Good morning. You are with the Vermont House Government Operations Committee. We are meeting this morning for a short committee meeting before House floor to hear a proposed amendment to age 48 town meeting COVID flexibility bill. So first, I will invite representative to to to introduce the amendment that he's proposing. And we will hear from a number of different perspectives from the folks who have helped us to develop this bill so Casey welcome and go ahead and let us know what you're thinking here. Thank you Madam chair for inviting me into the committee I want to first thank Tucker for his help drafting this amendment and I also appreciate I just wanted to mention that I appreciate all the work that this committee has done to get this first bill out and enrolling I'm personally was hoping that this would be the first bill that we get out and I appreciate all the work that everyone did. This is a very important time in the state of Vermont in the nation, public safety is something that is really in the middle of a pandemic we know that and this is the reason why this bill is out the reason for my amendment and I'm sure everyone has seen it but basically my amendment is changing the may to a shell from it's going to require that let the municipal legislative bodies can vote to do enact one or more of the following alternative procedures for the municipalities of the 2021 annual meeting, they can move the annual date. They're meeting date to a later time when it is deemed more safe to me or they can mail municipal clerks can mail all active registered voters in the municipality the Australian ballot to be used at the annual municipal meeting. And then the other the rest is basically the same. I didn't touch the Brattleboro or the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management Districts wording so the reason and like I said the reason I wanted this is because it's really a thing for public safety. Four months ago was it for two months ago three months ago whenever we all stood out in the snow for election day. That was we had a universal a mail in ballot that was a pretty successful. I think that our town clerks did an excellent job across the state, having a very secure and very well attended election and I think that this year is no different actually worse off our cases have gone up in the last couple months and that's kind of where I stand. So I mean I'll take any questions or I'd love to hear other people speak to this bill. Thank you. Thank you representative. Any questions from committee members to the representative about the objective of his proposed amendment. All right, I'm not seeing any diving for their little blue hand so I think first what I'd like to do is invite Secretary of State condos to to help us understand, you know from your perspective and the perspective of your team who have been hearing the municipalities over the last couple months, preparing for this bill. What are your thoughts here. So, thank you, Madam chair and I thank representative to for offering his amendment. I first I want to just right up front say towns need resources and options right now they can't really wait that's why this bill was was intended to move as quickly as possible. Without really any amendments being attached to it. And while I can commend the focus on community health and the intent behind this for my towns really can't afford any more delays that may stall this of critically important legislation as I just stated. So what we found, which worked best for local elections. We've already done this into an early 2020 because there were, even though the COVID shutdowns really didn't happen until after town meeting day there were a lot of towns that had their meetings or schools that had their annual meetings afterwards. And the approach that we found was to enable the towns to pursue the safe voting options that best serve their communities through a permissive law rather than a prescriptive law. And I want to say that leading up to the November. We had the time because we started working on it in March of last year. So we had time to build the infrastructure to conduct the statewide mailing and many towns will not have that capacity or staffing power. Keep in mind ballots are not created until I believe it's February 10 they have to be ready. I mean, they have about 20, 20 some odd days to get them into the hands of the voters and back and to force that situation is really difficult. So again, I think the most important factor right now is timing towns are being held in limbo because as the town meeting day deadlines start to approach. We have one deadline is upon us in two days. And they need clarity on the options they can enact to ensure safe secure local elections. And they really don't have the resources right now to do what needs to be done. And it's not something we can just throw money at the resources that I'm talking about is time resources. So we would oppose this amendment. Thanks Jim. I'm wondering if it will sending if you could help the newer committee members sort of understand the variety of different traditions that different towns use in order to adopt their, their town budget. Sure, it's, it's really just the two options are doing so via the traditional floor meeting where everybody gets together on the floor and following Robert's rules of procedure. Take votes on the articles on the warning other towns vote, all of their annual meeting subject matter by an Australian ballot where it's put on a pre printed ballot that's ready 20 days before the election and is available for early voting. And then there's a polling place on election day where voters can come and cast those ballots. And then there are many towns it really is, is not uncommon to have a mixture of the two to do some of your business via for meeting and the remainder by an Australian ballot. I think the most common of those, if they do one piece of business by Australian ballot it's the budget. And then there's another another decent size sampling that also elect their officers by Australian ballot and some that only elect their officers by Australian ballot and like to do their budget at the floor meeting where there can be discussion and amendment of the budget number. I think generally the larger municipalities vote their budget and their officers by Australian ballot. And that's not an exact one to one. If anybody's curious. If you look on our website under the town meeting tab of our website. You can see a spreadsheet that does lay out which towns use which methods and also which school districts use which methods. That's by response only it's not mandated so it's not every town in the state but it's most of them. Well, any questions from committee members for either the secretary of state or director of elections Mike McCarthy. Thanks madam chair. We heard from our city clerk in St. Albans last night. Some questions about the availability of ballots. And the complexity of meeting the timeline, especially in a city like ours where we do all of our business on time meeting day by Australian ballot but we have multiple wards so there are different ballots that go out to different sections. And then the coordinating with the school district that we discussed at last week. I'm wondering what the secretary states office is hearing in terms of the vendors that would be able to process vote by mail I mean my biggest concern about this bill from what I heard from the city clerk in St. Albans last night was that, even though she very much supports vote by mail that she felt like with the timeline, she wouldn't be able to get a vendor to do the processing of those ballots, potentially, and so I'm interested in hearing more about what other municipalities are seeing in terms of that ballot processing. So, let me first state Mike representative McCarthy that that I think your your city clerk is is correct. There aren't a lot of companies that could handle this. When you start to start to think about there's 246 towns 275 polling districts. There's all the school boards school meetings. We're talking probably well over 300 different types that are out there and to try to track down and contract with someone at this late date would be very very difficult. You said that I do know, and will can speak to it because he talked directly with the town clerk from South Burlington, but they have already taken steps to do their, their mailing.  Right. When we did the mailing we use the company that provides our tabulators and Prince half our ballots LHS. So, because that was available to us I didn't do a whole lot of research around Vermont of mailing houses. And so I don't have a great idea of the landscape the number of those that are available as the secretary just pointed out the South Burlington clerk told me just yesterday that she had secured the services of one in South Burlington. I think it's called paw print. And I do know that there are other mailing services out there the the company that prints our envelopes and Barry is also able to do it to some extent. There are some other vendors that are more national in scope but that are interested in coming into Vermont and helping out with towns doing this this year. So on a personal level I should talk to curry and give her some ideas, but your concern is right and hers about how little time there is and I would just say that's one of the reasons why when I've talked to folks I've said, the the legislature is trying to allow you here may be helpful that you both postpone the meeting and do a mailing and the postponement serves to both hope the virus is better later on, and also give you time to prepare and get in touch with vendors and line everything up. Thanks will Tonya be. Thanks. I had a quick question that came up as a constituent concern related to return postage is the secret with the Secretary of State has proposed paying for postage does that include voters being able to return it paid for them. Yes. Thank you. All right. I would love for us to also hear the perspective of the League of Cities and towns and the clerks and Treasurer's Association so Gwen Zachoff. Can you share your, your thoughts on this amendment. Sure. I actually just have a question so I fully understand what I'm speaking to, with the proposal. And there's that nonwithstanding clause ahead of it. And what's what does that mean, does that still mean that the four votes and everything that's in place is still in control, like there can still an option on the table. I just want to say what we're not withstanding I guess by that. Dr. It's the same notwithstanding clause that is in the underlying bill it is setting aside any statute or charter provision to the contrary, to allow these temporary powers to be available to municipalities. So it that notwithstanding clause serves the same function as in the underlying bill. In this amendment there's really only one adjustment here. The former subdivisions one in two are collapsed down into a single subdivision that mandates that a municipality shall do at least one of those two things, move the date, or mail out ballots. That's really the adjustment that's being made everything else from the underlying bills the same. Thank you. Yeah, so I think we would be the same opinion as the Secretary State's office as leaving it as is and not supporting the amendment just because of all of the issues laid out with timing and just the wide variety of setups of how towns go, not just towns and again I can't speak to solid waste districts or schools or anything because it's not necessarily what you know my expertise but it seems like there's such a wide variety that having that flexibility of what's going to work is needed. And our towns are already setting up for things before I mean they're just basically waiting for the ink to dry on the governor signature on this bill so sort of the everything's in play already so changing this so late in the game, I think would be really problematic so VLCT does not support this amendment. Thanks Gwen. Carol Dawes. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Thanks for having me on on the legislative chair of the clerk and Treasurer's Association. And actually anything I would have to say would would echo Secretary condos and and what Gwen said from the league. Town meetings are not a one size fit all kind of option. And so, having a black or white language in the law doesn't give us the the the flexibility to to make the changes that we need for our individual communities. But the complexity of multiple jurisdictions in St. Albansbury City has the same thing we have multiple wards and and so trying to coordinate a full ballot mailing in a very short time frame would be would be difficult to say the least. We talked about South Burlington. They have one ballot for the local election so it's one ballot even though it's going out to about 15,000 people it's it's only one ballot and we also talked about the cost not being minimal. And I can really yesterday was saying that she's looking at a cost of about $25,000 for mailing out their ballots so it's not inconsiderable in Berry City what we're talking about instead is doing postcard mailings to our voters to encourage them to request ballots ballots by mail in advance and I've already been receiving a bunch from notices I've put out on front porch forum and stuff, but I think the towns need to retain the flexibility to use the option that works best for them. Thank you. Thanks Carol rep the host key your hand is still up to you. Is that from before. Yeah, sorry. Okay, no, no problem I just wanted to make sure that I didn't skip over you. Any other questions from committee members of either the clerks and treasures Association or League of Cities and towns. Casey to had a hand up did you want to say something else. Yeah, I was just chiming in listening to some of the testimony. I didn't. I don't think I think the Secretary of State's office for the hard work they did in November I do want to acknowledge that I appreciated that and I want to let everybody know to that is not my intent to slow this build down and stop it from getting to the governor's desk as as quick as possible. My intent is to just is worrying about public safety and where we're at right now. So I do not intend to stop this bill from passing today or wherever whenever we can pass it as quickly as we can. I do want to touch on the the request of the absentee ballots thing that happened from the Secretary of State's office in for the primary election was something that was also I just wanted to point that was also. I thought that was a really neat and innovative idea. But this thing and Tucker I was just wanted to respond to something you said it does two things that allows them to move it and or mail everything out so they could, if times an issue, municipalities can move the date and still mail out later in my amendment so that was my intention with that. Thank you. Okay, committee. Any other questions. All right. I would go to John Gannon then for emotion. Go ahead, John. Thank you, manager. I moved to find the amendment offered by representative to not well taken. Second. Okay, so just to clarify when we take the role on this. Yes means no. Just so that we all know what were what what the motion was relative to the amendment so rep cannon is is recommending that this be not favorably considered by the committee so if you agree with that. Yes vote means no thank you to the amendment. And we will take a quick role and then have a quick committee discussion before we head to the floor so. Mr clerk you are getting, you're getting lots of opportunities to lead roll calls right here at the beginning of session so whenever you're ready. Go ahead. Okay. I will begin the roll call cannon. Yes. Ricky. Yes. The Claire. Yes. Uber. Yes. Holston. Yes. Anthony. Yes. Big host key. Yeah. The Fave. Yes. Higley. Yes. We have 11. Yes. Zero nose. And the motion carries. All right. Thank you all for joining us this morning. You're welcome to stick around if you want to hear three minutes of committee discussion about about our work for the rest of the day. Otherwise you're welcome to wander off. So we are going to do this floor report as soon as we get to it in the house calendar. Then what I understand is we are going to break for caucuses. I'm not sure whether whether that means that representative Toof will introduce his amendment on the floor before we break for caucuses that probably makes the most sense. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not at the point of giving folks all of the information before they break to chat about it. So I am wondering. We should probably divide up who's going where in the different caucuses to make sure that. Tanya, if you would like to have somebody else join you since this is your what third day in committee to help explain the background of the bill. Just reach out to me and we'll figure out who from the committee can join you to help answer any questions that your colleagues might have. And Rob likewise if there's any support that you want in terms of having folks help answer questions in your caucus please let me know. Thank you madam chair I think we're pretty good shape. Okay, but I will reach out if we need you. Great. So I believe that that is it we are after we caucus. I understand from the speakers outline of the day that we're going to break for lunch and come back to the floor at one o'clock to finish our work and vote on the bill so it looks like we will be late getting to the floor this afternoon. But we will get to committee about 15 minutes after the floor this afternoon so that's what I know about the day and now that I've said that out loud, something's going to throw a curveball and change that all up, but we'll wait and see what that curveball is. Any other questions from committee members before we break and stretch our legs for a moment before the floor. I'm not seeing any questions so you know how to find me if you do have any questions and thank you to the folks who joined us this morning to help us work through this amendment. See you all on the floor. I have a quick question. We will be we have a different zoom lick for the meeting for this afternoon. This one is just for this meeting this morning correct. I believe so but let's ask Andrea if she can clarify. I'll send you one for this afternoon. Okay, okay so we can delete this one very good thank you. Great, we'll see you all on the floor.


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Hello everybody welcome to the Sunday live stream and today I took a look at a couple different factors about what was really going on in the Bitcoin ecosystem and a couple of things shocked me first of all that the Bitcoin transaction fees are so darn high Why that actually is and what's happening in the background also run take a look at the portfolio see how it's actually doing As far as the Holocaust averaging and then lastly Caspa. So first things first Today I woke up and I was trying to buy some things and I was moving trying to move Bitcoin around and the thing that struck me was it was $15 15 or 16 bucks just to transfer Bitcoin or to To move Bitcoin and I thought to myself why the heck's it's so expensive because that seems like a ridiculous amount For Bitcoin, so I took a look at bit info charts commas link in the description You can check this out or just Google bit info charts and I took a look over three years and in blue Is the Bitcoin average transaction fee? you can see that usually Bitcoin average transaction fees are pretty low as compared to one of the the most expensive Fees out there, which would be a theorem and we to see here like October You see the Bitcoin transaction here like two dollars and sixty cents something like that Ethereum crazy enough twenty two dollars and so on so forth now There's been times where it's actually gone a little bit of above and a little bit of below doesn't really matter It's just over an average you can see that Bitcoin the transaction fees are usually pretty low The problem is is that when things heat up and we saw this every time we see this every time that? We have like a major bull run. I saw this in 2017 A lot of you saw this in 2021 and how we're seeing it again And it's one of those things that we we can kill the narrative Of you know Bitcoin is there for peer-to-peer transactions. No, it's not it's not If we see that and let's be honest not everybody's using Bitcoin for peer-to-peer transactions But if they did it would be super expensive of course now people are screaming out there screaming right now going but Rob What about lightning lightning will take care of itself at some point if that actually takes off the ground and everybody's using it Sure, but so for right now We're seeing a lot of transaction fees and what I took a look at was just the last Well, it's a zoom in shall we the last three months or so again blue is Bitcoin red is Ethereum And I'm taking a look at this and I'm like what the heck just happened because this is now It's supposed to be in all honesty Ethereum might get it because everybody's using Ethereum They're they're doing everything with with NFTs and D5 plays and ERC 20 tokens obviously right makes sense But over the last couple of days and look at this you got a Bitcoin average average So it could be how it could be lower $18 Ethereum transaction fee $7 almost eight bucks, right? Then of course it's gone up and down, but today is it's it's a wide Dicotomy you've got almost a theorem transaction fee of almost $5 and Bitcoin transaction fees all the way up to 18 I put this out actually on Twitter this morning I said what I go I've seen it all because now we've got the Bitcoin transaction fee almost triple well, two three and a half times of what the Ethereum average transaction fee and then Asus is like his ordinal Susan is back and I was like yeah looks that way and then son Jack Ripple put out he goes Yeah, but look at this, you know as far as like crypto fees Bitcoin is in second place and Ethereum is in first place and first of all is like well, that's November 13th Let's take a look at it what it is today and today the Bitcoin Actually the one-day fees Almost 12 million dollars in fees that's pretty good for Bitcoin miners. I mean the the process in the transaction They're they're building those blocks and they're getting paid. That's fine I don't have a problem with that seven-day average transaction fee 7 million Ethereum down here at 5.5 But again, what I've always said before is take a look at an average are things moving up or things going down because These are fees. I mean like Ethereum is pretty expensive usually and of course other ones, you know people will say well Solana doesn't you know get that many fees or Cardano doesn't doesn't have to pay them any fees. Well, yeah, because it's cheap super cheap So that really depends on on the network congestion or not and if they can actually handle it We can see over September August or so. You can see that it was pretty low Pretty damn low probably second third maybe fourth place and then all of a sudden bloop It came up.  Well, hey, Sue's called it. It's ordinance Ordinals if you don't know are essentially NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain. That's really what it is and Bitcoin maxis lost their mind when this came out and they were like this is a problem. We don't need this on Bitcoin This is not what it was designed to do And now we're gonna have major congestion and you know what they were right now I'm not gonna sit here and argue with with anybody about is this what it's supposed to be Is this what it is if you look at the Bitcoin white paper It says very clearly peer-to-peer transactions and all of a sudden that went out the window when we figured out that it was just Way too damn expensive and then all of a sudden it became digital gold and then it became a hedge against inflation and then it became Fill in the blank or whatever it is so like for me, I think that is a it is a I think Larry thinks put it pretty pretty well a flight to quality And it really is a hedge against inflation in my personal opinion We can see that over time over how much you can get, you know 10 years ago How much could you buy for 20 dollars in the grocery store for groceries? Probably a good amount today and of course 10 years ago one bitcoin was like 20 bucks Maybe 40 50 something like that and now of course one bitcoin you can buy the store So it's a little bit different, but if you get back on track, it's ordinals and this is what we have so Tokens based on the bitcoin blockchain are emerging as the newest play among market participants BRC 20 Category tokens have added some 21 percent as a sector. What does BRC actually stand for it stands for bitcoin? request for comment it was introduced in april To allow users to issue transferable tokens directly through the network for the first time and that's a That's that's a really good point in april it was introduced april So we take a look here. Let me go back Now let's just go now. Let's go three years and we need to see over here see where I This was roughly may 6th And ethereum transactions were 27 dollars and bitcoin skyrocketed from two dollars All the way up. Holy smokes to 30. Yeah. Wow to 31 dollars Bitcoin average transaction fees that was in may 8th So ordinals were introduced roughly around april or so People finally caught on took them two or three weeks maybe a month and the transaction fees went through the roof Is that going to happen in the bull run? Yeah, probably we'll see how it how it goes anyhow They were introduced in april to allow users to issue transferable tokens directly through the network for the first time tokens called inscriptions Function on the ordinals protocol the protocol allows users to embed data You know the bitcoin blockchain by inscribing references to digital art into small bitcoin based transactions already or di a token tied to the ordinals protocol was listed on Binance field of 50 price jump of an hour's Uh data from ordinals tracker can be shown on ordered spaces. There's over 37. That's crazy. There's over 37 000 bitcoin requests for comment 20 tokens exist after thursday So I was just curious about that that already token itself. It was listed on binance. How to do Well, it's down 8 percent Since the the inception but look at this If you take a look over seven days, not too bad 14 30 look at this And you can see like already or scan ordinals fid So in november. Wow, look at this 31st october was like five bucks And then I'm rocking it all the way up to 26 76. That's that's uh, quite an increase or a jump Does that mean that is the best thing of all time? As far as price action goes. Yeah For for quite a things but is it going to last this the test of time? Who knows So then says data from ordinals tracker or spaces and that was another thing that I took a look at There's a website called ord space dot org And you can take a look at it and it's got All the different ordinals brc 20s as far as ranking and market cap. Look at this one called sats Market cap is 459 million. That's crazy. So I was just curious about that one Maybe we can find that here as well Sats I don't know if this is Ah, no, no, no, that's the toshi's vision sats and see how it says ordinals right there Ordinals, okay, pick that Sats ordinals you can find us an ordinal scan Sats coin that's crazy How's it done? Well over the last 24 hours. Not so good 14 days 30 days 90 days. All right 180 days Okay One year And then that's max and this just got out in june and it went from nothing Yeah, like 5,000 something percent so That's what we have as far as like what the heck is going on. How will this affect bitcoin moving in the future You're probably going to see more transaction fees. It's probably going to go through the roof and especially with the next Bitcoin bull market actually the crypto bull market, which I think is coming up relatively soon Could be 2024 could be 25 who really knows but you're going to see those transaction fees go through the roof And uh, that is what it is now. I'm not going to sit here and say that this is wrong or this is right I'll let the market decide that's what it's there for so let me just think about that in the comment section and then Let's talk about Accumulation time and we're going to take a look at the portfolio. This is a pretty clear example Of how things have been working so far. I'm a big believer in the four-year cycle. I could be wrong It could break down It's been doing pretty good for the last 12 years or so. So, you know, we have these These peaks and these draws and these the all-time highs Then we get a bear market Then there's a big chunk of accumulation as things start to like, you know Kind of track sideways where nobody wants to do anything because they're bored with the market And it didn't go up 5,000. Everybody's ticked off and then people that get rewarded ones that pretty much just kind of stick around Dollar-cost average, I think and then as time goes on bull market. Same thing happened in 2014 and 2017 Back here is 2013 and then we had an all-time high Then of course everything just it gets it always gets overextended because the technology is there But the people haven't caught up to the tech like people just don't Understand like bitcoin like asking any of your friends out there that are out of crypto and say, hey What do you think about buying crypto? What do you think about buying bitcoin? Like what that's way too expensive? I mean, you know 35 34 thousand dollars or whatever it is today. I can't afford that and then you can remind them Hey, you know, you don't have to buy a full bitcoin. You can buy these things called sats And uh, you know, it's like a hundred million for one bitcoin You can buy 20 bucks of bitcoin and that's just how far along we are because people just don't get it So again, things get overextended.  It's just it's just a cycle It's just how it is and it always astounds me is of how people like they want to rail They they're always like no no this time is different Rob because of x y and z like no, it's not It's gonna be the same thing. I don't know how big the bull run is going to be but I mean it's just I could be wrong anyhow So you got a bear market and now we're we're accumulating and that was the whole point of me Dollar cost averaging in 2022 to today So what we've always done on sunday, just take a look at the portfolio how things are actually doing This is what I'm actually buying and I want I have to remind everybody this is not everything that I own you understand like I own some things that Uh from the last cycle like I still have some theta got a bunch of theta I still got some xrp. I still got avalanche from the last time and a host of other things that are just sitting there But I didn't uh sell correctly and that's on me But I'll forget it right this next time But here's what I've been actively dollar cost averaging and these this is either like on a daily or on a weekly And we've got algo arbitrum near cosmos polka dot polygon chain link doge cardano, solana theorem and bitcoin And we started this in september 1st and I said, you know, let's just this is not what i'm doing But i'm just saying as an example 10 bucks a day right for everything. How would we be doing?  Bitcoin was up 1.5. Everything else you were down But now of course things are looking pretty good, right? Everybody's happy. Yay So everything's in the grain fantastic. But again, if we just zoom out real quick accumulation Let's just take this back a knot shall we The let's let's make the starting point a little bit earlier February january 1st How would we have done? Well We would have still sucked in the beginning because it's just tough to dollar cost averaging nothing, but then as time has gone on We weren't actually in the green all the way. Were we? We're actually three Underperformed and these are the ones that I really I thought were doing pretty good Arbitrum I thought was going to be a major hit and just barely now squeaking things out. Maybe it'll actually pump up I'll go at them so and so forth But you can see that it doesn't matter because You were in earlier You dollar cost average you're up massively right you invested 3,000 Solani you've more than doubled an 8400 link. You've roughly doubled bitcoin Near doge a to e Atic dot and I gotta tell you I think that some of these alt coins will outperform bitcoin That's usually how it always works And then we'll have a blow off top and then everything will crash and the alts will suck for a while And they'll be down 90 95 percent bitcoin could crash again another 77 80 percent And they'll just kind of you know repeat.  They don't get it yet. They don't get it But it could be wrong, but there's one thing that I'd like to To mention. Let's just say for giggles We put in this thing called Caspa Caspa How much will we be up? Oh, there it is this one now take this with a grain of salt Because caspa has been on a absolute tear And of course everybody who's invested in caspa now gets to remind me rob I told you about this six months ago nine months or whatever it was and of course you'd be up 741 percent You would invest at 3 000 with a 25 000. This is kind of chair. This is not kind of this is cherry picking This is really what it's cherry picking data. I understand. I get it I'll lash myself later But it is just something to say about some of these things will come out of nowhere and I'll outperform And that's just one of those things so you have to understand like Is this something that I should get into or you should get into I might tell you right now straight up gambling It's straight up gambling. That's just what it is. However, we could take a look at it And of course, I'm going to do a quick little overview of caspa And you can decide for yourself and of course there's a lot of videos out there You can find out you can go to the website I'll link down in the description You can figure out for yourself. This is something you should get into but again Does this mean that this is going to be the next solana? This is going to be the next cardano back in you know, 2018 to 2021 I have no idea and nobody really does and if they tell you that they are the full of it So here we go. So caspa You go to caspa.org and right now like when I first started looking at it was like ranked 80th or 70th or something like that Now it's like 27 28 correct me in the comment section, right? So caspa Especially it's supposed to be very fast. Let me just go over here. It's supposed to be very fast supposed to be it's a proof of work it's a layer one and Instead of being a blockchain. It's not a blockchain. It's a block dag. It's a ghost block dag as they call it And a dag is a decentralized not decentralized directed A cyclical a cyclical graph So instead of let me just show you what it looks like instead of being all in a line Like how bitcoin does And it can verify all the different blocks every 10 minutes and it kind of goes back This is what block dag does it pretty much just kind of just spurts everything out And it can correspond to all the different blocks that are out there Which makes it very quite quick as a matter of fact And we do a comparison chart This is caspa the speed and block time it makes a block every one second First of all, is that even true? It sounds kind of ridiculous. There's a website called explorer dot caspa and watch this So let's see here Still waiting So you had one at 120505 Somehow 0404. Ah, maybe this is the dag I don't really see it moving Let me reset it I don't know it was fast Okay, there we go.  It looks like roughly, you know Transactions three two two, of course, that's every second The question I have and we'll get into this is who's using this? That's the question. Okay, so that's caspa. Let's go forward tokenomics, this is the big thing and I think this is pretty Pretty good as far as like of course consensus mechanism. You can say, you know caspa bitcoin cadena Proof of work proof of work proof of work ethereum proof of stake light coin proof of work cardano proof of stake And the best one out there my personal thing ergo proof of work proof of for dogecoin Uh scalable. Yes max supply. This is the thing. Bitcoin's max supply is 21 million Cadena is a roughly a billion ethereum is infinite, but it can be deflationary The max supply of caspa someone said was 28 million. No, it's 28 billion 28 billion 700 million. However, if you look at cardano, that's roughly about the same It's in the it's in the 20 some billion correcting the comment section So it's not outside the realm of possibility. This can do pretty well. I mean, like I said, it's number 27 solves the solves the uh, try lemma Scalability security and decentralization. All right Smart contracts coming soon and bitcoin it says no, but if you if you put on stacks That's the smart contract functionality on a layer two. Essentially. That's what stacks can do. So I don't really know if that's true Gas fees are low fair launch. This is a big thing fair launch was yes bitcoin was yes cabana. No ethereum. No, no, no And a couple yeses what that means is that there was no ico It wasn't pre-mined. It wasn't given out to a bunch of vcs We just kind of put out there and then you could you could um, you could mine it And that's how you would actually get it, but the it's a little different anyhow It's speaking of mining So here's the emission schedule of how much is actually going to release. We know that bitcoin the last last bitcoin we mined I believe in 2140 So we got quite a bit to go even though we've we've already mined like roughly 19 and a half million or so And I got to tell you I think three to five million have been lost already. I'm either coming back But here's the emission schedule itself So pre-deflationary month one They were putting out 500 per second quite a lot And then of course if we come over here We've this is the second year We are in November correct So right now it's 77 Yeah No, no, that's only only four genius. Let's see. Oh, yeah 155 number six 2023 So we've got 155 and getting cranked out every second and then in december 7th will be 146 and 138 So that's how it's uh being pushed out as far as the schedule goes for Caspa and then there was one more thing I will say this This was the one I like the best as far as like the people who are behind it. Here's the founder Yonatan Sampolinsky nailed it And mind the ghost egg invented by Yonatan with his then phd advisor professor aviv zoar This was back in 2013 When they conceived the the ghost protocol And it was actually cited in the ethereum white paper. I thought it was cited in cardano paper as well, but I could be wrong Yonatan curly holds a post opposition to harvard transaction ordering protocols and mev and they got a couple of Developers which looks like they're all high speed stuff and so on and so forth. So that's what we have for caspa And uh, I will just say this I know people are talking about how great it is and you know, it's going to be fantastic I know someone just in the comments that just be careful because it's a pump and dump. Who knows Because I got to ask you right now If we take a look back At the fees schedule Like Here's all the different cryptos that this website is tracking. Maybe it's not Tracking caspa right now. But the question is besides the people that are buying it right now And of course, yes, apparently it is super cheap. Yes, it's proof of work. Yes Apparently it solves the trilemma and all that great stuff and it's great for transactions if they can do, you know One block per second sounds pretty great So far people are buying it like crazy. It is speculation How many different companies are using it? How many people Are right now using it for to buy things transactions to buy coffee, I don't know whatever it is or Fill in the blank of whatever crypto can actually do. So for me, I'm looking at it and to be fair. I have bought some I'm not I'm only human even I get into the little formal But I will just say this There are some things that make it attractive And sometimes these things will make people buy it like crazy And the real question is is just what we looked at in the very beginning When people start to use it and they use it a lot And not talking about the people that are coming back and forth and talking about the people that are really really using We're going to have something like this Will this ghost dag be able to hold on And process all these transactions and not Go super inflationary As far as fees go Back in 2017 when I got in Everybody told me that bitcoin was for peer-to-peer transactions only This stuff about digital gold and hedge against inflation was bs It was there in the white paper But as soon as things changed the investors said, you know what we think it's for this And I don't blame it for that because it's all like technology Do you think we had any idea How great iron ore is or what we could do with fire when man first discovered it or steel We had no idea that we could actually make Rockets out of that, which I think is what stainless steel. I think that's what uh SpaceX is using their latest rock out of crazy Or building skyscrapers and things like that. I just think the technology isn't there yet And we'll see what happens the next bull run and that's it for today So look like today's video give it a thumbs up consider subscribing when we talk about his time sensitive now that concludes The news so if you got to take off take off go watch football golfer and I'll see you in the next one


take two. Welcome to Cone Corner with Canadian. Let's take it. Let's see what's on thinking man's mind today. What happened at the apartment fire in the Bronx recently? That's a great question thinking man. And it's a sad one, but let's investigate. Twin Parks Northwest is a 19 story, 120 unit low income housing apartment building in the Bronx, New York. When it was first built in the 70s, it was cutting edge design, and it was designed to form a community atmosphere for the residents. The details of this story come from the New York Times, the New York Post, and CNN. At 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, January 9, 2022, a five alarms fire started when a space heater ignited flammable materials in a third floor apartment. The dad was asleep, but woke to the sound of the children screams of fire fire.  He was told that his daughter was still in her bed. So he ran back up when he arrived back at the apartment. It was engulfed in flames and thick smoke. When there's so much smoke and fire, all you can think is if I don't get out of here, I will die. He said I went back for my daughter. The dad said I could only think about getting her out, getting her safe. I burned my face to get her out, and I didn't even feel it until much later. When you push the door all the way to the edge, it didn't close by itself, he said. He was in the apartment with his wife and eight kids when the fire started. It's very sad. I don't even remember the door staying open because all I could think about was getting everybody out. I actually thought later that the door had shut, but the fire department people told me that it had stayed open. Not only was the apartment door left open, so was a door into the stair on the 15th floor. This open door provided oxygen to the stair tower. Residents fleeing the third floor opened the stair door and within minutes smoke rushed up the stairs all the way to the top 19th floor, making the stairs untenable for egress. The fire department was on the scene in just three minutes, 200 firefighters and all the apparatus. 17 were killed and more than 60 were reported as injured. The fire itself was contained to the third floor apartment. Mayor Eric Adams said it was the smoke that took these lives, not the fire itself. Victims were found on every floor in stairways. I went to the stairs. I opened the door. It just blew me back to the house, she said. If I'd stayed there for another three seconds, I would have been gone too. The firefighter said that the fire was contained at the third floor apartment. Apartment doors were equipped with self closing devices per code. They had many complaints through the years that they didn't function properly. I firmly believe that if one door, if that one door to the apartment was shut like it was supposed to be, there wouldn't have been any fatalities in this fire. Smoke is the leading cause of death in most building fires. And so having reliable closing devices is so critical. But not only that maintaining them, going in and adjusting, making sure that they do their job to close and then latch the door. We did not learn a new lesson here. It's a story that's repeated itself for over 100 years. But what can we do? This most recent fire in the Bronx highlights the ongoing battle to not just educate, but assist and keep our voices loud to anyone who will listen. We must continue to keep the importance of life safety codes in the forefront of everyone's mind. This includes adoption and enforcement of the existing codes that we have. Moreover, it's proof that hardware isn't a set it and forget it kind of proposition. Fire doors have a big responsibility to be closed and latched at the time of a fire in a setting like this, where you have multiple families and a lot of people using the building. And the maintenance department really needs a weekly duty to check all the fire doors in the building to make sure they're in good working order. It's a heavy lift, but that's part of the ongoing maintenance that is required. For more information and continuing education opportunities, please visit Osa Abloy Academy by clicking on the link in the comments below. Please click like and subscribe to this channel. You can follow me on Twitter at our consultant and or connect with me on LinkedIn for updates. You can email me at Catherine.Flower at OsaAbloy.com. Thanks for joining me in the code corner today. My name is Katie Flower and my goal is to help you achieve safe security in the built environment.


What's up? How are you guys today? We're going to do a quick day of eating Show you guys what I have been doing to be optimally healthy as well as detox my liver and just to give a quick summary Took acutane carnivore diet for eight years basically destroyed my liver now We're recovering the main difference between this type of liver detox diet I'm following now and something that I would be able to follow when I was fully recovered I'd just be able to increase the fat content. I'd be able to have more dairy more eggs and And a larger wider variety of fruits and vegetables So for the most part this is always really really simple. We have a base of grains protein and then some other odds and ends here and there whether it's Supplements water key for probiotics little things that that help or fix the issue So over the past few weeks, we've been focusing videos on copper toxicity I've been explaining that to you guys the main difference here with our breakfast is I'm having a bowl of oatmeal instead of the Organic pancakes we usually make those are a little high in fat And if I really want to buckle down and be serious and have more consistent bowel movements I just have a bowl of organic oats that has some vanilla and sugar mixed in our protein source Is a few I varicose fork tenderloins We ran out of the running law on the breakfast sausage So I switched over to the tenderloins got to make some sausage soon and as always with every meal We have our organic peel tiny crisp apple The oats have starch soluble fiber Feeds the gut bacteria Helps the liver detox soaks up all that toxic bile. That's the function of the carbohydrates that need to be present in every meal More soluble fiber usually helps Pork we got our amino acids. We got our protein the body uses these to help detox as well many different Components here that the body can detox with whether it's amino acids soluble fiber or like glucose in the apples and The apples are adding More soluble fiber there. They're kind of high volume. You know, they have Low calorie content very high moisture, which helps with gut motility Fiber pushing things through the glucose and the fructose are you know giving the body a variety of Kind of like macronutrient components to to utilize all the digestive enzymes and our bodies digestive capabilities Here we have water kefir grains and water kefir probiotic important because when you're detoxing When the toxic bile is coming out if you have too much copper, whatever Candida tends to overgrow and you need to keep it in check So until the body's done detoxing which can take years it helps have water kefir here and there But you do want to be careful with the amount you take, you know, don't take too much Don't take too little I usually do about a tablespoon of water kefir grains with every meal And then like two cups of water kefir and I do let I dilute that with some water Just to keep myself hydrated So the probiotics will not only keep the candida at bay they will help digest and break down the starches and sugars in this meal supplement-wise We have Masticum capsules. I usually take three of these per meal For the vitamin B1 which helps with carbohydrate metabolism. I usually take one or two with each meal Magnesium I usually take one with each meal Malibdom I always take one with each meal Zinc I'll do 15 to 30 milligrams per meal lately. I'm just doing 15 milligrams per meal consistently. I Did take the multivitamin and multimineral two days ago Lately we've been doing some vitamin D3 After getting the blood work. We're just messing around a little bit. But for the most part it's just Masticum B1 Malibdom Zinc magnesium that's with every meal Sometimes I actually take which I'm going to do today a B complex earlier in the day just to make sure I'm getting a variety of B vitamins and After this first meal, I'm gonna have a little bit of Mastic with some activated charcoal and then we'll do some of the The glandular just for a little testosterone boost little energy boost early on in the day. So It's kind of a you know, lot to keep up with every meal a lot of prep a lot of consistency, but You know without having Every individual component here, you know You need this base of food To give the body what it needs to detox the liver without the vitamins and minerals You're not going to fix the nutrient imbalance as it's just it's just impossible to to physically do it with food On its own, you know without the water key from water key for grains at least a few times a week the candida over grows You start getting really bad detox reactions, and you can't sleep Every everything here is a very important component the Masticum and Charcoal at the end of the meal really helps soak some of that toxic pile so you don't feel as bad and You know the glandular's and stuff that I take in the morning's help help with energy boost and everything So everything I do, you know serves a noticeable difference in in how I feel every day and I definitely Feel it when I don't do certain things so again, we have our You know four to five ounces of very very high quality lean protein High quality organic oatmeal made with just filtered bottom in our water and then our organic honey crisp up So as minimally inflammatory as possible with the components we need to to balance everything back out But everything you guys see here. We got the Iberico pork on the meat website You got the grains on the foods website the only thing I really the only thing that you can't get for me is fresh apples Hold your breath on that Might have apples soon You know supplements are on organ supplements.com guys.  It's kind of similar to things you guys see in the past I guess lunch is slightly different and Dinner is slightly different. There's a few few little things Different we're doing so maybe you guys want to stay tuned for that Yeah, I'm going to sit here and uh try to not completely walk down my breakfast We'll remember to put the rice in the rice cooker so we don't have to wait too long to eat whatever All right, ladies and gentlemen You can probably hear my dishwasher in the background. We're actually Right by the beach and there's a columbian girl off screen. So that's that's what the background noise really is Anyway, we're just doing a simple steak and rice lunch I've been losing my mind responding to harassing customers, but These uh, these corporate chills do it to me every week. So nothing new Uh got back from work. It's I don't know. It's five thirty six o'clock Or maybe it's actually a little earlier. We're eating lunch at a somewhat reasonable time So I'm too lazy and tired and exhausted to make beans So we're just having grass-fed beef plain white rice now in a lot of day of eating I talk about Going higher quality using bottled mineral water to make the rice That that's the difference between a healthy steak and rice meal versus an unhealthy steak and rice meal They can look identical You know, you're cooked grain-fed beef and your conventional white rice made with tap water looks somewhat similar if not identical to this however When you go grass-fed high quality on the meat and when you get organic white rice and you make it with bottled mineral water You remove a lot of the negative components of the meal So we have our High quality protein, animal nutrition, amino acids all that stuff Just a lot of starch in the white rice kind of lacking some fiber in this meal And uh, we have our our honey crisp apple as usual So the differences are That we're going to take some more vitamin b1 And we might have some of the liver detox smoothie later. I'm not sure I'm not I'm not going to show that on camera either way because That smoothie has Fiber in it. So sometimes when I'm lazy, I'll eat this meal and then I'll just have the detox smoothie instead Supplements are going to be the same mastic um b1 selenium zinc Not selenium. I'm sorry molybdenum zinc magnesium Got the apple We're not doing the glandular again for the second meal. What we are going to do the Mastic powder and the activated charcoal to bind to the toxic bile that's released after we eat the meal I just put a little bit of Age balsamic on this we're actually almost out of this A hundred dollar bottle of balsamic or what was it 130? I don't know. It's a very expensive bottle of Age balsamic vinegar. I don't know less of us a few months now Just looking on our steaks. I was trying my new steak sauce past few days I was eating like dude. I would it was so delicious. I would eat like two pounds of steak I felt like I was carnivore again with that steak sauce Uh, but that's not going to be out for a little while. I don't really think I have Much more specifically to explain for this meal We're going to do the water key for again diluted Half with water, maybe three or four glasses of that tablespoon of the water key for grains I forgot to mention. These are available on frankestrianfoods.com The steak is actually left over from yesterday because I made too much steak yesterday So I just put this in the fridge and I took it out now and I just warmed it up in the oven So it looks a little uh, not as appetizing as it normally does Not nothing more to really touch them on the rice besides that Kind of an arsenic concern in all rice. So Usually want to vary your carb sources to some degree But that's really it so I'm going to eat this hopefully take a nap and relax a few hours and then wake up and do some more work And probably have dinner So yeah past Past few months we were doing like Bread with ham and white bean puree, which I prefer over this. I've just been Too lazy to make bread lately And uh, or we were having beans with the meal, but also I just want to sit down and eat a giant plate of steak and rice So I don't want to have to make and eat any beans What I was doing was actually taking Some of the white bean puree putting it on a plate or in a bowl and having it by the spoonful, which is still delicious I just I don't know. I'll be amazing but I'll learn the lesson later when we don't sleep. So I'll see you guys for dinner Just going to show you guys a few quick things cooking dinner. We got some iberico ham Caramelizing to add some flavor to our udon noodles, which are here on the stove top And I forgot to show you guys that the steaks for lunch were actually the Quarterhouse and ribeye steaks from our local beef share Guys my schedule is so fried. It's like five in the morning because We took a nap at like 8 30 Woke up at I don't know one o'clock one 30 and then I had to do a few hours of work So now we're eating dinner at five in the morning Uh, which means I'm not gonna have this video done until like seven. So my my schedule is just screwed I'll try to get a few hours of sleep before work but uh Now I get so tired working all day and then I have to take a nap and then My schedule is messed up.  So it's nice and creamy and salty and very flavorful and delicious and Small amount of protein Decent amount of amino acids in the collagen And then we got the soluble fiber and the white beef puree and we got a lot of starch with the noodles Uh, we got our honey crossable for dessert I don't usually have water key for dinner Skip skip the water key for dinner And the vitamins I do just some b1 Zinc and magnesium I don't take I'm sorry not magnesium Zinc b1 and mastic gum I don't take magnesium or lividum with Dinner I try and same with the water key from trying to just reduce the uh Reduce kind of the stress on the body just so I sleep a little better And then we'll do the mastic gum Charcoal end up every meal So it's a bit a little bit simpler than the other meals because we don't have as many supplements We don't have to do the water key for water key for grains all that stuff but uh, the main difference here is we use a little ham in the In the udon noodles instead of the usual, you know, chop steak or ground ibaric or pork, but it's it's pretty much the same as usual Nice balanced delicious healthy dinner But that's it for the day of eating guys. I'm gonna try to Enjoy this and then I relax for a little bit and then go to bed But uh, thank you guys for joining me if you go to frank dash to fawn on com you will see all of my creative and interesting businesses Where you can support my unique ideas and Uh, go look providing you guys with affordable healthy foods. Yeah, this is the uh, this is the reality of Doing youtube and working seven days a week. It's not uh Not glamorous to say the least I told you guys like I was telling myself like three even three four years ago if I can't afford for someone to help me Soon I'm gonna lose it and we're way past that point


Hi, I'm Jakob from AJ and SMART. In this video, I'm going to show you how to run a 30-minute workshop to align your team on the correct challenge to solve when you're kicking off a new project. And now, let's get into the problem-framer workshop. Okay, so to set the scene for this workshop, let's imagine that your product manager or a client called the meeting because Facebook advertising costs of their online products are increasing and they need to do something about it. The company you're working with sells online products that teaches people how to run workshops. Hmm, who could that be? So with that very broad challenge in mind, let's jump into the workshop. So this workshop takes around 30 minutes in total and you can run it with a minimum of two participants or a maximum of 10 participants. But we actually found that the perfect number of participants at any workshop is around seven for every facilitator that is present in the workshop. A great thing about this workshop is that you can actually run it in person and remotely like any workshop done. And if you're running it remotely, you can just use a mirror board or a mirror board or a similar tool. However, all the principles on how to run it don't change. If you're running this workshop in person, you'll need a whiteboard or a flip chart to write on. You'll need two different colors of square-posted notes for each participant. We use blue and we use yellow. You'll need a thicker marker. We use Sharpie and you'll need a few sheets of red voting dots for that voting at the end. And the final thing you'll need is a timer. We use Timetimer. And this is to show all the participants in the workshop how much time they have left. So we can actually set it up to 10 minutes and then everyone in the room will see that they have 10 minutes left to complete the exercise. But if you don't have a Timetimer, don't you worry because you can actually set it as a timer on your phone or on your computer. Oh, and by the way, we're not associated with any of these brands. We just love these tools and that's why we're mentioning them in this video. The main part of the problem-framing workshop is something called a sailboat exercise. And this exercise is used in retrospectives in many companies working on software products, for example. So a lot of people may actually think that the sailboat is a little bit silly but trust me, it's a fantastic way to visualize challenges present in the room before deciding what's really important. So the first thing you need to do is to actually draw that sailboat on that flip chart or the whiteboard behind me. So let's do it. So the sails actually represent what's moving us forward in the project and the anchor represents what's slowing us down, what drags us down, what's the problem in the workshop. If you don't have much time, sometimes these workshops are a little bit rushed, then I recommend drawing this beforehand.  And now on to step two, what's moving us forward. And here, just a little side note for facilitators. This step is more about a warm-up or bringing some positive vibes into the room to help the participants understand that there are lots of positive things happening in the team. Okay, now give each participant a block of yellow post-it notes and a marker. So next, you're gonna use your timer for the first time. You're gonna set it to three minutes and you're gonna ask your participants to write three to six things that they feel are moving us forward. And it's very important that they do it silently. And since the issue here relates to the cost of Facebook ads, you as a facilitator would say something like, when it comes to Facebook app costs, what's moving us forward? What positive things are happening? So now each participant will use their sticky notes and a sharpie to write simple statements, one per sticky note to explain what's driving the project forward. Once the time is up, you as the facilitator will ask each participant one by one to stick their post-it notes on the whiteboard. And while they're doing it, ask them to read them out loud. So for example, our brand really stands out. Our video ads are top class. Our performance marketer does a great job. People love our ads. We don't have too many competitors yet. We are super niche. We have a great click through rate CTR. The engagement is very high and people comment on our ads. And since this is kind of similar, I'm just gonna stick it on top of the engagement. And that's it. You don't need any further explanation. They just need to read them out loud. So once everyone stick their sticky notes to the board, it should look something like this. Now on to step three of this workshop, what's holding us back? Now, this is the more negative part of the exercise. And during this step, participants will be working together alone. This means that even though they're sitting in the same room, each participant will be working alone in silence. And at the end of the step, they won't be presenting their sticky notes. So now you're gonna give your participants eight minutes to write as many sticky notes as they can on what's holding us back. In this case, when it comes to Facebook ad costs, what's slowing us down? What's holding us back? What's hurting us? This is a good moment for you as a facilitator to remind the room that these sticky notes will be anonymous. They won't be reading them out loud. They will be just sticking them randomly on the board so they can write whatever they feel like. However, it's very important that they write clearly so everyone can read what's written on the sticky note. Once the eight minutes is up, ask your participants to stand up all at the same time, come to the board and stick the sticky notes on the bottom half of the sailboat as fast as they can and in a random order. By the end of this part, your board will look something like this. And in this particular case, the participants would have written something like, ad copy is not good enough. No time to explore other platforms like TikTok. We are using old ads. People don't know what workshops are. No time to optimize ads. Missing CTAs. We don't have an in-house copywriter to work on the copy. Facebook ads take a long time to prepare. New Apple privacy settings. People don't care about workshops. Landing pages sometimes don't work. We're using very old creatives. The algorithm changes. You might have noticed that there are some duplicates on the board and you as a facilitator should remove them. How do you do that? You simply take one sticky note and put it on top of the duplicate. So for example, we are using previous ads. It's very similar to we are using old ads. So I'm gonna stick these two together. And now on to step four. In this step, participants will vote on what's causing the most trouble. So first give each participant eight voting dots. These are the red dots that I'm holding right now. You're gonna set the timer to eight minutes and you will ask your participants to vote on what they consider to be the biggest issue holding the team back when it comes to the problem we're tackling. Remind them of the voting rules. They can vote on their own stickies. They can put as many votes on one sticky as they like and they need to use all the votes. And remember, no talking. Once the eight minutes are up, you're gonna ask everyone to sit down and you as a facilitator, you're going to organize all the stickies in order from most voted to least voted. And anything with one vote or two votes or without votes at all, you're just gonna discard it and not use it in this workshop. So as you can see, we now have a prioritized list of all the issues that the team considers to be the main problems when it comes to Facebook ad cost rising. Now imagine doing all this without a workshop. How would this have played out? People would still be talking about what the challenge might actually be. They will be shouting over each other and you'll probably be setting another meeting. However, by using this workshop, you're able to clearly see what this team believes are the most pressing issues. And now on to step five, creating the challenge statement. So now what are we gonna do? We're gonna take the most voted on issue and turn it into something we can actually work on. And for this, we're gonna use a technique called how might we. So the top voted problem is people don't care about workshops. And in this case, the team believes that the ad costs are higher because people just simply don't care about workshops and they're not interested in them. Now people don't care about workshops. It's not really a challenge. It's not an opportunity yet. It's just a negative statement. What are you going to do now is turn this into a more positive how might we statement. How might we is a standard phrasing that helps to reframe a problem into a question so the team can get into a solution oriented mindset. Try to take this challenge. So again, people don't care about workshops and turn it into a how might we statement, which in this case might sound something like how might we get people more excited about workshops. Now this form of phrasing makes it super easy for the team to understand the actual challenge. It implies that there are many possible ways of solving it, removing all the pressure of coming up with the perfect solution. And it also indicates that the whole team will work on the solution together. So you might be wondering what's going to happen with these top voted challenges. You can turn these into how might we statements as well. And if the problem is not solved by the work the team does on the first challenge, come back to them later. But there is a big chance that you want me to. And there you have it. You went from having a broad range of undefined challenges at the beginning of the project to having a well-defined challenge statement that your team can align on and can work on. Now, all this in just 30 minutes. Now imagine the number of hours you would have wasted in open-ended discussions just trying to figure out what the challenge actually is. I hope this video was helpful. If you have any questions about the problem framework workshop, leave them in the comments below. And if you want to learn even more about workshop exercises, make sure you join our free facilitation community where hundreds of facilitators gather to share their insights, resources and experiences. The link to that community is in the description below. Thanks for watching and see you next time.