So we are about to show you guys our empty house tour! This is the official house tour that you have all been waiting for! This is the master bedroom! We have something exciting to show you, but now... This is the best part. Woohoo! Dang, whose nice house is this? See if anyone's home. Hello? Hello? Who are you? Huh? Who are you? What? Why are you at my house? Can I come in? No, you're not supposed to be here! Let me in!  Let me in! I'm not a robber! What are you talking about? Good morning, mom! Good morning, night! Whether at what time you're watching doesn't matter. So we are about to show you guys our empty house tour! This is the official house tour that you have all been waiting for for months! Ever since we moved to Florida. This is insane! We have been waiting for this moment for like days now and we're finally here! We're finally about to show you guys! Oh my goodness! It has been long overdue. We closed on the house two hours ago. I signed all the paperwork. The house is officially ours, where I can go grab the keys. This is so crazy! We have so much to show you. Everyone watching, make sure to stay tuned because this house is freaking crazy. We bought an expensive house in Florida and there are the keys. Those are the keys to the house. And I guess we could just take them in the first room, right? We could just take them right in the first room. So you walk into the entranceway. You got these big double doors, which we love. We wanted double doors for a house because it has a big entranceway and it's beautiful. Guys, it's so much bigger in person. Camera doesn't even do adjustments. No, we're going to be breezing through this whole house. So make sure to stay tuned and watch the whole video all the way through. So you do not miss any second of the video. Do you have snap stuff in here? Just because when we brought him here, we wanted to make him feel comfortable. So have him in here right now. This isn't going to be where it's going to be. Oh my God. If you're new, snap is our cat, okay?  Yeah, he's pouring the house right now. He's sniffing it out. But this is a little dead area. Look at this. Okay. No, we'll be working in the office right here. Yes. We're working over here. Doing some work. Why is the fan on? Is our house already haunted? Oh, it's the air conditioner. You actually scared me. She was like, uh, we got to move now. But no. So this is the den. It's going to be the little office. And right when you walk in, it's like right here next to the door. So please don't. Before we even get on to the living room, we're going to show you guys our room. We're not going to show them the huge living room and the pool. No. Okay, okay guys. So this is the master bedroom. I know we said this is like empty house tour. We just moved this stuff in for a second. You guys are going to find out in a minute. Yes. Because it's very, very exciting news. But this is how big we got. We got a view. The master. We have something that you guys can't see yet. They can't see right here. But there might be something that starts with a pool and ends with a pool. Yeah, I don't know. There's a pool out there. But you guys will see that in a minute. And then you walk in here. Oh my God. Crafty lighting. What? We even show you the biggest part. This is what we've been dying for since our apartment. It's our walk-in closet. Yes. We have an official walk-in closet guys. And just to show you size comparison. You can see me and Mariah in here. It's huge. We have literally this much space. And I already told her this is going to be my side, right? Yeah. This is my side. Oh, that's your side. This is my side. That's your side. We're splitting it in half. Huge closet. Literally like 12 feet long by like 5 feet wide. You can't get anything other than this. If you did not follow our channel when we had our apartment that we moved out of our closet space with zero. We didn't even have closet space. But if you are new to our channel, welcome to our channel guys. Make sure to like this video right now. Here is our bathroom. Because I have my sink and Bill has his sink. And I know his sink is going to be dirtier than mine. No it's not. But my spot is always cleaner. Let me tell you guys. My spot is always cleaner.  Because this girl is the messier one out of our relationship. I mean here is where all of our towels are. Huge space. I would love that. In the bathroom. The master bathroom. And then here is the toilet area. We've got a little sand going on. We'll change that lighting soon. And then here is our shower. Yeah no look at this. Look at how big it is. You go over there. Can you touch me? I can. But you guys can see how big it is. Just like from here on. It looks amazing. I love it. And stay tuned because we're probably going to be filming videos like throughout all of this across our channel. Before we get on to the best part of the house. We got to show you something real quick. This is going to be fun. This is going to be fun. I know. Oh it's expanding. Oh my god. Holy. Holy cow babe. Which way does it go? Oh my god. Look at that. It goes like this right? This thing is already huge. Look at the couch room. Look at your room. Go over there. It's amazing. Oh these are pillows. Oh we got pillows. Look at this. I know.  Oh feel that. Oh there's a memory foam. I got the memory foam on. Oh my god. Look how pretty this is. Oh my gosh. That thing looks so comfy. Here. Oh my god. Look at this thing. Isn't that much work. It was just really easy. I can't believe how fast it already expanded. Yeah. It does take a couple days for it to fully expand. Which I'm so excited to see. It's already a huge mattress. Right. We are so excited to be working with Lowe Mattress. We have been dying to try out their mattress for the longest time. We've heard so many good reviews from our friends. Madeline, Steven Habbitt, Sam and Jess, Ryan Daniel. We've all just heard amazing things. We've even slept at one of their beds and we absolutely fell in love. That was a lull, right? Yeah. The one that we slept on at Madeline's Stevens, we absolutely fell in love with it. Because you don't even need a mattress top or for it. It's that comfy. It's literally a memory foam mattress. It is the comfiest bed I think I've ever laid on. I am absolutely obsessed with this company. This is just like the cherry on the top. To top off moving into a new home. Getting a brand new lull mattress is just the piece of the pie that we needed. Yes, literally. The affordable pricing for a high end memory foam mattress was just absolutely amazing. And not only is the mattress comfy and just all around a good mattress, the convenience of it is amazing. You have a full 365 night trial to try out the mattress to see if you like it. Which is amazing. It's literally crazy. So not only that, but it has a lifetime warranty along with every single purchase of a new mattress. Yes. And it's got free shipping and free returns. Returns. That's awesome guys. That's key. Yes. What is also super cool about this mattress is it's a cooling gel mattress. Which is awesome. That's why it's so cold. Yeah, that's why it's so cold. No, it's literally. It's a cool gel infuse layer. That's what it is. That's why. Because we are in Florida and we need the extra coldness. The AC doesn't always do it guys. No. It's 93 degrees out right here. So the fact that this mattress has cooling gel layer. Amazing. It just makes it like even better. Also motion disruption. Which let me just say, we were just sleeping on a full bed at his parents house. And in every single time you would get up you'd feel the bed move and rock. Because it wasn't over. You can't even feel the other person moving on the bed. Which is, oh my God, it's going to save our sleep. No, that's why we were jumping on it earlier. I want to do that test. I'm not that risky. But have you ever seen the commercials where they put like something on it and they jump on the bed? No. Don't do it. Don't do that. No, but the bed doesn't move. It doesn't move. Mariah gets up like 10 times in the middle of the night to the bathroom.  Bless you. Thank you. We also got a really comfy memory foam pillow. Not one. But two. We got two of the amazing comfy pillows. And look at this. Do you see that? Oh guys, we love our memory foam pillows.  And we also have this really comfy comforter. Which is awesome. We're absolutely so excited for this. It's really thick. It's really thick. It's not like hot. It's nice. I knew it's so comfy. Like it's like the comfy comforter that you want you dream of. Yeah. So if you do want to purchase a low, make sure to go down in our description because there is a trackable link where you can get $250 off your next purchase. Your low mattress. So make sure you guys get on it. That is an awesome deal. It's an amazing deal. I think that's so cool. That will be in the description down below. So stay tuned for our future videos because I will tell you after tonight, because tonight we're sleeping on it, how it is. Because I already know I'm comfy just sitting here. I just want to go to bed right now. I'm exhausted. Let's just go. Let's just go. All right. Good night guys. Good night. Bye. Now is the moment of truth. This is my favorite part. Our favorite part. We're going to be hanging in this area. It's literally, it's all right guys. The lighting isn't that great. We don't have any of the lights on. It's the lighting's amazing. Just get ready. Things are about to be epic here. The lighting is amazing. I know it is amazing.  Stop. I was kidding. I just wanted to do that because you guys see our first argument in the house, even though it wasn't our first argument real. But here we go. Are you ready in three, two, one. Oh yeah. We're going to say this, but we have freaking giant doors that show the whole pool area, our backyard, and our kitchen with brand new appliances as well. Oh my gosh. This is like a dream. We're also getting new countertops. So, stay tuned guys. I think we might get a new sink. This kitchen is huge. Look at this. This is a brand new fridge guys. So my parents' house that we were staying at, we had a ton of food. We literally stuffed the fridge before we were filming this video because we have all of our stuff parked in the driveway right now in the U-Haul. We didn't want to move in until we did this video. So we had to put the food in the fridge. Show them the kitchen, babe. Look at the kitchen. I know. Oh my gosh. We got a brain fart. We got a brain fart. I'm just kidding. We have a baby. A dishwasher. A dishwasher, yay. We had like no cabinets. Oh my gosh. Look at this. Cabinets. On cabinets. We have a huge pantry. Oh wait. Oh wow. We forgot to put on the kitchen lights. These are the kitchen lights. As you can tell, the lighting in here is already crazy. Like it's going to be insane when we're filming our videos, baby. We haven't had our first kiss in our house. We got to make this special. Hold on. Let me go get candles. Come on. Yes, we do. We need to make it special. All right. Now you guys are going to see our first makeup. No. What? I feel like the hardest thing about new houses, you don't know where any of the lights which is on. And we're changing the lighting in this house. Yeah, look it. There's five different color lights in this house. I don't understand what they were doing with it, but. This is where the laundry is going to go. I will say in our second house, I want like a whole laundry. Like our house after this. Like whenever we get our next home. But this is, this will do. This will do. It's fine. Oh, there's staff. Oh, babies. You guys can finally see our cat. He has been MIA. Hashtag bring snapback is happening today. Snaps back guys. Oh my God. You look so cute. Family hug. Family hug. I know. Family hug. Family kisses. That's so cute. I am so happy. We are able to film snap, run around and do his thing, drop a whole house. And he is actually taking us to our next part of the tour, which is the guest bathroom. And he already marked his spot because another snap loves to sleep in the sink and he was already plotting his sleep area. I don't know what it is with our cat, but he loves sleeping in a sink. He loves the sink. So stay tuned because if we get him on camera, we're going to try to get him in one of our next videos of him sleeping in the sink. I don't care what we're filming, we're going to turn it on. This guest bathroom is actually huge. I know. And this door actually leads out into the pool area. Yes. The backyard pool. And you don't want any typical dress, like wetness through that. You can just kind of take him to the door right here. Yeah, instead of people like, oh, I don't want to show you too much, coming in through here, they can just come in through this door and it's like, it leads to outside. So it's awesome. This is our kitchen area. It's huge. I know. I think that was really amazing. So we don't even need this much space, but we got it. So we're going to work with it. We're going to pick up our marble family come and visit us. You know, we have two guest rooms. These are the guest rooms. They're twin guest rooms, which means they're exactly the same. And they have huge closet spaces. This is bigger than our apartment closet. And it's a guest bedroom in our house. It's our apartment literally screwed us with space, but it's okay. We don't have to think about that anymore. I think I'm going to make this room as my vanity room. Yeah. Like my makeup room, I have that big, I just bought this big vanity, which I'm super excited to set up. She literally spent so much. Okay. I don't even want to get into it. She spent so much money on this makeup, mirror vanity thing. You guys, if us girls, you know. Fine. You get your vanity room.  I get a portrait of me. I don't think you would ever let that happen. I'm going to get a portrait of myself, guys. If this video gets to 20,000 likes, I will get a portrait of myself made up and I'll hang it on the wall.  Yes, I will. For a week, but I'm going to keep it. Do you agree? Fine, bet. Bet. Guys, if this video gets to 20,000 likes, we are going to be ordering a professionally done portrait painting for me to hang up on the wall. So, before we show you the best part, the outside part and everything, we're going to show you the garage. The garage is way bigger. There's snap, little tail.  We never had our own garage, so. Oh, look at our car. That's already in here. So, the lights don't work, like those two lights, but you can already see that our Corvette is in here. And look at how big this garage is, babe. We're making the second car, guys. Do you see all the space? It's amazing. And the car is not even all the way back or all the way up. Now it's time to show the best part. I know. So, this is actually really funny. It's been a joke ever since we were in my parents' house. We hate this lamp, particularly the lamp that's sitting right in our freaking backyard. You guys want to know what happened. So, I was walking out and I go, they call it the puke lamp. Why is the puke lamp here? I might like seeing stuff, and I come out and it's sitting there. Ah, no. My mom's at the airport right now, and before she went to the airport, she stopped by to drop off a tree that she bought us for a housewarming gift. And I guess she left the lamp here. Whatever. Now, hey, babe, we have to return it back to her house. We have to put it like in her bed or something. Oh yeah, we do have to return it back. We're going to break it. Get ready, but here we go. Here we go. Let's show them the outside part. These doors open all the way, by the way, guys. These doors open. This door opens all the way. It's so awesome because we keep it open. We have a lot of cleaning we got to do out here. Yeah, this is kind of bugged here, which I'm going to shut the door. Otherwise... Step in the spider web. Really? Otherwise I would let Snap roam out here. Only when we're out here, though, because we obviously don't want him falling into the pool. That'd be bad. So here is the outside sitting chill area. We're going to get a full set up. We're super excited for this. What are our plans for this, babe? I have no idea. We got to really think it through. Guys, comment down below what you think we should put in the house or just out here. Should we put a little couch here, maybe a TV up on the wall or something? I feel like we should put those really cool mood lights that hang over here. Oh, guys, stay tuned. We're going to give you guys a fully furnished house tour, too. If you have not subscribed yet, make sure to subscribe right now so you get notified whenever we do our next videos or whenever we do our house tour video, like, furnished and all done. Yes. But now... This is the best part. This is the one and only pool that our house has and it's freaking giant and it's amazing and it has a cage. Ready? Ready? Look at this. Look at this. Oh, my God. I wish it wasn't so blurry out here, guys. You can literally see, and that's the tree, by the way, that my mom got me for the housewarming gift, so a shout out to her. Look at this pool. Guys, this is insane. We're here. We're finally home. We already met one of our neighbors, too, out of the many that we have around here and already the nicest person ever, which is so awesome that, you know, we already met one person that was awesome, but, oh, my God. Stand where they're in. Okay, yeah. Let me show you guys. So here's the tree that they got. It's called, actually, a Christmas palm, which is kind of dope, but look at how big this area is. Oh, my God.  Yeah, you actually do. Oh, my God. What?  We have to come up with them. We have to give this back to them because that is not acceptable. We already got pranked. I know. What the heck? We already got pranked and we are the pranksters. This is not even fair. Don't worry. We'll get it back. Let's go back inside because it's very hot. It's 93 out here in Florida today and I can't handle it. So this is it. Oh, my gosh. Guys, we are so excited for all the new videos that we post in here, just a new chapter of our life. This is actually crazy. We're officially Florida residents. We should be back. Oh, sorry. We're about to go change our license and this is just absolutely surreal. We've been waiting for this moment for this entire month and it's finally here. After we closed down the house today, we literally couldn't stop smiling in the car ride. We were picking up Snap and we brought him here. We could not stop smiling. We still can't. This is amazing. I don't even know where I'm headed. Wait, where is he? I don't know. Guys, we actually can't find him. We've been looking for him for a minute. Hold on. Do you see him? He's right there.  I'm not even kidding. I know we didn't put a lot of that footage in here but we were looking for him for a good couple of minutes. He actually scared me, Snap. Baby. Oh. Okay. That's good. I was actually getting butterflies. I was getting butterflies. I know. I was getting butterflies too. Okay. I don't think he could have gotten out. Oh, God. Guys, we're probably going to end the video out here. Yes. Like we said earlier, 20,000 likes and I'm going to get a portion of my face. I will include your face. How about that? Fine. Both of our faces. Okay. How about if it gets to 30K then we do both of our faces. Okay. That'll be awesome, guys. Deal. But guys, we hope you enjoyed today's video. Get ready for this next chapter with us. We're super excited for you guys to be a part of this journey. I can't wait, dude. There's so much more about to happen. So make sure you guys are staying tuned. We're literally moving in all the way. Wish us luck because it's going to be a long night but it doesn't matter because I want to move everything in tonight. Me too. Thank you so much for watching our official house tour. We will see you guys in the next video. But until then, peace. Love you guys.


Pamela Vickers and I'm going to be talking to you about company culture today. Company culture has become a ubiquitous phrase in our industry and it can be used to reference anything from having flexible hours to being able to shoot nerf guns at co-workers. What is essentially a description for the values and personality of a company is now being listed under perks and benefits. It's become a commodity that's handed to a new hire. Here's our company culture, it's great, enjoy. But what does it mean when we rave about our awesome company culture that the beer Fridays have great attendance or that we work hard but play hard or that we have supportive co-workers and a well-defined system for mitigating any co-worker to co-worker squabbles. When I searched for the keyword culture on the job listings for stock overflow and get hub might as well have searched for job as almost every listing used the word culture. Yet very few actually defined what it meant for that particular company. Most left the definition as an exercise to the reader so let's read some. To succeed you must be passionate about keep up with our daily release cycles and maintain our useful, funny, cool culture during times of immense growth. It also doesn't hurt to impress us with your technical chops. And that was the last mention of the word culture in the listing however useful, funny, and or cool. Our unique culture deploys a highly integrated model where traders, quantitative analysts, equity analyst, technologists work closely together to capitalize on pricing opportunities and the options, commodities, and futures market. I don't really know. Please check out our culture and process dev blogs to get a feeling for the Acme Co experience. They don't trust us when we say we have the best culture in town. Jump by Friday after work for a craft brew and try to whip our CTO and ping pong. So I went to their blog post. It said, wow, the day has flown by. You finished two stories. Your pull requests were peer reviewed and merged. Now it's time to kick back.  Tomorrow we'll wrap up the current sprint and hold a science fair to demonstrate the new hotness we've built. We hope you've enjoyed your first day. It only gets better from here. So the best culture in town sounds a lot like. We've brought together a talented team that's down to earth, friendly, and driven to build products that people use and love. We have flexible hours, sponsored company events, and a sweet ping pong table. Game on. Which reminds me. Company culture isn't something you can just get overnight. It usually takes about a week to ship that ping pong table. Thank you, PHPC. So ping pong table jokes aside, some of the job listings were just strange. We're looking for an experienced and awesome iOS developer, someone who puts the WTF in apps. And some are using awesome company culture to land hits while hiding crucial bullet points deeper in the listing without any redeeming bullet points to support the awesome claim. Ability to work extended hours is needed, including some evenings and weekends, and to be on call for emergencies required. Fortunately, a few companies seem to get it a little bit more. What we value, we don't care about ninjas or rock stars. We look for people who are really smart, really nice, and who want to solve big problems, and have the freedom to solve them without slogging through layers of bureaucracy. We believe in code quality, testing, peer reviews, and collaboration. We like polyglot programming. We believe in using the best tool for the job. We love open source, open communication, and have created an environment where we treat people like adults. We value building the right team and love that people rarely leave us. Yeah. Okay. One more good one. At Acme Co., we respect and value our employees, and we promote a fun and supportive culture. We invest in your future with unrivalled professional development, and we provide challenging and dynamic projects that are collaborative and engaging. All of this happens within a 40-hour work week to keep your work and play balanced. We know that happy developers write the best code, and our employees are the best in the business. Yeah. So, assuming that a great or awesome or even best in town company culture is one that produces happy developers and workers that produce quality work, let's investigate what a company culture should strive to be, and examine along the way what can distract and even detract from those long-term goals, all in the name of great culture. At Ruby Midwest in 2013, developer and speaker, Ernie Miller, gave a great talk about developer happiness called the most important optimization, happiness. In it, he introduces Martin Seligman's model for happiness, PERMA. PERMA breaks down happiness to five elements, positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement. Now, perhaps there are other elements in your life preventing you from truly achieving happiness, but real life aside, is it reasonable for your company to attempt to mark a tick for each PERMA element? I say yes, and that company must in order to truly call its culture great. So, how can company culture satisfy this model? Let's take a look at each letter. Perhaps the most visible element is often P, positive emotion. Emotion is what fuels tweets and blog posts about how much someone loves or hates a company. So when a company can spark some brand love or loyalty, they often reap immediate benefits. But what elicits positive emotion? Well, lately it seems to be free t-shirts, beer Fridays or beer always, office scooters, artisan coffee, dogs in the office, nerf guns, and of course, you know, there are many angles to the positive emotion element and an interesting and perhaps controversial article in the publication Model View Culture by Melissa Santos and Raffi Colburn discusses how perks can divide us. Now, you might be thinking really, and you won't be alone to be an incredulous, but let's take a quick look.  And secondly, when sizing becomes an issue, embarrassment and frustration can occur, but often in private. And those making the ordering decisions may never know. Beer, by providing and promoting company beer events, you might be ignoring the issues of us struggling or recovering alcoholic. If most of the teen building is booze infused, this individual might have to choose between being in a good professional situation and being in a bad personal situation. Dog-friendly offices, this one's hard for me because I've really enjoyed when we had dogs in our office, including my own, not pictured here. As it can be inconsiderate to people who have dog allergies, dog phobias, or a general dislike of dogs. And then ping pong. Some people do really get excited about ping pong, so I'll stop, but I'm realizing that this is a dog-friendly ping pong-friendly office, so they have the best company culture in town, I think. So while none of these benefits are inherently bad or purposefully malicious, we need to balance our assumption that everyone will appreciate and benefit from these perks and benefits in the same way. When a company focuses too much on the perks it provides as employees, it might be missing more important less tangible benefits it should be providing. I'm not advocating removing these fun perks, but suggesting a shift in our focus. As an employee of a company that does offer great non-traditional benefits, I know how nice it is to have them, but I need to know that if all the nice coffee and stocked food and snacks were to disappear, I'd still be happy where I am. Removing perks won't remove the problems that they can mask, but shifting focus away from these perks and to the heart of the company, the people, will highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the company's culture. Art Buckminster Fuller, an architect, system theorist, author, designer, and inventor said, you never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. So what new non-perks-based company culture model should we build? I believe that P, positive emotion, can directly result from having the other ERNA elements fulfilled, and that free, well-fitted t-shirts and catered lunges can be the sweet, sweet icing on the permacake. So speaking as a developer, the number one element that dictates the quality of my working life is the quality of the project I'm working on. Anyone that has suffered through a bad project or bad client probably knows what I mean. If not, just consider yourself lucky. If we want to avoid bad projects, we need to first be able to identify what makes a good project. Fortunately, three pieces of the permanent model come together very well to describe the great project. The pieces are engagement, meaning, and achievement. So hopefully your company already knows that it's crucial to have engaging work for employees to be happy, and hopefully your company is already seeking out projects that are engaging and providing the tools you need to stay engaged. When engaged, time zooms by and work moves smoothly. But if your day is spent fighting a free tool that could be replaced with a better paid tool, you're less engaged on working on the project and more engaged in getting set up to work on the project. If your day is spent in meetings talking about a project or chasing down feedback from a product owner, by the time you sit down to do actual work, you're mentally done. Obstacles no matter what form, break concentration, and prevent engagement. Removing friction and these procedural obstacles is a big step in ensuring that good work can be done in a good way. It's also easier to stay engaged if the work has some meaning. Does the application solve an interesting problem, provide a helpful service, improve quality of life, or track difficult data points? If you've ever worked on an application that seemed pointless, no one is going to use this, conjuring up the required focus can be extremely difficult, if not impossible. But if you know your application will provide something good to the world, you can often find motivation from within to power through the difficult parts. Once a project is in action, knowing how to create measure successes along the way is crucial to staying motivated. Having a tight feedback loop between client and developer or project manager and developer ensures that issues arise early and can be addressed in a timely way. Setting up a project from the start for success helps the developer hit the milestones along the way. Working under impossible deadlines can be extremely demotivating. When a developer realizes that the work can't be completed within a set window of time, the developer just might not even try, feeling like success is possible keeps you engaged and working. Despair does the opposite and breaks concentration. So good communication, available information, adequate tools and time to complete a task all contribute to engagement and achievement. But what happens when one of these pieces breaks down? Bad communication kills engagement and can leave you distracted, waiting for an answer to a question or feedback to completed work. Bad or unavailable tools or equipment also kills engagement and leaves you battling your tools or your machine instead of actually working on the application. Impossible deadlines ruins motivation, which kills engagement and prevents achievement. And working in a boring domain provides no meaning, prohibiting real engagement. An ambiguous ethical domain can create an icky meaning. You might not even want to get started. And perhaps the worst feeling, no one is going to use this blocks all three. No meaning or purpose, so no engagement and ultimately no achievement. Of course, there's no perfect project where everything is sunshine and daisies and cotton candy.  Big Nerd Ranch's chief learning officer, Aaron Hillegas sums it up effectively in the guide to Objective C programming. The life of a programmer is mostly a never-ending struggle. Solving problems in an always-changing technical landscape means that programmers are always learning new things. In this case, learning new things is euphemism for battling against our own ignorance. If you write code, you will struggle. Most professional programmers learn to struggle hour after hour, day after day, without getting too frustrated. And that's really the key. We're going to have difficult days on even the best projects. But if companies can strive from the start to provide the developers with good projects and good tools, we can mitigate some of this frustration. So what do developers want? What keeps us engaged in working for achievement? How can we find projects that approach being all sunshine and daisies and cotton candy? I asked my Twitter friends for three adjectives to describe their favorite types of projects. I grabbed a few of them to show you today. Inspirational, innovative, practical. Finite, community building, beneficial. Interesting, challenging, short. Epic, important, successful. Challenging, innovative, finite. Clear relationship between work and reward. Degree of complexity is autonomous. Without any coaching, a trend was apparent. I received other replies that didn't follow my three-adjective request. But the same ideas were present. We want to work on challenging, innovative projects that are well-scoped and designed to succeed. To be engaged and absorbed in your work, the task at hand needs meaning, and the task needs to feel achievable. So based on this data, I propose a formula for creating more positive emotion within your company. E plus M yields A which creates P. In other words, without engagement and meaning, there is ultimately no achievement. Without achievement, there is much less positive emotion. And the positive emotion gained by achievement is one that can't be created by even the best cup of coffee. But what happens if a project, even after vetting, becomes unbearable? Shifting it around other developers can turn into a game or project hot potato. Sometimes when doing client work or consulting, a business relationship has to end or have an uncomfortable DTR to find the relationship conversation. And sometimes the best service you can provide to a client or product owner is telling them what they can't have based on the resources and time available. These are difficult conversations to have, and it might even feel more comfortable to put in the long and late hours, and it tends to achieve the impossible. But managing expectations and guiding a product owner to something achievable can be much better work. Though sometimes business relationships just don't work. This isn't to say that a business contract can be scrapped or that you should just read to quit your job in the middle of crunch time, but that when it comes time to re-sign a client contract or begin a new sprint or iteration on an internal project, consider these questions. Does the product owner respond to questions and requests in a reasonable timeframe? Does the product owner respect the developing team members? Does the product owner appreciate and value the work done by the developing team? Does the product owner follow within reason the process outlined by the developing team? Is the product owner pleasant to work with in general? And do we as the developers have the resources needed to move the project forward? If and when the developing team can no longer move a project forward in a way that is valuable, perhaps it's time to re-evaluate and advise a break in development. Whether working for a consulting company with clients or a product company with a long-running application, detecting bad project smells and knowing when and why to speak up about them is key to continued productivity and happiness. And carefully scrutinizing whether to continue or discontinue an existing project is just as crucial as scrutinizing new project decisions. Being vocal about what makes a project really work can help bring more good work in your direction, and both the developer and product owner benefit from the symbiosis. And in the product company realm, if you find that no one is receptive to procedural changes or suggestions, perhaps it's time to find yourself a new client. Once you have all of the excellent project pieces in place, the final piece to the perma puzzle could be the trickiest one of all, relationships. In this case, I'm going to limit the conversation to platonic relationships amongst coworkers, but there might be some universal truths here as well. At Big Nerd Ranch, we found that routine check-ins and one-on-ones go a long way to surface small issues before they can become big issues by asking how are things going or have you had any problems lately? A team leader or mentor can open dialogue that might get pushed aside otherwise. When we were a much smaller company, we had a weekly one-on-one check-in with our head of operations, Chris. These check-ins were part of a series called Things That Suck. Chris would ask us for anything that had interfered with our happiness or productivity in the past week, analyze the cause and effect, and email everyone with ideas for improvement. A lot of processes were tweaked and a lot of improvements were made during the short-lived experiment. I remember one week, Chris asked me, what sucked this week? I couldn't think of anything. It had been a good week, but he told me I had to tell him something. So I said, well, someone adjusted my chair, took me a while to get back the way I like it. He wrote it down. An email went out saying, if someone has their name on a chair, you can sit in it if it's empty, but don't adjust it. This removed friction for a lot of people coming into the office each day and getting started on their work. Since we're remote-friendly, it's nice knowing you have a comfortable and familiar place to come in and work, and it allows you to move seamlessly from one workspace to another, even if it's been a few days or a few months since you've been in the office. The chair edict is still a rule, and most to some people follow it, but approaching your head of operations and saying, hey, someone adjusted my chair, and it took forever for me to get back the way I like it, and it sucks, probably doesn't feel like a very professional approach, probably because it's not. The squeaky wheel adage is much more comfortable in conversation than in practice. But when management, or someone in any sort of leadership role, really asks you what can be improved in your daily working life, it feels okay to bring up these minor issues. It opens dialogue early, so minor issues stay minor, and it fosters communication instead of assuming that the status quo is fine. But of course, there is a caveat. In order for the head of operations, or a manager of a team, to get real, honest answers to the question, is anything wrong? There has to be trust. Otherwise, this open dialogue is frozen shut. You need trust to give feedback, and you need feedback to solve issues and problems. Maintaining a short feedback cycle internally is just as important as maintaining a short feedback cycle with clients and product owners. But trust among co-workers is not a by-product of managerial training. Choosing the most technically strong developer to lead a team might not be choosing the best team leader. Managers or team leaders need empathy and emotional intelligence. For open communication to be effective, this empathy and emotional intelligence needs to exist all the way up the chain of command. The way a company grows and handles layers of responsibility will shape what type of communication and feedback cycle can exist. The chain of communication is only as strong as the weakest link, and a good idea or important criticism will fall off the radar if a link fails. Selecting good, empathetic, thoughtful managers, leaders, and mentors, and giving them the tools and resources to succeed will fortify the chain of communication. So while managerial training can and should teach people leadership roles how to handle difficult situations and help provide awareness and to non-obvious concerns, trust itself still takes time to build. And accounting for this time gap requires processes to encourage and speed up the building of trust in the meantime. At ThoughtWorks, they know that some conversations are difficult to have with your colleagues. For these conversations, they encourage heavy mentors or coaches present to help guide these crucial conversations. This creates a safe environment for all parties so the ideas can be shared openly, and in time, trust is built among everyone involved in these conversations. The company Pluralsight maintains culture coaches to help dive into company issues and shine a light into any problems. On their culture blog, highly recommended, Keith Sparkjoy, their CTO writes, no matter how much we take the focus off of people, no matter how many of us learn to stop being judgmental, people are still going to hesitate to talk about the tough stuff. They, like ThoughtWorks, attempt to open this dialogue by having culture coaches available to help address the tough stuff. And by employing the 5Y system, light is cast on hidden issues, and the culture coaches can begin to make recommendations for solutions. If you're unfamiliar with the 5Y system, it's an approach to surface cause and effect by continuing to ask why until getting to the root cause of a problem. A quick example. The car won't start. Why? Battery is dead. Why? The alternator isn't working. Why? The alternator belt wasn't replaced. Why? The car hasn't been maintained well. Oh. Pluralsight's culture coaches don't have the authority to take direct action after identifying problems, but have a direct link instead to help leadership at Pluralsight. They have a process in place to keep each chain link connected. To prevent and mitigate HR nightmares and co-worker relationship problems, processes must be clearly defined, established, and followed. To assume that people will behave like adults leaves a company vulnerable, and unnoticed small issues can snowball into big problems. But these processes are only as good as people implementing them. To have a culture of open dialogue and feedback, a company needs more than just trust building processes and time. It requires hiring trustworthy people. For my earlier question about what three things makes a good project, Patrick Van Stee of assembly made gave me a second answer. Good people, good people, good people. If we revisit Acme Co. Number 7 job description, part of their description addresses this. What we value. We don't care about ninjas or rock stars. We look for people who are really smart, really nice, and who want to solve big problems. Hopefully you can recall that the rest of their description really nails what a company culture should aim to be. But even if they just specified looking for really nice, really smart people, they'd be ahead of the game. We share a similar goal at Big Nerd Ranch. The three qualities we look for when hiring a new nerd is being brilliant, hardworking, and kind. And it's all too easy for brilliance and hard work to be the two values most valued by a business. After all, businesses need both to make money. But valuing kindness takes extra effort. We attempt to highlight kindness in two ways. By giving the Big Nerd of the month and the Big Nerd of the moment awards. The monthly award is selected from a pool of nominations, while the Big Nerd of the moment award can be given at any time for anything, to anyone, for anything. Bringing donuts to the office, Big Nerd of the moment. Help a teammate track down a pesky HTML bug. Big Nerd of the moment. Share a ridiculously cute picture in campfire that just makes someone stay. You get the idea. By bringing attention to and praising the values we appreciate, we deliberately shape the culture of our company. Passively combining good people and fun perks in the same place, and assuming that it will yield awesome culture, leaves vulnerabilities exposed. Good company culture doesn't just happen. It takes work and refinement, just like any business process. And in pursuing a well-crafted, deliberate company culture, you might find a better model than the PERMA modeled implement. But by having multiple people within your company, thinking about and working towards a culture that is conducive to a fulfilling professional life, you'll be making strides to that awesome company culture we all hear about. So awesome company culture can happen. It might take time and some unexpected changes, but everyone can benefit from this refinement process, especially when everyone is involved in making it happen. So make it happen. Thank you for listening. Again, I'm Pamela Vickers. I work happily at Big Nerd Ranch. I organize a monthly meetup, Rails Girls Atlanta. Please let me know your thoughts on Twitter and let me know how you're finding professional happiness. And I think I have time for questions. Okay. That's a good question. And actually, as I was combing through these, oh, okay. So the question is, how can a company reveal their own company culture and like a job description? And how can someone being interviewed really kind of sniff out what the company culture is? Is that right? Okay. Well, like I said, that's a good question. And as I was combing through trying to find examples of good and bad company culture descriptions, I immediately had a moment of panic and I was like, what is Big Nerd Ranch's description? What do we say? Do we talk about just ping-pong? And I took a look. And it also, it focused more about the type of person we want and less about the requirements. Now, that's not to say that we don't say we'd like for you to know this stuff. But when the focus is on learning and more of a person's capacity for learning, unless what they're carrying around in their head at that moment in time, I think that's a good sign that it values you as a person and your abilities as a person, unless just what you can produce right away. And as an interviewee, I think that's, I hadn't actually thought about that too much. But I think a big part is the sort of questions they ask you. If they only care about your technical ability and don't care about who you are as a person, then it might not be a great fit. So the question is, in HR, what are the roles that can help create good culture? So a lot of you probably work for companies that are flat. Is that a fair assumption? Maybe. Some flat, some not. So I think the best thing that you can do is to have any sort of mentorship implemented or any sort of like buddy system for new hires. Because I think if you have someone you're comfortable talking to, these sort of things can kind of bubble up more quickly. So I think the most effective and easiest thing that anyone can do is volunteer to be a mentor, whether you have an official mentorship program at your company or offer to start one. I think that, and not just for developers, I think for any part of a company, if someone has someone that they are comfortable going to with concerns, questions, problems, it doesn't have to be a problem. It could be, hey, there's this thing I want to learn. What's the best way for me to learn a new thing? So I think having soft layers, not just firm managers where they sign off on your review at the end of the year, but having soft layers where there's someone that's just a little bit more experienced than you that you're comfortable talking to, I think that's something that all companies can benefit from. Okay. Thank you again.


shot a good a bat there and then kind of what felt locked in after that so yeah you know haven't been getting results lately but felt good to come through like that you typically are pretty reserved on the field but a ton of emotion after that hit in the ninth what happened there just a big hit a big hit our team big team win we just grinded the whole game picture to an outstanding job and you know just happy to come through for our team right there Tyler Wade scored on that single he also stole a base earlier in the inning what type of an asset is his speed to this team yeah it's huge she got on base a couple times a day couple stone bases last couple days you know if he gets on base makes the defense a little uneasy and you know I was really happy that he you know get on base a couple times a night DJ what is it about this team it seems like you guys continue to find a way to get it done yeah yeah we're finding a way one way or another and tonight was you know just a huge win everyone contributed it felt really good DJ thanks for the


Before the break. So now, instead of doing this relation instruction complete by then, that is kind of hard, and the outcome is OK, but perhaps it's not solved the problem. So if you have a text, the exact knowledge base is not perfect, it's not really extracting all the possible relation that I have in text. So these graphs are perhaps not the better to be used in my lab. So we developed another approach, more simple, to exploit the semantic information. So the idea is to create a knowledge graph from a text document, and so this knowledge graph is based on many other things. And I define here the different kind of graphs, the knowledge-based graph, the graph of entities, and the semantic language graph. So I will explain now the difference between these graphs and then in the next slide, we will see how to apply this to my lab. So we now have a knowledge base. This is a knowledge base, like dvp, for example, and we do a query, and we get information, so we build a knowledge graph with the information in the knowledge base. So the knowledge base is also a graph, but we can take a subset. For example, all the music information that is dvp, related to music, and build this knowledge graph with the information there. So for example here, we call this entity dvpdia and some of the entities dvpdia, they have some information, like the band member, general, hometown, record label. So we can build a graph with that. We have the entities, we call some of the relations, names, the predicates of the relation, and the entities that they are related to. What is defined? We plot them in the form of a graph. So OK, this knowledge base can also be constructed with the process of relation structure that Luis was playing before, so we can have an knowledge base extracted from text and then build a graph from that. So OK, but if instead of doing this process, we can also just apply entity linking to the documents and then create what we call a graph of entities. So this is, for example, two documents, the biography of Hugo and the biography of Sombol. And we have these sentences from that. So the idea here is applying the dvpnking first. So this is then the entity find different entities and then build a graph with this. So first, we have the notes of the document subjects. So Hugo and Sombol, and then we have all the entities that were identified in the text and connect them to these notes. So the entities in Nullco are at the Latin rock, the Ferrer and the Tupelo, and Sombol is American, the Ferrer and the Latin country. So we build this graph. This is the entity graph of entities. So in this way, we can have a set of documents, just apply entity linking, and build a graph like this. So we have these two approaches, and we also can combine a graph of entities with information from the knowledge base, okay? What we call a semantically enriched graph. So this is the graph of entities, but as we have used entity linking, we have identified all these entities in a reference knowledge base. So we can get some information from this reference knowledge base to enrich the graph. For example, and the Tupelo and the Ferrer are entities that weren't detected in these documents, and they are in Wikipedia, and we have information from Wikipedia of these entities. So we can expand this graph and more labels and more notes with the information from Wikipedia. So in this way, we can enrich the semantic graph and build this semantic representation of a document. So this is what we are going to use for NIM. This is another example of a semantic language graph. We are in this case from Free Sound. Free Sound is a website where users can upload songs and add a description to the sounds. So what we need is we apply entity link to the description of the sounds, and then we got this is a sound and this is another sound. We have the two words that were identified as entities, the Wikipedia or the Wikipedia of songs, and then from Wikipedia, we extract more information, the categories of these entities, and the product categories. So in this way, from at the beginning, in the other way, we just have this. If you do this, at the end you have all this information described in the item.


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network At least for me here in Chicago. It is a chilly day. It is 35 degrees. It was snowing this morning when walking the dog Not a day when I want to be outside But luckily for me there is baseball on for the entire day for today What I want to do is go through and kind of give you like a viewing guide for today By going with some bets at like through various start times at Fandall sports If you're listening during the afternoon Hopefully get a couple of bets in there some stuff. I like for tonight as well It's gonna lay out the day trying to give you some rooting interests for today across Major League Baseball If you are so enticed we'll talk some baseball for today But I'll talk F1 in Japan to close out the show later on as well This is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network and Fandall research My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a managing editor of digital media for Fandall research here to break down today's MLB betting slate letting you know where I see value at Fandall sports book talking some totals a money line I like and a prop that we could turn into a same game parlay as well Of course, like I said, we'll talk F1 in Japan later on the first day reminder To make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast tomorrow Dr. Ed Fang will join us once again breaking down the men's and women's final fours for college basketball We're gonna talk about those four games coming up this weekend talk about Whether there are championship futures at ad likes we'll talk about all that to get his thoughts on they remain They're remaining at four teams for both the men and women that is coming up tomorrow You can get that by subscribing to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast You can also find us on the Fandall YouTube page and a Fandall TV plus Of course, we're talking MLB today if you want MLB betting every day You can check out the solo shot over on the Fandall research podcast feed I'm breaking down my top props every single weekday there then talking DFS later on The props I discussed in the solo shot not gonna have those in the show for today I want to keep the two shows independent so talking more so money lines and totals on this show for the most part with the Props over on the solo shot so search for a Fandall research podcast to get that as it is posted each and every weekday if Your back bracket is busted in the men's and women's turn it do not worry because Fandall Let's you bet on every game of the turn we could bet on individual games futures Etc. 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Hope is here for the gambling helpline ma.org or clayhunter 3 2 7 50 50 For 24 7 supporter, Massachusetts or call 1 8 7 7 a open Y or text open Y in New York Let's take a look now at the MLB slate for today Want to be get things off by talking about the afternoon games a couple of bets I like there then we'll talk about the nightcap as well Let you know where I'm seeing value for today over at Fandall sportsbook The first bet I like for today is actually in this game right here that is the red sox taking on the a's out in Oakland and Red Sox favored minus 152 on the money line the a's are a plus 128 not seeing a ton of value there personally Where I do see value is in the total for this game As you can see over on Fandall TV plus that is it eight runs right now Over is minus 104 and given the state of this a's bullpen I'm having a really hard time Not liking the over at that number It's really does come down to this a's bullpen their active roster bullpen has a 4.47 skill interactive era Since the start of last year, which is not the worst in baseball The white sox are actually worse than that which made me very nervous last night as I had the under in that game And the white sox money line, but it's a really bad bullpen And that means the teams can score runs the entire game Which is not always the case in major league baseball where you got some bullpens that can lock things down Keep the score suppressed That's not the case here The a's game so far there have been six of them a featured eight or more runs in all but one so pushing or better an all but one game And given the way things set up. I think that's probably not super flokey just because Again, that bullpen is really bad. It's 58 degrees in oakland for today Which is not perfect for offense. It is a slight downgrade there, but it's also Typical oakland weather. So it's a typical oakland park factor. No upgrade. No downgrade I think It's probably lower than it should be given how bad this bullpen is I don't mind either starter here nick pavetta taking on ross stripling I was on stripling strikeout over last week and that did hit Pavetta has been pitching really well ever since the red sox let him have kind of a more full leash last year Look really good in his first start this year too I just think this number is too low Given the bullpen situation For the a's so to me over eight runs for the red sox and the a's minus 104 a fan dual sportsbook I think that's the proper way to go just given how bad this a's bullpen is That's the first one for me is the a's and red sox over eight runs That game begins at uh, 338 337 p.m. Eastern Just a bit after that is the yankees and the down and backs and I think we can spin this game into a same game parlay and that does tie into a thought I had in the solo shot earlier today The strikeout prop that I liked was meryl kelly over five and a half strikeouts That is still a minus 110 a fan dual sportsbook and that's gonna be the first leg here Is kelly over five and a half strikeouts and the justification for that is laid out on the other show Is that kelly is pitching really well right now did down the stretch last year Look good in his first start this year came against the rockies So great assault there obviously but 79 pitches six and two-thirds innings eight strikeouts So super super efficient there and what he did that I liked a lot for kelly was that He was leaning on his cutter throwing fewer curveballs and then he started towards the end of last year It's now an 11 start sample and kelly doing that and 28 percent strike area for him He's had double digit strikeouts in a couple of those games So Upside is here for kelly to hit five and a half strikeouts He also does get a bump in terms of strikeouts at home Which is where he is for today taking on the Yankees So first leg is kelly over five and a half strikeouts at minus 110 But I also show value individually on the diamondbacks money line part of that is because those Those numbers I was gushing about with kelly before are Going to translate to the money line model as well Because obviously that's going to play into things for me But when I look at this game in terms of the money line My model has this being basically a toss up if it were on a neutral field and obviously the arizona has at home So when you put this game in arizona, that's going to show a lot of value In the diamondbacks win odds and again Kelly does tend to pitch better at home than he does on the road If you pair the arizona money line with the kelly strikeout prop over five and a half at minus 110 The same game probably that is plus is plus two twelve Obviously that means that fandall knows these two bets are correlated because if you had these two uncorrelated just paired them together Uh, it'd be closer to not three to one but somewhere in that range So fandall knows these two bets are correlated and you are being taxed for that But I think that correlation is worth it because again liking kelly Plays into both his strikeout department and the money line So as I assume that kelly maintains the gains he has shown with his current pitch mix and pitches as well Pitches well at home that's going to impact both of these. So because they play well together I think it does set up well for a same game parley. So what I'll do here is take the kelly Over five and a strikeouts and pair with the arizona money line. That's plus two twelve at fandall sportsbook I think that's a fair way to play things and that's where I'm going to go for today personally You got some sort of offer out there for You notice what same game parley need another leg or something. I'd be looking into the arizona batters uh facing up for against carlos rodin I'm not super enamored with him right now. So you can look at um, some Total base props and christian walker. There will be pretty enticing walker to get Two plus bases is plus 130 really don't mind that so you want to toss it in for an extra leg If you need three legs to get some sort of offer I don't mind that but for me personally is taking with just the kelly over five and a strikeouts and the arizona money line at plus Right minus 102 But walker would be the first guy to turn to in terms of uh, total bases if you need one more leg to toss into that one So for the afternoon slates liking the arizona money line minus 102 Pair with the kelly over five and a half strikeouts at minus 110 For a same game parley of plus 202 and then the red sox and ace over eight runs at fendall's sports book As far as the night games go Biggest value for me is in a spot where i'm Looking at it primarily just because of weather that is the rockies and the cubs the wriggly field And the total right now is seven and a half runs It's still at seven at a lot of other spots So fendall giving us an extra half run here to take the under that is minus 122 And i do think this is a good way to go for this one and it all does come down to weather for me because Again right now in chicago It is Going to be about 39 degrees that first pitch It was snowing earlier on might continue to snow throughout the day for today And the wind is blowing in for those of you who may be new to baseball wriggly field is as sensitive to wind or more sensitive to wind to any other park in major league baseball So when the wind is blowing in that changes things pretty dramatically from a run total expectation Obviously it's a good matchup for the the cubs uh facing cal quantrell facing that rockies bullpen Those are bull situations that are going to be conducive towards a lot of runs but to me weather matters a lot and The weather is obviously influencing this number already But i think it should go a bit more a bit further in dragging this total down So under seven and a half runs is minus 122 Cubs starting luke little but it sounds like ben brown may be the more bulk guy For the cubs today, ben brown got a pretty lively arm So excited to see what he can do I think you should be able to keep the rockies offense in check So when you add it all together primarily The cubs pitching staff paired with this rockies offense paired with the weather I think it does lend itself towards an under we could obviously the the rockies pitching staff Let up runs despite the fact the weather is not great for offense I'm going to take that risk personally so under seven and a half runs minus 122 That's the cubs and rockies for tonight a place. I'm looking at vandal sportsbook That's gonna wrap up baseball for today If you want some more thoughts did talk about a couple more things for the late games Liking a home run prop for the dodgers of the Giants game and also liking a total base prop For the Padres that game is all in the afternoon But did did find some more value there So who wants more prop thoughts? Check out the solo shot on the fan door research podcast thing feed Other thing I wanted to discuss for today is formula one formula one is in japan for this weekend interesting that in australia We finally saw some movement here as max for staff and had an early issue And that allowed carlo signs to win signs now the only guy who has won other than max for stopping across the past like I think it's 20 almost races so signs broke through there And that's obviously fluke. You don't expect for stopping to have issues very often He actually had no retirements the entirety of last year. So that's that's a pretty volatile thing The thing that's interesting though is that ferrari had speed before verstappen's issue across that weekend in australia So the question is now is can ferrari push for a win this weekend? And I kind of think they can it's very clear that ferrari is the number two team right now behind red bull mclaren Is a tier behind ferrari then it's another tier down to mercedes and then everyone else is way behind those Top four teams so essentially in my eyes at least it's four drivers fighting for the win in red bull and ferrari And sergio pares a red bull at least by my numbers is sandwiched between carlo signs and charles claire I'm not sure if they could beat max straight up But as we saw he can have issues It's not a zero percent chance and we don't know for sure that they can't beat him Especially given the pace they showed in australia and the fact that it is still pretty early in the season Looking back to australia. Obviously can't look at verstappen speed there, but Looking at pares his median lap times were actually worse than ferrari, but also worse than mclaren So verstappen is the clear favorite and that's that's for obvious reasons and it has to be the case But ferrari is plus 650 to win this race over at fangirl sportsbook and I think that's kind of enticing. Uh, that's 13.3 implied odds max first happens a retirement rate projected to be probably around like 10 So like, you know, that gets you a good chunk of the way that have to be pares as well and the mclaren's but I think 13.3 sells them a bit short right now I don't want to choose between sines and la claire. My model likes sines more but la claire is obviously crazy fast and Could go out there and win the poll on saturday So i'm going to lump them together and just take ferrari take the coward's way out and go with ferrari in general I think plus 650 is a good price and when you compare it to what other sportsbooks are offering for the ferrari to win price It's pretty generous So I will take ferrari plus 650 to win in japan this weekend Again, I don't know if they can do it if first appen is able to run the entire race, which he should But I think that volatility is being a bit undersold with this number right now The other spot where i'm showing value is in joe guanyu To finish inside the points and this this i don't know how to handle this because it's a very odd situation If you've been watching formula one so far this year, you've noticed that Kick sour the team that joe drives for it's having these awful pit stops Where the wheel will not come off and they've had it happen in at least At least once in all their races so far and that sucks because if they have a 30 second pit stop They're not going to finish in the points They clearly have not fixed this issue yet because It happened in australia and I don't know if that had fixed for this weekend so It could go very badly. They could have another poor pit stop in which case both joe and botas will be effectively Banned from finishing inside the points because of how long the pit stop would take But they've been kind of decent as far as pace goes joe finished 11th in bot rain in the opener He ran well in saudi arabia before he had a pit issue He was the victim there and again that could happen again And that's very botas could have scored points in australia But he also had the pit issue there so the speed has been fine and They had the longest top 10 odds in the entire field They're both 11 to 1 right now at vandal sportsbook Joe has been the faster driver in two out of three races. I prefer him And the model hasn't well above these implied odds But again, I have to make clear that I don't know if I've effectively modeled things given the pit stop issues. Basically what I'm doing is you put in Their projected speed and then put in a projected incident rate. I have kick sabers incident rate very high like Not quite double the entire field, but I think it's pretty close to double the entire field Because of those pit stop issues If they have not resolved those issues, I could look really stupid because why would you bet on a team that you know Could have a 30 second pit stop but The speed is there and there's always a possibility they've resolved things For this race So I think if we're going to buy into them now is the ideal then to do so again I prefer joe, but they could justify botas while at 11 to 1 I do show value there. I've got botas around 11 to finish inside the top 10 Joe is above that which is why I prefer him But if you want to go botas instead Not going to fight with you too much if you don't want to deal with this because the pit stop issues I don't blame you. I wouldn't bother. I think that's totally okay. But for me personally This is where I'm going to go So the two bets I like for formula one this weekend in japan. I like a ferrari to win a plus 650 kind of banking on some volatility right now and then joe guanyu To finish in the points 11 to 1 potentially botas 11 to 1 as well If you want to go with him instead, but just again the caveat is I have no idea if they've resolved that pit stop issue That is all that we have here for today on covering the spread as mentioned We are back once again tomorrow breaking down the final four for the men's and the women's college basketball tournaments with Dr. Red Fang to get that as it is posted make sure to subscribe to covering the spread if you like what you hear Leave us a five star rating on apple podcasters potify You can also find this show on faddle td plus and the faddle youtube page If you got any questions for me, I'm on twitter at jim sonnis You can also find a faddle research on twitter at faddle research want to thank you all for tuning in for today Good luck to you with your baseball bets across today I'll talk to you once again tomorrow to break down the final four This has been covering the spread right here on the faddle podcast network