Dear students, in this topic, we shall discuss the anatomy of mammalian kidney. The kidneys of mammals are reddish-brown, bean-shaped, osmoregulatory organs. The lateral surface of a kidney is convex, while the medial side is deeply concave. This concave side forms a medial depression, which is called hyalus or hyalum. Through the hyalus, renal artery and nerve enter, and renal vein and ureter exit. Kidney is divided into two functional layers, which contain the functional urine-forming units, that is, nephrons. The outer layer is called the renal cortex, while the inner layer is called the renal medulla. Renal medulla has a number of cone-shaped renal pyramids. The base of each pyramid is located at the boundary of renal cortex and renal medulla, while the tips of these conical pyramids are called renal papillae. Renal papillae are pointed toward the center. The parts of cortex also project between the renal pyramids. These parts are called renal columns. The place between the renal columns is called minor calyx. Minor calyxes form a funnel-shaped structure, which is called major calyx, and make it a major calyx. Major calyxes converge and form a large and large channel, which is called renal pelvis. Urine is formed in the nephrons located in the renal pyramids. The tips of renal pyramids, that is, renal papillae, open through minor openings through which urine exits from the nephrons into the major calyxes, and from minor calyxes it moves into the major calyxes. Urine is collected in the renal pelvis from where it exits the kidney through a ureter.


Section 1 of the Advance of Science This is a LibriVox recording while LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org The Advance of Science in the Last Half Century by T. H. Huxley, 1889 The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the history of civilization during the last 50 years is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes, and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. By this rapid and vast multiplication of the commodities and conveniences of existence, the general standard of comfort has been raised, the ravages of pestilence and famine have been checked, and the natural obstacles which time and space offered to mutual intercourse have been reduced in a manner and to an extent unknown to former ages. The diminution or removal of local ignorance and prejudice, the creation of common interests among the most widely separated peoples, and the strengthening of the forces of the organization of the Commonwealth against those of political or social anarchy, thus affected, have exerted an influence on the present and future fortunes of mankind, the full significance of which may be defined but cannot as yet be estimated at its full value. This revolution, for it is nothing less in the political and social aspects of modern civilization, has been preceded, accompanied, and in great measure caused by a less obvious but no less marvelous increase of natural knowledge, and especially of that part of it which is known as physical science, in consequence of the application of scientific method to the investigation of the phenomena of the material world. Not that the growth of physical science is an exclusive prerogative of the Victorian age, its present strength and volume merely indicate the highest level of a stream which took its rise alongside of the primal fonts of philosophy, literature, and art in ancient Greece, and after being dammed up for a thousand years, once more began to flow three centuries ago. It may be doubted if even hinted justice as free from fulsome pentadryric as from capsious depreciation has ever yet been dealt out to the sages of antiquity who, for eight centuries, from the time of tales to that of gallon, toiled at the foundations of physical science. But without entering into the discussion of that large question, it is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay and disruption of the Roman Empire, the consequent disorganization of society, and the diversion...


Instruction is a method which was originally developed by Stanford University. The program is a special cooperative work and the specialty of the program is that it is a very, very strong status treating program. The teacher's task is to create a situation where children can look at each other as competent. How? Teachers have to give tasks for children through which they can show their talent and how they can perform well and how they can increase their status. And it is, which is important that this status treating is the main point of the program. The introduction, it takes only some minutes and it can be a question, be like some pictures and photos and so on. And after that, the half of the lesson, children work on a task, an open-ended task. We often work on a task on the outside. The task is also part of a single task. The task is to take the tasks, the children work on them, the status is also high. With a single task, everyone has their own knowledge about the task and the task. The task is always to get such tasks that are more important to us. Every group gets a different task. They are usually, let's say, talking tasks or a level-up. These people are very often interested in us. The single task, everyone has their own knowledge about the task. We can implement it in the classroom or in the classroom as well as in the classroom. Usually, it takes 5-10 minutes, but there are people who want to work more easily and the teachers are often interested in it. They are interested in it and they don't get it. To make positive debates and they have to use their different kind of intelligences, skills. And that's why much depends on the teachers, how they can organize the lesson, what kind of tasks they create, find out. So this is, which is important. I have complex instructions because we get to work together with other people. It's better working together than alone. The tasks are interesting and we get to work with new people every day. There are different roles. My favourite one is the writer. As a writer, you can make your friendship better. The facilitator tells you what to write and you have to write it down. The kit is a basic tool for a group of people, where this tool is used in heterogeneous groups. And our main goal is the education. Besides that, it is very important to teach these students how to communicate, to learn and to move a variety of intelligences with these students. As a teacher, I use the kit in every teaching class. The math is a minimum of 2 hours a week. And what I really, really like to do in the first place, is to teach these students how to work together, communicate and think together.


Flying at an altitude of nearly 31,000 feet, and as far as 900 miles off the coast of California, this Hurricane Hunter, a WC-130J, gathers important weather data to help California meteorologists develop better storm forecasts. Cal OES works closely with our partners, like the U.S. Air Force, to deploy these resources to help Californians better prepare for incoming severe weather. This is about the third time that I personally have been out here doing atmospheric river. Major Forrest Haines has flown missions like these for seven years. These missions are called synoptics, so they're high altitude surveying a larger field of weather. California just endured a series of nine atmospheric river events, which brought heavy rain, strong winds, and flooding to most of the state. Data collected from these flights is vital to better understand future storms brewing in the Pacific, whose past will likely take them directly over California. So it's kind of interesting to fly into the storm, and then, you know, a day later, we will actually live it on the ground. Flying through storms is job one, but every storm is different and presents unique, potentially life-threatening challenges for Major Haines while he sits in the pilot seat. We fly through just about anything. We turn over a placement, and we'll go home early. The WC-130J is the weather variant of the more common C-130. It's outfitted with specialized equipment designed to get a vertical profile of atmospheric rivers. Drops on are fed through a tube in the plane and drop down into the storm. These sensitive instruments collect storm data, including temperature, wind speed, and moisture and pressure levels. Data is then sent directly from the aircraft into the global telecommunications system, a hub for weather data collected from around the world. The telecommunications systems can then pull this data to create more accurate forecasts. Maybe data we can provide to give them a heads up is, you know, our mission. For Major Joyce Hurray, the plane's aerial reconnaissance weather officer, these missions hit close to home. She has family in the Sacramento and Central Coast areas who are facing the storm's wrath. It's very rewarding to do a job that you really have, you know, like a personal touch to you as well. To see photos from this day-long flight and more from us, visit our website news.calaues.ca.gov.


Hello, everyone. Welcome to Options with Doug, streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Before I get started, I need to go through the disclosures. General disclosure, I'll book map the minimum materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Risk disclosure, training futures, equities, and options involve substantial risk of loss and it's not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Here's my contact information. The best way to get in touch with me is through Discord. Also on Bookmap Discord there's an options dash Doug chat channel that's a great place to post questions, comments, and content related to the topics of my presentation and the topics of the channel that I'll go through in just a moment. And just a note for you who are, those of you who are not, Bookmap Discord members, it is a great community. There's a wide variety of content there on stocks, options, futures, crypto, and also on a wide variety of languages. I'm also on X, formerly known as Twitter. My name there is at Doug Pless. And one of the setups that I talked about yesterday in NQ and QQQ, I did post that on Twitter yesterday evening. If you're active on Twitter, please take a look. If you like it, give me a like and a follow. And I did also post that in Discord yesterday evening. So again, X, I'm at Doug Pless. Here are the key tenets to my approach for training. First of all, options trades and market maker hedging activity are key drivers of price in many stocks and futures. And certainly in the large cap tech stocks that I follow, as well as the equity futures, the SB500 and NASDAQ. And for the SB500, SPX is the underlying index. SPI is the ETF version of that index. And ES is a derivative of SPX. So when traders buy and sell puts and calls in SPX and SPI, market makers take the opposite side of those trades and they hedge their delta exposure with ES futures. Same for the NASDAQ 100 index. The NDX is the underlying index. QQQ is the ETF version of that index. And NQ is a derivative of NDX. So when traders buy and sell puts and calls in NDX and QQQ, market makers take the opposite side of those trades and they hedge their delta exposure with NQ futures. The focus of my presentation today and the focus of the options-jug-chat channel is options order flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two-step process for trading in the first is planning and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market, inhale those positions changed from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as the directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real-time motor flow and book map and real-time market maker hedging flow and spot gamma hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And when I talk about setups today, I will be focusing on an underlying asset. And for example, the SP500 setups can be taken with the SP futures, SPY shares, SPY options, SPX options, or even ES options. Questions and comments are welcome and I will be watching both the options-jug-chat channel and Discord as well as the chat and YouTube free of questions and comments. Please feel free to post. I'll do my best to answer your questions. And hello, Steven. Welcome. Glad you're here. I hope I didn't pronounce that too badly. All right, here's my agenda for today, Wednesday, February 28th. First of all, I want to cover news items for today as well as the rest of the week. I'll go through my positional analysis. Then I'll review some setups from earlier today. Then I'll take a look at the live market. And when I get to the live market, if anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask. And I'll be glad to do that. All right, let's start with economic data. GDP, the second quarter, the fourth quarter, second estimate came out today, and that was slightly less than expectations, slightly less than the previous number. All right, then for the rest of the week, Thursday, the big number for the week is the PCI number. The PCI number, the PCI number, the week, Thursday, the big number for the week is the PCE data at 8.30 a.m. eastern time. And then on Friday, manufacturing PMI at 9.45 and 10 a.m., also consumer sentiment comes out at 10 a.m. And note the jobs report that is normally on the first Friday of the month. It looks like that has been pushed back to the next Friday, not this coming Friday, but next Friday. All right, let's move on to positional analysis now. I'm going to start with the SB500. This is the EES Futures and Bookmap. And just a quick note, here's the reaction to the GDP data kind of up and down. That was at 8.30 a.m. eastern time. All right, so again, this is the EES Futures and Bookmap. Before I take a closer look at this chart, I do want to take a look at a larger time frame. I'm going to go to the underlying index, which is, again, SPX. And this is a one-day chart for SPX. The current rally began last year, October 30th. So far, SPX from that date has rallied just a little over 1,000 points. So about 1,000 points in four months for the SPX. All right, so that's a one-day chart. Now let's zoom in a bit, sticking with SPX. Let's take a look at a one-hour chart. So this is the upper portion of that rally. This is the trend line that I showed in the one-day chart. That's the upper end of it. And the high, right around 5,111. All right, let's take a look at some expiration responses. So this is the January expiration, Friday expiration. SPX broke above 4,800 at that time. Here's the February expiration. And that was Friday, February 16th. Call-dominated expiration, typical behavior, a little bit of consolidation after that expiration, and video reported earnings, and sent the SPX up over 5,100. And during this year, the call walls for SPX have moved up from 4,800 around the beginning of the year to 5,100 now. That is the current call wall. I'll talk more about that in just a moment. All right, note, I want to show all of the levels on this chart so I can't zoom in because the put wall is down at 4,500. All right, so I'm going to take a look at the levels on this chart now. First of all, the dash purple lines are showing the lower and upper weekly expected move. That's based on the options market. I update that once a week. That's based on the closing price on Friday. And those levels remain in place for the entire week. And then the dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. Also based on the options market. That's based on the closing price from yesterday. And I update those levels once a day. And I post the lower and upper daily and weekly expected move every evening in discord for the coming day. All right, the other lines on this chart are spot gamma levels. These are proprietary spot gamma levels. They're based on gamma weighted open interest provided to spot gamma subscribers on a variety of trading platforms. This is thinkorswim. I'm going to point out the key daily levels. And hello rainy days. Welcome, glad you're here. All right, so first of all, there's the put wall at 4500. That's a strike with the largest net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support. And the next level up is 5000. That's the absolute gamma strike. That's a strike with the largest absolute positive and negative gamma. So that's where most of the gamma weighted open interest is concentrated. Up above that is the volatility trigger at 5065. And that is spot gamma's proprietary volatility flip level. Below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment, market makers have to trade with price to hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to enhance or increase volatility. On the other hand, above that level, like SBX is trading now, market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. In a positive gamma environment, market makers have to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to subdue or decrease volatility. So in a positive gamma environment, I'm looking for more range days, mean reverting price action, the SBX and SB500 trading at a range. Below that level, I'm looking for wider movement, more trend days. And note that we'll take a look at this in just a minute. Gamma Notional for the SB500, NASDAQ, and also 2000. At the beginning of the day, it was all positive for the day. And the next level up is the call wall that I mentioned before. That's a strike with largest net, positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance. And so far, that level has done its job acting as resistance. All right, there was only one minor shift in level. That was the volatility trigger just shifted down five points, so not very significant. Otherwise, the call wall and absolute gamma strike all remained at the same level from yesterday. So no, the only shift in levels, again, for SBX, was a minor shift lower. All right, let's wrap up our view of SBX. This time with a one-day chart, a one-minute chart, we can just look at the price action for today. Key levels in play for today is the volatility trigger at 50.65. Did act somewhat as resistance earlier today. And then this 50.75 level acting as resistance. We'll take a closer look at that in just a minute to see what that level is. All right, so SBX bullish today, trading at a pretty narrow range. All right, let's go to book map now. So there's that 50.75 level. Spont gamma stopped labeling some of the levels in the thinkorswim chart, so I do mark that on my chart. So what I'm showing here, these are my own cloud notes. So I can show the SBX levels. There's that 50.65 volatility trigger that was noted as support in the Spont Gamma Am founders note. I'm also showing SPI levels. Here's the SPI 506 volatility trigger. Same as yesterday. And here's a key level, the SPI 505 put wall. Acting as support and good entry point this morning for a very nice long just before 10 a.m. We'll talk more about that in a few minutes. All right, so those are levels of play for today. Again, I'm showing SPX and SPI levels with my own cloud notes. And note there is a price difference between ES and SPX. And today it is somewhere around 10 to 10.5 points. So ES minus SPX equals, I'm using 10, looks like it may be closer to 10.5 now. That's what I was using a couple of days ago. And that number does get smaller and smaller as the contract rollover approaches the quarterly expirations. All right, so I'm using 10. So I'm showing the 5065 SPX volatility trigger at ES 5075. And note I do post the index relationships that I'm using every day. I post those in Discord. I try to post the preliminary numbers by 9 a.m., around 9 a.m. And then when the market opens, that's when SPX and NDX start trading and I can post the final numbers. And they usually take some time to settle out. So I post the final numbers around 10 a.m. All right, and we're all asked, do you update those cloud nodes daily, manually, or is it auto from an Excel file? So it's a combination of both. So here's what I do. I use an add-on in Bookmap called price lines, not price levels, price lines. That is an add-on that you have to pay for. And then what I do is I fill out this spreadsheet. Not all these levels are active. So here are my SPX levels, for example. So I just fill out the spreadsheet every morning and then refresh the levels in Bookmap. And it displays the levels I want. So it displays the labels over in the column. And it also draws the lines. And you can select the colors and the line type. All right, so I hope that answers your question. That's how I do it. So it's maybe semi-automatic. At least I don't have to draw the lines and place the labels manually. But I do fill out the spreadsheet. All right, shift some levels. Again, SPX, volatility trigger, just five points lower. And for spy, the put wall shifted higher to 505. And the call wall shifted lower to 508. Pretty narrow range between the potential floor that acted to support today and then the call wall at 508, the potential ceiling for price. All right, let's move on to NASDAQ. And note I did have a problem with rhythmic data this morning. Maybe I made a mistake, but I did close out Bookmap, opened it back up, and rhythmic data started working again. So I lost some data. Also, the MBO data, Market By Order data that Bookmap uses to show stops and icebergs, that disappeared. So I didn't get my MBO data until about 10 a.m. Normally I open Bookmap around somewhere between 6.30 and 7. Yeah, Stephen says a lot of people had rhythmic connection issues. It was not me, not Bookmap, it was rhythmic. There was a problem. So anyway, I chose to close Bookmap and start it up again. So I did lose some data as well as the MBO data before 10 a.m. All right, so this is the NQ Futures of Bookmap. And before I take a closer look at this chart, I do want to take a look at the underlying index charts. I'm going to go to QQQ. So QQQ, trading at a very narrow range today, somewhere between the 435 level and the 436 zero gamma level. And yesterday, this 435 level was the support level. That was zero gamma yesterday, also a large gamma level, and also the support level noted in the Spot Gamma M Founders note. It was also noted as support today. And that was yesterday QQQ respected the round number levels and the Spot Gamma levels very well, not so much today. It's kind of the opposite today. The S&P 500 was today was choppy, very choppy yesterday, not really respecting levels. And today it is respecting levels and NASDAQ's not so much. It's not every day. But anyway, yesterday that post that I posted it on Discord and Bookmap and in X, Twitter showed 435 as clear support for a long early afternoon. All right, so that's QQQ, trading narrow range generally somewhere between 34.5 and 36.5. And the last time I looked at NDX, there were no levels of play. Let's just take a quick glance at that. No levels of play for NDX. All right, so again, this is the NQ Futures and Bookmap. All right, thank you, Stephen, for posting that link to PriceLines. And at around ask, do I trade futures or options? And if so, your reason for choosing one or the other. I generally trade futures and shares of stock. So for futures, of course, you have leverage and less margin requirement. But especially for NASDAQ futures, for example, very volatile and it's pretty easy to get stopped out. So for NASDAQ, I generally prefer to trade QQQ shares over NASDAQ. It's just a huge contract, very easy to get stopped out with NASDAQ. And for the S&P 500, I do trade futures. I have long-term position and SPI, so I don't want to sell right now. I don't want to buy and sell SPI, so I trade futures. For the S&P 500, it's not as volatile as I find. It's not as easy to get stopped out in the S&P 500. And as far as day trading options, this is just my approach. I was trained as a premium seller. And it's very difficult for me to just buy outright by a call especially where I have time and implied volatility working against me. But that's just me. I would be much more inclined to buy a put in a negative gamut environment where I think the market is going to move pretty sharply lower, implied volatility to increase. But the setups that I'm talking about, they're advantages to options that they're defined risk. So you don't have to worry about getting stopped out. You just buy a put or call and let it work, let it play out. And I'm not sure I have time for that. Well, I may talk about that a little bit at the end of the day if I have time. And hello, Caesar. Welcome. Glad you're here. All right, so this is the NASDAQ. Again, I have my own cloud notes. And here are the two QQQ levels that I've talked about. 435 on the downside. 436. So the 435 large Gamma 4 support level and 436 zero Gamma level. And note that 437 is the volatility trigger. So QQQ trading below its volatility trigger today, even though at the beginning of the day Gamma notional was positive. Also note that this is the lower daily expected move for NQ. So earlier today NQ did trade below that level. All right, let's wrap up the positional analysis. Take a look at Gamma notional. See how market makers were positioned on the Gamma curve at the beginning of the day. And this will give us a sense of the expected trading range of volatility for the day. So this is Gamma notional. Market makers position on the Gamma curve at the beginning of the day. For the SB500, NASDAQ, and also 2000. Note all these numbers are positive. So at the beginning of the day market makers position on the Gamma curve for all these indices was positive. So that indicates for an index that market makers are, traders are short calls, market makers are long calls, hence the positive Gamma. And they have to trade against price to hitch their delta exposure. Note all these numbers did shift higher from yesterday. So Gamma notional for SPI for example yesterday was slightly negative shifted to positive today. So again, I'm looking for in this environment lower volatility, more range day mean reverting price action. I'm going to skip over the Vana model that I usually look at in a positive Gamma environment. It just is not very interesting. Typically in the curve is not that helpful. All right, let's move on to positional analysis now. So everything that we've looked at so far other than the book map is based on static data. Spot Gamma takes open interest data that's updated once a day, sometime during the night, and they apply their algorithms to that data to come up with the levels that we were just looking at on the charts. Those charts do change from day to day. Those levels do change from day to day, but during the day they remain static. All right, so now I'm going to move on to the execution process and we'll start with the SP500. So Caesar asked, is it impossible to have a put Vana rally in a positive Gamma environment? I would say no, but it's much more likely a negative Gamma environment when the SP500 is trading on that there's a big left skew on the Vana model and there's put Vana fuel in the tank. Typically in a positive Gamma environment there's not much put Vana fuel in the tank. All right, Faro asks, what is the SPX level today? Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question. Which SPX level? All right, so let's move on to executional. I'm going to start by taking a look at what options traders have been doing today. So this is the hero signal and book map. What this is showing is options trades and market maker hedging activity for a combined signal of SPX by XSP and ES futures. The white line is price for SPX and the purple line is the hero signal. That's hedging impact, real time options. So this is showing real time data. It's showing what? It's showing options trades and market maker hedging activity for this combined signal of all these forms of the SP500 and this is available to spot Gamma subscribers. So this is a subscription product. A rising hero signal indicates traders are taking positive delta positions. That means they are buying calls and or selling puts. Market makers take the opposite side of that and they have to buy futures to hedge their delta exposure. And a falling hero signal indicates traders are taking negative delta positions. When traders are buying puts and or selling calls, market makers take the opposite side and they have to sell ES futures to hedge their delta exposure. They always want to remain delta neutral. And Stephen, thanks for answering that. 4500 put wall, 5100 is the call wall if that's what you're asking. I just showed that a couple of minutes ago. All right, so let's move on now. I'm going to zoom in on this chart. We'll take a look at some setups from earlier today. So just watching the hero signal right around 9.55. So hero drop lower, then started to shift higher. Setting up along around 10 a.m. actually there was a long also right around 9.35. All right, so let's go take a look at those two setups. Let's go back to book map, go back to ES, zoom in. All right, so the first key here is this 505 put wall. That is the spy 505 put wall. That's a level I expected to act as support and it's did its job. So here's the early long entry 9.35. And then there's the secondary entry right around 9.55. Let's take a look at order flow. The volume dots here in book map are showing market buy minus sell. Magenta dots indicate more sellers than buyers. Green volume dots indicate more buyers than sellers. And note again, I did lose my data. So that explains this gap here. And then MBO data did not start until about just after 10 a.m. So it would have provided more clues. Maybe large traders were buying with iceberg orders before the move higher, but I don't know. So I do know that aggressive sellers were selling ES on the way down. Price touched the 505 put wall. That's at 5069. Aggressive buyers started to come in, started to move price higher. Pullback entry to the 5065 volatility trigger. Note during this time, the MBO data is showing that large traders were buying with iceberg orders on the way up. That's shown by the light blue line. Also sell stop orders. Showing by the rising yellow line, we're helping to fuel the move higher. And then initially after 10 a.m., this is CVD. The line that changes from magenta to dark blue, that is moving higher. That's cumulative volume delta. All right, Farrell, I'm not sure what you're asking. Gamma Notional for SPX today is $592. And for spy it is 205. I did cover that earlier today. If you missed the beginning of my session, you can go back and watch the recording that should be available right after this presentation. All right, so nice rally from 505, almost up to 507. So from the move to 505, price targets 506, this 5075 large Gamma 4 level, and then spy 507. And this was as traders were taking positive delta positions. So the hero signal first for the SB500 was providing a good signal this morning for a long. 935, 955. And here's that re-entry at the 5065 level as hero kicks higher again. All right, so that's the SB500. And let's take a look at NASDAQ now. Typically for the NASDAQ, I look at the mag7 signal. Let me zoom out. We'll take a look and see what that is. So this is a combined signal for the stocks known as the Magnificent 7. Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla. I use this for the NASDAQ 100 because these stocks make up a very large portion of the NASDAQ 100. And they're typically driving price for the NASDAQ 100. All right, let's zoom in on this. And really the first clear signal. Stop ESH for CME cell 334. Sorry about that. Stops in icebergs. All right, so what I'm looking at is this reversal right here, right around 1055. We can separate outputs and calls and get a closer look at that. So I'm going to have to jump to another chart and then go back to this. So right around 1055, what this chart is showing is that the orange line is showing calls. So starting around 1055, traders start aggressively buying calls. Before, they were generally selling calls and the blue line is showing puts. So a falling blue line showing they were buying puts. Orange line showing they were selling calls right around 1055. That reverses, traders start selling puts, buying calls. Now the course price had already started to move higher. So let's go take a look at NASDAQ. So in this case, this was a lagging signal. It was much more, much better confirmation for the NASDAQ yesterday. It typically is. So let's go take a look at NASDAQ now. Floyd's Garage asks, what is the light blue line? If you're talking about the light blue line in the sub chart, that is iceberg orders. Light blue line, iceberg orders, yellow line, stop orders. That's part of the MBO bundle. That is the, this is the sub chart indicator. There's also an on chart indicator. And I, in the sub chart, I have both of these lines in some mode. So I can see the cumulative stops and icebergs from the time that I opened book map. And again, in this case, it was not my usual 6.40 a.m. that was 10 a.m. because I had to restart book map. Oh, let's see. Floyd's Garage, this is, this is VWAP, if that's what you're asking. All right, Antirangas, how do you know there's going to be a rally? First of all, I don't know that there's going to be a rally. I assume that the, for example, the SB500, I assumed that this 505 put wall would do its job and act as support as expected. I was watching both book map and also the hedging flow and hero to confirm what I was looking for for that setup. So it's a combination of looking at the levels and play and then confirming how it's going to react in both hero and in book map. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to put it in order at 505. I may wait for confirmation and then take the first pullback as I see the order flow shifting bullish and also the hedging flow shifting bullish. So I don't know for sure, but I think that's, you know, that that's how I approach it. All right, so let's go back to NASDAQ. So we're looking for looking for a move higher right around 1055. Let me zoom in. All right, so I know, you know, just looking at using a hero as a confirmation. I already know that NQ was making a series of higher lows, CVD moving higher. You can see these pullbacks, magenta dots on the way down, green volume dots on the way up. And then this is when the trader started to aggressively buying calls in the mag 7 stocks just above the 435 level and price moves higher, breaks out of this consolidation. All right, so that's more of a confirmed setup. All right, so Anirag, I hope that answers your question again. I'm just not blindly putting in an order at 505. I'm watching now when I'm trading, I have multiple screens. So I'm watching book map on one screen, trading platform on another and the hero signal on another screen. So I'm using all that information to make a decision about when to trade. All right, so there was a long entry in NASDAQ this morning. Again, trading at a very narrow range. This is what Spot Gamma has been calling for all this week. Narrow trading range, typically more opportunities in single stocks. So let's take a look at some stocks. And the first was Google. Short setup, quick drop lower in the morning. Google typically does not have a huge trading range, but it's worth taking a look at. Let's go to Google. I'm going to change back to the total signal. I'm going to have to shift. The reason I'm shifting one chart to another, there's a bug still in the hero. When you shift from puts to calls, it does this auto zoom thing. Anyway, this is showing traders taking negative delta positions. Just a couple of minutes after the open price moves lower. They continue to take negative delta positions until about 12.20. Now it looks like they have started to take positive delta positions and Google is consolidating. So from the open traders taking negative delta positions, my Google thing is responding for some reason. I heard somebody talking. All right, so that was Google. A couple of points of movement, then traders have taken their foot off the gas with the negative delta positions and price consolidating around 136. All right, let's take a look at meta. Meta typically moves. All right, demo trader says on NQ there looks like Bruce's flag pattern. Yeah, so in the morning I'm making a series of higher lows. All right, here's meta. Quite a bit more range today in meta. That's pretty typical. All right, let's go take a look at hero and see what options traders were doing. Let's go to meta. And initially traders were taking positive delta positions. That lasted about 10 minutes. They started taking negative delta positions and price started to move lower. This is very typical pattern. Aggressive buyers or sellers in the morning. Somewhere in mid-morning to around noon or so. They take their foot off the gas and price consolidates or moves a little in the opposite direction. Let's go back to bookman. This is also very typical for meta. Short, very fast burst higher right at the open. Traders aggressively buying calls. This quickly exhaust setting up a good short. Let me zoom in on this. And Steven, there's more flag patterns. Pullbacks to a trend. Short entries. All right, so there was meta. If you're very fast, you could have caught that move up. I'm not so fast. The short was better. All right, the next stock. So we've looked at two bearish stocks. So in the morning, Tesla was bucking that trend. Nice long note all the green volume dots. Iceberg ESH for CME by 690. We'll go take a look at that. That was ES Iceberg buying just a minute. Let's take a look at a hero for Tesla. Go to Tesla. I should have shifted back to puts and calls. Meta. So you can see how meta they were. Mainly selling calls. Also buying puts. Call sellers much more aggressive. And this can happen when traders have been buying calls repeatedly over a period of time. The implied volatility increases and it gets to a point where options traders would rather sell the higher volatility than buy it. Iceberg ESH for CME by 300. All right, so Tesla just the opposite traders buying calls today. That's shown by the rising orange line. Note 200 is the key gamma strike in the call wall. Tesla trading above that in the morning as traders were buying calls. When traders buy calls, market makers sell the calls. And they have to buy stock to hedge their dealt exposure. Again, here's this typical pattern. Aggressive call buyers up to about 1130.  The long entry was just after 9.50 as traders resumed buying calls. And for a brief period of time, they were selling puts as well. So in that short period of time, about 15 minutes or so, the blue line and the orange line were moving in the same direction. That's a very powerful directional signal indicator. All right, let's go to book map. Here's Tesla. Let's zoom in. Price reversed higher at the 199 level. Get entry point there, right at 200. Call wall, key gamma strike. Note that is a call wall breach. When a stock trades above that call wall, those stocks, those calls located at the 200 level, that's the call wall where most of the calls are located. Traders are long calls. Market makers are short calls. As those calls go further in the money, their delta is increasing, their short delta. And market makers have to continue to buy stock to hedge their dealt exposure. So that can help to fuel a rally higher with a call wall breach. And again, note all the green volume dots. Aggressive buyers buying up Tesla as traders are buying calls as well. Pullbacks to round numbers, multiple entry points. All right, so that's Tesla. Let's go take a look at ES. There were a couple of iceberg alerts. All right, so this is interesting. So we're here in the sub chart indicator. This is showing two large iceberg executions. That's what's shown by this number here. So that's showing 4,471 contracts, two executions, exactly what is shown on the line below. 4,471, that's quite large. Very nice long entry, confirmed by iceberg orders. Trend break, reversal hire at the 5065 volatility trigger, noted as support and the spot gamma am founders note. Let's take a quick look at a hero and see what options traders doing. I'm going to go back to the total signal for the SB 500. Hero signal is shifting lower. So that looks like that was antirag says I longed at 404477. Oh, he or she means 5077. All right, CWRS, so those icebergs want to be filled on the buy side. Yeah, those were buy iceberg orders. Let's go back to book map. So it looks like they came in. So first of all, iceberg orders are CME order types for CME futures. So that's an actual order type that again, large traders use to hide their size. And book map will detect that. This is the in the MBO bundle. That's an add on to book map that shows stops and iceberg orders. Again, those are both specific CME order types available in MBO data, market buy order data. Rhythmic is the only data provider that provides that data again for CME futures. The book map add ons on chart and sub chart detect those orders and show them as they're executed. Again, this is quite large 4471 contracts. Yeah, those are buy orders. All right, so let's watch this and see what happens at the 506 level. And by the way, if you are interested in trading this, the way I trade, and Bruce has asked me to talk about this, this is the basic trade control panel in book map. And of course you can, I'm in simulated mode right now. So when I reopened this morning, I did open simulated mode. But you can link book map to many brokerages and trade on your actual brokerage account, brokerage account with book map. But I'm in simulated mode. Let's go take a look at Hero again. Looks like it may be shifting higher. And you can also use brackets here in book map. And there are much more sophisticated ways to trade now that I use, for futures I use trade of eight and I typically use their own trading platform and dome. That's just what I've gotten used to. Just looking to see if this is going to be a pullback or if it moves back down to 5065. So really the only thing supporting along so far was the reversal at 5065. CVD continues to move lower, stops move lower, prices right between VWAP and this 506 volatility trigger. Let's go back and check Hero. All right, so now Hero still making lower highs. So it looks like ES may be headed back down to the 5065 level. So if you wanted to place a short, oops, a little bit late. If you wanted to place a short. What I do is I, if I want to trade two contracts, double click. So again, I'm a little bit late. So once that is filled, then I could move one, I could move the take profits to wherever I wanted. All right, so that's just basic trading in book map. Cancel all. I'll check with Bruce. Maybe he wanted me to show some more information. All right, so just watching this signal here, trend break, very large iceberg order, but there's really no follow through. And I confirmed that with Hero. So based on this, I was really looking for more of a short reversal at the 506 level. Again, because no follow through in the hero signal was trending lower. So this move, little move higher did not even show any, that was not a stop run. No, no response from the yellow line. So now in hindsight, that would have been a good short. All right, so to rise the ask if I checked Apple today, let's take a look at Apple and then we'll wrap it up. So if you remember from yesterday, Apple jumped sharply, I think right around 2pm. As they announced that they were shutting down their electric vehicle project and going to shift their workers to artificial intelligence AI. And that would cause to pretty sharp rally in Apple and today Apple is selling off. Let's go take a look at hero for Apple and then we'll then we'll wrap it up. All right, so for the day traders have been taking negative delta positions in Apple. So selling calls and buying puts. Let's take one last look at mag 7. And that started rolling over right around 2 o'clock and NASDAQ making a double top, slightly higher lows. Right around 950 and the 436 zero gamma level back down to 435. And here this order flow to me was much more clear. CVD moving lower stops moving lower icebergs moving lower. So in this case this afternoon this this move lower was an easier read for me. Aggressive sellers CVD dropping stops dropping icebergs dropping. All right, everyone I want to thank you for watching. Thank you very much for your questions and comments and I will see you tomorrow. Remember PCE data comes out 8 30 a.m. Eastern time could be a market mover. And we'll talk about it tomorrow afternoon. All right, thanks again everyone. Have a great afternoon and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.


My name is Nana Sato-Rossberg. I came to source about four years ago to teach translation studies. Translation is negotiation with the original, whatever that form it takes. Translation is also to find a way to convey the words, the spirit of the original. But how to interpret the original is in the hands of the translator. The past few years at SOAS, I've learnt there's a lot of ways to think about translation, more in fact than I could have ever imagined. And I've learnt that we all think about translation in very different ways. What translation community industry, whatever you want to call it, in this country really needs is exactly what SOAS has. And that this kind of project and all of Nana's ideas to kind of bridge those communities that weren't me talking to each other previously will be absolutely beneficial to both sides. So I think it's great that the centre of translation studies is providing a platform and sort of creating a space where people can engage with translation and where people from outside of SOAS can get in touch. I think it can be quite hard as a beginner to get into translation and having a few translations professionally under your belt is a good thing. Honestly, I would accept any opportunity right now, but I'm particularly interested in work that will make an impact because that's the spirit of SOAS, making an impact, changing the world. That can sound really naive, but I think that's the most inspiring thing here. I think especially after coming here today and meeting a Nana and meeting so many people from the team, it's great to see the enthusiasm of young people who really want to apply their skills to meaningful projects that they also feel strongly about. So I think in that sense it's potentially different than working with a regular translation agency where you ship this off to someone anonymous and you don't necessarily know if they have a particular interest in it. I think ultimately people who work as translators or interpreters, if they care about the job that they're doing, the issues that they're dealing with, then by definition they'll go that little bit further to make sure that they really translate this thing appropriately, any specific questions that they're going to ask because they care. I'm Annam SOAS alumni. I studied here for MA in PhD and it was kind of the making of me to know what I was doing with myself and certainly not career-wise before I came here. It was because I graduated at the time of the financial crisis there weren't really that many graduate jobs around anymore and I needed a skill and a language is a skill and particularly the languages that SOAS specialises in, it's a very niche skill that really sets you apart and everything that I've done subsequently with translation and publishing is about filling in those gaps, paying attention to what's not currently being paid attention to and I've seen in the last couple of years, finally I think in this country people are waking up to the need for translation.


Hi, I'm Lucinda Stattler. I'm the Urban Design Planner for the City of Columbia Planning Division and I'm here to talk a little bit about Parking Day. Parking Day is an international event that started in San Francisco in 2005 and it was sort of a grassroots effort by a company called Rebar to activate parking spaces and try to make a point about how much of our city streets are taken over by cars and not by spaces for people in parks. It's open to anyone. We encourage anyone and everyone. We've had a lot of non-profits in the past participate. We've had some private businesses. It can be anything from, you know, maybe a restaurant wants to put some extra tables and chairs or some plants out in front of their restaurant. We've had a lot of different arts organizations come and do actual interactive artwork, lots of different seating opportunities. So it's really all over the map and we encourage everybody to just be creative and give it some thought and jump in there and do it. We already have a lot of pedestrian activity on Main Street but it just makes that experience that much more interesting and actually gets people to think more about, you know, about public space and what other things we could do to enhance Main Street in terms of just having more spaces for people to just relax and, you know, sit down and have their coffee and, you know, seating and that sort of thing. There's an application process through the City Development Center and applications are due on August 15th. It's very easy. It's very inexpensive. There's actually not really a fee for the application but part of the application process involves bagging the meter with parking services. So the cost of bagging a meter is $10 per space per day. So some parking day installations might be a couple of spaces, so that would be $20. But basically there's a very simple application on the City's website and it just involves picking your parking space or spaces, identifying, you know, where those are, you know, Main Street between Lady and Washington.  You will need to have one person sort of responsible for that space and be there during that entire period. There is a liability insurance that's required and this is a standard for all temporary encroachments through the City. And for individuals who may want to do this or nonprofits who may not have access to that, OneColumbia for Arts and History has been partnering with the City for the last couple of years to help provide that. So if anybody needs that covered, they should talk to Lee Snelgrove over at OneColumbia and basically coordinate their application with his office and then he'll probably be able to sponsor that application. One thing we really like to encourage is that if people are going to utilize this day, that they do more than just set up a table with pamphlets. And you know, it's fine to have information available. We really do want people to engage with each other and sort of create interactive activities and things like that. Or passive spaces, places that people can sit. Link on the City's website, which I think will be on the screen. It's on the Planning Division page. They can also call me directly. I'm at 545-0229. And then the applications will go directly to an email address that's in the City Planning Division, which will also be on their website. So yeah, we're just real excited to be doing Parking Day for a fourth year in a row. We hope to continue doing it. And perhaps one day this event, if it gets enough momentum, we might actually be able to come up with a parklet ordinance for the City, which would be more permanent opportunities for businesses and others to actually make a little bit more permanent installations in certain areas. So this could be a precursor to that. So we just encourage everybody to participate if they can. And if they can't, then at least come on the 21st and find out where the spaces are. We'll have a map available of all the participants and just come and interact with all the folks who are participating.


Why are you so hot? Because it's in Texas. It is ridiculous right now. Well, they make an avatar for you on the OTK channel or only Emeru. Guys, I'm gonna give it to you straight. Who do you guys think is prettier? Who do you think is better look at me or Emeru? Okay, I think the proof is in the pudding, guys. I also threw a huge fit in the meeting about how come we're not doing me instead of Emeru for the picture. It was really bad. There was a lot of blood shed, you know, and honestly the org almost broke up because of it. We're gonna add more and more over time because I think that'll be fun, right? Do you guys want to watch the car video again? I put this on my YouTube channel. Come see us at Crazy Judd, Reagan's used car important. Hell, I don't care how y'all folks get here, just get here. I'm really happy with that, that's why. This is why I didn't stream last Thursday. There is that I was working on the shareholders meeting. There was a guy who used to say, I don't care how you get here, folks, just get here. So I sure have copied that line from somebody, but I don't know who it was, like growing up. This is the guy. Over 500 beautiful cars and one ugly one. What a choose from hundreds instead of a handful and head straight to the big lot grand opening now. We don't care how you get here, folks, just get here. Yeah, there it is. That's the guy. Dude, I love commercials like these.  Brian Wilson, Texas law hawk. Brian Wilson, the Texas law hawk. Counds of justice. Dude, process. Do wheelies. It's hot out here. Is it real? Brian Wilson, El Halcón de la leg. Brian Wilson, the Texas law hawk. Brian Wilson, the Texas law hawk. If you were a loved one then arrested, so call Brian Wilson the Texas law hawk today. What are these commercials? Brian Wilson, the Texas law hawk. Why is Maya in this commercial? Wait, what? What kind of fish are you? I'm not a fish. Hopping by. At Victory Motors right now is the time to catch the best deals of the year. We all know January is the slow month for car sales, so we're putting high prices on ice during our New Year's event all month long. With the lowest prices and the best selection in town, you should come to Victory Motors just for the hell of it. Why are car commercials always so ridiculous? And apparently sometimes lawyer commercials. I love S-Fence car commercials so much as a playlist of commercials from a family friend's real car company in South Texas same vibes. Is this real? Pueblo's Tires. Pueblo's Twias. Chill out, that's right. You need ice to cool off these hot deals on that Pueblo. How can she deal to back if you have a toy? No way. If you have a toy of a Camry, or if you have an Impala, or if you have a Lincoln Tower car, hey, $299 tax in everything included in store going out the door. That's what competition is failing and why we're growing. I know this guy presented you really? These deals are hot. We gotta have ice to cool them off.  That's amazing, dude. The fact that these are real commercials are, like, this is actually how they are.  Stop sniffing chat. They smell bad and they're nervous about it. Yo, S-Fence congrats on the league collab party. We saw the Udyr. Is this the Udyr? We saw this already. Yeah, we saw this already. Yeah, we did. He sounds like you too. Oh wait, nobody said that. I just said that myself. I don't know why I read that. Anyway, matching broken thumb. Dude, he even had his hands wrapped.  Thanks, dude. Chad, whose hair looks best in this picture? Who has the best hair in this picture? Okay, that's not fair.  He's on the screen twice. Okay, that's cheating. Okay, wake's a cheater. S-Fence toots on Bonnie. I did not. When did I fart on you? That is that is fake. That is not real. Okay, it's weird that I didn't fart. Bonnie, you love that razor headset. Yeah, Bonnie walks around. She just unplugged it out of my mixer and just plugs it into other random stuff. It just listens on it. Coach S-Fence. What is the purpose of this post? Why does that have 87 upvotes? It says Coach S-Fence and none of these are coaching. The purpose of this post is to show how much of a player you are. I am a wow player. Wow. Wow. Dude, that clip was so funny. Isn't that neat? Wow. This is actually like a reaction gift for weird mayo being per-social. Did S-Fence host, really? S-Fence. He wished this morning. I was like, oh my god, S-Fence on it.  Watch your way. Ask about your personal life. Chat, one time I asked S-Fence if he wanted to come to the pool at my apartment just to hang out. These per-social viewers, I swear, just unbelievable. I love S-Fence. What do you mean? I told her no. Thank you for the host. Content-wise, best shareholders meeting easily. Everybody's presentations were perfect.  Dude, I'll be honest. I mean, I've said this before. I don't like the shitting on everybody, sort of thing. You can rib each other and it's just kind of like, just a little meme, fun shot here and there. It gets to a point where being mean to people is not funny. It makes people get confused as to what's a joke and what's not a joke. That's weird. Do you have enough problems with? Yeah, it just gets weird and I don't like it. I think a lot of times whenever people are, they don't know how to be funny without being mean, they're just not funny. Like we're friends, so sometimes when you're friends and you're in a close friend group and you mess with each other a lot, there's always that one guy in a friend group that kind of gets it too much. It goes too far eventually and those people start to feel bad. It's not really a good feeling to be that person. I've seen it enough to where I start to see, you know what? That doesn't make that guy feel good. Maybe we should chill.  To your point, I remember there was a kid in high school that we grew up with and he was a big kid. He was the biggest kid. But he would always, always make fun of other people for being fat, always. And it was one of those things to where he would do it to divert attention away from himself and nobody ever called him fat. But he was really, really sensitive about his weight. So he would literally project. Nice to see S-Fan helping the car work out, got you WS-Fan Bust. That's so bad, dude. That is so bad.  Wait, what is this? I was spotting him. You think I was giving him a good spot? He did. What are you doing? Why are you looking guilty? No. You look guilty. I didn't. What did you not do? Nothing. Did you fart? That's the thing that you think I did. I don't know. Camp Canoe Fan Art by Skull Dino. Oh, this is good. This is cool. Bonnie is left unsupervised. So you pretended it was. I started down and I was like, I'll pretend to eat it. And then it just like, disappeared. Still hot, even on pouring cold water. And I ate it backwards. And I actually felt bad. Like, I felt so bad because you were so proud of that egg. Are you sad? What did you do? What did you do? Like, pulling on me and I felt so bad. What? What did you do? Oh my gosh. I thought that was a pancake. I thought that you knew it was the egg and I thought that the heat was over. But then as soon as I turned around, you're like, where's my egg? How did, dude, you can't even see you throw it. I was like, no, not one. And dude, me not noticing. And I moved the camera away right then, too. So funny, dude. How it does.  It's like, you're just joking. I was thinking to partner us up with Dr. Evil.


Hi everyone, today I want to share a bit about my perspective on this topic. How to accelerate our career as a product manager. I still remember the first time when I started as a product manager. I was so eager to do a good job, improve myself, and stand out as a trustworthy product partner. However, there are so many directions that I could take myself in and so many things that I can focus my time on learning. But what should I really start with? What should I focus on? And how to make the most out of my time? If those are questions that's on your mind as well, don't worry. Today, I will share how you can own your career growth and prepare yourself for what you aspire to do. First, a bit about me. Before I found my passion in product, I've tried out a couple of different fields including data, marketing, and consulting. My full-time PM career has started with credit karma around less than three years ago. And now I'm a staff product manager here. There are of course a lot of people who have had faster career growth than me, but I still get asked this question a lot. How does it become a staff product manager in less than three years? To be short, I was very fortunate to have met some great mentors who taught me how to grow intentionally. I believe that with enough intention and diligence, we all can improve our product skills, gain credibility, and become a better product manager faster. Through trial and errors and observing other successful product managers, I found a set of key product pillars that anyone can work on to accelerate their product career. For today's presentation, I will first give an introduction of what these key career pillars are for a product manager and then dive into each one of them to explain why they're important and tactics on how to improve them. First, let's start with the pillars. The pillars of a product manager's career framework are made up with three key elements. It starts with the yellow foundation of our triangle, which represents the core product management skills. This is a set of core product skills that are closely tied with the success of our product work. By mastering these, you can maximize your ability to achieve impact through your product. Then on top of this, there is your superpower. Superpower is how you differentiate as a product manager. Your superpower helps you to stand out among competition and become a known expert in certain fields. I often think of our product core product skills as the admission GPA, where you have to reach a certain level of competency to do well in delivering products, whereas your superpower is like your awards, it's like your extracurricular activities. It's the kind of things that are unique about you that makes you stand out. Then lastly, it's important to pair your application with a great cover letter. This is where advocacy fits in. This is how you scale your impact, how you showcase your work, how you improve the visibility of not only your work, but also represent your team to make sure good work are rewarded with the right credits. To sum it all up, your superpower and core PM skills will allow you to become a proficient PM and maximize your product impact. The advocacy allows your great work to be seen, which will help you get more opportunity to continue better your career. Now let's dive into each one of them to see how we can win through them. First, our core PM skills. Even though product manager as a job is very inclusive and it can be hard to define, there's still a set of core skills that are often relevant for a product manager to do well in. They will help us up level our performance and as a result, accelerate our career. For example, the core PM skills that we recognize as a credit karma are execution, communication and collaboration, problem solving, product design, product strategy and leadership. Different companies might have different versions of this, but it's also possible that some companies don't formally define this as product managers. However, no matter which version you're looking at or you want to define for yourself, you can take actions to grow them. Know that the expectation or importance level of these skills obviously differ based on the stage that you are in with your career. Among the skills that we outlined, the most important ones for junior PMs tend to be execution and communication. These are very universal skills that apply to any type of project that you work on. Then depending on your projects, at least one of problem solving product design and product strategy will be highly relevant. Now you're familiar with the idea of core product management skills. How can we grow the core product management skills that we have? Let's start from evaluating ourselves to set a baseline. From there, we can decide on one area of focus among our weaknesses. It's also often helpful to get our manager or other stakeholders involved in this process. Not only they can provide us with more objective feedbacks, they can also offer their opinion on what's important to us at the moment that we should be working on. And also it's great that we can use them as a resource to bring storm together on things that we can do to improve these focus areas. With a clear understanding of what we want to focus on, our manager can help us find the projects that best align with our interests. Lastly, it's important for us to track our progress on an ongoing basis to refine our evaluation and focus area. This not only helps us to stay on top of our career, but also help to serve as a great tool for other people, including our managers and stakeholders, to show our progress over time. Now here's the activity to help you get started on this. Pull out a pen and paper or open up your preferred way of note-taking. Draw down the core PM skills, either from this version or your own version. Evaluate your competency in each one of them from a degree of 0 to 5, where 0 means not familiar at all and 5 means mastery. Reach yourself around where you think you are with each one of them. Once you're done that, circle around your weaker skills that you would love to spend more time improving on. If you can't make a decision right now, it's also completely okay to come back to it and spend more time on it. In fact, I want to leave you with the homework to do this exercise with your manager. And once you finish that, bring storm five ways to improve your focus area and make plans to work on it. Don't forget to also start a document to track your evaluation, focus area and action items. These exercises will help you become more aware of where you are, but also start working on it. It's also a great way to invite collaboration and opinion from your manager so that they are brought in to help you set up your success next. Now onto your superpower. Again, your superpower is what's unique about you, is what people remember about you and is what you do especially while in. This could be one of the core PM skills. It could also be more specific than that. For example, there are PMs who are very good at product strategy who have a track of record of delivering zero to one type of product exploration. There are also PMs who are very likable, great at building relationships and collaborating with other teammates. Once you have an idea about what your superpower can be, it can be very intentional about doing this exceptionally well and brand yourself around it. Your superpower will help you stand out among competition when there are opportunities that meet your expertise. Now think about what that means for you. Draw them three adjectives or phrases that you think others will use to describe you. And then draw them three adjectives or phrases that you will like to be known as. Examine the theme in these and find one core skill area that fits the theme that you want to grow the most as your superpower. The homework that I have for you here is to actually brainstorm specific ways to really stand out in your superpower area. Think about ways that you can be very extra here. For example, if your focus area is say communication, a specific action that you can take is for example, sending off weekly progress newsletters about your project to keep everyone aligned and motivated. Whatever that you decide to be for your focus area, make sure that you have specific and actionable items that you can do to specifically brand yourself to be strong at that area. Now with the combination of your core PM skills and your superpower, you can be a very great product manager. However, how to make sure great work is seen and how to maximize your impact and visibility. This is where advocating for yourself become extra important. To start advocating for our work is embedded in what we do as a product manager. It is our job to represent our team, showcase wins, and as a result pitch for more resources to grow our product and team. On top of that, visibility of our work is also great for our own personal benefits. No matter that's for promotion or getting good opportunities for what's next from our network. There are many ways that we can advocate for ourselves and our teams. It's important to think about what's appropriate for your specific situation. For example, if you work on a more horizontal type of team and your work is relevant to many others in the organizations, then maybe you can be more proactive about sharing processes and success that your team has with the work more broadly. Whether that's through email newsletters, show presentations, or any other format that you think are best relevant for your work. Another way that you can go about this is to actively think about how will your work benefit other teams or individuals. For example, you've been working on improving the collaboration process between your design and engineering partner, and you've had some success. You can think about how to formalize this workflow and share with the broader company or whoever else might be interested to learn more. Lastly, I always find it helpful to grow through the help of others. You can build relationships to have your own advocates in your company and also in the general industry. These people can help us go a long way. They can be our managers, mentors, or even peers. Not only we can learn from them closely, it also gives them a chance to know our work very well by helping us closely. In this process, they will see our growth firsthand and they will be able to vouch for our ability to other people who doesn't know us as well. Now, let's try to carve this out for yourself. List out three specific ways that you can do to share wins and learnings more proactively, create values for others, or build your network of advocates. Now, homework here is very simple. Actually, I think it would be great that you guys actually make this a plan that you can work on with specific timelines and more specificity around how you can achieve these things. Hope you all had fun getting to know yourself better and have had some ways and ideas on how to improve your own career. In the end of days, there is no single right answer to the best path to grow as a product manager. However, you have the answer for yourself. It was an intentional effort to build your core skill foundation, strengthen your superpower, and advocate for yourself. You will be able to learn, perform, and grow on the fast line. Many people like to use years of experience to evaluate PM. However, with an intentional strategy and effort to grow, you can really make the most out of the years of experience you have. My hope in sharing these activities is so you can feel empowered to own your own career growth. It has certainly made me feel this way when I try to apply these. Thank you so much for being a part of this presentation. Don't be shy to reach out if you have any questions or just want to stay in touch. You can follow me on Medium or reach out to me on LinkedIn. Thank you.


So I'm watching a video, I'm watching a Vegan Gains video, right? He's doing a video on Bob's perspective.   You know what I mean?    And I'm hearing of some sort of attack on people, right? And it comes back that he was him, I would not be surprised at all. You know what I mean? Well, a lot of people didn't go like, why didn't we come down? Well, you know, just check out some of his videos on his YouTube because when people are doing full took things to people, it starts with animals first. And when you look at, when you hear him speak, right? Alright guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, in today's video, how did I become the biggest ex-vegan, the psychopath, the racist? How did I become that guy? I once was a vegan, right? Yes, just recently I uploaded my pick butcher review video. And the vegans were outraged, right? The vegans were shocked. What a psychopath, serial killer. I got compared to Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer. Amazing. Guys, what happened there? How did I become that psychopath? How did I become so cruel? How did I become so heartless? Guys, yes, I once was a vegan and I loved it because I thought I'm doing the right thing. The right thing for the environment. The right thing for the animals, of course. And the right thing for me. The right thing for me. For my health, yes. I thought it is the right way to go. A trifecta. Amazing. But soon I realized that it didn't work at all. And don't worry guys, I'm not gonna bore you with more details. I ran about the subject long enough. My health deteriorated horribly. It is what it is. And since the reintroduction of animal foods, I found myself healthier than ever. It is what it is. My depression vanished. My skin cleared up. My teeth sensitivity completely disappeared. I felt rejuvenated. My cramps were gone. Diarrhea. Everything was back to normal. Yes. So that made me think about my food choices even more. I was still in that vegan mind state. I said, ah, why does something need to die for me? I was outraged, right? I was still vegan in my mind. I tried eggs. I tried fish. And I felt better and better and better. I couldn't fight it. I didn't want it to work. I wanted to stay vegan. It's true. You don't have to believe me. I tried to stay vegan, but every single time I would reintroduce the plant foods, I would feel horrible. It is what it is. Explosive diarrhea, digestive upset, depression and whatnot. So I had no choice. I didn't choose the carnivore life. The carnivore life chose me. Honestly, the carnivore diet gave me great relief. I felt so much better. It was insane. So much better on every single level. And I stuck with it. But after a while, I want to be congruent with my food choices. Now eating animals for me that meant to witness slaughter and then to go even further. Fishing, hunting, so on and so forth. I want to be congruent again. Because, yes, I thought I was congruent as a vegan, right? I was so congruent with my food choices. Nothing dies. That's why I'm vegan.  Of course, that is not true. I started researching the field and I found out about all of those crop deaths, right? So many millions of animals are dying for vegans. They do not take that into account. If you want to be ethical, if you want to be an ethical vegan, you should be a carnivore that lives only of one cow per year. That would be the best case scenario. But you vegans don't want to hear that, right? Crop deaths. It's a myth. And even if so, even if a couple of bunny rabbits die, it is not intentional.  Of course it's intentional. Once you find out about that information, you are intentionally killing animals. Otherwise, I could say no omnivore kills intentionally, right? Everybody that goes to the supermarket doesn't know that animals die. They haven't watched Earthlings, right? They don't know. It's not intentional.  Check out my Ask a Farmer series and you will see what is truly going on in food production. You cannot make yourself believe something that is not true. That is a utopia that vegans want to live in. A total utopia where nobody dies. And guys, this is why I went to that slaughter. I want to see what is going on. And this is why I didn't feel remorse. Yes, I didn't feel remorse because it is a necessity. Simple as that. It is a necessity for me to be healthy. So how can I sit there and see it as something bad? No, it wasn't bad for me because I saw it as a necessity. I saw it as a vital part of life. Death is a vital part of life. 100%. And once you realize that you wake up from your Disney bubble, you won't find anything bad or wrong about it. Quite the opposite. You will see the beauty in it. Listen, I'm not the only psychopath, right? My family members practice it on a daily basis. They work in a slaughterhouse. They process 200 pigs every single day. But hey, forget about them. Forget about them. Think about tribesmen. Think about people in the wild. The messain.  And they're really happy about it. It is their birthright.  There is no option. The only option would be to import all of your foods, all of that Western crab. And guys, let me tell you, I'm going to try. I'm going to try not to insult you. But honestly, all I want to say is that your pretentious privileged Western cunts. That's what you are. 100%.  What do you want for them to eat what? Imported shit? Imported soy? Imported grains with even more crop killings?  The best option for those people is to raise an animal and get 150 to 200 kilograms of pure fresh meat. There is no better way for those people, man.   That's what I have to say to you guys.  Those people live off the land and they are not the only ones. We do not all live in mega cities, right somewhere in the West, where it's totally accepted and cool to drink my soy chai latte.  It is what it is. That is our ancestor diet. This is how we've been eating. There's nothing strange about it. Once I saw the pig slit open, I saw the organs, I saw the joints, the bones, the blood. Yes, I saw true beauty in it. And don't believe I'm going to apologize for one second.  I truly enjoyed that process and I do not believe that I'm the only one. 90% of my comments were positive. Maybe all psychopaths could be, right? Out of the vegan perspective, 98% of humanity, they're all psychopaths. They're all crazy, but not the vegans. They are right. Vegans are from the future, right? Vegans are the only ones that get it right. Sure. Guys, this is how I became that psychopath. This is how I became crazy, right? By looking at real food production, at seeing how it is done traditionally and not feeling remorse, but feeling joy, feeling grateful, feeling absolutely mesmerized, inspired even. Yes, I did. I found it absolutely beautiful. Beautiful destruction. That's what I saw there. Absolutely phenomenal. And I would like to see it again. And I would like to do it myself. Yes, as I said, I want to start small, maybe with fishing, then hunting. Let's see how it goes. My family, we've all been butchers or hunters, or both. We've been doing this for generations, since forever. If you want to feel bad now that you have the privilege, you call this a privilege to supplement. What a privilege.  I do not have to because I can supplement great. If you want to supplement, you want to chuck down protein powders, B12, DHA, EPA, D3 and whatnot. You call that a privilege. Go for it. Do it. Not stopping you.  I do.  I find that awe-inspiring. I do. And I know that that opinion is shared by many. Many hunters reach out to me as well and they tell me about their experiences, about that liberating feeling of hunting a prey, killing it yourself and eating off the land. Those are stories that a vegan cannot comprehend and you get put into the same category as a psychopath. So if you want to call me a psychopath, I do not mind. I accept the label. I am a psychopath. I'm the worst of the anti-vegans. It's amazing. I accept it with pride. It's great. It just shows me how brainwashed our society is. We all know that every now vegan is a future ex-vegan. That is nothing new. And I know that you as a vegan listening to this, you do not believe it either. You don't want to believe it. But there is something inside of you and you know something is wrong. Something is off. Something is not going right.  Like also many vegan YouTubers. Not gonna name names. Maybe your teeth hurt. Maybe your digestion is wrecked. Maybe, maybe, maybe. You know what ailments you have. And maybe you're gonna blame it on something else. Just as I did.  Diet if you want to call it that.  That you are chucking down on a daily basis and it's not suited for human consumption.  Yo, go for it.  Alright guys, that's it for today's video. If you enjoyed it, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, please do so. And as always guys, much love and peace.