Okay. Hey friends, this is Dan and Stephanie Burke with Divine Intimacy Radio behind the scenes In a few minutes, we are going to have a good friend of mine Stephanie doesn't like him, but I do. His name is John Mardinoni.  I've only known him for like a decade and Blue collar apologetics. We're gonna be talking about in a minute and it's great stuff I mean, it's some of my favorite realm of apologetics is what John does. So we'll go there in a minute And before we jump in I want to tell you about one opportunity. Well, there's two One is the Avalos summit Bishop Strickland fathered McManus Dennis McManus Monsignor Rosetti who's written the Exorcist diaries the American the diaries in American exercise, which is phenomenal. Yeah Yeah, I think you can get an AWTN religious catalog as well. Yeah, if you've been following our Blog you will have been reading pieces of that diary He's got a huge following and we did a series of shows with him on it, too Yeah, he's doing amazing Kathleen Beckman Stephanie 9 Catholic University of America July 15th through the 17th We normally used to only have about 250 seats and we doubled that by moving it to CU a And so we hope you know go up there. We're almost sold out. Yeah, so don't wait, you know, go ahead It'll be beautiful in July up in DC. It's not gonna be like being in Alabama Cool, it'll be beautiful Venue we're gonna be having masses at the Basilica masses at the Basilica. Wow.  It's I mean You could spend hours wandering through that place. It's so huge. It's just really beautiful. Yeah last thing And then we'll jump into the show with John Martinone blue collar apologetics Free webinar tonight Lent a path to deeper peace It'll be hosted by my beloved spouse Stephanie Burke. 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Yeah, and there's a lot of folks who are circling the drain and Don't want to be and feel bad about having Struggling with habitual sin and you know never really making spiritual progress You don't have to the entire divine economy is ordered so that you can come to union with God My favorite passage in the new catechism, right? which is chock full of truth and So hit that webinar tonight to get some more help with it Yeah, again spiritualdirection.com forward slash events register for it Even if you can't make it tonight, we'll send you the recording and join Thousands already that have signed up. Yeah, it's been really great people You know generally it's just like, you know people kind of hit it at the last minute But people have been excited about we have some special Exclusive content for you that you're gonna get if you sign up for that too. Yeah, that'll help you it'll make your lint Amazing. Okay, great start to show. Yep, and mark it set go. This is danna Stephanie Burke Welcome to divine intimacy radio Your radio haven of rest your hermitage of the heart your monastery of the mind where we lift our hearts and minds to heaven To draw on the wisdom of the church the wisdom of the saints to help us Navigate this very difficult life that we're in and things are tough now Tougher than they've been for the entirety of my existence. Yeah, my yeah, huge I mean huge issues going on and I know A lot of people are struggling. Yeah, and so we're here to accompany you in that struggle Well to to walk the side to help to sojourn with you to dialogue No, not dialogue. Right. Listen. We're here to love you. There you go There you go. My wife's a musician. So forgive the echo Although I was reading a pre-conciliar document this morning or yet in the last few days And the word accompaniment appeared there and I thought okay, it's not you know Well, I mean, it's a beautiful thing because you know, what is it to accompany somebody? Yeah, to please to follow them around with a piano and play theme music behind them, right? But you take you You don't take your eyes off them. You're constantly listening. You're very very attentive, right?  It is it's like a beautiful dance It's just overused by some goofballs. All right, so Uh, tell folks about our awesome guest Mr Martik Noni and ask him how to pronounce the first name Well, we want to welcome our friend. Mr. John Martinoni. I I know how it's said Um, his book blue collar apologetics is what we're going to be speaking about today He is the founder and president of the bible christian society former host of ewtn's open line radio program And john has spoken at hundreds of parishes parishes and conferences throughout the us His talks on various apologetic topics are available for free at his website Biblechristiansociety.com He writes a bi-weekly apologetics e newsletter Apologetics for the masses that has over 44,000 subscribers from all over the u.s And close to 100 countries worldwide, which you can sign up for at his website He is the author of blue collar apologetics how to explain And defend catholic teaching using using common sense Simple logic and the bible and it's published by sofia and ewtn publishing. Welcome john. Good to see you Good to see you. Stephanie and dan glad to be with you. So is the g silent or is it pronounced? The g is not pronounced. It's silent. Okay, most europeans know immediately pronounce it martin yoni Oh, there you go. That's you gave it a kind of a noble flair there. Yeah, there you go So I just want to say to folks about john Before we jump into some questions with him What he he delivers on his promise not everybody does that john What I've always who coined the phrase blue collar apologetics john. I don't know who did well it's actually I got it from three or four different People who are my newsletter subscribers. They were writing me emails And now they're calling you during the show. Yeah, they're calling me now They were writing me emails and different ones used it. They're completely You know not They weren't in concert with each other and and after the third or fourth when I said, you know I think I'll adopt that name And and the phone will go off and just rip it out of the wall john Yeah, so I It is true what I what I love about it is And I you and I've had this conversation. So guys like scott hon brilliant genius, right? Have the ability to dig deep in theology and make it beautiful glorious and systematic and all of that And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's important. It's a it's an aspect of Of the of the faith, you know, there's different Strengths that each of you guys have in the apologetics realm. I love trant horns debating Work. It's absolutely awesome But I think the territory you you you hold the best Ground in is is practical practicality of it Well, that's I've had One of the most common comments I get from people is they'll say john We love scott hon. We love tim staples You know, we love father mitch pakwa But we can't do what they do But we can do what you do You know and I take that as just a supreme compliment and it's and it's not a knock Like you said, it's not a knock against scott or tim or father mitch or anyone else who who gives you that the beautiful theology and understanding of the old testament new testament But like you said for in terms of practically Going out there and talking to members of your family or co-workers or friends About the faith who are asking you questions You can't repeat what what scott hon says or what father mitch pakwa says So I we're not everybody can right Well, yeah, I take what they say and I just I bring it down To to earth. I can't repeat what scott hon says, you know, I mean The man's like you said, he's a genius and his work is just absolutely beautiful and tremendous but For the average person Out there They need something that they can just that they can remember As well as repeat Yeah, it's really important I remember when I first started because I'm a revert right when I when I married dan I I started to lean back into my faith and I had a Reversion I had a true conversion.  I was in trouble with my mom, you know So this was this is really so practical and so helpful. Okay Amen. So so john In in terms of being practical, I'm curious Well, so I'm a convert And I'll I'll say this to our listeners. Some of them are going this is a spiritual theology show This is about the spiritual life, but here's the thing. This is the power of apologetics related to what we do here in the show It's it strengthens your yes. It helps you to understand more fully You know why you believe what you believe and that gives you more faith and strength and belief in your in your faith Especially when you're going through difficult times and you start to question things So it's applicable to everyone even if it's if it's not a common thing found in the spiritual realm john I find that that most catholics are confused about one thing as a convert Even good catholics and I wonder if you run into this too They think protestants know their bible front to back, which isn't true They think that it's really hard to evangelize that they Kind of like we've alluded to that you've got to know a ton And you really kind of come against those false assumptions in this book Absolutely. Yeah, I tell people number one To answer that former the former part of what you said there is the protestants know the bible Most protestants probably have more bible verses memorized than the average catholic So in that Yeah, okay, you could say they know the bible, but do they really because Most protestants don't have a guide to understand the bible So you talk to 20 different protestants about a particular section of scripture. Well, what is this verse mean? You could get 20 different Answers and and many of them could conflict with one another and contradict one another So they don't have this overarching view Of scripture and the story of scripture and the word of god and catholics get that Number one through the mass And and I tell catholics I say you know the bible better than you think you do because you're hearing it at mass all the time And I'm not talking about just just the readings. I'm talking about the prayers Everything in the mass is directly or indirectly from scripture. So yes, catholics Know the bible better than we think we do and protestants don't know the bible as well as catholics might think they do And even as well as protestants think they do The second part of that is that You're right that you don't have to know everything in order to go out and evangelize If I waited until I knew something 100 perfectly about the catholic faith before I went out and talked about it I would never go out and talk about anything about the catholic faith Okay, because I tell people look there are things about the catholic faith st. Thomas Aquinas didn't know So in this lifetime We will never plumb the depths of the catholic faith So if you wait until I've got my arms all you know all the way around Transubstantiation I can finally understand like that's not going to happen But so so what I tell people I said look All you have to do To to be a catholic evangelist Is go out and tell someone hey i'm catholic Or or you're at lunch With co-workers and you go in the name of the father and the son the holy spirit And they will come to evangelize you and then when they do that I give you techniques and strategies for how to how to handle that you know and the number one strategy And I've had people tell me john just You giving us permission essentially me giving them permission To do this strategy Has helped them to go out and evangelize anybody and that strategy is When someone asks you a question about your faith And you don't know the answer or maybe you know the answer but not you know you you want to be Better prepared you want to make sure you've got it just right All you have to do is say look That's a good question And I don't know the answer But i'm gonna find out and I'll get back to you on that And boom you're you're you're out of a potential jam You know if somebody says well, we're in the bible doesn't say anything about purgatory You know you catholics and purgatory All you guys well, you know, I've never really thought about that. That's a good question. Tell you what?  I'm gonna find out an answer and I'll get back to you And then that puts the ball in your court and you go you do your research You come back when you're ready You know and and you can come back to them when you're ready Whatever way you want to get back to them whether in person Email a text your phone call however you want to do it You're now in control instead of the other person being in control of the conversation And it just you know with with all the resources dan that we have out there now There is no excuse for a catholic not being able to go out and research and find the answer to a question Absolutely, you know, john, we're going to be heading into a break here when we get back I know Stephanie wants to dig in with you about some of these other strategies On how to evangelize, but I do love that If you don't know, uh, you just say hey, that's a great question And uh affirm them in their desire to understand Assume the best of them which always helps in how you comport yourself in in the conversation And then go do the research yourself and as you say eWTN by the way is an awesome resource for Doing research the website's huge and has a million different things that people can Look to and look up spiritualdirection.com for spiritual, you know purely on the spiritual life stuff. We've got over here too But uh, there's no excuse. We'll get when we get back from the break. We'll we'll do we'll talk more with john martinoni blue collar apologetics how to explain defend catholic teaching using common sense Simple logic in the bible and you can find that at eWTN's religious catalog.  This is dan Stephanie Burke with divine intimacy radio and john martinoni, what you you're curious about these Other strategies. I know yeah, you know, I was just thinking How I react when or how I used to act when react when people would ask me questions and I think What you said was so important of saying, you know, I'll get back to you. I'm not really sure I know that and uh, how the primary Nemesis in that situation is fear Because we kind of panic and we don't want to be embarrassed and and it feels a little bit like getting t-boned in the middle of an intersection When somebody springs that to you on they on you and sometimes it's done in in a Tone of love and sometimes it's done as a gotcha question. So what are The apologetic strategies other than saying I'll get back to you that you talk about in your book That's going to help us to deal with that and kind of get our emotion under control so that we feel like we're we're fully planted So that we can address what's been asked of us and uh and testify to this beautiful faith that we have Well, that's um and in what you said Stephanie's That's absolutely where I came from that's how I got into apologetics. I worked at a bank All these people, you know found out I was catholic and they started to ask me questions Well, why do Catholics do this? Why do Catholics do that? And I was like, what are you asking me for?   How do you be offensive without being offensive? Well, catholics are always on the defensive, you know, where in the bible does this anything about mary's immaculate conception? Where in the bible is purgatory? Where in the bible's infant baptism? Where in the bible is this or that? So you take that and you answer the question if you're able to if you're not you say I don't know but I'll find out and get back to you But then you come back with your own questions Yeah, I tell people I said raise the other person up to the level of the teacher And you lower yourself to the level of the student and what does a good student do? A good student ask questions. So somebody says, you know Where in the bible does it say anything about mary being assumed body and soul into heaven? You say well, you know, you could show them a virtue that Indirectly shows this or you could say well Where in the bible does it say she wasn't assumed body and soul into heaven? I mean, it's just a you know, you're taking their question and turning it around on them And it's it's it's a fair question. Where does it say she wasn't, you know, we've got Elijah is essentially assumed into heaven enic is assumed in heaven Why couldn't mary even though it doesn't say she was it doesn't say she wasn't So little things like that or or you know, most Protestants believe in salvation by faith alone So when they start talking about it, you can say well, where in the bible does it say That we're saved that were quote saved by faith alone unquote You know, they'll take you to this verse or that verse not a single verse in the bible says we're saved by faith alone And you know in fact the only verse in the bible that uses the phrase faith alone Is james 224 and it says We're saved not by faith alone You know, so The bible the word of god says the exact opposite of what they believe and you say well Why do you believe that if the bible says this you ask the questions and what you do by that and in the book I give you all sorts of questions that you can ask on various topics And and how to respond to the questions that you'll get asked as a Catholic So what you're doing is you're controlling the conversation The other person thinks they're evangelizing you but you're actually evangelizing them through your questions And and what I tell Catholics, I said it most places where Protestant theology differs from Catholic theology It's Protestant theology is razor thin So with just one or two questions You get down below the surface and all sudden The other person is having to examine what they believe and why they believe it And that's a good thing to make them do because a lot of Protestants have never gone through that exercise And well, why do I believe salvation by faith alone? Why do I believe once saved always saved and the Catholic through asking questions is making them examine their their fundamental beliefs and assumptions Yeah, I want to affirm something you said so I was a Protestant, but I was very well studied And I argued against the Catholic faith. It was very anti-Catholic for a long time And what John said I can affirm it's razor thin. It didn't feel like it on the other side But yeah, it didn't it did so it doesn't take much to unravel John. I want to shift a little bit to a Something that is I ran into this weekend at the marriage encounter. We did there was a guy there a great guy not marriage encounter marriage In marriage retreat and it was amazing and we had totally blue Yeah, right like we led the retreat. We did not go offensive. It was awesome Yeah, so there's a great guy there loves his wife broader there, but he's kind of on the outer edges of the church really and he I came he shared that the abuse rattled him, you know And I I wonder what you think about the approach I took and I'm fine if you disagree But one of the things that I was concerned with is, you know, I could tell that the guy had a heart And that that was and that his heart was broken For the victims of abuse And so I said to him I said I think you you're concerned about this matter because You're a good man and your your heart is broken for people who suffer and I could see he was tearing up And so I didn't you know, I I I didn't have much time with them. It was just over a meal But what I wanted to do is just and I did say, you know, don't let Judas keep you from Jesus, you know I mean it's it's pithy but Don't that these folks are imposters who are doing this sort of thing They're not the real church, but how do you how do you apply some of what you've written in this book to? Tough situations for Catholics who are struggling with the you know, a lot of the difficult issues we're facing today in the church Well, what I do Excuse me in that particular situation What I'll tell them I'll I'll ask a question Um, I said listen, what if you had a founder of a religion? and his top 12 lieutenants In you know in his greatest time of need One of them betrayed him One of them denied him And nine of the other ten took off for the hills when he needed them the most You would you wouldn't think much of this guy, right? Because well, obviously his His judgment of people is not very good because you know, 11 of the 12 that he picked handpicked that they just they they took off on him they betrayed him essentially and But then you think well, wait a minute and and everyone knows who you're talking about, you know This is Jesus and the 12 apostles say Here's the thing. It was after their conversion That they understood and came And so that's what's needed in the church is conversion and first and foremost conversion for the many of the bishops and priests because of their responsibility for their flocks And you know, like you said, it's a pithy statement. Don't don't leave Jesus because of Judas, but it is the essence.  Yeah, you know, that's the truth is what matters and in our church unfortunately, we have human beings And every human being that's ever lived save one has uh Is a sinner And so these sinners are going to do things Sometimes little things sometimes horrible things And we cannot let what people do Keep us from getting to Jesus Christ And and well said leave the church the truth If you leave the Eucharist because of these people Then satan not only won with what they originally did But he's winning by having an effect on you now as well And and that's that's how I talked to me. So so I asked I said, do you want to leave the truth? Because of what these horrible people did. Yeah, right. Well said. Yeah, so important I'm I'm so grateful that you brought up the idea the importance of conversion I'm having not converted until I was well almost close to 40 And it's just so necessary people don't understand that just I didn't know you weren't 40 yet Oh, god bless you. Um, okay. So here's a question. Let's let's make a In our in our little we have a couple of minutes left John So I noticed you have a chapter on atheism. So what kind of success have you had talking with atheists?  I've I've had some success with people, you know I was talking one about god and and he's he's saying Well, he starts with the universe. He said I said, well, how did the universe start? He said big bang theory. I said, no, the big bang theory is about how the universe expanded not about how it started I said, how did what the big bang blew up? How did it get there? He's like, well, you know this I said, let me let me Posit this for you to think about and I asked so I said, can a tree recreate a tree from nothing Can a rock create a rock from nothing can a human being create another human being from nothing? He said, no I said so general principle is Material things the material cannot reproduce the material John I've got to I want to stop you there because we're going to run out of time And I don't want to forget to tell people where to find your your stuff So my apologies, but a bible christianssociety.com. Is that the best place? That is the best place great So pick up blue collar apologetics How to explain and defend catholic teaching using common sense simple logic in the bible you won't be sorry I think this is the most practical book on apologetics. I've ever seen it's absolutely fantastic EWTN's religious catalog got it for you fantastic Okay, until next time may the god of peace make you perfect in holiness May he preserve you whole and entire spirit soul and body irreproachable at the coming of our lord Jesus christ amen Amen Good good stuff. John. I think you got it. You got enough of that argument and uh, it was was very you peaked my interest I'm gonna go go read about it. Yeah, it's very it's very good. Look you'll find out the rest That's right. We look what do you mean? Bam, it's right there


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Welcome to this episode of RC3 Talks here on ChaosZoneTV. ChaosZone is the collection or collective of all the Hacker communities here in Eastern Germany and we are presenting you today Hacking Google Maps by Simon Weckert and Moritz Allert. This talk will be in English, so I will quickly jump to German to announce the translation. This lecture will be live if you want to see it live. If you want to see it live, go to German and click on the bottom right in your video player on translation 1. Now back to English and back to the talk Hacking Google Maps by Simon Weckert and Moritz Allert. Have lots of fun! This is our RC3 series called Hacking Google Maps. Simon Weckert is from Berlin and shares his knowledge about many areas. His focus is the digital world, including everything related to code and electronics under the reflection on current social aspects. Ranging social aspects into technology is in his work areas. In his work he tries to assess the value of technology, not in the sense of current usefulness, but in the direction of future generations. People live within western civilisation and remind them of the obligations attacked to this privilege. Hidden layers like producing and transporting the raw minerals required to create the core infrastructure of all of us. You would before the installation labour of micro workers who perform the repetitive digital tasks that underline new technology are just some of the topics in his project. Moritz Allert is a slave in the university of the arts. In his work he explores the interface between active base and time. Moritz Allert takes care of the interface between urban design and other things from 2015 to 2017. In 2017 he was a part of a virtual at-a-chef B.K. Hamburg and was working towards a PhD in art. He defended his dissertation in the last year. He is the chair of international urbanism and design at Tuberlin. He has taught the atlas of the digital fragments. The format of our R&D is a video essay by Moritz Allert. It links the genesis of early maps, the two interventions of Simon Simon. He has done interventions and they are viral this year. The maps have always been a part of the power in ancient times, in the Middle Ages and today. The history of the maps and the statistical data they show shows how national states behave. You can look at the size of the country and eat the population. The maps have made national pride and the national identity with the country. They have also helped in military and propaganda. Until a few years ago, maps were dominated by states and were particularly used in the military context. The map has always been an instrument of discipline and exercise. The researchers have looked at maps and realized that maps are not objective. Cartography is difficult to follow by rules. In the cartography, certain rules have always been applied. In the past, maps have been used by Google to express how our power relationships express our values and representation of Google Maps. They have centralized and hierarchized data and in 2015 they came out with maps. They have become more and more advanced and more technical. It has little to do with classic analogue maps. Google maps are interactive. They can be scrolled. Our understanding of the map has changed. The question is how they look aesthetically. Smartphones use maps as a form of use. This is a new form of hyper-localization. The virtual world is connected to the physical world and Google map tools have contributed to this. Now we come to the border of countries. We have to think about how they have been used and how they control instruments. We can see here on the map that this is my part, this is your part, how it has been colonized and how it has been used.  You can draw the borders. This is a graphic tool. You can take a circle for a city. You can take a black line for a street. And generalize these symbols. This is not an honest representation, but an simplification. If we see a map like this, we can never see how the real world is. This is a meta-projection. Things that are projected there are also perceived. Depending on how the projection is, different forms of projection show the area size. This is taken for political statements, what is important and what is central. Motivation is also expressed. In this project I did last year with the borders of Google Maps. There are different Google Maps versions in Ukraine, Russia, China, India, etc. I wanted to know if Google shows the same information everywhere. And I realized that it is not the case. What you can see on the top is the left side of the map. On the left side is India. On the right side is China. Especially for Kashmir you can see that the borders are different. You can see that it is an old conflict. And it is not 100% sure where the border is. It is important that Google shows the local opinion of the country. So that the local market does not lose anything. And with that you represent the local policy. And you show what you want to be seen locally. On the bottom side is Russia and Ukraine. On the left side is the border between Ukraine and Crimea. And there is Russia. On the other side it is unclear. These are different worldviews. And that makes a contradiction, a imbalance. That means that if different people get different information, they will not be in the same opinion. From a early point of view, Google has installed special APIs with the developers of their tools, with Google map updates and data combinations. MAPMAPS means that the first MAPMAPS showed how new economic models were possible. Google MAPS makes virtual changes in real cities. Use like Airbnb and others have a huge impact on cities and culture. There is also a big impact on how we find romantic partners through Tinder and others. Or through live media apps. Google MAPS shows a new form of digital capitalism and commercialization. Online traffic systems like Uber are unthinkable without Google MAPS. Another market is created by self-driving vehicles. Google MAPS has established a new position for itself. It is about the spread and the discovery of physical places. Stimulation techniques are not only used to simulate virtual worlds, but also to create new realities in the physical field. We can safely say that digitalization has affected the card sector, which was dominated by state before. And there was democratization, but also fragmentation. Economic interests have probably replaced state and military interests. Google MAPS offers new markets to benefit more from the online platforms that use Google MAPS as a basis. With its rules, Google MAPS has established a new platform through which users can interact with cards in a new way. And the power question in the course of the category has to be asked again. It is about surveillance, control and relationships in these cards. These cards function as positive amplifiers and practice power and share knowledge in a combination of knowledge and power. Google simulated cards and models form the reality and perception of physical places. Today, there is no single aspect of life that can be reformed, for example through cards. It is no longer a description of what is going on, but a code and password. Data samples, data, markets, banks. A vision in which the digital map has imagined a city where one would be able to leave one department, one street, one neighborhood. What counts is not the border, but the computer. The universal modulation of the digital card is an instrument of surveillance and control. Every click in the network, every step in space is recorded, everything that moves is recorded. There is information, price, capital, consumers are followed. According to Siegfried Baumann, every person is a wanderer hyperlink. The map mixes the borders. With the smart phone, if I go into communication, Siegfried Baumann describes how mobile things are more flexible and the technology in the areas of life in which she hardly played a role. The new surveillance forms depend on data processing. The new surveillance forms depend on data processing. There is a new transparency in which not only citizens, citizens as such, but every person in all areas of life can be awake, tested, sorted in categories, in a one-sided way. There are activities of the controllers that are more unsuitable for us. This is a post-pagnoptic relationship according to Baumann. And there are new forms of domination. They are also frequent in the media and something. We are now coming to the topic basically where I started. I was interested in how these digital tools influence the way we use the world, how we move in the city and how we change the way we travel. Google Maps started in 2005 with Street View and I would say that these maps have changed our understanding of a map. Google defined our concept of maps and these maps have very little in common with analog printed maps. It is scrollable, expandable, searchable. I would say that since 2005 a lot has changed how we understand maps, how we read them. How a use of digital maps in the selection of digital data and the introduction of real-time maps again in front of printed maps. Imagine a large printed map of Berlin in the moment it appears the environment has already changed that a printed map gives back the current state. So maps can be helpful for a short time but can also limit the use, especially when they are printed. And I think the main goal of Google Maps is to overcome this and to say here we develop a tool that doesn't age anymore and in real time the technology sometimes doesn't like us. I would like to show Google Maps Hacks here. Who doesn't know that? Who didn't see that? At the beginning of this year in February there was the 15th birthday of Google Maps and a week before that I published this project on Twitter and that's where it all started. You see someone walking along a Berlin street and he saw a vehicle behind him and this car is filled with smartphones. Everything else on the phone and what happens here and sometimes it gets faster, sometimes it gets slower then there is virtual traffic and that has the effect on Google Maps that the people who use Google Maps navigation system are guided around here and after a while you could see that the street actually becomes a teacher of cars. It's really interesting how there is such a big advantage that especially the maps have in our decisions how we use them but also how people travel and navigate. This change between slow and fast movement was also a trick because the algorithm maybe 99 cars interpreted as traffic jam so we tried to simulate a stop and go traffic and I would say the performance, the idea got me in the media demonstration in Berlin where I saw that many people in Kreuzberg took the smartphone and Google noticed that traffic showed up even though there was no street, it was foot traffic. It was pretty clear that Google followed the smartphones of the pedestrians and I asked myself how can I create something similar and it was clear that I just needed many phones not necessarily to achieve this effect. Then the question began how do I get so many smartphones but at the beginning it was pretty difficult I thought it had to be used in airports or in companies because phones are often changed I didn't get any answer from people who said yes, use the phone and then I got the idea if I want to create something I can do another performance and ask friends if they can give me their smartphones for one day and I asked them to live for one day without a smartphone that was interesting and then after a while they said yes, I'll give you the smartphone and then we'll see if I can survive one day without a smartphone I don't have 99 friends I also have a smartphone from official smartphone companies and I had a lot of smartphones for one day and when I was walking along the street it was pretty clear that this performance, this hack, worked let's jump out of the presentation because I want to show something else yes, thank you, that was super interesting I think that could lead to a future workshop that shows similar to this workshop how to deal with Google Maps I would only like to ask one question before we open it I think this question is often asked do you know if anything has changed with Google? if the algorithm has changed after your hack is it still possible to do this hack? that is definitely possible there are some third-party drivers if you want to create similar virtual traffic and the thing is that a speaker said that they try to follow everything and in a certain sense they were happy that people were aware of this function for sure I will do I will test the system further maybe after a year and then see if it still works but I think it is pretty difficult for Google to do anything about it yes there are questions from the audience we still have some time before we start with the workshop a technical question about Google Maps the 999 smartphones GPS activation or what is it? yes, you have to activate it there are three ways how smartphones can be used the exact way is GPS as far as I know then we have the localization of mobile radio stations mobile radio stations, this is a triangulation I turned on all three modes and what is also important I didn't have to open Google Maps on these smartphones it was just a running Android system it probably works better when Google Maps works as an app but it is also clear if you are not on your way I have another question thank you for the talk, that was very interesting and you are talking about the 3rd bed driver is there any interesting things that you have seen on YouTube? people who have led you further who have given you a new perspective yes, there are people people who have done interesting things not the YouTubers they have just tried to do it the algorithm also learns and if there is traffic in the same place every week and then you realize when I try to clean the street for my work path, such ideas came up in the comments and I think it is important to show that as an artist I always try to develop my understanding and therefore to make an easy story for a bigger audience and for me it was nice to do that but I also have to mention that there are different ways to simulate we know from Pokemon Go what is there to try to trick the API I think for an audience that is not so well known it would be a bit difficult to convey and I think that is also the reason why these 99 smartphones got a lot of attention because they are very understandable in 2016 there was a Pokemon Go game that was based on localization the inventor of Google founded this game and the users tried to catch this Pokemon Go monster and they tried to catch this Pokemon Go monster and that happened on a changed Google Maps and then it was banned from certain places by the government from schools and from prison hospitals, concentration camps and that was the most profitable smartphone game of all time that can not be expressed in numbers but the continuation of all these citizens and the improvement of the cards on the basis of GPS and the geodata it worked first of all restaurants were sent to restaurants and Google showed that it can control a lot of people and these are virtual technologies that can be used it will be interesting to see how the knowledge that came from this experiment can be used further Pokemon Go there are the individual control in this game and this is a pre-run of the companies that control it Pokemon is a snake and this snake looks like Pikachu and it has...


What is up, everybody? It's Stas here. Welcome back to another video. So in this video, we're going to be talking about and breaking down the top couple of stocks and ETFs that I'm personally watching and looking to trade as we're heading into the third week of October in 2019. I also want to break down the overall markets and take a look at the futures so we can plan our individual stock picks for this upcoming week so we can better understand where the market might be pushing based on what the futures are looking like right now. And by the way, excuse me guys, by the way, for those of you guys that don't know, the futures market actually opens every Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So we can see the S&P, the NASDAQ, the DAO, right?  So again, we can better plan for that upcoming week in terms of ETFs and individual stocks. So if you enjoy this video, if you find value in this video, feel free to go down below, hit that like button, consider subscribing. If you do want to see further content about the stock market, both trading and investing, and join our Discord group chat and our Facebook group, 100% free of charge, those are linked down below in the description box. So guys, this past week was a very good week in the stock market. Let's take a look at the S&P very quickly before we take a look at the futures. So if we go to the 5-day-5-minute, we can see this past week's performance of the S&P. So we opened up on the 7th, kind of flat we dumped. The next day, we saw a big dump and a pretty bad close at that down to about 28.92. And then the next three days were absolutely amazing because on Friday, actually, there was a partial trade deal between the US and China that was agreed upon. And if you guys want to learn more about that, go to my previous video from Friday, watch that so you can get more detail. But to sum it up, this was very good for the market. The China, the US trade war, this has been really a very big negative drag on the market over the past 18 months. And any positive news that comes out of that situation is good for the market, because the market in general hates uncertainty. It hates when things are up in the air. Now that there's a partial trade agreement, that's good, right? That's really good. That's optimistic for the market, hence why the market shot up aggressively, right? You guys can see on Friday, we gapped up from 29.37 all the way up to 29.93. That's almost a 60-point pop from this closed price up to the high on Friday. That's very, very, very, very good, right? And then we saw a massive dump towards the last 20 minutes of the market this past Friday, which wasn't that crazy because, again, the markets have gone up so much in the matter of the past 48, 72 hours that a little pullback, okay, it's a bit of a healthy pullback, right? It's nothing too crazy. And if we go to these futures, right, the ES, slash ES, this is the E-mini S&P 500 index futures, these are currently up $4.75 right now, up 0.15%. So not too crazy right now, not too crazy movement to the upside or to the downside. But we can see one key thing here is that we are seeing a bit of consolidation on top of that 180 S&P support here on the 5-day, 5-minute. And remember, guys, we dumped aggressively in the last 20 minutes of this market on Friday. So the fact that we are consolidating here and the futures are showing that, that's a good sign that the S&P right now is trying to continue this uptrend that we've been on over the past couple of days, right? And if we zoom out a bit, let's say the 20-day, actually, this is not too important at this point in time, but you can see that we are kind of on a technical basis. We are really breaking out here of these moving averages. But the one thing I want to focus on for you guys and me personally is this 5-day, 5-minute chart where, again, we are holding that moving average support, right? That's very important. If we go to the natural, or not natural gas, to the NASDAQ slash NQ, very similar, right? We hit a peak 79.18, right? Sold off in the last 20 minutes of the market on Friday. Now we're seeing consolidation on top of that 180 S&P support. And the NQ is currently up right now in terms of the futures up 15 points, up 0.2%. So right now this is very good for the bulls, right? And how I kind of use the futures in my trading is I'm watching them heavily pre-market and, of course, Sunday heading into the Monday session. So, again, I can kind of plan out where the market is going. Let's say, for example, the futures gap up immensely, they're up half a percent, 1% heading into the week. I'm thinking in my head, okay, this might be a green week, at least, to start out the week, right? But let's say the futures on the flip side, they're gapping down aggressively on Sunday. That could indicate, hey, it might be a red day heading into this upcoming week. And that's kind of how I view it. And, of course, throughout the entire week, the futures are also open. So you can see how they're moving after hours through the night as well. So it's a very awesome thing to look at if you're into tracking the overall markets, right? And the Dow Jones right now is up 62 points, up 0.25% and on the five day five minute, just like the S&P and NASDAQ, we're holding that 180 S&P support, looking to continue this uptrend. So right now, based on the futures, guys, the markets are looking good. The bulls are in charge. And again, if this continues into tomorrow, guys, let's say this green, maybe we gap up another couple of percentage points, not percentage points, but let's say another 0.1, 0.2, 0.3% up tomorrow. This could signal a green day tomorrow. And again, maybe we go to those all-time highs potentially in these markets, especially with this good news in terms of the partial trade deal. But like I mentioned on Friday's video, guys, don't just view this as sun shines and rainbows. Everything is over because it's not, right? There's a lot of things in the trade war right now that are still unattended. There's still no agreement upon these things. So this could cause a lot of tension leading on over these next couple of weeks, despite the optimism, despite the good news that we got in terms of this partial trade deal. So let me know down below in the comments. What are your thoughts right now in the markets? What are your opinions on what's going to happen this upcoming week? I would love to know what you guys have to think about that. So what am I personally watching, right? We got some stocks and ETFs to talk about from some subscribers that actually messaged me. But what I'm personally watching this week, it's going to be a lot of these inverse ETFs, guys, if I'm being 100% honest with you guys, right? And I always am on this channel. Natural gas being the main one that I'm watching as well as you guys and D gas, right? These are two inverse pairs. This is a pair of inverse ETFs that trade based upon natural gas, right? And I made a video a couple of days ago. You guys really liked that video. That video did very well explaining my opinion on natural gas, you guys and D gas. And really things are in play right now. They're getting really interesting, especially with how natural gas is moving right now. Remember, I said the natural gas futures are open on Sunday, 6pm Eastern Standard Time as well, just like the overall markets. And you can see the NASDAQ right now is up, or not the NASDAQ. I keep mixing these up, guys. I think it's because 1s slash ng and 1s slash nq, so my mind's playing tricks on me. But anyway, slash ng is currently up 1.31% right now, up almost 3 cents. And if we go to the 184-hour chart, and by the way, for those of you guys that don't know the inverse ETFs that I trade, again, you gas and D gas, you gas goes up whenever natural gas is going up, right? That's how it trades. D gas goes up whenever natural gas is selling off, right? So at this point, natural gas is in a clear downtrend, right? We're looking at this 4-hour chart. I personally look at moving averages like this green line here and this yellow line, and we can see that these are acting as resistance points, right? Over the past couple of weeks, ever since we've dumped from 270 down to where we are right now to about 220, we've been getting rejected by the light blue line, which is the exponential moving average, also known as the EMA, the green line, which is the 50 SMA, also known as the 50 simple moving average, and this yellow line, which is the 180 SMA, also known as the 180-day simple moving average. And you can see these lines drawn across natural gas at this point showing a clear support at 220, a resistance at 230, right? And we can see with the price action right now, the fact that we're gapping up, we're holding 220 pretty nicely, right? Despite the fact that we're still trending below this 50 SMA. So this is putting natural gas kind of in a funky spot, right? This upcoming week, what I'm going to be watching for is if we break out of this 50 SMA here and into the 230s, that is where the bulls are going to take charge in natural gas in my opinion, and that is where you gas is going to be showing that breakout potential, right? But let's say we do end up getting hit here in these next couple of weeks as production is really ramping up in natural gas heading into these winter months as injections are continuing here. Hey, maybe we start to dump as we start to see supply rise. Maybe we start to dump down into 220. If we break 220, that's going to be a signal that the bears are in charge here, and D gas is going to be a play from there, right? Because if we break 220 to the downside, hey, the next support that I'm seeing from that point, guys, is going to be around 210, 211 to 12, right? So that's a lot of downside where we can end up playing D gas and make a monster return. If it does in terms of natural gas, fill down all the way to that 211 point, which would be around an 8 to 9 cent gap down, right? And if that does happen, guys, we could be getting a run here in D gas, you know, up to 170 maybe, maybe 165, and that could be a nice 10, 12, 15% gain there in D gas. But if you guys watched my video on natural gas a couple of days ago, I was talking about how my theory right now is that D gas and natural gas, well, natural gas, honestly, is going to be weak for another week, two weeks, maybe even three weeks, right? This is based on some research that I personally did, right? And after that, I think in November is when natural gas is going to start to see a little rally here where you guys is going to be very, very good, a very, very good play, right? So as of now, those are just the very basic technical spots that I'm watching and kind of my time horizon for D gas and you guys at this point, I still think there's potential for D gas, I'll be honest with you guys, maybe for the next one to two weeks after that, I think you guys are going to be full steam ahead. And I know a lot of you guys have been buying you guys here, that's ballsy of you, I have not done that, I'll be honest, I have not bought any U gas, I've not bought any D gas, because I typically don't swing trade these, a lot of you guys know that at this point. But some of you guys do that for yourselves, but for me, that is too risky, especially in my main account, maybe in my play account, where I'm a bit more risky, maybe some penny stocks here and there, maybe some crazy speculative stocks, maybe some overnight leverage DTF holds, maybe I'll trade it in that account. And of course, like I mentioned in that previous video, I'll let you guys know that. So that is what I'm watching in terms of natural gas, U gas, D gas, gold is another one that I'm watching this week, guys, gold broke a very critical support level here at 1495. We broke that. Now it seems like we're going to be heading down to that previous support, which is going to be at 1465. You guys can see, we sold off from this level 1545 a couple of weeks ago, this was actually towards the end of September, and we got all the way down at this level at 1465, and we popped from there making that level of support. And you guys can see this little arrow I drew out here, based on these trend lines, right, this can definitely happen right from here, we may be going down testing 1465, that may drag down GDX and GDX is a gold ETF that obviously tracks gold. And if this pushes down to a lower low here to continue that downtrend, and it definitely will if gold tests that 1465 level, JDST, which goes up whenever GDX is going down at a 3x rate, is going to be in play here, right in GDX, 3x rate, let me explain what that means. This is a leveraged ETF, right, this trades based upon GDX, whenever GDX the ETF I just showed you guys, let's say it goes down 2%. Since JDST is a 3x leveraged ETF, it's going to go up 6%, right, down 2% for GDX, multiply that by 3, that is 6, and that is what JDST is going to go up in terms of a rate roughly here, right. So JDST, I'm liking it, right, I think there's potential especially here in the short term, if these markets do rally in these next couple of days due to this optimism that we got in terms of this partial trade deal, you know, that may send gold down to, again, that 1460 level, and JDST is going to have a lot of potential there, right, but on the flip side, if we go back to gold, let's say we break above these moving averages this upcoming week, that's going to be the bulls taking over in my opinion, and the inverse to JDST is Jnug, which goes up whenever gold and GDX are going up. So this is one that I'll watch, hey, if gold starts to run, and that is also a possibility in these crazy volatile markets that we've been in over these past couple of weeks, guys, anything can happen, literally anything can happen, which is why I have situations and I have scenarios for every single hypothetical situation that could happen in the market, right. I know how to make money when these markets go up, I also know how to make money when these markets go down, which is very, very important. And honestly, these are tools in my toolbox that when the opportunity brings itself, I'll take out my toolbox and I'll pick, okay, this is what I trade when the markets go up, let me do that today, this is what I trade when the markets go down, okay, let me do that today, right. So it's also just an important thing to have a bunch of different things that you know, strategies and options to trade when the markets are going up and down, right. So another inverse pair that I want to talk about that's interesting right now is this biotech pair, LabU, LabD, these two trade based upon SPS, IBI, SPS, IBI, right. This is a biotechnology index and whenever this index is going up, LabU is going up in price, right, at a 3x rate. Whenever that index is going down, LabD is going up at a 3x rate, right. And if you notice on SPS, IBI, you can see right now if it pulls up that we're trending right below this 50 SMA here, the R size getting closer to overbought status. So what I'm interested in seeing right now is if we get rejected by this 50 SMA here, LabD will be in play because that's a clear rejection, the bears are taking in charge at that point, they're taking charge, right. And we may be seeing a downside move from there and again when this goes down, LabD is going up. But the awesome thing is if we break out, there's a lot of upside potential here in SPS, IBI. I think we could end up breaking up to this 180 SMA because based on previous patterns, we did that, right. This is looking very similar to this previous pattern that we saw a couple of weeks ago, we saw consolidation, we tested that 50 SMA, we did not get rejected by it, we broke out of it, and then we filled all the way up to that 180 SMA resistance. This is literally setting up exactly as it did a couple of weeks ago, right. If we break out, this has on a percentage basis around a 4 to 5% margin if it fills the gap up to that 180 SMA resistance. And these are 3x leveraged ETFs that we trade, so 5% times 3, that's roughly a 15% return potential on LabU if we break out, right. That's if we break out. And you can see it here, I'll show you guys, it's roughly 12, 13, 14, roughly that level, that area in terms of percentage of profit. Let's take a look at LabD very quickly just in case we get rejected and dump. You know, this one could offer a nice 10, 12, 13, roughly percent, very similar to LabU in terms of the profit potential that we can make. So those are the 3 main inverse ETF pairs that I'm watching for this upcoming week, LabU, LabD, UGAS, DGAS of course, UGAS and DGAS right now guys, there's a lot of potential in those and JDST and JNUG. So you guys, if you watch my video on Friday, you know that I have an SPY option, one contract right now, a put option, right. Right now, I'm hedging against the potential downside, although there's a lot of optimism right now, I think the markets rose up very, very quickly. And I just bought, it was like a 100, I think it was like not a crazy amount of money guys, really it wasn't nothing crazy. It was like a $111 premium that I spent expiration date, like on the 28th of October or something like that. And this is just to protect myself against the potential downside that the stock market still has here in my opinion over the next couple of weeks, right. And sure, I can lose my entire premium, I can lose my money there, but it's okay because options, you use these to hedge against your positions, right. I made a lot of money this past week on my long term portfolio because the overall markets were going up like crazy. So now if I lose some money on that long term portfolio, this upcoming week, this maybe in the next two weeks, if the markets dump, I'll be making money on this put option on this on this contract that I have, right. And then I'll be able to take that profit if I make any money. This is if guys, and then I'll be able to buy shares at a lower price in these other companies that went down if I choose to do so, right. That's kind of the idea in terms of options. Well, that's one of the ideas. There's a lot of ideas. There's a lot of philosophies out there. People actually just day trade options. They swing trade them. I don't really do that too much to be completely honest with you guys. I'm more of a like a couple contracts a year type of guy. But like I mentioned on the channel before, I do want to get heavier here into options. I think there's a lot of opportunity out there, but it's really risky guys. It's really, really risky. And I think it's more for advanced traders and investors. I've been in the stock market for like six, seven years at this point. I consider myself not a beginner anymore. I'm not advanced. I wouldn't consider myself advanced. I still have a lot of stuff to learn this game guys, you're never going to learn all of it, right. This is this is a never ending learning experience in terms of the stock market. I'm not going to come on here and lie to you and be like, I have it all figured out. I know every single thing about the stock market because it's not true, right? No one does at this point. You have to learn for the rest of your life. And it's just stages, right? You start out, you look at stocks, maybe you start dabbling and trading then a couple of years later, you're like, Oh, what are options? Oh, maybe I'll start doing options, right? You're not supposed to do it right off the get go. I see a lot of beginners trying to do that. And I would say stick to trading shares, get used to the market, get used to how things go and then start trading options, right? But overall here, you know, on the SPY, I'm seeing a strong resistance at 297, right? We closed below that this past week. I see a support at 295. A lot of people have been talking about this. So I'm thinking if we break 295, this is going to fill down to about 287, right? That's very, very possible. And I have a put option again, I think the strike is at 288, or I think it's at 286. I forget, I'll go over that in tomorrow's video, but I forget off the top of my head right now. It's either one of those strikes. So again, I think there's potential that we can get down at 287, especially if this optimism does wear off. Maybe we get some negative stuff again. Who knows, right? Anything can happen. But that's the low point in my opinion on SPY. Another stock, Apple. Apple's been one that I've been asked a lot about at this point. I think it's too late to get into Apple, especially a long-term investment at this point, guys. I wouldn't be buying Apple at this point, even as a swing trade, right? It's so high up. It's at all-time highs. 237, our size is looking ridiculously overbought, right? Earnings are coming up, which can fluctuate the stock like crazy, depending on what they end up reporting. Who knows, right? But at this point, I'd only get into Apple if we sell off down to this 50SMA, and really just retest that 225 level. That's a level right now that I'm seeing as a pretty strong support. Again, if we get there, that's also going to be putting us on top of that 50SMA. This could be a pretty decent entry. But overall, I think there's just a lot of opportunity, more opportunity, and other ETFs that we talked about, like UGAS, like DGAS, as opposed to Apple, right? And of course, just like every week, guys, nothing really changes here. I'm watching the market ETFs, right? This is something that, if you notice all my videos, I always have these up. And I don't know why Microsoft got it. How did you get in there, Microsoft? You are not a market ETF. I don't know how that happened. Sometimes, these stocks just randomly appear in my watch list. I usually just do that by accident, probably. But TVIX, this is the main one I'm watching, right? If the markets get rocky again, who knows? Markets start to sell off. This one's going to be one to watch, right? This trades on volatility. This trades, it does well. It goes up when the markets are selling off. SQQQ, this is one of my favorite ones as well. This goes up whenever the Nasdaq is selling off. And if you guys have experience in the markets, not always, but typically when the markets are red, the Nasdaq is the reddest out of the bunch. I don't know why, but actually, I do know why. It's because of the tech stocks, right? It's because of the tech stocks, they typically get hit a bit harder than some of these more, I guess you can say, value safer plays that are in the Dow or something, right? So SQQQ goes up whenever the Nasdaq is selling off. I'm watching this one very, very heavily. And of course, all the other ones here, these are ones that I always watch. SPXS goes up when the S&P's selling off. TQQQ is the inverse to SQQQQ. This goes up whenever the Nasdaq's going up. So these are always worth watching in my personal opinion. So I'm going to wrap up the video here, guys. If you enjoyed it, let me know down below in the comments what you thought about it, what stocks, what ETFs are you watching, and drop a like. If you guys enjoyed it, that's the best way that you can tell me that you enjoyed it. Leave a like and also subscribe to the channel. Hit that notification bell so you're notified every time that I do make a video. 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Jason White, good performance objectivity is like something that most people consider as good performance. For example, if you beat the S&P 500 return index with your stock choices, then a lot of people consider that success. Sure, would you say in cryptos that you need to beat the performance of Bitcoin to be considered a good investor in the crypto world or in the crypto world or is merely being profitable good enough? I know this is a very shallow question because it's only referring to the monetary returns. So here's the thing, Jason White. Look into Jonathan Nitzan. Okay, differential accumulation, right? The philosophy of differential accumulation. We put out videos regarding this. And Jonathan Nitzan and the person he works with, that name, I still haven't been able to get into my head. Their whole thesis and their economists, their whole thesis is it doesn't make a difference what you're doing, what your returns are, if your returns are below the averages. Right? So inflation on the most basic rudimentary level, if inflation is 3% and you're getting a return of 29.9% in the limit, you have zero. You don't have anything. So what you need to do is you need to beat inflation, whatever imaginary inflation numbers they're putting out or whatever it is. So you need to beat inflation. But Jonathan Nitzan took that a little further. Jonathan Nitzan et al. Okay, the rest of the gang involved with that. They took that further and said it's not enough just to beat inflation. You have to beat the averages. Right? So if the average return in let's say Wall Street is 5% and you're playing that game, you're only investing in Wall Street and you're making 4.5%, right? Then you're losing because in the limit you lose everything on the Wall Street game. Right? Now, a lot of people think diversifying means diversifying within a certain field. So when you talk to people who have investments, they say you asked them, oh, you know, and I've done this because I was in it for a bit, right? Not officially, unofficially, right? And they say, oh yeah, we're diversified. We own mining stocks. We own food stocks. We earn retailers. We own tech company stocks. And they call that diversified, right? That's what they'll sell you at a bank, right? You need to diversify your portfolio, right? But one thing you if you pay attention you realize is they're all stocks. This stock, this stock, this stock, this stock, this stock, this stock. Even though they're different fields, they're all stocks. So they're all dependent on the stock market having some kind of returns in a normal situation, which it would have. But right now the stock market is bubble territory to a certain degree, right? So if you're diversifying, why in the world would you just diversify within a certain field, right? So you're asking me, you want to know what good returns are just in the crypto world, right? Well, you have to take a look at there's 2000 plus cryptos out there, take the average of the cryptos, figure out what the average return has been for in the last six months, whatever period you're looking for, and measure yourself according to that. But you would be a fool to have 100% of your investment just in the crypto market, just like you would be a fool to have 100% of your investment in the stock market in Wall Street, right? To me, diversifying doesn't mean investing in different baskets of the same system, right? You need to diversify into different systems, right? That makes you at the fragile. So if you've had, here, let me tell you why that is, right? For the longest time, the game in town was Wall Street, right? Invest in Wall Street. If you did 5% return, and by the way, over an extended period of time, if you got 5% return per year on Wall Street, you were doing fantastic. If you got 7%, you're doing phenomenal, right? So let's assume 5%, let's assume a good performance in Wall Street was 5%, right? And that was great returns, right? People, yeah, so I'm doing great within this field. Meanwhile, outside of that system, the Wall Street system, if you were really diversified, maybe you would have bought some art, right? Because art has had a return of greater than 20% for the last few decades, right? So for those in the art investment business, those fools that have their money in Wall Street and getting return of 5% per year are exactly that. They're fools. If you picked the right art to invest in, you would have got returns of 20% per year. Why would you want to be in a system that's giving you 5% per year, right? Extend that to multiple other fields and then kick it up to cryptos, right? So there's a lot of people that have money in Wall Street getting returns of 5%. Right now, it's probably, I don't know, whatever it is, 15%, 20% per year or something like this. But the crypto industry is giving you a return of, Bitcoin was $3,000 last year. You're getting a return of $10,000, sitting at $50, $1,666%, right? Return. 5%, 1500%, 5%, 10%, 20%? What has the return been in the last year in the stock market? Oh, it's gone up 100%. 100% on the Dow, let's say, right? It's not 100%, 75%, 80%. It went from $18,000 to $31,000, right? It has to reach 36% to make it 100% return in a year. Cryptos returned 16 times, right? So you want to measure your performance in the crypto sector relative to the others or you want to measure it relative to anybody else. Your measure for your success should be not be relative to others as long as, I know we're talking about differential accumulation, right? But it really depends on the field you're in. And keep in mind, getting 10 times your return, 20 times your return in a year is not something you should be expecting on a yearly basis. If you are, you need to get out of that economic system because you're talking about hyperinflation. If you're investing in a system that is profiting, trying to stay ahead of a hyperinflationary scenario, then you need to diversify into investments that are not subject to hyperinflation. There's so much at play, man.


Hi, everybody. I'm Matthew Beckman with Dryas. I'm about a 19-year ops and DevOps veteran, and now do DevOps and cloud consulting. I weren't going to talk today about the sharing economy in DevOps. So quick economic primer in economic theory, supply and demand are sort of the two pillars upon which all things rest. Over time in industries, supply and demand will reach sort of an equilibrium point, which is great for economists and terrible for customers because we don't innovate anymore. Supply traditionally is constrained by infrastructure, and demand is constrained by price. And what's been interesting about sharing economy companies is they fundamentally changed a lot of these relationships and offer differentiated experiences for customers. They've done that primarily, first of all, by completely redefining infrastructure and delivery. They found industries that were previously constrained and have gone in and changed them through technology or other methods. The other thing that's common across all sharing economy companies is they flooded the supply side of the equation without dramatically reducing price for services delivered. That's enabled them to go in and disrupt all of these static industries that we read about. So we're going to do some examples here. The first one that's pretty top of mind for all of us is transportation. We've all had wonderful experiences in taxis, I'm sure. We have limited elasticity. We have unreliable or completely unreliable delivery mechanisms, a very fixed supply of vehicles and really a poor customer experience until some companies came along and said, hey, we can solve this. We can actually make a highly instrumented delivery pipeline for this service we're trying to deliver.  And the output for all of us as consumers has been a dramatic change in the way we use those services. Lodging is another great example. Hotels have been in stasis for hundreds of years with an infrastructure constraint of building hotels, which gives you really undifferentiated product offerings and a real problem in discoverability to find the few differentiated offerings that exist until some companies came along and said, we can actually solve that too. We can make discoverability a solved problem, which is essentially a delivery pipeline for that industry. And similarly, flood the supply side of the equation and offer consumers a great deal more options when they're shopping. So information technology is an industry that we're all pretty familiar with. This is a list of the demand curve in information technology, and it's not even a complete list. We all know there's too much to do and not enough people to do it. Other things that are sort of true in traditional information technology is we have unreliable delivery pipelines. We have limited elasticity. We have a deeply constrained supply side of the equation, both in terms of hardware and in terms of labor. That's all true until this cool thing you may have heard of called DevOps came along, and DevOps has changed that for us. We now have continuous and reliable delivery pipelines that are getting services delivered in a timely manner. And we've been able to flood the supply side of the equation by bringing more labor to it without fundamentally changing the capital investment of the business. And that gives us really a transformative thing in our information technology practice. The great news is there's really two fundamental supply constraints here in IT, people and infrastructure. Both of these are pretty much solved by DevOps. The good news on the people side is that the dev to ops ratio in almost all organizations is skewed in favor of the devs. There's seven to one, maybe dev to ops ratio, maybe 10 to one, maybe some business is 20 to one. The only thing that's constraining you from leveraging that supply, that labor supply is your culture. There's certainly skills that have to be learned along the way, but there's a great deal of unused supply in your teams that can be focused, excuse me, on those information technology demands. You can already guess what I'm gonna say about infrastructure. The cloud has effectively removed infrastructure as a supply side barrier for compute. Anybody who doesn't think there's enough compute available for them right now, let's talk later, have some websites that you can check out. So that one's pretty well solved. Sorry. So with that context, I wanna talk about a quick pitfall that I see more and more. This is our sort of standard silos, right? There's dev and there's ops and everybody hates everybody and there's way more dev than ops. And this is okay, but it isn't really great. So what teams are doing more and more is they're creating a third silo called dev ops. And this may be a necessary step on your journey to dev ops, but as an end state, you've just constrained your supply side. Again, you've centered way too much work on far too many people to really unlock the transformative promise of dev ops. So the reminder is, this is what you should be focused on, an integrated team that leverages all of the supply side that you have in your business to really do these transformative things that everybody's been talking about today for your information technology practice. That is really what I mean when I say many hands make light work and that I think is the promise of dev ops. I hope you've enjoyed the talk. I'm Matthew Beckman and we're at dryus.io. Thanks. Thank you.