Well, grace and peace to everyone this morning.  My subject for this morning is on discipleship as the foundation for church funding. Discipleship can be defined as the process of taking someone from the outside, a non-christian, all the way through evangelism to a point of maturity when they are Christ-like and go on to make further disciples. So I think most of us know that Jesus of course described that in a very memorable metaphor. Jesus calls us to be fishers of man. He calls us to be like people who go out and throw our lines into the sea and bring in a haul of fish and do that again and again. Are you, this morning, if I asked you, are you honestly successful as a fisher of man? Have you taken people through that whole process of non-christian, someone in the world, all the way through conversion, maturity, becoming Christ-like, and then that person going on to make disciples of his own her own? How have you fared with that? Or do you feel like a fake? A fake. When I was somewhere around eight or nine years old, I was a cub scout. So a lot of you know what cub scouts are. Cub scouts are the level below being a boy scout. You have these uniforms and caps and badges and all of that. And you have to go out and do various activities out in the wilderness and you have to prove your belt as a young boy soon to be man. And one of the tasks that they had given us one year was to go to a particular lake and go catch fish, go learn how to catch fish. That's kind of a boy's dream to do that. So I went, I had my fishing rod and we all were there fishing in various parts of the lake. And I noticed that my fellow cub scout members were throwing out their lines and they waited for a little while and sure enough they'd catch a fish and another one and another one. And I was out there and I was trying my best and I couldn't catch any fish. I tried and I tried and after several hours, after several hours I think the microphone just went out but hopefully you can still hear me, after several hours I decided to give up. And instead what I did was I walked along the shore of the lake and as I walked along the shore of the lake, I saw there was a dead fish laying right on the shore and so I took my hook and I put it in the dead fish and I put it on my pole and I walked back to the rest of the scout members as if I had caught a fish. Well I was a fake and I knew I was a fake. I didn't really catch that fish.  And that evening came for people to cook their fish and prepare their fish and I had enough sense in me to not want to cook that fish. Who knows what bacteria or viruses were in that. That whole day into this very day I feel guilty about that. I feel guilty that I was a fake fisherman. Some of you may feel this evening a little bit like Peter who said to Jesus Lord we fished all night caught nothing.  We need to be taught by Jesus. We need to be instructed by the master himself. Where to fish, when to fish, how to fish in order to be successful. I was speaking at a Bible school in Ohio a few months ago in May and I had asked the question of the students there how many of you students and these are from good congregations, congregations I'm sure that many of you are part of. I asked how many people in your particular congregations have come in from the outside. So I don't mean the Mennonite Shelfel, someone from the Pilgrim group going to a nationwide group. I don't mean that. Someone from the outside truly coming in and there were 31 people there. There were hundreds of members represented behind their congregations and now one student raised his or her hand. There was not one person in the last year who would come in. That's a sad statement. How is it in your particular congregation if I were to ask you about your success as a fisherman or your congregation's success as a group of fishermen how has it gone? If you look at the people who are in your respective groups are they growing in their walk? Are they recycling others? Are they overcoming sin? Are they prayer warriors? Are they actively sharing the gospel? Are they bringing in zeal and passion into the kingdom? Or, as Dallas Willard has so elegantly said, has the great commission become the great omission? There are broadly speaking four types of churches out there and this is across all different kinds. I'm not specifically speaking about plain churches here, but there are many churches that are primarily educational and you will hear great sermons, very nice speakers who are eloquent and the dynamic feels a lot like a classroom. There's a teacher and there's a student. The second type are churches that are more social in nature and often there's a lot of family and relatives there and people do a lot of picnics and spend time with one another. A third type of church is one that is more defensive. The focus is on avoiding sin and holding ground against the world. The perception that is had in these places is that the world is making an onslaught and we have to somehow dig our heels in and resist the tide of sin. Another type of church focuses on community service, so things like working in soup kitchens, cleaning trash, things like that. Those are all good things. We like education, we like being social, we like community service, we want to certainly be defensive, but I would contend that they have missed the far greater goal of discipleship and in fact most churches do very poorly in this. If you pay attention in the New Testament, there's actually not a single place, not a single place in the whole New Testament where it says to plant churches. There's no command to go plant churches, which is interesting. However, there are many places where it says to make disciples. Matthew 28 is of course the most famous instance. There's a reason for that. Discipleship is the prerequisite. It is the essence of planting churches. If you can make disciples, churches will organically form and spring up as a result. I think a lot of times we put the card before the horse and we talk about oh, we want to go out and do church finding before we've asked the question, have we actually made disciples? Are we doing it in our current places? Because if we're not, church finding will not be successful either. So the overall thesis that I have is that discipleship is the prerequisite to successful church planning. And if you don't know how to make disciples wherever you're at, you're not going to succeed at church planning. We have had in Boston now five years of history. We have now six churches that we've been steadily growing and I'm pleased that our progress, one is in Uganda, the remaining are in the United States. We have made plenty of mistakes along the way. Too many to recount here. I have a lot of scar tissue on my body as a result of various mistakes that we've made. There's a wonderful practice that they do in medicine. It's called M&M Browns. M&M stands for morbidity and mortality. So what you're supposed to do in the medical world is whenever there's been a serious error, whenever there's been a mistake made, you are supposed to stand up, actually in a room about this size and you present your mistake in front of all of your fellow doctors. And that becomes an opportunity to say, what did we learn from this and how can we change our system such that this mistake never happens again? So maybe someone will say, oh, the dose was given was too high. We need to change the computer system so that it blocks a prescription that's higher than a particular dose. Or we need to add an extra protocol, something like that. It's wise to be reflective on our mistakes. It's only sensible. And when the stakes are high, we naturally think about doing things like this because we recognize the cost is so grievous when mistakes are made. The same thing is done in the flight industry, for example. If there's an airplane crash that happens, people don't just say, oh, too bad. Let's go on. They say, let's stop. Let's pause. Let's think. Let's understand what has happened. So what I want us to do for a moment is to say, what's going wrong? What is happening wrong that we are not succeeding in this enterprise of discipleship, going from start to finish? As I think about some of our experiences and some of our failures, 90% of our mistakes in Boston, 90% of our mistakes, I'm convinced, have been a failure to proactively disciple. We need to systematically proactively disciple people. Instead, what has happened whenever we've made mistakes is people have seen a problem and they've said, oh, I hope it fixes itself. Subconsciousness is what they're saying. I hope it goes away. I don't want to talk about it. Maybe somebody else is going to deal with it, or maybe they'll just figure it out on their own. This is a common problem. I'm an MK. I'm a missionary kid. I was raised a son of a missionary. I have been to literally hundreds and hundreds of churches across the United States of all different denominations, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, and I will say that the vast majority, 99% of these places, the expectation is that you come and you kind of just figure it out. That somehow, some way, you'll learn things, but there's not a structured intentional process to disciple. We're going to look at one passage this morning. So if you have a Bible, please turn with me to Ephesians chapter 4. I'll make allusion to other passages, but this is the only passage that I want us to carefully study together. This is Ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 to 13. Ephesians 4 verses 11 to 13. And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. So I want us to look particularly at verse 12. So he mentions these five offices, if you will, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, or shepherds and teachers. And he says that they are given for a clear purpose, for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God. I have a thesis that our terminology is bad. So a lot of times we go and we'll ask somebody, oh, tell me about your church and we'll say, who's the ministry there? Who's in the ministry there, right? We've heard that. And normally what you're expecting to hear is, we have this many deacons and hear their names and this many pastors, whatever you want to call it. But who is actually doing the work of the ministry in Ephesians 4? It's the saints, that's right. It's very clear that the role of the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors, and the teachers is to be equipping the saints to do the work of the ministry. So if we were more biblical in our terminology, and someone said, who's who are your ministry? Do you just list off all the people in your congregation? You'd say, well, there's this family over here, this is their ministry, and this is their family over here. That's a far more biblical. In fact, even in our language, we, I think we, maybe in a subconscious way, convince ourselves that the church leaders and leaders are important, but they're the ones who are supposed to be on the front line and everyone else is supposed to be watching them. As opposed to what is a more biblical idea, where the leaders are the ones who are the equipers, there's a very good Greek scholar who has actually proposed that a far better term to use than pastor. He's being serious on this. He says she's a word coach. And the word coach doesn't have some of the same reverence and gravitas, but I actually like that word because we hear the word coach and we all think, oh, yeah, a basketball coach is the person who's getting his players to play the game. He's not the one who's playing the game, he's helping his players to play the game. And that's a much better analogy for what it is supposed to be from the New Testament perspective. So I think that some of the problem we have is that discipleship is not having enough because people don't really believe that they're the minister. They're the ones who are supposed to be on the front lines. I have a related fear which comes from my many, many years in the Protestant evangelical world. So the Protestant evangelical world, which I know extremely well, there is a disease. There is a brokenness where people believe that it's basically a few things that you believe in your head and a couple things that you do practically. But there's this set of head beliefs that you have.  In a sense, it can be a very weak form of Christianity that simply is content on, do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God? Do you believe he died on the cross?  I have a great fear that there's actually something that is similar in plain churches. I sometimes call it checklist Christianity. And what do I mean by checklist Christianity? I mean that there's three basic things that if you can check off these boxes, you're probably okay. Non-resistance, divorce and remarriage, separation from the world. If you could check those boxes, you're probably one of us and you're probably in a good place. Now I love all of those three doctrines. I'm a strong advocate of all three. Don't get me wrong. But can it be that perhaps we have settled for a very informed of the checklist Christianity that has crippled the Protestant evangelical churches? Are we merely avoiding negatives?  I'm sad. Imagine you met somebody and you said, what is your goal in life? And they said, my goal in life is not to fall down.  Really, your goal in life is not to fall down? Now if I met somebody who said my goal is to be an Olympic runner and to win the marathon, I would say, hey, that's a good goal. But if I met somebody who told me their goal in life is to not fall down, I would say, that's a fairly pathetic goal. Similarly, I wonder whether or not we have been content to avoid some negatives. Wow, I made it through. I avoided war. I avoided divorce. I avoided immodesty. I made it. From there, congratulations. That is a sad, sad goal. It's not very compelling. Now, do I want people to fall down? Of course not. Do I want people to fall into those things? Of course not. But there ought to be something far more captivating and compelling than merely avoiding these negatives. So again, I ask you the question, how are you doing with respect to being a fisherman, with respect to being an effective discipler? Now we know from Jesus, this is one of my favorite passages from Luke 14 where Jesus says, he talks about the cost of discipleship. And he says that, at the very end of that passage, he says, unless someone gives up everything he has, he cannot be my disciple. Are you willing to be someone who gives up everything that you have? We also want our disciple. We want our Christian life to be marked, not merely by taking nice people and making them nicer, it's a fine thing to be a nice person.  But sometimes I think, wow, is this all that we're about? As opposed to complete transformation, changing people from the inside out. I worry that sometimes we've created a construct of discipleship that is so easy, that's so comfortable, that requires so little sacrifice, that we will never be able to stand with Peter, who said, Lord, we've left everything to follow you. Do you remember that line where Jesus is talking to Peter and Peter says, we got no place to go. Jesus, we left it all. We burned our bridges. We have nowhere to go but to follow you. I worry often that in our settings, there is a tremendous problem of comfort and ease and multi-generational businesses and easy lives, such that very few people will be able to say with Peter, Lord, we left it all to follow you. Can you say that? Can you honestly say that? Could you say that you have left, as Jesus says in Matthew, Matthew 14, 26, if someone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be in my disciple. I've spent some quite a bit of time in the last year and a half or so studying models where people are transformed in profound dramatic ways. I don't mean nice to nicer, but complete changes of personhood. Unfortunately, I've had to spend more time that I would like studying secular examples of this. So there are organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous where they take people who are drugs and people who have very little ability to control themselves and they rehabilitate them and they make them sober and able to live a life that is law abiding and harmonious with being able to have a family. I've been studying, most of my time, I've been studying models where they take ex-cons, ex-convicts, people who've spent decades in prison and have made these men, upstanding citizens who can hold a job, who can take care for their families, who obey the laws. What if somebody were dropped into your church who was an ex-con who was out of prison for doing grand theft or murder or something like that? How would you try to transform them? Generally speaking, I have been disappointed that secular organizations have taken on the role that the church is supposed to have played. The church is supposed to be the place where people come to be transformed. That's very clear, I think, from the New Testament, that the church is a place where prostitutes and tax collectors and soldiers and all these people who are far from the kingdom are completely changed and yet we have yielded that ground to secular organizations.  They think, I gotta call AA or I gotta call one of these groups. That's a sad state. Jesus said in Luke 16, 18 that the children of this world are wiser than the children of light. I believe that this is an example where we need to stop and think, what is going on? Why is there this proliferation of groups and success that has had such effectiveness there? What I'm going to do is I'm going to give you four points in my remaining 15 or 20 minutes here of lessons that I believe synthesize passages from the Bible with good wisdom that we can see from the fruits of people that have been transforming people and I will use this as an opportunity to challenge us. All right, the first point, embrace that discipleship is the main vocation of your life. Embrace that discipleship is the main vocation of your life. It is your main job in life. It was Mark Twain who said that the two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. If you don't know why you were born, I'm going to tell you. Here on August 24th, 2018, I will tell you that the reason that you were placed here on this earth is to bring glory to God by making disciples. You were placed here on this earth for that purpose. The command of Genesis 1 to fill the earth with people, Jesus has modified that in Matthew where he said that the purpose that the grand command that we have is to fill the earth with disciples. The first command of Genesis has changed into Jesus' last command. So you were placed here on this earth to make disciples. This is especially true of stay at home mothers. Stay at home mothers, I'm convinced, are disciples in that they are given these young lives, these precious little lives and have the calling to make them into hopefully great men and women of God. But this is true of all of us, every last person in this room and I want that to be very clear in our minds. People are incredibly broken. I mentioned that I was speaking at a Bible school in Ohio a few months ago and I had a survey done where I asked just the men, so there were 31 students there, but there were 15 or 16 men and I asked them to fill out an anonymous survey. How many of you have looked at pornography in the last year? How many looked at pornography in the last three months? These are the cream of the crop, some of the best playing young people that we have. 60% said yes, looked at pornography in the last year, 43% said yes in the last three months. Interestingly, when I asked questions later on, they said nobody wants to talk about it. People aren't addressing this. This is festering in the darkness. Again, people are sort of sitting around hoping that somehow you'll figure it out and somehow you'll live a sanctified life, but that's not working. It also doesn't simply work to tell people try harder. That's a pretty discouraging thing to tell somebody, oh just try harder. What we need instead are tools and ideas and people to encourage us and structures and all kinds of helps to push us towards that goal. When we were first coming into playing settings, this was in 2005, we had moved, we physically sold our place and moved to live near a conservative man-eye church. And the main goal that we had was to learn how to raise children. We had one at the time. We were expecting twins, so that would have been our second and third. Now we have six children and as we went and asked people there and in many other places, we went and said, tell us, how do we raise children? I would be so frustrated because one of the most common answers that I would get was just mind the Lord. Just mind the Lord. And I thought, I need more than that. You got to help me out here. I sold my place, I moved here. I need a little bit more than just mind the Lord. Well-intentioned, but we need more. One of the things that they do in these groups, which I find just fascinating in these groups where they rehabilitate ex-convicts, is they completely reframe even the language that's used in these groups. So they have a requirement at two of the centers that I've studied where you're not allowed to ask the question, how are you? Interesting. If you ask the question, how are you, that's considered a violation and there's fairly severe penalties that they attach to that transgression. Instead, the question that you are allowed to ask is, how is your crew? No more, how are you? Instead, how is your crew? They turn a me problem into a we problem. They call it 200% accountability. And they have found consistently that these people who have been living their whole lives concerned only for themselves need to be rewired in a very profound way, such that you have to even change the questions, even the way that you engage with one another. Now, we are all wired as humans to flourish when we are relationally attached to small groups of people. This is, again, another reason why discipleship should be the main vocation of your life. Second point, loving relationships are the channel of discipleship. So if I were to ask you, who are the people that have made a profound impact in your life? Think about from the time you were young until today. Who are the people that have made a profound impact on your life? Well, I won't ask you to do this, but in your mind, just consider who are the two or three people that have truly shaped you the most. Most likely they would be people who have invested a lot of time, a lot of energy, they care for you, they've shown that they love you, they've initiated contact with you. I've consistently noticed in my years that the people who make the greatest impact in the world are those who are the most caring, the most warm, the most outgoing, they're the most influential. That's true in businesses, that's true in churches, that's true in all of life. So how are you faring with respect to fostering these relationships where if somebody were to ask you, who are the people that you are pouring into? Who are the people today? You can just rattle off and say, yeah, these three, these four people, I am just pouring my life. They know it, I know it, there's a mutual relationship there. There's a similar parallel in the world of parenting. So my six children, my oldest is 11, my youngest is 2, so we think about this a lot. And I was at a homeschool conference, it's not too long ago, it was in May. And at this homeschool conference I was walking around in the booths and there was a little book area there where I went and was flipping through some books with my children. And there was a little sign on the wall that I absolutely loved and the sign said, no app can substitute for your lap. No app can substitute for your lap. I mentioned to you that I believe mothers have one of the highest callings as disciple makers. Understanding very well that this is one of the most powerful ways to nurture a child, to put them on your lap, to read to them for hours and hours and hours and to build that connection. To look at people, to learn how to look at people in the eye says in Mark, when Jesus interacted with the rich on the road, it says Jesus looked at him and loved him. How is that with us? Have we learned even how to look at people in the eyes? I'm always telling my children, my boys, look at people. Let your eyes communicate warmth. Take initiative for face-to-face time so that you can have a key to people's heart. Point number three, grow in the ministry of admonishment. So this was a phrase that I coined a while back because I was trying to help a particular group that was struggling with some problems. The ministry of admonishment is something that is very unnatural for almost all of us. So we were told when we were children, probably by our mothers, if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all. And I think that's probably true when you're a small child. Like when you're a small child that's I accept that as a rule. But that's not a good rule for adults. In fact, I think what has happened is that many of us are still living like children. We are not willing to step out and say hard things when we see that there's a problem. Time and time and time again, this is like one of the main themes of my life. I have seen situations in churches and even in businesses and small groups where there's a problem. There's a clear problem. People see it. Nobody said anything about it. We have to grow in this ministry of admonishment. In fact, this is one of the dominant commands of the New Testament. This is not like one small thing here or there. It's actually one of the dominant commands of the whole Bible. I'm going to read to you a handful of verses. This is just a sampling. I could stand here probably for half an hour on passages here, but one is from Leviticus 1917.  Reasonable?  So here's what you're supposed to do. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor and not bear sin because of him. It says, don't hate him. Rebuke him. That's how you're supposed to deal with the problems in your heart that you have when you look at people that you don't get along with. And it says, not bear sin because if you incur sin, if you don't go out and rebuke him. I think of the example of Eli, hopefully many of us remember him, who had these sons, these wicked sons, and you know what his problem was? He didn't say anything. He just let them go on messing around, sitting, defiling the temple, defiling and defiling the temple meeting, defiling their bodies. He didn't say anything. And look what that did for him. There are many verses in Proverbs and in Psalms where it says that one of the great dividing lines between wise and the fools are that when you rebuke a wise person, they love you.  It's a powerful way to get it. If you want to get rid of fools in your life, start rebuke him. So it says in Proverbs 9.8, do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you. Rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Proverbs 15.31, the ear that hears the rebukes of life will abide among the wise. He who disains instruction despises his own soul, but he who heeds rebukes gets understanding. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Proverbs 27.6, you know David actually prays for rebuke. This is a great prayer. I actually think we should add this to our prayer list. This is Psalm 141 verse 5. Let the righteous strike me. It shall be a kindness and let him rebuke me. It shall be an excellent oil.  All right. I want you all to add this to your prayer list. God, please let somebody rebuke me. I want somebody, some righteous person to come and rebuke me. And this is a sign of maturity. Those are just old testament passages. I knew a sergeant in the new. All right, so I'll just give you a view from the new. I have too many here and my time is running short. This is Paul in Acts 20. Therefore, be on the alert. Remembering that night and day for a period of three years, I did not cease to admonish each one with tears. Paul characterizes his ministry in Ephesus for three years as one of admonishing night and day. 1 Corinthians 4.  And concerning you, my brethren. This is Romans 15.  There's so many. Which one should I pay? All right, I'll do this one. Colossians 3.16. Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Do you ever think about that? You're supposed to admonish people with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. You know, say, hey, we were singing the song and I think this had relevance to you, brother, sister. Have you considered that impact in your life? Has anybody ever done that? Rebuted you through a song? Why what says? Wow, there's so many more. I'm just going to do one more. Second Timothy 4.2. Preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with great patience and instruction. Interestingly, he has reproved and rebuke twice and doubled. It's similar to three words there. The sanctification, the health of any group depends on admonishment. If you don't have a good ministry of admonishment, guess what?  It is the way by which we can move forward in our sanctification. Isn't this common sense? Can you think about it? And yet, how many of us play nice? I'll read to you an example from one of these prison rehabilitation groups, these ex-con rehabilitation groups. So one particular place has an exercise. They call it the games. And they have this meeting every single week where they require it's a group of 10 people to come to this setting that they call the games. So when it says this, I'll read you just selected quotes from one of the people on the board of this organization. He says, anyone can challenge anyone. If you think your crew boss is a jerk, you give him a slip of paper inviting him to a game. He must show up and when he's there you can unload on him to your heart's content. Anyone from the CEO on down can be invited to a game by anyone else. Residents become better at sharing feedback. What doesn't change is that this long-standing ritual makes the right behavior inevitable. People don't like to confront others, particularly scary and powerful others. Left to their own proclivities, their own tendencies. Residents would do what anyone else would do. Toggle from silence, holding our complaints inside, to violence, blowing up in our verbal tirade. So the CEO turns feedback into a ritual, calls at the games, and lets the games begin three times a week without fail. So three times a week if you live in the center, you have to assemble and you get to just practice and monitor. And you get to, if somebody invented you you get to be car, hey I need to talk to you. And imagine confronting somebody, picture this, it's like prisoners, right? These are like big people. And you have to get good at doing this three times a week. I think this is a great idea for us to do, to practice doing this way too polite. Plain people have many strengths, but often we can be too polite, too quiet, too quiet, too nice. All right, final point, structure your whole church around relational discipleship. We don't want to be known as places where they just serve cookies and tea and we sit around and, oh how are you? I'm very fine. Yes, I'm fine too, thank you. I've been to groups, you know, and I've just felt like I was pulling tea to get good conversations going where you're really getting at the heart. And instead it's this, it's talking about the weather, it's talking about work. No, that's horrible. We are offering, we should be offering people, not just the chance for lemonade and cookies and some pleasant conversation. We should be offering the opportunity to not merely be a nice person, but new creation. There were a couple years ago at KFW, I gave a talk in one of the main sessions on small group discipleship. And if you haven't listened to that, I hope you can go back and listen to that. I'm going to tell you a little bit about how we do it in Boston and then I'll close with a final story. So every five to six weeks in Boston what we do is we meet together as they're all the brothers and we sit in a circle and we have begun by asking the question what mar is the image of Christ in me? And that is a powerful question to ask, to have people meaningfully say what is wrong with you. Now first you self-support and that's how we do it. They, the group will probably agree with what you said, but also probably add some more things to your list. And then we break up into smaller groups during the non- big group weeks and we work on those and we make goals and we have accountability and we structure our lives so that we're addressing those problems. The problems range from lust to weight loss, to struggling with worldly entertainment, to anger at children, to being socially awkward. It's a tremendous opportunity for progress and for development. In addition we have a set of four questions that we use every single week for baseline accountability. If you don't have baseline accountability I don't really don't know what you have with respect to discipleship. The four questions that we use every single week, I get asked these every single week myself. Number one, have you been zealous in the word prayer and fasting? It's a great question to ask. Have you been zealous in the word prayer and fasting? I put the accent on fasting as well. It's very easy to go for weeks, months, years sometimes and not fast and have nobody asked about that. Second question, have you spent quality time with your family?  Third question, when is the last time that you shared the gospel or your testimony with a non-christian? You need to be asked that question. If you are not being pushed on that, again I think it's easy to go for weeks, months, years and have nothing to show for it. Fourth question, since the last time we met have you looked at anything pornographic, foolish, or immoral? These are baseline questions that I believe all of us need to have asked of us. You can tweak them, I'm sure there's plenty of great adaptations but if you don't have this going on where every single person is having a meaningful conversation and for us it takes us a good, our group probably takes 30 or 40 minutes just to unpack that. That's three of us, just how it's going every week and I love it. I love that accountability time. Beyond that as I said, we move into higher goals about becoming more price-like, working on whatever our weaknesses are. And as I said, I don't want to be a place where we're merely just not sinning. That's just like what I said before, the person who says my life goals to not fall down. Boring. I don't want that goal. I want a higher goal. I don't want to fall. I don't want to sin. But my goal is to subdue the earth and to fill it with disciples. That's my goal. And I am bent. I'm absolutely bent. I wake up every day and I go to bed at night thinking about that question. It fuels me. And I want us to be a sacrificial group of people that is able to stand with Peter and say, honestly, truly, Lord, we left everything to follow you. Peer pressure. We left jobs. We left homes. We left family relationships to follow you, Jesus. I'm going to close by reading a short excerpt from a story. It's a true story. It happened in 2009. This happened in Somalia. A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity to go to Kenya and spend some time there with some Muslim converts. It was an incredible experience for me. And this true story is about a man whose name is Musa. Musa lived in Somalia and he was married to a woman named Helima. And he had three boys. Omar, who was 12 years old. Ali, who was 11. And Salat, whose name was seven years old. And Musa had become a follower of Jesus. And he was serving God nobly over the years. And of course, in Somalia you can't have big church structures. They have to meet in homes. They have to meet in a quasi underground manner. And Musa's practice was to go and interact with the villagers regularly. He would go and engage in small groups of people. And he would have these conversations hoping that he would see someone who would take an interest in the gospel. Well, he noticed that there was a woman who would come regularly to these groups where he was sharing, having these Jesus talks.  But he knew that she was married to a leader in an organization called Al-Shabab. Al-Shabab, many of you know, is a very powerful Islamic terrorist organization in Somalia. Musa told his friend Ahmed that his prayer is that he would have the opportunity to lead her to Christ. And Ahmed said, Musa, you're my friend. I love you, man. I honor you. But you are playing with fire. Do you know who her husband is? Musa's answer was, I know that she's married to a leader of Al-Shabab. But I also know that God's word teaches us to preach to everyone, to all creatures, to all nations, including ours. And I don't see any exceptions. Ahmed said, but you could be in danger. You could put your family in danger. Musa's answer was, if nobody shares price with her, then her life is in danger. Her life is in eternal danger, and more danger than us. We are not responsible for outcomes, Ahmed. We are responsible for sharing. That night, Musa and his wife, Ali Mahgrey, wore that Musa one over the course of some time. Musa struck up conversations and Musa asked her, it says, I see that you have an interest. You seem to be stepping out. You seem to be inquisitive. Your eyes are listening and she nodded. And Musa said, I have a gift for you. And so he slipped her a Bible out of the bag. She whispered thank you and left quickly. About a week later, she told Musa that she had found a place in her heart for the Lord. And she said, I am committed to follow him, not a lot. And so Musa was very excited. Obviously, he beamed with pride. Like what God was doing in her life. However, the woman stopped coming to these groups where he would share. Finally after some time, the woman did come. But this time, her head was bowed. Her eyes were not quite as curious because the left side of her face was all purple with a bruise. Her husband had noticed a change in her and asked why. He figured out about her conversion and he beat her. A few days later, a group of Muslim men who worked for the woman's husband showed up at Musa's house and screved at him for converting the woman. They demanded that Musa tell them where an influential Christian leader by the name of Mubwara could be found. But Musa had never heard of this person, Mubwara. He said, we'll give you two days to tell us where he is. Have Mubwara here when we return or else. When the men left, Musa's wife insisted that he leave Somalia. So he traveled as many Somalians due to a refugee camp in Kenya. Two days later, when Helima was making lunch for herself and the boys, the henchmen arrived at Musa's home. When they discovered that he had left, they grabbed Omar and Ali. Those are two of his boys. They tied their feet together and blindfolded them. Somehow the wife and Salat, the youngest boy, escaped and reconnected with Musa in Kenya. But the two older sons would pay the price for what their killers called, quote, the sins of their father. They worked ahead of them. When many people today want to play it safe to avoid suffering, when many people today want to have an easy life with a nice business, I think of verses like Philippians 1.29 where it says, for it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should believe but also suffer for it is safe. We have been called to make disciples, not merely to avoid falling down. This is a grand vision. I am convinced that many people today are feeling a call for something greater. They're feeling a call to step out of a comfortable, easy life. When I hear, when I read the story of Musa, I think, shame on us. What are we doing? What are we doing? The goal of our lives should be to make disciples.  Let's pray. Father in heaven, I pray Lord that you would first forgive us for complacency. Father, there is such easy believism, such checklist Christianity that I know pervades our land, where people are not willing to change jobs, move, incur the displeasure of people around them for no reason other than to be lazy. Father, I pray that you forgive us for that and that we would be bold, courageous people who are willing to make disciples, who are willing to study this subject with the diligence that it deserves. Father, I don't want to be in places where I ask out of hundreds of members if there's been one person to come from the outside and to see no hands lifted. Father, you have given us a great call to make disciples of all nations and I pray that we would make it the great aim of our life to be genuine fishermen, not fakes, not people like I was when I was at Cupscow, who are ashamed, but true disciple makers. Father, would you give us power from the Holy Spirit? Would you give us courage? Would you give us wisdom? The very brief minute that we have on this earth would be well spent. May we not cower in fear, but may we be a people who are free from the threats of the devil and the worries about displeasing people around us so that we can only please you. Father, we need your help. We ask all these things that you sustain.


I'm the technology evangelist at StackEngine. We do enterprise, docker, container management, orchestration, blah, blah, blah, who cares? I'm StackEngine Jesus. All right, so my kids ask me, dad, you fly around the country and people listen to you. Why? We don't listen to you. And so I said, well, family, I talk about this thing called DevOps. Everybody wants to do the DevOps. And so they said, explain this DevOps thing to me, dad. And I said, well, cool. So it's all about culture and sharing. And you really should read the book, it's a Phoenix project. And that really didn't work out well. Indeed, my 10 year old looked at me and said, culture, isn't that like when the doctor sticks the stick in the back of my throat and I gag? So I sort of needed a different way to explain it that didn't involve gagging. So I said, let's do some DevOps at home. So I came up with this idea of home ops.  I had bread ops on the brain, but I landed on laundry ops. And my family was like, yeah, we don't care. So I said, we're gonna do it. So we do a load of laundry a day and we are still doing this well over a year later. Does it work? Yes. Some things to keep in mind. We were optimizing our family time. We were not trying to optimize water or energy. We had a tool for that. It's called an energy efficient washing machine, okay? Family time was the thing that mattered to us. Family time is the time is the coin of our realm. So what happened? Well, turns out we ended it with a lot more family time. My wife, instead of taking on all of the laundry every Sunday and essentially being tied to that so that we as a family couldn't go and do a thing, we don't think about that anymore. We just throw in the load when we come back from whatever we're doing. We throw in the dryer, we fold it. Poof, gone. And this ends up meaning our whole family existence is a bit more humane. It's a bit more family time-ish. Yay, right? And this is exactly what Jez Humble's whole point is about continuous delivery. Make releases sane. Make them matter to humans so that humans have a great place to work. And then there were all sorts of side effects. The feedback loop came from my family to me. The first thing I noticed is our hampers were always empty and my closet was full. And so I started thinking about this and my wife and I ended up working out that there are roughly $12,000 of clothes in our closets. We didn't even look in our dresser drawers. We were already crying by then. $12,000. And I got to thinking, wow, that's a lot of cash tied up in clothes. That's a lot of inventory. And I started thinking, Elia, who gold rats come out of the grave into my closet, it was really scary. And so if clothes are like features, then there's something that you need to think about here. Let's think about cost and revenue for a moment. If you can drive the cost in your company to zero, I will guarantee you one and only one thing, you are out of business. But revenue has no theoretical cap and we'll talk about that a little bit more in a moment. Features are the lifeblood of any software company.  Okay, features are revenue. So if features are revenue, then we need to get those darn things out faster. Now, a little back of the napkin math means what you have here is if you have 10 people working for $75 an hour, your engineers, your project managers, your QA people and you're releasing every month, hey, that sounds great except that you have by the end of that month, $132,000 of salary tied up in your version control system in your version control closet. It's sitting there and that's risk to the business. We don't know if those things are good. We haven't been able to create an experiment around them. We need to think about that. So I also gained some other insight like bulk loads. I'm gonna come home from this conference. I'm gonna have a bunch of clothes I wasn't able to wash. I'm gonna have a big old pile, right? So I should break process. Oh, it's total, no. I just do a load of laundry.  Goldrat says you must have spare capacity for a system to operate efficiently. Okay, so over the course of the next few days, those loads will just get smaller and smaller until I'm just kind of back on an even keel. I didn't need to break process. That was a big learning for me about continuous delivery just from doing this. So I keep calm and I do a load and life is good. The pile of clothes just, it decreases over time.  Okay, special loads. Special loads, towels, sheets, whatever, right? Delicates, what do we end up doing? Well, it turns out it wasn't a great solution, but it works.  That's it, life is good. We're doing this thing for real and it really helped us. We have more higher quality family time. I mean, look at all these great shirts my kids are wearing. That really is my wife. I didn't go and get anybody to pose for that. That's broken. That is not my slide. Oh man, I wanna hug. All right, so this really did help us. I'm not sure where we are in the 15 seconds.  All right, so are you thinking to yourself, my laundry is special? I couldn't do this. I'm not gonna do this.  Well, I want you to think about that from your CTO's perspective from just a minute.   You know what, you don't understand. You don't understand that you need empathy for these people. You're asking that person to risk the company in their career when you won't even risk your laundry. Wanna talk about this a little more? Let's do it.


Thank you. Thank you. I'll just set my little timer. So, where am I? I'm a learning designer, a learning designer, instructional designer. It kind of goes by different names depending on what organization you might work for. I've more recently taken on work at the film school. So, I'll give you a little bit of background as to that film school. If you were here yesterday and saw my presentation, this is an identical slide. So, the AFTRS is founded in the mid-70s and they've used Moodle since 2013. They have different types of courses. Award courses are bachelor and master's courses and they go for several years. However, I'm in the short courses area, which is anything from a one-day course to a 12-week course or a five-day course. There's a very heavy emphasis on industry professionals teaching the courses and a heavy emphasis on face-to-face as well. So, that all has to be incorporated into the learning design. Now, this concept of subject matter experts. So, some people don't use that term, subject matter expert or SME. And so, basically, I have worked for lots of different organizations over the years from the early 90s. And so, some of my SMEs have been hairdressers or bricklayers, surgeons, doctors, academics at universities. And so, currently, my SMEs are filmmakers. So, it might be someone that is a production manager of a reality TV show, for example, or a producer, a film producer or an accountant on a film project. So, I don't know much about the intricacies of producing a film. And so, that's where me as the learning designer sitting off to the side there. And the SME inevitably has their big pile of content. So, they know things. I know things. So, basically, I like to put the SME right in the middle and so, and work around them with all the different emotions and tasks that go with that. And then the learning designer, which is me, I know how to organize content and design learning experiences. I'm sure most people in this room that might resonate with. So, generally, we have a project. And within that project, there is parameters like time, what LMS you are using. So, currently, we're using Moodle. A schedule. Again, this big pile of content. You generally have a user guide or a course outline, rather, unit guide, that type of thing. And then, generally, there's other people involved, but generally, at the core of the team is the SME and the learning designer. And yesterday on Twitter, I saw Colin had mentioned something about the benefits of co-designing. So, you could conceive that the tasks completed by the learning designer and an SME, they're working as co-designers, essentially. So, number one, there's 10 top tips. So, number one, I find that before starting anything, I like to just establish trust. And so, I just meet for a coffee. That's just to establish a mutual respect, confidence in each other. Confident that you'll guide them with online learning. Often, an SME doesn't have a lot of experience with online learning. Some of them don't have any experience with learning at all. No teaching background, depending on the circumstances. And so, it's always important just to lay out some kind of guiding principles in that area. I like to ask them, well, have you taught before? Do you have any teaching experience? There's other things like working styles and personalities, different approaches to project tasks. And so, the whole point of this first tip is to establish who you are, how you're going to work together, at what strengths do you have? So, number two, I like to look at schedules and budgets. So, they're not inherently interesting, but it provides almost like a mechanical framework to work within. So, if you only have one month to complete the work, you're going to approach it in a slightly different way to if you have one year. And so, if you've got $100,000 versus $10,000, how are you going to spend that money? Sometimes these decisions are not made by the learning designer or the SME, they're made by the project manager. Or, you know, it gets complicated, as you can probably predict. A lot of these are about restrictions, but within restrictions, it's like with any good design process. If you're given a restriction or a parameter, sometimes that helps the design process flourish as people look for opportunities. I think I've covered all of those except for the last one, or the last couple maybe, milestones and deliverables. What are we doing? How do we know we've achieved the end of the project or this milestone? Make these sort of things tangible, because if you have things that are tangible, then I just find that it just sets a really nice sensible tone. Here's that woman again. So, most of the women will know who this woman is. I don't know if a lot of the men would know who this woman is. However, she likes to tidy up. She has this phrase, does it spark joy. She generally helps people to declutter. What I find, and again, I've been engaging with SMEs since the mid-90s. They generally have a big load of content. Content is often confused with, oh, that's all there is to the teaching process, because content is king. You've probably heard that phrase before. So, I like to encourage the subject matter expert to get rid of some of the content that maybe it's out of date, maybe it's not working, maybe it's not appropriate, maybe it's not in a form we can use. So, just either bin it, or let's put it in our intray for the project. Sometimes that's kind of, I have a flippant tone as I'm saying, but it's kind of, I guess, yeah, it's a good decent conversation to bring up. And sometimes it can be confronting. Because, you know, I'm a lowly learning designer. I don't know anything about beef cattle or cutting hair or operating on a person in a hospital. So, I guess it's kind of just establishing that kind of trust, as mentioned earlier, but all to frame the idea of an audit. Audit of content. Collecting and collating. Sometimes the things that wash up on shore, text, images, videos, PDFs, start getting them into folders, that sort of thing. Horribly sensible. Okay, I like this image. I've used this image since, when I was preparing these slides a couple of months ago, I've used this in a couple of meetings where I've heard the tone of voice or it's a little vibe and I thought I'm not going to have any words, I'll just point and I say that's you and that's me. And they're sort of like a bit shocked and confused. Because often I find that there's a it's like a tug of war over who owns the content. And so sometimes a learning designer, it's not their job to know the stuff necessarily. And so although we are our own subject matter experts in terms of learning and how to collate things, offering design solutions, so I just like to ask the question of who owns this content. Sometimes it's not the subject matter expert, sometimes it's their manager. Or sometimes it's someone else. It's kind of like, and this can have IP, intellectual property ramifications. Should this content stay or go, sometimes it needs to be checked or confirmed, amended, replaced and then that taps of course into tasks and workflow schedules. Sometimes you have to be working with content you didn't create. So that introduces a whole bunch of issues. And then it's good to remind the SME that our aim as a project team is to create engaging and meaningful learning experiences. So the content is an important part of that. So is learning design. So I like to draw an analogy. Jocelyn this morning was bringing in a whole heap of metaphors. So I've used this metaphor quite a lot where it's a dinner party and there's introduction and a topic one and a topic two, also known as a main dish, a side dish dessert, that type of thing. So they're all optional. Sometimes they're interchangeable. Sometimes they're not negotiable. Sometimes they're related to an external body that might be kind of assessing the learner. There's all these different dynamics. There's also this concept of hierarchy as well. So I like to just talk through the Moodle interface together and say, look, if we put your content here, this is what it would look like. There was a question from yesterday about these troublesome high school teachers. I used to be a high school teacher. So I can relate to some of the issues that were brought up about, well, if we've got a section in Moodle, we want a subsection and we want a sub-subsection and we want that to be final, final text. And that's like, well, some of these problems are solved in a non-technical way, if I can say it that way. And then I guess it's kind of reminding the SME that there's this thing called learning design and linking how their content might be structured in a way. So that can be really delightfully fun and productive at the same time because you're negotiating, you're co-designing essentially. Now I like this one, negotiating new content. Because sometimes you're going along really well and everyone's confident and comfortable. And all of a sudden there's gaps in the content. As symbolised by letter C and letter F, and sometimes the subject matter expert starts to lose it because they're linked somehow to their content and if there's gaps in the content then that diminishes their value or something. It's very mysterious. But that's me on the rise. And I have used Latin text in the background for those with a sharp eye. So that's a form of dummy text. It's like, let's just keep calm and put a placeholder in and get on with the whole picture. And I was liaising with someone the other day and I pointed to the picture of the guy with the question mark over his head. But she wasn't in that place. And so it's kind of you know, I'm over generalising because it's kind of, everyone's a person and they've got individual ways of dealing with things. But yeah, I guess it's this concept of gaps in content and how do you deal with that? And who's going to develop it? Maybe how much is that going to cost? That type of thing. I like to negotiate communication and workflow. Now the person in this image is watching an interpretive dancer and with a checklist. And we've got two minutes. Okay. So, how do you swap files? Is it death by 50 emails with five gig or five meg attachments or do you use a cloud based system? That comes up all the time for me. So I like to just establish some of these protocols. Here's this proof of concept. I brought this up yesterday. If you were witnessing the presentation from yesterday, I like to just build a little quick proof of concept so that we get to visualise what does that look like in Moodle. And that consolidates a lot of the thinking I find. And then of course once you've achieved a stable prototype then you can start to proceed. It's always nice to just have that stability and feedback etc. Up skill as in professional development. Undoubtedly there will be a need for something within the process. So it might be how do you use a particular tool within Moodle. Don't waste your time doing grand professional development programs. Just a just-in-time approach I find works really well. Need to know basis. It might be just as simple as a short walk-through. And then finally this is a concept I like to introduce. It's the reminder that it's not just, oh here's this big bucket of content. Give it to the learning designer. They go away and do their magic. It really is a team of learning designer, IT support, back-end infrastructure people maybe a specialist media producer. Other kind of support people within an ecosystem essentially. So that's my presentation. So we've got time for a few questions. Do you mean learning outcomes? Yep. That's a really big question. And I guess it's linked to documentation. So if you have, as one of your very early deliverables, some sort of documentation that is kind of like reassuring everyone in the project team including various layers of management, what are you going to produce in this period of time? How does that sit in within the context? You can build in a critical assessment or a QA type of cycle. That type of thing. So is this kind of addressing what you were asking? Yeah, there's ways. There's good old fashioned project management mechanisms to build in to any design and development and delivery process. And they're really sensible and really good to put in because they allow everyone to manage the risk and reduce the ambiguity so that everyone's clear. Okay. And then with the vocational education there's the AQTF framework for example. So that's kind of like a nice check. Well, is this resource going to map to those competencies for example?  Excellent. If you could please join me in thanking Mark for his presentation. Okay. Thank you.


Hey everyone I have an update for you on the switch pro there's actually obviously been a lot of conversation about it We actually recently did a rumor video up here And a lot of the info in that rumor video is still worth paying attention to but one aspect of it as an update to that rumor that People did discover after the fact is the 1440p stuff saying that the system can do native 1440p was based on a faked Data dump of project triangle strategy now I'm not saying that the data wasn't actually data mined from the demo of project triangle strategy that exists out there But that's not what we're worried about here We're worried about the fact that someone faked Information from that demo gleaming in extra mode beyond 1080p Showing a 1440p mode which obviously cannot exist on the current switch There is no way to even output a 1440p signal from the Nintendo switch dock So it made people think man that must be about switch pro But it turned out that part was fake. That doesn't mean all the rest of the information was fake It just means where this information originally came from the 1440p stuff is but there is something to talk about Despite that part of that rumor being fake and maybe casting doubt on you guys on that quote-unquote big leak and that is well Nate Drake so for those who don't know who Nate Drake is. He's been around in this industry as a Leaker quote-unquote leaker for a long time He has gosh a decade or so going back to a neogaf days now. He's on reset era and He has been verified by multiple people and his information is typically pretty accurate He doesn't always get everything right But I don't know that there's a leaker out there that ever gets everything right because plans change Sources are sometimes given misinformation intentionally so like Nintendo and Sony and Microsoft and Activision EA can kind of like you know weed out the bad apples from their companies that might be leaking things And obviously sometimes things are leaked intentionally through these people to build hype And it's possible that Nintendo might be floating some of this stuff out here Honestly, it seems like the reason the heat is picking up with the switch pro is that dev units appear to be out in the wild We're not going to get screenshots of them because that company would Basically be lambasted by Nintendo and they'd be breaking all sorts of laws to do that So we're not going to see anything on the dev units until after the switch pro is announced But here is what Nate Drake an industry insider who has been very accurate in a whole bunch of things industry-wide I'm presuming that he works in the industry somewhere. I don't know as a video game developer or whatever He doesn't really reveal full details of any of his sources Just he has a history and a track record and he has made some interesting statements First off he says we won't really talk about the tech specs other than what I've already said and he Reiterates it has DLSS so deep learning super sampling something we've speculated before and it has 4k functionality Which would be how a switch could end up outputting at 4k, which by the way the 4k stuff actually comes from a data mine of Nintendo switch the latest firmware update already has a mention of 4k in that firmware update So the idea that switch could output at 4k folks isn't even something that's debatable now before I'd say anything else here I want to remind you we do have a giveaway going on right now for a $99 Nintendo switch e-shop gift card head down to the description or the pinned comment to enter now What's interesting here beyond the fact that we've already seen the 4k mentioned within the current firmware of switch It's that while he says He doesn't want to really go deeper than that right now He does note a few extra things when he's responding to a few people this happened last week on Thursday First off SuperMortal day 64 is brought up great guy was on my latest podcast And he does mention because someone brought up didn't SuperMortal Dave share an official looking document with Nintendo of America's marketing plans for fiscal year 2016 and It truth be told SuperMortal day 64 Legitimately had a source at that time that worked at Nintendo and nature points out that he actually shared marketing budget figures Which immediately exposed his source and he did it for validation to prove He had a single source and technically he ruined a person's job all for internet club. That's the way he feels I don't obviously know the full story there and I'm not going to pester SuperMortal day 64 about it but clearly he had a legitimate source and Maybe revealed a bit too much of what that source showed him to be fair to SuperMortal day The source shouldn't be giving out that kind of information most of this leak stuff if Nintendo doesn't want it out there The people probably shouldn't put it out there or whether smoke this fire I don't mind when things come from say You know manufacturing lines and you just happen to have a worker on the line say something to people and like that's what a lot of the Wall Street Journal reporting over the time has been it's just been a lot of people in manufacturing talking about What's being worked on on their manufacturing lines, but Nate Drake then goes on to say That he's a hundred percent confident. It's going to have DLSS and 4k functionality I've not heard anything on the other two and the other two are about in the Switch Online revamp Which literally hasn't been mentioned by anyone and Mario Kart 9 which was in a prior rumor but also kind of he hasn't heard anything about it and Then he to be fair. He didn't even hear anything about Splatoon 3 either So a lot of Nintendo's games are starting to be kept really close to the vest their reveals Hence why we had literally nothing leaked about Mario Kart 9 now technically Splatoon 3 and the entirety of the director was leaked right before the direct landed So that is something that happened and there clearly is somebody out there in the reddit sphere that has access to some stuff at Nintendo that maybe they shouldn't or maybe it's a rogue employee, but That's neither here nor there I'm closely paying attention to Reddit for any future leaks on anything whether it's hardware games Obviously it's all the sort of anniversary and the plans for that all that but he goes on to mention something about the handheld version so The great mighty poo kind of love that reference to Conquerors bad for a day Set over a reset era only want a yes or no answer And you don't have to give that but what portal will no be a nice upgrade and then nature a response It says if what I've heard is accurate Yes, so think about that think about that It's interesting Talking about this kind of stuff He's mentions quite clearly that he's not even sure what the tech specs are for this now The last rumors we had had ampere going on but nature I like like put it out here in response to somebody else when just talking about Like information about switch pro and how much out there is accurate and how much is just kind of Speculative so that keel over on reset era said I also forgot to mention that I find the think for yourself question authority intro on his YouTube channel again Talk about Supermental Dave to be cringe worthy and nature just says you know what? It's a passive way of saying he's better than the media outlets that have sources That's his opinion Remember he said Euro gamer had no source on NX when they showed the tablet design and in video with the provider This is way back when I mean he's copped to this Supermental they was dead wrong about the hardware inside switch Euro gamer sources were a thousand percent correct And he says I won't really talk more about tech specs than I have but it does have DLSS of 4k No reason to go deeper than that right now It's enough to illustrate the device in me is a meaningful upgrade first-party support will span the new hardware and current switch for at least a couple of Years that's extremely notable. We were shown as much yesterday, and I talked about it on my latest podcast Yes, Nate Drake does have a podcast so what's interesting is that He's essentially saying for at least the next two years the og nintendo switch is gonna get all the games But what you can also infer from this is that? After the next two years the og switch might not be getting every first-party game anymore Why is that? Why would he mentioned that just for at least a couple of years the og switch is gonna get all of the games coming up? So breath them out to gonna be on your og switch with two and three gonna be on your og switch if Mario Kart 9 comes out This year next year gonna be on your og switch whatever nintendo has coming this year next year Maybe very early into 2023 will be on the og switch But why does he specifically mentioned that at least for a couple of years? Because it's inferring that nintendo might be going with a different Strategy with switch hardware moving forward. This is a strategy I have talked about at length on this channel for a couple of years that I think makes sense for the market switches in and Also makes sense Because they don't really have any direct competition that's meaningful I think the gpd win 3 coming out is like the only thing on the market the gpd win family of systems Like the only thing that comes close and it's really more closely tied to pc gaming than it is console gaming like nintendo is Plus they don't have like that exclusive ip that nintendo has to really push units They just have the marketing sale play your pc games on the go. So here's my thing. I Think What nintendo needs to do is adopt the phone strategy you guys know what the phone strategy is right? This is an iphone 12 just a basic iphone 12 nothing fancy no pro version no max whatever right just a basic iphone 12 If I don't upgrade this phone new applications that come out three Generations of iphone from today Will still work on iphone 12 now maybe the battery life sucks and there's other things apple does here to make me Want to upgrade sooner because you know they that's just what they do In general battery after two years three years with a with an iphone is just dog shit And that's by design to try to convince you to upgrade to the next phone instead of replacing the battery because it's very hard to replace batteries in these but Here's the thing. I must say the nintendo go the apple route in terms of making hardware that just fails which hardly enough joy con drift, but what I am saying is that they should go the phone route in Releasing news platforms that slowly phase out old ones so switch pro Won't be considered a next-gen switch because all the games coming to it for the first couple years would still be on the old switch Of course, that's also true of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox series X You kind of get what I'm getting at here. It's a slow phase out of the old systems so what would happen here is that switch light and the And the current switch would still be relevant for another couple of years as it should be and then when switch pro is here After a couple years Nintendo's games will start to massively focus on the pro and phase out support for the original switch again pushing sales To the Nintendo switch pro now they're not going to just suddenly roll You know roll into the pro and just you know get to 2023 be like yeah We're done with the og switch without plans what it's gonna happen is by the time they decide they want to announce the What we're gonna call switch to you know, but you know whatever switch to By the time they want to announce that and say 2023 The games that come to that platform the games that are planned to be on that platform Will also be on switch pro, but they will not be on the original switch So basically at all times there are there's like a gen to a gen and a half of Support among games coming to switch from Nintendo obviously we don't know what third parties are gonna do They'll always whenever hardware exists third parties always have the option to make their games just for that hardware but the point I'm trying to make is that Basically the switch pro and the switch will co-exist and all games will come out when the next-gen system for Nintendo's Announced games will go to that next-gen system switch pro and they'll phase out the old one Basically what this creates is that every single Switch coming out in the future for as long as Nintendo wants to keep this going will essentially have a five to six years shelf life and It'll have a natural transition into new hardware, which is what happens with phones The reason the phone market still blossoms even though there's new products every single year Is it because people upgrade every single year? It's about the slow Transition into new hardware that's rather seamless and people almost don't even notice it's happening That's what's crazy about it And that's the best thing Nintendo can do to keep that switch family going for 10 15 20 years if they could somehow pull it off. Yes, they could have upgrades. Yes, they could do different things Yes, they can try out different ideas different technologies along the way But if they keep the base concept of a portable console that could dock with your TV they can literally iterate experiment innovate and Make things more powerful and better designed along the way without Alienating consumers the number one concern people have for switch pro is the idea of exclusive Nintendo games on the platform But by the time we're talking about games on switch pro that will not be coming to the og switch It's because those games are going to the next-gen switch This is what I was hoping in a way Microsoft and Sony we're gonna do They're not technically Microsoft and Sony are making their games backwards compatible to the original PlayStation 4 and the original Xbox one and they decided we're just gonna phase out ps4 pro and we're gonna phase out Xbox one X Entirely they're just saying screw it those mid-gen upgrades. We're just done making that system We're not making those mid-gen upgrade systems anymore go buy our new platform. I Think that's a mistake. I think they should have phased out the original hardware kept that and just let it all coexist in the same market They decided to go against that and I think that technically is holding games back on PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X At least for the next year or two as they continue to support the Xbox one and PlayStation 4 og user base again I don't think that's a smart business decision and I don't think Nintendo is gonna go down that route now Obviously, this isn't talking about affecting sales of a PlayStation 5 series X. They're doing fine But this maintains momentum for Nintendo that as long as they keep releasing Huge games every single year there won't really be a reason for switch to stop selling as long as People feel like there's options in that switch marketplace that fit their needs There's the original switch in the giant bezels feel a little dated as it does not feel quite right That's okay. There's a sleeker better switch out there Everything plays on everything, you know, this phone might feel dated in a couple years You can still play games on it But I mean you also have the option to upgrade to either a slightly a cheaper upgrade that came out a couple years before Or the latest and greatest if you want and just move on trucking ahead I think that's the strategy Nintendo is doing and I think that's the strategy Nate Drake is sort of unintentionally hinting towards Although we're a little bit too far out From knowing for sure if Nintendo wants to go with that strategy. So again big thing DLSSS Oh DLSSS DLSS deep learning supersampling 4k and Massive improvements to handheld mode seem to be locked in our folks. I'm Nathan Robo. Just from the center prep Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed the switch pro rumor leak video thingy and I'll catch you in the next video


Hello, Namaste, Myself, M. S. Bhastragam, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Sciences, Alchanist of Technology, Sholapur. Now, lowering outcome, at the end of the session, students will be able to express the given function in four-year series in the interval minus l to l. Now, the four-year series of f of x in the interval minus l to l is given by f of x is equal to a0 plus summation of n equal to 1 to infinity an cos n pi x by l plus bn sin n pi x by l, where a0 is equal to 1 by 2l, integration from minus l to l f of x dx, and an is equal to 1 by l, integration from minus l to l f of x cos n pi x by l dx, and bn is equal to 1 by l, integration from minus l to l f of x sin n pi x by l dx. Now, these are the Euler's formulae to find the four-year constants a0, a9 and bn. Now, pause the video and find bn for the function f of x is equal to 0 when minus 5 is less than x is less than 0, and equal to 3 when 0 is less than x is less than 5. I hope you have completed here, f of x equal to 0 when minus 5 is less than x is less than 0, and equal to 3 when 0 is less than x is less than 5. Now, comparing minus 5 to 5 with minus l to l, here you get l is equal to 5. Now, bn is equal to 1 by l, integration from minus l to l f of x sin of n pi x by l dx, which is equal to here 1 by l means 1 by 5 l is 5, integration from minus 5 to 0, and here f of x is 0 that is 0 into sin n pi x by 5 dx plus integration from 0 to 5 in 0 to 5 f of x is 3. Therefore, here 3 into sin of n pi x by 5 dx, which is equal to 3 by 5 taking 3 common from the second term, and the value of the first integral is 0, because here your integrant is 0. Now, integration of sin of n pi x by 5 is minus 5 by n pi cos of n pi x by 5 with a limit 0 to 5, which is equal to 3 by 5. Now, here putting x is equal to 5 we get minus 5 by n pi cos of n pi, and minus up lower limit that is minus minus plus, and putting x equal to 0 here cos 0 is 1 that is plus 5 by n pi, which is equal to 3 by n pi into bracket 1 minus minus 1 raise to n. Therefore, bn is equal to 3 by n pi into bracket 1 minus minus 1 raise to n. Now, we will see the example, find the Fourier series of f of x equal to x when minus 1 is less than x is less than 0, and equal to x plus 2 when 0 is less than x is less than 1. Now, here comparing minus 1 to 1 with minus l to l we find that here l is 1. The Fourier series of f of x in the interval minus l to l is given by f of x is equal to a naught plus summation of n equal to 1 to infinity a n cos n pi x by l plus bn sin n pi x by l. Here l is equal to 1 by putting l equal to 1 that is here we get f of x is equal to a naught plus summation of n equal to 1 to infinity a n cos n pi x plus b n sin n pi x. Now, we will calculate the Fourier constant first of all a naught a naught is equal to here 1 by 2 l integration from minus l to l f of x dx which is equal to here l is 1 that is 1 by 2 and integration from minus 1 to 0 here f of x is x that is x dx plus integration from 0 to 1 f of x is x plus 2 dx. Now, integrating with respect to x which is equal to 1 by 2 integration of x is x square by 2 with the limit minus 1 to 0 plus now integrating x plus 2 we get x square by 2 plus 2 x with the limit 0 to 1. Now, in the first part putting upper limit that is x equal to 0 we get 0 minus half lower limit that is x equal to minus 1 means minus 1 whole square by 2 plus now putting upper limit x equal to 1 that is 1 by 2 and plus 2 minus half lower limit putting x equal to 0 we get the value of the lower limit is 0. Now, which is equal to 1 by 2 into bracket this minus 1 by 2 plus 1 by 2 and plus 2 that is minus 1 by 2 and plus 1 by 2 will get cancelled that is 2 by 2 which is equal to 1. Now, we will calculate a n a n is equal to 1 by l integration from minus l to l f of x cos n pi x by l dx which is equal to here l is 1 that is 1 by 1 integration from minus 1 to 0 f of x is x that is x into cos of n pi x dx plus integration from 0 to 1 x plus 2 cos of n pi x dx. Now, first of all we will integrate the first integral taking u as a x and v as a cos n pi x by using generalized rule of integration by part. First keeping x as it is and integration of cos of n pi x is sin n pi x by n minus the derivative of x is 1 and integration of sin of n pi x by n pi is minus cos n pi x by n square pi square with the limit minus 1 to 0 plus now integrating the second integral taking u as a x plus 2 and v as a cos n pi x. First we will keeping x plus 2 as it is and integration of cos n pi x is sin n pi x by n pi minus the derivative of x plus 2 is 1 and integration of sin of n pi x by n pi is minus cos n pi x by n square pi square with the limit 0 to 1. Now, in the first part first we will put the upper limit x equal to 0 that is putting x equal to 0 in the first term as we know sin 0 is 0 and this into 0 that we get 0 and this minus minus plus we have cos 0 is 1 that you get 1 upon n square pi square. Now, minus of lower limit putting x equal to minus 1 that is sin of minus n pi 0 therefore, the first term is 0 and this minus minus plus we get cos of minus n pi that is what we get cos of n pi divided by n square pi square. Now, plus now considering the second term putting x equal to 1 again sin of n pi 0 therefore, the first term is 0. Now, minus into minus plus putting x equal to 1 we get cos of n pi by n square pi square. Now, minus of lower limit putting x equal to 0 because of sin 0 first term is 0 and this minus minus plus value of cos 0 is 1 that we get plus 1 by n square pi square which is equal to 1 by n square pi square and this minus 1 by n square pi square we will get cancel then minus cos n pi by n square pi square and plus cos n pi by n square pi square we will get cancel therefore, the value of n is 0. Now, we will calculate b n b n is equal to 1 by l integration from minus l to l f of x sin of n pi x by l dx which is equal to 1 by 1 integration from minus 1 to 0 x into sin n pi x dx plus integration from 0 to 1 x plus to sin of n pi x dx. Now, again here integrating by part by using the generalized rule of integration by part taking u as a x and v as a sin n pi x first we keep x as it is an integration of sin n pi x is minus cos n pi x by n pi minus the derivative of x is 1 and integration of minus cos n pi x by n pi is minus sin n pi x by n square pi square with the limit minus 1 to 0. Now, integrating the second integral taking x plus 2 as a u and sin n pi x as a v first we keeping x plus 2 as it is an integration of sin of n pi x is minus cos n pi x by n pi minus the derivative of x plus 2 is 1 and integration of minus cos n pi x by n pi is minus sin n pi x by n square pi square with the limit 0 to 1. Now, putting the upper limit first here in the first part putting x equal to 0 because of multiplication of x here first term is 0 then minus minus plus sin 0 is again 0. Therefore, by putting upper limit we get the value as a 0 then minus of lower limit that is minus. Now, putting x equal to minus 1 we get minus cos of n pi by n pi and minus minus plus putting x equal to minus 1 again what we get here is 0. Now, for the second part putting x equal to 1 here then we get 1 plus 2 that is 3 minus sin minus 3 by n pi cos of n pi this minus minus plus sin of n pi is 0. Now, minus of lower limit now putting x equal to 0 we get here minus 2 by n pi and cos 0 as a 1 and sin of 0 as 0. Now, which is equal to minus of minus 1 is to n by n pi because cos of n pi is minus 1 is to n then minus 3 by n pi into cos of n pi is minus 1 is to n and minus minus plus 2 by n pi now taking 2 by n pi common we get which is equal to 2 by n pi into bracket 1 minus 2 into minus 1 is to n. Now, substituting the values of a naught a n and b n we get f of x is equal to 1 plus 2 by pi summation of n equal to 1 to infinity 1 minus 2 into minus 1 is to n by n sin n pi x. Now, references higher engineering mathematics by Dr. B. S. Gravel. Thank you.


Dear students, I welcome you in the course of Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and Decision Making. This is module number 157 and we are going to talk about that how can we temper happiness and excitement? Because like anger, anxiety, the happiness and excitement can also are warning points in the decision making and negotiation process. During negotiation and decision making, remember that there are few things that we have to understand. The first and most important thing is that during decision making, do not give the counterpart the impression that the counterpart is losing the game. Because our excitement demonstration can give it a reaction which is not desirable, which is not good. So we have to keep control over our excitement and happiness so that the counterpart should not be feel defeated. Another important thing is that we have to understand that during our negotiations, we should not give our excitement to our overconfidence. Because our overconfidence sometimes can get away from victory despite winning. And we have to be careful about when we are celebrating our victory. And sometimes our victory is celebrated at a time when that celebration will take us away from victory. So we have to be careful that we are the victims of overconfidence, we should not hurt trust, we should only pick emotions as an input data so that we are able to find out the right answers to the questions asked. Another important thing that we have to think about is that all this negotiation is just like a game of poker, it's just like a game of chess, in which we have an opponent and we have to get rid of ourselves in the situation of that opponent. And we have to see what are the odds, what are the circumstances, what are the reasons for which the opponent is reacting in a way and how can we react to it. Along with this, we also have to see that our excitement and happiness should not give us the impression that we are having an impression of superiority. Because we can lose the ground by the coming of the impression of superiority and this complex. So we have to be careful, we have to see that if we are negotiating with the next person, in that negotiation we are not snatching the major pie rather than we are expanding our pie to find out the way through which we can do our benefit core materialize. Therefore, one thing we also have to bear in mind and that is that negotiation is a two-way communication. It is basically an interpersonal process. In that interpersonal process, both parties are obviously involved and it is necessary for both parties to understand each other's viewpoint and not to violate respect and trust at any stage. Another important thing is that we have to be very observant during negotiations and we have to see what the other person is feeling, how is his dialogue, how is his exchange of ideas, what is he demonstrating about the negotiations and the processes which are going towards the achievement of some common goal. So we have to understand the next impressions because unless and until we are not observant, we will not be able to establish decision-making in appropriate terms because the only purpose is not decision-making, but the purpose is to maintain the relationship. Another important thing is that during the negotiation, remember that you have to focus upon the facts, you have to focus upon the realities and in the facts and realities, remember that the people have the tendency to lie about the omissions rather than they focus upon lies of the commission. So lies of omission, we have to be careful, we have to be vigilant, we have to be careful in the context of dealing with other people because their emotions are also there to win the negotiation and we have to see that we have better establishment of relationship and better outcome of the decision-making and negotiation. Likewise, remember that during the negotiation, look closely at the emotions of the counterpart and observe it closely that his facial expression, his body gestures, his tone of voice are indicating that what can be the right bargain. Dear students, if we conclude all this, then remember that during the negotiation, we have to be vigilant and agile, we have to see what we are feeling and we have to also understand what the other person is feeling because unless and until we don't operate vigilantly with others, our decision-making compromise can be made. Thank you.


Hello freedom family and welcome back to ask obits where your questions always will be answered So in last episode I kind of introduced myself a little bit to you told you a little bit where I was from But some of you guys actually wanted to hear a little bit more. So what is there to tell? Well, my name is Alexander obits I'm 23 years old you and call me obits because that's what all my friends call me and all people within the freedom family I assume you are my friends, right? And if you haven't seen Brendan's aka valorizes video then click that I Sorry George, I always wanted to do that So if you haven't been reading my story, then you can go to the George show and read the whole story It's a very sad story and I didn't have very good childhood So if you're brave enough to read it all then feel free to do it But I won't go into details here in that story But what I can tell you is that I started on YouTube the 21 of May 2015 and I joined freedom right away because I found that as one of the first networks I knew that they will be an amazing opportunity for me But I had never imagined I was standing here in front of you today Being a part of the community team and just do content for you guys So I'm very thankful and very happy and all my love goes to George and the rest of the freedom family So my story on YouTube is not that simple because before I even joined YouTube I have been studying it for about two to three years I was sitting watching a lot of videos one day and I just thought holy moly This is what I want to do I never doubted for a second that YouTube would be something for me And I sort of gave my life to YouTube by entertaining people and make people smile That was my goal and that is still my goal today So what I do on my channel is simply having fun and do whatever I want to so instead of doing a video where I Don't have myself 100% in it I rather prefer to say no to the subscribers saying that that is simply not something for me and instead doing another video Maybe I won't get that much fast views But that is how I am and that is what I want So I think freedom and the freedom spirit is a great network A lot of great things is going to happen in the future One of the first videos I saw on YouTube was a video by Ryan Hieger Or Niga Hieger if you want to call him that I thought he was a great personality and he simply inspired me to do YouTube videos Later on I found PewDiePie and that really did open my eyes for the gaming community So it might not be as most YouTubers out there because I'm not doing one kind of content I'm doing all kinds of different content But enough about that guys, let's get to the program So the first thing I want to talk about today is who is the community Because George, he did announce some of the people from the community team But now I want to announce all of them so far This is the community team All these guys are part of the community team at the moment But I have to tell you guys and please don't misunderstand this We love to see all your great novels about why you should join the community team But we simply don't take invitations anymore We have enough people I'm not saying that there will not be any more community members But we have already found all the people that we need And we have a long long list that we are going through And when we are done with this list, there will be no more community members But maybe in the future, I don't know So enough about that, YouTube news So some people might say that the Fine Bros really have screwed up this time Doing to their React world announcement that they did about two weeks ago They have lost over one million subscribers So some people might misunderstand this concept So a lot of people think that if you just make a reaction video The Fine Bros will come to you and require money for that video But it's not that simple as it seems So when you are creating a reaction video Yes, the Fine Bros were trying to buy the reaction word And that has caused a lot of confusion Because if you make a video about reactions Where you're reacting to something, either a video or something else You might not get copyrighted for that But if you're doing something that is so close to the elders reaction Or the kids reaction or the adults reaction Then you will get copyrighted But as we all know, the amount of dislikes were way too much for the Fine Bros So they took down the videos And they took all their words back And now the project is no more I mean, wow Think that they actually would buy the word reaction So that nobody could use that again Moving on So first shout out we will do here on the ask of its show Will be rapid game The first thing that caught my eye was your logo I really like the logo you have been doing It really stands out and is a good way to brand yourself I would recommend you to take a look at your banner again And maybe try to improve it a little bit You don't have to put the YouTube web address from your channel into the banner Just make the subscribe button into your videos And then do the annotation back to the channel So people can subscribe from there It takes a lot of space from your banner You can use it more well Also your thumbnails I'm very impressed Looks very nice However, you might need to improve your channel trailer a little bit So you could choose to make a whole new channel trailer Or maybe take one of the videos that you are really happy with And use that one as the channel trailer When I take a look at your videos and watch your gaming What I really see there is that you have a good microphone Your voice is very loud and clear The quality is very good And I like to see that your gameplay is not lagging But one of the most important things that I have to tell you And that I did notice when I came to your channel You have no playlist And since I can see that you have no playlist at all You would at least have like delight playlist If you have likes and videos So what I can see out of this Is that you are not going to many channels and like their videos You might want to know that when you are going to other channels And you like their videos And people see that their videos are coming in your like playlist Then that could also turn into be If you to friendship or if you to collab Because people really do appreciate when you appreciate them So really about the gaming you should really get a playlist Of course, freedom family, we on the community team Are reading all your comments And some of the comments that I have been noticed a lot Is your stories Some of your stories are very inspiring And some of your stories are very very sad And I will encourage you guys to upload your story on your dashboard As George told you in a previous video Also please leave all your stories down below in the comment section I will read them all I love reading your stories I would really love to interact with you guys down in the comment section Here where you are from And here your YouTube story So just leave them down below I will read them all Or what do you think is a good YouTube story Comments down below Or how George is doing it Or click that I that will take it directly to the video where George announced this I would like to hear what is your goal Because if I should help you with all these tips and tricks Then I would like to hear where you're coming from Then I would like to see your story Where you're coming from And afterwards see what is your goal What do you want to get out of this And what do you think freedom can help you with Because I really would love to give you a million tips and tricks In order for you to become successful here on YouTube So if you haven't watched the first episode of Ask Orbits Then click that I that will take it to that video I'm sorry George but I will use this forever It's simply too good I really hope that you enjoyed this second episode of Ask Orbits There will be a lot more and I will try to upload two times a week Don't hang me up on that one I will try okay And if you want to see more of me Then head over to my YouTube channel and see what I love doing But for now guys Thank you so much for watching Remember you can always ask Orbits questions And I will always try to answer them the best way possible Can you hear this is what I have to deal with Stop it, stop it, simply stop it Oh my god the construction is starting again So for now guys Stay groovy out there and have an awesome time