Live from Washington, D.C., it's theCUBE, covering Boomi World 19, brought to you by Boomi. Welcome back, everyone. We are here live at Boomi World 2019. It's theCUBE's coverage here for two days. I'm John Furrier, your host with Lisa Martin, who stepped away. She'll be back. Les Wretchen, president and CEO of Solus, is back on theCUBE. CUBE alumni was with us in 2013. Les, welcome back to theCUBE. Good to see you. You know, we are in 10th year of theCUBE, so it's 10 years we've been in business. You were early on with us. Thanks for coming back. Thank you for having me. So you're an entrepreneur. You're on board. You're doing some investing. You've seen many waves of innovation. We are in one now. That's really got a lot of waves coming together, the convergence of multiple things happening. You're in the middle of it as the CEO. What's going on? What's your view of what's happening in the marketplace and what are you doing? Oh, I think, I agree. This is early days. You know, we've got this, everything's transforming. Customers are reimagining their businesses to be innovators, to move the world forward. And along with that, to enable it, we're dealing with a whole new IT infrastructure. Hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, distributed microservices, IoT, real time. It's, so it's early days of that. And so we're in the business of helping those innovators move the world forward with smart data movement. So we're very excited about it. I want to get into your company that you're leading now and some other endeavors you're on to, but I want to get your take on how you see the market and how you talk to customers and friends and people in the industry. What's the biggest story going on in your mind right now? What's the top line, high order bit trend or element or enabler, disruptive enabler? That's really power in the industry right now. That's changing it for the better and creating opportunities. What's the big story in your mind? Well, time and data are the currency. And I think, you know, when you think about dealing with customers, you're listening to them, you're personalizing, you're engaging. And this is all about what I would call the event-driven customer journey experience. Business is a series of events. You want to get those events moving and flowing. And really when you think about it, that can be competitively advantage for your business. You know, it's interesting, we've had the folks on from Boomi here. I use the bloodstream as an example, but data movement is how the business works. And we live in a digital world and it's combining. It's not mutually exclusive with the analog world. And you have now the coming together of a digitized society where things are instrumentable. You can actually get the data. And then you got to know what to look for. So now the challenge is with data become a big, this is a big, hard problem people are trying to crack the code on. Is there a formula in your mind to be truly data-driven or data-enabled or data-fed or leveraging the data? What's that? Do you see a playbook that companies can adopt to do that? Yeah, I think that companies are sitting on top of a lot of data. The key is to liberate it, to get it moving, but within your enterprise and then out to your partners in the customer world. So I think that you really want to just take advantage of it. You want to move it to where it needs to be. You want to augment the intelligence of the people within the enterprise and your customer set. So I talk about an event mesh, we call it. An event mesh enables the intelligent enterprise to deliver value. It's a nice, nice concept, that connective tissue. Yes. Between, or glue layers is a tech term. Digital river, central nervous system, whatever you want to call it. Great stuff. Talk about the market you're going to have to solve. What's the market you're targeting? What's the size of it? What are you going after? What's the territory you guys are trying to take down? So traditionally we came out of what used to be called messaging oriented middleware, right? So we're a messaging system. Now the term would be we're an advanced event broker. This thing used to be a couple billion dollar market. Now when you think about this hybrid multi-cloud IoT, this thing is probably exploded by a factor of 10 or more. RPA seems to be taking hot valuations these days. Is that the same kind of thing? RPA and automation, they seem like you like. RPA, we were, when you think about hybrid integration, you've got API management, you've got what Boomi does, the iPads, we're the advanced event broker. So we're talking about moving these events around. It could be request reply, it could be PubSub, async, synchronous, all these different patterns for all these different use cases that are out there. But that's really what we do as opposed to RPA. Got it. What's your business model? What's the business look like? How big is the company? Is it a cloud service? How do you make money? What's some of the details there? Well, we're a private company. We're growing very rapidly. We're about 300 people. It's a global enterprise. We're doing great things all over the world. We're enabling digital India, for example, with companies like Airtel and Reliance. So instead of taking 30 minutes to do a mobile phone recharge, we do it in seconds. In Singapore, we're working with smart transportation, land transport, next generation payments, 1.4 million connected cars and buses. Getting that data flowing to optimize traffic is another example. Safety critical data in and out of the airplane, which is a huge amount of events. Equities transactions. We process 85% of the equities transactions in Canada and the list goes on. We came out of capital markets. Now we're into these other industries because everything's moving to this real-time, real-time sensitive type environment. And the intelligence is software and is that the business model? You make money selling software? Is it, what is the transaction? Yeah, we've got, that's a great question. We've got multiple deployment models. We've got a hardware appliance. We've got software. We've got cloud. We offer subscriptions or operating expense or capital expense. This thing is a platform. So you've got the broker itself. You've got integration connectors. You've got a governance layers on top, monitoring capability. So it's a solution set, but we're very flexible and adaptable to the customer's business model in terms of subscriptions or cat-backs, whatever you want. So you keep it flexible? It's very flexible. Because if you're running an IoT, running traffic lights, for instance, or doing some sort of smart cities thing, then it's got to go over to another kind of use case. They're different. Yes. We talk about being dynamic, open, and simple. Dynamic in terms of the agility of multiple different types of use cases with one solution, open meaning running everywhere and simple meaning easy to deploy and manage. Yeah, machine learning and data, this is going to be a nice substrate layer to innovate on. So awesome business model. Let's talk about the technology and the secret sauce. What's going on there? Explain the magic. What's going on with the tech product solution? Yeah, the secret, this is all we do. Smart data movement is all we do. And we're the only company out there that's really- What's smart data movement mean to find that term? Smart data movement would be, I've got to get something from point A to point B. I want it to get there in a guaranteed, persistent way. That's kind of what we do, as opposed to taking that payload and transforming it. So we're just moving the data around. We're making sure that it gets there, that you can recover it, et cetera. So that's kind of what we do. You know, apps come and go. We heard this on theCUBE this morning. Apps come and go, things come and go, but data always remains. And so this has been a theme. What's different with you guys in terms of differentiation? Because I've seen service brokers, they've come and gone. Service brokers are everywhere. It's a key part of a system architecture. You're dealing with solutions that have to think like a system. And systems have consequence. You can't just, you got to think holistically. So what is your differentiation? What's the role of the broker? Just take us through that value proposition. What's differentiator? Yeah, I think the differentiation here is we're a platform. The dynamism and the agility is definitely unique in that we can do WAN optimization really well. We can deal with different use case patterns. So the dynamism and the agility, we can do ultra low latency. We can do high volume. We can do general purpose across the same platform. The other point of differentiation would be openness. So we're open protocol. We support whether it's AMQP, whether it's MQTT, we're an open system and we support openness across all the hyperscaler platforms, across the passes, so dynamic, open, and then simple in terms of it being a single solution set, be it hardware, be it software, be it cloud, and successful. Our customers are very successful. The use cases that we support are compelling. We help innovators move the world forward. So I'd say it's dynamic, open, simple, and successful. Who's the target audience? Developers, C-suite, because you got to code this stuff. Those are two primary target audiences. Yeah, I think it's really, it's both. It's business driven, IT enabled. So we tend to work with the architects, the CIOs, the middleware teams on one hand to support this reinvention of your business. On the other hand, when you think about transforming the business and doing something different and innovating, it's got to be business driven. So here we are at Boomi World. The theme is accelerated outcomes, which is key. So it's really driving an outcome, but IT enabled. So you got to support both sides. All right, you got a large growing market. You got a good business model. You got some secret sauce. Now final segment, customers. Customers and societal benefits, because look at, there's a tech for good angle in here, but also there's a big wave of tech for bad stuff. All I hear in the news is tech's evil. This is bad stuff, oh my God. So you've got real customers. Where's the benefits? Take us through some of the success stories and the opportunities for a tech for good kind of component here, because I can see the benefits. It's not infrastructure side, deploying new capabilities, compelling, but benefits to society are super important too. Yeah, I would say just one example would be digital India. As an example where you're saying you've got hundreds of millions of people who really need to access different capabilities, different services with smartphones. You need to deal with huge volumes. Let's give them that access, let's make it quick. So enabling digital India is one example of really doing something that helps. Helps people live better, reduces their time, doing things that they maybe would have taken a long time before. Another example would be Singapore, smart cities. You know, if you can move the traffic flows around better, you've got a population that's increased by a million people in the last several years, that's another example. Or making payments faster, whatever the case may be. So I know you got a hard stop, you don't meet the CEO, a booming, Chris McNabb, great guy out on theCUBE yesterday. Cube alumni as well. Final question for you is, is there any requirements that need to be in place to work with you guys? Because obviously it's a huge task. Are there dependencies? Are there certain signs that customers need? When does someone know to deploy? Obviously if someone says, hey, I want to modernize my X. What's the tell sign for you guys to know with an alignment with a project or a customer? Yeah, I would say that it's a real time sensitivity. Ideally, it's one where I want scalability, it's one where I want security, I want to be able to get the data to where it needs to be in a guaranteed way. And at the same time, I want to have, I want to do it in an affordable way. I want to have one platform for different use cases. So that's kind of what I would say around that. Les, thanks for taking the time to come on and share your insights in real time here on theCUBE. One final, final question, because I love to get the final, final question. You've seen a lot of waves. You've been a lot of experiences. You've run companies, you're on a lot of boards. A lot of young people coming into the marketplace.  It's a great time to be young and the re-skilling going on is an all time high. What's your advice to the young, upwardly mobile tech, soon to be tech, totally tech savvy, future employees of the world because there's a lot of hard projects to tackle. Tons of jobs, cybersecurity, what you're doing. Do they know how good they have it? And what's the advice that you would give people watching here knowing how robust this environment is? Oh, I think it's a great environment and you're right. I think it's all about people matter most and winning with talent. So the talent supply chain is a big issue. And one is, every day is a learning day. Make it a learn it all, keep learning every day because this business is moving very quickly. At the same time, being a good team member, I would say being compassionate, being empathetic to your teammates and really using that to your advantage is huge, right? It's one thing to have the domain skills but it's also another thing to have those human skills that really make a difference. It's team sport, takes the village these days. Tech is coming less, thanks for coming on. It's theCUBE coverage here in DC. I'm John Furrier, thanks for watching. Be right back. Thanks. Tch-tch.


Medvedev, response to potential strikes inside Russia to be hard convincing, Moscow's response to Kiev's strikes at Crimea or any other Russian region deep inside the country can be any, but it will be hard and convincing. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in a written interview for Nadana Friedrichsen published on her Telegram channel. Our response can be any, he said answering a question. The president of Russia said it quite definitively. Medvedev explained that Russia sets no restrictions for itself and depending of the nature of threats can use all kinds of weapons, in accordance with our doctrinal documents including the basic principles of nuclear deterrence. I can assure you, the response will be swift, hard and convincing. The politician added, according to the Russian Nuclear Doctrine, Russia may use nuclear weapons if nuclear or other types of weapons of mass destruction are used against Russia or its allies. If it receives verified information about a start of ballistic missiles for attack on Russia or its allies, in case of enemies influence on facilities, vital for response nuclear action and in case of conventional aggression against Russia, if the very existence of the state is endangered. While Russia accepts the possible use of nuclear weapons as a legitimate battlefield tactic and its threshold for such use is far lower than for Western nuclear powers, its persistent nuclear threats should be recognized as primarily political posturing unrelated to any probable nuclear use. However, while all these factors demonstrate that Russia's attitude to nuclear use is significantly different from that of a NATO nuclear power, this attitude does not set preconditions for reckless, pointless or suicidal nuclear attacks in response to marginal threats.


This breakdown is brought to you by SeatGeek and it is between the Blue Wahoos and the Shuckers, the Marlins and Brewers, AA affiliates, Uribe on the bump. He just got promoted to AAA actually. That pitch was the first one the umpire had to call. Ball or strike and he called it a strike. And now he's got two strikes on the batter, tries to go nasty slider, hits him in the foot. They've got a runner on no outs. Next batter comes up.  O2 goes back to the fastball once the call does not get it.  Strike three. You did swing. You got fooled. You're out. So now there's one out and the double plays in order. So they're in good shape. They also have a two run lead. First pitch. Heater double play. No, it ate him up but they do get the out at second. One out to go and this game's over. That looked like a, I don't know, a cutter or a change up or something for strike one. That's a nice slider for strike two. Now he's got this batter O2 and he hasn't even thrown his 99 mile per hour fastball with a little bit of armside run or his wipe out slider. So he's kind of in a good spot. And he's thinking, which one do I want to throw? How do I want to end this game? Do I want to dominate with the fastball? Do I want to go slider? The catcher's putting the fingers down. Both of them have completely forgotten that there's a pitch clock and you kind of got to get going and now he's stalling and he checks the runner. The ump says, too long. That was too long. Too long. That's a ball. So now it's a one and two count. And at some point the runner got the second base on us. They didn't really show that in the broadcast. He must have stole. And he steps off. He's like, I got to think about this. I'm mad. I'm mad at the ump. I don't think he counted right. I don't think he got it right. Catcher's like, forget about it, dude. You're one strike away from ending the game. That doesn't matter at all. Who cares? We were going to throw a waste pitch anyway. So let's just throw that same waste pitch. Let's not let it alter our plan. Let's throw that nasty slider you got. Do it. Bring it. Let's go. Here's the pitch. No bite.  And now that runner's on third base. So not good. Not a good sequence. Is this the unraveling of Abner-Garibé on the bump? Not really. He got promoted to triple A after this game. Two and two. Fast ball. That gets by the catcher as well. And now the runner's coming home. And do they have a play? Safe. Safe. And he's just kind of upset because he doesn't want any of this to happen. Do you need this ball? Says the umpire. He says, I'm not even looking at you. I'm so mad at you. He spikes the other ball kind of at his catcher. Is he mad at his catcher for missing?  Okay, now I want that ball. I'm just like, I'll toss it. Okay, fine. I'll hand it to the catcher. I'll hand it to the catcher. So maybe he's mad at the umpire. Maybe he's mad at the catcher.   And by smoke, I mean dirt. And you all knew that. You weren't going to question it. All right. So now it's a full count. What's he go with? Fast ball in the zone. Swings over it. He's got electric stuff. Just got promoted to triple A. I think Brewer's fans are a little excited about him. But he does let the ump note screw you. And he says, you're out of the game. And they're like, the game's over. What are you talking about? Your jurisdiction has ended. You can't do anything. The game's done. And if you want to go watch that guy pitch at triple A, Seat Geeks probably got tickets because they got over 70,000 events every single day you can buy tickets for.  So thanks to Seat Geeks for sponsoring the breakdown.


My name is Sally Hoffer and luckily I've had a number of different positions in the area of food safety and in my current role I have been responsible for sustainable food systems. From production to consumption, our Dutch food system has a significant impact on the environment and on food safety. So we have a lot of challenges and my teams especially focus on food safety and achieving food security. I have been working also at the Dutch Food Safety Authority and in that context I met Rob Thelen who was a former chair assistant of the CCCF and who talked with great inspiration about codecs and stressed the importance of this work. And since 2020 I can proudly say I myself have been actively involved by starting working in the Department of Agriculture and Food Quality. Well I can describe it as I've heard it but I've heard it has a really constructive spirit and we achieved results by open discussions and willingness to compromise. But in this committee we established maximum limits for contaminants in food and feed and in such a way they ensure public health. And furthermore we provide guidance via codes of practices and with these codes of practices our food operators in the food chain can get guidance so that maximum levels can be respected. And the food which comes available is consumer safe. But at the same time we need to establish these maximum limits but also ensuring not too much quantities of food are being wasted and therefore we need a good balance. So ensuring public health and not more trade restrictive than necessary. So it takes sometimes a lot of discussion in our committee to reach this consensus between all the regions of the world. So also hence my praise again for this committee for the willingness to seek good compromises. Well I'm very excited about this agenda and it is quite full and well, endeavourous. And it has a lot of it has a variety of contaminants to be discussed we are ranging from catmium and chocolates after toxins and cereals, methyl mercury and fish and even radio nuclides in food. And at this moment we have eight items in the step process, and also we will look at several discussion papers that may lead to new work in 2022. And I expect we make some good progress in the same constructive manner as the years before. Well, the virtual nature in itself is making it so much different. We discussed it with the coded secretariat and our deep Dutch team and, well, the positive side it is more inclusive, we bringing in much more delegates than we can ever before, because of well traveling restraints. But on the other hand, we lack some sociability, cheer and liveliness in the discussions, and some honorable members also have to miss their night sleep to join us. But above all we have to deal with time limitations and the opportunities that physical meetings offer so informal gatherings are not getting done. And we are not discussing critical issues and making proposed to the plenary in the walking, the walking areas. So the dynamics will be much more different from the physical meetings and our approach therefore is also different. The difference is you can't connect that easily. So you have to really have your ears and eyes open to everything which happens on the screen, and but you can't read body language. So that is much different for me than in other settings which I've had as a chair. And it is also challenging because this is a large number and which and there is a cutoff in numbers when you can ask specifically to people to give some comments virtually, but when you have so many members in a virtual meeting that is not possible. So hopefully, our members will speak up when I need to have to say something because I can't always read them. The Code Secretary is also virtual for us so that is a constraint, but they have the most experienced with all the rules and the procedural workings. So I rely definitely on them and I have a technical staff. And for me that is important for the content to comprehend it better. And they give me hints in how the discussion actually proceed and these people are in the room with me. We are actually motivated to continue this this important work but also do it with others, because it helps also others to meet regionally and intensively with their neighboring countries in a setting as codex. And so we're hoping when this pandemic is getting better that we can continue co hosting. And in that regard, to be in the 2022 in a co hosting country, but if that doesn't work out you are all invited to the Netherlands. First time delegates I would say that it is actually an honor to be identified as a representative of your country at codex and it's completely to be okay, had to be nervous when taking the floor in this virtual setting. And it takes some time to get practice in making intervention so we are making also this a little bit easier and I advise you all to join in the first time delegate session, which is held on Friday the 30th of April. We will also be there. We have to reckon with the limitation of such a virtual meeting and therefore I kindly encourage the codex members to come prepared by focusing on the recommendation in a different working papers. And I would like to emphasize that this meeting is not focused entirely on advancing the items in the step procedure. We're trying to do this, but time constraints does limit that. But above all we would like to further guidance the electronic working group chairs to progress their work for the next year. And I would encourage delegates also to take a careful look at the upcoming timetable which will be published on the codex website. We're also making some proposal to facilitate the consideration of the agenda items in the virtual plenary. And with that we hope to achieve a timely consensus on how to progress in the forthcoming year, so that we can meet the deadlines. So I hope to count on you as codex members to support me in this endeavor.


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After cleaning up his order lifestyle, Garrett Watts made a commitment to make videos on social media, making videos, but not only has he not been making videos, but he hasn't been present on social media either, so I can relate to what Garrett is going through. In this video, we'll be talking about why I'm worried about Garrett Watts. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution.  So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So real quick, we are so close. We are so close to 10,000 followers on Instagram. I could taste it. Like as of recording this video, we are only a hundred away. Don't you want to be my 10,000th follower over on Instagram? Don't you want that? Don't you want that memory to share with me, huh? So go over on Instagram at the Rewired Soul, make sure you're following me.  But also, follow me on Twitter. It's fun stuff. I talk to a lot of you like, a lot of you ask like what the best way to get a hold of me is, Twitter. I have my DMs on private, but I will have conversations with a lot of you if I'm around, have time. So anyways, follow me on Twitter, same tag at the Rewired Soul. All right. Anyways, Garrett Watts. Oh, this dude. This dude. I made videos about him and Shane Dawson and Ryland Adams and Morgan and Andrew, like going over and helping them clean up his hoarder lifestyle. And I was so proud of him. I made like a 30 minute long video. I was so happy, so proud of Garrett to be doing this. So he basically said that one of the reasons that he wasn't filming as much was because of his house. His house being dirty and all of that. And I made a video. I don't know.  But we're talking like it's been like three or four months. And Garrett actually commented on my video because I said I was setting up a calendar date to see if Garrett actually started making videos, right? And he actually commented and said, Hey, I'm setting my calendar too. But what we've all seen is that Garrett isn't posting any new videos. He isn't on social media either. And what I want to do is kind of explain my thoughts and my experience as to why that is. So although I don't know Garrett, I feel like I can relate and what I'm always trying to teach all of you is to try to relate to what you're watching on YouTube or what's going on in the community. And hopefully I can provide you with some suggestions and some tips because I used to be a huge people pleaser. I still kind of am, but there's a way to turn that into a benefit. But we're also going to be talking about in this video the beautiful topic of avoidance and anxiety and all that stuff. So for those of you who don't know, I'm a drug addict and alcoholic and recovery.  So the first time I got clean, I was able to stay clean for about three months. I went through the 12 step program. I thought it was some crazy religious cult. So I didn't pay attention. I was like, y'all ain't brainwashing me, right? And I relapsed a few months later and things got progressively worse. So after that last relapse, you know, for the next, I don't even remember how long it was for six months to a year. Things got worse. I lost a job. My kid's mother and I and my son, we had to move back to Las Vegas. I got a new job. She ended up leaving me because of my addiction. My addiction got worse. And I was living with a roommate and my life was just spiraling out of control. And I remember I had a job for maybe a week or two and I got fired, right? Because I drank a ton the night before. I showed up hours late for work. They fired me. And I remember calling my mom on the way home just like solving, just crying, right? I'm just like, mom, I can't live like this anymore. I need help, right? And my mom, you know, she was sober as well. And she had been sober for years at this point. And she dropped everything that she was doing, came down to Las Vegas just to drive me across town to a detox center. Because not only was I abusing alcohol, but I was also abusing pills. So when it comes to improving our mental health, whether it's addiction or mental health or anything like that, a lot of us lack accountability, right? And I had the self-awareness to know that I lacked accountability. So what I decided to do was, before I went into that detox center, like a lot of people knew I liked to drink and party and stuff like that. But a lot of people didn't know how bad it was. So what I did was I went on Facebook and I posted it. I publicly posted it. I said, hey, everybody, I have a problem with drugs and alcohol. I'm going into a detox center, right? So what I did was I was outing myself publicly as a way to keep myself accountable because I thought that if I let the whole world know what I was struggling with and what my goals were and my intentions were, maybe that would help keep me on the right path after I got out of that detox center. So I can relate to Garrett Watts and his very public, vulnerable videos about his hoarder lifestyle and the reasons why he wasn't making videos and trying to get things back on track. Part of that was for accountability. You know what I mean? So everybody knew what his intentions were, right? So I went into that detox center. I think it was like a four or five day detox. And that's a whole other story about what I experienced in there. That's one of the reasons why I try to teach you guys not to think you're so unique and stuff because that's actually what led to my relapse. But anyways, I stayed sober for a few months again. So there was something up with me where I could I can get three months clean and then I would relapse, three months, relapse, three months, relapse, right? But during that three months, life started getting better, right? I started killing it at my job. I got a raise. I got a promotion, you know? Things were starting to get better between my son's mom and I, even though we were split up at this point. Things started getting better with my son. If you had an expensive drug habit like me, like that's a instant pay raise. I had a lot more money in the bank. Things were going so, so, so well, right? And what ended up happening was I injured my shoulder and I went to the emergency room and my drug of choice was prescription pain killers, right? And I went to the hospital because I was working out and stuff and I hurt my shoulder. It's actually something I still deal with. I actually went to the doctor last week, but I don't let him give me pain meds anymore. But anyways, it prescribed me a bottle of Vicodin. And I remember going home and the pain was already gone. But I remember going home with that bottle of pills and staring at it at what seemed like an eternity, right? And I had, you know, those old cartoons where you have like the devil and the angel, right? You're like little angel dudes like saying like Chris, these pills, you have a problem with them. You have a major problem with these pills. Don't take them. You're not even in pain. Just throw them away. Just get rid of them, right? I'm like, yeah, you know, you're right. But then my addiction, my disease in my head, and for you that might be your depression, might be your anxiety, might be your trauma, whatever it is. The other one was like Chris, it's just one pain pill. It's only five milligrams. What's that gonna do to you, right? And this voice, my addiction voice is a hell of a lot louder than the good voice, right? So I ended up taking that one pain pill and I'm not even kidding you within seconds before a pill even has its chance to dissolve and do whatever it needs to within you. Like I immediately thought this pill isn't gonna do anything for you. And I ended up taking three or four more, right? Next thing you knew, the next morning that entire bottle was gone. And I was calling my drug dealer again. And that was my last relapse, which lasted about a year and a half.  I felt like I let everybody down. I let my son's mom down. I let my son down. I let my friends, my family down. I let myself down. How could I do this again after I made it so public? So what happened was, was I just started being more secretive about it, right? I didn't want to tell anybody, I didn't want anybody to know because I was so embarrassed, all right? So when I look at Garrett Watt's situation and I see how he hasn't been active on social media, my concern is, is that he made this very public announcement that he was gonna start making videos again and be more active. And I know he's made appearances in like Jeffree Star videos, Shane Dawson videos, he was just in a Ryland Adams video and all of that. But he hasn't really been on Twitter or Instagram as much because when he does, he gets a bunch of comments saying, hey, when's the next video and all that.  And here's the thing, like real quick, side note, I'm always trying to teach you guys to look for the similarities rather than differences. Like Garrett, his thing is like making YouTube videos, my thing was addiction, but I can still relate to him, okay? Like so many of us are going through the same things, but we think like, oh, my situation's different, I can't relate to you. So I'm trying to train all of you to learn how to find the similarities, even if somebody's problem seems completely different. So what's the solution? What's the solution that I found, all right? So anyways, you know, that year and a half long relapse that almost killed me, six and a half years ago I had a 10% chance of living. I had congestive heart failure. Good news, just went to the doctor to go over my echocardiogram results. She said, she's like surprised. She's like, wow, your heart is doing amazing. It's not perfect. So she gave me some medications. I just started going back to the gym again. I've been vegetarian for over a year. So don't you worry about me, baby girl. I'm doing good. But anyways, after that relapse and I got sober this time, I knew something had to change. So for me, for me in the realm of addiction recovery, there was a couple of things that I did. One of them was that I got a service commitment, right? I got a commitment at a meeting where I had to show up every single week and open up a meeting. I had keys to a place, which is crazy.  Like I might be crazy, right? But I also like had to bring all the stuff to the meeting and all this. And I didn't even have a car. So every week I was taking like a 30 minute bus ride with this crate full of stuff with like coffee and literature and all that, but I had to do it. I think what helped me out with that accountability was knowing that other people relied on me, right? Like people couldn't attend that meeting if I didn't show up. So that helped me even more with accountability, knowing that other people were relying on me. So in the context of like Garrett Watts and YouTube or even you watching this, like with work, right? Like think about the days you wake up for work and you just don't wanna go, right?  I can't make it in. Don't think about the employer in that situation. Think about your coworkers. Think about the other people who would have to take over your task and do those things. Like do it for them, all right? Like this is something that helped train me and quit thinking about myself so much. Those of you who have been subscribed for a while, you know how I talk about the default mode network, the posterior singulate cortex. Our default is to be selfish and self-centered. So what helps me with more accountability is to think about other people. Like why do I make so many videos? Why do I make so many videos? Cause it's not about me. When I put out content, it's for you. So that was one of the things. The other thing is I knew I was a people pleaser and I hated letting people down. So I turned that into a strength. So I started working with a sponsor and for those of you who don't know what that is, it's kind of like a recovery mentor, all right? I suggest that you find a mentor, whether you're dealing with, you know, any form of mental illness, whether it's borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, whatever it is, find somebody who's been working on themselves for years now and have them be a mentor for you. Talk to them about your struggles, your pitfalls. Like the best thing we can ever do is find somebody who's overcome the obstacle that we're working on right now and learn from them and walk in their footsteps, right?  And on all the days when I didn't wanna do that, like since I'm a people pleaser, I didn't wanna let this guy down. I didn't wanna let him down.  I was like, I just don't wanna let this one dude down. And in reality, like my sponsor was dope and like, you didn't care, he was a good sponsor. But in my brain, I didn't wanna let this guy down, right? And that helped push me forward, right? So again, I was getting out of myself and thinking about other people. So, you know, in Garrett's situation, a lot of it, like Garrett brings smiles and joy to so many people. If you're watching this video, you're probably a Garrett Watts fan. Like, I love that dude. And like, I wish that Garrett Watts knew like, if he just like started vlogging like once a week and just recorded his silly life and just talked to the camera, people would absolutely love it. Absolutely love it. I know Garrett, you know, loves to edit and do all sorts of stuff with his videos and his production value is great. But if Garrett was my friend, I'd be talking to him like, dude, baby steps, just start with this. I know you like the high production value and all this, but just talk to the camera.  And what it does, again, is it helps us get out of here and it helps other people. So how does this relate to you? So for example, I sent an email out on my email list last week, I think, and it was like, just listen, right? If you're in the Facebook group or the Discord server, or if you're afraid to go in there, just sit back and listen. But what I want you to think about is to understand that sharing your experience and sharing your story can help other people, right? Like look at Illimation. Like look at what Illimation did with her series. Her sharing that story has helped so, so many young women and young men out there, right? So we have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and what we don't want to do, right? We, in order to get out of that, we need to think about how it benefits others, okay? But anyways, I hope, you know, I hope Garrett Watts is doing all right. I hope he starts making content again and all of that. And I hope me sharing a little bit of my experience can help you understand what you might be going through when it comes to avoidance, when it comes to procrastinating, when it comes to accountability and all that stuff. If you need some accountability, make sure you join the Rewired Soul Facebook group and or the Discord server, they're always linked down in the description below, all right? But let me know down in the comments. Can you relate to this? Can you relate to, you know, making a public announcement and then, you know, the feeling of letting people down and then you start avoiding it all together? Let's have a conversation down in the comments below, all right? Anyways, that's all I got with this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos. And a huge, huge thank you to everybody for supporting this channel over on Patreon. You are all amazing. And if you would like to become a patron and get some exclusive content, join our group calls or have one-on-ones with me and all that stuff, click or tap on the Patreon icon right there, all right? Thanks so much for watching. 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Item Number – SCP-569 Object Class – Euclid Special Containment Procedures – SCP-569 are currently held at Bio-Research Site-66. Contained instances of SCP-569 are to be sealed within 1 meter cubed steel crates and immersed in ice water baths when not under research. If containment is breached, aggressive instances are to be neutralized through application of aerosolized liquid nitrogen. Passive instances are to be herded back into a containment crate and returned to containment. Personnel injured by SCP-569 may be treated via amputation of affected surfaces. Severely affected personnel are to be terminated. Matter produced by agitated instances of SCP-569 is to be ground into powder and utilized in site construction. Description – SCP-569 appear to be a collection of 46 animate, disembodied, floating human heads. All instances are identical, resembling a bald man in his late 40s. Analysis reveals that SCP-569 are sculpted from silicauga marble. No further anomalous materials are present. SCP-569 will usually congregate into a loose swarm and float aimlessly at a mean height of 10 meters. Individuals will randomly shift between several identical expressions, ranging from apparent joy to considerable distress. No pattern or probable cause for these shifts may be found. They are hypothesized to be simply random. In addition, instances of SCP-569 appear to react to temperature variances. Temperatures below 4 degrees centigrade render them inert. If an instance of SCP-569 is assaulted by a human, a sudden movement is perceived in its direct field of vision, or a sufficiently sudden loud noise occurs in the immediate vicinity, the affected instances will transform into an aggravated state and attempt to destroy the source of aggression or noise. This transformation involves said instance seemingly dissolving into the shape of a human skull, then launching a colorful material spray in the general direction of its target. This material will rapidly harden into colored marble, coating the target in a heavy sharp shell. This marble produced from SCP-569 is chemically similar to the normal silicauga marble that SCP-569 consists of, but contains simple pigmentation to lend to its various hues. In addition, the colored portions are fused, solid sheets of marble. No seams, cracks, or similar structural flaws are present after setting. SCP-569 will continue launching this material at its target until the target has been completely covered. Material will fuse at the molecular level to the target's surface. At this point, the instance will revert to its calm state and resume aimlessly floating. Addendum, cross-testing. Due to recent developments, proposals regarding cross-experimentation with SCP-2860 have been suspended. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-568, dismemberment strap, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


I think we'll start this out with the demo. We've got a hell of a chain, as you're going to have eight hands. You're going to have to fill out. You're going to have to buy the function full of it. We might be wrong. We're funny, but it's not always a joke. You know what I mean? There are mental designs that... No, I lied. Ha ha! Back with... I don't even know what the hell we're going to talk about. All I know is that we're supposed to talk about something regarding experimentation. So, let's get into the concept of experimentation as a whole. Right? So, like many authors and like many people, we've been... Behavior analysts of my generation were heavily influenced by Sidman. Right? Even those that were a little bit above me, if you will. So, before me. Heavily influenced by Sidman. So, one of my favorite things from Sidman is a quote that says, We conduct experiments to find out things we do not know. He doesn't have that accent, but I just figured it would impact. Right? So, why do we do experiments? To find out things we don't know. I mean, it's just brilliant, right? So, where do you go with this? Right? What's the next step? The next thing is, what is the... What's an experimental question? Sometimes experimental questions can be difficult to figure out. You have to be really cautious with your experimental questions. We have to make sure that things are testable. We have to make sure they're public. All these different criteria. Testability and, I don't know, specificity and empirical and I'm not going to get into all that stuff. It's for another series of videos that some day before I die, we will get to. And if I don't, then, well, we didn't. So, and I'm dead. Now I'm talking myself into a circle. Experimental circles. We don't do those. So, that's one of the things we have to be cautious about in experiments to make sure we're not using circular logic. But we'll come back to that at another time. Again, probably before I'm dead, if I'm lucky. So, experimental questions. What are they? They're the question that you're trying to answer in your experiment. They are the thing that you want to know about. Right? So, when Sid has been saying that we find out, the experiments find out things, find out stuff that we do not know, right? Have answered questions about things that we don't know. Then the answering thing is about a question and that question is the thing that you want to know and that's an experimental question. What effect does a tie have on behavior? Right? So, now we can find out what effect a tie has on behavior if we do an experiment. If we do it in the right way. Now, it's kind of tight. There we go. Right? So, we could do that, right? We could do, we could find out what effect ties have on behavior using a properly designed experiment, which leads us to experimental design. There's lots of them. They don't have time to get into them in this video and make this video palatable and interesting and brief enough for you to watch the whole thing. But we will do it in another video, including ABAB designs, ABAB designs, ABAB designs, ABABD, ABAB, ABAB designs, reversal designs, and all sorts of designs that are just kind of popping into my head right now. Lots and lots and lots of different research designs. Why are they important? They're important because different types of research designs allow you to draw different conclusions, okay? So, these different conclusions, well, sorry, they allow you to answer different questions in different ways, which can lead you to different conclusions and getting all ahead of myself. The experimental design technique is the procedures that you use when you conduct your experiment that allows you to draw the experimental conclusions. So, when you conduct the study, the conditions that you put people through, do you put them through a baseline first? Do you do an intervention phase? Do you bring them back to baseline? Or are you doing other designs where you have an intervention and a baseline and a different intervention, or sorry, a baseline and an intervention and a baseline and an intervention and a baseline and an intervention? There's all sorts of different things we can do. How those work is a topic of another video, but that's your experimental design. So, when you have a research question, you match your design to it. Some designs don't work with certain research questions. Again, we'll get back to that. So, we have to go, well, what's in a research question? Well, there's a couple of things. Dependent variables and independent variables. So, we're going to focus on independent variables first. Independent variables are the tightness of the tie. All right? So, it's rather tight at the moment. Let's see if I tighten it up a little bit. Let's see if you watch the color. There we go. Now, we're getting a really good tight tie. I'm not messing with my voice. The tie is messing with my voice. All right? So, if the independent variable is the tightness of my tie, I'm going to tighten up a little bit more because it gets loose as I talk. All right? So, if the tightness of my tie, I suppose the dependent variable would be my behavior. You could also probably measure the color in my face about now. I can't personally see it because we don't have a monitor, but I can feel that it's getting rather warm and my voice is getting rather scratching. All right? So, the independent variable, tightness of the tie, dependent variable, my behavior. Good thing off of me. All right? So, there we go. Whoo! So, as always, we're going to go back to the basics. Independent variables are the things that you want to know about. They're the things that affect behavior. They're the things that you want to see what effect they have. If I check everybody up with a really tight tie, does that do the same thing to everybody or does some people pass out and hit the floor? All sorts of interesting questions. What happens if you check up the temperature in the room? What happens if I punish you with this? All right? Those are all independent variables. That is the independent variable, right? The dependent variable is what happens. It's what you measure. In our field, it's your behavior, right? So, other things that we're going to talk about. So, that's independent, dependent. Dependent is dependent upon the independent. That's another way to think about it. The subject. What's the subject with us? Behavior. Subject is often the person, but the subject of study is behavior in any way you get the idea. So, the subject in the study could be a person, but the subject of the study could be behavior, right? So, notice how I said that. Of the study and in the study. There's your key. Let's see what else do we have in here. Oh, the experimental setting. The environment into which the experiment occurs. This has to do with external validity and all sorts of other types of validity. So, we want to make sure that if we're going to do a study in a lab that we also maybe replicate that study out in the real world to see if it has the same sort of effect. So, experimental setting is drastically important. Why is that important? Because it has to do with the control of extraneous variables. When we bring an experiment into the laboratory, what we really try to do is control for things like this. All of those things on that list are extraneous variables that might affect behavior. Let's go back to our example of tightening up the tie. Hold on. I got to grab the right one. All right. So, that's our independent variable. Oh, shoot. So, what are the things that could affect the independent variable, the tightness of the tie? What sorts of things could have an effect on my behavior? What are possible other scenarios that are going on in this particular environment that could explain my behavior other than the tightness of this tie? All of those. In other words, what you're seeing is anything and everything that you didn't control for is appearing on that list, which basically means everything in the dark world, whatever the heck it is, it's all there. Those are extraneous variables. They are concomitant variables in there, confounding variables. They mess with your ability to draw conclusions about the independent variable. See if I can just straighten it up. There we go. No, that's good. It wasn't a very effective intervention. All right, here we go. So, I'm good. We're back to normal. So, we try to control extraneous variables, confounding variables, concomitant variables, they're all the same thing. We control those in the laboratory in really highly controlled settings to draw conclusions about the independent variable. And then we go test that stuff out in the real world and see if those same types of things happen. I'm trying to think. Is there anything else here? No, replicability. We need to make comparisons. We'll get into baseline logic in another video. I don't know. Hold on one second. I'm going to check my notes.  It'd be fussy. I was hoping the camera would adjust, but it didn't. So, that's pretty much it. So, we're going to come back and talk about baselines in a later. That was a video on behavior analysis. If you like it, please share it. Please subscribe. Please donate. We'd like to eat. I'm hungry.