Thanks everybody. All right, so yeah, I'm a technical product manager at a software company in Long Beach, California I used to work for a WordPress agency. So now WordPress is my hobby again as it started out so I Was you know when I was at in doing agency work was a little bit more like Project management and now I have since moved more into product management and the main difference there, which is mean it's a little What's what I'm looking for? I mean it's a little nitpicky, but a project manager deals more with What like what's getting done when and who's building it? But a product manager deals more with why you're building it and who you're building it for So that's where I'm coming from a little bit with this talk Specifically looking at user stories. So what are they? They're a way that you can Describe what you're building in context so that instead of having just a list of tasks You're describing what needs to get done in a way that keeps everybody on the same page And if you're using an agile process, it's a really key building block to the whole thing Does this look familiar to anyone? This is just a little screenshot from probably an actual Trello board or something that I used at some point It's just the list of tasks, you know I need to add a red border around a button and you know adjust some styling on a table so that it becomes more Responsive friendly I mean, you know if you've built a website or anything else before You know the importance of keeping track of all of the little things that need to get done Not only doesn't ensure that you didn't forget something super important at the last minute But it also lets your clients see in real time what's getting done and that's really important just to keep you accountable Keeps everybody happy But as I'm sure you know a project is a lot more than the sum of its task list You can get all the way through each individual item and still end up with something that your client Didn't have in mind and that their users absolutely hate So I mean just a quick show of hands Who's ever given an assignment to a developer or anyone else and it comes back and it might be technically correct But it wasn't quite what you're looking for Yeah, yeah number of people. Yeah, I feel you and I've been that developer too So hopefully This talk is going to show you just maybe a little bit of a different way if we're not using user stories already Just of how they can help you in your process These stories are gonna help you keep the what along with the Context of what you're building so that you're building the right thing For the right person. All right, so these are just some objectives things that I hope you're gonna get out of the talk today That hopefully you're gonna learn a little bit more about product thinking when it comes to understanding What your what your end user is going to need? And hopefully you'll have a better idea if you don't already of how to write clear manageable user stories that are gonna help keep your whole team on track So I also made a couple assumptions when I was putting these slides together I mean you always have to keep your end user in mind, right? So the assumptions that I'm working off of here is that you're already using an agile process If you're not familiar agile is one of many Systems or frameworks out there of how to get things done, especially when it comes to software development and I'm also assuming that you've got more than one person on your team You know, I know that that is certainly not always the case I've certainly worked on a whole bunch of websites just me myself and I but There's a level of complexity that comes in when you start adding additional people to your team You certainly can you know multiply the amount of things that you can get done but you can also at the same time multiply the amount of things that can go horrendously wrong so Keeping keeping those lines of communication Super clear is really helpful. And you know, we don't all just walk out of School or anything we don't all just walk into our desks and we just know how to get this stuff done we might know how to build a website really really well and We're not totally sure what we need to do in order to hand that off to somebody else So I just want to kind of let everybody know that that's okay And that there's always room to improve and that's also part of agile Is that you're always improving and always looking back at what you did and then wondering what you can do better the next time So if this doesn't entirely describe your team we can address in Q&A at the end Just how we can sort of modify the process a little bit. Okay, so what you're gonna need You're gonna need user personas Your team and by that I mean your whole team and a project objective that's going to take several sprints to achieve So this is kind of your grocery list for sitting down to write user stories We'll talk about personas in more detail in just a moment Just in case you're not familiar with agile a sprint is a predefined period of time where the team is working on a very limited set of tasks Usually it's about two weeks. I mean some people do four week five weeks six weeks sprints I mean, it's not really set in stone. It really depends on what you're doing I think two weeks is a nice, you know, it's long enough that you can dig in and get things done But it's not so long that you start to get overwhelmed by complexity So let's touch on teams and objectives first so Your team could include people fulfilling the roles of programmer tester analyst designer Database architect and technical writers And now larger agile teams might have a bunch of people fulfilling each one of these roles There could be entire teams fulfilling each one of these roles But a smaller team, you know, you might have, you know, your Your designer might also be one of your testers, you know, people just fulfilling a bunch of different roles here And you know, especially when you're dealing with WordPress Which is a product that already has a lot of the database architecture taking care of you might not have to deal with that at all But on a more complex WordPress build you might need somebody to get in there and start Tweaking those databases a little bit take care of some of those tables that don't quite get indexed so that you can have all That data available, you know You can get you can get pretty weird with WordPress. So just if you you know Call in call in the air support when you need it. So I Think it's really tempting when you're under to starting when you're undertaking a big project project to You know, just have those conversations with like, you know, the company owner and maybe the project manager But really you need your whole team in it because co-creating something is one of the best ways of establishing an aligned vision for a product People get really busy, you know, especially, you know, if you're very blessed at your office, you might have months and weeks worth of work and You don't want to take your your programmers off of something that they're doing in order to talk about this other project But you really need them to do it If you just keep it to the project or product manager and your stakeholders when you're starting to plan all of this stuff out You're you're not letting your your developers and your designers take part in the co-creation process So then when when it comes time to hand off the keys to them like, okay, go build do it They have less of an idea of What you're really doing and why? So resist the urge to you know, I don't want to borrow I don't want to bother the devs bother the devs It's gonna save you so much time in the future Everyone needs to have a really strong understanding of who the end user is in order to perform their function on the team Really no matter what they're doing a technical writer needs to know, you know the level of technical sophistication that the end user is gonna have because that's going to Impacts the way that they word everything, you know, if they're writing for other developers, they can write up here You know, if they're writing for a mass market website, they're gonna need to write down here So it's really good to have everybody on that same page from go and We use user personas to better understand whose problem this website or other product is going to solve So a user persona represents your products core demographic or demographics and It describes what your user does without consideration of how they use your product So this is one of those exercises that's really good to get outside of yourself and what you do and what you build and empathize deeply with the types of problems that you're trying to solve and I mean, and I just want to emphasize once again, you know, the most important part of this is kind of against logic What your product is should not be any kind of consideration when you're writing these personas I mean think about it this way, you know, you've got a problem. You're talking to a friend and They're not really listening to you. They're just like, well, did you try this? What about what about this? Did you did you ask this person? It's like, are you actually listening to me? Like I I just need you to listen to my problem and understand what my problem is I don't necessarily need you to solve it right now But because all you're trying to do is propose solutions. You're not listening to what I need So this is an exercise where you can really practice that that active listening and understanding Because the otherwise the solution that you're gonna come up with is almost always going to leave out some sort of really important consideration And and really in the end no matter what solution you come up with it is no solution at all if nobody can use it So when I talk about user personas, this is an example of what I mean Julie city clerk 42 years old spends her day fielding document requests from her city's residents She wishes there were two or three of her but cloning isn't real yet So this is just an example of what could be an opening line to a much longer user persona It defines who the user is giving them a name in this case Julie what their work function is city clerk How old they are 42 what they do public interaction and fulfilling requests and Their main obstacle which is not having enough people to really get the job done Now sometimes it seems a little silly to be giving your end user like a name and age and making up all of this stuff But really it's just an interface. It's just a technique to help you Better interact with who who this imaginary person is I mean this could be a composite based of a bunch of different interviews you've done with actual customers or it could just be you know, this is who we're going after But giving them you know sometimes you can even you know You find like a stock photo of who you're looking for and then just put that on there Because it's just it's a way for a human to interact better with a human if you've got some of those touch points that you can That you can relate to I Mean it's rare that you're only gonna have one user persona I have personally worked on projects where I've written five or so now I mean don't go crazy with it if you've got too many user personas your product is probably trying to be too many things to too Many people and you should niche that down but You know don't artificially limit yourself either and This empathizing exercise can really pay off in ways that you never expected One time I uncovered a security concern that we had to address all because I just sat down and I was thinking about okay This person's really concerned with security So what are the things that they're going to be looking for when they're evaluating this product on security? And I just start going through everything and I'm like, oh, oh that we should we should fix that So it can be it can be a really good exercise So once we understand who our user is and what they need We can start writing user stories that the whole team can work on So your user story needs to answer these questions What does the user need to do? Why do they need to do it and what's getting in their way? Using a previous example Julie needs to answer document requests from the general public Let's say it's a legal requirement that these documents are available by request. So there's no getting around it These requests have to be fulfilled Now the limits in time and space are getting in Julie the city clerk's way There are just too many requests for her to handle in a single eight-hour shift if these requests take too long people get impatient Maybe people even start to wonder if there's a conspiracy at foot trying to keep them away from accessing these documents A transparent quick process would help ensure that a secondary problem can get addressed the number of angry follow-up phone calls and office visits So there are very clear stakes in this game that we can define So now that we've put all of that on the table We've got a good problem worth solving Our sample user story tells us the city clerk's problem She's working long hours to try to avoid making people mad because public document requests are too numerous for her to handle Maybe she's missing out on dinner with her partnering kids because of it So there's a big win here if we can solve this problem for her One product feature that could help might be a way to automate simple requests so that she only has to get involved if Somebody needs something relatively complex so One way to interface into a user story and make sure that you're checking all your boxes is as a blank I Want to blank So I can blank This is just the basic framework that you can use to make sure that you're always covering your bases So using our example, this could be as a city clerk I want to handle public document requests more efficiently So I stopped getting angry phone calls and I don't have to work so much over time Now this story is a bit large maybe a little vague But we can talk about that a little later on for right now This is just a basic example of how this technique can work I just want to take a second and call attention to how Nothing that we've talked about up until this point has made any mention of code libraries Content management systems web hosts or anything else having to do with technology The end user really doesn't care what new JavaScript library you're leveraging They don't really care that you're deploying elastic search to supercharge your WordPress install search ability What they care about is that when they search they can find what they need Even if the search query is misspelled So if your user persona exercise indicates that people looking for content on your site might not be using standard spelling Then elastic search or another feature that enables fuzzy search could be one of your engineering solutions But again your end user doesn't really care how you're solving the problem They just care that you're solving the problem So try to avoid the urge to impress a client with technological jargon because they're not gonna understand it And it might just lead to misunderstandings later down the line You know some just with some of the the psychology of working with clients if somebody feels dumb or like I don't know this But I feel like I should know it I'm just not gonna say anything because I don't want to risk looking dumb even if there's no expectation that they would actually know it so You know, it's always a delicate balance to strike. You don't want to talk down to somebody. You don't want to talk over their head So just feeling it out, you know, but one of those one of those ways that you can always make sure that what you're saying is is Directed directly Head at what somebody needs is just by addressing their problems Because that at the end of the day is what they really need Now I mean sometimes you might need to get real technical to justify the size of your invoice And you know That's a whole other thing But you know people are gonna sign on the dotted line for solutions and not necessarily technology What you should always be trying to answer is how does this make someone better at their job? Success isn't the size of the invoice generated, but hey like it's your helps, right? Someone else's success using what you built is a measure of your own success As I've mentioned before your solution that you create is not a solution if no one can use it or if it doesn't solve the problem at hand so When you're making your plans Can you make your end user look like a rock star? If this is a B2B product Can you make the person who's going to be using your software or website? Look like an absolute genius for being able to turn around certain requests in record time Can they scale tall buildings in a single bound? Or can they just get everything done so that they can go home on time and have dinner with their kids? Like these are measurable things that make a difference in everybody's life and the more you can make somebody else feel good The more they're gonna want to come back and use your product and then you've got people coming back all the time So it should never be about you If you're always thinking about how what you're doing is going to help somebody else that's gonna keep you on track and You know, you always need to know how you're doing You know a big part of agile is checking in with yourself and making sure like hey, am I doing am I doing what? I need to be doing here So that means we need to define success And measure it so that we can keep track of that. So when you're picking a goal It needs to be Smart, which is acronym specific measurable achievable relevant and time bound So it needs to be a little bit smart or then make more money Save more time do more with less These are all things that we all want to do But there's no way to really measure any of those things It's kind of like in sports like if you're if you're playing football or something like that You can't just kind of like lob the ball in the general direction of where you think it needs to go There's a very clearly defined goal post or end zone that you need to get into and that's how That that is what everybody agrees is success. So that's what you want to work for you wanted to completely define your goal So that then everybody knows when you got there and then everyone can cheer for you. That's nice, right? All right, so if you want to make more money How about making ten thousand dollars more in gross revenue this month instead? Or maybe reduce the need for overtime hours by 50 percent over a quarter So you can use KPIs to measure this and those are key performance indicators These are just a couple examples of dimensions that can be measured The right kpi for your project is going to vary wildly by what you're doing These are just kind of a jumping off point. So if you have any commerce site, you might want to keep track of shopping cart abandonment rates over a period of time Or maybe the average order value that's coming in over time If you're a marketing Company or you know other kind of of agency. Maybe you want to track how many qualified leads you're getting per month So just note that they're very specific and that there's a defined period of time so that you can Keep tracking it and measure your growth So here's how all the pieces that we've discussed fit into a hierarchy Realizing your smart goal might need several features to satisfy it and user stories like our example of julie the city clerk Can help make up your product backlog So because this is agile we're working in sprints I mean you could spend your entire year trying to make it easier for julie to get home in time for dinner with her kids So you want to split those big stories into smaller sprint sized bits So that you can measure velocity or how many story points can your your team deliver in a period of time So that that way you can measure how you're doing and make sure that you're going to make your deadline because those are real important So you've got your high value business goal your smart goal, which in agile could be called an epic Then you've got your job task user story You know the as a city clerk. I want to not have to work so much over time Which then becomes your product user story Which is a smaller piece of that larger piece And then that turns into Your developer and designer tasks like I showed you in in that first slide after the title So you still have all of your tasks, but it's all getting folded in under contextualized stories So that that way it's never The the granular bits of what you're doing never gets separated from that greater goal So when you're trying to figure out how much you want to put into a quarter or six months or something like that Um, you should think about how to divide it up Um, you know, it's been said that there's no such thing as a finished product project It's just stuff that you decided to ship no matter how much more you still want to do about it And in agile shipping is a feature Uh, you want to make sure that you're shipping often That things are just getting out the door Because when things start to back up Then you know people start to not feel like they need to get certain things done on time And you know just there it's very helpful to project psychology if you can just keep things moving So defining your mvp or minimum viable product It means that when I hit This feat this set of features We ship Um That's when you know that you can go to market whether or not you feel like you can go to market is the whole other thing But that's something that project and product managers struggle with all the time. It's just part of it's part of the job Um, and whatever you decide is your mvp should take several sprints to finish And once you've shipped your mvp your future releases might be a minimum marketable feature An mmf a set of features that represent Enough of what users might want added in order for a release to be valuable to them Um, so these features might not quite be enough to stand on their own But it's a meaningful improvement to your existing product So, you know if you're only taking credit card payments on your website a future minimum marketable feature could be Accepting amazon payments or paypal So this is a process You're not going to get all of the user stories you need for a project in one meeting Um, you should have A story writing workshop Once per quarter for ongoing builds, especially with software Um, or once per phase for a phased project So you might be rolling out a website in eight months over three phases So You know, you'll you'll meet three times for that just to break up the work This ensures that your team can stay agile and not get bogged down by too much documentation You want to make sure that you're delivering the right amount of documentation at the right time Too little means that people are going to get lost and not know what's happening Too much is going to be just information overload and people aren't going to be able to really take it in So it's you know trying to get that Goldilocks amount. All right. How are we doing on time here? um I've identified a couple Other topics that I haven't quite gotten to in the space of this talk I want to make sure that we're leaving some room for q&a too um A couple things that I haven't uh specifically made slides for are splitting stories and story mapping So splitting stories is how you take The larger more general product backlog item and turn it into something sprint size that your team can complete in just one sprint And that is the the spider method, which is another great acronym Which is spike path interface data and rules So a spike is a period of research or discovery that you need to do before you can get work done So, you know, if you this is especially, you know, if you're like, okay I know we need to build an api to talk to WooCommerce. Um How do I do that? So you might spike for For a sprint and just do the research you need so that then The next sprint you can get right into it Um paths mean like pay with credit card pay with paypal pay with amazon pay Those are all paths that you can take. Um, so you can split So you're one thing where I want to be able to accept payments online You can split that into I want to accept credit cards. I want to accept paypal and so on So then it's just Splitting it out so that people can get it done in shorter amounts of time Interface is like web ios android. Um, you can tackle all of those separately Data is for separate stories for chunks of the data So like if you're working with something nationwide like a nationwide data set You might only want to take data from the southeast for for one sprint And then data from the southwest for another Um And then rules If it's more work to limit access to a part of the product For membership, maybe your initial story or iteration can be Making that information available to everybody and then on your next build Come in with the membership layer And story mapping is a technique to visualize all of the actions someone's going to take on your site using um Using post-it notes or you know other cards So you know the user is going to log in and then they're going to add something to their cart And then they're going to check out and then they're going to enter a coupon code And then they're going to pay So then you can you know add Uh different dimensions below that too So if that's interesting to you we can talk about that after this But I think we've got the sort of basics here And 10 minutes remaining so Any questions? All right, so the question is if you're just working by yourself Are there any modifications to this process that you need to make and I totally hear you I mean, you know wordpress is my hobby again. So I'm you know, I'm building some websites by myself sometimes um So it might become less important to necessarily document everything out because you don't you don't really have to communicate anything that you're doing to anyone but yourself Um unless you're you know, you have it unless your client is interested in following along with everything you're doing I mean, sometimes somebody's hiring you because they don't want to think about it. They just want you to get it done But it's useful to keep track of all of those stories Just somewhere whether it's you know, your your asana backlog or or what or asana. Sorry. I do yoga so I get confused um I mean when when you're a one person team, it really just comes down to what's going to work for you So if you feel like you're having trouble remembering What your greater context is when you really get down to the trenches in the lines of code Having those stories to tie everything back to is really useful But you know, it all depends like everything, right? Anybody else? So the question is how how do you do user research and Get all of these stories out of your user base So if you've gotten existing user base Building in some some listening features is really useful.  They're just going to tell me But sometimes you do have to figure it out like You know one example that product managers like to use a lot is Henry Ford He once said that if he had asked the people what they wanted they would have said they wanted faster horses So sometimes people don't know What what they want is a solution or they they think they know But there's actually this whole other thing that they never considered So if that's that's why looking at the problem is really helpful But in terms of actually figuring out what these problems are Support forums are super helpful Because people especially with wordpress plugins people are going to tell you if they had a problem So paying attention to those is really good Also just asking people point blank You know if somebody says like oh, yeah, like I downloaded a theme from there once like oh really like tell me a little bit about that process Like what did you find really useful? I'm just I mean not necessarily putting people on the spot But just trying to get them to to speak openly and honestly About what it is that they're that they're trying to do And sometimes, you know, especially if you're you haven't quite gone to market with the product yet You don't really have existing customers. So that's kind of when you have to start getting a little creative You know, you might want to talk to people Who are in the space that you're targeting So working moms for example, you might just want to go seek out working moms in In the park by your house And just you know, say like so do you do how do you handle grocery lists? Uh, you know, especially if you're if you're trying to you know figure something out in that space like just ask People, you know, it's it's a lot of it's a lot of awkward conversations sometimes. Um, but yeah anybody uh So so the question is about prioritizing You know just trying to evaluate whose needs Are are the most important I mean that's hard, you know and and as a product manager, that's that's kind of what I have to do every day It's like, okay, so whose problems are getting solved today and whose aren't and that can be very difficult um, but you know, there are a bunch of things that you can kind of look at like um If you have access to sales data You know, can you trace back like okay This type of user Is paying, you know is is responsible for twice as much monthly income as this type of user So we're going to make sure that we're really drilling into this part this type of users needs um It might come down to Well, this person's needs are actually a lot easier to fulfill So why don't we just go there for the quick win and we'll come up with a plan for somebody else's instead um You know, it kind of also goes back to just your personal business goals as a service provider And and how you can make sure that you're taking care of some of your own needs So it's also taking a product look at at what you do Does that help And then there was one more question So the question was the difference between a user persona and a marketing persona. How do you view those as different? Okay, so it sounds like you've got the people who are sort of managing the website that you're building for them and then you've got their users Okay, so I don't know that I would necessarily consider them user personas and marketing personas I might just consider those two different types of of user persona You know because you know, you need to keep the customers of your customers in mind because you know Happy and user customers are going to mean that your client is happy, which means that your bottom line is healthy um So it's it's a you know, it's it's a chain. I don't know that I would necessarily View them as two different Yeah, that's um So the question was about why you give somebody a name And so it's like so when you're putting something together You can just just say well, this is for annie and then that says everything that that you need and that's exactly why you do it So even though I I totally feel self-conscious sometimes like Jeff is A truck driver, you know, I'm like this is this is silly. Why am I doing this? It's like, you know, it's exactly for that So that I can say no Jeff Couldn't do this So this this solution needs to be easier to use Anybody else? All right. Well, thank you guys so much. Uh these were These are some of the references that I use I encourage you to check them out too and just get out there too And talk to people about how they build what they build Thanks


My name is Raffa Harmers. I'm a senior clinical scientist at the Eggman Oxford Clinical Research Unit. I'm based in Jakarta, Indonesia. I'm a worker on clinical trials. So the main challenges of doing clinical trials in Indonesia is that clinical trials require a high level of expertise and specific skill sets. I think in Indonesia some institutions have that capacity, but in general I would say there's still a need to invest and to develop that capacity. The importance of doing clinical trials is that it can really help Indonesians to advance healthcare and advance outcomes of patients. We're currently running a phase 3 clinical trial in adult patients with HIV infection that have tuberculosis meningitis. The aim of the trial is to evaluate if the addition of an anti-inflammatory drug, dexamethasone, helps to improve the outcome of patients with tuberculosis meningitis. Tuberculosis meningitis is a complication of tuberculosis and it's the most severe form. People with that form of meningitis often die and if you survive usually have severe neurological disabilities. In Jakarta we recently established a new laboratory. It is called the Universities of Indonesia and Oxford Clinical Research Laboratory, denoted IOCRL. The aim of the new laboratory is to really expand the agenda on clinical research. We seek in collaboration with our partners to develop new lines of research in infectious diseases that are important to public health. We're in to train young scientists to develop specific skill sets to do the trials. We will have a laboratory and the laboratory will serve to do all the lab testing for clinical trials. I think that new capacity is important to strengthen clinical research in Indonesia. The Oxford unit in Jakarta has three themes of research. Historically the focus has been on malaria research. This line of research is led by Professor Kevin Beard and has focused on clinical trials mostly under treatment and diagnosis of Plasmodium vivax malaria. A second line of research is on geospatial epidemiology led by Dr Iqbal Ilyazar and his team are using big data approaches to see how they can map infectious diseases in Indonesia and correlate that to factors that determine the burdens. The most recent line of research is clinical research and that's under my responsibility. In that line of research we focus on CNS infections so the clinical trial on tuberculosis meningitis is one example. It's currently, let's say, our most important project. I think the strength of our unit is that we work very closely with our local partners so we identify the topics we work on based on their advice and based on our mutual interests. So I think that's a very strong component of our work. There are a lot of good people with great ideas. They are well trained, so great professionals to work with. What surprised me is that there seems to be a lack of collaboration. So people are working very independently but not necessarily sharing ideas and sharing efforts or collaborating to the extent they could be. And I think there is a great opportunity there. People can find each other more often. The projects they do and the ideas they have could have more impact. Our research is important because of our location primarily. Indonesia is a very populous country. It's in fact the fourth most populous country in the world and it has a huge burden of infection diseases. Every year there are estimates of more than one million new TB cases, more than one million new malaria cases. The HIV epidemic is growing at a fast rate. It's estimated that in 2016 there were 48,000 new infections. And in addition to that there are many, like a whole range of other infectious diseases that are still very common. So there's a lot to do and nonetheless I think that Indonesia is one of those countries that are underrepresented in the international discussions. So the voice of Indonesia is generally not well represented in global health and medical science. So I think there's a great need for investments in research to really advance the health care situation in the country. I look at translational medicine as really generating scientific data that can be used directly to improve patient care. So in the model that we use mostly is that we have a focus on patient-centered research, clinical trials. So by generating that kind of information it also allows us to dive deeper and use those data to unravel biological mechanisms. Combining that more mechanistic information with clinical data I think it's a very powerful model to advance health care. And I think that is, to me, that is translational medicine.


It is Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas Freedom Family. And I have a present for you. When you say the words, subscribe to my channel. Did you know that YouTube lights up the subscribe button? It's called a glow up. Let me show it to you. This is what happens. You see that subscribe button? You see how it animates and makes it more interesting to look at? Well, YouTube implemented that as a new feature. Let me show it to you as explained by the YouTube team. Roll it. When you say subscribe or like as a creator, those buttons light up and they glow up just to give it a little bit of delight and connect the UI to the creators. I captured that moment using heartbeat moments. Let me show you another important point about the glow up button. How does YouTube know when to show it? Are they listening to everything you say in your video? No. Here's the answer again from YouTube. Heartbeat, take it away. Click. How does it know that? Like, is it just listening for the words? How does it know when to do the glow up? We have the power of transcripts right now within all those videos. And so we use the back to identify and use machine learning to identify phrases. When you upload a video, YouTube auto generates the transcript and the words subscribe and like get taken from those transcripts that tells YouTube when to glow up that button. But what if you just say subscribe 10 times? Would it show it? Would it glow 10 times? No. Let's let YouTube explain why. Oh, where you're saying subscribe or like in the right context. And we also ensure that it's not glowing up all the time and distracting from the video. So we have some nice thresholds in place. And so far viewers are absolutely loving the feature. So there's thresholds in place. So if I just say, hey, I've subscribed to many channels, it will not light up. But if I say, hey, subscribe to my channel if you like my content, it will. Same with the like button. Okay, I like chocolate ice cream.  But if I say, hey, if you like my videos, click the like button, then it will glow. That's a really cool feature. I hope you also think so. And I hope you'll start saying those phrases in your videos now because you will get more subscribers and... Excuse me. I'm so excited I can't talk because you'll get more subscribers and likes by saying that. Now this is Christmas Eve. And I'd love to create a little special video for all of you on this special day, November, what is it? November, December 24th. I'm gonna feature the best heartbeats that I've discovered on heartbeat, H.K.I. But first I wanna explain those moments that I showed you. How did I create these two moments that allow me to jump to those points again here? When you say subscribe. How does it know that? Like, is it just listening for the... So this is like a little YouTube player. Do you see it? It's part of our heartbeat. See the heart? Heartbeat product. We built it. It's not part of YouTube. How do you get it? Just go to H.K.I in your browser, type that. Then click on moments extension. That will take you to the Chrome Web Store where you can add it to your Chrome. And once you do, when you're on YouTube, on any video on YouTube, just press H. So again, I'm gonna be watching, let's say, the video at this point. And then maybe he says something exciting. But you get to see your own tab. How did that come about? H.K.I. We started the journey on Udab because... So now I have a third moment. See, right here, moment three. Here's my first two. When you... How does it know that? Like, what about? We started the journey on Udab because there was... That's it. Once you've pressed H, the moment gets saved forever in your heartbeat. And you can delete it, manage it. And if you go to heartbeat at H.K.I, H key, which is the same as the hot keys. We named it H key for the domain. Then you go to my heartbeat.  And it's right there, forever. You can share it. You can come back to it. So you never forget it in the future. Change your habits. Don't change your browsing habits. Keep going to YouTube. Just change your key press habit. Whenever an exciting moment happens, press H. That's it. That's the only change to your habits. If you do that, you will never again lose exciting moments as you watch all those YouTube videos that you watch. Now let me share some of my favorite moments that I've collected from many of your videos and your own moments that you created that I also love. I'm gonna start with some impressive jump roll. Take it away. That's pretty good. Let's see it again. I cannot do that. And when I saw this moment, I thought, H, I need to save this moment. This is really cool. Now here's a pretty good one. Who is lumpy? Lumpy, lumpy. No! Chewbacca's son. Ah! You just guessed it. You're pulling it out of here. No! Is that right? Is that right? I completely guessed it. Chewbacca's son. That is lumpy in the Star Wars universe. Here's another one. What does AT, AT stand for? All terrain, armor transport. And he's right. All terrain, armor transport. All right. That was a pretty funny moment. And let's go back to my favorites and let's continue showing you some. Here's a good one. This is when I was trying to do chin ups and mummy called. Let's roll it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Oh no. Huh, what? What are you doing? This mummy's calling. Declined. We don't want to talk to mummy. Okay. Now we're. Declined. We don't want to talk to mummy. We're in the middle of exercise. That was so cute. That's why my kids were much younger. And we just moved to Dubai. And yeah, that was a moment that I cherished myself. Here's something really cool. This is thumbnail AB testing on YouTube. Roll it. It's better nothing less from YouTube. You'll know if you have a tool, if you see the test and compare feature when upload in a thumbnail, you'll then be presented with this screen where you can upload two or three thumbnails to start testing. This is a new feature just like that. Blow up for the subscribe button where you can get YouTube to tell you which of your thumbnails are performing better. Which of your thumbnails generate more watch time, not just click through rate and they let you choose three thumbnails for a single video to test. And then they'll give you a report to show you which thumbnail is doing better. And then you can just choose that one or you can do additional tests to try another few variations on your thumbnail to get to the best results for your channel. Now this is a new feature. Not everyone has it. Our channel doesn't have it yet. And as he was saying, let me play it again. How do you test if you have it? Look. I would expect nothing less from YouTube. You'll know if you have a tool, if you see the test and compare feature when upload in a thumbnail. Let's move on to some other favorites. How about from MrBeast, the best advice, which is make a hundred videos and improve something every time. Do that. And then on your hundred first video, we'll start talking like make a hundred videos. Don't just make one or two or 10 videos. Make a hundred videos and improve one thing each time. But what can you improve? Let's find out. Put more effort into the script. The third one, try to learn a new editing trick. The fourth one, try to figure out a way that you can have better inflections in your voice. The fifth one, try to, you know, study a new thumbnail tip and implement it. These are all very simple ideas that you can implement right now in your own videos to get better at making better videos. In fact, MrBeast says subscribers don't matter, views don't matter. In fact, the only one thing that matters for all creators is make the best videos that you can possibly make because the YouTube algorithm picks up, picks up on the quality of your content, not your production quality, but your engagement.  The algorithm doesn't like my videos. It's really your audience that doesn't like your videos. Why? Because it's the audience that doesn't watch them and the algorithm simply picks up on that and you're blaming the algorithm because it's easy to blame, but you really need to blame yourself for not making better videos. As MrBeast will advise, make the best videos you possibly can. That's the only thing that really matters. Make 100 videos. Okay, and make 100 videos. Let's keep going through the best advice.   I kind of had a plan. I had a startup that I had been working on on the side for a few months now and I wanted to go full-time on that. But as time passed, I found that I had a knack for creating content. I found a community on Twitter and I found that I was actually quite good at writing long ads. So, she went on to say her journey to getting to be a YouTuber from having a fancy Wall Street job. Now, I also wanted to point out one very important tip that she made, which is about pivot. When you make a channel and you want to change your content type, you have to change very slowly. Otherwise, you might as well start a new channel. She actually started a new channel. She went from making an NFT-based channel to, with like over 20,000 subscribers, abandoning it so that she could create a new channel that's just about how to help YouTubers grow. So, she started to make YouTube tips and advice. She found that when she tried to pivot her NFT channel to that type of content, it didn't work. In fact, she was getting fewer views than by starting a brand new channel. And she discovered that because her audience of subscribers only wanted NFT content. When she started uploading YouTube tips, the subscriber feed, which were her initial viewers, would not watch any of her videos.   And so, YouTube actually punished her videos and never even gave her a chance to build a new subscriber base on that channel because of all those very low watch times and low click-through rates from being such a big content swap that it was actually better for her to start a brand new channel. It was easier to get more views and start a fresh audience. And if you want to, by the way, if you want to see any of these videos or any of my favorites, just go to h.ki, search for George, and then click my heartbeat. You see here with 30 followers? Click me, then click favorites. You will see exactly the same favorites that I'm showing you here on this video and you can watch them yourself. So if you like that girl and want to learn about her story and more about the details of what I was just highlighting, you can find all of those moments here. Click anyone and watch it to yourself. You can also follow my heartbeat. The link is down there in the description below as a direct link to my heartbeat on heartbeat. And you should also, of course, create your own heartbeat just by signing in. It's free. And then install the Chrome extension, start pressing H, and build your own heartbeat library. Why? Because we're going to start paying you. Next month, we're launching Heartbeat Studio, which will monetize all the content on heartbeat. Let me rephrase that, which will give you the choice of what content you post should be monetizable on heartbeat. We won't auto monetize anything. You have to choose what content to monetize and then we'll pay you 55% of all revenue generated from your content, the same as YouTube. Yes, Heartbeat is following the YouTube business model of paying creators, paying everybody 55% profit sharing from the money earned around the content you post on heartbeat. But we take it a step further. We're going to pay the contributors as well. People who fix spelling mistakes, improve articles by adding photos or better moments or tweaking a moment or improving your title. If you do any of those things to other people on heartbeat, you will get paid not from the 55%, but from our 45% platform fee. We are actually sharing that with the contributors, the people who improve the content. Does YouTube do that?  So in fact, we have what I think is a better model for creators and contributors to build Heartbeat. All right, all that's coming in January. So yeah, you can hit the ground running by building your Heartbeat and audience now at h.ki. Here's another cool one. Friends, morning is here. Rachel is not happy about all this singing. It's waking her up and she wants to just have a nap. However, Joey loves the singing guy. That's one of my favorite funny moments from friends. And by the way, if you wanna just see friends episodes or moments, just type friends into the search box at heartbeat, h.ki. And then you'll see 14 moments and growing of funny friends episodes that we've captured. The whole audience is captured. All the people on Heartbeat are capturing. So I hope you'll enjoy this. Now guys, it's getting dark. You can see my screen, my green screen is failing me up there in the corner. So I'm gonna end the video here for now. I'll make more of course. Tell me if you like these kinds of like favorites moments on Heartbeat. Down there in the comments below, I'd love to make more content that you enjoy. If you like this video, subscribe to my channel. And if you enjoy my content, click the like button. See what I did there, reinforcing the concept of this entire video, the purpose of this video. I hope you'll do the same. All right guys, Merry Christmas. And it's gonna be an amazing 2024. I feel so pumped to get everything started. 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Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In today's lecture, we are going to be looking at Babylonian astronomy and specifically concentrating on their use of numbers and the calendar that was developed by the Babylonians long, long ago. So let's go ahead and start with numbers. Now, the Babylonians gave us what is called the sex-adjustable numbering system, which is a base 60. Now, we normally count 1 through 10, and that is base 10. And you can also use things like binary, and there are others that use a base 8 and other different numbering systems, and in fact, you can use any base you like. 10 happens to be what we have developed over the years. But there's no reason that any other numbering system doesn't work just as well. And in fact, the sex-adjustable system is still used today in many ways. And in fact, we measure things like time. We have hours, minutes, and seconds. And we know that there are 60 minutes in one hour. So 60 minutes is one hour. Well, why? Why are there 60 minutes in an hour? It's because of the sex-adjustable numbering system. That's what we're using. 60 minutes in an hour. And of course, there's also 60 seconds in one minute. Exactly the same that we are using here. So this is all tied into the sex-adjustable system. We also use this for angles. When we break up a degree, there are 60 minutes of arc in one degree, and 60 seconds of arc in one minute of arc. So we use these for both time and angle measurements today. So we use roughly the same system that has been used since the time of the Babylonians in fact is a carry-over from what the work that the early Babylonians did. Now, the other thing I want to look at briefly here is the Babylonian calendar. Now, the calendar is a lunar-solar calendar, meaning it uses both the moon and the sun. And in fact, each month there are 12 months and they begin when the new moon is visible. The crescent moon, I should say, is visible after sunset. So the first time you can see the crescent moon in the sky as shown here, the first time you can see that very thin crescent, that was the beginning of the new month. And then the month would run through the entire cycle of the moon, 29 and a half days until you again saw that very thin crescent moon in the sky right after sunset. Now, you can't see the new moon, so you wouldn't start the month at new moon simply because you could not see it. But you could then use this for when you could first find the moon. And that's actually a challenge to be able to find it and you can imagine that weather would be an issue here. What if it was cloudy for a few days? You might miss the beginning of the month. But this is again how the month was actually determined here. Now, the day also began at sunset, so we have our days begin at midnight here, the days began at sunset. And in fact, the first day of the month would then begin as soon as that crescent moon was seen. Now, if we figure this out, 12 lunar months gives us 354 days. Now, we know there's 365 days in a year because of the orbit of Earth around our sun and the rotation of Earth on its axis. But because those two are not related to each other, the number of months and days will not fit evenly into a year. So, what you do to keep things from falling out of sync is to add an extra month every few years. This is, what, about 11 days off? So, if you added an extra month of about 30 days every three years, that would bring you about into sync and keep everything from traveling off too far. Now, unlike our year, which begins in wintertime for the Northern Hemisphere, the year began in the spring and was broken up into three seasons of four months each, not like our current year of four of three months for four seasons. And it was a very observational calendar. Now, this, they actually eventually, by about 500 BC, had refined it a little bit more. So, this 12 months to 354 days, it was figured out that a 19-year cycle came out almost exactly to 235 months. So, you could split up exactly when you were going to need those extra months over the course of those 19 years to make everything balance out at the end. So, a very complex and accurate calendar that was developed many thousands of years ago. So, let's go ahead and summarize what we've looked at here. And what we've looked at is that the Babylonians gave us a numbering system used today for time and angles. We also looked at the calendar, which was a lunar solar calendar, looking at the motions of the sun and the moon. And we also discussed how the Babylonian day begins at night and the month began when the crescent moon was first visible in the evening sky right after sunset. So, that concludes this lecture on time in the calendar from the Babylonians. We'll be back again next time for another lecture. So, until then, have a great day, everyone, and I will see you in class.


to another apples and tiara's vlog so I'm starting the vlog out in the car today because I just dropped cash off at my sister's hiking club and I'm gonna spend the day doing some shopping for school so I have two more weeks until I go back to work as a new to the district teacher so I have to go back to like meetings and trainings and all that stuff on the 24th of July so I have two weeks left and I'm gonna spend those two weeks spending time with family and working on the classroom because I want to have my classroom completely set up before the 24th that way when I start meetings I can really focus more on like all the other things and I'm gonna try to spend this next week on classroom try to get it done and then after that I want to do planning and prepping that way I'm completely ready for the first week of school and I'm like ready to go so what I'm doing today is I'm running to Hobby Lobby I have to pick up cash at 1 o'clock so I have to leave Hobby Lobby around 12 30 12 15 12 20 ish so I'm gonna go in there and what I'm looking for today is I need some more better than paper paper I think I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do it but I really want to do a ship lap feature wall on the back of my classroom wall if you guys have been watching you know that I have that like bulletin board wall on the back of my classroom and I'm I'm trying to like see if I really want to do it I might I might not but once I get there and see what they have we'll see how it goes but I also need to get like glue dots and tic-tac and like all the things that I'm gonna need to set up my classroom and then I just want to see if they have any like cute lamps or like any other fun classroom stuff I don't want to go in there and pick up like trinkets or like little decor pieces because they really just junk up the space but I'm thinking to like maybe some crates or like paper trays because I do want to have some more organization stuff so anyway I texted Jennifer to see if she was free if she wasn't busy I was like hey I'm going to Hobby Lobby I don't know what you're doing right now but I'm going so I don't know if you want to meet up there or what but we'll see she just text me back so I'll take a peek and then we'll see if she comes if she does great if not I will take you guys with me to show you what I'm gonna be looking at at Hobby Lobby and then the rest of this vlog is gonna be just a jumbo mix of classroom setup classroom haul like just all things classroom that I'm doing this week so I hope you guys are ready grab a snack grab a drink get comfortable and let's start this vlog out right right so I am currently in my classroom and I'm working on filming another classroom setup video but I wanted to do a haul of all the stuff I bought at Hobby Lobby Amazon and the dollar store for my classroom for this vlog all right so the first thing that I got was from the Dollar Tree and I just picked up these McCormick storage containers these are for glue sponges I got eight of them total I'm hoping to have seven groups and then one for myself so I did get eight of those okay so the very first thing I got from Hobby Lobby was this planner it's really cute I don't know the brand it doesn't really say but it's really cute and I thought I can always use a paper planner to keep at school so it's just this tie-dye and kind of like sparkly theme so I grabbed that I think it was like 14 bucks on sale and then I also got so my school is gonna be doing they do brag tags school-wide and class dojo as part of their incentive system so I grabbed this because I thought it would be an easy way to store bragged tags I don't know for sure if they'll fit in there if they do great if they don't I'll find something else to use it for maybe paper clips or you know other teacher supplies so anyway that was on sale for $14.99 so I grabbed that we'll see what I use it for I'm hoping that bragged tags will fit in there so the next thing I grabbed were these command hooks I'm planning on using these to hang up my lights around my whiteboard I always get these every time I move classrooms and they work really great you just stick them on the wall and then the lights kind of like click into them and it's perfect and then I grabbed some glue dots because I like to use these to hang up like paper around the room rather than using like holes like thumbtacks and then I grabbed this glue dot dispenser so you just reload these into here and then you can continue to use them I like using those for like paper posters and then I grabbed a cordless glue stick or sorry glue gun for obvious reasons I like to hot glue a lot of things up around the wall and stuff too and then obviously some glue sticks to go with that and then I grabbed some tiki-tack just another way to hang things up on the walls air fresheners for the car those ended up in my bag and then from hobby lobby I got some teal and black trim or border this you can like rip it apart and it becomes the thinner border I like putting this on top of other border or behind other border just to make it look layered so we'll see where I end up using this I don't know if I'll use it across the whole back wall or not we'll see but either way it was on sale so I grabbed it and then I got this fluffy pen I actually got like three of these I've been wanting a fluffy pen for like my planner or like for grading or like taking notes or whatever I think it's really fun and I wanted a fluffy pen so it's like a dollar I was gonna buy these on Amazon but they were like seven bucks for like three of them and I found them at Hobby Lobby for a dollar so grab that all right next is Amazon so I got one of these I don't even know what's called I don't even know what's called anymore a spaceball maybe but I got it as a breathing strategy tool or possibly like a talking chip for community circles the kids can fidget with it while they talk or if they need like a visual fidget I can have this available for them exhibit a do not drop it break it and then the next thing that I got from Amazon were these paper pom poms you guys have seen these in all my classrooms previously I just put them on the wall on my bulletin boards just to kind of jazz them up I'll probably put them on the corners of the windows the corners of the wall or the bulletin boards and then if I'm allowed to I will hang some from the ceiling that is what I've wanted to do with them for years I've wanted to hang them from the ceiling so we'll see if I'm allowed to do that I know I can hang the light magnet like covers up there so I'm guessing I can hang these as well it just probably just depends on how low they can be and I know there's no like motion alarm or sensor in these classrooms so I can hang this without like the wind or the air conditioning blowing it around and setting the alarm off so that's great and then another thing from Amazon these are like shoved in here that's so funny they are hard to open these are birthday hats do you want to see show you there's a little squished in here we grab those so I wanted to like mix up how I celebrate students birthdays in the classroom and I thought it would be really cute to get like a birthday hat for them to wear at school for the day and then they also came with matching glasses which I'll probably pop out the lenses and just make them like day glasses instead of sunglasses and they're just cute and fun and the lenses pop right out and then the kids can just wear they break really super cheap there's an opening so they'll wear this and then the hat to go with it when it's their birthday I thought that'd be really cute I don't usually do much for birthdays and I thought what is something I could do for everyone's birthday that's not gonna cost me any money or like is very low effort like so I got two they came in a pack of two white and blue and then pink here let's try it on you oh way too big on you luckily my fourth graders heads are a bit bigger but yeah so I got those and then I also ordered some chalk paint this is just like the Rustoleum brand chalkboard paint because I do need to touch up my cabinet hopefully this works if it doesn't we will see I think my teammate might be able to let me know what paint was used on these so I'm crossing my fingers that this will actually work on my cabinets if it does not match I could just buy a couple more cans of this and I could probably just cover them so we'll see yeah there you go do it in front of the camera and then this is like my new favorite thing can you grab that baby there's a neon sign and I contemplated like getting my own name in the neon sign or just getting like a fun phrase so I ended up getting good vibes only and it looks like you can like stick it to the wall it comes with these these things but I'll probably end up just hanging it somewhere else but it does plug in USB and I don't know where I'm gonna put it yet possibly over my desk somewhere like over there in the corner but it does light up in pink neon so I thought that would be really cute for my classroom this year and then what is this I don't even remember oh okay this isn't really like there you go good giving it a trial run so with my new computer it's okay put it in your ear there you go with my new district computer my old keyboard actually ended up breaking so I ordered a new one and I really like these they're super nice for like if you're carrying your computer around and you don't want to like type on it or you know whatever you want to have it propped up it's just a basic like Bluetooth anyway it came with a keyboard and I believe this lights up and then it came with a matching mouse so I'll be using this with my new district computer okay do a dance in front of it at least I ordered these really cute canvas posters from Amazon sorry I'm kind of like just put them in the box so I grabbed these they're these cute little canvas posters and they're all science science is in your DNA think like a proton always positive ask imagine plan create test improve nothing is impossible so I ended up grabbing some frames for them from hobby lobby and I tried to find them on sale and they ended up being like 50% off I think which was great so let's see if they fit in here so the frames ended up fitting perfectly which is great so I'll probably hang these up around the room somewhere I just think they're really cute and very like sciency and they needed something like bright that kind of fit my like classroom vibe and so the frames were 50% off so I did grab four of them one for each of the pictures and then the final thing that I got from Amazon was this adorable rug it's like almost like velvety and I'm planning on putting this upfront in front of the TV just on the floor as a space for kids to sit on and so it's like he's fine it's like I think it's like non-slip here and it's pretty thick I'm probably gonna end up having to spot clean it because their shoes will be all over it but it is what it is I just thought it was really cute and it totally matches like the vibe of my classroom with the pinks and the blues and the oranges and so anyway I got that off of Amazon too


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We should get a slot machine for the shop Then I'll banish them to the shadow realm wait, what do we Oh, Jeremiah, no, I don't want to do that At least I don't want to do it at like 1 30 a.m Soon another time bat relic trade turner to 399 Dodgers NL West Kyle 6 6 rookie auto Miguel Sanchez the 299 for the 5-6 Kyle's not 5-6 And I'll central there and NL East John Smoltz auto to 99 smoltsie Has anybody been in chat that hasn't gotten a compliment for a thank you Thursday yet? I'm sorry if I'm missing them Kenzie quack Kyle Shane Jeremiah Nicest mustache at the shop. Oh, yeah Dual relic Trey Mancini three color up top there to 25 AL East Dude, that was a that was a tough one Jeremiah That was a tough one because it's just something that's just so repetitive, you know Got a Purdue go auto to 1 99 AL East Alex of Purdue God and Jim told me auto AL central to 99 I Asked the best questions Donnie's yeah, Donnie's commos. He asked the best questions real good questionnaire Who wants to be a questionnaire? That's Donnie. Oh nice quack. Oh, so it's an every Thursday thing according to quack Oh boy. Oh geez. Well, I might recycle some comments. I'll tell you guys that right now Yogi bear a game use Jersey to 1 99. That's a cool hit for the AL East Game used Yogi bearer the camera does not want to focus on this card Come on now. Come run get the camera Just focus on the card Sometimes the paleness of my of my skin will will help nice. Yeah, we can top load it Rookie auto Hans Kraus to 2 99 and L East Hey, thank you, Jeremiah. Again. I'm not asking for compliments, but thank you And Adrian Beltry auto for the AL West to 100 Forest has this okay. I we're not okay. Let's stop to let's stop the me compliments This is this is this is the thing that I do not you guys I didn't say that I just I don't I don't like I'm here breaking for you guys. 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I don't care if you join every breaker or like no breaks It's the vibes. That's what we're about right. Yeah. Yeah, it's supposed to be fun. Yeah. Oh Dude you're gonna get the honey graham cookies It looks so good. I Gotta get them the more I think I got a Nice an early win game use Jersey for the AL Central the 149 Crumble so good She loves me. Oh gee. This is escalating incredibly fast Where is he? I That's a good point Kyle. That's a good point game use Jersey Freddy Peralta and Al Central to 399. I Literally did mention a slot machine and Alvin was Alvin was here He was here Got an AL East auto Alexander Wells rookie to 299. Oh There's Vaughan. There's Vaughan Dude the crumble the last week crumble was on their game though Sometimes like hit or miss. I feel like it was like all hit last week like everything I tried was delicious sometimes it's Left some be a desire for like five bucks a cookie, but last week It was fantastic Brandon Crawford auto to the NLS to 299. I sugar. I don't like the ice sugar that much Interesting. I like it. I'm not saying it's the best ever But what the one last week that really got me personally was the lemon cheesecake that thing was that thing was unhinged How's like it was like a graham cracker like type cookie. Yeah with like cream cheese frosting and like a lemon thing on it Dude, oh my god, it's pretty good. I love lemon desserts too good Would you go for the Girl scout cookie vote lemon? I didn't I was never asked. I wasn't here that day They just decided I wasn't worth it. That's exactly how that went. Sorry for your loss Yeah, I think I would have gone lemonade or one of the peanut butter types I just I think lemonade wanted some. Yeah. Lemonade's are delicious. Game views Jersey, Stedrick Mullins of 399 for the AL East There's like the best girl scout cookie nowadays Lemonades Would you vote for? Got a true Alice rookie auto bronze to 25 AL West or sorry NL West. Excuse me d-backs NL West Any lemon is already so good Our in auto auto to 99 for the NL central now the lowest That'd be funny Jeremiah that'd be hilarious honestly I Do not hate that idea All right guys a lot of spots left and breaks we need some we're gonna get some breaks filled up here Real talk real talk Star Wars six series end of the night 2012 NT end of the night has 17 to go Sapphire coming up really soon 19 to go on sapphire baseball 19 to go tops chrome sapphire case Donnie will alert face space and My Twitter and yeah Yeah, guys if you check the latent sports cards my space you'll be able to get all of the the updates You'll be able to hear our favorite songs Our top eight game use better like JD Martinez at 349 for the AL East Insta chat. Yeah, it's the chat as well Ricky Otto lasnupa two ninety nine NL central Yeah, Publix is a grocery store that is getting is overrated nowadays Outside of the pub sub like and like some things are the bakery like I'm not a fan of Publix anymore It's just so expensive Sepeda auto to one ninety nine for the NL West Orlando, Sepeda. Oh Yeah, I gotta check my AIM chat got to make sure my away messages is really cool and mysterious That would be kind of cool though My face is still around we had one where like every month. There's our top eight get like Kyle Hendricks the three ninety nine Jersey card for the NL central game used That doesn't exist anymore. You still have Albertsons out there in Arizona Yeah, I know fries fries was the place to go when I was at when I lived in Flagstaff Jeremiah fries is good Safeways just run to the mill standard Jersey game used Matt Olson three ninety nine for the AL West We did yeah, yeah, Tom like Tom actually cared about us He was always there for all the all the people that own social media nowadays do not care about us And I care about the money right Miguel Tejada auto two ninety nine for the AL West And I read Denmark's rookie auto to two ninety nine for the AL West Haven't had Albertsons in Florida in a while or at least this area for a while It's been ten years or so longer than that. I think the Albertsons that was One closest to me close in like 20 2008 or nine or something. Oh Oh Boshes, yeah, good bash. This is like that was a place to go Jersey card Gary Sanchez the three ninety nine for the AL East We've got an NL central Jersey the three ninety nine Joey Votto Yeah, and now it's good. 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I'm not sold on it, but maybe and Jersey auto Joe Musgrove NL West the ninety nine Oh, yeah, it takes a while to drive through a bit of a task right there Jersey card camo mani Machado to two forty nine Going to it's out to the NL West And all game using this product for the most part got an auto Keith Hernandez NL East to two ninety nine Get a Seth beer rookie auto to two ninety nine NL West here and Peter Lonzo on the auto NL East to one ninety nine It's probably he's gonna be the A is still sort of Raiders did they just changed in it They just changed this that's all they did they did change nothing but that He's probably the exact same way Let's do a recap Paparoni Relics of mani Machado Randy Johnson as a Yankee so AL East Joe Musgrove Joey Vado Gary Sanchez Matt Olson Kyle Hendricks JD Martinez Cedric Mullins Freddy Peralta early win Yogi Berra Trey Mancini and Trey Turner. All right autos. We got Keith Hernandez Seth beer Peter Lonzo Joe Musgrove Trey Amber J Jairan Duran Ian Anderson Jake Berger the silver in the 10 Patrick Wisdom Reed Detmer's Miguel Tejada Lars new bar Orlando sepada Got Nolan Aronato drew Ellis Brandon Crawford Alexander Wells Louise Robert Don Mattingly Daniel Lynch Adrienne Beltray Hans Krause Jim tome Alex Verdugo Miguel Sanchez John Smoltz and a one-of-one triple patch for the AL East Brandon Lau Nice car. Thanks again everybody pretty good case there. We're moving on


You recognize this one Ben? This is the one you found in your yard. This tip here is one of the first titanium tips that Jason made. It doesn't have o-rings on it because the idea is that we were going to put the o-rings in the wood stem and slip this over it. It didn't work out very good. So this one had provisions for o-rings, but the grooves weren't quite deep enough. This is kind of a real pain. Jason made this on the south bend lathe. Notice these don't have any helical grooves. It's only got two o-rings in it. And one of the coolest things is there's not actually a screen in here. This tip was just machined very carefully from the tip end as well as from the stem end. And we left just a very, very thin membrane of titanium that I used a little punching tool that was seven finishing nails that were brazed together. And I'd put it in a press and just give it a little pop with a press to puncture those seven holes through that titanium membrane. This tip was just all made out of one solid piece of titanium. And when we finally went into production, the tips looked pretty similar. It looked like this. It got the little helical grooves on them, three of them. And we used a ceramic screen held in with a little clip. The first production tips actually looked like this. So they only had five fins. They had room for three o-rings. And when we hold it next to what ended up becoming more or less the staple for the balance of that time frame until we changed over to making our own tips is the seven fin ones. And you can kind of see that there's quite a difference in size, right? With these original five fin tips, we sold them with a wood stem like this, right? Original Thai Woody, Ed's TNT on there. Those are all sold on pre-order in the fall of 2015.  And they were cracking and that's where the crowns came from. But the crowns came later. Let that's another story. This is where the tip changed height a little bit. And I added another groove for an o-ring. This one might be missing it, but there's another groove here for an o-ring. So increase the number of o-rings. These tips are from early 2016. All the way through late 2016, we were making this style of seven fin tip. So these are just two of those original run seven fin tips. One's polished up and the other one's not. Then when we got our first CNC machine, real chunky fins and the helix went the other direction for whatever reason. That's just how it ended up being. So still a seven fin tip, but this was the first one that we made in-house on our own CNC machines. Eventually, we ended up opening up, I think, some of the fin geometry. You can see that there's a little bit more spacing between the fins on this one versus this one. When we got our next CNC machine, which I refer to as our first real CNC machine, I was actually capable of removing material a little bit faster than the tip changed to this one. And the helix switched back to the same direction as what the originals were. The spacing remained a little bit larger. The overall precision certainly went up a couple notches. December of 2016 to January of 2017, all the way up until some time in 2017 where we decided to start making this tip, the five fin titanium tip. I don't know if I even have the none chunky titanium tips in here like we're currently manufacturing. Yeah, here's one. It's kind of a fun one. So what were the performance differences? So you can just kind of see that one. It's kind of fun on screen. Performance differences, changing the length, changing the heat transference, changing the mass, changing the airflow. They all perform a little bit differently depending on how you heat them. How long they stay hot, how fast they heat up. It's not like any one of them is better than the other. They all work. Some of them are just a little bit easier to use than others. And that's just one of those things. If anyone's had one of our products for a while, as they get a little bit accustomed to it, they learn the nuance and are then capable of getting the kind of performance that they're really seeking out of the device. Just like a paintbrush to a skilled artist. A light stroke, a heavy stroke, a wide stroke, a thin stroke. They understand the nuance of how to operate their instrument. And our devices, in my opinion, are no different. So what's next for the tip? Oh, that's some good stuff.