Hello, it's a pleasure to be here with you this morning to kick off day two of the Polymer Summit He's been Galbraith and he's Dion Elmer So to start out with I do have a bit of bad news We have actually been practicing our dance number for quite a long time now Yeah, and we were just informed that we didn't get the rights for the music. Oh man It's a it's a shame because we had tailored this number to this one particular song and without it We're just gonna have to move on to our backup talk, which we'd prepared just in case There's one little bit of good news though, which is Rob Dodson snuck in and did a little video of us practicing So maybe we'll get something for next year. Yeah, maybe maybe So we've both been working on the web for a really long time Initially as developers building things on top of the platform back in the mid 90s And we've worked in various capacities at places like Google palm like Matt was just talking about and Mozilla pushing the web platform forward And now we're at Google. This is Dion's second time my first where Dion leads developer relations and Ben's product lead on Chrome And in our new roles we're in positions again to help steer the web And so we've been thinking a lot about its future and this morning We want to share some of our thoughts with you Just to sort of get a conversation started both here and afterwards and hear your feedback about where the web platform should go And as we've got to riff on this again and really kind of go deep We can't wait to share just how excited we are about the future of the web Which may not be obvious to some of you because the web's actually been through some tough years lately Which is kind of a shame because the web in its early years was such an amazing Wonderkin sort of personified by Mark and Driesen on the slide It's amazing when you sort of sit back and ponder all that the web was able to accomplish in such a short time And I think one of the first accomplishments that comes to mind is the global disruption of Basically every industry that the web kicked off that's transformed the world we live in and that disruption is still reverberating today And Before the web do you remember this you remember using things like gopher fdp IRC You know I was at the University of Minnesota. Yeah, there we go I Was at the University of Minnesota where we gave birth to gopher and it was really you know useful in the computer lab But not so much for kind of the average Joe And so really the web to me kind of packaged up the internet and made it the first consumer friendly and really Develop a friendly platform I gotta say I'm a little upset about all the applause because I'm gonna have to listen to stories about gopher now for the next two weeks It was amazing You know the eye the iPhone we sort of forget about that eye and iPhone sometimes and that goes back to the iMac where it explicitly stood for the internet Mac because back when Steve Jobs came to Apple a second time and Sort of figured out how to bring the Mac to market. He felt like he needed to do something different to compete with the Windows app ecosystem. He had to change the game And so he marketed the iMac as the best way to get to the internet and position the internet It's really the thing that mattered not apps and He kind of had a point back then because the internet was where all the cool new content was that people wanted to engage with And so the internet in addition to its other accomplishments It also opened up the marketplace again for a platform like the Mac to come in and it wasn't just the Mac Can you imagine using Linux without being able to use a browser? So at this point in time the web was a truly unprecedented success But Then what happened the web had a little younger brother come along we'll call him mobile and You know when your first younger sibling comes along you got this cute little baby doesn't love a little baby It doesn't look how cute it is and even had cute little toys that it could play with these are so fun You could do some fun cute little things with them and like a lot of younger brothers You try and kind of emulate an act like the older brother So he tried to do cute little web like things you know back then in mobile and then before you knew it that little That little brother mobile grew up and turned it to something that was maybe Some some that someone might think is a little bit stronger a little bit more capable a little bit more talented than his older sibling and people suddenly noticed and Before you knew it Mobile apps became the new thing and at this point we started to question were the web's best days actually behind us And you know the web's been through lots of difficult moments before if you remember things like Java applets flash and silver light all tried to go over the top of the web and Replace the web with a different UI layer and the web's constantly been able to reinvent itself in pivotal moments like Firefox coming to market and restoring browser diversity at a time when people openly questioned whether there was even a need for browser innovation Or Ajax spurring a reinvention of web apps resetting what was even possible to build on the web or Chrome bringing speed stability and security to a whole new level and Enabling the landscape we have of really sophisticated high-performance web applications today So the web has this history of reinventing itself to adapt to the changing landscape and new opportunities And then mobile certainly became another one of these opportunities right at this point in time the web is the vendor kind Became maybe a little bit bloated Maybe a little bit out of shape compared to mobile apps And it was time to kind of get back to the gym to get fit again And we did that and that resulted in things like amp PWA all of these capabilities We've been talking about the last few years making the web truly awesome on mobile And that continues as we come with new technologies like WebGL web assembly who D&E etc etc The web's working out hard to enable these new class of applications And so now the web's kind of catching up to that younger brother, but What about the future as we look forward to what's on the horizon? We actually think the future of the web is set up to be really exciting and To explain that we want to talk about three trends that are just around the corner and how the web is Situated to meet these opportunities First the proliferation of even more devices and we want to talk about augmented reality for a minute And finally we want to talk about assistive interfaces To start out with let's consider today's Smartphone desktop world. There are so many devices it's really hard as a native developer to keep up with compatibility across all these different devices in all the worldwide markets and it that explains why things like watches and and smartphones Sorry watches and tablets aren't universally supported because of the effort required to extend to these and Then consider smart TVs which are pretty ubiquitous and other smart devices that are now hitting the market and new ones That are just around the corner How are we going to manage developing for all these different devices? And it sort of helps you realize that native is really fun when you're targeting a relatively homogenous device surface But it can be a nightmare when you're tackling all of this complexity And so it really makes you appreciate that native makes the most sense when you're creating an experience That's tailored to a particular device or device sort of profile And that's really why you sort of use the word native because it sort of indicates that you're targeting something That's really specific and then also have explained why one of the world's most popular Vertically integrated hardware software companies has their own native SDK split into different flavors for watches and TVs and tablet smartphones and laptops It's sort of like us come into Copenhagen for the best experience We'd love to like fully understand and learn Danish But a that's kind of hard be we're only here for a week And that doesn't really scale like we're into Poland in a couple of weeks to speak at a Google developer day Fortunately for us. There's a cross-platform language called English. That's kind of a fantastic alternative Thanks very much by the way And so the web's always been about this trade-off of Sacrificing sort of tight native coupling for the ability to adapt to a wide variety of devices and platforms And the idea of the web adapting itself to these wildly different device types has been back to the web in the very beginning Even the original version of CSS Contemplated the feature to enable a web page to adapt to text-to-speech devices for example And these mechanisms of the web were largely ahead of their time You could use them for theming and you can see this in sites like CSS Zen garden But now in the multi-device world we're entering we're finding new use for these mechanisms and things like media queries Bring them to a new level of maturity and usefulness So as we enter into this multi-device world We think the web is actually ideally situated to help us cope with its challenges And it's ready for this fundamental trade-off that will be required to scale to this world We're entering of new platforms form factors and modalities Let's talk about augmented reality for a second. You know with AR We're seeing a lot of these different scenarios pop out that are pretty compelling You know we're merging digital and physical objects for shopping gaming and much much more and Seeing it through a phone is neat. It's already useful It's nice to be able to kind of go zoom in and play around with things But what's going to happen when this explodes in the future and we get fulfilled a vision through glasses or whatever Technology is actually going to bring this to you. We think this is actually going to be pretty fantastic And when you think to this future You look at the heart of AR to us it looks kind of like a browser It's about mapping physical addresses to virtual content and this is what the web does every day through URLs And what do you want to hear you want to link to third-party content to seamlessly browse around and explore Different things that are out there in the world. You don't want to install apps for every experience as you go around So to us when we look at AR it seems like a natural extension to the model of the web itself Last thing we want to talk about our assistive interfaces because now that computers can Understand you when you speak to them and they can speak to you. It's a fantastic way to get things done I mean really why use the linked list of native app launchers and bespoke app interfaces when you can use the voice Hashtaple to get right to the functionality bucket that you're looking for I was pretty fantastic if you can say set a timer for 30 minutes instead of having to open up the app and navigate through It it's really effective But not always Does anyone remember calling into phone hotlines something like a movie phone listing where you're sitting there on the phone While this voice comes back with like there are 10 movies close to you Was that a thing here there's like a hand in the back there's one hand Painful voice trees everyone's gone through that a little bit. It was a very frustrating experience And it really shows that assistive ui's to be effective They have to span all of the screens in our life Because you want to be able to start a session and have that session seamlessly go to whatever screen is around you in the movie Phone example you want to be able to use your voice to say what movies are playing then you want to see the listings on it on a Tablet or a TV that's close by and communicate which one you want to see So this means that the assistive Ecosystem that we're running into Also is coupled to the device problem. We mentioned earlier, but it introduces another problem Because now the assistant has to act as an agent for the user and in order to do that It has to understand the content of the experience where have we heard the term user agent before So in order for this to work We have to introduce a semantic layer into our content Which again takes us back to the future of the web as a recent article by Zach Blum on the history of CSS sort of reminded us it included this awesome quote from Mark Andreessen where he talks about having to explain to developers that it's a feature of The web that you don't actually get to control the presentation of your content that the web is just about content That it that actually eventually failed as browsers bowed to pressure to hack in presentation tags into html And the web tried again with CSS the original vision of CSS was to enforce this separation And also there was a failed pivot to XML and XSL. Do you guys remember that anyone? Again, no, no, we got a few more than movie phone actually So we've tried and I think these attempts really ultimately failed because they were just too far ahead of their time Ultimately, everyone was just trying to display pixels on the screen and the sort of multi-device Multimodality future was science fiction and that there's one thing we're really good at as developers It's finding the easiest path to solutions But with the need for intelligent agents to broker these experiences and for those agents to understand what's happening We think it's time for us as a community to revisit these ideas and evolve them for the future that we're running into And now we have web components where we get to separate semantic markup from the actual implementation We've barely scratched the surface on how we can separate those things at the moment And so in review when we look at these trends when we look at the devices that are coming an augmented reality and Intelligent agents we think they actually play to the web's strengths And it's one of the reasons why we're so bullish and excited about the future of the web And it also paints for us a potential roadmap of where the web needs to go from here So coming back to the brothers again, you know, they each had their kind of time in the Sun at this point They've kind of matured. We've got mature platforms on both native and on the web And we believe both actually have a long future ahead of them We've got interesting things to come unless of course another little brother or sister comes along and gets to usurp them Thank you. Thank you very much


All right, what's up guys. What's up product school? My name is Brandon Reed and I'm a senior product manager at the Walt Disney Company and I'm here today to talk to you a little bit about brand and Why it's important to build your brand how Mostly really how a successful brand can help you build successful products because we're here to talk about product And yeah, let's dig. Let's dig right in. Let's not Delay any further. Let me share my screen here Okay This okay great Let's do this Let me also first say that of course everything I share is is views of my own my personal views and not the company's so The topic I'm going to cover is building with a passion how the mission of your brand drives the success of your products And I'll also say That you know As I was as I was preparing this and building the slides or whatever I was like trying to make it look good and stuff and I was like what I'm not shouldn't be spending my time on this I should be spending my time on the content So there's nothing pretty about what you're about to see it's literally bullet points, which I know is kind of the worst But hopefully it's strong content and things that you guys can really learn from and take something from but it ain't gonna look Super pretty. I put a Mickey Mouse in the corner for you. So that's that's kind of cool But anyways, here's a little bit about me. I'll go quickly through and kind of how I How I ended up where I am today. So graduated 2013 from Baylor University second Bears And then moved down here to Orlando to do an internship But before that I graduated in May internship started in August and I flew down here ahead of time to kind of Talk to some people and talk about what it would you know, get my getting my foot in the door And what you know what that entailed and get some advice from people one thing I heard over and over Was if you have the opportunity to and before you know when you're starting your career at Disney work in the parks Get operations experience Get your hands on our product from the guess point of view and see it from that standpoint Which was super value valuable great advice and has really helped shape our brand in my mind And I've gone back to those experiences over and over again So as a photo pass photographer in the park at Magic Kingdom I dressed in a costume and I held a camera and as people came in and walked into the Magic Kingdom I took pictures of them and saw our guests experiencing our brand and our products From that point of view is super valuable. Then I did my internship in technology It was more of a project manager role and did that Yeah, I converted from internship to full-time Sometime in like 2013-14, but it was more technology like back-end data systems And then my my way over to the digital experience, which the highest level essentially I work on the mobile apps and and build features and functionality in the apps to Enhance our guests digital experience while they're in the parks while they're on vacation Yeah, to make them more magical digitally So that's what I do now Let's start just clicking through here believe in the brand when teams are bought Oh, and also let me say before I dig too far in here that of course, I'll share What I believe on these topics my thoughts my opinions on this stuff But I also know and hopefully that's valuable, but I'll also share You know a little bit about I know when you probably saw on LinkedIn or Facebook or wherever you saw this It said, you know senior product manager at Disney and you were like ooh Disney I want to see how they build products at Disney of course I can't talk about what I'm working on or anything as specific But you know at the highest level I'll share what's what's really public knowledge and general knowledge about how Disney builds products And how we do it so that you can apply and learn and do things You know where applicable how Disney does so hopefully I can you know share some of that insight as well But anyways, let me let me get back to the first point when teams are bought into what your brand stands for You approach the process with with an aligned goal of fighting to protect it I just think it's so important that of course your brand is Is clearly Defined that the people that are working to build the products that support that brand understand what the definition of that brand is And that they're all all aligned towards it that they believe in it Because you know one thing that honestly that happens really really well at Disney is we believe in Disney We believe in the brand and we fight to protect it the products we build we care about what it does to our brand how it makes our company look and Yeah, that's important and really powerful when you're building products Users trust provides space for innovation but commands thoughtfulness and comes with greater responsibility. So I say users because I know that's in special technology what most people Refer to to customers as we say guests At Disney world and I'm in specifically I didn't say this earlier but Specifically in the parks and resorts segment obviously Disney does a lot of things But I'm in the parks and resorts segment. So the apps I work on are for guests in the parks and Yeah, our guests the trust that they have in the disney brand of course disney is one of the most trusted brands in the world and The that trust it allows more I guess wiggle room, right? I almost benefited the doubt that our guests give us that sometimes I joke You know if we push it a little too hard or maybe release too much functionality in the app in one area And the the rolling out isn't as smooth as it could be guests still open up our app have a splash screen that is Mickey's head that exploding in fireworks It's like the shape of Mickey's head. And are you kidding me? Like that's awesome So guests like even if maybe the absolute glitchy they they they see our strong IP The brand that we've built and there's wiggle room there and trust built there Not everybody gets to enjoy mickey mouse on your splash screen and guests coming into your app with like the joy in their heart But we do and so I so it provides some of that room to to press but of course also that command stopfulness and And it absolutely comes with greater responsibility and we feel that way at disney is we're building products to support a world-class brand that we all believe in and care about Is that we need to the the things we build Need to align with Yeah, the the the vision we all the vision we've all been given about what disney is the brand We know it to be what we believe it is And so we take that very seriously is my point And I think that's important in any business that you're in any company to have employees that That are working towards a common goal like I said in the first point and then also Are yeah are working towards it I lost my train of thought hold on but command stopfulness Anyways, I'm not even going to go back through that point But it is important, of course that if you if you have trust in your brand that You work to protect that of course. I hope that made sense, especially with that fumble there at the end Take care of and listen to your brand ambassador. So, uh, of course, we all know specifically disney those people it could be here and or Your teacher your neighbor whatever those people who love disney world or disney land or any of our parks disney as a brand the movies And everybody goes to them for tips and tricks when they're going to go on a disney vacation and Those people are brand ambassadors and it's important that we take care of and listen to them That we that we hear their feedback. They use our products often more than we do They know our products well. They know our brand well And any company that you're working in as you establish your brand as you build your products It's important that you listen to the people that know those products the best you're in it We all know we're in it. We're in it every day We know the features and functionality the acceptance criteria Down to the ends detail, but our our our users our guests our customers whatever they use it up here But understand it very well They have some of the most valuable feedback to to offer. So listening and take care of them It's really important mature and evolve Of course as you are building your brand and if you get to the point Where you have built a solid brand underneath you as a company. It's important that you don't stay there Push past that mature evolve with your customers as they mature and evolve as the world matures and evolves as tastes and interests Um and technology if you're in technology evolve Move with that your brand should move with that And don't build a brand and then and then stay there Solid even as if you get to a solid place Take time to observe how your users see you could they communicate what your brand stands for? So building that I used to work in one of my first roles Um was actually backstage. So like not where the guests are in the park but just behind that at hollywood studios and I could walk out of the building and I could hear I mean if you've ever played roller coaster tycoon It's like exactly that soundtrack like you can just hear you know like everyone saw a scream Some laughter And I would walk around the building and I'd hear that I'd hear our guests enjoying our products The tower of terror is right there if you're familiar with it. It's like the doors swing open People scream out and like whatever you can just hear it. Um, and I would walk into the parks. I'd see people enjoying our products Observing how they're using them how uh, what how the ways that they're using them Defined yeah our brand what we stood for um And all of that is correlated all that is intertwined and um seeing often how they're using the products If they were using them In the apps and the functionality uh in ways that we are they using it in ways that we expected Are they using it for the things we expected them to use them for? um And all of that how all of that kind of I guess wraps up what my point is here is like how all that wraps up um Could they use those products experience your um your our park ride our rides Eat our churros and at the end of the day be able to wrap up and communicate what our brand stands for I think disney does a phenomenal job of that and I think most often our guests can say this is what disney stands for And I think it's important that you your brand your products Also can do that with your guests users customers culture driven delivery so um Obviously we all know the importance of culture um and I can I'll just share a little bit of uh kind of what my experience is at disney um and uh in products and why culture is important in in what I've built so Create an atmosphere that reflects the products you want to build um One thing that's so neat about disney is that uh, you know, so so not it's not uncommon To see people that worked there for 20 25 35 40 years like that's not uncommon at all um And that to me shows that we have created a culture in an atmosphere that um That is one that people want to be around and work for um and uh associate themselves with a brand of excellence People want to be around that people are drawn to that um and when you create a brand and um a culture of excellence That reflects itself in the products that you build I believe that so firmly like if if what we associate ourselves with When we wear I mean mickey mouse like when we wear our company um gear when we uh say hey to anybody out in public I work for disney um They associate that immediately of course with excellence disney is an excellent brand And so the products we build need to reflect that as well and I think that's just a natural um A natural thing that could that would occur is if you build a brand around um an image the products that spit on At the end of that will reflect that image and so what is that image make sure it's um something that you stand for that you believe in And then is excellent. I just think of course that's important How disney reinforces uh culture so there's some um There's some really neat things here uh so That that i'll go into a little bit specifically I think like with the buildings that i've worked in You know a lot of us are remote now, but people are coming back to work. They're coming back to the buildings and such Um and in the buildings one thing that's just constantly reinforcing Who are we what do we stand for? What's the culture here? Is a great one is that we named all or not all of them But in a lot of buildings I worked in a lot of the conference rooms were named after our characters after our ip or our intellectual property so you'd say like Hey, are you gonna make it to the 330 in simba or um, hey later We got to talk to that group over in tinkerbell And you know, it's funny because just you know, we don't even realize it anymore as we say those things, but um I I think that matters. I think that it matters to um to integrate What your company is the culture you want to create into even mundane things like that conference room names another cool thing is um You know in one of the buildings I worked in there was a mural it was uh where Movies used to be created and then they converted into an office building And so but they built like these murals in the hallways of the characters of the movies that were animated there That were created there and that was you just walk the hallways and you can feel that energy Um, I think lilo and stitch if i'm remembering right Was was animated in that building and so you walk down you see lilo and stitch like riding a wave in a mural In the hallway and again, I think that stuff matters and instills and reinforces culture even in Even in the in between even as you're walking from meeting to meeting um, and then oh, yeah, the third thing here. I got my notes is um is Like one of my favorite parts of working for the company is product discovery. So that's what we call it, right? We're like, oh man, we really gotta get we really gotta as a team We gotta get some product discovery and we really gotta go Discover the product so gotta get to magic kingdom. So we like, you know, we'll go into the parks We will ride the rides. We will meet the characters We will Have the food and we will experience our product from our guest point of view and that to me, of course It's fun and of course, um, you know, that's That that does all the things that you know team bonding and outside of work moments do But it read it. I think it's one of the most valuable things we do for our work though I just do I think that it uh, it we you know, we joke product discovery, but it truly is that it's us Rediscovering and reinforcing. What do we stand for? What are our products? Stand for what are we? What are we building? What are we building towards? What are we building in support of all of this? as you know as we look around and experience our parks and I think that you know, of course Not everybody has a theme park that they can go into to remember their their their brand and and get reinstilled The culture of their company But in whatever way you can I just think that's really important to do I think reinstilling culture even in the in between I think is my point ultimately and even in the in between Even in the mundane I think often reinstilling Your culture and what you stand for is important and I think that it helps to deliver effective products It's still culture from the outset so Right away at disney We our orientation is called traditions and it's a really a really special time and you learn all about the company And the magic behind it and the vision that wall had and anyways There's something you learn there called and again, this isn't anything proprietary in any way It's totally public knowledge, but the the disney scoop I mean you may have read it on a blog or seen it somewhere But like the disney scoop to me stood out in my traditions class because I thought it was awesome so what the disney scoop is is If you're a cast member and you're of course if you're working But then even if you're off duty or whatever you're not working and you're there as a guest with your family in the parks You If you see trash you bend over and you pick it up, but do it on the move you disney scoop it Because don't need to draw attention to the fact that there's trash at Walt Disney World Just pick it up and throw it away. Take care of the park and Always whether you're working or you're not take care of the park and that that The culture of take care of this of this treasure that we all have which is disney the disney brand And whether you're working or you're not Take care of it care for it I care about it and and do it even in a simple disney scoop To throw away a wrapper that you saw in main street USA Which I just think is is so neat and something that I think disney does really well, of course Understanding the mission and how the mission associates to brand of course, they're very intertwined At that traditions class You know we learned so much about what the company does disney has his hand in so many different things But in the end and I don't know how they structure it now But but when I when I went through it, um, you know, and I know of course this is still the the motto But we said, okay, we do all these things and there's all these different brands that disney has and we do all these different things But the main thing the one thing the most important thing that we do as the Walt Disney Company We create happiness And that that's so succinct so clear And there's obviously so many tertiary things that go down of like what each segment of the business does and What what what part of that vision each group drives forwards? But in the end we all create happiness and that being a mission is one that everybody can get on board with Of course and um and build towards and build for as we as we build products All right, let me Oh, yeah, nice. I also had a note About we create happiness a a wall quote, of course That I just love it's somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled By a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true Are you kidding me? Like that's awesome goosebumps um Yeah, I mean That that sums up again the mission of we create happiness. We make dreams come true And we all truly what I've seen at disney Almost Entirely across the board is we all believe that work towards it and protect that mission If you can at all costs Install that and breed that create that in the company that you're in and the brand and products you're building Empower your teams to carry out your mission You know as you've established your mission as you communicate it empower your teams your employees to Um to carry that out to help define it in real in real life tangibly Um at disney they do a great job of that. They give us the opportunity to help guests In the park when when we aren't even um working when we're there as guests, uh more than one time I have seen uh a kid drop their ice cream. It's hot in florida It melts and kids just like hold it as they're looking at it whatever and and the Drops off and I go up uh grab grab the kid and his family and say guys Come with me. I'm a cast member. Um, and I have my little cast idea. I go up to the uh the counter and say Hey, is this boy lost or dropped his ice cream or whatever can we get him another one? And they just on the spot they get it and that's empower and the reason I even did that or thought to do that Was I was told like that opportunity is there if you see somebody if you see a guest need Serve that need meet that need even if you're not working Um, and I just love that. I think that that is empowerment. Um at such a A clear and really powerful level Um that if you breathe that in your company and are able to Effectively communicate that to your teams and they can carry out your mission and And help define it Don't dictate it from the top down. We've all of course we've all heard this You know, disney doesn't always do it right either But it's so important that as you're stating your mission as you're defining it amongst your teams That it's not given from on high that it's not here's our mission. Everybody carry it out go But that you instill and this goes back to my previous slides like you instill the culture You enforce the brand such that like it builds from the bottom up that it builds that builds from the working teams The people that are in the in the mud every day building these um these experiences these products Whatever however they're involved that it builds from there that the mission is understood at its most basic and um And core component levels there And then that just breeds on up and it creates that that that foundation That is way stronger than if it's just communicated and told from up top and say guys believe in this um It's important first that you build that foundation and really breed a culture that can create that um That environment and uh help help to carry out that mission I think I I hope I communicated that well Reinforce your mission often. I know I've talked some about this. Um In other points, but one thing that my leader does really well at disney is we will as we have our all hands and we're all you know talking Um, it's when everybody's at a meeting together. He reads guest letters I mean, that's it's really it's a neat part of disney that guests write in letters they can write they'll write to bob chapek our ceo and um, he will like disseminate those letters down Read them and pass them to the lines of business that um that were impacted by the letter or the the letter discussed and he'll read um letters from guests that were impacted by the products that we're building um and That is such an effective way I see the room. I see the way demeanors shift and it feels to me to be such a powerful way to um Yeah reinforce The mission that we're all a part of the brand that we're building um in the products that we're building every day So that's a neat way that that we do that at disney Realign your strategic direction if what you're building deviates from your mission. I see so often You march down the road. You've written the user stories You've gotten the sign off from the different, you know Stakeholders and business partners and you're already halfway down and you realize at some point that you have deviated from What ultimately we're all working towards does this product really meet the needs of the guests in the direction We know we need to be in um the needs. We know we need to be meeting The mission and brand that we know is established and that our guests trust us with like are the products we're building aligning towards that and um again disney doesn't always do this perfectly no company does But it's important that we still be diligent I think to as we're building products to stop there's no point at which it is too far that we can't Do some realignment to say we should be working towards um The end goal that we all know is there and it's believed and it's been defined at our company Instead of building something that just becomes a thing of its own And then is the end ends up in the hand of our users guest customers, whatever and um it does not um And is not aligned with ultimately what we know our company stands for So I think it's just important that we feel freedom to realign when we need to I think that's the last point on that page. Yep. So that's it. Thank you Um, I will leave with a quote from walt of course Um, uh that I think applies here. So when you believe in a thing Believe in it all the way implicitly and unquestionable goosebumps again, um that uh That I think really applies to products product people in particular Because believe what you're building in Believe it all the way If you don't you will find yourself running into any of the situations. I mean, some of them. I just walked through Um building products in a direction that your brand doesn't ultimately stand for Um a meeting needs that your customers clients, whatever don't ultimately have um and ultimately building And establishing a brand that maybe you or your company don't believe in believe in what you're building believe it all the way Um, and that will help you build. I think successful Effective products that meet the needs of the people you're building for Uh, that's how you can reach out to me. There's my email. There's my linked in bsr.read at gmail You shoot me an email and then uh, yeah, there's my linked in url as well. Um super informal would love to Hear from any of you guys can answer any questions. Um about anything that I covered today So I believe That That is it. Um, yeah, again, please reach out to me. Um, Would love to hear from you guys. I hope today was helpful and that I could some somewhat clearly articulate The points that I made today. Anyways, thanks so much guys. Take care. Bye product school


Boom With someone to geek some severe here welcome to another video guys. So in today's video I want us to talk about take a symbol DW ac. I'm just called I'm just gonna call it d-wack, which is the world So this is a company that is actually in the process of taking Donna Trump's Social media platform called truth public so they're going through what are called a reverse merger So we're gonna talk about that today took about the volatility of the stock and price Projection looking forward but before we get to the guys here new to the channel We took about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and a notification belt So you don't miss out on new content. So before we even jump in guys I want to apologize a little bit. I mean last week I came down with a call I know what you're thinking. It's not what you're thinking I'm not gonna say the name here on my channel. It was just a regular call. I feel better now Just a stuffy nose if you can hear my voice, but I do feel great and appreciate all the love and support That you guys are gonna give me So let's talk about d-wack. So last week This stock just came out of nowhere when the announcement was made and just skyrocketed as a matter of fact I mean like it completely blew it out of the ballpark So, let me kind of give you guys some background here So Diana Trump has been working on Trying to get back online in some shape or form if you guys remember He was banned on Twitter on Facebook YouTube pretty much like he was the platform across the board just like Alex Jones So he's been trying other ways to get back online. He's been like talking to other people I think he's on rumble if I if I remember that very well, I have to double-check that But it's not the same. So What better way than to create your own platform that you have full control over so Again, that's left to be seen. But that is the whole premise here. So The company that's like you're taking them public so you're going through kind of a reverse merger It's called digital world tickets symbol dw a c so if everything goes well And then truth is going to be trading publicly and then they're gonna have their own platform I don't know the ins and outs of the platform I don't know if it's gonna be a video platform like YouTube or it's gonna be kind of like a text platform like Twitter or Facebook that's a combination of text like videos. I have no idea but We're gonna see that I know as of right now They have about 30 days to kind of make claim To the code that they use in this particular product So I'm still waiting to see that so if we can jump in and take a look at the stock price Prior to that even before this is kind of the news That the stock actually dropped 10% but let's really jump in here. So if you can see This is where the stock is currently trading right now at about 86 dollars and some change We can see here on the chart 86 dollars and some change But just as of the 21st of October This thing was sitting somewhere about nine dollars. You can see yeah somewhere around nine dollars and 94 cents These news came out and the thing skyrocketed Just watch it all the way to a high of a hundred and seventy five Dollars guys. This is I mean, this is not a glitch. This is for real the stock move that much and if you also look at even their The wiring can bring that up here. The wiring didn't move about the same if you can see the wiring guy to a high of about 80 dollars from Maybe two dollars and some change if you can see down here. So it's I mean, it's insane But now the stock you see it pulled back All the way to about 75 squeezed back up to a high of about 121 Today before pulling back against sitting at 86 price point, which again is still insane if you had bought this thing down here That's ridiculous amount of the return. But now the fact that people are starting to talk about it and today They open options so people can actually buy puts and buy calls Is definitely going to impact the volatility of the stock then most people are going to be waiting for that news to hear If the news comes out that yeah the 30 days that they were given to prove that the code that is used for this particular product Is their code? Then they would do things.  So you're gonna see people flock to this platform and Who knows they could start generating some revenue from advertising and just like any of the social media platform So that's the case. There is a huge potential here again This is tying to the name of the person that's behind this this particular move is tied to Donald Trump The fact that he's he's got his hand and this thing Can potentially drive the price even to say 200 300 that won't surprise me if that's the case. So Again for for day traders now that they have options you can you know, either trade it both ways You can buy puts or buy calls or you can Kind of leverage puts and calls Buy one put buy one call and then see which one is moving They can close the other one and then right the other one so that way you're gonna give back a little bit of your profit But you then you end up not losing a ton of money, but if you are looking to just buy this in whole I'm not sure if you think I mean again, like I said, this thing moved from nine dollars to a hundred seventy five dollars Expect some pullback. So I'm gonna I'm gonna wait and see the same pull back if I see it pull back all the way To the teens then at that point it would be enticing for me to kind of want to take our You know kind of a little Snip at it again and just hold and not a massive position. Just hold something that I am willing to Really let go if things don't go my way. So that's how I'm gonna play this one But again, I just want to bring this up to you guys so you guys are aware You've probably seen this kind of turning into a meme stock if that's the case if you've seen it It's just because of the power of Donald Trump. That's behind this particular Spark his company social media company is working with the spark to go public. So again guys Like I said, this is something that For people that want to invest long term This is high risk because if tomorrow's any news comes out about this quote that they are Talking about that maybe they'll rip it up from some other Project this thing can go from right now sitting at 85 down to zero On the flip side if they say, oh, no, this is good to go This thing is gonna be going live here in the next month or two this thing can go from 85 right now to 200 I'm not gonna sit here and tell you guys I have any insight or any particular information Everything I'm telling you is stuff that I've just researched online. So definitely go do your own research It is high risk high reward. I treated this Friday made made some good money. I can't complain You know me. I'm not a great savage Today it was kind of sloppy I did a pre-market trade and then got out and you see it went to 121 then pull back So I'm just kind of being smart about it. Like I said, I'm kind of watching the news and making sure that I follow That to understand what's going on so that if there's any bad news What you can do here is Shut the thing or buy some puts if it's during market hours But if it's during after hours, you can short it if there's bad news and likewise if there's good news You can go long or buy some calls if it's during Regular trading hours. So again, let me know in the comment section What you guys think about is if you heard about is did you trade it?  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So, I actually recorded a video on this topic the other day and I didn't like how it went, so I just deleted the video and I decided not to talk about it because a lot of people are talking about Zoom. But now I really feel like I need to talk about this issue, this security issue. For those of you who don't know, Zoom is just one of many video chat classroom applications out there and it is not a very good one. It's not free, it's not open source, you're having to use their servers, there's lots of reasons we shouldn't be using it. You can set up your own servers for other things, very easy and there's a lot of services out there that allow a lot more security, but that's not even the issue, the privacy on that path. A whole other topic has come up, so my kids, my kids have had to take their weekly class through Zoom. Luckily we can do it with a web browser, it's somewhat contained, it's not horrible but it's not great either, but we get a message the other day from the coordinator of our group basically saying another group, and this I guess has been going on with a lot of Zoom meetings, had someone hack into their meetings, someone got into their meetings, someone and started while all these kids are watching this class saying and doing inappropriate things, which is bad. So why did this happen? How did this happen? How can we prevent it? Well, message we got said, so from now on we're going to have a password on our meeting, here's the link to the meeting, here's the password. Putting those two things together is number one, don't do that. Why would you say, it's like saying here, we're going to secure this site, here's the link and here's the password together, anyone who sees that can now have access to that. And my first thought was, well whoever hacked into this other class probably had access to someone's email because most video conversation software, when they create a meeting, they generate a random string that is so long and complex that you can't guess it. Well, that was not when, I don't know, I've never set up a Zoom meeting, I've logged in other ones people created and I'm assuming that these are ones that were randomly generated by Zoom. So I go back to the email that was sent to me and my wife and I look at it and here's your meeting ID and it is a 10 digit number. That is it. It is, is 10 digits. So zero through nine, that's nine digits and it's 10 characters long, which means there's a possible of 10 billion combinations, which might sound like a lot, but when it comes to computers is not. Click on the link, it says, you know, enter your username to enter this meeting. So I click on that, I change the user ID by one, I add one to it. Sorry, this meeting ID does not exist. I add one to that and it asks me to enter username to log into a meeting. So you see using sequential numbers like that is just a horrible idea.  It should have letters and characters, letters, numbers and maybe even other special characters, but just adding, forget about special characters like question marks and underscores. Just an alphanumeric, so, you know, A through Z and zero through nine. And when we say A through Z, it's going to be case sensitive. So it's 26 letters in the alphabet. So first off, the 10 billion is because like I said, 10 to the power of 10 is 10 billion, if I did my math right. If you have 26 letters in the alphabet, but you double that because they're case sensitive. So that's now 52 characters, add zero through nine. You're now at 62 characters. And if you have a set string of 10 of those characters, that is eight with 17 zeros trailing it. Yes, remember 10 billion is one with 10 zeros trailing it. This is eight with, I'm rounding here, eight with 17 zeros trailing it. That is a lot harder to guess. And plus, since it's not just numeric, you can't just add one and try to guess the next one. The possibility of guessing a random character, that string that's that long with that many characters is just unlikely that you're going to hit a meeting. So again, I don't know exactly how Zoom issues out these meeting IDs, but apparently it looks like they're just issuing numbers sequentially. So putting a password on that is definitely a good thing. So it's obviously a flaw if that is how Zoom is generating these numbers and it appears to be that way. But adding a password again, never put the password in with the link. Don't email people say, this is the link and this is the password. You have to send that separately. Email them and text them. Email them and call them. Let them know ahead of time what the password's going to be. But putting the two next together is part of the problem. But hopefully I'm wrong about Zoom always issuing meeting IDs like this. And if they are doing that, hopefully they change in the future. But again, using services like that are troublesome to begin with. You're making yourself dependent on someone else's server and it may sound complex, but you can spin up your own server in a matter of minutes and do a secure chat. And controlling the server and controlling the client software, meaning open source software on both ends is the only way to really be sure that you're having secure communications because most of these services they are watching, they are recording. It's not like being paranoid. They tell you they do in their user agreements. They know what you're doing. They're recording it. They're logging it. And they will possibly or probably be using the stuff in the future. That's what they do. They datamine. You may say you don't care about that, but you should. It's like saying I want to give our leader, our president, whoever. I trust him. So we're going to pass laws saying the president can do whatever he wants. So that's great. Maybe the president we have right now, maybe, theoretically. An imaginary president is the perfect president. Everybody in the country loves him. Never going to happen. We trust him completely or her. Never going to happen. But let's say we do it when we pass laws and say they can do whatever they want because we trust them. It doesn't mean we're going to trust the next guy or 10 guys or girls down the line the same way.  I trust them now. Don't trust them now because you may not trust them tomorrow and there's really no reason to trust them now. Anyway, don't use Zoom. If you're being forced to use Zoom, complain about it. And that's it. Have a great day.


Alright, so as we approach the last section of this course, let's pray and let's begin discussions. I would like to request one of us to please lead in prayer. Jefina. Thank you for this beautiful day and for the class we are about to have God. God, I praise each and every one of my classmates into your hands. Passenance into your hands. Be with us and guide us. You have called us to live the supernatural life in a natural way, Jesus.  God, as we are learning, help us to enlarge our mind, listen to it and accept it and do it in our life. God, we ask for your guidance. Help us to open our mind and heart and listen to it and to really understand it and apply it in our lives. Jesus, be with us and guide us throughout the sessions. I pray for all my classmates who are on the way and who are about to come out. Pray that they will reach at the right time and they will have a good connection throughout the sessions and they will be blessed. Jesus, thank you. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Jefina. We will go back to our notes that we've been studying from so far. We came to the third section of the course Keys to Supernatural Ministry where we are touching upon the personal preparation that all of us need to have in order for us to walk in more of the supernatural. We said intimacy is so key, identity being established in identity and especially when we are moving in the supernatural, not making our identity about our ministry is also so important. We talked about the compassion of Christ which led him to move in the many miracles that he did. So when we carry compassion, we can also see the release of God's power, strengthen people's lives. Compassion is a very important thing. We talked about holiness. We said that as far as holiness is concerned, it's again our posture before the Lord and it's about desiring to go from one place to the higher place in holiness as well. So when we are yielded in this manner, we can be used as vestors ready for masters use. We have to talk about walking in dominion and authority and then the remaining points there which are about growing in the anointing, impartation, inner wholeness, humility, learning and expanding. So I'll touch upon some main aspects. So hopefully if we are able to cover that, we should be able to wrap up this course today. So talking about walking in dominion and authority, we already know that we carry the authority of Jesus because of the cross of Calvary. Jesus is already one victory over the enemy and so we need to move with the understanding of believers authority. If one lacks the understanding, then we will not step out to see demons cast out. We will not step out to see people set free from sickness and disease. We will not realize that we can command the storms. So understanding our dominion and authority is a very, very important aspect of moving in the supernatural. So that's important. And we see the example of Jesus. Jesus, he just commanded these demon spirits. He never really had a compromise or he did not try to negotiate because he knew his stand and he knew the place where these demon spirits need to be or their works. We read in 1 John 3 verse 8 that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. And here we are now. He said, go in my name. Those who believe in me, they will cast out demons. They will speak in unknown tongues. They will drink some, even if they drink anything that's deadly, that will not harm them. So you will trample on scorpions and serpents. All of these things he has spoken about us. So the way he walked in authority today, we can also walk in authority. So here is an opportunity for the supernatural. When we see some form of affliction or oppression immediately, our mind should go to, hey, wait a minute. This is not in line with the kingdom of God. How about I take authority and call the kingdom of God to manifest in this situation? When Jesus cast out the demon in Matthew chapter 12, we see that he did it by the finger of God. And what happened? The kingdom of God came upon them. So he says after casting out that demon, he says the kingdom of God has come upon you. We do can bring the kingdom of God by walking in dominion and authority. And another very important thing we must remember is we should not be afraid of any backlash. And that is a mistake that a lot of believers do. They get scared. They step out, but then they think that what if Satan attacks me back for going against his kingdom? So they have all these thoughts. We must be very clear that there is no need to be afraid of the evil powers. And we've dealt with this in detail when we talked about believers authority, that Satan and his kingdom is no comparison, first of all, to the kingdom of God. That is true. However, he is very smart with his tactics, but praise God, the cross of Calvary has destroyed the devil. Satan has been crushed. He has been expelled. He has been dethroned. We've seen all these words and because of which we now who are vested with the authority that Jesus gave us, we can go against the devil and we don't have to let him do his thing in people's lives. So this is the way in which we approach dominion and authority when we talk about the supernatural. Just take authority whenever you see something which is not of the kingdom of God. So class, you can interrupt me anytime. I'm just continuing so that we can complete the portions. The next key preparation over here is growing in the anointing. We already discussed regarding the anointing being one of those keys to supernatural ministry. What is the anointing? It's the presence and the power of God which is released through the life of an individual when they are ministering. So at that point when we talked about the anointing, we said one can also grow in the anointing. One can increase in the anointing because there are greater measures of anointing present in the kingdom of God. So for personal preparation to walk in the supernatural, I can grow in the presence of God, the power of God, the release of that to accomplish God's works. So this is something we must desire and we must go after this. When we talk about the anointing, primarily we are focusing on the ministry aspects. When Paul was a minister of God, he had a calling from God to do certain things. He was called as an apostle. We also see incredible anointing for teaching upon his life. He carried certain graces on his life. What were these graces about? They had to do with the calling. So if he is called as an apostle, he carries the grace to be an apostle or the ability that God gives. He carried the grace to be one. So the calling, the grace and the anointing, they work together to demonstrate the power of God. So according to his calling, according to his grace, the anointing was manifesting through his life. Now take for example, if we have somebody who is called as a teacher, their calling is a teacher. Then what grace will they have? They will have the ability to teach. So they will have the grace to teach. And not just that, there will be an anointing in that teaching ministry. The anointing is the power of God, which will obviously bring revelation. We've also seen that Jesus taught, they came to listen and be healed. So healing is demonstrated as teaching is taking place. So many things happen by the power of God, but it is connected to the call and the grace of God. So let's assume somebody has this teaching anointing. They can grow, maybe initially, they are teaching a small group in their home. And that's about it. The revelation which they carry, they're able to equip these people. But as they go forward, they see that God is giving them deeper revelation, deeper understanding about the things of God. So they're able to minister to a larger number of people. Maybe as time goes by, they are growing and growing and growing. And frankly, the limit is what we put on it. So one can grow in the anointing of God, which is connected to the call and the grace of God over their life. So if one is called as a pastor, they're ministering with a certain anointing when they first start out. But as they go forward, it is possible for the person to keep growing and growing. So we might look at them and say, hey, five years ago when I saw you, this is how you were, but now wonderful things are happening. You've grown in the anointing. So each of us, even when it comes to the supernatural ministry, we can grow in the anointing and we can experience greater possibilities in the kingdom of God, greater manifestations of the power of God. But for that, one has to desire the growth. Is it possible to not grow very much? Because Paul tells Timothy, don't neglect the gift which is in you. But fan it to flame. So even though one carries calling, one has been given the grace of God, they may have a level of anointing. They can neglect it or they may never really utilize it, use it effectively. And just remain stagnant there or we understand when we talk about the gifts of the spirit that gifts can be dormant. They can quietly sit within us, never being used, not being activated. So that's not a good thing. In the supernatural ministry, we must desire to first of all understand what do I carry? What grace do I carry? What is God's calling on my life? Where is my anointing at right now? How to increase it? How to become more effective in that anointing? God gives, but we have a responsibility. But if we are not going to do our part, though God has given the anointing, we remain stationary. We remain sort of dormant. And that's not helpful in the supernatural ministry. We need to keep growing and increasing, increased measure, increased expression of the anointing of God in and through our lives. And for that everything that we talked about anointing would apply. So just feel free to stop and ask questions because I know that these are all areas where we actually might have questions. So for personal preparation, grow in the anointing of God. Next, we are coming to impartation. So for us to function in the supernatural, we can also understand about impartation, how it works and also receive impartation from those who may be operating in the same anointing, you know, that you probably carry the same grace that you carry on your life. So how does impartation work? As far as the Bible is concerned, it is possible to impart. We've talked about it. You have examples like Elijah, Elisha, Moses and the 70 elders. We have the anointing of Elijah, which is later imparted to John the Baptist in the New Testament. So anointing is transferable. It can be imparted. It's a fact. Even Paul, when he talks to some of the churches, he says, hey, I'm desiring to come to you so that I might impart a gift to you. So impartation is very much possible. But here are the things that we must recognize when we deal with impartation. Now, all of us want an impartation. Wow, if my anointing will increase through impartation, I desire impartation. Let it happen in my life. Let me get what that other person has, the anointing in which the other person is flowing. That's a good thing. But the right biblical understanding of impartation is crucial. Otherwise, this aspect of the anointing could even be misused. Unfortunately, it is misused as well. So first of all, we must recognize that impartation is from God. In John 3, 27, we see that Jesus said, no one can receive anything unless it is given to him from heaven. So we are talking about imparting God's anointing. How is it that a human can impart God's anointing to another human? We can't do it. Anointing comes from God. So, it's the Lord. Even though Lysha desired the anointing of Elijah, Elijah said, hey, wait a minute. If you want it, then you've got to do all these things and then you will receive from God. So he never really laid hands and said, okay, you want double? I'll give you double, take double. It's not for human beings to give and take.  He will put the anointing on our lives. So, see God, impartation comes from heaven. But yes, we can desire from another person's life and God will do the task of putting it upon us. So we should not run after people. That's the reason we are saying like, okay, give me your anointing, give me your anointing. It doesn't work like that. People cannot give and take each other's anointing. It comes from God. It comes from heaven. Now, impartation of the anointing. Here are a couple of other things that we must understand. Impartation only takes place aligned to God's gifting and calling in our lives. Now, let's just take, for example, somebody who is a carpenter. That carpenter can only train a junior carpenter. Let's say a junior electrician goes to a carpenter and gives him all his knowledge. The electrician can only use what is useful in his line of work. Rest information will not be useful for him. Rest of the impartation will not be useful for him because here's a carpenter and there is an electrician who is being trained under him. Just for us to recognize that similarly, there are different gifts, graces, callings of God on people's lives. Though impartation happens from God, what can be utilized or what is expressed best through our ministry is what is aligned to our calling. To make it clearer, let's just say there is a person who has a teaching anointing. They are associated with somebody who is in worship. But maybe this teaching person cannot sing at all. Absolutely cannot sing. Even though they are associating with the worship anointing, singing, all that, we cannot expect this person who can teaching anointing to suddenly start singing. It won't work. But there will be an impartation which will be aligned to the teaching. Who knows? Maybe they might do some kind of a songwriting script. Something aligned to the ability that God has given that teaching person. This shows us that people in the kingdom of God, ministers in the kingdom of God cannot be replicas.  It doesn't happen like that. Even if we are associated with a man of God or a woman of God, the anointing which is imparted to us is aligned to our calling, our grace and our gifting. So that is something we must recognize. And impartation usually takes place through association, association. Now, it's possible that we may not be able to physically attend meetings of certain men and women of God or go and meet them in person. So it doesn't matter. Association can also be from a distance. So when we read books, listen to sermons, listen to songs, what happens? There is a level of impartation from that ministry, from that anointing which can come upon us. How can impartation come? Impartation primarily comes through association. So when we associate with, you know, ministries, people of God we receive from their ministries. Okay, now impartation takes place in a measure that we've already discussed. We looked at Moses and he said, wow, what a leader, what a prophet, what a man of God, but his 70 member team did not get all that. They got some leadership anointing, but not the level that Moses had. Neither did they get described as prophetic or anything. So a measure of the anointing which was on Moses was imparted to the leaders. Similarly, when we are associated with ministers or ministries, we don't see, you know, all the anointing that one person carries come to us getting imparted to us. No, maybe measures and parts of the anointing may get imparted. Then ultimately, what we receive is what God gives us that we've understood it's not through a human agent. Now here is the most important thing about impartation. Impartation can happen, but nurturing and developing the anointing now is the responsibility of the individual who has received the impartation. Now sometimes there is an assumption that people have that, okay, I can go to this meeting. I'll get the impartation of this particular man of God, woman of God. Yeah, praise God. I have an impartation. I have an impartation. There is an impartation, all right? But let's say a teaching impartation. The person who received the impartation has to now study. They have to, you know, step out and teach. They have to, you know, learn on the job as they're teaching. They have to get better. They have to understand the flow of the anointing. There are so many things which are the responsibility of the person who now received the impartation.  So, receiving an impartation doesn't mean that one will experience the kind of ministry that they saw in that man or woman of God who are doing ministry. They have used their anointing and that's how, you know, they are administering the way that they are. Now, the individual who has received the impartation has the responsibility to nurture, to develop, to grow in the anointing and they have to make their own journey, okay? So, these are also practical things about impartation that one must understand. Okay, so I hope you're all okay with that. Any doubts, any questions? Impartation? You know, it's very talked about subject in the Christian circle. Okay. So, if you come up with a question, please do stop me and let's discuss. Oh, okay. Yeah. Impartation works even if people don't have faith. Like you may pray for them pray for them to receive the anointing but what if they don't, they have no idea about it or what if they don't believe in it? Does it happen like that even if they do? Okay, so you're saying can a person receive the impartation without faith? So, our understanding would be that no, they can't. Okay, so we cannot receive an impartation without faith because the anointing, the gifts of the spirit everything is operational only by faith, right? So, yeah, if there's no faith, you can't receive it. So, which is another reason why later we will study about expectation. So, when we are talking about supernatural ministry for us, that sense of expectation is very important. We have to desire the way Elisha he looked at Elijah and thought, wow, I want what he has. So, one needs that expectation and faith to actually get it. So, without, you know, faith and desire, you can't people use all this terminology. You can't pull on the anointing. People also say that, you know, when you come to receive, expect and put a demand on the anointing, they use all this language. It simply means the receiver needs desire and faith. Okay, without that it won't happen. Good question, very good question actually. Yeah, anything else about impartation, anointing? In fact, there's a sermon which Pastor had done on anointing and impartations. I would highly recommend you can go and look at it from the APC resources section. You'll have a very good base. Here at Bible College, we have a session known as like before graduation. Usually we used to, the previous day, we pray for all our students. We lay hands and pray for impartation. So, intentionally we pray over them and, you know, we pray something like, Lord, everything that we have, we impart it to these students. And even the students, we encourage them to desire. Whatever you desire, you pull. That's why when Paul writes about spiritual gifts, he says, earnestly desire.  I really want to be there. I really want to see the power of God like that. When we have that longing, we'll notice that those things start happening in our lives. But if you're like, okay, whatever, it will not manifest. So, expectation, desire, faith is important. So, we encourage the students. And hopefully now that, you know, COVID is through and we started our classes here on campus for graduation. I think we might resume having these sessions where we lay hands and pray for impartation. Okay. All right. Now moving on. Some more important things for personal preparation is inner wholeness. Okay. Inner wholeness, as such, it's important for, you know, just abundant life as a child of God, as a believer, as a minister, of course, but more so for the supernatural ministry. Okay. Because if I'm not whole within me, I could be a slave of fear or condemnation or guilt or lust or pride or jealousy or bitterness. See, these are all open doors for the enemy. It's like saying, we talked about anointing and we said, okay, the anointing will flow through our lives and we said we are conduits of the anointing, like a pipe, right? So when there's a nice strong pipe, the water flows. The bigger the pipe, that is our personal preparation for the anointing, more water flows, greater anointing flows. But what if there are holes in the pipe? We don't want that. So which is why inner wholeness on the part of a minister is so key. We may all start off with challenges, with issues, maybe anger, we see it in our own lives and we say, God, let those strongholds be uprooted, oh God. And we begin to work with the Lord. Every time we find ourselves committing a mistake, we go back and say, God, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. This should not have happened, but it has happened. But you receive God's forgiveness. You receive God's healing. Holy Spirit, come, work in my heart. Are there some areas that I've not dealt with? Because we don't want any foothold for the devil. Why don't we want it? Remember we said we want to be a vessel of honor, ready for the master's use, cleansed. That's what Paul wrote to Timothy and said, you cleanse yourself from all these evil things, then you will be a dedicated vessel. You will be holy unto the Lord for him to use. But if you're not holy unto the Lord, and as they shared through that illustration, just for our understanding, holes from where the anointing is leaking, or Paul tells the Ephesian church, don't give the devil a foothold. We give him footholds in our lives. He'll come and pollute, corrupt, taint what we carry. And then when we minister, you would notice that many times our ministry will have the effects. For example, if I carry bitterness towards somebody in the ministry, some other minister of God, and I'm preaching, whether I like it or not, that inner hurt will show in its expression the way I'm saying things about that person or the way I talk to people about that minister of God. It's showing in my ministry. I'm not dealt with my own personal hurt or my bitterness, or maybe it's jealousy the way I minister. Jealousy will be seen in my ministry. The examples I use, or let's say somebody is open to lust and sexual immorality as a minister of God, it's very dangerous. This begins to show in the way we do things, the boundaries that we keep in our lives. Slowly, slowly, slowly those boundaries, those right walls, they all start breaking. And maybe initially people cannot tell, but eventually they might be able to see in the things that we are doing, the way we are behaving, the standards that we have for God's people in the church and all that. They might begin to even notice because this person has opened their lives up to such ungodly things. They never dealt with it. They've not been made whole from the inside. You see, it's very important for a minister of God to keep track of ourselves. Paul tells Timothy, you need to be aware, Timothy, of your own life and your own doctrine. What is it that you're believing in? How are you doing the ministry? You have to self-regulate. You have to be most aware of what is going on from time to time. Keep a good internal check and ensure that you're moving with wholeness, inner wholeness. If we lack inner wholeness, there'll be all kinds of biases in the way we minister. And that's not good because it does not glorify God. So we must be careful not to mix up the anointing with impurities and an unhealed soul. If there are issues in ourselves, it's important to seek healing and walk in that path of healing to maintain it so that our ministry is not tainted with it. So that's important to even in supernatural ministry. The next key thing is humility. We touched on that when we said we talked about identity that how one must not become so overcome by oh, supernatural things are happening through my life. So I am like this I am like that. You border on arrogance but what is humility? Humility is a right understanding of who we are before God.  I am a child of God. I am empowered by God's word, by his spirit by the new creation that I have become and that is why God's power is flowing out of my life. So our position before God is humility. We know, okay, this is how your position with humility and it's when you're humble that God is able to impart more grace to us and James 4 6 it says that God gives grace to the humble and you know grace is God's empowering. So if I want more empowering of God, how can I receive it? God will only give it to somebody who's humble because he gives more grace to the humble. So if I want to receive God's grace I must ensure that I am in a position of humility before God. Humility right? In relating to people around me. So humility and humiliation are two separate things. You know, humiliation is putting oneself down. That's not what we are talking about. We are talking about humility or the right identity before God. Where we give God the glory for all that he is doing. Yes, we are delighted that wow God your power is working through my life but we are careful to give God all the glory. So walk in humility and you know it is also said that the higher up we go in ministry we need more grace to function you know in in those positions. But how are we going to get more grace if you don't have humility? We need to have humility to receive more grace from God. So wow what a beautiful dynamics God has caused to exist that the higher we go we need more grace but for more grace we need more humility. So the higher you go the lower actually you need to go. So that's the way God has orchestrated it and one must move in humility especially when it comes to supernatural ministry.  But instead of going on that mode of self glorification and self promotion immediately we must say God we want to thank you for your power Lord you work through my life thank you so much. Lord I praise you and the more miracles happen the more things happen through our ministry the more humility we need to walk in otherwise you know our mind will get distracted. So humility is very important for supernatural ministry the next key here is learning and expanding you see Jesus on the sermon on the mount he said the hungry blessed are those who hunger and thirst for they shall be filled those who hunger and thirst for righteousness but you see hunger and thirst is something that will fill us so if you ever reach a point in our journey where we say I already know anointing yeah yeah I heard that message from two three times I heard it I already know I know I was you know point number one point number two point number five there we stop in our growth but see the way the spirit of God works the way the word of God it's like a it's like an ocean where you can keep diving in diving in discovering new things in the ocean and being amazed by it there's no end to it so even when it comes to supernatural ministry in our journey we can just keep learning keep expanding we can read books about how God has worked in history we can learn from other ministers of God we can learn from brothers and sisters around us and see wow is this how you prayed oh wow is that how the gift manifested oh okay I shouldn't be doing this okay maybe I should pray like that so it's a it's a quest of a lifetime where we are learning we are growing we are enjoying we are delighting in what God is doing so in the supernatural ministry that's very important very important we don't know it all we'll never know it all so it gives us so much scope to observe to learn and expand okay so that desire is important always keep the hunger never say oh I finished KSM keys to supernatural ministry I finished it in second year it's not like that it's just just the stepping stone you know if you would put it that way for us to begin to explore more and receive more from God so always keep the hunger and keep you know journey with the Lord so now here section 4 a little bit about the pursuit of the supernatural a couple of things that we will touch upon first is expectation as we said earlier expectation and desire is a key thing so as we read in the Bible different different scriptures and mandates and blessings and the provision of God's power and the victory of the cross we get excited we're like wow is this so I recently met a couple they are from a very traditional sort of a Christian background where their church did not believe in the supernatural but after years of attending that community a question came within themselves reading the Bible that hey how come we can't expect healing they were taught that healing is not for today Holy Spirit is not for today supernatural things don't happen you know things like that within themselves they had that expectation and they said no there must be something more because the Bible talks about it John 14 to Jesus said you shall do greater things than these so a sense of expectation they had and they used to talk that couple was telling me they used to talk to themselves I know we are not being taught all these things but when we read the Bible the Jesus that we are being introduced to is not the Jesus that moves in the gospels his promises still somewhere something is incomplete and then they shared about how you know by just by meditating on the word of God they started looking they started searching and then somehow somehow they heard about the Holy Spirit they heard about the anointing they heard about so many things faith and all that they began to understand that the teaching that they were receiving had limited you know the actual picture of God for them so you see expectation and what did the expectation do for such people they landed up you know in a ministry like ours and they are exploring exploring new things learning new things basically they they've come to learn hey tell us more tell us more about the power of God tell us more about the Holy Spirit tell us more about the gifts of the Holy Spirit but they had an expectation what if they didn't have an expectation they say oh forget it nothing that's all we already know everything God's power cannot flow we need that desire everything we learn it's opening up possibility and then from there we begin to desire oh wow God is this here in your word I want it I want to see it in my life I want to see it in my ministry so expectation is very important to manifest God's power it's very important to see the greater works it's very important for demonstration you know of the power of God it's very important for us to see new expressions of God's glory ok so expectation maintain that expectation just three more things that we will touch on and close off I know your time is running out but just give me an additional couple of minutes next is taking risks we all know though faith is spelt F-A-I-T-H faith is also spelt R-I-S-K when Jesus told Peter come it was a risk imagine Peter stepped out what if he had sunk the very first time he kept his foot out but he took a risk faith he said no that word of God which sustains the world Jesus said come good enough for me I'm stepping out and he actually walked on the water so maybe praying for somebody with sickness you see someone ok you sense oh demon some demon issue it feels risky what if nothing happens what if they laugh at me you know what if I know I'm minister of God he says when he prayed for people apparently people died after he prayed so I expected them to be healed but people actually died so imagine he said initially that used to happen but then my faith grew to a place where I'm seeing more healings now not that every time I pray for someone they are healed and I don't know all the answers but at least more is happening now compared to earlier but for that that individual needed to take the risk faith is a risk to function in the spirits of the spirit we're taking a risk right so we need that attitude when we say God it's ok I'm not so worried about my reputation it's about your kingdom I will step out so take risks then stepping up to higher levels so we need to have the desire to be stretched to say yes there is more in God I'm not a certain place experiencing and encountering God in this way but hey I'm willing to make more sacrifices I'm willing to commit more I'm willing to learn more I'm willing to change more these are all things we need I'm willing to give you more of my life God I'm willing to surrender more things like this what happens we can experience the more which is in God we can step into higher realms and Paul told this he said that we now are in the new covenant which is a greater covenant right and we live a more glorious life in the spirit we have a more glorious ministry of the spirit so so much more needs to be happening and one has to allow God to lead them into that more and expect increase God is the one who gives the increase 1 Corinthians 3 6 so if God can give the increase I want the increase I want to see increase in the supernatural ministry of my life increase in the anointing to minister the word increase in the anointing to bring people into his kingdom increase in supernatural demonstrations of God increase in the number of people that I'm touching so all this will happen when we yield ourselves to step into higher realms because it's available it is available in God and finally finally the last point of this course would be being relentless relentless simply means don't give up don't give up we may have some failures as part of our journey but you see that's how we learn and just because we depend on God's word have faith in it and step out and it doesn't work we can't say oh forget it supernatural is not for me no no no try again pray again command again believe again declare again right so being relentless is very important have you say no God if it is in your word it's got to happen my experience can change I know your word cannot change that is being relentless you keep at it see the word manifest my experience will change but I will not give up Jesus said that I will do greater works I will do greater works because just because I failed John 14 12 will not change right so aim for the standard of the word of God you shall lay hands on the sick and they will recover laid hands laid hands not happening not happening no problem scripture will not change so till you see people being healed by laying hands on them keep laying hands keep going for it so be relentless we will definitely face there will be challenges there will be opposition there will be persecution there will be disappointment misunderstanding so many things can happen along the way as you are pursuing the supernatural ministry it may not be easy after all but we got to stay with it we got to stay on course and we got to keep pursuing the glory of God because isn't it God who said you know the latter glory right will be greater than the former okay so we are living in those days when God has promised I will pour out my spirit on all flesh and you will see the supernatural you will see you know young people old people you see many many people moving in the glory of God so we must not give up and we must hold on to God so let me just quickly summarize and we will close in prayer so we said for personal preparation one must equip themselves in intimacy identity compassion, holiness walking in dominion and authority growing in the anointing impartation inner wholeness, humility learning and expanding so 10 points that we observe will be helpful for our personal preparation and 4 pointers here to keep us on track for the pursuit of the supernatural one is expectation second is taking risks third is stepping up to higher levels fourth is being relentless okay so we will surrender to God whatever we have learnt I believe the Holy Spirit will continue to remind us and help us see more of the supernatural in and through our lives so could somebody please pray as we close off not just this class but this course and I really hope it was useful and I highly recommend that you listen to last year's sessions on keys to supernatural ministry as well we have the advantage of everything being available on YouTube and I'm sure you'll be blessed Pastor Ashish is teaching that course in the previous semester videos and you'll definitely be blessed by it okay so can somebody please pray Jai Hindalee Father we come to you under the name of Jesus we thank you for this beautiful J and we really thank you for this course Lord we thank you for Nancy for being such a blessing to us by teaching us this whole thing God as I surrendered all my classmates into your hands as we have done God help us to take it into our heart and to take risk as faith is spelled out as risk help us to have that strong faith in you just like Peter to walk in the water with you to walk through the fire with you Jesus help us to have such a faith in our heart and help us to move boldly so that we can glorify your name Jesus once again we thank you for this supernatural things Jesus we thank you that you love us so much that you gave us all these authorities and you have filled us with such a power because of your Lord God we thank you Jesus we thank you for every single thing we thank you for all the days that the class has happened where you spoke with us where the Holy Spirit spoke with us and we thank you Jesus we love Jesus name of Jesus amen amen thank you everyone for joining together and we trust that you will see more of the supernatural in and through your life and ministry so God bless you all keep pursuing the supernatural thank you bye God bless


It's always strange browsing through the Super Nintendo library when you notice which properties did and did not get their own video games. Now forgetened TV shows like Time Tracks and King Arthur and the Nights of Justice got their own titles, but not G.I.Joe or Transformers. Movies like Lawnmoreman and Toys got games, but other movies like The Crow and Nightmare Before Christmas did not. A movie called No Escape also got its own game for both Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis toward the end of 1994, and this was one of those movies that came and went in a matter of a couple of weeks. It's not a great movie, but if you're into the action genre then it's fine for what it is, but a largely forgettable genre movie getting its own game like this was still pretty weird. What's even weirder is that they did not skimp on the production here. I know a lot of folks are used to licensed games getting the NES treatment where it's just a bunch of stuff thrown together, but in No Escape there's a full three-minute long story sequence that's told at the beginning of the game. You play as Captain Robbins and you're convicted of murdering your commanding officer before you're dumped onto a prison island, which is split up into two different groups of convicts. And what is going on with this guy's face? Is he talking with a mouthful of cotton candy? Meanwhile the security guard back there as high as hell just trying to get through his day. The movie stars Ray Leota, Ernie Hudson, and Lance Henriksen, and I should mention quickly that no, neither this movie or the corresponding game have anything to do with the Atari 2600 game No Escape, at least as far as I know. You get a health meter with four lives and three continues to get through at least eight levels that are split up into a few stages each with no battery saver password system. And uh-oh, this is one of those games that tries to get too cute with the sprite animation. Everything your character does has a delay to it because it has to wind up so to speak, like when you do a roll to dodge melee damage, something you'll be doing a lot in this game, you press a downward diagonal plus the B button and there's a split second delay so the game can show off this totally radical combat roll man. In the past I've talked about how important it is to get the balance right between your character's range of motion and the level design, but I don't know if I've ever seen a 16-bit game get it more wrong than No Escape. Your character is made to be slow and deliberate, which is fine I guess, but each level has a booby trap every four or five steps and there's no way you can react quickly enough to dodge anything, even if you know it's coming. I mean if you want to just make a difficult pick-up-and-die style game that's cool just make sure your character isn't slow and plotting first with goofy sprite animations that get in the way of actual gameplay. Not only that, this is another one of those awkward games where the hitboxes are wonky, like in order to beat this guy in this one-on-one fight early on, you have to dodge his weapon and roll right on top of him so you can, uh, kick his shins till he falls over.  Safe to say the combat in this game is not great, but believe it or not this game does have some interesting stuff going for it. For instance when you complete the first level that's when you visit your camp, where who else but a 16-bit version of Lance Hendrickson himself greets you. At this screen you can trade items based on what the upcoming level requires, and there's all sorts of characters in the camp that you can trade with. The column on the left is what's already in your inventory that you've picked up so far, and the column on the right is what you can trade it for. To give one example of how trading works, the game tells you you'll need a flashlight with batteries to access this level here, so you'll have to trade in the correct sequence from each person in your camp so you can eventually obtain both those items. This game even has crafting. You press select to get to your inventory, and you can select up to four items to fill in the row on the bottom of the screen there, and it's actually pretty intuitive. You just select any combo of items to see if they'll make something that you need, or more specifically something someone in your camp needs that you can trade. This isn't the most complex game mechanic, but I was pretty dang impressed to see this game featured a decent crafting and trading system. There's over a hundred and fifty objects you can find and make, everything from a crossbow to a blowtorch. Not only that, but the manual features tons of text breaking down what each character in your camp actually does and what they're usually keen to trade for. It's actually pretty neat, and it kind of reminds me of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves for NES, although that might just be because of all the goofy portraits. One more thing I want to point out quickly, for the final boss fight a helicopter shows up and this is the sound it makes. No, there's nothing wrong with your speakers or your earbuds, that's actually how the game sounds. Just this charring clipping sound. I don't remember a Super Nintendo game ever having anything like that before. It sounds like I accidentally dropped a fork down into the garbage disposal. So yeah, no escape is surprising in both good and bad ways. I was stunned to see the amount of depth in the manual and the effort that was put into what's otherwise a throwaway forgotten game. It's just too bad a lot of the effort was misguided when it came to developing the basic gameplay.  You can also slog your way through this one on Genesis if you'd like, and it's nearly the exact same game with only minor differences. I do appreciate the effort that went into the crafting and trading system here, but the platforming and combat sections are just awful to the point that I can't recommend this one. Alright, that's all for now. I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.