A man becomes his brother's father. A jury renders an impossible verdict. A letter travels 50 miles per hour in 1755. And with those three impossible but provable statements, we welcome you to another session of paradoxes and odd facts to make you say, can you imagine that? Until we return in just one and a half minutes, this is Lindsay McCurry asking you to wait around, won't you? Here's the first can you imagine that item.  They go back hundreds of years to discover that Gunther the Dane, who sailed from Greenland, was an ancestor. Or that Valter, the Lithuanian lark, is distantly related by the southern branch of the family. But a family in Ventura, California has to have a genealogist to unravel a mix-up in their present generation. Why? Well, it sounds like one of those puzzles in which Ed likes cake and he's pool champion, so what's the name of the conductor of the limited? Mr. T. M. McCants, 48, married Alberta Abbott, 27. Nothing wrong about that? Ah, no, but when T. M.'s brother, Luther, married Alberta's mother, Mrs. Amy Logan, he fixed up something quite puzzling. See if you can close your eyes and get the first base with it. Listen, T. M. McCants is the brother-in-law of his own mother-in-law. Therefore, his wife, Alberta, is her brother-in-law, Luther's step-daughter. Mr. Luther McCants automatically becomes his own brother's step-father-in-law, and the mother, by virtue of this round robin, now becomes the sister-in-law of her own daughter. So in four people, there is now a full quota of in-laws which ordinarily would require two or three families to supply. The brother can call the other brother father, and the daughter can call the mother her sister. Can you imagine that? There have been many, many unusual verdicts rendered by juries all over the civilized world at one time or another, but I think I've found one which may have escaped the notice of legal historians. It was told in a news story, appearing in the columns of a paper in 1879. It seems that a farmer named Vance, living near the town of Carleton, Georgia, said to a neighbor one day, Say, I've got to do something about that corn crib of mine. Why, what's the trouble, Vance? Falling to pieces? No, but for a couple of weeks back now, I've been missing corn every night from that there crib. Yeah? Well, why don't you set yourself out in your barn tonight with a gun and catch the critter with steel in it? No, I don't somehow reckon to lose that much sleep over it. But neighbor, you give me an idea. Yeah? What's your idea, Vance? Well, I reckon I'll keep it to myself for now, but you'll drop around a more and see if I catch the thief. That evening, after supper and chores, farmer Vance went out to his barn and set his trap to catch the corn-stealing thief. He placed a gun behind the corn crib, tied a string to the trigger, the other end of which was tied to the latch of the barn door. Then he calmly returned to his house, went to bed, and we may presume to sleep. Late that same night, farmer Vance was awakened. Well, I reckon is how I caught the critter. And then he turned over, went back to sleep, and waited till morning. Hey, Vance, did you catch the thief? I sure did. Just look over here. Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. Lying prone across the threshold of the barn door of the Vance farm was the lifeless body of a huge, strapping negro. Undoubtedly, the thief who had been filtering the corn from Vance's corn crib. A trial was held to determine the legal cause of death, and after the jury had inspected the corn, the crib, the gun, the string, the door, and the dead negro, the verdict was returned. This here jury finds that the dead man met his death by involuntary suicide. Involuntary suicide, whatever that is. Can you imagine that? Well, you've all heard of Nick the Greek and John the barber, whose betting exploits in the gambling world have made history. Well, here's a story about a famous Englishman whose bets have given him a special niche in the Hall of Fame. He was the fourth Duke of Queensbury affectionately and sometimes sarcastically referred to as Old Q. At first, by a mixture of shrewdness and luck, he amassed a fortune of 300,000 pounds or about one and a half million dollars. This, by betting on the races and sometimes acting as his own jockey. But his first wager, which catapulted him into the limelight, was made when he came to London from his native Scotland as a young man. It was in a sporting club that the young Duke was talking with some newly found friends. I say it's impossible for anyone to go that fast with a horse. Oh, I don't know. Oh, my dear fellow, it's impossible for anyone to average that speed with a horse. Why, how you wager that a Shazen four couldn't cover the course at 19 miles per hour? Oh, 19 miles an hour. Have you a thousand guineas to put on the outcome? What? Did you say a thousand guineas? I said one thousand guineas. I'll wager one thousand guineas that my Shazen four will cover the course at an average speed of 19 miles per hour. Oh, done.  The wager was made. Now, the speed of 19 miles per hour in a Shazen four, that is, a carriage in four horses, was unheard of, but that didn't bother old Q. He had especially constructed carriage and chose his horses carefully and won the wager hands down while the sporting world looked on amazed at the young upstart who could upset the dope bucket with such a resounding ring. Then in the year 1755, he wagered, ah, but listen. My dear, dear old Q, you're absolutely fantastic. Some of your statements are ridiculous. You may have won a few bets by sound freak of chance. Would you? Would you care to place a wager? Place a wager? On what? Upon what we're talking about. I'll bet you any amount that you care to mention that I can cause a letter to be carried over a distance of 50 miles in one hour. 50 miles? In an hour? Why, you're mad. That's very nearly a mile per minute. No one could go that fast. Nevertheless, I shall wager any amount you care to put up that I shall have a letter carried 50 miles in one hour. This time you're caught, my fine fellow. I take that bet. We'll go to Mabankin now and draw up the terms. Remember that this bet was made in the year 1755, more than 50 years before railroads were even dreamed of and when the automobile was something absolutely beyond the range of imagination. So how was old Q to get a letter carried 50 miles in one hour? No one could run that fast. Not even relays of sprinters could keep up that grueling pace. It looked as though old Q was biting off too much. But the laughing sporting world didn't count on the Duke's ingenuity. For one day he approached the manager of a cricket club. My good man, you're the manager here. I am, sir. What can I do for you? I should like to engage 20 of the best bowlers in cricket that I could possibly find. Oh, thinking of starting a team, sir? Starting a... Well, something like that is something like that. Well, now, if you'll just come with me, I'll show you the lists and you can choose your man. What had cricket to do with conveying a letter 50 miles an hour? Well, old Q got a cricket ball and... And now, I want you to cut that ball open and enclose this letter at it. And you, 20 men, are to be stationed at intervals along the road. You're to toss this ball from man to man just as fast as you can. You'll be well paid for your trouble. Provided the ball with a letter and it travels the 50 miles in an hour. And did old Q win his bet? You know he did. In fact, so fast was the ball tossed from expert cricketeer to expert cricketeer that the rate of speed was actually exceeded and old Q again won a freak bet. Then came the time when the Duke's friends noticed that he was aging.  Old Q heard about it and instead of being put out or annoyed, merely said...  Now, really, gentlemen, I'm not in the least put out about it, but I at least should have thought that you would include me in the bets since you did not do so, I shall. 1,000 pounds that I outlive the most optimistic of the wagers. Oh, come, come, gentlemen. 2,000 pounds that I shall live longer than any one of you think. I'm 82 years old. Any takers? There were takers, and the Duke gleefully outlived the date set by the wager. In fact, not until he was 86 did he pay his last wager and that to no man who could collect. Can you imagine that? And well, yes, I guess it's about time to give you another chance to do a little melody sleuthing. Not long ago, a popular song came out written by the same writers as There's a Gold Mine in the Sky, Charles and Nick Kenny. The melodic pattern of the chorus is quite similar to an old hymn, which I'm sure you all remember, and in as much as the theme of the popular number is in a rather reverently religious mood, this similarity seems to us to be quite appropriate. Well, now I'm going to ask the male quartet to sing the first couple of measures of the old hymn. You listen and see whether or not you can fair it out the melody and from it, the title of the popular song. All right, boys? On a hill far away Would you like another try? All right, once more, boys. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross And were you able to recall the popular song which those bars of the old rugged cross should bring to mind? Well, we won't hold you in suspense any longer. Here it is, and I'm sure you all remember it and love it, the Cathedral in the Pines. He smiled when his bride came down the aisle In that little old cathedral in the pond A baby filled an S He was taken to be blessed In that little old cathedral in the pine He grew up and joined the choir Where the organ played each day And he found his heart's desire In a girl who came to pray Once again the wedding bells will softly peal And while you and I Before the altar are hand in mine As they did in old angstime In that little old... And now, once more, friends, it's time to turn you over to your own announcer and until we meet again on the next session of Can You Imagine That? I'm Lindsay McCarrie saying goodbye now.


This question is at the heart of the International Committee of the Red Cross dating all the way back to 1859 when wounded soldiers were simply left to die on battlefields. Fast forward to now and we've been working with Red Crosses and Red Crescents on the front line for 160 years. When people are cut off from medical services or hospitals are no longer able to function we try to evacuate the sick and the wounded. We call for humanitarian corridors so that we can accompany people to safety without fear of them or us being attacked. This only works when all sides in a conflict trust us to work as purely neutral humanitarians. We take action not sides.


In this video, I'm going to be talking about the Nanlite PavoTube 6Cs and doing a bit of an unboxing and then also telling you how you can download and install the new firmware and also use it with the mobile app. So if that sounds interesting, stick around. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech. My name is Alec and this is actually the first sort of official non-vlogmas video from my new studio. And so one of the things that I wanted for the new studio space, because I couldn't just add colors in a virtual background anymore, was some actual lighting in the background. As you can see, I'm still a bit lacking in that. But one of the things that I did do was invest in a couple of these Nanlite PavoTube 6Cs. And so that is what I'm going to be talking about today and doing a bit of an unboxing. Now, I have actually unboxed it already, but I put it back in the box just for you. Just so that you could see what is in the box. And then after that, as I mentioned, we'll have a look at how do you can download, install new firmware. There's a little bit of a knack to that. And then also how you can set it up with the mobile app so that you can control them, all multiple ones from your mobile phone. And yes, there is a slight blue tinge in the background. And that is because I've got one of them on a stand just behind me. So I have got lots, lots more plans for this studio space. And we'll be building it out and obviously sharing all of that journey with you along the way. But this was, as I say, just the first little step. So let's get straight to it and let's get on with this unboxing of a re-boxed boxed item. So in the box, we have got, first of all, there are some instructions in here in a nice little protective plastic bag just in case you drop the box in the water. I wouldn't recommend that. That's also got the warranty card as well. So do read those with care and attention, obviously. Then in the top, we've got this little packet of small metal plates, which I shall come to in a moment. And there's basically just three of them in there. In fact, there's two. One of them's fallen out. There you go. And they're just little metal plates, but as I say, I'll come to that in a moment. And then we've also got the actual light itself, which is in a very nice little carry case because with the size of these, they're about 10 inches long, 25 centimeters and not too heavy. They are really good little things to carry with you when you're traveling, especially if you're doing lots of Zoom calls, things like that. Having some good lighting on the go always helps. And then, sorry, I've just dropped it on a button on my laptop. Then also in the back, we have got a cable, which is USB3 to USB-C. And then we've also got this little lanyard with a little screw fitting, which is typical sort of for camera and lighting, a quarter-twenty thread. And that, as you'll see in a moment, if I take the actual light out of the bag like that. On the back, you have got a charging port, five buttons, which we'll come to in a moment, a little small screen. But then in either end, you've got a screw fitting. So you can actually screw this on if you want to carry it around your wrist or want to secure it somewhere. But obviously also you can just attach it to any sort of stand that you may have lying around, such as I've got there with that lighting stand. So it's just screwed onto the top of that. Or you could use it with a little camera tripod or something like that if you want it on the ground, angled up at a wall or what have you. But the other thing about it, and incidentally the reason for these little metal pieces here, is that you'll notice, perhaps you won't notice, maybe if I make it clear. There you go, put it against the white background. The light is kind of rounded on the front where the actual light is. But then on the back, you've got it sort of squared off and then these two angled sides at the back as well. And there's actually magnets in both ends around these three sides. So you can see that these metal plates basically are magnetic and will attach to the small metal plate. And so what that means is that what they include them for is that you can actually just use gaffer tape or something like that to tape these onto a wall. And so then you can just attach this to random places as you see fit. But the beauty of it being sort of three-sided is it means that if you are say on a wall and you want it to shine sort of up at the back wall for example, then you can angle it slightly like that or you can have it angled out to the side or angled a different way. The same if you were to attach this to a metal shelf for example, you could have it underneath the shelf and you may want it, I should probably change my camera angle like that, you may want it angled down or you may want it angled forwards or backwards or something like that. So that is the reason for those little angles and it works quite well really. You can attach it to any metal surface.  So if I was to mount it to a wall for example, I would need to pull it too hard for it to come off which in one way is good, but in another way is a little bit disconcerting. I'm always worried that if I were to mount it to the side of a shelf it would come off very easily. So that is just something to bear in mind, but still it's good to have multiple ways to mount these things. So let's have a little look shall we at what happens when we switch it on. So I'll come back to the top down shot and just move some of these things out of the way. And yeah, we've basically got five buttons as I say. So the first one is the power button and you actually press and hold that one. You'll notice when I press it that there is sort of bars that come up on the little LCD screen there and you press and hold and then once the none light logo appears then it comes on. There are three different sort of core modes and then multiple settings for each mode and there are basically four menus or four sort of menu folders if you like. So one for each of the different settings and then one for the sort of overall settings of the light. So I'll start with the first one which is the sort of white light. So you can basically change the brightness of it so from zero to 100% and then you can go down and change the color temperature so that goes from 2700 to 7500 so you can change the temperature of the light like that and then you've also got a gamma setting as well which goes from plus 100 to minus 100 and zero being in the middle which is the default setting so that's the level of control that you've basically got over the white light. Now if I press this button it will cycle to the sort of next menu sorry this one to the next function and that is the colored light and here again you've got the brightness so you can change that between, funnily enough, zero and 100% then the next one you've got 360 is the different number of colors that you can basically have so the full sort of spectrum there and so if I just cycle through these I think all through with the various colors of the spectrum and then if I press it again I can change the saturation so that is basically the sort of saturation of that color so 100 being fully saturated and if I was to go down all the way down to zero then basically it would be changing from the colored light to white i.e. with no color in there at all so that is basically I think probably the most useful functions the colored light and the white light and then another one which is sort of special functions and here you can basically cycle through a number of different types of lighting effects basically so this one is called a police car so flashing red and blue inside each of these as well you can change the brightness of them so I can imagine you know if you were doing some sort of stage lighting or something like that and you wanted the effect of these things then this is obviously the use case for them in your videos I'm not probably not going to be doing this sort of thing in my videos I shall just tell you about the different functions that there are nevertheless and so yes you've got the name of the function which in this case is police car and then you've got the brightness and then you've got different things like the speed and the different colors that you're going to cycle through and then let's have a look at some of the other effects so there's police car this one is storm so simulating obviously lightning this one is hue pulse which is just pulsing on whatever color you had the hue setting on before same for the white light so again pulsing at whatever color the white light was set to hue flash flashing with that color and the white flash as well and then you've got one that's basically looping through all of the different colors of white or grades of white whatever you want to call it whatever the technical term is it's escaping me at the moment the next one is the same just looping through different whites and then finally we've got the different hues and it's just basically cycling through all of those colors again with each of these there are lots of settings so you can change the brightness the speed the range of hues that it's going through so this is 0 to 360 going through them all you could have it going through a smaller range of the spectrum if you just wanted to have it sort of cycling through a particular range of the spectrum and then the speed as well so in seconds so we've got eight seconds here next one whoops a daisy I'm getting a bit ahead of myself next one we've got is also welding so if you want to simulate somebody welding nearby in your videos then these are the lights for you we've also got explosion which is obviously just going to be random occasional flashes we've got fireworks so again random colors we've also got one called bad bulb which I find is exceptionally amusing for a very accurate color accurate video light to simulate very poor quality lights so there is that one as well then there is disco which is just as you can see a range of flashing colored lights and a candle firelight setting and then paparazzi being a flash and then TV flickering in the background effect and then I think we're back to the police car so that is the the sort of effects that you can get from it for what they're worth and then the next sort of main menu so that is the we've got the white menu the colored light menu and then we've got the the effects menu if you like whatever you want to call that and then the next one is the sort of main settings of the light so the first one is channel 2 which is the first one is the channel so you can have multiple channels for these lights so that when you are controlling them with either a remote or the app then you can select different lights to have different colors so there's different channels for each light and you can have multiple different lights in the room the next section next menu item rather is the language so if you want to change the language you can change the wireless protocol I've just left that as it was on version 2 as opposed to version 1 not sure quite of the significance of that yet if I'm totally honest and the next one is Bluetooth reset so you can actually reset the Bluetooth if you've got it paired with different devices and then the next one is one to actually look which is the version of the firmware so here it's saying I've got version 1.00.11 which happens to be the latest version but I have to say it wasn't the latest version when I got them and in fact although I bought two at the same time from the same supplier they did have different firmware versions on and one was slightly older but none of them, neither of them were the latest version so let me just switch off the light for a moment just so that you don't get dazzled by all of the flashing lights that is basically a rundown of the different functions of them and the build quality is excellent I'll show you just quickly before we get onto the firmware I'll just quickly show you the website in fact I've got one step ahead that is the firmware download there's the website for Nanlite I'll obviously leave a description leave a link for this in the description and there are a few options so I just got the lights on their own but you can also get them with different things like a ball head fitting two tubes together and then a joining fitting between them to make them double length obviously and then there's a few other different options that you've got for them those are even longer ones so these are the six C's but then also you've got some longer versions of them as well now if I just come down here there are a few different accessories none of which I actually got but one of them is the fabric grid so if you want to be a bit more directional with the light then there is a grid available for them just proof bag if you intend to do any underwater filming or out in the rain there's also which could be useful actually a battery pack which would screw onto the bottom and then it basically just plugs directly into the charging socket on the back and that does extend the life so it does tell you by the way the amount of time that you've got remaining so if I just switch them on and go to a very plain setting what you'll see here is the time remaining so at the moment you can see I've got nearly full battery and it says 0.8 hours remaining but if I were to dim it down to say 50% all thereabouts what you'll see is the time instead of 0.8 is now 1.8 hours so that will change accordingly as you increase that you can just plug in any old power bank because as you saw the cable is just a regular USB 3 so you can just plug the USB 3 into your power bank and then the USB C into the pavo tube you can also just have it wired obviously directly into a USB socket and then power it that way as well so you don't have to worry about the battery life just coming back to I keep going to the wrong page there just coming back to this the last thing is you can also get a remote which is pretty cheap really $12.99 and that allows you to adjust the colour like that of them but what I'm going to show you now is also how to download and install the firmware because with the firmware update if you've got one of the older versions you can actually link it to the NanLink app which will allow you to do some pretty interesting things with choosing your colours and so on so let's have a little look at that I'll leave a link to this obviously in the downloads as well in the description but basically what we're going to do here is go to this page and then you'll see that there are some different firmware updates available this is the regular page and it will just keep updating with the latest firmware so worth saving this one and all you do is click on a firmware version 1.00.11 and that will download the latest version it tells you what's in here so it's added the app control function and so just download that and then it will take you through once you've downloaded it to a zip file and once you expand this it will bring you to this folder which has got some documentation but there is then this UPD file all you need to do is copy that onto a thumb drive so something like this but bear in mind that the socket on the back of the pavo tube is actually a USB-C so if you haven't got a flash drive that is USB-C you may just need to get one of these little adapters which is basically USB-3 or regular USB to USB-C and you just plug it in like that and then that means that then you can update the firmware on the light all you do for that is you just literally plug this into the back of the light with the light switched off and then switch the light on and it will instantly recognize that you've got the firmware on the flash drive and so it will just ask you do you want to install this and then you just click yes and that is about as complicated as it gets so once you've done that and you've got the latest firmware then you can actually control it with your app on your phone so I'll just quickly show you how to do that if I just bring up my phone what you want to do is search for the NAN link app again I'll leave a link in the description and then once you've got that and downloaded it you will need to create an account but once you open the app it's pretty straightforward to create the account and then when you want to link it with your light all you do is you come into here there's a little sort of actually call that the hamburger that little symbol at the top with three bars you click on that and click on new scene give it a name so I'll call this let's just call this studio shall we and click on create and then once you've done that click into that particular scene so obviously you can imagine you can create multiple different scenes with different lighting setups and things like that and you've got this big plus button so and it says tap to add a new fixture so if I click on this one now and then we can choose via 2.4G or via direct Bluetooth and you can see it does actually say that a transmitter box is required for the 2.4G whereas Bluetooth is direct contact connect so if I click on that one then it should just bring up the different tubes that I've got and I believe it is this top one that is the one that I've got on my desk as opposed to the other one and although I can just select all of them, silly me and then I'll click done and this is basically going to add those into the scene so you can imagine if you've got lots and lots of different lights you can add multiple different ones in and then in just a moment when this is finished doing what it's doing just taking a little moment there we go it has got this one now this one was channel 2 I seem to recall so this one that I've got in my hand is that second one down and now what I can do is I can change all of the lighting settings so if I click on that you'll notice that the light just went off click on it again and it should come back on and I can change the brightness of it by using these different sliders here I can also change the colour temperature so I'm just let me tell you what let me put this in the top down shot shall I and then you can actually see what's going on so as I'm basically changing the slider for the colour temperature it's changing the colour temperature of the white light and the gamma so we've got all of the same controls that we had before actually a lot easier with these sliders the mode so the CCT mode is the white mode the HSI is the one that's going to have the different colour sections so I can and you can see I've just got the wheel there I can just literally move it to any colour I want it does make setting the colours really easy quick as you can just take it to a specific point you've also got this one with sliders where you can change the hue and saturation and again you've got that 0 to 360 and then also the percentage saturation as well but the colour wheel is really good however there is I think an awesome feature which is a little camera symbol and if I click on the camera symbol basically this just brings up a little pointer and you've got a little pointer in the middle and you can just put that on any colour that you want so if I was to point it at this blue for example you can see that it's picking up the blue in this sort of bar that is down here and it's picking up that particular colour and then I can just click on that one to take the image and say done and now look at that it's actually changed to that colour so if you've got particular brand colours and things like this and you want your lighting to be on brand as well I think this is an awesome little app to be able to do this with and then you can also click on the little heart symbol there to save it as a preset so if you want to save that as a preset you can do that way and if I come back out and then this is how we basically set up these fixtures with the different lightings and then if I different lighting setups and then if I come out from here and let me come back to this shot and then basically in here you can see we've got studio well I could just keep going and adding all new different scenes and things like that there's not a lot in the settings section so it's just some basic things for account settings language things like that prevent device sleep device doesn't go to sleep personally I'll probably just be opening the app, switching on the lights and then that will be that so I hope you found that useful and you think these are pretty cool lights because I'm pretty impressed with them to be honest with you and they do just what I want for the studio I'm just looking down at my stream deck one thing about moving into a new studio space is nothing's still quite exactly where I expected I've also changed my just going on a bit of an aside here configuration so I'm no longer sitting down I'm actually standing and that means my stream decks a little bit further away than I was normally expecting it but anyway that is all for this video and I will give you another update after I've been using them for a while to let you know how they're going and you can expect over time there to be a steady increase in the amount of lighting in the background going on in my studio if you found this useful though please do go ahead and like the video and subscribe and why not share it with all your friends and family who might also be interested in this sort of content but for me for now that is all but don't go anywhere because I've got loads of other great videos that are coming up right now over on the right hand side have an absolutely wonderful day everyone and I will see you soon


Abiyokuta, the capital of Ogilu State, stood still for the late popular Mandarin hip-hop artist Ilerilua Oloba, also known as Moabad, as called for probe into circumstances surrounding his death continues to gather momentum, used in the hundreds gathered at the skating ground at Pancha Kefo, a peaceful protest before moving around major streets in the state, capital demanding justice for the former Malian record signee who died last week Tuesday, aged 27. Moabad's death had generated series of controversies from different strata of the society, with people raising their voices to request for a probe of his death. We are here to contribute and at the same time indulge Nigeria police force, Nigeria government to make sure the cost of the death of Moabad is known to us and then justice is going to be preserved at the end of the day. Here for the youths, in fact we are supposed to go to the station to make a formal complaint, a formal procedure, like you are going to hold this kind of protest and tribute but we didn't do that and in fact they are supposed to stop this peaceful tribute but they are our fathers, they just are here for our security, they didn't put any fear. First is for him, I am a mother, tomorrow it might be my kids, it might be my us band, so we need to speak up, we send no to unnecessary bully, we send no to oppressors, we send no to unnecessary family entitlements. We are all outside for Moabad, of course we are all outside for Moabad, we want justice for Moabad. Obviously, you know personally when I heard about Moabad's death I was like being a DJ, never mind he has actually killed his fame by himself. Do you know why, do you want me to tell you why? While Moabad was still living, many people were taking Moabad's voice for Naira Mali, you understand, they saw whenever Moabad dropped a hit, they would believe it was Naira Mali that actually dropped it. I said DJ, somebody had actually worked out to me why I feel good, was still running and they said please DJ, can you please play me, feel good by Naira Mali. I knew what he meant actually because I knew they were taking Moabad's voice for Naira Mali. So why? So you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hello, everyone. Welcome to this session of learning about how to make decisions at a startup and about zero-to-one products in general. My name is Chandr Chawla and I have been a founder of three startups. I worked at three or four startups as VP or head of product. So I think in total, I have launched at least 250-to-one products in both big companies and startups. I've advised, I don't know, 40-50 startups on launching products. So in total, I've seen products go through maybe 60-70 products go through the process of coming to life and you can learn more about me on LinkedIn. I have a blog that's cdoc.blogspot.com. I am a co-host of a podcast that's Valley Nordic and that's about providing Silicon Valley and Nordic perspectives to people mainly in the Nordic countries because the venture capitalist who's the other co-host is based in Norway. So let's get started. So before we get started, let's do a quiz or do set the frame or the discussion. If you look at the slide here, there are three options since this is not live. So let's see. Generally when I do this presentation live, most people say C is the wrong answer, A, B and D are the right answers. And we assume because we mainly deal with base 10 arithmetic or addition that anything that doesn't fit into that frame is wrong. So C is right if you use base 12 addition. So base 10 is A, B and D, C is using base 12. So that's kind of very similar to going from a big company to startup or doing things at a startup. You have to think differently. So in essence, this presentation is all about how to think about making decisions at startup. Let's go to the next slide. That's what is a startup about or business in general? So at a very fundamental level, startups or business in general is about four things. First, you need an idea and that idea becomes product or a service. You need a market for that idea or product service. And then you need capital to grow that business and you need people to execute work on building the product, marketing sales, etc. So when we say execution, that execution is really important in startup, it is the interplay of these four things, product, market, capital and people. So it's important to know as product managers who are listening to this, product is one part of the interplay that you are responsible for. But you have to think in terms of what is the market, how much capital is it costing and what kind of people do we need or what we have, what we can do with that. Then another framing is given that there are things or let's see how you think about knowledge. So knowledge, you can structure that into two things. One is things that are knowable and things that are unknowable. So knowable things are the things you can learn from others, from reading, from talking to people. So in a startup construct, you can learn about people, capital, technology, get the product, what the market is, what the competition is, what the history is. But as a startup, you are creating something new that's innovation that has not existed before. So this is something new where we don't have a track record or history. You can find similar things, but actually how it will work in the real world, you can only find out by doing. So that's the unknowable zone. So that's where the innovation happens, that's where or the innovation operates in the unknowable zone. So meaning things you can learn only by doing. And that's where startups are, especially in the early stages. So now what we'll go through are seven heuristics that I have learned from my own experience working at startups and also launching zero to one products and bigger companies. But they're derived from teachings of Dr. Yaneer Baryam, who is a complex system scientist and I've attended New England Complex Systems Institute programs or work with them. So a lot of the credit what I will share goes to Dr. Yaneer Baryam. And you will see many of them are the mistakes I've made. So my point of sharing these mistakes or learnings is that you don't have to make them and you can change your thinking before you make them mistakes. So let's see what they are. There are seven of them. First is business plan is useless. So when you're launching something new, innovating, creating a startup, there's a lot of uncertainty, a lot of variability of what will happen, ambiguity, randomness, everything you see on the slide here. And I got it from Naseem Khaleb, who's another author. I think who's been very influential in changing my thinking. So they operate in this domain of uncertainty and ambiguity. And plan is about the future.  This will be the revenue and cost and growth, et cetera. But you don't really know. It's all made up. So that's why I say it's useless, especially in the early stages of a startup. Instead, what you need is a learning plan. So there, as we just talked, you're operating in the unknowable zone. So what do you want to learn in that unknowable zone that can only be learned by doing? So you figure out a plan. This is what we're going to do. This is the hypothesis we want to task by doing. And these are the things we want to learn. So I think a learning plan is much more important than a business plan. But in the real world, when you go to a venture capitalist to ask for money, they all want a business plan. And even at a bigger company, you need to show a business plan for your new product idea. So what do you do? So I've seen this so many times. So much detail goes into finding the accuracy of the models in Excel we create. Oh, is the growth rate going to be 97% or 93%?  Or the conversion rate is 3.2% or 4.9%. All that doesn't matter. You need a plan. And everybody wants to see a hockey stick.  Otherwise, you won't get funded.  So that to summarize that learning here or heuristic here is plan less and do more. And that doing involves creating a learning plan and executing it. Next is winner takes all. That's mainly applicable to digital products, which most of them are today. So the picture you see here is Wilfredo or Vincento Pereira. He was a famous mathematician in Italy. He came up with the 80-20 rule, which I think most of us are familiar with. It's also called Pereira rule. He observed that 80% of the property in Italy was owned by 20% of the people. But it applies to level deeper. So if you take 80% of 80%, it's 64%. And if you take 80% of 64%, it's 50%. And then on the other side, you have 20%. So if you do 20% of 20%, that's 4%. And if you take 20% of 4%, that's 0.75%. So you can say 1% owns 50%. So if you are one company that means can own more than half the market or majority of the market. So that's a very, I think, powerful insight in the digital domain. And there are many examples in the business world. So you can see the market's share of search that's Google owns, I don't know, 80%, 90% or huge number. Uber owns majority of the market and right-sharing, etc., etc. So there are many examples of that. So how do you apply that to your startup or when you are building products? So you have to think big, but you have to act small. And if you are not getting bigger, you may disappear. And the reason for that is, let's say you start a company, you don't really want to get bigger. You are happy with owning 10% of a niche. But the other players in the market are trying to get bigger. So they will gain more efficiencies and they will gain more and more market share and eventually come after the niche you are targeting. And if you are not growing, they may acquire you or find drive you out of business and you may have to sell to them. So you have to put this thinking in mind of growth, especially in the digital space, is one of the key elements of success or winning in the startup space, especially for digital products. So the lesson is think big, act small. Because early stages, you have to make small, maybe, they're launching a product, just launch in one city, just launch to 1000 people. So you prove the hypothesis, have a learning plan, but always having the vision in mind that you want to debate. Otherwise, you may disappear. And next is understanding causation. So you may be noticing that I'm taking examples from outside of the business world, how they're applied, can be applied through the startup world. So what you see here is a graph of UN food price index, where you see the red lines, that's where the food prices went up. And you may remember at a spring that happened a decade or so ago. And if you asked most people in Silicon Valley why that happened, I think most people would say it was because of social media, camera phones, people were protesting. And that's how it happened. But that's not the causation that didn't cause these things existed before the revolution or Arab Spring happened. So what caused the Arab Spring was the increase in food prices. The food prices doubled, more than doubled in many cases, as you see on the graph. In the countries listed here, and you see this is the number of, I think in the parentheses is the number of deaths in that country because of the riots and protests. So it's very applicable to startups because I see over and over how we don't really understand causation of why people are buying or using the product. To give you a practical example or first-hand example, I was had a product at a company and when I joined, I had to decide the roadmap. So do we focus on making the machine learning algorithms for the core of the product better or add new features? So how do you decide? So we had like 30 something features in the product. I asked the team which ones are being used and nobody knew. So then I went to the customers and I asked them and I learned we had to figure it out. They weren't quite sure either. Out of 30 something features, we had only two were being used. So that told me, okay, we need to make those features better. But that was the harder thing to do than creating something new. But that's critical because that's why people are using the product, not because of all the features we have. So as a startup, what do you do? So let's say you have a product idea and to simplify, let's say it has two features, A and B. If it's a digital product, you can launch three versions. There's version for feature A, version of feature B, and a version with A and B. And then you see, okay, which one is more in use and it'll give you a crystal clear understanding of how people are prioritizing. Users are actually using the product, what's causing the adoption, usage or purchase. So you have to find ways to understand that position. So the lesson is get a crystal clear understanding of why people are using the product. Next is do not confuse risk with probability. This example I got from Naseem Talib. So it's very interesting. I think every year, a few hundred people die from falling from ladders. And you can see, you can predict, okay, there's all this data from last 40, 50 years, these many people are dying from falling from ladders. It's not going to become millions of people next year. We have all the past data. So the probability is very high that the numbers will be close to what it was last few years. But on the other hand, the risk of dying somebody from terrorism, you don't know. It's unknown. You can look at all, you know, 50 years of data and you still don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. So the risk is much higher of dying from a terrorist attack than from falling from ladders. But how it's portrayed in media sometimes, and even scholars, PhD, you read these articles, oh, the threat is over of terrorism and you have higher risk of dying from a traffic accident or falling from ladders than from a terrorist attack. So I think that's incorrect. The risk is higher with terrorism attack because we don't know. The past data doesn't tell us anything. So how does that apply to startups? Or decision making? So it applies that you have to create optionality because as a startup, you're operating in a high risk area. If you look at the data, most of the startups fail, but that doesn't determine necessarily your outcome or your success. So you have to, since you're operating in that high risk domain, you have to find optionality of your idea. Have optionality. Don't fall in love with the original idea. Think of other options. Many of the successful startups have pivoted or evolved their idea. So if you fall in love with your idea, it's harder to succeed because you take that idea to the market and market doesn't agree with it, then what do you do? So when you're designing the product, thinking of architecture, think of how you can make it flexible so you can do other things with it and test a lot of options, especially in the early stages when you are trying to figure things out, what would work with people? Okay, next is TMI stands for too much information. Too much information increases confidence and not accuracy. So the chart you see here is analyzed GDP growth in percentage from 1950 to 2010, and the yellow area is the great moderation. So you see until 1985, there are huge swings in GDP growth in the U.S. It could grow up to 15% one year or declined by 10% in one year. And Ben Bernanke was the Fed chair in early 2000s. He gave a talk or lectures on the concept of great moderation that the era of this wild swings and GDP is over, now we are in this era of great moderation. And I think most people would know the power the U.S. Federal Chair has. Everything they say, it's analyzed to the nth degree. You know, when Chairman Powell now when he speaks, like there's commentary for ours on CNBC, on Bloomberg, oh, he touched his nose that means he wasn't sure. Like everything analyzed. So they're very, very cautious in what they say and what they don't say. So if Bernanke came up with this concept and gave a lecture, that means they had done a lot of research. Hundreds of PhDs worked on this and came up with this idea. And then what happens? Next year in 2008, the market crashes. The GDP goes down more than 5%. So the point here is such smart people, PhDs working at the Fed chair can get confident with the amount of data they have, then so can be. So you have to find out how not are you getting overconfident with data? And there are many examples in the business world of that, that people had thought they had a lot of data. It said one thing, the reality was something else. And how it applies to startups is understand correlation among the variables in your business. Like how is marketing related to how much customer acquisition cost with product development, with how much capital is needed, how the customer success or support things are increasing when you launch a new version of the product. And because there's too much information in the world, how do you stand out? How do you position your startup for success? Because how do people find out you exist? So one of the tricks I see that Mary Meeker, who is one of the venture capitalists she uses or used to use was saying things in aggregate. When they presented numbers about wearable devices, which they had investments in, they would say the aggregate number of steps people have taken using a wearable device. So that number is in trillions, the total number of steps people take in a year. So that raises eyebrows or you pay attention. But if you say the same thing, okay, people take 10,000 steps in a day. There are 365 days in a year. You divide that by number of steps. The actual number of devices in use is probably at the time was a few million. So that doesn't raise any attention, doesn't make you stand out. So find ways how you can stand out and rise above the noise for too much information in the world that people are getting every day. So you get noticed. So find ways for making your start position well in the market. And next is replication with variation and selection with competition. This idea comes from biology. So the theory of evolution that Darwin came up with states that genes, they replicate with variation. So and let's say there's a gene A, then when it replicates or goes to the next generation, you have A1, A2, A3, and they compete with each other. And then the, let's say A3 wins in that competition. And then that reproduces again and on and on. So that's the general idea. I think the venture capital world and Silicon Valley and many other places around the world work in a similar way. Some idea gets hot and then a lot of investment goes to that idea. So for example, right now, Web 3 is hot. Like everybody's investing money in Web 3. Before that it was AI. Before that it was big data. Before that it was cloud. Like there's always something where the money is going. So how do you position yourself in that world, because you need capital to get the, to execute on that idea? Like going back to the earlier slide, capital is one of the core things for a startup. If you run out of capital, it's over. So you may have to position your startup that you are able to get attention from the venture community and raise capital. And even you may have to do that in a big company as well, whatever, in all big companies, something's always hot. You find ways to position yourself so you get funding internally or externally for that idea to make a product. And then find a market, et cetera. That doesn't mean you just copy what everybody's doing. You have an idea and if you are having, if you can raise capital with that, great. But if you can, you may change the positioning. Let's say you're using some ML machine learning for some simple task in the back end. You can position yourself as an ML company, but that doesn't mean you change. You succeed by creating value, but to succeed, you need capital. So you may have to play the game of where the money is going, wearing that hat to get the capital and focusing on creating unique value. Next is competition and cooperation work together. So this is really interesting because the example I have here is from sports. So let's say the American Football League. So at the sport level, you're competing with all the other sports. Football is competing with basketball or Netflix or any other forms of entertainment. But the teams collaborate to form a league and they advertise. The people come and watch the games, et cetera. And at the team level, teams compete with each other. That's the sport. But if you go to the player level, then the players are collaborating within a team to win the game, but they're also competing with each other to win the sponsorships, get more money, get more followers, et cetera, et cetera. So depending on the scale you have, or where you're operating, you have to see the competition and cooperation work together. So in the tech world, a lot of the competitors align to fight that we keep the principle of net neutrality in the US. So that's the teams, companies collaborating. And since this is an open environment, I'm based in Silicon Valley. People talk to each other. Generally, people don't try to hide the idea. So if you see somebody else is doing the exact same thing you're doing, then you try to do that differently. And that actually reminds me the previous slide where I said the competition is also among the startups. A lot of money goes into different forms of the same idea. And they compete and one of them wins. Okay, coming back to here, what do you do with that as a startup or how do you make decisions? So choose the right environment which is open so you can learn what other companies are doing and adapt your idea and have access to capital and capital connections and competence. So choose the right place where you can have that. But I think that's changing now with things getting remote. So I think startups will have more access to capital connections and competence. Things are getting remote. So let's summarize the seven heuristics as they apply to the startup or entrepreneurial success. First is plan less, do more, create a learning plan. Second, think big, act small. If you're not growing, you may disappear. Third, get a crystal clear understanding of why people are using your product. Four, don't fall in love with their idea. Test a lot of options. Five, understand correlation amongst variables in your business. Position your startup to be noticed. Six, pick a positioning category where money is going and focus on creating unique value. Seven, choose the right environment which is open and gives you access to capital connections and competence. And there is an article I wrote about the subject in Forbes a few years ago. The link to that article is here in this presentation. But if you search my name and Forbes, you will find that as well. And the other things I've learned are on my blog and you can learn more about what I have learned from the startup world and product on our podcast. Thanks everyone for joining us today. Bye.


Hello, family. Welcome again to another NARC Survivor Live video. In this one, we're going to be talking about how all narcissists end up losing. Because, yes, they may be able to manipulate you in the beginning and create this facade as though they have something of value to bring to you. But you end up being the one who is bringing all of the value to them as they lie to you and they future fake and it gets to a point where they're just unable to sustain it. They can't make it last. Everything they touch falls apart.  Even if there was a perfect person walking the earth, they would not be able to sustain the narcissist because they have a void that can never be filled. They will never feel whole or complete and you may have felt complete before you got involved with them, but that's exactly what they do. They bring you down. The whole point of this disorder and why it's such a problem, not only for the victims but also for the narcissists themselves, it's that it's characterised by denial and their disorder does not allow them to produce long-term success. So it may look like they manipulated and exploited you. Maybe they got what they wanted from you and then they got bored, they ran off, they moved on to someone else. Well that's how it may seem and they will try to portray it that way but it never lasts for long and it's because of their narcissism. They want to be in a position of authority. They want to have power and control over you when they don't have the qualities, the abilities, the experience to even be in that position to begin with. So it's like they want to be the captain of the ship but they don't even know how to steer it and when that ship goes down, they're not going to want to go down with it. They will jump ship and they may have jumped shipped with you. At some point they get bored of using the false character and when that goes, everything else goes along with it and that included you. They stopped using that false character that they were using to manipulate you so then they've got to get rid of you as well because the whole point of that false character was to serve you. It served no other purpose other than that and this is what they do. They create these false characters to appeal to their victims to reflect back to you your own qualities and virtues while knowing fully well that they are about that at all and they go from person to person using these false characters until the point where it begins to fall apart and where it falls apart is when you just can't do it anymore. You get tired, you get fed up, you just can't keep giving and giving and getting nothing back in return and the relationship it's always just this one sided transaction where you're having to give all of your time, attention, energy and focus to them and you're getting nothing back in return other than lies and future faking but then it gets to a point where you can't sustain them and that's how they all end up losing because no matter who they get involved with just as it happened with you that same thing is going to happen again I mean you just got to think most people they're not going to be as tolerant as you were they're not going to be as patient with the narcissist they're not just going to keep giving and giving they're not going to be as kind, loving and empathetic so what type of person do you think they're going to run into after you? of course it's going to be someone who can't sustain them at even a fraction of the level of what you are doing they're not going to find anyone like you ever again they're not going to find another empath but in all honesty a lot of them don't even care they're quite comfortable with their own kind they prefer to be surrounded by other fake people and if you look back you will notice once you started to see beneath their mask you saw what they were really about they began to feel very uncomfortable around you yes they feel uncomfortable around anyone real and anyone who expects them to be themselves instead of allowing them to wear this mask so that should already tell you where they're going to be next if they have discarded you because they've got to be around people who at the very least fall for their mask if you don't fall for their mask you won't want anything to do with you unless you feel comfortable around them and you're only going to feel comfortable around them if you're the same if you're just as fake as they are if you're not it's going to cause all sorts of anxiety for them they're going to feel triggered there isn't even one example of any narcissist who didn't end up losing they all go down in the end they all end up miserable they all experience failure and just look at it through the timeline of your relationship with them that's typically how it goes throughout their entire lives it starts off with the love bombing before you know it they devalue in you and then they discard you during the love bombing phase you're doing everything you can to make them happy to sustain them but no matter what you do it's never enough and before you know it because they're so insecure they end up devaluing you putting you down making you self-conscious or the while you're trying to boost them up you're trying to make them feel better about themselves but it doesn't work that way no amount of praise or compliments will ever be enough because that's meant to come from within we're meant to validate ourselves but they're so externally focused they're always locking outside of themselves for someone to complete them but no person on earth is ever going to be able to do that and in all honesty no one would want to this is why they use a false character it's why they manipulate us because if you knew exactly who they were from the very beginning and you didn't fall for their manipulation you would have left right at the start you wouldn't have wanted anything to do with them and they know that because they've experienced it before they were abandoned by their parents in childhood they have these unmet emotional needs and this is why their attention whores they constantly seek an attention and validation from whoever will give it to them but no matter what you do it is never enough because they have these unmet emotional needs from childhood so they can't regulate themselves they can't validate themselves they require an external regulator external validation but no matter what you do they're always going to end up devalming you and putting you down because it gets to a point where you see through their mask you no longer fall for their games and then it resurfaces their insecurities they start to feel very insecure around you and then they start devalming you they start putting you down so even when they have a perfect source of supply which is what you may have been to them even when they've got that it's only a matter of time until they begin to devalue and degrade it until they seek to destroy it because you're reflecting back to them how they're not good enough how their mask, their false character isn't even real so even though you may be there trying to sustain them trying to make them happy they're going to turn against you they're going to see you as their opposition as their competitor because they feel inferior to you they feel beneath you they feel less than you and that is why they want to bring you down that is why they want to pull you beneath them and this is the problem for a lot of us we need to understand this truth that all narcissists end up losing throughout their lives and in every relationship and if you were aware of this at the very beginning you could have dodged a bullet you could have got out before you got in too deep but unfortunately you didn't know if you had known then you would have laughed at the very beginning or if you could have, you never would have even met them but you didn't know and yet the crazy thing is this arrogance, this sense of entitlement that they have it comes from them manipulating people it comes from their past success of manipulation getting one over on people making people believe something that isn't even true giving them a deceptive outward appearance yes they base their success on that on something that isn't even real something that doesn't even exist so of course you can see how they are bound to fail because they're basing their success on something that doesn't even exist on something that they've never experienced any real success with because how can you experience success with something that isn't even real a false character that you're using to manipulate people and yet that's exactly what they do and it gives them this arrogance this false sense of superiority when in fact as I've said it before narcissists are losers they have nothing of value to bring to you and that's why when you get involved with them you feel like you've been robbed you feel like something is missing and the reason for that is because you're giving out they're manipulating you into feeding this void into giving your time, attention, energy and focus to something that doesn't even exist because that's the only way that they can get it they can't get it by being real if they were real you wouldn't want anything to do with them you would have left them right at the start but if you knew this right at the start you could have grey rocked you could have shut off your emotions cut off the supply and those of you if you have been skilled enough to recognize a narcissist before you got deeply involved with them I don't think many of you may have been able to do that but in my experience I can say that yes in fact I have so I can talk from experience in that if you do withhold your emotional reactions and you don't give them their supply here's what will happen you will keep your energy you will win you won't feel like you've been robbed you will still feel strong you will still feel powerful and that relationship will not last very long if you want to detect a narcissist all you've got to do is withhold your attention and validation because that's all they're looking for and that's really what separates them from the rest of us they come around you only for narcissistic supply and if you just cut that off from the very beginning they will leave you alone very quickly because they cannot be around a powerful person a person who is in control of themselves and their emotions which is why whenever you get involved with someone new this is exactly what you need to do maintain your source of strength and power withhold your emotional reactions and watch what happens do they stick around are they able to remain in your presence when you're not feeding them if they are then that means they don't have a void that means they're able to generate their own energy and emotions from within but if they don't that means that something is very wrong because a normal person shouldn't be so heavily dependent on your emotional reactions they shouldn't need supply and that will reveal to you if this person, this character that you are dealing with is real because if it's real it's going to be generated from within they're going to be able to sustain themselves they're not going to need your energy they're not going to need your emotional reactions they're not going to need narcissistic supply and this is how you know that the person you are dealing with the narcissist they're all going to end up losing because they can't generate their power or energy from within they have to get it from you and if you cut that off you cut off the supply you shut off your emotional reactions and you grey rock you're observed but you don't absorb they won't be able to remain around you they might go straight from the love-bombing to devaluing you and people talk about how the devaluation phase doesn't come in until at least after a few days maybe a few weeks in some cases even a few months actually no a narcissist can devalue you on the same day that you first meet within five minutes this is a test that you can do don't give any supply don't feed them don't give them your energy watch how they react because a normal person if you're not dealing with a narcissist they're not going to go from love-bombing to devaluing you if anything they're going to become more empathetic more affectionate that's how you know that you're dealing with a real person who can generate their own power and energy from within that's how you know that you're dealing with someone like that you're dealing with the real thing but when it's someone who you don't give into their demands you don't give them what they want you don't give them your energy and emotions and they turn on you they get mad they get angry they start devaluing you putting you down making you feel small that person doesn't even exist they're fake because they can't sustain themselves from within but narcissists are actually quite comfortable around other people like that other people who are fake other people who can't even sustain them because they have no power or energy that they can generate from within yes, narcissists are quite comfortable around other people like that just like their family, look at their friends they're all fake they live this facade and you may know that from your own family if you come from a family of narcissists just look at how they're all born together over your destruction and you're scapegoated yes, they're quite comfortable around other fake people people who have nothing to give to them and yet they alienate you they turn against you the one person in that environment who is actually real the one person who can generate their power and energy from within and it's crazy when you think about it but this is exactly how it is and of course knowing this it makes perfect sense that yes all narcissists end up losing and this is why you should know that if you were involved with a narcissist and they devalued you, they discarded you they ran off to someone else you've just dodged a bullet because if you thought it was bad up until that point it could have been a lot worse they could have got a lot more out of you but this is how you get out of it before it gets to that point take away your emotions observe yes, this person is trying to manipulate me they're trying to get a reaction they're trying to get their narcissistic supply but just shut it off watch how they react that will tell you everything you need to know it will tell you what type of person you're dealing with because in this world that we live in most people are narcissistic statistics show that only 1-2% of the world's population are empaths so when you cut off that supply you stop feeding into them that's going to tell you what is at the core the essence of their being because if you're not giving your power and energy to them and they can still exist they can still remain around you no doubt that you were dealing with a person of substance you were dealing with something real because otherwise it doesn't make any sense a narcissist cannot exist in that space they can't exist in an environment where they are not being validated where their false self is not being upheld where they feel like they've got some type of power over you that's the only environment that they can exist in they've got to feel like they've got some advantage some power over you they can't humble themselves they can't be modest they can put in a show and act like they are but even then that's still just for admiration but if you're not giving any power or energy to it then the show has to come to an end they can't sustain it they've got to walk off the stage so when you're dealing with someone and you're not validating anything you're not giving your power or energy to it and they're still good they're still okay they're not devaluing you they're not discarding you they're still there that's real what you have there is real and this is how you know but you look back at your relationship with the narcissist they were just constantly sucking you dry draining you of everything you had your time, energy, money and resources and this is how you know that they can't sustain themselves this is how you know that whatever situation they get into they're not going to be able to sustain it they're not going to experience long-term success in anything because they're not independent they need an external regulator they need narcissistic supply and even when they get it they end up destroying the person 313 live viewers and only 40 thumbs-ups if you're finding this video helpful please hit that thumbs-up button down below to show your support but yes, this is really how it is they all end up losing they all end up going down in the end and that's just the only way that it could ever be for them it doesn't matter what type of narcissist you're dealing with no narcissist ever wins I've said it before and I will say it again love always wins in the end and you can win right from the beginning before you even get into it and how do you do that? you do it by loving yourself because if you love yourself they just can't even be around you because they're very insecure they don't love themselves and we only love people who do love themselves that's what attracts us we just got pulled into this image this false character of a person who is confident who does love themselves they gave us a reflection of ourselves we fell in love with ourselves because they don't really love themselves at all they're actually very insecure but this is how you know that despite all of the manipulation and gaslighting you do love yourself because if you didn't, you wouldn't have fallen for that false character that illusion of self-love narcissists are very insecure they don't love themselves they hate themselves and when you stop validating the false image then they start hating you they hate people who try to love them and try to help them people who could actually care about them those are the types of people who they hate so of course where do you think they're gonna end up where do you think they're gonna go things aren't gonna turn out very well for them if they rejected you they discarded you they discarded someone who actually cared that is a very impulsive reckless person because when you're around someone who cares you should hold on to them for your life but of course you care because you care about yourself you love because you love yourself and that makes them feel inferior it makes them feel very insecure so then they have to devalue you and even discourage you so they can't be around anyone who loves themselves anyone who actually cares about themselves anyone who has any self-respect they run from that especially when you are aware of these traits within yourself anyway that's all I've got to say for this one if it was helpful you can give it a thumbs up down below to show your support let me know your thoughts in the comment section hit subscribe, click all notifications if you'd like to book a one-on-one with me go to my website it is NARC-survivor.co.uk follow me on Instagram it is NARC-survivor YouTube and if you'd like to donate you can leave a super thanks or a super chat or you can go to my PayPal it is PayPal.me.NARC-survivor thank you all for watching and as always I look forward to speaking with you in another NARC-survivor live video very soon


Hello everybody and welcome to Cultivating Inclusive Open Educational Practices with the Open Education Network's Certificate in Open Educational Practices. This session will introduce the certificate program in its pilot stage generously funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The development of this program has intentionally brought together diverse stakeholders invested in open education to develop the shared vocabulary, explore the collaborative tools and build a community that can make the aspirations of open education tangible at their own institutions. Join us to learn more about the program and explore strategies for developing open practices and pedagogies at your own institution that knit together local communities and tap into a global body of practice. I'd like to take a moment to introduce our team who spent several months crafting an online course with the basics and open educational practices as founded in social justice with the outcome being a customizable action plan. That helps faculty and librarian teams decide upon student learning to transform through the application of open pedagogy. We have Rachel Brooks from North Carolina Central University who served as our instructional designer. Will Cross from North Carolina State University who served as our copyright specialist in open pedagogy practitioner. Tonya Rose from the Open Education Network who served as the project manager. Heather Macelli from Roger Williams University served as our faculty specialist in open pedagogy. Jasmine Roberts Cruz from the Ohio State University served as our social justice specialist. And Lindsay Gumm from Roger Williams University served as our library specialist and open pedagogy practitioner. A special thanks to additional team members who aren't with us today, Michael Caudry at Leeward Community College in Hawaii, who served as our curriculum specialist, and Hannah Davidson at Plymouth State University who served as our accessibility specialist. Thank you for joining us today to hear about the certificate and open educational practices. So one of our major goals for this project was from its inception was to push the conversation and open education beyond simply textbooks. Tonya, if you could switch the slide please. Using OER by itself is not always quote unquote transformational. Obviously, replacing traditional textbooks with OER is vitally important to ensuring equitable access to information in classrooms. As you can see along the bottom of this matrix using an OER textbook can increase financial equity in your classrooms. However, adopting an OER textbook in a traditional banking model course doesn't advance student learning in ways that we know we can accomplish with open educational practices. We wanted to help faculty and librarians to explore possibilities of advancing pedagogy using OER. Our course highlights various open educational practices and leads instructors in developing a plan for how to teach using the OEP of their choice, and hopefully ending up in that top corner, where we're using open teaching practices and OER textbooks to advance equity. And now I'm going to turn it over to Jasmine who's going to talk about our social justice perspective. Yeah, so one of the things we attempted to do when creating the certificate program is design it with social justice outcomes in mind. So now I want to go ahead and explain what is social justice education because it can mean different things to different people, and also how that applies to our certificate program. Helen Cochran Smith defines social justice education as a practice right and pedagogy that actively addresses oppression, power, privilege, and all the other isms that result from social injustice racism, classism, sexism, things of that sort. So to that end the goal of the certificate program is to really have participants truly engage in this process so that people can come into the classroom space and have the liberty to experience the full spectrum of their humanity. And we exactly do that right. I think it's really helpful to kind of dissect social justice education, even more so that we can see how it applies in our classrooms. So on the next slide, Kent State's Public Administration Department actually came up, excuse me, with five social justice principles of education that I think can be a guide for all of us. So let's take a look at the first principle, access, right, meaning access to resources that could affect your ability to fully participate or in the case of lack of access to resources that create imbalance and imbalance in power dynamics. And then we have equity. So that is the effort and or resources required to accomplish a particular outcome. Some students may need certain resources or even more resources compared to other students. And also, I want to be clear here that same treatment treatment is not to be confused with their treatment right, and we address that in our certificate program as well. And then the third principle diversity is being and the value of the uniqueness of people's different lived experiences. And the third principle I really, really like which is participation. So that's the opportunity and platform to participate in making the policies that affect our well-being, right. So notice how this is different from how so many traditionally defined inclusion, right, which is often confused with participation or even belonging. So inclusion means being brought into a situation that has already been made, or policies have already been defined rather than being asked to participate in the policymaking process. And then the last principle human rights. So that's the dignity that all humans are entitled to have fully, or to fully participate in their human experience in an abundant way. So how to achieve in this certificate program is encouraging and showing participants how they can achieve most of the social justice principles in their own open and project or practice. Because, you know, for example, simply including students in a learning situation that reinforces traditional structures is not creating a socially just classroom. So social justice really gets them closer to having the freedom to experience their full humanity by challenging systemic structures or the way that things are done, like I mentioned earlier. So now I'm going to go ahead and pass it back to Heather who will explain a bit more how the program was designed with accessibility in mind, which of course is one of the social justice principles. Yes, we took accessibility really serious in this course, and we were exceptionally lucky to have the expertise of Hannah Davidson from Plymouth State University on our team to guide us in developing the outcomes for accessibility that we want our participants to learn. So it's actually a full module in our course that we decided was important that if faculty and librarians are going to be creating or using open educational practices. Those practices should be accessible to all of their students. We also made sure that Hannah comb through the extensive course to make sure the program itself was accessible in every way to our participants. And if you look at the next slide, Hannah has this wonderful quote that she shared with us. That she was really excited to be part of a project that centered accessibility and social justice in its design, rather than an addition or an afterthought as sometimes it usually is. So we're going to pass this to Lindsey who's going to talk about our vision for the CERT. Thanks Heather. Hi everyone. So when we as a team were envisioning this certificate program we really wanted to honor and recognize that faculty librarian collaborations in this space are really necessary. Everybody can do it all and both bring unique skill sets and professional perspectives that support our students in their learning. And the impetus for this certificate program was really born out of a previous collaboration and research conducted by myself, Will and Heather back in 2020. We interviewed faculty who were engaged in this work at varying levels, and a common thread that we identified in almost all of the interviews was this idea that you don't know what you don't know. Next slide. Thanks. So faculty, you know they really want to do this work but they aren't always sure about what considerations are necessary to ensure this work is being done both ethically and legally by our students, or how to center our student agency from start to finish. So it's not just an afterthought when the talk of licensing their work comes up at the end of the semester right. So part of my job as a scholarly communications librarian entails advocating for and helping to center our student agency in their various scholarly endeavors, which, you know might include their classroom assignments where public sharing and sexual output is incorporated. So I can act as a sounding board for my faculty members as they share with me their goals around OEP, and I can identify critical points in the process that students would benefit from counseling. So for example, helping faculty understand, you know it might be really important right now in your semester to learn about copyright and creative Commons. To help them understand the ethos behind in the implications of sharing scholarship openly understanding how and why BIPOC folks have been traditionally marginalized by the traditional process of scholarly publishing, and also most importantly having some interventions that they can help to enact to rectify those and several others. So we wanted to take these experiences that a lot of us have had and kind of incorporate it into this course. So ultimately, our intention in envisioning this certificate program was to create professional development that would help partners not only understand how one another's expertise fits into the process of implementing OEP, but also in a way that centers principles of social justice as mentioned by Jasmine throughout the entire process, again, so it's not, you know just an afterthought. So, while we recognize that librarians are certainly not always the only individuals who support faculty in OEP, we definitely, you know, understand that they are the professionals right now that are most heavily dependent upon. But it is our intention that with future offerings of this certificate we will expand to other faculty support roles, which is really, really exciting. So now I'm going to hand it over to my colleague Rachel Brooks and she'll walk us through kind of the development of the course itself. Thank you so much. So, in our development of the course we were very intentional about working expeditiously but making sure that we were scaffolding the process. So we approach this in a four phase development strategy that first phase included developing the course level and module level objectives that described outcomes that were measurable and observable. Our second phase associated with the creation of aligned assessments instructional materials and learning activities for our faculty and our library colleagues. In the third phase we collaboratively developed a prototype module as well as a course mapping matrix to ensure clear alignment between the content. And then finally we cooperatively developed the rest of the modules based on that prototype module and the supplementary items. Now on the next slide, we see how we approached the development of the certification course very transparently and we did so by first identifying in each of the learning activities and assessments. What were the outcomes the learning outcomes for those specific activities. We provided a clear description and purpose of each activity, as well as step by step directions for the completion by our faculty and library colleagues. We provided success criteria in the form of assessment for each activity and assessment. And then finally we identified the various materials and technology needed to successfully complete each activity or assessment. Following that on the next slide we can see where we created each of the modules and so I had mentioned we did so by first creating a prototype module and then replicated or at least replicated the process in the remaining modules. We did so by ensuring a common structure where we started with an overview of each module, which included a narrative introduction, as well as the module objectives, the various instructional materials such as open textbook selections websites and videos and other resources for creating OER. And then finally we included a variety of learning activities and assessments to support the progress and the success of our faculty and library colleagues. And today on my colleague will cross is going to provide additional information regarding supporting open educational practices. Thank you so much Rachel. So, exactly as you said before we close we wanted to offer a few observations about doing and supporting open educational practices. First and foremost, we wanted to recognize that OEP isn't a binary on off switch. So on the next slide we talk about how it can take many forms. Thank you Tanya sorry for being confusing. OEP can take many forms that connect our values and practices. It may look like individual renewable assignments integrated into an existing course or like flipping an entire course to open. But OEP can also be smaller open interventions like more inclusive syllabus language or course policies that are less punitive. OEP can also be no more and no less than a genuine commitment to articulating and enacting values of respect, agency and criticality in the ways you interact with each other. There's no one size fits all here. On the next slide we talk about working with OEP on your campus and likewise here we see that there are many different ways to support OEP on an individual campus. Many OEP projects come out of a specific individual need, a problem that can only be solved or best solved by using OEP, or by a faculty member who wants to try something new. Existing OER initiatives can also incorporate OEP into a menu of services that include textbook reviews, adoptions and so forth, and there are plenty of opportunities to intentionally launch a program as a special event or an ongoing community of practice. There's no wrong way to do this stuff as long as you're supporting inclusion, student agency and meaningful creation. And now I'm going to turn the mic back over to Tanya to talk a little bit about our first cohort and then to invite you to share your own questions and observations. So we are very excited that the first cohort began September of this year of 2022. And we're so thankful to IMLS for the planning grant that we were awarded to cover the librarian instructors, the 30 of their, their participant fees. So for our four instructors, we are considering this entire program to be iterative, iterative for continuous improvement. We are continuously getting participant feedback and keeping notes for next time. And we are very much hoping to launch a second cohort next fall. We're seeing an outpouring of need. We got three times the number of applicants this time and so we are excited to continue this good work. Thank you so much for being with us today. Our emails on the screen if you'd like to get in touch with us. Thank you.