do for my phone I got to do this so mr. Bob can see where he's going I know sorry anyway so we will get that I got that done but it was challenging anyway we're gonna get on the road here and get where we need to go and I'll keep you all posted I'll be back yep we'll let you know what happens I'm in a car again but by myself because yes mr. Bob bought a truck anyway I'm headed home I had to stop and get gas and of course I saw a Goodwill but I had to stop that you know so I did find a couple of sweaters you know it's like 100 degrees outside I know it's weird anyway I am I did the Goodwill thing I did the gas thing and now I'm gonna head home I'm starving to have that lunch yet and then later on today maybe mr. Bob and I'll go to the grocery store but yeah it's been a productive day so far I'll be back but fun fact mr. Bob in half a mile use the right lane to turn right onto West Powell hey guys it is what time is it 8 26 in the evening still on Saturday let me put the phone down somewhere I know tables a little messy so I went out thrifting today just to one just one Goodwill store after Bob bought his truck yes he did buy the truck we needed a new more comfortable car he has his vintage car he had a little red sports car and we have my old Subaru and by old I mean old she's old she doesn't have a lot of miles on her but she is old and her seats aren't super comfortable for like long trips or anything anymore not to mention she needs some work done so although I told him he didn't have to sell the red sports car if he didn't want to but I did think we needed some different he said he wanted to sell it it's not really good for driving most of the time in Oregon it doesn't it's a city car and he really wanted a truck so cool and it's a big fancy truck so I'm not mad about that anyway so once we did that I went thrifting and found a couple things that I don't think I'm gonna a couple sweaters actually in a tank top and I don't think I'm gonna be altering any of them I like them the way they are that being said I just reminded myself of something I need to see if I can find on Amazon anyway so that was all good and fun and then I came home and I started working on a new crochet pattern I'll put a link down below for the pattern I'm not done with it yet but it does seem fairly easy to follow and it's crocheted from the neck down and it's crocheted in the round so there's when you're done there's no seams no seams and if I like it as much as I think I might I'll be making a couple more of them because it's really cute I'm using some wool more wool yarn and one more skein I got in Virginia and then I have two skeins of a wool and alpaca blend that are super soft but should go well with the other wool and color wise they look great together so it'll be cream on the top then I have a cream and tan blend and then I have tan and it should and they're all yeah so they all match so that'll work well all of this stuff is for blocking some of the things I've been making I've got my granny squares here I've been working on I've got the sweater vest I just finished which needs to be blocked I also have some balls of yarn for another project I want to be working on I want to make a grand more granny squares but I want to make it out of this yarn which is small yarn and it seems to be a really nice wool make a bunch of granny squares and then sew them together as a sweater however if I really like this pattern I'm working on right now this might be coming out of one of those anyway it's really pretty color variegated colors if you can see that so anyway tell me something around here hold on anyway it's been an interesting week I've got some projects coming up that I'm pretty excited about along with continuing my renewed interest in sewing and needlework which is always in the back of my mind fun fact that's where my creative journey started anyway it's been a great week that interesting busy hugely busy week and next week is going to be the same so anyway I hope you guys stuck it through to the end of the video if you want to support the free content here on YouTube please think about supporting my patreon they have ready access to me in a private Facebook chat and also I send them mood boards and designs and answer questions and all kinds of stuff like that on a regular basis they also have a preview of videos some of which you never see here they have access to videos you guys have never seen on this channel and won't ever see they have their own YouTube channel so if you're interested in any that and supporting the free content I should would appreciate appreciate it said check out the video description for that and any other relevant links including my happy mail address and all that stuff don't forget to like share and subscribe go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see it later bye guys


I was shocked. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. That's about the emotion I heard from her. I'm shocked. And then, right after that, an um. We don't hear um from her anywhere else. I mean, even if you don't like your ex-husband, he's been killed on the way home from your house, it's still going to be seared in your memory. It isn't in hers. There's an um in a draw breath and hard eye contact until the person doesn't respond. You don't take any time to conjure up thoughts about what happened when that happened. If somebody died in your life, usually know where you're at, if they mattered at all. And then, her emotion is moving across her face like Amber heard. I think this is about her and why she feels anything is what I think.


So, I am Yoganj and I will be talking about some of the agile frameworks and the tools that we use here for project management and progress tracking. Those are named G-RAN confluence, so I will be talking about those tools. But before starting, I would like to know a few things, again, I would like to know how many of you ever developed the software. It may be as small as it can be. You can raise your hands. No one has signed in the college yet. So very few, alright. And how many of you have developed the software, those who raised their hands as a team? Good. Okay. So, I would like to know, have you used any software development lifecycle framework while developing that? You can't speak? No, yes. Yes? You used Scrum model, that's great. Okay. I have one person in the audience who used some one framework of agile, good. I will be talking about Scrum in brief in my slides. Fine, it's good to know how much development have you done and if you have used any agile software development framework or any other software development models of framework. Okay. So, these are the topics I will be covering. I will be talking very briefly about the software development lifecycle models and phases. Then specifically the comparison between waterfall and agile, then we will be detailing two of the agile frameworks that is Scrum and Kanban. Later on, we will be focusing specifically on the Kanban framework and we will see how we can visualize our work using Kanban boards. I will also give you a live demonstration of how a Kanban board looks like and how it has to be created because you all will have to create a Kanban board during your course of the internship. So, starting with software development lifecycle, be it any software development lifecycle, it has certain phases, okay. Like in the previous presentation, Firuza Mam told you that there are certain type of documents like your requirements documents, the UML diagrams, okay. All those happens in the planning and design phase. If you want to develop a software, you will first find out its feasibility, whether it is possible to develop it, okay, the practical feasibility and the financial feasibility. Then it goes into the design phase and then finally the team codes it, the team develops it and then once a set of functionalities are developed which are ready to host, then it goes into the deployment phase and then once the software is deployed, then it goes into the maintenance phase, fine-tuning corrections, another version of it is deployed, all those things. So, are you with me till here? These are the general phases of a software development lifecycle. Now, there are two popular software development lifecycle models or frameworks which are named Waterfall and Agile, okay. They have their own pros and cons, but here in respect of Agile, I will tell you that in Waterfall, the risk remains high, why? Because in Waterfall model, all these five phases, in the last phase, the deployment part, that happens in a very long duration. It may sometimes take more than a year for the customer or for the client to receive his or her own product, what he has raised the requirement for. Whereas, in Agile, the software is delivered in small, small increments, okay, and all these phases that we saw in the previous slide, the design, development, deployment, testing, maintenance, these all happen in small, small increments and those increments vary between one week to four weeks. So, imagine how faster is the delivery, how faster is the user's feedback, okay. So, these are some of the advantages. If you want me to define it, Waterfall is a linear sequential life cycle model, whereas Agile is an iterative approach to software development in which the team delivers value to the user in smaller increments. These are some of the cons of Waterfall model over Agile frameworks. One is that no working software is produced until late during the life cycle. It cannot accommodate changing requirements. So, one of the very good advantages of Agile is that it responds to the change very quickly. It adapts to the changes. It has a high amount of risk and uncertainty. That's because, see, today as a user, as a client, if I'm giving some requirements and I get to see my product after a one year and I see that it's completely opposite. I think you showed a slide, right, that was in some other respect, but that follows here also. In the Waterfall model, the integration is done at a very later stage and if suppose any bug is defected in that stage, then again it has to go through all those life cycle stages. Now, the Agile frameworks basically abides by these four key values which are drafted in the Agile manifesto. One is that in Agile, we give preference to individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation and responding to change over following a plan. Now, I'm not saying that the values which are not in bold are not important. They are also important, but in Agile are more focus, you know, what is the literal meaning of Agile? It's being more quick, right, quick and reliable. So here, we focus more on delivering the value to the end user in small, small increments and in a fast manner. How many of you have heard the term DevOps? Have you? Okay. So you may notatize your assignment in your free time. You can explore it on Google. Let me ask one another question. How many of you have heard the name Netflix? Companies like Netflix, companies like Amazon, they use this concept of DevOps. It is nothing but amalgamation of development and operations, okay, wherein they does development as well as deployment continuously on a continual basis and in a very fast manner. Now all these things comes, you know, by following the Agile frameworks, Agile methodology. Moving forward, as I just mentioned one or two of the companies, these are some other companies that use Agile frameworks. Now these are some of the popular Agile frameworks, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Extreme Programming, FDD, DSD, CDF, but we will be talking about Scrum and Kanban today and I will briefly explain Scrum and then we will focus more on Kanban. Now what is Scrum? Scrum is an iterative Agile software development framework for managing software development. In Scrum, there are different roles which the team member plays, okay. One is the product owner, another is the Scrum master, another is the team. Then there are certain artifacts, a product backlog, a sprint backlog, a product increment and then there are certain ceremonies, sprint planning, daily Scrum, sprint review. A product owner, basically the roles which I just explained are also the part of your team. One, two, three, four, five, six. You six people have a team, okay. Now you are the product owner, the one sitting next to you is the Scrum master, okay. And the rest is the team, okay. Now what you will do, if you want to develop say a tourism website, okay. So you will come with a set of tasks that needs to be done in order to develop that website, okay. So you as a product owner will come with those tasks and you will create a product backlog. Can you see at the very left, there is a product backlog. And you will continuously groom it because you may not come up with the specific set of tasks to be done in order to develop that tourism website, okay. So you will continuously refine it, you will groom it. And then you will prioritize which tasks to be done first and you will keep it in the priority, fine. Is everyone with me till here? Then the team, then we were talking about certain ceremonies, okay. Ceremonies are nothing but meetings. So in one of the meetings, in the sprint planning meeting, the entire team along with you two will meet, okay. And the team will pick certain tasks which you prioritized. Supposing developing the wire frames, developing the mock-ups in order to create the tourism website, developing the front end, basically. Developing a database for a tourism website. Once your team pulls certain tasks, okay, we will do the out of the tasks that you have prioritized. We will implement these first four tasks in two weeks. Two to four weeks was the duration that I was talking about, okay. But you have to ensure that at the end of this duration, whatever tasks they have chosen, they deliver a potentially shipable product. What does it mean is that it should be a working functionality. It should not be incomplete. So the team chooses certain set of tasks which you as a product are not prioritized, okay. Then they will work upon it, they will develop. Now, remember the phases that we discussed in the previous slides? All those phases will happen in this cycle. Right from requirement gathering to testing and deployment, everything will happen in this. And finally, the functionality is delivered to the customer. We never notice in one of the sessions elsewhere, I got to know that Amazon, they ships at least 1000 functionalities per day. But we never realize using DevOps, of course. So this is how the scrum basically work. If you have any doubts, till here you may please interrupt me anytime and you can ask. Any doubts, anyone so far? Yeah. Daily scrum, yeah, yeah, of course. So this is again another ceremony which as I told that it's a kind of a meeting. In daily scrum, what happens is that the team meets daily for a fixed duration of time, which is 15 minutes. There they discuss three things. First thing is what have I done yesterday? What I plan to do today? And are there any bottlenecks or impediments? So this, what this do is that it brings everyone onto the same page. So the team will meet daily and one of the roles which I did not mention is the scrum master, your duty. I did not tell you what you will be doing. So basically you will be facilitating these all ceremonies. The sprint planning, the daily scrum, the sprint review, okay? And you will be ensuring that everyone adheres to it. Now usually in practical scenarios, what happens is that this meeting starts daily scrum, everyone discusses what they did yesterday, what they are planning to do today, and what were the bottlenecks. Then the discussion digresses and this meeting continues till two hours, sometimes in the other scenario, this meeting ends in a minute or two. No one is really very enthusiastic about it. So the scrum master has a big role to play here. He has to facilitate in a nice and interesting manner. Maybe this meeting can, in companies, there are cafeterias. There are some interesting places. So there these ceremonies can be organized. So this is how the scrum works. This is yet another depiction of the same workflow. You can take a few seconds to have a look. As you can see, when we deliver the final product here in the shipable product increment, there is another ceremony called sprint review, wherein the team demonstrates the functionality that they have developed to the end user and take its feedback. And work upon it in the next set of iteration. And iteration and these intervals are called sprints in scrum. Now let's come to Kanban. So scrum, if anyone will ask you scrum, will you be able to answer at least a few things about scrum? Now, great. Now let's understand what is a Kanban framework. Kanban's literal meaning in Japanese is a visual signal, okay? And Kanban is a visual system for managing work. It visualizes both the process and the actual work that is being done. How? That we'll see in the coming slides. I just gave an example that she is developing a tourism website. Now, how you will visualize it for your team or supposing you are reporting to someone more senior. Someone who runs the company, let's say the CEO of the company. And he is not meeting with the team, okay? And he wants to know, without meeting anyone, without hearing a single word, that what's the progress of the software that you are developing? How that person will do it? So here the Kanban method helps. One of the things of the Kanban system is visualization. And how do we do that visualization? We do it through Kanban boards that we'll see. So using a Kanban board, it helps in visualizing the team's work. It helps in standardizing a workflow of the work. It helps in identifying and removing any blockers and dependencies. How we will see? See, a Kanban board can be of two different types. It can be a physical board and it can be a digital board, okay? So here you can see this is a physical board being used at some firm. This is another example of a physical board. I'll come to the specifics of this board in the later slides. And this is a digital board, okay? Now, there are different types of Kanban boards. Personal Kanban board, you can use it to organize your own tasks, okay? Tasks and work items. Here you can see there are different columns. Can you see this? One is the backlog, next is the next. Then in progress and then done. So there are certain terminologies of creating a board. These are the columns. These represent the different stages of your workflow, okay? Below it, you are seeing a certain number, okay? That I will talk about in a very short time. So in backlog, we list all those tasks that needs to be done. Then in next, we pull the prioritized tasks that needs to be done on an immediate basis. Then we put in, under in progress, the tasks which are in progress. And in the done column, we put the tasks which are completed, okay? This personal Kanban board is for a single person and for one team. Here you can see it's an aggregated personal Kanban board, okay? If we want to visualize user-wise what are the tasks a team is doing, then it is organized in this manner. These rows, user-wise rows are called swim lanes, okay? Here you can see that Steven has a task called H and Peter is doing a task named E, like he is already working on some task. And there is only one task that is completed and that is being done by Joe. Now can you see this Kanban board? This is called a team Kanban board. Now, here the focus is less on the users. The focus is more on the tasks that are being worked upon, okay? But still in order to represent visually which task is assigned to which users, here we use avatars. So, here you can see this task C is being assigned to a user named PB, then DE, then GY. These are just examples and there may be scenario where, you know, more than one team is working in collaboration, okay? Supposing the development, there are multiple teams involved and there are dependencies.  So, in that case what happens is we use aggregated team Kanban boards. Here you can see there are the pool of tasks which needs to be done. At the very left there are the pool of tasks, then the tasks which are being done by the development team and the tasks which are being done by the testing team. And then the deployment ready and then the done. These all stages, you know, constitutes to a workflow. In a Kanban system, a typical Kanban board looks like this. Here you can see there are different numbers, 5, 4, 3, 4, 2, 2, okay? So, can anyone tell me what are these numbers? Just a random guess, okay? So, every team member, see every person has his or her own capacity, has his or her efficiency to do certain number of tasks at a time. You cannot do 10 tasks at a time. You cannot do 15, 20 tasks at a time. So, in a Kanban system, you limit the number of tasks in each stage, okay? So for example, there can be only 3 tasks in development at a time. There can be only 2 tasks which can be the build ready. There can be only 2 tasks which can be tested. So, this helps identify certain things. I will talk about what? We will take another, again the tourism example, okay? You assigned tasks to your team members. Now, the work limit of each of your team members is 2 tasks per person, okay? Now in your board, if there are more than 2 tasks in that column, so the total efficiency is how much? 6 tasks for 3 members, okay? Now if there are more than those tasks in that column, say there are 8 tasks, okay? In progress, then you can see, you can visualize that more work is assigned to them in comparison to what they can deliver, what they can do. And this is what is resulting in the output, in the output of my software. This is what is delaying the target software, the delivery of the target software. So this is how it helps. In keeping the flow going, we use a term called continuous flow. So anytime, if this maximum number of work items exceeds, we identify that there is a potential bottleneck and then we work upon it. Here, this is a digital Kanban board. There are 4 columns to do in progress code review done, okay? And here you can see there is some red color over here, right? Here if I zoom it, the maximum number of tasks which are permitted in the code review stages, only 2. And here if we see, there are 3 tasks, okay? That's the reason it is showing a red color, which is a sign of risk, which is a sign of a potential bottleneck, a potential impediment. So this triggers some action that, okay, why there is, there are 3 tasks in code review. We need to improve our system so that this flow doesn't break, so that the flow is continuous, okay? Now I'll give you a live demonstration of a Kanban board on a tool named JIRA. But before that, I'll briefly discuss about what Confluence and JIRA tools does, okay? I know it's a lot to take in all at a time, but even if you are able to understand small, small things about these topics, it will help you get started. And then we'll conduct follow-up meetings with you every week, and then we'll see how these systems actually work, and the details and specifics of these systems, okay? So Confluence, Confluence is a tool wherein you can collaborate and you can create documentations, you can collaborate upon information basically in very generic terms, but in the specific terms, in the previous presentation, Firuza Mam told that you need to document certain things in order to develop a software. Now how will you share that information? How will you collaborate on that information with your team, okay? How many of you used Google Drive? How many of you created a document collaboratively on Google Drive? Yeah, so it's a similar concept, but it is beyond Google Drive, okay? But in order to make you understand very quickly, I use this analogy. So in Confluence, you can collaborate over the information, okay? You can create certain documents, you can use commenting features, inline comments, you can review those documents and you can finally freeze the document. Finally when you are done with that, in JIRA, you can track specific tasks that you are doing. That was the Confluence's part that was more focused on the documentation thing. Now coming back to what we were discussing earlier in Kanban, we were creating a list of tasks, we were creating work items, okay? Now in order to create a digital board, where do we create that? So for that we use a tool named JIRA, okay? There are more other tools freely available such as Trello, you can try exploring it. But here we use JIRA. This is developed by a company named Atlassian, okay? Now in order to define it, it is just a progress tracking and project management tool. It helps to plan, track and release your software. Now let's see a quick demo. You may note this URL. So we'll be creating your accounts on this software and we'll be configuring all the necessary permissions required for you to begin with creating a Kanban board, okay? And when I'll be having a one-to-one sessions with different teams, then I will go into more specifics of this tool. Right now I will not focus more on the specifics of using these tools because I believe that it is self-explanatory and people like you will be very easily be able to adapt to this tool, okay? So there are different projects being created over here. So I think from tomorrow onwards, groups will be formed based on different projects, okay? So there will be different projects over here on JIRA and each project will have its own Kanban board, okay? And those boards will be accessible here in the boards menu. So let's just see an example. I just opened a Kanban board and this Kanban board talks about a school management system wherein there are three modules that needs to be developed. One is the grades module, one is the attendance module, okay? And some third other module. Now just by looking at this board, I'm able to identify, okay, these are the tasks which needs to be done, which are pending to be done. These are the tasks which are already selected for development and these are the ongoing tasks which is being worked upon by my team and these are the completed functionalities. Once again, the terminologies of a Kanban board, the first column at the very left is called the commitment point and the column at the very right is called the delivery point, okay? Here are the tasks which we list, we prioritize which needs to be done in order to develop that software. In the second column, we put in the prioritized tasks which needs to be developed first. In the third column, the ongoing tasks which are being worked upon and these tasks in Kanban terminology are called work items. So we can choose anything which is easier to understand and these are called cards. Finally the tasks gets done which is the fourth stage. Now it's not necessary that this flow has to be exactly the same as this. Like it can vary, there can be say testing column in between, a testing step in between, there can be a review column in between. So that is on you as a team to decide. Again you can see here a number that is 3, 2 which is the work in progress limit. It's the acronym is WIP limit, okay? If it exceeds, if the number of tasks in any of the stages exceeds then the defined WIP limit then either you need to reset your WIP limit or you need to find that why, what is what's the reason behind it's being stuck. How these cards are being created, we'll just quickly see, I'll just click on the create button. So supposing I have developed this functionality of the attendance module or the grades module, I want to test it. So I will write, okay? Now right now it is, I am not detailing the specifics but this is how we created tasks. Here we write the summary of it and here we detail its acceptance criteria. What an acceptance criteria is that we will discuss when we'll have one-on-one meetings, okay? Then I will assign it to some person. So she is my teammate, I have assigned this task to her or the teammate can assign it to them their own selves. Finally I click on create. You can see the task is appearing over here. Now as the stage of the task progresses, the task moves to different stages. You as a user can simply select and drag and drop the card into the different stages. Coming back to our final slides, there are certain merits of why Kanban is being used and one of the merit is that you do not need to change anything in your existing system. You can directly start using Kanban as and where and what you are doing now, okay? Even if you are in a very preliminary stage, your requirement gathering is going on or if you are in a very advanced stage where you have already developed a functionality and you are ready to deploy, even then you can use a Kanban because it is one of the most primary things about Kanban is it helps to visualize your existing state of work, okay? It brings transparency, visibility that you will see when you'll implement Kanban boards. It improves collaboration and it reduces overburdening by maximizing the efficiency. And this last point is being achieved by setting correct WIP limits. Now just not to confuse with what is Scrum and what is Kanban and how they are interrelated. They are two different concepts and these are the differences between them. In Scrum, we deliver a potential software functionality in fixed intervals wherein in Kanban it's a continuous flow, okay? These are the metrics, difference in metrics but I will not be covering those metrics right now. There are certain roles that we discussed in Scrum but in Kanban there are no specific roles. The team are self-organized in nature and the roles, everyone plays different roles in the team. So good news, this is the last slide and going forward you will be required to do these things, okay? First is that creating your personal Kanban boards, soon we will provide your credentials for Jira and Confluence. So and we will configure different projects in Jira based on whichever project that you choose. Then the first task that you have to do is you have to create your own personal Kanban boards, okay? And write in the work items, the tasks that you are planning to do over the next one week, okay? You as an individual, later on we will migrate those personal Kanban boards to the team Kanban boards, okay? Secondly, once you are through with this personal Kanban board things, then we will be conducting daily status meetings, okay? And that daily status meetings, we need not involve in those, that is for you as a team, so that the every team member is on the same page, okay? You need to conduct that, then the work status, now this is important that you once your team Kanban board is set up and it's being updated regularly, you need to share that team Kanban board as a report weekly, how that will be done? Then I will discuss with you in the one-on-one meetings, okay? So this is all in a nutshell, all about agile frameworks, in agile frameworks specifically about the scrum and Kanban frameworks. Any questions? I'm open to questions, so I think I delivered it in a very correct manner, 100% it's being understood in a 100% manner. Anyways, I understand these were a lot of different concepts all together at a time, so it's difficult to understand all of the things at a time and there are so many details in each of these topics in frameworks, we cannot understand that in 30 minutes, so we'll take upon these in the coming weeks and I hope this session was informative to you and I hope you will start doing it with creating the personal Kanban boards, rest we will anyways mend it for you to do, okay, thank you.


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Making a PowerPoint presentation isn't hard. I'm going to take my cursor, place it on top of the PowerPoint icon and double click to open. PowerPoint automatically opens to give me some choices. I'm going to choose the simplest option which is a blank presentation. I'll put my cursor on blank presentation and click to open. PowerPoint automatically gives me a title slide. We know that a title tells our audience what the presentation is going to be about. So I'm going to click to add a title. Now a subtitle gives more information. I'll click in the bottom box to add a subtitle. So there I have my first slide, my title slide. I'm going to need more than one slide. So I'll move my cursor to the top next to new slide. I will point at the arrow and click and PowerPoint gives me some choices of types of slides. I think the title and content slide is the one I want. I'll put my cursor on the title and content slide and click. It has two boxes. I'm going to click to add a title to the top box. Now my presentation is going to be about my favorite vacation, a trip to the national park. In the bottom box I can either add words or I can add other things. I want to add a picture. So I'm going to put my cursor on top of the picture icon and click to open it. This opens up my files. I have my pictures on my flash drive. I'm going to open my flash drive. And in my flash drive I have a folder with pictures. I'm going to point to my picture folder and open that up. Inside my picture folder I have a folder with pictures I've already chosen for my presentation. So I'm going to open up that folder, point to the picture I want and click on it. It's been now automatically added to my slide. Now that's a picture of my son in front of my car in Yellowstone National Park. I'm not going to type that however because that's something I will say to my audience. I need more than two slides. So to add another slide I'll move my cursor to the top, click on the home tab. Move next to the new slide option and click on the arrow. Move to title and content, click to open. I'll click in the top box to add a title. I'll click in the bottom box to add another picture. I'll put my cursor on top of the picture icon and click. This time PowerPoint automatically opens up the picture folder I want. I'll move my cursor to the picture that I want and open it up by clicking. There, PowerPoint has added my next picture. Now I can just repeat that process for as many slides as I want. But now I want to save my presentation so I don't lose it. I'll move my cursor over to the file tab. I'll click on file. I'm going to click on save as and I want to save my presentation to my flash drive. So I'll open up computer, go to my flash drive, open up my flash drive. I have a folder already named for my class presentation. So I'm going to open up my class presentation folder. And PowerPoint has used the first couple of words that I typed as the file name for this presentation. And I think it's a good file name so I'm going to keep that. So I'll click on save. And there, I've now made my first PowerPoint presentation. Thank you for watching.


One of the most frustrating aspects of being in the field called alternative medicine is that it is filled with a hundred times more gimmicks than traditional conventional medical care. You know, because at least, typically for the practitioners of conventional medicine, as well as the patients that seek it out, they often want a higher degree of credibility and evidence for the claims people make. But alternative medicine is a little bit funnier, and in this video I thought I would kind of explode something that I think is very important for people to understand. Hey guys, Dr. Alex Hain, Doctor of Chinese Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist. So before we jump into this video, there's two very important links right below it for you. The first is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine. You can reach out to my private practice right below this video. And the second is a free download, which is four daily rituals that can potentially help you add years to your life with Chinese medicine. Now look, everybody is looking for the secret to healing. Actually the secret to everything, right? Secret to weight loss, secret to making love last, secret to enlightenment, secret to being stress free, secret to everything. And in the wellness industry in particular, the secret often manifests as some kind of ingestible substance found on unicorn poop in the Amazon. Some new thing, usually a plant that was never discovered before. It's algae and then it's mushrooms and then it's a plant and then it's a certain fruit and then it's a certain extract of a certain fruit. I mean, it never ends and it will never end because this is human psychology. It's not the marketing at fault. It's not any of this at fault. It's our own psychology. We all want to believe deeply that there is some easy way to get the results that we want in life, whether those results are healing or whether they are financial or something else. So in the wellness industry in particular, there's always a new little thing coming out. But let's talk about the psychological root of the silver bullet, right? What is the origin of this silver bullet thinking? Now, I realize this is not a video on Chinese medicine specifically, but is a video on healing because a lot of what comes down to healing is our psychology and our personal daily habits. These are the private conversations I have with my patients in my clinic. And these are the things that really make the difference. Of course, it's taking the Chinese formula that I prescribe, etc. But in terms of our individual actions and decisions, this is what it comes down to. You know, when we talk about the psychology of expecting a quick fix or a silver bullet, that one thing that when I do everything after that will be easy. Let's talk about writing a book. If you want to write a book, what is the only thing that matters when it comes to writing your book? That every day, you're taking time to write your book, right? But people would rather take workshops on writing your book, seminars, read books on writing books, go figure. All of these, the reason we do these, not that they aren't necessary, but it's because all of these things are easier to do than doing the one thing that matters, which is writing every day in your book. Now, if it's weight loss, right, a very common, very profitable industry. When it comes to losing weight, yes, there are some medical circumstances, but the general big picture is eating better, moving more often, managing your stress, being happier and doing that for a long period of time. But people would rather get any other piece of advice than that. Because again, it goes back to that quote in the Dauda Jing that the great way is easy, but people prefer the side paths. And when it comes to weight loss or writing your book or healthy marriage, whatever it is, there's often a series of maybe half a dozen daily rituals that if you do those, are pretty darn predictive of reaching the results you want. Not every dream is going to come true, but you're going to get some degree of good results from that. Now the sooner you stop looking for those side paths, like the Dauda Jing talks about, the faster you can heal. And that's why I thought I would shoot this video. Because the faster you stop looking for the shortcuts is the quickest path to healing. Because you're going to be realizing that long term healing is messy, complicated, get better for a while, you get worse for a while, you do some false starts with practitioners that don't help you, that do help you a little, that I'm not sure did they help me and then some one or two that really, really helped you. But ultimately the path is your own and you have to walk that alone. It is your own healing journey. It's going to look completely different from anybody else. And that's the most important thing that you understand that this is going to be long term. You can get feeling better very quickly, in my experience, even if it's chronic. But healing takes years. And the sooner you forget those side paths, those silver bullets you're looking for, the better off you will be. So I thought I would share this as a PSA for today. If you are chasing these side paths in your healing journey, it doesn't mean don't look for new practitioners who may help you or new strategies. Of course that's an essential part. But the psychology of looking for it to be over fast from one little thing is usually flawed. And I see people go down the wrong paths. That's what I have for you today. Before you go, check out these other related videos here and I'll catch you guys in the next video.


What's up everyone in this podcast Alex James and I will be talking about the overall market conditions Sharing some stories and talking about how we are all doing and feeling in our trading So stick around listen up because this is an episode that you're not going to want to miss What's going on guys? We're back with another episode of the after hours podcast Alex is finally back from his Disneyland vacation, which is nice How was that Alex look like a lot of fun? It was a lot of fun, man. It was a lot of fun That was actually First time I've been to Disney World since I was like a child and when you go when you're a child You don't really remember what it's like. So going as an adult was a lot of fun and we had this Disney VIP So we skipped all the lines, right? I didn't know that the lines there are an hour hour and a half long each So people go to Disney and they go for like for they go for four rides and they got to go home But in total I think we did like every single ride that they had and maybe 20 rides there So that was really fun, but it's good to be back and now that we're back Our world is crashing all over again. I know I feel like every time we do this podcast So I actually like that this I've been two weeks since you've been back And I like now that a lot has changed and the market is just a continued bloodbath every day And I think I don't think people believe like how and he said like basically right They're gonna use every tool they can to just like crush the economy and they pretty much are I mean That's where we're at right now Yeah, and it's kind of sad, but like yeah, this is what has to happen I mean if you guys saw the currencies crash now, right? So the euro I think is 96 cents against the dollar I think the pound went from being like 1.4 like 1.06 So everyone's losing not only the value of their money and play It's really really bad and the crazy part is like not to get political But like the media is not talking about because if they talk about it It's gonna make our current leadership look like clowns. You know, well, it's our fault, right? I mean the fact is like everyone was really nervous about the US being like the non-dominant currency and like now All of a sudden that inflation is like, I don't know if you guys saw him like Turkey like inflation is like 20% Like or some outrageous number and now like we're crushing all the other countries around the world Just in our dollars strong again, which is like Fuck that's possible like I don't either it goes over my head because here we are like we're in a Huge crisis in our country like our economy is getting crippled But the dollar strong and like all around the world people are forced to like just pay more money for everything Like we're a lot more money a lot more money Not only is their currency down 30% our currencies up 30% you know what I'm saying? So it's double whammy and I feel like it can get a lot worse too I mean like there there's so much growing tension with everything else, right? There's like Taiwan There's obviously Russia and it's like I feel like we're just starting and I saw like this video. It was a Drunken Miller. He was talking about how you know, we could be in for like a 10 year of just stagnant Economy, you know, I yeah, I think people forget that that's that can happen because we've had this euphoric like Run since like 2008 like after the after the crash and everything once they Injected all the money back into the country It's just been like you could close your eyes pick an American stock and like make money and I think it's gonna happen I hope it doesn't happen What I think is gonna happen is it's gonna keep happening until we get new leadership and the potential new Candidate running is gonna run on I'm gonna fix the economy. I Happen and then when that new can that comes in Whether the Fed, you know keeps raising interest rates or not They're gonna be putting pressure on all the industries to be able to fix it because right now this guy doesn't even know what year we're in Well, there's gonna know what inflation is so because of that. I mean, I think we're really doomed I really think we're doomed and it's kind of sad It's kind of bad and with mortgage rates hitting 7% when we're recording this video. I really say it's next Don't be yeah, you really say it may not go down 50% But it's probably gonna go down 20 to 30% so it all goes in cycles right first It's the stock market and then it's real estate and then probably when real estate starts to go down within the next couple months Maybe the stock market's gonna start to rebound then six months after that is when real estate is gonna rebound But like the reality is we don't really know what's happening because right now People aren't making money, right?   They're down from 180 to 85 a company like Nike is down 50 percent bro Nike, you know Nike this this is the heart of like just normal like it's not spend 200 bucks on sneakers You know I'm saying it's like it's like the heart of like retail the heart of what people kind of feel safe in and You know when companies like Nike are saying that they have inventory problems that they're gonna fire sale They're inventory because they got too much stuff. I mean It's not really looking good if a company like Nike if a company like Apple can't make money How are we gonna make money? Yeah, exactly like Apple like they said that like people aren't buying their new phone You know why should they they it's the same phone. Yeah, exactly 100% No, I completely agree and in the past people had all the extra money, right?   What's a thousand dollars on a new phone? But now like did I a lot of my friends recently have been like trying to buy houses Which I just think is crazy But a lot of them have and their mortgages are like four to five K a month on these like cheap houses And I'm like no one has the extra money anymore. It's the interest rate It's not it's only the it's not only the fact they don't have the extra money is they're not making enough money anymore I mean you guys see it even in the market, you know We're not really making as much money as we used to be and that's that's just what the environment is and imagine overall businesses like Nike's not making as much money.  No one's making as much money So when there's not that money in circulation kind of going from hand to hand to hand There's nothing all the money that's happening is going to Ukraine, bro But this is why it's so hard and like people see the the positives of being like a trader and stuff and like Relying on the market for an income, but it's like when times like this happen. It's like dude There's just no range. There's like nothing like we had two days where I was like, oh my god Are we having runners because we just had those two like massive massive runners? And I and I felt like that was kind of like our last rub because we're back to like This it's just nothing, you know, and it's like that's where it gets tough And I I don't think financial literacy is like taught at all So it's like imagine like we're very blessed to be able to have a job where we can come and like still make money Even when there's not that much opportunity But like imagine being someone who's just making like 50k a year and it's like, how do you then fight what's happening now? It's almost impossible. Yeah, and the thing is that like a lot of people Are not willing to drop their lifestyle. Let's say you have like a pretty expensive lifestyle You have a nice apartment. You have a nice car. You have this you have that I mean if you have no savings and if you have a lot of issues I mean, it might be time to downgrade that Mercedes to a Prius It might be time to get a smaller apartment at least for a year so that you could build up extra capital to last a storm And I think a lot of people rather than doing that is you get the more debt, right? Yeah Oh, I was just gonna say one thing about The houses here. I don't know if you guys have the same problem, but in canada The housing like supply is very very very little like there's not enough houses for the amount of people here So everyone like in canada like moved during covet like everyone it seemed that they were selling their house They were moving a lot of people from places like ontario, toronto Came where I lived like out east a lot of people went out west people went to alberta And they all got these super super super low Fixed rates.   It's bad time to buy houses But the problem is that You know, some people just need it and they have no choice. They gotta buy, you know, say that's that's the sucky part is like What are you gonna do?  Like that's that's kind of the environment we're in and it's crazy because you know just Six to seven months ago interest rates are two percent Now it's almost like quadruple bro quadruple, you know And the craziest part is like the federal sector just keeps raising interest rates It just keeps going and going and going and going.  Yeah, we're already broken Yeah, I mean, I think with the fed like it's like the the thing I don't understand is like they they've gotta know what they're doing You know, they've gotta know because I'm a present bro.   You know what I'm saying? Yeah, and it's like during covid like Like I feel like now is worse than covid Like you're raising interest rates in like one of the worst environments ever And it's like it this is like way worse than covid like this feels way worse than covid Like this feels like what covid was supposed to feel like, you know during covid Like literally like it seemed everything was booming. Yes, we had the lockdowns and yes We have whatever and yes, we had the economy, but it's nothing like it is now Yeah, this is this is what was supposed to actually happen during covid But when they gave everyone a stimulus check it kind of Temporarily put a band-aid on it and now that that band-aid is ripped off Uh, this is what the reality is and if you look overall mortgage down 35 on the year Individual stocks are down 50 to 70 on the year.  You know saying like it's it's gonna eventually come back I don't know what the time frame is, but it's gonna come back because everything moves in cycles We are in we were in one of the most aggressive bull markets now.  There's way too much pressure to print to not print money So they can't do that So they have no choice but to crash everything because you guys know no one wants to work No, I also work anymore So they need to kind of make everyone so broke that they have no choice but to work. Yeah 100% Yeah, and I mean it's just going to keep going, you know and again I I find that It's what sucks is over the last like 10 years so many people have had the opportunity to like learn a skill Like like trading or something to like protect themselves during these environments because Most people I know are nervous right and they're worried about what's going on But like I don't think any of us are like we get to like still like live a decent life But like we're just smart enough to not overextend right now And it's in the biggest thing bro. That's been the biggest thing that's helped me all my life is I spend way less than I make I live way under my means and that's why I feel comfortable Whereas a lot of people in America spend way over their means bro Yeah, guys people making 50k a year spend like they make 150k a year, you know I feel like let's say I make uh Let's say someone makes 150k a year. They should spend maybe 50k a year, you know Yeah, I mean that what's the science of it's like if you can if you can invest and save like 50% of what you make You know, I mean you could just set yourself up financially for the rest of your life Problem is now you make 50 you spend like you make 150 And now you're in debt and interest rates go up you owe more debt Yeah, it's it's tough But I mean like what do you guys recommend for people who I mean it's tough right because this is a really hard subject But like people who aren't making that much money What can you even do in times like this because your dollar is going way way less Like way it's not going as far as it used to and you don't have the money to like invest and stuff like that Is it literally just stockpile cash like you say and just I think stockpile cash keep as much money in the bank as you can uh You shouldn't invest money that you can't really Like accept to lose and if you're a little bit of a lower income type person I think all you got to do is save your money Maybe take no vacations this year and maybe one thing is get better take two that year but I think everyone has the ability to save I think people just want to flex on other people and that's why they can't save you know Yeah, exactly I mean, that's why I love bow to be honest.    I was like that's the most that's not the first time that's happened either, bro Dude, it's wild, but you know, I mean again, he's kind of he practices what he preaches to and like you said It's personality, but at the same time it's like, you know, someone like that's not can get over, you know As things go to shit, you know, and so I find myself very blessed to, you know Met you guys and learn from all of you guys because it's how else can you learn financial literacy except for people who understand it and Like kind of practice what they preach. So, you know, I agree, bro I agree and another thing that I wanted to kind of mention is like how you guys been doing in this market I feel like a lot of people are struggling which is normal I had a lot of people like reach out to me, you know Last couple of days I'm like, hey man, like I made a bunch of money last year And I'm not really able to get much footing this year You know, I'm struggling this year things have been a little bit tough this year Like do you have any advice for me? Now I was like, this has been the hardest year in the market and this has been the most meltdown like the last 20 years This has been the hardest market in the last decade, right or the last two decades and Just because you're struggling in this market doesn't mean that you're a horrible trader It doesn't mean that you're the worst trader ever It just means that the market conditions are so tough to make money in and you shouldn't take it personally So I feel like a lot of people that feel like they're struggling in this market I mean number one is go back to are you sticking to the process if you're sticking to the process and you're losing It's not your fault. It's just the market. We're in the market. We're in is very unforgiving It is a very very very difficult market and our job This year in 2022 the entire year is to stay alive It's not to make hundreds of thousands of dollars not to make millions of dollars not to fucking get rich Our job is to stay alive because 95 percent of people are not staying alive So if you're staying alive That means you're winning in this market. So don't think that I made half a million dollars last year Why am I only up 20k this year? 20k this year is better than 95 percent people because everyone's losing their ass And when things get better next year or maybe the year after and who knows maybe we'll make triple that quadruple that whatever it is So that's why I kind of wanted to lean on you guys because I know no one's really making a crazy money this year It's it's really tough to make money. You know, I'm still not really making as much money as I should I'm still doing solid But the point is that like I know a lot of people That haven't been trading eight and a half years like me are struggling and for those people watching this You know, don't think that you're an obsolete trader Don't think that you're the worst trader ever because you can't make money this year The reality is hedge funds institutions prop firms. No one is making money this no one So don't take it personally and just go back to the drawing board and tell yourself. Hey, I'm gonna size down I'm just trying to stay alive because staying alive in this market is a win. That is my that is my key I must stay alive. Yeah, dude. I think um You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna knock on wood here, but like I've been really lucky this year Like I've had it's been a really good year, but I've had tough months You know, like there's been months where like like honest to god all of august Was really hard for me. Like I didn't lose a lot of money I just wasn't getting traction.  I'm like, but I pride myself on the fact that like and I've always kind of been like this is just that I didn't lose and like if I I've always felt like if I could keep that mentality like listen I feel like there's there's like this famous quote.  There's just there's no liquidity. It's just not there, right?   I'll go and broke Yeah, yeah, twitter is not missing anymore Yeah, and that's that's also good point james. The point is that you know, we We can't it's okay. So let's Traders are very emotional beings, right like humans are emotional and men in particular are very stubborn Okay, men have an ego Men don't like to be wrong, right? That's why some women have better than better traders than men I say it all Then women are trader better traders than men because they don't have an ego, right? so The thing is when you're making money For a year straight last year Everything is easy. It's so simple to make money And you're all of a sudden your lifestyle's getting better. You're able to get more steak dinners maybe you get a nice bottle of opus this time instead of the Bullshit ten dollar wine And then all of a sudden yeah, bro. I'm back to josh now You now can't make any money and that for a man that has an ego that doesn't like to be wrong fucks with your head So That is the hardest part about this year. There's a lot of people are like, what the hell is going on? I'm the man. I made so much money. I could make it again Then you oversize into bad setups to make up for it and then your loss is balloon even more, right? I think I started sizing down very early this year and it was a couple months I was just sizing out sizing out sizing out. I'm sure a lot of people were curious as to why I was doing that But like the market conditions changed so I had to change so As a trader that you know wants to do this long term and wants to do this for the next decade Or maybe even the next two decades You know, you have to realize that there's going to be months or there's even going to be a year Where you make no money For example, if I made, you know, $500,000 in 2021, but I make zero in 2022 Then you can think to yourself, you know what? I made a quarter million in 2021 I made a quarter million in 2022 and then maybe 2023 comes along. You're going to make 500,000 And then maybe in 2024 you're going to make another 500,000 in 2025. You're going to make zero You're going to tell yourself, okay now I made this and I made that so Trading is very odd because it's not like a linear job that we're taught.   There's no volume I'm not gonna show up and lose like I would literally write in the chat like there were a couple days I was like, you know, I'm just gonna take the day off and not put myself through that and I think for a lot of other long traders like A lot of people are pressing super super super hard Like when's the last time that you saw a good first bounce work? Like that's kind of the state of the market environment. The market environment isn't giving it. Yeah, exactly Like the first death line is what's given you and yeah, exactly. And so like Like for me like it was the day after we had that we had that big runner from like whatever Like and I hadn't seen that for so long where we broke out of the range And we really went to like nine and Alex was talking about like the broker liquidations I was like, all right Yeah, yeah, I'm like, all right, baby.   I get in this stock.  So I'm making these live trading videos now because like I think I'm from I realize that the education that we provide Is as good as it is. It's too boring for these people, right? People don't want to learn how to get rich It's just whatever it is what it is. So I think having these live trading videos and letting people see me trade live We'll teach them a lot about these things and one of the things that I Continuously say in these live trading videos is I'm taking my profits.  I'm not doing it I'm just taking my profits over and over again You'll be surprised how much it adds up, right?  It's not just you every single I'm greedy too. James greedy. Everyone's greedy. It's human emotion, right? Human emotion can't be taken away But what we could do to fight that is just take the money when it comes in our favor. We want to be able to Make that big profit because we haven't seen it in so long We need it and we feel like we are owed it the problem is that the market is very relentless and don't give a shit so The problem is everyone's holding for big picture plays because they haven't made enough money Everyone is sizing up because they haven't made money But back to the fact if you size down stay alive The plays will come back and you will make money, you know I think I think we get stuck in this mentality too of like Like if you're not making thousands and thousands of dollars a day to waste But the reality is dude, I mean if you make ten thousand dollars a day in America Attack, I mean of course you can spend it but like day-to-day life You don't need that much money to like have a fantastic amazing life Like if you're making five hundred dollars a day trading Dude, I hate to tell everybody but like you can have a solid life.   Like it doesn't end, right? It doesn't end The only thing that we could do is just kind of focus on ourselves because you don't know what type of Life the person that you're trying to emulate has outside of the market, right? So for example Trader, I know makes maybe 10 to 15 million dollars a year. Okay. It's a lot of money, bro. A lot of money, right? And everyone wants to make 10 to 50 million dollars a year But what this trader does is he eats sleeps and breathes trading every single day before the market opens He's got a detailed plan every single day when the market closes He writes a recap goes to trading psychologists is on vacation is trading is doing is trading is his entire life He breathes training for me. I can't do that. That's not who I am I need to be able to watch tv sometimes, right? I need to be able to leave the house sometimes I need to be able to not make trading my life and because of that I could never have that those type of Gains so you have to realize what type of trader do you want to be do you want to be a trader that has more Freedom in their life Do you want to be a trader that makes a little bit less and is happier Or do I make a trade or do I be a trader that makes so much money that it doesn't matter But you have to sacrifice your entire life for you know I feel like I feel like as I've gotten older and like Alex you've definitely helped me like kind of learn this too because I remember we used to get on the phone And I'd talk about how I was like so pissed like this wasn't making enough money that I wanted blah blah blah You know as years ago, but now it's kind of like I don't know.  I'm like damn Alex like doesn't trade as like he just doesn't come in the market the same way But it's like because it's just not there you're you've changed It's not there bro and less is more less is more. I don't want to Stick to the screens all day. I don't want to Get myself into trouble. I don't want to because I got enough problems in my personal life But I don't need the trading world to give me more problems, you know Agreed Yeah, so Yeah, go for it Harry.  You know, I think that was the biggest wake-up call for me where I was like man Like it's not the same anymore. Like you just got to take the gains. You just got to run Times of change, bro. We have to adapt to it.   It's like, yeah, holy That's the mark of room, bro. Yeah, I think I think like obviously as we're you know, kind of coming up on The end of the episode it's just like it's just lessons to learn and like if you're a trader right now Like alex said, you can't really beat yourself up. You have to really just take what the market gives you and Sometimes it's okay to just not trade to be honest focus on education right now I think now while it's slow is like the best time you can like watch the videos we provide Watch all the education and like get yourself ready because when the time changes Then it's all guns blazing but right now it's just kind of stockpiling ammo We're just kind of chilling just waiting taking what the market gives day in day out a small paycheck and then You know, it will change and when we when it does well, I'll be ready. So I think that that's definitely it. So yep So if you guys like the video, just let us know what topics you want to talk about Leave a comment and let us know if you guys want to talk about cars next week if you guys want us to talk about A personal life next week if you guys want to talk about trading next week, whatever It may be just let us know so that you know, we could kind of tailor the conversations based on what you guys want to see Right because we may think that this inflation stuff is interesting, but maybe you guys like fucking inflation I've heard enough of it So just let us know guys leave a comment and just tell us what you guys want to see more What you guys want to see less of and you know, we'll try to come back and make it better Yeah, 100% awesome guys. Thank you. Yeah, we'll see you guys