I'm, like, looking far and wide. I appreciate you coming today. And we're going to go ahead and get started. Our presentation is about considering your positionalities in conjunction with open education, sacred knowledge, and indigeneity. And this is Emily Bradshaw. I'm Stephanie Robertson. We'll introduce ourselves more in a little bit. But we wanted to set some context for what we're talking about today. We'll talk about the study in depth in just a little bit, but just briefly to set the context for our presentation and our research. We are OER enthusiasts and practitioners from Biuyi, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. And we set out to do an IRB study about faculty adoption. And we didn't set out to do a study about indigeneity. But our population set was wonderfully diverse from our faculty, from many different cultures, perspectives, ages, different levels of working at the university, like in terms of how long you worked there and what type of adjunct or full-time tenured. So through our data set, what we'll be talking about today is something we did not anticipate. Oh, thank you for moving so I can see your beautiful faces. Something we did not anticipate that came from. We had about a third of our participants were our indigenous and otherwise a very diverse group as well. But the indigenous participants, something came out in the qualitative data and in the communities of practice that we didn't anticipate. And so we're going to be talking about positionalities today because we are coming from the position of being non-indigenous and just doing a training and a study to try to broaden horizons on campus and teaching what is OER, how to find it, how to create it, and talking about cultural competency when creating it as well. But some interesting things emerged. And there's a little bit of a vulnerable share to tell you, oh, we didn't anticipate this when we were so well-intended and well-meaning. But we hope that it will be a value for folks here today. And we thank you for your generosity in listening to us. But first, some acknowledgments. And we understand that an acknowledgment has need for reciprocity and humility. So although we do want to acknowledge the land that we're located and centered on here today for the conference and the land that we work and live on on the island of Oahu in the Kau'ila region, it's a small island. And we live on the countryside of the island. And it is the land of Kanaka Maoli, the native Hawaiians. We are not native Hawaiians. So we are transplants. We are visitors. And we're very grateful for our indigenous colleagues who have welcomed us so graciously. We also want to acknowledge a group called OER Fellows. And we encourage all of you to apply if you haven't participated in it already. It's great. It's a year-long mentorship supporting you and your research and maybe even giving a stipend if you submit something for publication. And they supported us to come here to the conference today. And finally, BYU Hawaii, who also supported our research. I'll introduce myself to you. I'm Emily Bradshaw with BYU Hawaii. I have been teaching in the English department there for the past 17 years. And I'm Stephanie Robertson. I've been teaching in the English department. Math is hard since 2009. And then since 2022, I was full-time faculty and outreach in OER Library. All right, so our objectives today are to first outline the most valuable takeaways from our IRB study with international and indigenous faculty, and then to evaluate how to more sustainably share materials from diverse cultures. So as I mentioned, we had a very well-meaning, well-intended study with our friends and colleagues on campus who came to learn more about OER and if they already had an awareness to increase their knowledge and to share it together. Communities of Practice emerged from it that we'll talk about later. But we realized that from our positionality, we didn't foresee something that caused hesitation and pause during our study and redirected it. It's important for me to also note that we will be having quotes in our presentation that come straight from the indigenous voices. So we will not be representing them. They will be speaking for themselves and they've given us consent to do so. So I just want you to reflect for like 20 seconds here to yourself. You don't have to share. We'll be the ones sharing our personal shame here today. You don't have to do that. But has there ever been a time when you assumed something was no big deal? Only to find it was a big concern for someone else. This happened to us and I think sometimes, maybe some of us grew up in households. We were talking about some examples of this and one that emerged was maybe some of us grew up in households. This is common for a lot of folks that things were said that maybe now to our more trained ear later, we're like, oh, the people I grew up around maybe said something that was a little homophobic or a little racist, you know. And we gained that knowledge and that experience and that sensitivity and humility and awareness through interacting with people who have those, from those positionalities and those lived experiences. So I think we all maybe have an example of something like that or maybe something that you experienced, unfortunately, that would also fit that category. No matter how well-meaning, we all have our own positionalities and our positionalities can make us insensitive to the vulnerability of others without possibly even intending to be. And so we really have to look at like, what are the assumptions that we come into experience with and are we open and humble enough to listen and receive and make the change? Positionalities is much like identities, although identities somewhat have a little more agency sometimes. Positionality can encompass, you know, your lived experience, the socioeconomic group you grew up in, what type of religious or non-religious household did you, were you raised in your sexual orientation, gender identity, I'm thinking for me specifically, maybe my neurodivergence, you know, so these are positionalities that inform the way that we see the world through our lived experience. Okay, so just to introduce our study to you, our plan, our university on the North Shore of Hawaii is a small university. We have about 3,000 students, but within that 3,000 students, there are more than 70 different countries represented. So we have a very international student body and our faculty also is diverse and many of the people on the faculty are come from indigenous communities. So our university is very new to OER, so the work that's being done there is on awareness and faculty adoption. And so we, being enthusiastic about OER, planned a workshop for faculty. Probably many of you have done the same workshop. So our plan was to do the workshop and then throughout the semester, because we figured it would take more than just one time sit down. So we had planned throughout the semester to meet with any participants who wanted to on a one-on-one basis for continuing consultation to support them in finding and adopting OER. So we got our IRB approval in November and in January we held our workshop and then over the next four months of the semester we had those consultations and we had additional meetings with some communities of practice, some small groups that formed out of the conference and some of the issues that we've talked about today. And then at the end of the semester we did qualitative interviews. We had 28 participants in the workshop, 20 of whom we worked with on an ongoing basis and then interviewed them. So again, this was our workshop. We knew that we wanted to set up a Canvas course so that participants could continue to access content and refer back to what we had talked about in the workshop. So it was basically the OER 101. What is OER? What is this Creative Commons license? How do we license things? How do I find OER and what is open pedagogy and renewable assignments? And then we went into what are the opportunities for OER to help create culturally relevant pedagogy? And so as you can imagine from all those topics it was a jam-packed Saturday. We had the four modules, two before lunch, two after lunch, there was a lunch. We got that funded. Thank you, BYU Hawaii and the library. And but when we got to module two, here's where the day took a different direction. So we're talking about, we're doing a free ride about assignments or projects in the class. I think that's what it was that they might want to license to share globally. Here's where we went wrong and there's many ways we went wrong but this is one that I'm identifying specifically. I don't think we framed enough in our excitement and in getting through the topic of where exactly if you would license the Creative Commons a worksheet or a packet, for example, from your digital resources you've created in your Google Drive or whatever, where does that go? Who has access to it? I thought we probably just went right by it and there was a lot to absorb and so it didn't, it wasn't totally received. And so we got to this assignment and I said, well, here's an example of a packet that I did about addressing misinformation and it was an assignment I got when I was applying, I was doing a lesson plan when I was applying for the job to be full-time and they gave me the assignment since it's a religious institution to teach about how to find misinformation and how to know that it's misinformation by secular learning and by faith. So I thought, okay, I'll make a packet about that. And to me in my positionality, I just didn't think it was that big of a deal. I was like, so watch me, watch me go to Creative Commons, I'll take you through, I like the older version of how to license your stuff and I need to adapt and I need to use the newer one. But I went through and I showed them, I was like, easy as that, okay. So just grab a worksheet from your Google Drive or wherever you save things, no big deal, we're just gonna practice it or practice it in pairs. And there, and some people are like, okay, let's just trudge through this. But there was some hesitancy, particularly from, we had a lot of indigenous participants, but particularly from one, these women sitting in the back and I said, oh, do you guys need a little help? And they're like, we don't wanna do this.  Oh, do you just wanna watch me do it or did you, I can walk you through it. They really didn't wanna do it. And we stopped, why? And from there, we entered into a very interesting, thoughtful place of sharing, a discussion. And I was so grateful, instead of feeling like, oh my gosh, we've messed up these two white girls just assuming stuff, instead of feeling like we can never do anything like this again, we're out of here, we're canceled, bye. I was ready to cancel myself. They shared, she shared, she was vulnerable and her vulnerability shared to us that as a Kanaka Maoli, an indigenous generator of ideas and ways of knowing and worksheets and things that she's created, she had stuff stolen in her very own faculty and not credited and we were all horrified and she said, well, this is not new. And I'm thinking to all of the wonderful keynote speakers we had, but I saved one of the slides and I put it in our slide deck to reference to it, the first keynote speaker, and so I'll reference him in a little bit, but he said something like, it takes a lot of courage to show up as an indigenous person continually in these spaces because we have been hurt. And that was something from our positionality, I'm embarrassed to say, we didn't even anticipate because we just thought, no big deal, just practice doing it on this worksheet or whatever. We didn't think about it, but it ended up being a very thoughtful time of sharing and those perspectives and the two ways of seeing and knowing that we've been talking about this week. And I'm so grateful. She was apologetic the rest of the day. Oh, I derailed your, I'm like, no, you didn't. It would have been really boring. You guys can learn this stuff on your own. This is what we need to talk about. And it really enriched our communities of practice moving forward. And I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful because I'll share a quote from Maya Angelou later about when you know more, you do better, right? Think Heaven's Now, we have that partnership, that understanding, hopefully that reciprocity to move forward in a more sustainable way for everyone on our campus. Oh, so that's me. So consider your positionalities, your own, right? And we just, I don't need to say a lot about sacred knowledge and indigeneity because we heard it from a wonderful source much better than I could ever do. And especially we want to hear it from the correct sources as she highlighted today. And so sacred knowledge, not everything should be shared. Not everything should be open. Not everything can be. And so we'll talk about, you know, how indigeneity through our participants through their own words today, how we learned more about this and we hope that it'll enrich your experiences too. Okay, so some of these vulnerabilities that we weren't aware of initially came out as the project progressed. And so, and by the time we were doing the interviews and going back and analyzing the data, there were quite a few of the vulnerabilities that came out. And we didn't, as we did our analysis, we didn't go through looking for Larson's six Rs. But we thought in terms of this presentation, it would be helpful to use those as an overlay because many of the themes that we found in, especially from our indigenous participants, they went right, slipped right in to the six Rs that we just heard about. And so I thought it would be interesting today to kind of, to share a taste of the experience of the indigenous participants that we interviewed in and how they expressed the need for respect, relationship, responsibility, reverence, relevance, reciprocity. And then they also expressed a desire for greater representation in OER and the desire to empower their students and a need for protection. So we don't have time to go through all of those today, but we'll go through some of the bolded themes. And again, like I said, our themes didn't have to start with our, but for this presentation we've merged these frameworks. So in terms of respect, this was from a subject who was not comfortable in creating their own OER on Creative Commons, but she did identify a space where she might feel safe posting content because she would feel it would be respected. I also would be comfortable in uploading my stuff on their an Australian University page just because I know there's a better understanding of us from the Pacific. With relationships, the quote that we pulled was, rather than talking about OER users and how we think of the relationship with the community and that relationality, this subject was talking about relationship, their own feeling of relationality to their own community and how by creating OER they might actually be betraying that relationship. I think one fear might be retaliation from other members within the community who might see stuff and say, what you said out there is not necessarily true. I don't like that. They are always gatekeepers for each other and in my culture, we have a lot of gatekeepers. I have professors that are way older than me. I respect their opinion and for our culture, it's always about relationship. Yeah, we try to maintain the relationship. Now, responsibility, we became aware of some real vulnerability based on past abuses of responsibility and people not handling their work responsibly. I had a person who visited Fiji for two weeks and he came back and he was all of a sudden an expert on Fiji and it's just ridiculous. He was talking to me as if he knew Fiji inside out and I'm like, okay, who are you talking to? Two weeks is not enough and how are you guys trading with this information? Another one, I was initially concerned about trying to contribute my information into that kind of creative common space because I really had issues with people utilizing my work. I want my own ideas and thoughts. I want them, the students, I want them to have exposure to Pacific Island culture and cultural productions. You have to be very careful though, especially with the idea of sort of remixing because you wanna make sure that it's staying culturally appropriate, that nobody's taking anything and using it, either appropriating it or sort of misrepresenting it and I think that that's something that's really a sensitive topic and something that needs to be approached in a responsible way. So for reciprocity, you'll hear in these quotes that not all of our subjects had the same opinions on all of these issues. They came from different backgrounds and ways of knowing. But I think these were really, really interesting. So I realized that this is someone who is hesitant to put her published resources as open educational resources. She understood the licensing and she knew, she understood the licensing but she still felt the need to give back. So I realized that it's still important to go in and put my stuff out there. Something in that space because something that I feel comfortable with giving because I'm taking and I'm using somebody else's intellectual property. So that was something that was really revealing to me. I depend on finding information and doing research in my class, in my study, whatever it is that I'm looking for and so I'm doing the thing that I was worried about. So by using OER, she felt like she needed to put, to share OER or she wasn't honoring the feeling of reciprocity. And then with empowering students, that was one of the non-6R themes that came out but related and I think what you see here is that, cause it's sort of contradictory. They've been saying, they were very wary, many of them were very wary about creating OER but they want their students to. So I think they've recognized that there's a spectrum of the sacred and the non-sacred that some things it would not be okay and would need protection but some things would be okay and that there's actually an empowering, an opportunity to empower indigenous students. She's, I also really like the idea of empowering them to create content and that was something I had never considered before the workshop and that was something that we could do and I'm so excited. Another one, be the one that's creating the resources if you don't see it there, say, oh well I can't find any indigenous authors on this particular topic. Well, then you are an indigenous author, you create it and license it and put it up and go for it. So as we continued, we left the workshop, we'd had a great discussion, at one point we were standing at the front being workshop presenters and at one point we just sat down. We just sat down and the discussion continued and we weren't sure leaving the workshop how this was going to go, we had planned to do continuing consultations and one thing that was great was that the discussion actually fueled what we were doing. People wanted to not just meet with us individually, they wanted to meet in communities or groups and to further discuss these things, they were important, they were charged with how do we do this, how can we empower our students but still create protection or they were engaged in the discussion and so these are not discussions to shy away from. In fact, these discussions became bore fruit. One group specifically wanted to get resources open educational resources for their students that had to do with Pacific Island Studies and so their project that they wanted to do was create a book that used essays and research that were specific to Pacific Island Studies and to make it open. So here are some suggestions based on our lessons learned and we're again so grateful and humbled by the generosity of our participants and their consent and sharing these things. We really wanted to center them since again we set out to do a study about faculty adoption and not like an indigenous study of, you know. And wow, how grateful we are that it developed into something more rich and that included all the perspectives. So really what I wanna kind of wrap up this presentation with today is how to sustainably share materials from diverse cultures and I was just tempted to put don't but of course that's not true. There are things that each person could do but please stop and ask yourself should it be shared? Who retains the right? And this is just a review of the much better job that was done earlier today. But who retains the right? Is it yours to share? Why are you sharing it? It's not to say that you can't have global examples. My students in my English 101 class who are 99% international and one from the continental US they're creating an English basics literature textbook from a global perspective and so it's really exciting to partner with them on that and I think that they do have the right to share examples that are relevant to them and students that will come after them. So there are ways to do it and here's the slide as promised that I was so inspired from the first all the keynote speakers were amazing and we can all agree upon but this seemed really applicable here from Darren give the gift of multiple perspectives, learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledge. We sat down not because we were defeated because we were like, let's do something different. This is way better. Let's talk about this and I feel like we had the spirit of that in the room and we're so again, so grateful for that. So as Maya Angelou says, do the best you can until you know better and then when you know better, do better. It's better to be engaged in the work in partnership, in conversation with multiple perspectives than to just say, well, there's no place for me to enter in at all and I think it's great when we're in collaboration especially if there's reciprocity, respect, reverence all the great things from the analogy today from the framework. Okay, future directions. We'll work on our qualitative data, revitalize our communities of practice, check in to see who is using or creating OER and who would benefit from more support and stay in conversation with the participants and open our circle. So here is a bitly on the top or if you prefer a QR code to our slides, I also have it in the SCAD for our presentation, I just uploaded it. Procrastination, neurodivergent, procrastinating, shocker. And there's our emails if you wanna get ahold of us and our LinkedIn, mine is very outdated but hers is fantastic, so you should look at hers. And we thank you so much. Thank you for being here. The questions are done. I think we're out, are we out of time? Okay, if you have questions, email us, we love you. Okay.


Hello, I'm recording this video for those of you who have never used VirusTotal before. VirusTotal is a free online service that you can use to submit any file that you want to have scanned by 60 or more antivirus programs and then you will see the results. So you can go to virustotal.com and then in file here you say upload and scan a file.  Okay, and now I immediately get the result. This is because this file has already been uploaded and scanned by somebody else. So you can see here, last analysis, it's from 2016 that this file has been analyzed and here you can see all the results. Now if you want to share a link for this file, for example on the forum, then you can copy this link here or you can also share this hash. It's a SHA-256 hash and as you take a close look here at this hexadecimal string you can see that this string is the same as this one here. Now if you really want to reanalyze that file, you can click here and then say here reanalyze. And now I'm going to show you what happens when you submit a file that has never been submitted before. So I go back to virustotal, upload and scan a file, this sample file here and now you can see the hash is calculated and then the uploading starts. And now the file is uploaded and the scanning is ongoing and I can already see the result of some antivirus programs coming in. Here this symbol here, this animated icon shows you that the file is being scanned for the moment by more than 60 antivirus programs. So we'll wait a bit for the scan to finish. So this can take some time. Okay and the scan is now finished. You can see that icon has changed, it's recognized as an XE, we have different tabs. So and again if I want you to share the analysis report with me, then you copy this URL and you share it with me or you paste it in a forum.


Item number SCP-387 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures Due to the nature of this object and the almost non-existent harm it poses, it is stationed in a storage container in Site-19 with a standard lock. The red tube in which SCP-387 is contained does not possess any unusual properties itself, as has been determined through testing, but SCP-387 will not duplicate itself unless at least a layer of it covers the bottom of the aforementioned container. A sheet is available for those wishing to utilize SCP-387, and access will be revoked if it is not properly restored. Description SCP-387 is a tub of commercially available Lego, normal in design, and regular shapes not featured in normal sets such as circular wheels and prisms are also available. It has no brand name, and every company interviewed by undercover agents as far as the night after making a regular Lego. When the tub is not full, i.e. when it is partially or almost fully emptied, the Lego will solely duplicate themselves, stopping when the container is full. The interesting property of SCP-387 is that, when constructed by a human hand, see Addendum 387-D, the constructions will animate themselves, performing activities based on their surroundings. For example, if a Lego man, which is a man constructed using the provided humanoid parts, is placed within a car, it will begin to drive it. Further experimentation has revealed that the car, and indeed any complex machine, needs no internal engine or power source. The Lego people have some form of sentience as they interact with each other quite readily. If left over time, the constructed people in buildings will evolve. They will take on occupations based on the buildings around them. For example, some people will become firemen and use fire trucks if the corresponding objects are there. They will also use SCP-387 to construct more things to expand their society. Humans can interact with them quite peacefully, but if a human becomes hostile to them, they will immediately cease all activity and become inanimate. SCP-387 was found in February of 20, by Agent ██████████. During a long trade ride back to the city he lived in, Agent ████████ idly constructed a man from SCP-387, which was in a seat behind him at the time. Several seconds later it became animated. Agent ████████ quickly disassembled the man and delivered the item to Site-19 for analysis, where it now remains. The security tapes from the train were confiscated and destroyed before they could be reviewed. Optional information. SCP-387 should not be given to children under the age of 10, especially if said child is influenced by cartoons and television shows. See Addendum 387-B Experiment 387-A A small community of SCP-387 is formed in a testing chamber. A plane constructed from normal Lego was placed to the side of the community. Over the next three hours the following changes were observed. Several Lego men procured some equipment from SCP-387, heading over towards the plane. With incredible efficiency the Lego men constructed what was, for all intents and purposes, a working airport, the specified pieces having been supplied by SCP-387 without visible signal. A petrol tank zoomed over the said plane, apparently filled up with fuel despite earlier observations that vehicles constructed from SCP-387 do not require fuel, and the plane proceeded to literally take off, flying around the room at low speeds and altitude, seemingly to avoid crashing. Four planes of different make and design were formed soon after. Addendum 387-1 Judging by this, I'd say that constructions of SCP-387 have some form of understanding of the surrounding environment, and they are able to convert existing Lego to 387 by Dr. Arch. Experiment 387-B Several young children were given SCP-387 and were given instructions to use their imagination. The children who had their memories of this experiment removed began constructing various objects. After having noticed that they were animate, they excitedly conferred and began building several objects that they intended to use in battling each other. These included a transformer, an M1 Abrams tank, and several ████████. The children were instantly removed at which point the creations began to fire and eventually destroy each other, though not after considerable effort.  I'm not responsible for cleaning out the mess those things make.  This has been tested with adults and proved just as correct. Dr. Arch. Experiment 387-C The red tub that contains SCP-387 is empty to Lego. Commercially available Lego is then placed in the tub for a minute. Constructed objects are inanimate and remain so. SCP-387 replaced. It is noted that the Lego placed within the tub also did not duplicate itself. Experiment 387-C-2 A single block of SCP-387 is placed within the red tub. It does not replicate more of SCP-387 as added until the bottom layer is covered, at which point it began to replicate itself quite rapidly until it had been filled. The amount of SCP-387 removed from the tub continued to work. Similarly, when an amount of SCP-387 hired in the tub's capacity was placed onto the tub, it shrank until the red tub was fully filled. Addendum 387-3 It appears that the red tub itself has no abilities by itself, but SCP-387 will not duplicate itself unless in that particular tub. Perhaps this is a copyright mechanism that stops copies of 387 being made. Further experimentation needed. Dr. Arch. Experiment 387-D A robotic arm was used to construct a car out of 387. It did not animate. This test was repeated with a human hand, at which point the car animated as usual. A dead hand from a recently dismembered agent was used to no response. The hand was then heated, which still provoked no response. Addendum 387-4 It appears that 387 responds to a pulse or some other detection of human life. Dr. Arch. Addendum 387-5 This SCP has been in high demand for extended use as further testing has revealed no more anomalies or features. In the personnel tested, SCP-387 has improved morale and attitudes by 87%. People are really kids at heart here. As such, I am recommended that all personnel be given free access for recreational use. Dr. Arch. Request approved. Experiment 387-E Once a normal community of 387 was constructed, a small mound of megablocks, a common copy of LEGO, was placed near the community. When this happened, everything constructed of 387 stopped moving, turned slowly towards the megablocks and ████████.  Dr. Arch.


We're going to start by saying that it's a both, both of a feather, for those who are not familiar. I didn't bring pretty slides, actually, because I hope this will be more of a discussion. And I wanted to start, so this is all about Zephyr and Zephyr documentation. So I will actually start with a question, which is who in the room is using Zephyr? Okay, who is contributing to Zephyr? And was a maintainer, maybe, to some, yeah, there we go. Okay, so that's, and are we good with the slides? Or, hey, so I should maybe quickly introduce myself. For those who don't know me, I'm Benjamin. I work at the Linux Foundation as a developer advocate for the project and Jack of all trades. One thing that I do, we try and make sure that our documentation is looking good, that it's helpful for all the personas that and all the kind of people that might get involved with Zephyr. First time users, first time contributors, people who use Zephyr on a daily basis, like maintainers, et cetera, et cetera. One thing that we did and it ran for a bit of a month is, and I'm making sure that you get a chance to flash the code, if you didn't have a chance to take the survey just yet, we tried and asked the Zephyr community at large, the things they like about the Zephyr documentation to see the things that maybe could be improved. And so some of the insights from this particular survey are gonna feed, I hope, the discussion today, but also your feedback will be very, very helpful. So yeah, it's been, well, pretty much exactly a month, I guess, since it went live and we had, to my surprise, that kind of, it tells something, I guess, about the size of the Zephyr community, but yeah, we had over 80 respondents. Most of the promotion of the survey, you may have seen it, was through the Zephyr Discord, the Zephyr social channel, so the feedback is probably biased one way or the other, like it's definitely like the Zephyr crowd, sort of by definition, we took the survey. But yeah, some questions that we asked, like nothing specific, I guess, there, but I'm trying to understand better what are the kind of people using Zephyr, their experience level, because you suddenly have different expectations, whether you are a, like yeah, a hobbyist, that just getting started with hacking with Arduino and looking at what could be next, or whether you are actually a Google or an Intel building embedded controllers and whatnot, like we saw in several keynotes at the event this week. What you like, dislike, what you feel is missing, and some of the themes that emerged, and some of them I'm gonna dive deeper into is things like searching for information in the Zephyr documentation. For some people, it's actually working very well, for some, not necessarily, and kind of related people finding it hard sometimes to search for, hey, I wanna know whether my particular board supports these or that in Zephyr, like some kind of questions are hard to get answered when navigating Zephyr documentation. Navigating actually is something else. Several people commenting on the fact that if your thing is browsing more through maybe the API documentation, you might find lots of information there, but not necessarily the pointers that would take you to actual concrete examples or actual code and like having those bridges. I mean, there might be some that are missing, so we'll try and double click on that. Lots of people commenting on the fact that we have lots and lots of great samples, most of them up to date really helpful to get started, but maybe too basic in that they only cover like a particular feature, people asking for more like end-to-end, more comprehensive samples, tutorials, going all the way potentially to like more best practices. Some other things that I think we'll get to discuss maybe more towards the end, but some people do care a lot about having PDFs and having something that they could download offline. I mean, not lots of people, but this is certainly some useful feedback there. Some people also being like, hey, I'm not a native English speaker, what's the story there? So in a nutshell, I could have almost like I mean, most of the keywords there are actually verbatim feedback. Many, many people are like, this is good, your stuff is up to date. It's very, very extensive. It's honest, which I mean, yeah, I guess there for being an open source project as opposed to maybe some like commercial solution, whenever there's an API that's just experimental and that has some shortcomings or some, I mean, it's usually actually right there in the documentation, which by the way, the documentation lives with the code, which people really value because that helps with the up to date, I guess aspect. There's more than just generated documentation. People appreciate the fact that there's many, if not all the maintainers of all the areas of this effort take the time to add actual like text and human written architecture, descriptions, diagrams, et cetera, the samples. It's like pretty much every other respondent who says, hey, your samples are great. Now to some of the pain points and they're like, I wanna dive into some ideas, open print storming on things that, I mean, that's some of the pain points that people sort of commenting on. Some are actually already in the process of being fixed or already fixed. So I wanna dive a bit into that too. Until recently at least it was sometimes hard to get like from a search engine, such as Google or anything really, like trying to search for Zephyr information, you would land on Zephyr 2.3, whatever old documentation which is not necessarily helpful. The internal search, like when you're already in the documentation, this is something that some people are complaining about like the accuracy or the sort of the ranking of the results could be better there. I put that as a pain point, like the fact that people want more tutorials, more best practices, it's only something that came often and I really wanna discuss about that. Some differences like in some areas, some boards would be better documented than others. It's just wanting to surface it as this is something that came, by the way, I should mention that the slides will be online and towards the, like in the backup section of the slide deck, there's all the anonymized version of all the feedback with all the charts, et cetera. I encourage everyone to check it out and we can always discuss offline if you wanna get involved or have thoughts there. There's also I think something that's important, especially with the crowd we have here today, the kind of feedback that's more geared towards people who actually contribute to Zephyr and that may be in a position where they are writing documentation. Some things that could be improved is that setting up the local build infrastructure for the doc specifically might not be ideal. At best, it takes time to build the documentation so things could probably be improved there and one thing that often comes and not only in the survey is architecture diagrams. We have many of them and many of them, like if you are a contributor, you probably know that some of them are like PNG files that are baked into the documentation and like you have this nice architecture diagram, sorry, from two years ago, which you would really like to update for, because I mean things have changed, except that you don't know who came up with this particular PNG and you would have to be created from scratch, which is not ideal either. All right, so yeah, some of those things are actually already fixed. So just as an update to the community, I guess, I just wanted to make sure that you know and maybe you've experienced that nowadays when you search for some Zephyr, how to create a thread in Zephyr sort of stuff, hopefully the top one, two, three results will always bring you to the latest version of the documentation. So this should be much, much better now. One thing that we did as well is what you have at the bottom right of the slide is that when you are on the Zephyr documentation itself, we're not listing anymore like pretty much all the versions of Zephyr since day one, we only list the ones that are effectively supported, which is the current LTS plus the past couple releases and that should also help with the world search engine indexing situation. Yeah, and like that's just a way to show you that until, oops, I almost fell there, until about a month ago, you would have, yeah, people searching for how to create a thread with Zephyr and they would be taken all over the place to Zephyr 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, whatever. Now hopefully when you search for information you get taken either to only Zephyr latest or to LTS if you really care about like LTS specific information. One thing as a sort of a segue into the other topics, one thing that I've been looking into these days is, and this is where I will effectively when I open it up to you all, there are some more modern themes and like documentation infrastructures out there. We're not necessarily changing everything in terms of how we do things. There might be some low-hanging fruits. One thing and I actually wanna show a demo is a different theme for the same documentation infrastructure that we use, which is things, the immaterial theme, which would potentially bring us interesting things in terms of having editable figures, having improved search engine, having potentially better rendering on like tablet or like mobile phones, which we don't necessarily always have with the current infrastructure. So yeah, just actually a quick demo of how things look like and maybe starting with sort of, blue blue, sorry, just, yeah, like, so that's Zephyr documentation today. If you were to search for something like say QMU you would get the results on the right, which to my point earlier and to the point of some respondents, this might not be the best sort of set of results, because I mean, if I only search for QMU, I probably want maybe, I think this result actually, the one that will explain to me how to develop on top of QMU, but anyways, that's how things look like, generally speaking, with Zephyr, the other theme that I mentioned, I think could bring interesting and a quick demo of how things look like for this guy. So I didn't spend time to use the fancy Zephyr purple and whatever, it's pretty much the stock colors there, but searching for QMU, this is kind of a different story. I think it makes, but I would like to hear from you. I think this makes things slightly better in terms of identifying other search results really relevant to what I'm looking for. I only search for QMU, but it's showing me way more context in terms of what are the pages that match, but more specifically, what are the different sections, subsections, and yeah, that can actually help, I think. Another thing that the theme does as well, is that, and we have a demo right here, for the editable diagrams thing, like if I were to be interested in having some kind of sequence diagram somewhere in the documentation, it could actually live right in the documentation, just using the mermaid.js framework. So what's that? So you can, yeah, you could have an inline sequence diagram and wherever comes after you and needs to edit it, well, it's there in source pretty much and you can have state diagrams, which to some extent we already have with GraphViz, some of those diagrams we can already sort of have in Zephyr, but I mean, the mermaid goes way, way further, but to some extent switching from one theme to the other might be disruptive to the community, so I don't know what you guys think, like even navigation wise, you may have realized that, and going back to the actual Zephyr thing, I kind of like the fact that the table of contents, which by the way is not ideal for the project, here when you use this new theme, and if I were to look at memory protection, this is sort of the really high level outline and table of contents, but then on the right hand side, you have the one that's more geared towards and focused on the current page that I'm browsing and that might make things easier, including having things that are API related, they would show up slightly differently, so yeah, maybe before I jump into all the topics, any thoughts, any feedback there from what you see or any, yes please, so there's a mic right there or just speak loud and I will just repeat your question. Yeah, I tend to agree, I think there might be different, so the question or the comment is that to some extent it might be kind of weird that you have the outline split part on the left, part on the right, there might be ways to tweak it, but yeah, I agree, I actually was confused at first, and that might not be the best way to present the information, yes, yes? Maybe if we think that changing all of a sudden would be disruptive, maybe we can do a new documentation beta and host it like this version simultaneously for people to try out and then get feedback. Like A-B testing, yeah, no, I thought about that just before the, yeah, that would be one way to do it, yeah. Yes, yeah, no, thanks, that's good feedback, yes Dave? When you did the search, that's one of my big problems with the Zephyr documentation is the search because like you said it tends to throw up a lot of stuff and it's almost easier to go into Google and search that way because Google indexes it better I think, but on the CUMI one that you asked in particular, I'm kind of interested in figuring out how it like figured out running CUMI directly, running CUMI via Ninjas, are those sub-tech topics inside of Zephyr or did it somehow? So yeah, so with unnecessary going into all the details which I don't understand everything in the Sphinx framework but they have their custom, definitely non-Google base, like when you build the documentation, it builds an index based on like page title, page headings which gives potentially a score for each and every keyword and so the fact that for the, within the application development page there are several headings and several like sections that have QMU in them so that contributes a bit to having this page ranking a bit higher than others and then inside the sections themselves, the keyword shows up again so that that's why that it ends up showing that high but quite frankly, I don't know why this one is number two and then why the other one which doesn't seem to have as much matches shows up number first so. It's a quite sorry. Oh yeah, yeah actually you're absolutely right with this, yes, yes so all the matches there are the ones that are ranked 50 or something and 50 is the maximum with this particular implementation of the built-in index so actually that's one great segue into one open question to you all. I was playing just before with, I mean yes we are an open source project but I think we wanna provide a great experience to the users. One thing I was playing with earlier and that we could really really easily include into the documentation is and just ignore by the way the ads. Like this is the, there is this Google thing where you can have your custom Google search engine that's just tailored to your domain or subdomain and then it would give you whatever you would effectively get from Google proper except that you can really easily host it on your website so if I were to search for QMU and we could very well have this particular search for baked right into Zephyr and get results that I think are way better ranked or at least like they feel like they are better matches but I mean implementing that means that either this needs to be something that, I mean we all agree is a good idea and we baked into the project and or this is an option like we still for Zephyr.org we still like use the built-in index but anyone who builds the dock locally could enable the feature like I don't know like if people have thoughts there. One thing also before people maybe comment on that is part of the reason that the results there might not be that helpful is that historically like if you look back in time at some point there were some tweaks that were made cause some people would like, let me just show you actually what I mean by that. So just speaking this randomly but searching for STM32 depending on your profile or persona you might or might not want this to actually show you boards from STM32 and it actually probably want cause the boards will be like very, very, very penalized by our built-in search engine by design cause at some point back like five years ago people were like no when I look for GPIO I don't wanna get results that will tell me that whatever NXP board or whatever STM32 board as GPIO I care about getting the deoxygen dock for GPIO but that was people like five years ago that pushed that kind of change which is why like yeah indeed when I look for GPIO it will likely be more like the bindings and or a deoxygen stuff that's for the first but that might be there might be some easy fixes there. So yeah, thoughts on the Google thing if you get the mic that's even better. Good, I'm working four years with Seth here and first I want to say is a lot of improvement in the documentation and I was also teacher on a university for control science and was a very difficult topic and what we recognized is so for those I think for all those guys sitting here it's not so difficult to find the topic for me the difficulty was if there is a new philosophy and device tree is one of this which we tackled somehow yeah I think we are still not on a very professional level here. The other topic is unit testing what we want to tackle now in the next time and probably we want to contribute in terms of a tutorial then yeah. But for these things you know it's somewhere there you see some piece of code but you do not understand the philosophy. And if you do not understand the philosophy you need to start from scratch and if you start or this is at least for me my brain is old yeah and it's also small the best way I learn is if there are 100 things people do not tell me about 90 they tell me about 10 things because 10 things I can keep in mind maybe yeah. And this is really a challenge in a deductive way it's about the tutorials and I think this is the challenge here and the question is how we get started with this and what we think when we now try to do this unit testing so we found the Google guy he said he will help us in this court yeah. And what I usually do or sometimes do if I have time I write my own paper yeah. So I write an eight-pager and then see yeah does this match that. Well contribute it back to the project like. And this is what we would then use somebody if we write this down the next step is is this correct how we extracted it yeah. And they say yeah you understood this not but probably this is the process for this. So as long as we are newcomer we can do this task once we know it and maybe it's too late for us we need a new newcomer then yeah. And but I think to summarize this I think the difficulty is it is very complex it's very powerful but for the newcomer you need to start with a subset which you say let's start only with these things we explain it and now here are the samples yeah here are the samples run it so when you internalized it yeah. Then these are the next 10 topics so I explain it and now these are the samples yeah. Well actually so was there another question cause otherwise I would yeah please. Not a question just comment on the search stuff at least the Google one seemed much more usable than Alphabetic which was only useful by chance because of application yeah. And I had a second thought what was before the Google search what was shown before the Google search stuff. So what was that? What was the slide before the Google search? We talked a bit about the images like the figures like diagrams that you could maybe maintain as code. Good wasn't that anyway. Anyway that's fine one thing yes please right there if you one thing that could be also a challenge with the Google thing which I mean I would love for us to have that in the documentation. Right now the index that we have might suck to some extent but everything works offline. If we were to rely on like some sort of server side it doesn't even have to be Google but server side search engine then people wanna run the docs locally might be in trouble. That's a great point that's something actually I did on the train way here is I built the docs on my Sandy Bridge laptop I don't know if it takes a lot longer than you'd expect. Is it? Well you know it's an old 10 year old machine. Anyway very banal question I like the new theme so far and I'll also I mean it's an attempt or like just showing what yeah. A very banal question how's the dark theme for us night owls? Good question. Let's just look at the actual like them. Yeah cause that's I really didn't tweak. Give me a minute there. No worries. There. So that's not Zephyr that's the upstream sort of demo of things in material but that's I think that would be a better way to get to give you a sense of how things are going there. Yeah that's nice and readable. I also kind of like the better the bit of the better categorization on the right with the API specific stuff. Cause I found it was pretty straightforward that you know left you have the general sort of topics in the main documentation and right you have the page specific stuff so. Okay. Give it feedback. But yeah doc theme is actually pretty important. Yep. Do you have a comment? Just one thing and I'm completely possibly this off the point but it feels to me that like if you have a search like a free form search on your website or whatever like then it's either has to be has to work very well or has to be very simple. I see what you mean. Cause you're going to ask simple things anyways. Yeah. Maybe have a search for just titles and direct for everything else to Google because that's the best we can have except maybe you know something like chat GPT or stuff. Yeah no like yeah I got your point. Just my feeling like if I go in search there like it's often frustration and you feel like you cannot find it so that's that's bad user experience I think. And for what it's worth and that's probably actually your approach to many people said that use the code look like I mean they would just like as a beginner and I have a few slides on that you would use the online documentation but as soon as you're like starting develop to develop with Zephyr well you just grab somewhere in the code and that's the doc. Yeah for better or worse. Quickly and I think you sort of hinted at the fact that you were building the docs for those who care about like getting better experience when building the documentation locally we are slowly looking at improving things there cause even if you have like really good machine can be 12, 15 minutes to build the doc from scratch locally you do a small change and it might not be that well managed in terms of doing a nice incremental build so even if you just change a line it will be another 15 minutes. We yeah we it's working progress there just something that I wanted to share especially maybe for the contributors and the maintainers things that you might or might not realize and it's either you see it as a challenge or just at least a fact. People browsing the documentation and using the internal search engine what do you do they search for? They don't necessarily search about how to do Bluetooth audio broadcast or how to do low power on ARM Cortex M7 blah blah blah they seem to be at least like in the top search results they look at pretty basic concepts right and so actually for some of those keywords and as we saw to some extent like QMU is like top 10 keyword that people search are we giving them helpful information and the best results that we can maybe not kind of related and I think do I have yeah the next slide is also kind of related it's not perfect cause and that's my next topic but looking at what are the top viewed boards in the documentation it's very much maker or DIY oriented right and that's something to have in mind like it's whether we like it or not like the community is just so big that all sorts of crowds are using Zephyr or looking into Zephyr including people which is like yeah they're gonna run Zephyr on Arduino Raspberry Pi Pico sort of stuff but this is also to be taken with a grain of salt in that for those who are like closely involved in the project you probably know that we don't we dropped again another Google product the Google analytics support in the documentation so as we look at making the documentation better I think it's important to have access to good and accurate metrics this is definitely accurate cause I actually went and looked into the yes yeah just wanted to point out that is in order right of what is most accessed not the top 10 in order the previous slide sorry say again that like the number one was Air Pi Pico right so it's yes yes yes the number one access board is a board but based on cause we don't have Google analytics anymore based on the hits on the server like on the server side I would look at the logs of our Amazon S3 buckets blah blah blah and this is based on like how many times people like fetched this particular URL it might not be unique people like but I kind of I'm fairly confident that and that's why I didn't put like numbers in front of them but ordering I'm pretty confident but I think it's interesting that the first one it's a board that is contributed yes there's no it's not officially maintained by yes yeah and so is probably there might be others somewhere else and it's probably not very used for commercial product either so sure but that's a great opportunity for attracting new user have imagined it's popular and it always gets used with the Raspberry Pi SDK which locks the software into that ecosystem I do wonder how many people end up there by mistake and I just go yeah and that's part of the thing that are hard even harder to know and to tell cause yeah I'm really looking at the hits on the server side it might be just like bots it's not like people it's not necessarily people who actually open the page on their machine they've just Googled Raspberry Pi Pico and if Zephyr is the second link there yeah but that's goodness though that should be a good way for us to bring even more people into Zephyr but yeah I thought I would share as a sort of an FYN I mean don't you have a referral URL in the logs like where the people are coming from yes I can we can and these are without referral URL these results are without the referral it's all hits on this particular URL okay so I mean the question about like if the people are searching just for Raspberry Pi Pico or they're actually interested in Zephyr yeah so for those who are into SEO and like web analytics like this information is not available anymore like for the past couple years like you would know that they come from Google you wouldn't know the actual keywords sadly yeah or maybe you guys can try like if you want to try and like what are the kind of keywords that would give the hit um yeah sharing so by the way thanks for the engagement there that's super super cool yeah a piece of feedback more maybe for the maintainers and contributors but I felt that this particular one is like we're gonna click on the link and it really I think this person provided really useful feedback for some high level pages like PWM it would be great to be able to navigate from the API documentation to samples that are relevant I mean the sample is probably easy to find but it let's click on the link like there's so old theme oh yeah it looks doesn't look as nice maybe but yeah I mean the PWM API documentation seems pretty pretty complete but pretty bare bones also to some extent like it it's true I think that it could be linking to samples in the code base and or like I mean this and PWM is kind of those features that which possibly every other user and developer will be will end up using anyways and what that person said is that either like sending people I mean sending me to the code samples would have been nice or even having some kind of code snippet which I could literally copy paste cause that's what I do as a developer full honesty here is what the person said and yeah that's yes Mohammed yeah take me right in the yeah the right place in the yeah yes yes one more comment on the the search functionality so maybe as a sort of in-between solution between going full you know online Google search versus you know the the flawed current inbuilt search is maybe adding metadata to the to the the actual files such as I was just quickly checking the Sphinx doc and there seems to be a file-wide metadata and then chapter 10 1.10 so maybe you can specify tags like you said with Qmo you can say okay this this document has Qmo this mentions Qmo x86 you have a list of tags and the search function would prioritize tags and after that default to the previous current search functionality which would kind of maybe bid I think it would give a lot better results yeah no that's a good point or even like yeah indicating that this particular thing should never ever match this particular keyword although maybe the search engine would have tended to yeah nuts that's alright so we are actually gonna run out of time pretty soon search I think we covered kind of like another in-between solution could be so we could improve the local mostly javascript based search engine that Sphinx has we could only look at Google and there's also other service like Apache solar sort of stuff but that would require hosting an index somewhere which again I'm not sure is something we want to do because you want to sometimes browse the documentation when you're on the plane and that's yeah so again running out of time but all the topics we covered including search discoverability like what are the kind of boards that I could use that support search or such feature to samples tutorials I would love to hear from you in the few minutes we have left if you know of any other open source project that's kind of like in the RTOS or IoT space anything that they do particularly well just I mean let me know because that that'd be great I think for example right OS is pretty good or at least better than us to some extent at making it easy to find what other boards that are supported in their ecosystem and making it look prettier to re-note as this nice dashboard which helps at the discovering the features also of the hardware I've been told and I've seen in the feedback in the documentation that free RTOS or ARM with the CMC's RTOS they have really nice intro tutorials with more like architecture guidelines etc. yeah please like of course we are running out of time but I'll be sitting around I think this is important to take yeah good feedback from and good inspiration from others and yeah that's pretty much what I had did we have anyone online with comments or questions we didn't okay so yeah I mean let's take the rest of the conversation to the reception maybe all right thank you very much for the engagement


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All right, guys, what's up? We are back for another ESPN MIC highlights reel as you've been paying attention to the stock market is tanking this week. Crypto is going down. There's more inventory in real estate. Where do you park your money? Guys, you need to learn a high income skill that is day trading. Instead of parking your money somewhere, you need to learn how to make more money. So guys, if you have any questions during this video, text two and three, four, five, eight, five, nine, nine, seven, or I'm gonna show you in a little bit how to actually book a call and get all of your questions answered. So every single week at the end of the week, usually Friday or sometimes Saturday, I like to make sure that you guys have an unbelievable kind of update of what happened, what transpired. Alex's P&L at the end of the week, some charts that he represented and obviously executed on what the members are up to. And this is just kind of my chance to kind of recap the week. So guys, let's dive right in. Unfortunately, Alex got stung by a bee on Monday, which was March 6th. Negative $12,800 guys, really annoying day today. Really thought Kala would go red later today, but it ended up trapping nonstop. Lots of trappy stocks out there today, so it was tough. There's a new day tomorrow, so just annoyed today. So almost $13,000 lost to start the week. And I'll just kind of pull that up for you guys just so you can kind of get an idea of what Alex was talking about, because he thought it would go red. Kala on the sixth. So let me go to a 28 chart, one sec. And as you guys can see, we had a monster squeezer in this stock on day one, which was right here, the move, and actually day two. It just didn't break down like it should have. It didn't quote unquote conform to the chart like most day twos do. He got trapped a little bit, started the week a little bit better, but I'll tell you what, Alex recovered a lot of that. And then yeah, it might be a little bit of a negative week, but again guys, welcome to trading when you're still up $970 plus thousand dollars on the year, I think you're doing something right. Every now and then we're gonna be a little bit off on our ball, but as long as risk management's intact, that is what is important. And David actually had a really nice short on Kala. One of our members morning nail and bail, that's where he took, he didn't get greedy. Not that Alex got greedy, but maybe just a little bit, but he was in and out, took his money, ran. And I love that, I love that guys.  I love this Bastouf quick scalp on AI right there, sold on the red to green line, just in case it does retest and just kind of fail right there, which a lot of times does death candles back or fails at the red to green line. So I actually really like this.  I gotta put some of these every now and then guys, cause I just love this. Look, David really didn't do anything with this trade, except very good risk management. He got in thinking that this VWAP reclaim would keep going and whether it did or not, cause I don't have the full chart on this and I'd have to go back. Guys, risk management, follow your plan. If you get in, it doesn't feel right. Cut it immediately. If it does feel right, but again, you just kind of set your preliminary risk or whatever it is, just follow your plan. So every now and then guys, some of the best stopouts in the world are believer or some of the best wins in the world are just a stopout because you're mitigating big and medium losses. Guys, you can always have small losses, that's okay. If you're right 30 days in a row and then your red day gives back one, two, maybe three days, that's okay. Sometimes that's to be celebrated upon versus giving up a month or a week or a couple of weeks of gains. So anytime I see this, man, I'm never mad.   Great job right here, pre-market, coming into the open, covered up and then guess what he did? He started scaling where the stock failed before, guys. This is so key. Frontside shorts require front side covers of the move, did a really good job at that, followed it down on the backside of the move or the start of the backside in the trend sentiment change. Just beautiful, this is where it failed, this is where it failed again, so he's going to be right there for the scale. Beautiful, beautiful job, that is MIC process, guys. I'm telling you right now. Traverse, GNS day two, I love this, caught a really, really nice catch on this, sold the rips, did it just, guys, literally, long stock on a sentiment that is going up and sell the rips and buy the dips and sell the rips until it doesn't work and that's what Traverse does, he's really good at that. So that's kind of following trend, following sentiment, following the strength when it is there. There's not much more to be said than that. Let's see, we're coming in for a $3,000 day, so a little bit more, a little bit of a makeup from the $13,000 after yesterday's loss, my focus today was a nail in bail mindset as it should be, just focusing on green again for confidence building. Wanted to wait for entries to come to me rather than me chasing it and overstaying. TRKA, I am not usually good at sub $1 stocks, but after the stock crashed, I showed the balance for a quick scalp. We don't typically like under $1 stocks, guys, it's just kind of the lay of the land, they're very manipulated, but let's see what Alex did. So we are going on TRKA on the seventh, we are gonna scroll back, I do believe, yeah, I do believe that was right here. So this was a beautiful bleed, Alex did exactly what he should have done, guys, when a stock is super weak, actually, I'll just kind of zoom in a little bit so you can see, when a stock is super, super weak under the red to green line and under VWAP, kind of deviated guys. Like I said, one of our members was doing on Monday, the reason why he was selling into the red to green line is because it does kind of test again and then fail like on this example. So this actually happens quite a lot because that's a resistance line, it's a key level where people, it's just like a psychological level that people are thinking about the whole time they're in the trade, and specifically veteran traders who are like, who know about that line and know about that price level, which a lot of retail actually don't, but a lot of people are paying attention to this. So when it's super, you know, the trend is super broken or it's super under VWAP and it's breaking through the red to green, that retest at the red to green, basically where it failed before, is just a really good scalp, which Alex took, nail and bail, great fricking job made 3K on that.  The size might mess you up every now and then psychologically, that's why I don't like them. It's not hard to do the math, but then you go, God, if I usually use 1500 or 3000 shares on like this 350 stock, but this is like five cents in range and it's 50, like you just, you have to use a lot more size and sometimes it'll kind of trick your mind in seeing that much size, even though the volatility is not there and obviously the share size is, or the share price is unbelievably smaller. So you just kind of have to correlate your critical thinking, so to speak there, but that's why I don't like sub pennies and neither do any of us and they're super manipulated, but great job on Alex on TRKA. Rockmon only managed to get a feeler on. The last trade was an accidental long, that's hysterical. Hey, great long bro, great sentiment change, but a great job. Where are the tops? Where did it fail before? Wonderful job, wonderful scalp. Hooper X, while I don't usually like a chase move like this, I do like this one because it basically cracked the death line for the day that lasts support in pre-market and a really key level on the day before. So you know what, if it fails, it's worth a stab, hit it quick and scalp it quick and take your money quick and I love it, great job. David, UNCY long on zombie times. That's when you wanna do it, man. So stock that's holding VWAP, stock that's holding support, sell the rip right where you should. Beautiful job, really, really clean, really clean. TTs, I like that name. My ex-girlfriend used to call me TT, so, you know, Tosh T, so that kind of rings a bell, TT, so my ex used to call me, but check this out guys, I love this again, not every trade can be a win as he put the L right there. So every now and then you're gonna have an L, it's okay, risk management, he didn't get in right here and fight this bastard all the way up here. I actually really like both these stabs and him cutting immediately as per plan, as per process and like I said guys, when you lose sometimes, it's going to be really key if you stick to your plan and cut quickly so you're never getting those medium and especially never, never, never getting those career ending losses or just quote unquote big losses in general that really set you back and set your confidence back and set your P&L back and it's just never fun guys, it's never fun to take a big loss, they're unnecessary when you can pre-plan and you can follow that plan because you already know what you're risking. Every now and then there's unbelievable rare examples like getting caught in a T12 or something halts on you and you didn't know his nano flow because you didn't do the research, guys every now and then there's a very rare example of taking a medium to big loss but the majority of your losses need to be very, very manageable. So great job on all of our members who are getting in, trade didn't work immediately, you stuck to your plan, you stopped out where you should have, hats off every single time. Irresponsibly long, I love what this girl did, she did a great job, beautiful, trend is intact, let me follow it up, let me buy dips, let me sell the rips on a trend or deviate it over VWOP or just over VWOP in general and this seemed like a little bit of a chase on that ad but you know what, still great job and I really like it, very clean job, very, very clean. All right, let's, we are moving on to Wednesday and this was the watch, this guy's even though Alex didn't, Alex actually didn't post a PNL on this day so I don't know what he made so this actually might not be a red week, I just don't have Monday's PNL so I will not quote on that, I'll just go on the four days that I have but let's see what the members are doing, I think Alex had some stuff going on Wednesday so he just forgot to post but check this out guys. So P-O-S-V-R-E, what do I like about this? I can literally ask the computer to nobody gonna answer me back but I know you guys are answering in your head. Guys, where did the stock fail before? Boom, that's where you wanna be short, that is where you wanna be, that long boomerang right back to where it failed before, really, really good job. Clean, clean. Another one, Rachman, Tesla Scout, I love this. What do we always say guys? When a stock is brutally beaten down and it's heavily, heavily under VWOP there's this big air pocket under VWOP or over, guess where you wanna be?  So you don't have to necessarily wait for VWOP all the time because it's so deviated and so weak. There are examples when you can't do that if it's over VWOP but when it's under, that's gonna work out. So I love this, Ibrahim S-V-R-E again, he actually caught the front side short, requires front side covers but guess what he did? Where the stock failed before, that's where he waited and that's where he was again and he did it on this entry for where it failed before again. Guys, you are always going back to the last place it failed versus the last, last place it failed because you already used the last place it failed on the last, last to the newest one. I know that was kind of a headache right there but I'm telling you right now guys, that's how it works. Fails right here, you wanna be here and again, fails right here, this is where you wanna be for short. Now, just because this was the top and it's not exactly that level does not mean you don't scale. So this is why scaling is so important in stocks. Guys, if we knew exactly where, if it just exactly went to that level every single time and then exactly this level every single time, well then guess what? I'd have a frickin mega yacht with 10 bad bunnies on it washing me down with frickin' suntan lotion. It doesn't work like that. You gotta scale, you gotta size appropriately, you gotta get starters and I'm not in the French Riviera on a 5000 mega yacht getting suntan lotion down by 10 bad bunnies. So this is why we have to pay our dues still and do the best we can that is the most disciplined but believe me man, I'd be on that frickin' yacht if it was always the exact level that it failed before but it's not and this is why discipline, this is why risk management, this is why everything is important. Believe me man, I wanna be on that yacht one day but we have to pay our dues like everybody else. You gotta go back to work and then spy comes down and brings all your money down then you gotta work even harder. Thanks Biden, thanks Powell. All right guys, chute shorted the bounce after it exhausted. Here's what I like about this. This is what I like about this. Again, with the yacht analogy, this is where it should, right? Cause that's where it failed before but no guys, no. So let me go back. You have to scale these things. That is really good patience to wait for this top, this top and this peak. So again, that's your area where you wanna get in. That's where it failed before. Obviously that's exactly where it failed before but you guys have to account for scale. They don't always reach those exact levels hence why you get in right there and scale upwards of this level. So really clean. I wanted to actually critique this one. I don't usually critique on this but I will critique on this one only because Rachman is getting so good I want him to get even better. Guys, here's the thing. If you do front side shorts require front side covers. Absolutely, do it. But here's what I don't want you doing and I know Rachman probably got a little jittery right here. I don't want you when you know that it failed right here and this is where you wanna be. If this wasn't a fat finger, I don't want you guys kind of panicking out on this because I know there's a good chance. I'm not sure. Rachman will have to correct me if I am wrong.  No, I actually want in this. This is a great trade. But guys, that's an emotional exit. This is where you should, anything under there is where you should be adding. Not stopping out or not covering even if you're in the money, just for little money. So this is where all ads should be taking place if you are adding to this winner, especially if you're cushioned. So just, that could have been a fat finger, but if it wasn't, guess where he drew his box? That's where you wanna be getting into the stock. So let's say he was completely covered out right here or this might be, there's many ways that I could interpret this.  You know what, I was a little bit too early. I'm gonna get out, it's gonna break. Guys, no, no, no, no. If you're gonna get in right here, you better risk up to that level because again, the stock's just gonna clown you every now and then. It happens to me, it happens to Alex, happens to everybody every now and then.  How many times does this happen? So that's the thing about being disciplined.  But it looks like a stop on a little bit of a jittery move. Don't fret, we all get in situations like this.  So just something to take note, guys. Always something to take note. Little criticism, never hurt anybody. You can critique me for God's sake. We are all just trying to get better. So Thursday on the ninth, Alex made 3.5K, caught a nice pre-market short on OSHA this morning towards seven, but scalped out of it as it was still front side of the move, patiently waited for a death kennel at the open and short of bounce and walked away before zombie hours. And I actually wanna pull up the watch list, which I have up and let's go over this. So I wanna go over this specific one. So now that I have a little bit of time. So obviously, guys, today's Friday, this was yesterday. So this is what we're looking at. Alex was hitting this, let me go over, sorry, let me go to the watch this real quick. Alex was saying potential hot chick of the day. I scalped it short pre-market, but as mentioned, front side shorts, guys, this is a major staple of MIC teachings and MIC process, is when you are shorting front side, you must cover on the watch. Guys, I cannot make that any more freaking clear. You cannot, I repeat, you cannot be getting a really good entry like a sniper entry like Alex did on the front side and then just hoping the rest of the day it fails.   Guys, a trend will stay intact until it doesn't. So you anticipate shorting front side, which is counter trend, that it will continue to go up whether it does or doesn't, which it actually did and that is why you don't get in it's, you know, what did Alex get in? He got in, let's say near seven. That's why when you don't get in near seven, you know, right here or down here, you know, this level, this is why you don't hold in hope and think it's just gonna fade all day even if you do have sniper entries on that front side. Guys, it went to freaking 946 pre-market. Alex would have been stopped out for a monster loss.  He goes, I know I'm hitting front side. So guess what I'm gonna do? Front side shorts require front side covers. So I am not involved in waiting. So I am not involved in waiting for a death penalty open and short. This will not be an easy stock to trade. So if you're new, avoid this guys. This was a headache of a stock to trade all day if you were a new trader. But guess what the veterans did and a lot of our members did? Oh, let me just iron this out again. God dang, Tosh talks about this every single webinar. It must work. Oh, where did the stock fail before? So I'm gonna give you guys a master, master lesson right here. This might save some individuals listing tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. I'm gonna teach you guys some free game right here. So the times where I'm gonna make this very simple for you to understand, you're gonna really be glad that you tuned in this week. The reason why you wanna hit a stock where it failed before on the absolute peaks is when it's over or just under VWAP. When you have a stock guys, I'll draw it out for you. I give webinars on this every single week to our members. When you have a stock that's really, really weak under VWAP and let's say it pops back up right here, this is where you don't account for these peaks. Okay, am I making this clear for you? I know I'm not talking to anybody directly but this is when you account for these peaks. It's deviation over VWAP guys.  You wanna be at the peaks where it failed before. This is master snipery, master level top ticking. If it is completely deviated under VWAP, guess where you wanna be? You have the luxury of hitting where it failed before under VWAP and not worrying about these peaks cause it's so defeated and so air pocketed under VWAP. That is a million dollar tip for you guys. You better be grateful for that. I just saved people who aren't even members, tens of thousands of dollars for that. So guys, where to fail before it fails right here, that's where you wanna be. Fail right here, that's where you wanna be. If it was way under here, these are irrelevant and you're gonna play the bottom, I'm sorry, not the bottom tops, the tops under VWAP that are exaggerated. So again, when a trend is completely intact like this, expect these bastards to rip and continue ripping. And here's the thing guys, not every single top is gonna work. So if you try to short here based on this top, again, it works until it doesn't. So if you have sniper entries in your cushion for the first two or three, when you stop out on this one, it's a small loss and you're probably still in house money. Boom, million dollar setup for you guys. Some people are so hard headed, it takes them 10 years to learn that simple strategy. So Alex did a really good job here. Let me close that out. Let's see what the members were doing. And then again, I like to include some free game there for you guys every now and then. But if you become an actual member, think about the more blessings to come. PO and DTC, I love this. Beautiful use of outer lines, just beautiful guys. Ah, my man, Ryan Conley. Guess what he did right here? The inverse of what you do if you're a short. Support lines that hold. And guess where he's selling? Where the previous top was guys, that's where you need to be selling as along because that's where shorts are waiting. Are you getting this yet? Are you ever reached through the computer? Are you guys getting this? Why aren't you part of MIC yet? I'm literally talking to no one directly but it's fun to kind of spit at the computer and yell at you guys a little bit and pretend I'm choking somebody. Guys, where the stock fell before? Boom, over VWOP, that's where you want to be. Bing, bang, boom, rock, mon, killer, killer. Again, BLPH, bond, where the stock fell before? Just, wow, now that's sniper entries because he could have started anywhere at this base from the Wix, but that is just, that's sexy, that's sexy time right there. Math, I just had to pull this up because beautiful job guys and sometimes the top guys is just a stuff move before. So as you guys can see that really, really key stuff move panic Wix, Wix are pure panic. So you can very confidently short this one when it tests higher sets of fantasy orders risking above that or 10, 15, 20 cents before. You know, above depending on how comfortable you are in the trade and the setup and how much volatility there is guys. You always have to account for size and volatility which some days is just, you know, it'll freak you out every now and then if you're oversized in here or it's too volatile of a stock. Guys, Alex absolutely crushing in today coming in with 62 haul dollars almost enough to afford a steak dinner. Absolutely monster job.  I just took a small scalp on Singh CING short which I got a partial fill on not really feeling in the matrix today. So gonna call it a day early and walk away. Alex does not push guys when he doesn't think he should. Singh wasn't on the watch list. It was just kind of like random. So I'll just kind of pull this up so you guys get 62 bones. I wonder what he'll buy. It's like when you get a Christmas card from your grandmother and she's like don't spend it all in one place. You're like grandma, this is, I can't even get a big Mac these days with this. What are you talking about? So just a really nice pump and dump scalp. Alex caught not much more to be said on that. Really nice scalp out 62 dollars. Maybe you can get some hot sauce packets at Wendy's or some catch ups. Let me expand upon this for you guys. I'm trying to make this one funny for you. SIVBE did a wonderful short following trend down. Again, the banks are crashing. Boom, boom, boom. Followed a trend that was kind of a news market play a little bit today and trend as well. Yeah, those nice trenders, man. E, also FSL short. What did I just tell you guys? Way under VWOP. So guess what? Where's the top? Ah, it's right there. So that's where I want to be in the pop. If it was way over VWOP, then I'm looking for peaks. Is this starting to click? It's like, I will make trade. I will force it down your throat how simple trading can be. And the proof is in the pudding, guys. This is one of our members. Math, win, win, win, win, win, win, win. Like dude, this guy is very disciplined based on our teachings of what I just showed you with the previous lessons. Hence, win, win, win, win, win, like no red on the month. Solid job, brother, solid job. Split letter, I don't shout this guy up enough. He is crushing it, always is. Unfortunately, there's so much activity on his charts it's a little hard for these webinars to consume him and go over it, but he's absolutely crushing. So big shout out to Split Letter. I want to shout him out a lot more. Tom Connor, we got a whale in the house, man.   We actually care about your hunger for trading. We care about your discipline. We care about your mission. Are you a good person? So hundreds of our members are doing this daily. But at the end of the day, that's their business. Our business is to make sure you are following your plan. But you know what? Every now and then it's just really cool to show some numbers just for the sake of what people can see as potential. And Tom's crushing. Tom's rich now. Great job, man.  Guys, so that's kind of the tutorial. I want to show you a couple things real quick. This is our wonderful, beautiful, home away from home virtual chat room. And as you guys can see, I know my channel is kind of disappear here on this computer, which it won't for you. But every single day, guys, we have a watch list. So like I just pulled up, I have screenshots of this. Alex has a watch list every single day. Scroll down in the most recent. And then we take that and we go to what's called the main trading chat.  Look at SI, that's so beautiful. Just following trend down, guys. Just following it right down. So, you know, the beautiful thing about this, guys, is the fact that this is repeatable. Everything at MIC is a very repeatable process for literally 2,100, you know, thousands of members, guys. And we're the only ones who are doing this on a really mass scale. If you were to actually go down through our channels, you could see that there's a room for large cap and options. There's a room for swing trading down here. There's rooms for everything, guys.  Guys, check this out. This is our after hours networking channel where look at these are all of our members, man. This is Steven, our travel mod. Link it up with a lot of the members. Dude, how sick is this, man? This is no joke, guys, like a real, real family community. This is not gimmick. This is not Get Rich Quick. These are people who are literally, that's Alex and Steven in Miami at one of our last meetups. Ooh, I spy a beautiful little timepiece. But, guys, this is what community is. Like, we show our faces. We show up to meetups. We throw events.  This is what you're getting. When you join MIC, guys, this was the most recent Miami meetup. And as you can see, events, success trader in the house, everybody, guys, everybody. So it's a good time. It's a good time. Let me show you a couple more things. This is our website, guys. MyInvestingClub.com. I'm trying to make this as big as I can. Just three things I wanna kind of show you guys real quick. If you want a one-hour free training immediately, you're gonna click this right here. You're gonna grab that, get that one-hour free training. You're gonna scroll down.  Let's see if Alex is actually worthy of the Audemars skeleton on his wrist. Well, yeah, it looks like he is. 8.3 million in the last 3.5 or three and a half to four years, guys. Broker verified every statement possible. Guys, this is your main edge of care. This is the guy you're learning from daily. I would hope that the guy I was learning from daily was making 8 million in the last three years. That's pretty sweet. So that's kind of the way of it. Let's see, video library right here, guys. I gotta make this very clear. Content, Google search engine for MIC style. FOMO, revenge trade, first red day, first bound. Anything I'm looking to trade, looking to learn. Full roadmap right here. Accelerator course getting started in the curriculum phase study guide. Then we cruise over right here. Alex's live trades, guys. This is a live trade series specifically for lifetime members. If you wanna upgrade or you wanna get access to this, just DM me or text my line. But guys, these are live trades recorded from Alex on his computer real time. And what he does is after the fact, he closes up the recording, then adds audio commentary after we get it to the editing team and it's gonna make it beautiful for you. And of course, Alex does that after. Otherwise, if he's talking on his computer while he's doing a, you know, literally guys, sometimes like a $200,000 live trade, $67,000. It might mess up the trade. So he does the audio after but the screen is recorded live during the day while he's trading. So it's a live trade. And it's really cool for you to see that kind of, that thought process, that execution real time. Not that you don't get that in chat with watchlists and live text commentary, but you know, this is the exact screen, you know, screen share that you're seeing these live recordings. So guys, really quick up here, all you gotta do is just text my line two, one, three, four, five, eight, five, nine, and seven. It's right here as well. Tosh at myinvestingclub.com or the most important part guys, book a call with yours truly. Tosh, I see what Alex is doing. I see what he's teaching. I see all these methods. I see these patterns. I've been struggling and trading for 10 years. My wife thinks I'm a loser in the markets. How do I get better? Well, you get on a phone call with me, we talk it out, we discuss, we see if MIC is for you. I will give you confidence in your decision and joining MIC. Or if MIC is not for you, now you'll have your confidence by the end of the phone call guys. We are not trading your money and giving you split equity percentage. That is what marketers and scumbags and scam artists do. We are, cause so many people get confused on this guys, we are a full service trading community that allows you to learn from us to trade your own money. So we are teaching you to get a broker. We're teaching you to trade your money with your broker. We never touch your money that you're trading.  That is how we do it. So it's a community that is predicated on making monster traders, just making beasts of traders and having fun along the way. And that's what network and that's what community aspires to be. And that's what we do every single day guys. All right, a little depressing bringing this up cause we know it's negative. Well, I don't know 100% it's negative cause I actually don't have Wednesday, but we'll just say it is. We'll say Alex didn't trade Wednesday, which I don't know. I think you did. I think it was a win. I think it was like, I don't know, you'd have to ask Alex, but let's say, okay, negative $12,800 minus what? 3,000 minus $3,500 minus $62. Alex lost guys, this is a negative. Alex lost $6,200 this week. Maybe grain, maybe not. I'm not sure, but on the four days that I do have excluding Wednesday, negative $6,200, absolute paper cut for Alex. Nothing dropping the bucket. He'll be right as rain next week, knock on wood. Guys, this has been a M-I-C, M-I-C ESPN highlight reel. It's kind of a tongue twister, but if you guys have any questions, again, book my line, book a call immediately for a time slot, text my line, you know, and guys, we'll see if M-I-C is for you and I'll catch you next week. See you guys. Hopefully this one was fun and kind of funny.


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