Hello and welcome to the shakedown where we discuss criminal justice system from the inside out The goal of this podcast to explain how the criminal justice system works from policing to courts to prison to parole and how they affect all of us The hosts of the shakedown draw from personal experience and share their stories our hosts include Malone Who spent 30 years in Texas prisons and is now a published comic book artist? Dave has been in and out of prisons for most of his life and is a proud dad Both have traveled the country speaking about their experience with Texas prisons My name is Ryan aka rainforest and I spent six years in Texas prisons during which time I studied sociology Criminology and writing I now live up in Colorado where I help with local projects to help those struggling in the community And now here's our show It is a mental health podcast We started off me and my sides to myself, but I say we it's just me um started off educating on borderline personality disorder and just kind of trying to humanize it and Educate people on what it is what it is not Stuff like that and it's just kind of turned into more of a Mental health all around we we've had quite a few different people on talking about Different topics with mental health that you know should be talked about more We've had people talking about postpartum anxiety You know just their own mental health journeys and stuff like that and it's been it's been pretty incredible Very cool. Yeah Something that's definitely a lacking in prison and Texas prison system. Yeah It's lacking everywhere, but I feel like that would be one of the one of the bigger places. It's lacking It's lacking in Texas in general Yes That's why We already said Huntsville. We all thought you were going to a prison. I mean, I mean Huntsville is like no Huntsville associated with prisons in general Yeah, I think I yeah for sure that and the college that's about it. That's a college I Probably I mean I literally some of the worst years of my life was in college. So probably Well, I was gonna say around the country like the the biggest Place where people with mental illness go which tends to be jails and prisons in general Which and which is really sad that it ends up being there's no they don't really deal with the issue They just house them and that's it Well, that's just the system in general from what I understand of it They just you're there and then you're out and there's no any kind of Anything no aftercare exactly. That's that's the word. I was like, I don't want to say So it's I can go prime example that was there was a guy Who Where Ryan and I were on a trusty camp and there was a guy that I worked with in the kitchen who we called him light bulb for lack of better words and me and this guy worked side-by-side for I don't know six months or so and So I get out and I'm working the door working security for a bar And this guy's homeless walking down the street and I see him and I'm like I'm looking at him He's walking up and I'm like it gets up close to me. I was like damn That's light bulb and I was like look out light bulb and he had no recollection of who I was and he was completely out of it and You know as it turns out talking to him later again is you know, he's wasn't on any kind of medication because They didn't provide him with anything except what he left the prison with which was whatever he had left, you know, yeah And it's crazy because he was completely lucid normal, you know for appeared normal anyways I should say however But it no he wouldn't and you know again, you know, it's lack or no aftercare Yeah, it's not I Not like they set them up with psychology or psychiatry after or make sure that they stay up on their meds or any kind of Treatment after the fact for sure and that's a huge problem But they brought you on to try to convince me I needed help No, no, no, I don't I don't really do that convincing that's gonna be We got you Like a lack of mental health aftercare contributes to the recidivism rate As well. Oh, yeah, definitely Yeah, I absolutely agree. There's a lot of things We assume that when something, you know, someone played their breaks law or does something that it's considered a crime And then we just put them away for a while and then they get back out on the street that That's gonna magically prevent the thing from happening again And we're not gonna give them that it's not like we give them a whole lot of tools either when they're locked up Do something different or learn or figure out? A new path because it's it's hard. It's hard to learn something a new way to deal with like Do you talk about like coping skills and mental health strategies on on your show or things like that or yeah We do I actually in a few future episodes. We're gonna be talking with a couple of people that work on like somatic healing energy healing, but also how to manage stress in the workplace and Coping strategies with that and you know stuff like that. We're still expanding with the podcast But that was a huge thing that well while I'm not a therapist and I'm not a substitute for mental health treatment I'd like to be a gateway to helping people kind of figure out Ways to cope with things because mental health in general is not very accessible right now To anybody it is absolutely a privilege and it shouldn't be that way That's true. I agree with it. What do you think some that some people are afraid to ask for the help as well Absolutely. I mean I'm very very open about my mental health journey and my struggles and even then I still get people that are like Okay, you've talked about this enough like It's just you know, people don't want to necessarily hear it. They want to hear. Oh, I'm doing okay. I'm all right They want to hear vague. They want to hear this they hear that but then there's certain jobs where if you get mental health help it's kind of like a black mark or like a blacklist on your jacket or something like Case in point. I know that it's really difficult for people in the military to access mental health help which they all should be but because You know the shit that they see like Somebody's got to be looking at that um So They really can't access the help because you know, they may not be able to get deployed They may not be able to you know, do this that or the third and it Because they're all oh get help get help get help but but also don't get help and that's kind of how it is overall Like if you actually get help for what you what you do what you're dealing with what you're seeing whether it's You know first responders people that have gone through a ton of trauma It's also at the same time Well, don't don't do that because you know, we just want to we just want to kind of put it under the rug And I have a huge problem with that obviously, oh Yeah, I do too, but it's it but that seems to be the norm, you know, and then people also want to put their own Mental health issues, you know sweep them under the rug as well because they don't want anybody to think they're different And I never thought about that like you said in the workplace to where it could impede like, you know career advancement or things like that Yeah, I mean any kind of high-stress job or environment you should be talking to a therapist and Not only is it kind of Unofficially frowned upon it's hard to access because it's expensive and The cost of being alive these days is astronomical. So, you know, it's either pay my rent or go to therapy and You know insurance insurances are a whole other if you have insurance It's a whole other, you know, trying to find a therapist that works with your insurance And, you know, if you're going through the state for mental health help There's only a certain amount of time that you can be accessing therapy before they kick you out because The state a lot of states are just like, okay Well after two years like you should be good to go and it's like no if you're dealing with a lot of complex trauma and a lot of Things that kind of keep happening.  They're right They know what they're talking about and even the idea that they're talking like The cop like if you're questioning their like what they would consider their sanity or with or how much they know like that becomes a huge deal and even The few programs that exist in prisons They honestly a lot of times they'll reaffirm that they'll double down in Like there's authentic manhood classes which are meant to be like you're supposed to be the man and you're supposed to be the person who Like runs the household and takes care of this and takes care of that So like then it becomes like you need to have an iron fist and you need to know exactly what you're talking about When it comes to all these things and that makes it makes a bad problem far worse With there's any sort of mental health problem, which there that clearly are going to be coming right out fresh out of prison Yeah, well, I mean you're coming out of a literal institution Into the free world where things are not as regimented. You have more free will x y z I feel like that would kind of screw with you a little bit, but to add to what you were saying I'm I'm not a guy so I don't understand mental men's mental health fully, but I do have a lot of I guess colleagues that are in that Their podcasts are about men's mental health and stuff and you hear that a lot that men are supposed to be tough men Aren't supposed to show emotion men aren't supposed to this men aren't supposed to that and that compounds on the whole Don't ask for help because you've got this you have to handle this and I think that also that kind of twisted I guess toxic mentality also contributes To the mental health issue and why they're not asking for help and why they're not Because then they're seen as weak or they're seen as you know The opposite of what asking for help is which is you're actually being really brave For saying I can't handle this right now. I need to figure out a way to handle this So I can be a better person so I can be a better father husband son Uncle whatever and I just I don't understand why we haven't like Come to that conclusion yet I I don't quite understand that either why that was one of the first things Like I was fortunate enough to actually go to addiction treatment. That was one of the first things I had to break down was Because everyone as soon as they come in they're like no I need to talk to my family No, I needed to reach out to this. I know I'm taking care of this person like no you're in treatment You're in the emergency, right? Yeah, this is your time right now Work on that then you can worry about other people way down the line I mean just bottom line if you can't fix yourself how you're gonna fix that or you know help anybody else Exactly. No the thing with addiction is I know like I'm sure it's a little different now because I I haven't done My research on it lately, but I know that like the big thing was when they started coming out with dual diagnosis treatment centers And stuff like that where they were actually finally treating the underlying Trauma that usually comes with addiction instead of just trying to get somebody clean and send them out the door They actually started working on the mental health and the trauma and you know all the reasons why Somebody becomes addicted to something because nobody wakes up and goes I'm going to be addicted to x y z There's it's usually there's usually a reason so the fact that um You were lucky enough to go to So were were you a was it I can't talk today Was it more of a dual diagnosis where they were working on your mental health or was it just working on the addiction? Well, the the treatment center I went to which I highly recommend it's cedar. It's the colorado Um dependent and addiction recovery. I believe that's the acronym, but cedar in colorado Um, they're great. Um, they basically So to get me in there.  I'm like, I am not an alcoholic Um, and they're like, that's all all right. You you may you may not be an alcoholic. That's fine You might not be but you probably have abused substances I'm like, all right. Fair enough like I can accept that and then the way they broke down was they Then once you're in there, then they're it's from every angle. They're trying to they're really they do It is focused on addiction as like kind of like the the backbone of everything But they are working on mental health and general coping skills and and everything and like Once I was kind of like, okay, I need to be here. This is something I want to learn everything I can from this place It was it was skills These are overall skills you could learn You could apply for whatever you're dealing with there were things you could um apply for your day-to-day life Regardless and then they did have people who could um diagnose other like um, they had trauma counselors they had um People who specialized in different sorts of disorders and in compulsions and things like that So if you did have like different issues that were coinciding or like coinciding with the addiction They would have people there for you so you could start working on there from on that and then move If like once you were done because generally it was a 30 to 90 day program You would graduate and then you could go out into the Out and have a counselor and everything outside of there But that's how it definitely should be. I mean you have to work on the underlying and the coping and stuff like that because it's so easy to Be strong in a facility where you don't have the outside influences. But once you're once you're out out there The possibilities are endless kind of thing You're safe when you're in in treatment Exactly Is there around other people that are at least Making the effort to try and get better or putting on a show? But they're at least, you know, they're making they look like they're trying to get better and We'll say they are they're all trying to better themselves.   There's no going to, you know, wherever you just get out And I got out my friend picked me up And we went to a Bucky's I don't know if you went to a Bucky's while you're here in Texas I did not know For the next trip that is that is on the list for the next trip Make it a pilgrimage. It's worth it. No, I don't know They're huge. So I went to Bucky's and I'm like I walk in It's like, I don't know about 10 in the morning And it's just people everywhere and I'm like just tripping. I just stopped and After I won was like what and I was like There's just so many people and it was you know I'd been gone for a little about four and a half years And it was just so strange to be around all those people just doing what they normally do Yeah, I'm I'm sure you're in a bubble a very regimented bubble And then it's like here's the free world.  Do your thing now Yeah, like you've done your time you've served your sentence model Yeah, six years in in prison and then the day I got out was in the middle of a pandemic I caught a plane to to colorado Like I talked to you that Yeah Yeah, I salmon at the airport right exactly it was great that day was the craziest day I had a full-on Prison beard and then going through The airport with a mask on and then flying out to colorado All like that was the most sensory overload. I've ever had in 24 hours. Yeah Yeah, it's It's crazy.  It's like so I've been dealing with just a lot of like stress lately just just with life being alive, right?   I don't care anymore. You know, I'm just going back to prison. Well, not not Literally saying that to themselves, but like I'm gonna go back to doing. I don't care if I go or not right Yeah, and it's you know with proper mental health. They could give them the tools to actually You know know how to deal with those thoughts as they come Exactly and I think um And again, I'm just kind of these are just my opinions. Um But yeah, like you were saying it's it's familiar They know what to do What to think there versus out here There's There's a ton going on And even if you're you know, whether you've been incarcerated or not, it's incredibly stressful So I cannot imagine what it's like to go from that bubble to back out here and it's like Shit, I have bills like what what you know, or you know, just like yeah exactly like you just go from being very right It's almost I don't I don't know what the term is but I I can imagine going from super it's Going from super regimented to not You want to go back to the super regimented because it's comfortable.  I mean, I didn't have any I didn't have a job The the person I think of a lot like we we've talked ben david's been on the show and he's He's a great example of oh my god of like the Someone who could definitely benefit from mental health services inside of prisons because what happens is he has like he can he has seeking behaviors and does not like He knows exactly what to do inside prison and then knows exactly what and then gets out and then still continues it and there's no There's nothing For him, there's no benefit inside or out like there's nothing that's to for him to like change that Behavior or to or reason to change it or anything like there's there's people like malone and I And even Dave I think at certain points. I've been like, you know Trying to like try to help him and he is like he's He's got a heart of gold. He's he's the most likable person in the world and But he like there there's a part of him that is like He cannot stop using And there's that's that's the idea of addiction. You're you know the whole powerlessness against it is the You know, I mean From what I understand about it I Think I mean it's a there's there's literally a chemical situation going on inside of their heads That is telling them that I mean giving them this overwhelming urge to Have this substance over and over all you know all day on they don't have if they're not on it Well, then they all they can think about is getting it I mean, it's too powerful for for an individual to overcome. I mean, you just gotta you gotta think about it from their terms Well and coming from personal experience Even if Even if you try to get off of it, sometimes those withdrawals are so bad that you're like, you know what?  I've been off of them for I don't think that was 20 so 12 years And I was I was in the it was I I was just determined I had seen my godfather pass away from a pill addiction from three spinal surgeries same as me So when I hit that third when I was like, nope. Nope because I I saw I was like I can't but but I also My mentality was different, I guess And so like I can sympathize with people that are stuck in active addiction because I know how freaking tough it is to get off of that stuff but then you know, even 12 years later I was in um In the hospital for a few days for a double kidney infection and they gave me oxy And I was only on it for three days and I was like three days. I should be good. I should be fine.  So I I know how like just addicted to your body.  I was like, I don't know where they are I don't want to see him like we're not going on this road again. Like I can't do it because it's just it's it's just like that So I can completely understand but I actually have a A question for you guys just because we are talking mental health What what was the access to it it like depending on what? But obviously I I don't know how like In depth you guys go just yet on like your stories, but I'm What was the access to mental health there? Was it just seeing like a counselor? and getting on that if you needed it or You can find shakedown merch graphic novels and other projects at waywardpress.com. That's w-a-y-w-o-r-d Press comm if you would like to support the shakedown get exclusive content and watch episodes live You can support us at patreon.com slash the shakedown like subscribe and leave a comment to give him alone that inner peace He so richly deserves


Hello and welcome to the chart of the week video with me David Adam Today's date is Thursday the 28th of June and the time has just gone 1240 British summertime This week's chart of the week is the DAX or as we call it on a platform the Germany 30 The German market has been under a lot of pressure recently over trade concerns The United States and the EU already have a slight trade skirmish going on at the moment But the wider concern is what's going on between Beijing and Washington DC yesterday recently The United States of America has sort of ramped up its rhetoric and trade tensions have become higher With China and only yesterday the fact that the United States made it very clear that there that the restrictions on Chinese investment In the US isn't going to be as tough as traders originally suspected But the Trump administration has made it made it very clear that they're not taking a soft stance Which the Chinese investment in the United States and essentially Traders are fearful that the the treatment that that China are receiving now is Is a is a indication of what the EU are going to be in store for in the weeks to come and obviously Germany is a major manufacturing Economy during manufacturing is essentially the kind of the parameter of European manufacturing So any kind of trade concerns between the United States and China traders are viewing We could see something similar between the Washington DC and Brussels in the next few weeks or months So you see in the German market come off quite heavy in recent sessions and taking a look at the price action of the past few months The DAX made a fairly decent recovery between March and May Then I had a bit of a pullback in May But the market does start to get a push higher notice that the the high in the middle of June Didn't actually take out the high of of May got quite close But it didn't actually quite get there which is and a bit of a work inside in itself And then since since mid-June the German market has been consistently pushing lower That's a lot of ground in the past couple of weeks I can see a lot of red candles here and as the market is driving lower We can see a steady increase in negative momentum So the market's going lower and it's a steady increase and I'm actually here to have a negative momentum So the momentum is with the sellers only yesterday The German market fell to a level not seen since early April was a bit of an indication in itself of which way the market's heading If you manage to take out yesterday's low of 12123 we could be looking at it back down towards 12,000 the big psychological number or perhaps even down as the early April lows have been around the kind of 11,800 area and if you go south of 11,800 we could be looking heading back down towards the February lows or the 2018 lows of 11,692 If you do manage to snap higher and push and bounce back in the German market We could look at resistance coming to play in on the 12,600 area notice how it acted both support and resistance In in recent weeks out of a certain level has been significant in the recent past It could be significant in the near future pushing north of that Resistance could commit to play at this red line here Which comes into play at 12,787 was again has a bit of reason history of acting as Support and our resistance so it may be significant in the future And also the turning moving average is quite a good problem But whether our market isn't you know is it as positive sentiment or negative sentiment and while it remains south of it It's likely that the sentiment will remain positive But if you do manage to push higher beyond the turning moving average the next area to keep a mile for will be 13,000 big psychological number and we go north of that We've been looking towards because of the June and the May highs even though May was slightly higher high of 13,200 and if you go north of 13,200 it's quite a good We could be an infrared chance then of retesting the January high of 13,600. Well, that's all for me this week. Thank you very much


Now elsewhere in the NFL we have a couple news items and if you have a normal hunt story I know miss Norma. She showed up at those games and so she had all the energy in the world So chiefs fans, I'd love to hear from you at up and Adam's show But let's move on to a little Dalvin cook here because I think you should stay in Minnesota Okay, ESPN's reporting that Dalvin and his exit from the Vikings is likely if not completely certain and basically It's all a formalizing situation now the exit You know could come in the form of a trade, but here's where I'm sitting It'll be hard for Minnesota to get a ton because delvin's three years left on a chunky hearty contract So a release seems more likely because of the cap hit cook Let's not forget is coming off of the one of the best years of his career Okay, a fourth straight Pro Bowl. He's going into his 28-year season Not quite at that dreaded 30 year old mark for running back So he's still under that mark and you know, yeah, I'll get into some landing spots in a minute Miami fine, sure, but the Viking side of things is interesting. I don't see enough people talking about it right now They might be in the most complicated but fascinating position of any NFL franchise right now We don't care. We forget. We completely disregard that they're coming off of 13 in four season Probably because they were bouncing the first round to the playoffs. I get it But they're a completely wide open division lest you forget and even as the reigning champs They're not favored to win it. The Lions are the consistent favorite every time I've looked over at Vandal sports What can you show it? You want to check out this stuff and how the Lions are falling here? The Vikings have been playing musical chairs with the other three Okay, two weeks ago, Minnesota had the longest odds and now they're back up in second Which we like to see and there's good reason for it because they have so much talent on the roster But I don't think I'm alone in sort of struggling to figure out what to do with this Vikings team They're a conundrum. They are a total wriggle right now And there's a lot of questions and it all starts with a quarterback her cousins. He's entering the contract here Okay, they traded away their best defensive player From last season in Zadaria Smith and now it sounds like Dalvin is all but formally gone. So to me it seems like They're playing this halfway. I don't love it Like they're trying to rebuild on the fly while staying in contention 13 and 4 this is a risky proposition here and I get it Justin Jefferson. He's gonna want the bank, right? He's gonna command a monster deal and they have some cap issues But this division is right for the taking right now. It could be yours It's the NFC looking how it does right now. So I know the Eagles are strong and made some things and are doing some things but outside of the Eagles Every other team in the conference has the same sort of question mark at least one or two Just hanging over their heads outside of Philadelphia. So Personally Like I'd love to see Minnesota hang on to Dalvin and go all in one last ride with Kirk cousins, you know Kirk oh chains, let's do it And if it doesn't work then you blow it up because I feel like the only teams these kind of half measure rebuilds work for Are the teams who already have young future franchise quarterbacks in place So there's a nice little opportunity here with this conference being what it is And I think it's fair for Vikings fans to question whether or not questy and this front office are sort of positioning themselves to take Full advantage of that this season and I know time is gonna tell and we can't really judge Anything that they're doing right now. It's a long-term deal But I don't know this season the fan base is gonna look back wondering Why didn't you push harder? I think that's the state of the NFC and the NFC North and if they just move on from guys Like a Dalvin a difference maker coming off one of the best years of his career It's a little tough to swallow with things being as wide open as they are and if they do move on from him We got to talk landing destinations, right because there's interesting teams popping up But there's you know, we'd love to see Miami everyone everyone their mom on Twitter today is like to Miami to Miami and Right, it's a cute storyline, of course former mr. Florida football coming backward. I'll start it I get it, but he can make a huge impact with this dolphin squad their run game was shot It was 25th last year and it's been an issue for a while over the last six years the Dolphins six years guys The Dolphins have had the second least productive run game in the league Okay, they scored the fewest touchdowns on the ground over that spin as well. It's been a problem So while I know the Dolphins have built this like let's go Tyreek Hill high octane passing attack with Daniel so fun and zany and cool and wattles waddling in the thing Let's not forget that the heart of this Kyle Shanahan Influenced Mike McDaniel scheme is the run game It's their bread and butter and their passing game and the RPOs are all built off of that So putting Delvin in this offense might give two of the most dangerous collection of weapons in the entire leak and McDaniel made it very clear The Dolphins are gonna make the most of their cap space He spoke to the media last Wednesday before putting up, you know The crafty move to work and completely changing the subject before I got any follow-up stick a listen our guy Mike I'd feel confident to say that We'll make good use out of that salary cap room When it comes to start of the regular season I Can't believe you guys missed the op this is this is the South Florida 2023 did not just begin with these Playoff Really progressions of both the heat and the floor of Panthers. No one wants to talk to me about Nova Okay, yes He really did start talking about division to Nova southeastern basketball team and avoided any further questions and move I fully respect We see you we love you but Let's work with what he did give us for a second right once June 1st hit the Dolphins cap space jumped up 13.9 million and he didn't hold back and saying they're going to make use of that space Which by the way would be enough to absorb delvin cooks contract If they wanted to make a trade or more than enough to sign him if he hits the market and they part ways with him So it looks like Miami. It sounds like it Nova aside They're ready to be aggressive and I have to wonder for move for Dalvin switches these odds up a little bit they have the third longest odds to win the AFC East on Fandall sportsbook and Without delvin the Dolphins are getting slept on here first of all beyond and I you know I think if all breaks right and they stay healthy They're gonna contend for a Super Bowl this year in a loaded crowded crazy AFC I think they've got the talent to do it. So getting Dalvin. Holy smokes like they can have like a top 10 run game Tough tough, I don't know if it changes those odds. I'd love to know what you guys think though We have a we have a great running back on the show speaking of AFC East running backs and James white is on the show He's a three-time. Oh my gosh, sweetie. You have three Super Bowl rings So you guys get in that closet and pull not for me to see those sparklers. We've got former England Patriots great James white on the show


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Hello, hi, and how are you doing? Gordon of the Tech Star here. Welcome to another thrilling and exciting episode of Hivachi Talk. In the house with me today is the lost nomad of the world, the security guy. I'm Gordon of the Tech Star, and this is Andrew, the security guy. Good to be back, brother. Nice to see you, man. It's terrific to have you here. We have a great guest today, too. We have Ryan Bonaman. I'll get it right. It's your last name. I'll lock that puppy in there. He's going to talk about the value of internships. As a student, we'll see how that works out.  Hivachi Talk, man. Hivachi Talk. Anyway, we do news, and I've been doing a lot of following on cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin, and so I give my little update before we get into knowing who you are. So, anyway, I did a presentation last week at the Harvard Club. Okay. And apparently, Think Tech was there, and they recorded it. So, I don't know where it ended up, but I'll have to ask Jay where that may have ended up. But anyway, so one of the things I talked about Bitcoin last time I was on the show was the fact that there's so much popularity with it now that it's lagging on getting the transactions processed. So, there's been lots of debate about how to do this thing, and so this thing called Segwit 2 looks like it's going to be recognized as the way to speed up the transaction authentication process. And 80% of those that are in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency field are behind it. So, I think that's going to happen real soon. So, the other thing is that the United States government, FBI has asked for a $21.6 million budget and 80 new employees to watch over things like countergroups including drug hackers, virtual currencies, and all of this. So, the FBI is looking to get into this because I've mentioned this before. There's a lot of Ponzi schemes out there. There's a lot of people pretending to take, pretending that they've got something and they're taking your money. They're called ICOs, Initial Coin Offerings. And so, I see a lot of that happening out there.  Be prepared to lose it, but you better pay close attention to what's out there because you just can't do it on a whim. Interesting. Yeah, it's interesting. Then the interesting, Christine Lagarde, she is the director of the International Monetary Fund. Okay. I said, type of distributed ledger. That's the ledger that's used to manage cryptocurrencies as a defense against cyberterrorism. So, again, the banks are going to be looking at the ledger cryptocurrencies and how all this thing works. And I told everybody before, you're going to see this for real estate transactions, not the money just tracking the estate deals, the ledger for student registrations. You're going to see this is going to be the new secure way of it. We're going to be processing transactions. Yeah, everything that needs a receipt, right? Yeah, anything that needs a receipt. I can agree there's been an authorized transaction where you can track it with that ledger. So, an example is real estate. You buy a piece of property, right? You got to do a title search. 30% of all title searches in the U.S. have errors in them, 30%. But if you move that to a ledger technology, the cryptocurrency type technology, that would essentially go away because they all have to be authenticated and every transaction builds on the next one, on the next one, on the next one. To me, according to the new internet, that whole ledger is the whole new internet. When did it all originally start from being completely anonymous? Like, you could get bitcoins and spend them and it would be all... Satoshi. Yeah, the mystery man Satoshi. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's your generation, dude. Man, this is something you should be at. Anyway, let's get a little background on yourself.  I am. How'd you land there? So, how'd you land there? How'd you land it? I've been stationary for almost six years. Did you grow up here? I did not. I'm actually from a small town in Illinois, in southern Illinois, so somewhat near St. Louis, Missouri. Okay. So, when I first came out to Hawaii, I was visiting my older brother and, of course, he showed me the ultimate time in Hawaii. I loved it. I said, you know what, I just want to come out and give it a shot and see if I like it. Ten years later, here I am. So, I decided to stay and my main objective in the beginning was to start going to school. In the beginning, I wanted to go to business school. That's my main thing.  And upon going to business school, I just found out I didn't... Maybe that type of schooling wasn't my style. I just didn't like the way you're teaching. It just didn't seem practical for me. So, what I did is I kind of took some time off, tried to start a business with friends of mine, my brother. Long story short, a couple of years ago, I ended up starting a tour company with about nine guys in Waikiki, which we still run today. Oh, awesome. And then decided I wanted to go back to school to get that degree as a just-in-case type thing. Right. But actually, now that I'm back in the IT program, the ISD or ITS program, I get those two mixed up. I'm finding that... Not on the exam. You know, I find out that I really enjoy it and actually think I want to do a full career in this and even have my business still on the side, but really push forward because I have an internship with ISD and it's been going great so far. So, I'm kind of curious to see where that goes and kind of excited to get started with it. So, you're one of your professors, is David Stevens? Yes. So, who runs the Cyber Underground? Friday's. Underworld? Underground? Yeah, underground. Tune in. I always get it wrong. One day I call it the Cyber Underwear. So anyway, so he's one of your professors. Fantastic professor. And he's got that show every Friday at... One. One. So, and you're the co-host on there. I am. It's our spin-off. Cheers. That's all I have said. So, how... Are you... Freshman, Junior, where are you at? 7. Believe it or not, as of right now I'm 26. Okay. I still am pursuing my associates. Okay. So, after this next semester I'll have my associates. Okay. And then with a few certificates. Yeah. A network plus, security plus. Yeah. So, kids it's never too late. Even school. Yeah, I was 45 when I went to school. I never went to university until I was 45. Yeah, everyone got their own pace and... That's different. That's different. Yeah, that's their own pace. You know, it's fine. What school that would let me in. That's nice. Anyway, so... So, that's terrific. So, how's the program? Yeah. So, it's actually, from my understanding it's somewhat new to KCC. So, you know, I believe they started only the past two to three years and they really started amping up this IT, like cyber security program, at KCC. Because, of course, HCC's had it for a while and now they are really focused on the cyber security side and they're doing great at it. So, I think this is kind of KCC's way of combating that and starting to get serious about it because they've seen the market, they've seen how many jobs are coming up, how much companies actually need with all these recent breaches, which I'm sure Dave talks about a lot in the shows. Right. So, I think it's becoming a lot more important and I think kids my age and even younger are really starting to realize how important it is to kind of maybe take that route if that's something you're interested in. So, are internships a key component? I like the call these up. Internship, I was... I'm not like... I like apprenticeship. Yeah. You know, I remember like Carpenters had apprenticeships. Sure. Yeah, I like to call these like it's an apprenticeship. Learning how to do things from the experts in a particular field that you're studying. So, is this an integral part of what KCC or is it up to you to go and find those opportunities? It is a requirement for at least my program that I'm in to have a semester of an internship. That's a class. Yeah, it's a class. So, he has to do so many hours of work in the field. Okay. The nice thing is they actually do provide a group of possible companies to intern with. Okay. The way I find out about IST is through Dave Stevens. Okay. He recommended to me, you know, basically what I said I wanted to do is more of the sales side and kind of push on that tech route. Right. Rather than just be more of the programming side.  So, I'm excited about it. Pretty fun. But I guess you could go out and find your own internships if you were, you know, more aggressive. But I think KCC does provide that service for the students to make it a little bit easier for them. Now, are these paid for or are they... I believe some of them are free. I believe some companies are free. Free 99. Free 99. Fortunately, IST has been very good to me and they are paying me for this time. Okay. So, I really appreciate that. But I think it's important for everyone to have an internship. That's the best way I learn is through trial and error. I'm not, like, open a book and read a book. Like, I like to be hands-on and that's how I learn best. Yeah, you learn by trial and error, not by trial and error. At least to my belief. The rules surrounding it are if they actually come in and are doing work that you would have had employees doing, then you must pay. Oh, so you've got to deal with that state of Hawaii labor laws or is that federal labor laws? Something like that. I wish I knew about it because I'm not the HR piece of our business, but he works, so he gets paid. Okay, he works and so he gets paid. I think if they come in and they just, like, shadow and they don't actually do anything that other people would be doing or that you need done, then it's a little different. Maybe if they did filing or something, it wouldn't matter. If they're working and we, you know, Ryan has gone through our training process for our CRM and all this kind of stuff, so he's getting, as if he's just onboarded, you know, like, he's not working 40 hours a week, but, you know, when he's there, he's doing the same thing everyone would do that we hire. Well, the good thing for you is you get to test whether or not, you know, this could be a potential employee down the line. Yeah, you try to hire him and see, you know, after the internship, then we say, hey, let's hire him. As long as I'm messi-ing up. He knows there's stuff. Well, we like to mess stuff up. You will. I can guarantee you. You will. You will. I'm dealing with some projects right now and some of the experts have really messed up. So did you take the summer? Are you in class now? I'm not in the summer yet. The classes that I need to finish off at KCC were not available in the summertime. Okay. And I'm hoping with KCC that actually next semester they open up a secondary internship class because after the internship, you actually have to take a class as well. Okay. So I'm hoping they set up a second one because the students didn't set enough room. So there's like 14 of us that don't have that class. And if I didn't graduate, I'd have to wait a whole semester to take that class. Now, how many students are in the program? Ballpark. Gordo, I don't want to lie to you. I'm not really sure. 50, 60. In a cybersecurity program? Yeah. It's relatively new. I think there's probably less than 50. Okay. But that's still a significant number in fact. Yeah. It's a lot more people showing interest. Dave was talking about 20. 20, they started and then another 20. I think there's 40. And then maybe the new wave will start with the next semester or next spring or something like that. So it's growing. It's growing. Yeah. And we talk about careers and the few people that watch the show, these opportunities are sitting there presenting themselves to individuals like you're talking about. Yeah. I'm sure more businesses aren't coming in recruiting you guys. So did they bring in outside speakers as a part of the coursework there? Oh, they did. They have the KCC job fair, which is kind of very vague. But they did. Yeah. They did. We go to that too. Yeah. They also have an advisory board that I said on at KCC. Oh, awesome. It advises the faculty on programs that should start, that should start up. And one of the ones that came up a number of years ago was to set up a program dealing with cybersecurity and those kinds of things. And they obviously listened because they had the program now and they've started that.  It wouldn't allow me to go because I didn't take the internship class yet. Okay. You actually had to be in the class. I did. I did not. But when that one was going on, I was with another firm and someone from that firm went on my, from on my stead for that one. Yeah. So I'm a one man show now. So having an intern, an intern, I got to make sure I got to, someone I'll figure out how to pay them. Yes. And then try to figure out how to put 50 years of IT stuff into their head, of which 90% is school stuff. What? It changes like that. It's changing like that on top of that. So you said you also got some certificates along the way. So is that a mandatory or a P, how does that work out? Not necessarily mandatory, but in, in IT field, you know, you're well aware. Having certificates is definitely a plus when you're looking for jobs. When you're, if you're an independent contractor and you're working with companies as a consultant or what not. It helps because it shows that you have that experience because you have to consistently keep up with that certificate. Like constantly be tested every few years to make sure you're updating what's going on. Right. So I think that's important. CompTIA or ISACA. CompTIA, they have the Security Plus Network Plus. They have the, what's the cyber security one? The Cloud Plus and. CCSB and all the different ones. So it's something to make, for the viewers to make note. So you can be going to school and you're getting the general generic education and what's going on. But then the various technologies or infrastructures or whatever you want to call it, or companies have their own certificate programs. Absolutely. That are not necessarily taught at school. Right. And those are, they are just as important, if not more important than what you're getting taught at school. And that's true. You could honestly go online and teach yourself IT and cyber security and learn to code at home and then just get these certificates as like a secondary thing or as a plus to what your own, you know, self-taught ways are. So it's good for, it's good for those ones. And you guys have a lab there. I know Dave talked about housing. So that gives you, and it's segregated from the KCC network of course so you can play malware. Right. So we sometimes use the actual lab they have there to kind of more of a hands-on PC operating maintenance where we kind of take apart computers, put them back together, play them on the boards. For the cyber security side, we actually go into a virtual, it's like a net lab.  You won't be, FBI won't be knocking at your door so it's safe to mess around on it. Which is nice. Okay, with that we got to take a pause. Okay. We got to take a minute. I got to pay some bills. I got to go grab Angus. He's really irritated on something today. Oh, is there a rant today? So he's got a rant. Anyway, so we'll grab Angus and we'll be back here in about a minute. You're watching Think Tech Hawaii which streams live on ThinkTechHawaii.com, uploads to YouTube and broadcasts on cable OC-16 and O'Lello 54. Great content for Hawaii from Think Tech. Match Day is no ordinary day. The pitch, hallowed ground for players and supporters alike. Excitement builds, game plans are made with responsibility in mind, celebrations are underway. Ready for kickoff, MLS clubs and our supporters rise to the challenge. We make responsible decisions while we cheer on our heroes and toast their success. Elevate your Match Day experience. If you drink, never drive. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Batchi Talk. Andrew, the security guy here. We've got Ryan Borneman, IT intern from KCC. And of course, Angus is in the house. Today's security minute is a little different. I have a little gift for the Texar today. This is a little bit of Viking schnapps. I happen to know he's got a little Viking in him. So I thought I'd take this moment just to present a little gift from Iceland since I've been traveling and not been on the show enough for you today, sir. Angus, good to see you, buddy. What is my gift?  What am I sharing with you? How do you make me a wee man? We make schnapps. You've got more than a wee man Viking in him. You've got a lot of Viking in him. Ryan, how are you doing there, man? I'm doing good. Good to see you in school. Stay in the trouble. We're following that other guy's footsteps over there. Angus, we crack open this bottle right now. We crack it open for sure. Get ready for it. Anyway, you know, when we were talking about shopping, people were not being lazy and whatever, really irritating me. So it was, I know, we tripped to Mexico. So I took this picture of this person on the airplane. You've got to be kidding me, people. Are you guys actually getting on the airplane doing this kind of thing? I don't hear a thing. You got that photo up there? Is that available? Anyway, the person was sitting in the chair with their feet up on the back of the other chair. Ooh. If I had been sitting in the chair in the front, I would have walked around and given a skite and a one. Take it easy. Yeah, come on, people.  Some people don't fly much. They're driving me crazy. I tell you. You're not going to do that, right? I don't do that. Many of millennials are going to do this kind of stuff. All right, you better. I'm watching you a lot. Anyway, that's why we rent for the day. No tech, no nothing just rent. Anyway, like I said at the end of the segment, like a wing game for you. Are you a bee? Hello? Nice. Good job, Angus. And seriously, you know, when you're flying out there, be courteous, man. I've been on so many planes this year. I think I already made diamond like 150,000 air miles. But be courteous to the people in front of you.   We don't need road rage on an airplane. All right, goodbye. You're telling me. Air, airplane. Thank you very much. Yeah, some low key, man. This will be, I've never had low key. So this will be a first. Very well. It's a pure and natural drink for real Vikings. That's it. Wow. I got to wear my helmet next time. I'll be there with it next time. Thank you so much. Angus and I will share that. Anyway, we're talking with Ryan and we're talking about the internship, which I like to call apprentice, apprenticeship. Sure. Because carpenters and plumbers and all that stuff used to do it. And I can't tell people do the same thing. So again, so why did you pick this, this career? What made this one jump out of it? You said business and then all of a sudden you kind of made this turn. Well, really it was, I've always had to think for computers. I always liked computers. I've always thought it was neat how they pretty much controlled so much. Our lives. So as moving forward, it just got more and more and more. I started to think, well, 15, 20, 30 years from now, look how adapted we are and how connected we are to everything. So 30, 40 years from now it's just going to be three times that. So I figured if I want to get a degree and I want to be in the workforce, it's probably smartest to spend that time in school for the four years of actually getting something that's going to matter. It's going to matter forever. I don't ever see technology going away. Yeah, it's not definitely.  You know, and understand just different, the power of a program, what you can do with it. Most of us have all this capacity and we use about one or two percent of it. You know, we learn how to do a couple little macros or a couple little things in power software. Microsoft Word. Yeah. Not many people really adept in the ways that you can. Well, there's those that get educated and those that learn and I think that's where the apprenticeship comes into play because you're learning. Right. Whereas if you're getting educated about it in the programs at school but not until you get under the road, do you learn things. Now, what's been the biggest surprise about going out and you've started your own company so you have some familiarity to that but going out and working for a company like IST, what's been some of the surprises that have hit you that you weren't it's so funny because I'm so off of the normal nine to five job that I haven't worked that in eight years. You sound like a millennial. Nine years. Ever since I've been doing this job I make my own hours I work whenever I want I can go in there's no boss calling me and I got so comfortable with that but now that I'm back into what people call a normal work day, it's actually kind of nice. It's different to me and it's going to be challenging with the kind of companies they work with it's a lot larger business was. What I did on a daily basis as far as sales was concerned was a very small minuscule thing it was still fun I enjoyed it but this is a whole new industry I can get into something else I can learn I can grow with so that's kind of what I'm really excited about but it's also going to be a challenge but I feel like I have good leaders next to me. When we had a guy on last week Rich Lyman who you know from personnel I've been in this industry this cameras access controls credentialing electronic security it's like I put that adjacent to when the web came out I mean that's how big it is it's like cryptocurrency those three are all sitting there it's all new fronts for the technology for industries so you can get yourself into Ryan's getting to take a look at specifically like the healthcare vertical and then we do DoD vertical and then we've got a lot of other commercial verticals so he gets to kind of see the differences in there and the sales cycles and those and the needs and the regulations are different across all those domains he'll get a great glimpse over the summer of a lot of different aspects of business so selling is one thing delivering is the other I don't know where to get never oversell I always think she can follow through delivering that's always the challenges the teamwork he's seen how we have a lot of practice called traction which is a program we use it's an entrepreneurial operating system for managing the people and the different aspects of personality that come into play you've got to transfer what the customer wanted and told the sales person down to the ops people down to the installation team down to the it's got to be delivered as requested and so there's a process there and so he's going to get a glimpse of how our company does that a lot of ways to do that but ours is you know ours is borrowed from a known way of doing it which we implemented a few years ago which is pretty fun and I think it works well because just by being there for the short time I have it's kind of neat to see that there's multiple different departments but everybody on a daily basis is getting up for a quick meeting everyone works together on every project everyone knows what's going on so in some companies you have kind of everyone's in their own section and in the end that we can deliver what we're selling and this is not just unique to Andrew's company there's a lot of companies they've got you've got your salespeople you've got your designers you've got the technicians you've got the engineering group and they've all got to coordinate their efforts with whatever's going on and I'm dealing right now I've got all of those going on and then I've got to deal with the architectural firm and I've got to deal with the construction guys and then I've got to deal with their engineers that's why I got you to look and everybody this is going to go down so down well so that's why you've got all this kind of stuff going on so my advice to you as a potential if you get into the sale side make sure you understand the back end side right because you can end up selling something and give your whole team nothing but heartburn all the way down the line so that's not something that's there so what advice would you give to for young adults like yourself getting into this field or anything your entrepreneur you started your own business would kind of cool but what kind of advice would you be giving them now that you've got to experience some of this I would say definitely a lot of people are confused in college of where they want to go what they want to do with their lives it's very tough to know that at a young age I struggled with it when I was in my early 20s it's something I didn't really know and I kind of jumped around from business to tech I wanted to do communications to get done with it and be done I think you should look into it look into cybersecurity as I did read in the articles see how it's affecting our everyday world big companies like Google and Facebook they're being hacked if they're hackable we're all hackable see what's happening across Europe yesterday I mean all across Europe every single day every single day so that encouraged me to say hey you know what if I'm going to be in an industry and if I'm going to spend this time in school and a lot of people spend a lot of money for these programs let's make sure it's worth something that's you know good career and what's that job security I guess you could say that's interesting well you can create your own job and that's the opportunity that sits there you can have the opportunity to create your own business you can create your own job you can create your own career I mean back in my day and literally there's multiple generations just sitting here you're working with multiple generations but back in my day the thought of you working for more than one company was pretty unusual once you got your first job that was it you never moved on and how many times have I moved on which is not the norm for my age but you guys if you bring a lunch bag to work two days in a row you're a permanent employee I mean it's just like oh it's been nice here but I got an offer for $80,000 down the street and I only been here a week sure and what a lot of guys do have I've been hearing is they'll take jobs that you know whether it's a coding job or within a company and then on their spare time in the weekends they'll code freelance your company's overseas or just make extra money I mean it's such a nice field to be in IT and cybersecurity because it literally controls everything so as we're kind of winding down believe it or not we've burned through this thing already so Ryan you've been great having you as a guest on this show because you've got some energy and I like where you're heading I think a lot of young people out there watch this guy and pay attention to what he's saying you can learn a lot you won't listen to me as for sure I mean a great grandfather in the house no guest does not go unrewarded you get number 124 in the series of these awesome solo cups awesome so I've been seeing a few of them showing up on eBay for over $100 none of them sold but they're up there haven't sold any of them but they're all up there anyway so I just want to shout out to a few of my friends Bruce first name Bruce hang in there buddy you'll be well fast Hamish you're doing well looking forward to seeing you in about a month and as we say at the end of every show one, two, three now you're doing


Hello everyone. Welcome to today's webinar by Product School. Our topic for discussion today is bringing clarity to chaos. Before we dive into this topic, let me briefly introduce myself. My name is Valentin Coria and I'm a product manager with Amazon. I've been with Amazon for almost two years now and have worked across two organizations, Customer Trust and Partner Support and Amazon Transportation Services. So let's take a look into the agenda. The agenda for today is why is clarity important? How can you create clarity as a product leader by following three steps, iterating and improving and key takeaways from today's webinar? So why is clarity important? As we all know, technological wonders are built by a team. When a team working together towards a common goal as clarity, they have a clear understanding of everything they need to implement to effectively achieve their goal. Basically, they have an understanding of the below questions. What's the goal? What's the strategy to achieve this goal? What's the step-by-step plan? What's their exact role on the team? What are they responsible for? What decisions can they make? And the most important, why is their team trying to achieve this goal in the first place? So wouldn't it be wonderful if clarity were the default state of teams? Unfortunately, it's the opposite. The default state of teams in today's world is chaos and confusion. In today's world where technology is growing exponentially and business demands speed to market, strategies shift, plans usually change and teams grow really fast. This leads to teams becoming even more confused. So what is the problem with confused teams? Confused teams usually find it hard to achieve their goal. They are usually distracted by low priority work. They duplicate efforts. They notice too late that things fell through cracks. They'll miss deadline or their product quality suffers and their anger about how to proceed. Clarity enables teams to be focused on their actual work. The step-by-step plan and the goal instead of continuously reassessing what needs to be done next. So how can you create clarity as a product leader? One of the most vital functions of a PM's job is actually to move their team from chaos to clarity. Unfortunately, we as product managers usually tend to overestimate how much clarity our team has and it's usually because of human tendency. As product managers, the plan is clear in our heads and our teams tend not to surface the need for more clarity as it can get embarrassing to admit you have no idea what you're supposed to be working on. It is also important to note while the entire team is responsible for product success, only the product manager is responsible for the product's failure and that's because you as a product manager had all the tools, people, teams, resources in place and the decisions you made actually tend the product to fail. This reason makes it even more clear why clarity is a crucial function for a product manager. From my own learnings and experience, I've uncovered three following steps that will help PM's create clarity. The first one is defining the purpose and starting with why. Second one is creating a plan and the third step is assigning responsibilities. Let's dive deep into each one of these steps. So let's look into defining the purpose and starting with why. It is very crucial that everyone on the team shares a common purpose. They have a clear understanding of why they are doing whatever it is they are working on in the first place. For example, an engineer with clarity on how people use their product can make better performance tradeoffs that optimize the customer's experience. As a PM, we often lead a team that is part of the larger organization and one of the most important things we can do is to help everyone on the team understand how the larger organization is impacting the world, how our team is crucial or critical to that success, and how their individual work is important to the success of the team. So the best way to start with why is by defining your team's mission statement. To develop a mission statement, consider the five key elements below. What, how, who, why, and your distinctive competence? What is your customer needs you're attempting to fill in? How defines the task, technology, methods you will build or create? Who is the primary customers? Why is the reason or motivation behind your work? And distinctive competence, also known as moat, is what you want emphasized, what makes you different, what you want your customers to think of you. Let's look at Spotify's mission statement and break it down. Their mission statement is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. So breaking it down, what does Spotify do? It's basically unlock the potential of human creativity. How they do it is giving an opportunity. Who they do it for is creative artists and their fans. And the value they bring is those artists are able to make a living off of it and the fans can enjoy and be inspired by the art. Your mission statement may not be perfect to the T as of Spotify's, but it's very important to capture the five key elements we discussed. Once you have identified the why, the work to maintain clarity continues indefinitely. Every team meeting, every important document, every project kickoff, every onboarding session is an opportunity for you as a PM to repeat the mission and explain how work at hand is in service of your team's mission. The best way to verify you have succeeded in achieving clarity of purpose is when everyone on your team can answer the below two questions. The first question is if you are wildly successful, how will the world be different? The second question is how is the work you're doing now directly contributes to that success? The important point here is to understand there is no point in moving fast if you as a team are not moving in the same direction. The second step to creating clarity is to create a plan. By defining the why, the team will know the destination and by creating the plan, the team will know how to get there. The plan PMs co-create with their team defines how to best achieve the mission. A plan has multiple layers, each getting progressively more detailed until you have connected your overall mission down to actionable steps. It is also referred to as pyramid of clarity. On the right, you can see an example. The exact steps of a plan will usually depend on the size and scope of your team. So let's take a look at the layers of plan of how it would look like for a PM leading a smaller team. As a PM leading a smaller team, your plan will consist of usually five steps. The first one is the mission. This is your team's ambitious goal. Everyone on the team should know this by heart. The second one is strategy. Strategy is a concise explanation of high level approach you are taking as a team to achieve that mission. You can often boil this down to three, four bullet points. Ideally everyone on the team is very familiar with high level strategy. The next step is key results. These are shorter term goals. Key results are usually measurable, specific and time bound. The next step is projects. These are small missions that an individual team can undertake to achieve the key results. And the final granular step is tasks. These are individual steps that need to be taken in order to execute the project. It is not necessary to enumerate every single task right at the beginning of the project. But it's worth writing down what is known and what is an assumption as it forces you to think through what is required and be for your product requirement document. Creating a plan is generally a highly collaborative process. Also, this isn't a set it and forget process. Over time, plans will inevitably change. The exact set of tasks required to execute a project can change frequently as the team learns new things about the work that is required. It is crucial to have a dynamic way to keep everyone on the same page about your team's plan. And you'll often find teams using tools like Jira, Asana, Trello to track the overall project plan, the epics, features, user stories you will build and their timelines. Your plan also helps you communicate launch timelines to external teams. Now that you have defined the mission and created a plan, the next step in creating clarity is assigning responsibility. Clarity within the team increases when each person knows exactly what role they have in execution of the plan. This requires having an owner for each task of the plan. When no one is responsible for a task, it will not get done. And when two or more people share responsibility for the same task, it may still not get done or it may lead to conflicts. Clearly defining roles, areas of responsibility, and decision-making rights associated with the role cuts down ambiguity, increases clarity around who is responsible for what. As a PM, it's important to clarify and assign specific tasks for each team member early on in the project to create clarity and improve team's productivity. So here are the four steps to establish roles and responsibilities. Step one is determining what needs to get done. When assigning responsibilities, it is important to determine the various tasks that need to get done. Some questions you can ask to identify these tasks are what are the tasks on my team's to-do list? What task does each team member complete per sprint? The second step is identifying gaps in responsibilities. After creating your task list, compare and contrast this task with what the team members are doing. This comparison will help you identify the gaps in responsibilities. This comparison becomes your starting point for your team's workload realignment and also will help you figure out tasks that have no owners and if you need additional resourcing. Step three is to clarify roles using a racy matrix. Racy matrix is a great tool for clarifying your team member's roles. R in Racy stands for responsible and this person performs the work. A stands for accountable and this person is responsible for approving the work. C stands for consulted and this person should give input on the work. I stands for informed and this person should be informed of the progress and the outcome. Once you assign four racy letters to each task against a team member, it makes it easy for each team member to know what their specific role for each task is. And final and the last step is getting feedback from your team members. Asking team members for candidate feedback encourages team collaboration and provides insights into whether the roles you have assigned seem functional. You can ask for feedback by holding a team meeting and asking for feedback on the overall plan or scheduling one-on-one meetings so the team members have a safe space to voice their concerns. Successful PMs always iterate and improve. As a PM, it's your responsibility to be vigilant as time goes on in unearthing ways to find that your team lacks clarity and then working to fix it. The faster your work grows in complexity, the more it may feel like you don't have time to sit down and give your team clarity. And that's exactly when it becomes even more critical to create clarity. To validate clarity, proactively ask your teammates if we are wildly successful, how will the world be different? How is the work you are doing now directly contributes to that success? Additionally, look for opportunities and mechanisms you can create for your team from your own unique experiences to increase clarity. Always keep your audience in mind. Creating clarity for your leadership will be very different than creating clarity for your tech team. Let's take a look into the key takeaways. Clarity improves a team's ability to execute, ability to change directions confidently and overall satisfaction. However, it is important to not get addicted to clarity. Doing great things that haven't done before are ingrained in large amount of ambiguity. A team that freezes in face of ambiguity is a team that can't get very far in navigating uncharted territories. Clarity will never be perfect, but the more you can create it on your team, the more context people will share in making the hard calls and the more everyone will keep moving towards a common north star even when the path is zig-zag. Thank you for your time. I hope this session was useful. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me on my email.


So thank you for joining this community call for the open air content provider, so the provide service where we detail the recent developments regarding the dashboard for providers and some of the services related with content providers, so repository managers, crisis and managers, journal editors, etc., that are part of this open air infrastructure. The idea today, we don't have a specific main topic, we have the idea also to discuss like the other call that we discussed study that our colleagues from CNRIST in Italy did about the availability of the repository, the content from the repository, the OIPM, its interfaces, etc., and we would like also to look carefully maybe next month to a study, recent study that some colleagues did for the European Research Council regarding the readiness of repositories for the funder compliance, maybe we'll focus on that, maybe we can share during this call the link for that study, but we didn't have the availability of the authors, so we will just run through some of the recent novelties and some things that we can discuss about these novelties and recent developments and as you know always available to support any issue that you have or any doubt that we have, we're still relying on the update of the content and the indexed update from the 4th of April. Now I want to remind you that now we have this new link to check the information about changes on the content, so there are initially we have that information close to the explore service, but now it's in the graph page, okay graph.opener.u and then the documentation you have the changes, the main changes when we do these updates, so there is information from where relevant at the source like a new funder on board or critical changes in the model, so all those things are identified there. Be aware, but if you are interested we did the collaboration with Eurocris, the opener guidelines for Chris Managers webinar, the recordings are available, Andrea can share the link here, maybe you can check if you want also to clarify some doubts, in fact I already saw some colleagues here, even from Jan is here from Eurocris, I'm not sure if Andrea's from Bilafeld already joined us, but we can also clarify, so be aware of this or if you know someone that would be interested you can, the other relevant maybe there are also colleagues here from the Dutch colleagues, so we allocated some time and some effort to specific support in the dedicated webinars for repositories from the Netherlands that were part of Narcissus that was a national aggregator that will stop being available in the soon, so they will rely on open air for the aggregation or for all the Dutch repositories, so we dedicated some time with them, so if you are interested in this specific, if you are part of this country you can also join, but for the others, for the community, it's also interesting for you to be aware of the end of this national aggregator Narcissus and they are committed, there is already this UKB task force committed to ensure that repositories will continue to have visibility in external sources and integrators like open air and benefiting from some of the services from open air, so this is really great and we are working with this task force and we are working with them and supporting all the interested repository managers. The last information, in fact we are not providing here so much technical developments because in fact we didn't have done some changes recently in the dashboard, it's also for your information, a guidelines panel that we will organize in the open repositories, I'm not sure if some of you will be there, if you are lucky to be in South African Cape Town for the open repositories this year and the main idea, in fact there is a slide that I can talk about here that now, yes, the main idea of this and it's not only, I put it here in the slides, not only to advertise the panel but more, so also to share with you that what this panel means, so the organization of this panel about open air guidelines is to formalize and to ensure that we will start from this event to have a kind of community-driven global governance of the guidelines, as you know the guidelines are relevant in the context of, in the European context but they are also part of policies or guidance in some other parts of the world, in some cases regions like the Latin America for the La Referencia Network or in cases of Canada or in Japan or even some alignments in Korea and so this is why with the open air organization decided to create a working group with the different players involved and stakeholders that are in fact using the guidelines for like the standards for national aggregators or for regional aggregators or for other kinds of systems, so from this moment from that panel the idea is that okay let's discuss how can we organize ourselves to ensure that the open air guidelines keep being updated by the open air people aligning with the European context, the European research, the European open science cloud is critical here but the idea is that okay the needs from the different national communities or regional communities are also part of the developments that we are going to do to the guidelines, so this is what the like let's say this milestone, the mark of this of this event, this panel is to ensure that the open air is open and we will invite the players that will be part of this working group to continue this work and in fact as we already did in different contexts when we aligned with that seat or when we worked together with Orochris for the Cree's guidelines or for the guidelines for that archive, so we are in fact working with the community not reinventing the wheel, introducing and reusing standards, etc, so this is the continuation of this work but in a global perspective, so this is why we have this slide. If you will be in Cape Town you can join the panel but with this one my intention was really to just for you to be aware that the guidelines the open air are here to stay and the idea is to receive and welcome also input from other parts of the world and let's see about the updates that we can do so and this is a community driven thing so we will for sure proper document everything and keep it aligned with also the software platforms for the different systems that we are working with not only the software for repositories but other kinds of systems. So we have three more topics here to discuss and then so please interrupt me and I'll put questions in the in the chat that we check if this is only the links that Andre is sharing or if yeah so Alessandro the panel is in fact the open repositories event if I know well it's just a yes a presence meeting a face-to-face meeting I don't think we will begin we can maybe I can do an effort to record the panel because it will be something relevant and then maybe it's available later if there are interested people here I will ensure that I can do that effort even if with my like my facilities or try to find the more professional facilities to record I think it's a good idea if there are more people interested I can we can ensure that yes Andre also sharing here the study that was also our idea if there are more people interested in this knock knock was there this was the study that we we discussed it then the other the other study the open science horizon in Europe MGA requirements was the study that we want to address in one of the future calls I hope that we can do it in in june okay with the colleagues nashku from godtingham university and and our colleague from Italy that I forget the name but okay they were they are one of the two of the four authors of this of this report presented to the european research council okay so let's check this shot uh update the compatibility opposed to get on board in your catalogue be aware of this of this campaign some of of you are already in touch with us which is great to ensure that you are at least compliant with level three and level four of the guidelines or compliant with recent kris guidelines so we have everything properly documented if something is not sufficient please contact us we try to give you a cancer so why to upgrade out to upgrade everything is properly explained why to upgrade in this context of you that are part of the european research european open science cloud ecosystem that you may want to have your data source contributing to the research product catalog from the osc I think it's it's important and it's relevant that you are aware that that you need to comply with the guidelines three and four to be part of open air we still have the aggregation from basic in the driver guidelines of course to you it's good that everyone does the best to to to push and coming here to to upgrade but but be part of the osc so only level three and four are approved and then so and they there is anything else that you want to to go I like from the about this so you we are always happy to receive your contacts so we have this ticket system that you can send us to ask request of this and open air to you we will reply we already started to receive some requests from the community in order for us to help regarding these upgrades and we are trying to to reply as quickly as possible and yes we are available to support perfect so there are different people involved so even has from the menu team but then the open air is the colleague we need is that can help and then of course the aggregation team that can solve all the issues when we are testing it and trying to aggregate the content now now we have just two two slides here to to detail to you and I think it's important for you to be aware of some of the recent information so we talked several times about the onboarding in the osc that you can do it via open air and being part of open air it's quite easy to be part of the osc there are some things that we are updating and we don't have it yet working on the side of the provide but the information is already consumed by the osc so maybe andre that recently is is more involved in this in this work and is also part as other members of open air part of the osc onboarding team can can detail a bit so what you want what you need to do or what you need to know the basics about onboarding your data source also in in the osc portal so what you need to do etc. Yes thank you Pedro and first for this this slide we are seeing here just to inform you that EOSC is preparing some additional documentation so to support all providers that want to register a data source or other service in in the osc portal and also the this page that is linked also in the chat with all the detailed instructions and a relevant topic that you as a data source manager need to know is that in order to register to onboard the data source in osc firstly you need to have your repository also registering open air and to be compatible with the open air guidelines session for free yes for institutional repositories and also compatible with guidelines for data archives for data repositories and regarding queries compatible with guidelines for cruise managers and also you need to to have your organization also registered in in the osc portal for example if our if us at the university of me wants to register our institutional repository first we need to ensure that our university university of me is already onboarded in EOSC so someone that represents the institution needs to register the institution and then the provider is another provider in organization and then we can register a data source and other kinds of services then having the institution register as we can see on this slide in the first box we already have in the back end in the dashboard for of a provider an option to add new data source here in the data source is a repository for example and then in the second step once we select and want to register a data source we will be able to search for data sources that are already registered in open air okay for example if you are already registered in open and provide your repository will appear here and some information will be automatically pre-filled and you can proceed adding the required information as you as you can see in the first box we have here a lot of fields to to provide some additional information for the osc portal and at the end you will be you are adding onboarding your data source in EOSC and at the end you will be asking about the following if you want to also onboard the publications the research results of your repository and if you want you just need to to say that you you want to to onboard also the research products and in practice if you want to onboard the data source and the research products both will be searchable in the osc catalog okay so you are opening a new possibility for the for the discovering of your data source research results registering in EOSC and as Bever said already said this process is is not already fully implemented in order to to do this link with also with open and provide but you can already start this registration process okay and the the aggregation team is already onboarding new data sources in EOSC and the procedure is already ongoing and in place but the technical team is still continuing working in the in some details to implement the full but but in fact for those that are part of open air so things are already there so so having you access to the provider as provider of your organization can add a new data source or ask someone to do it and so as you see find in this electoral data source profile by open air from one of the registers the information is from those registers because that we have the information on our site so you can just fill the form and then proceed so the idea is that then we have for others that are not part we can also interact and open air and they registered by open air proceed with the aggregation and the testing and then are part of of the of the osc portal but but this part this last part that I talked is not yet implemented in our sites only partially but I think it's good for you to know that you can already do it if you want and this is this is good and we have so members from the open air team part of the osc of portal onboarding team that ensure that everything works well so I hope this information is useful for you for you and the details that Andre provided are are okay so it's really quite easy now to do it and raise put here the some screenshots as open air organization provider okay of services but we can you can check it if you are a provider in your organization sometimes so what we need is to ensure that someone do the register or you ask someone to do it and you need to wait a bit for the validation as you as a provider but then if everything is okay in terms of the organization so you will be able to have data sources or to resist the other kinds of services and just a final note in the context of osc future project we are also preparing a workshop regarding this onboarding of data sources and research products the date is not yet finalized but we expect to start disseminating this workshop very soon it is we expect to organize the workshop at the end of May and if you are interested to onboard your data source you can register to attend this workshop and we will give more detailed information yeah you see yes and then I think maybe it's a good idea when we we have the information ready for dissemination from the side of osc future to send it to our to our providers maybe via the the mailing list that we have so you will be able to receive so we will ensure that we send you the the information about this so this this this was everything that we have to say so we have time to questions if you have any issue that you have with playing with the dashboard or the other kinds of okay i'll send out to comply with different provider profile into two versus that as a data source so in fact in fact now you can you can register your data sources as unique okay because now we have that we don't have that separation clearly separation between a literature and data in a data source we don't have everything solve this particularity about the kind of catch all repositories or hybrid repositories whatever we call it uh listen but but you can you can register it and then based on the the resource types we present the types of objects and content that you have the articles the confers the data sets etc we can present that so this this was something that we already start working several times and then there is also some work in terms of alignments and mappings between the resource types that open air have and that they will be also visible in in piosk but for open air issue that part is solved now but but if there is something that is not clear maybe because of a way that you have registered and now we need to change because maybe there was a set that you have excluded from the previous aggregation so you can send us that precast and we change whatever need to be changed in the aggregation profile we don't have that now that separation I hope it was clear okay thank you and there are more and more of these kinds of of uh repositories so catch all hybrid institutional level there are some institutions like like a mini or like others universities that decided to have uh publication repositories and a data repository even then if there are some types of research outputs that are in the frontier but there are other uh institution institutions that have decided to use the the institutional repository publication also to host the data content so which is also a good solution but it's all just a question of updating some information or registering that information okay thank you for the question not sure if we have any other questions if we have we will reply but be aware that the recordings are always available and these slides are also available so I'm not sure if you were aware of this study that we shared so pay attention there are some things that I must confess that I don't agree with this study the I'm opening the link I'm sharing there yes this study here I help now now I open it I saw the that I was trying to to say Emma Lazarie we we contacted the Nazco and Emma Lazarie that in fact they were already worked to open air to the in the past to present in this case we does this this study I think you should look to this to the study and I maybe we can discuss it in in the upcoming one of the upcoming calls so I'm not sure if you were aware if this is a useful information I'm not fully happy with some things that I saw from the results and other things but but I understand that they are a reality in some other things I'm not sure if I agree with the conclusions so I would like also to discuss it in the community call like this open in open way so let's see if we can have time for that in June so this is our promise I'm not sure if we will do it in June or not but but we will put for sure the recordings available from this community call and also the slides and so be be be sure that you still receive the the newsletter or you suggest the newsletter to other colleagues that may be interested we we keep publishing the the newsletter one or two days before the first Wednesday of the month to ensure that the community is informed and it's all so today as we did when we don't have a topic for discussion we usually do it on me for often hour which is good for those that have some commitments but I'm not sure if anyone want to share some thoughts even any colleague from the Netherlands that is working on based on the information or from their degrees guidelines that we have two weeks ago if not if not we can close I hope that you it was useful the information for you in fact as as you saw we don't have any novelty nothing changing our dashboard so we will produce some changes in the users counts quite soon because so they are already in the phase that we are looking to them so to the layout so if you remember we talked about the counter five reports so we will have that update in the dashboard soon but we don't have nothing else new in the dashboard okay