Formula is a totally customized supplement that consists of several very interesting nitropic stacks. But should you consider supplementing it? Let's find out. Hey, what's up? RekierD founder of your inception, walking to my channel where you learn top secrets about nitropics. Subscribe below to start your journey. Today we're gonna talk about formula. If you go on Google and type in Find My Formula you will get to the website of this interesting new brand that start developing totally customized nitropic stacks. Now you know I've been researching nitropics for quite some time now it's been years already and I've tried a lot of different nitropic stacks but this is actually the first totally customized on nitropic stack that I've actually tried. So what is it all about? That's what we're gonna talk about in this video. So I got this package a couple of weeks ago and I've decided to you know try it out see what's inside and you know let me let me just open this box for you.  So if you look at the package and see what's in you know you have a comprehensive nitropic system they kind of explain here what's all about you know what you put in. There's a note just for me that's so sweet. I write it before so you know and then what you're gonna get in such a such a package is you get actually a couple of different nitropic stacks so this is for clarity this is for energy we have for creativity and for logic as well and that's what's in this box. So here's the thing how does the process look like? So you go on their website you there's a special survey basically go through it you answer all kind of different questions and based on the answers the guys can customize all nitropics and all nitropics stacks specifically for you. So how does the whole process look like on their site you know I don't really know I don't know what you know how can they use all the answers you provide to them and how can they you know get the right ingredients for you but that's on them to figure out what's interesting for me is the whole process because I'm really a big fan of nitropics and I think it's really cool if you can actually get something specifically tailored to your needs and in my case obviously I wanted to get an energy boost I want to get something for for creativity logic and also clarity that that was that's mainly what I'm searching for and that's what I got here and I think that's that's pretty cool. So why does formula stand out from you know other brands you know first of all if you look at each nitropic stack specifically if you look at the all the ingredients you'll see they contain a lot of synthetic nitropics they contain pure acetams they can also basically all the rest of them they contain nupad for example and they mix this synthetic nitropics with adavagian herbs with minerals with with vitamins with amino acids and a thing there's caffeine in as well I saw some I hear this so yeah and and that's very unique because most nitropic states that you can currently find the market 100% natural or mostly natural but they really decided to go into the and use this synthetic version of nitropics which should be stronger there is a thing no doubt about it but we don't really know about the long-term effects so that's one the reason why formula stands out so first of all it's a customized brand or they're providing customized solution and secondly they use mainly synthetic nitropics now I've been trying all these different stacks for quite some time I was really surprised by how they work but I mean I tried residence before I knew what to expect I don't want to judge each individual on stack because it you know really depends off on you know what you want to achieve and then it's really hard to compare like creativity versus logic versus it's it's I think it's really difficult to say if if you take the creativity stack you're gonna be so much more creative compared to if you take the logic stack because if you look at the ingredients they're of course different they're different dosages and but that's you know creativity it's difficult to measure how creative you are it's more about how you feel creative about the individual experience but in general I was very satisfied I was positively surprised by how this stacks worked on me I was slightly afraid of what's gonna happen because there are quite some quite high dosages of residence in this stack so I wasn't really sure what's gonna happen but there were no side effects I felt extremely good most of the time so I was I was definitely positively surprised what else was really good it was the communication with the brand I tried to really understand what their vision is what their mission is what are they doing what they're doing what are the plans for the future and I see a lot of potential here with this brand now when it comes to the read commentary dosages it really depends from formula to formula you get all the instructions on it so there's nothing to worry about that I think each individual experience with formula as the product right will be different obviously so it will be really hard to compare formula to any other metropic stacks but I really like the concept as I think it has a lot of potential especially for those more advanced biohackers and people who really know that the topic you know who are really into improving their cognitive performance on a bit different level and search for such solutions so personally I'm not such a big fan of residence I'm more of a fan of natural ingredients on that that provide no side effects that are proven to be safe in the long term but I think you know these specific metropic stacks that contain those different residence really have some potential especially with more research being done in this field I think we'll see more brands providing such solutions to you so here's the thing if you're interested about customized metropics and the tropics text check out formula I'm not sponsored by those guys they just send me this package I tested it out to see how it works so you know go on findmyforma.com there are links below so don't worry you can read more about the product itself you can order it if you want to do it or just go through the assessment process to see what they suggest to you and then feel free to try it out I think as I said some people will really love it because it's a very they seem to be very high quality products they're synthetic compounds in but that's a need to decide if you like it or not alright guys so much about formula thank you for watching this video don't forget to follow your inception on Facebook Instagram don't forget to subscribe on my channel and I hope to see you soon


Hey everyone, welcome back to some more Python programming tutorials We've been looking at the end-py screen module and recently we've been checking out form objects We've been modifying their size changing their position and now we'll actually get into some more forms of the form object You'll notice in the documentation. It shows a lot of really cool options for what you have here There are different standard form classes you can inherit and kind of subclass to make your own nifty thing So in this video, I'm going to be talking about action form and split form other ones like pop-up and Action form minimal and stuff like that are pretty pretty simple to understand obviously action form and split form are as well, but those are the ones that I want to show you and Kind of get get to some cool stuff with so let's get to it. We'll take it. We'll take a look at split form first It's pretty simple all it has is a horizontal line across the middle the method get halfway We'll tell you where it has been drawn So this might be useful if you kind of want to compartmentalize the forms or the information that your user is entering So I mean hates easy enough Since it's part of a form object everything that we've already done even all these changes We've made with the position and the number of lines and columns Those will work just fine if we just change the form to a split form So now if I run this code actually, I should have saved this as 07 and I'll save back to what we initially had as 06 Get back over to 07 and we're good to go Okay Now Python 07 will give us our split form and just like it said we've got a horizontal line across the middle here So cool now we can play with this just a little bit It tells us this variable draw line at this determines the position with a line should be drawn across the screen It doesn't have to be the middle It can be set by passing draw line at the constructor or it can be set automatically by the value Returned by the method get halfway so get halfway by default is a function that returns the y-coordinate of the bar across the middle of The form by default it is the middle But of course you can reset it to what's going to equal if you pass in the draw line at So those kind of go hand in hand Let's play with it. If I were to pass in draw line at as an argument to my constructor draw line at let's say I don't know how long is our we got ten lines So if we said eight I'll try and run this we're down at the bottom and we're kind of like going through our okay bar our okay button That's kind of cool. That's a cool. Look right We do the same thing like it down at seven and then all the options down at the bottom You can like add to those would be kind of nice What else is there I mean that's really I guess all I wanted to show you on there There is of course move line on resize. This is a kind of determined if The form is resized like if a form fills up the whole screen and then you resize your terminal N pi curse and by screen sorry does have support for that It will try and resize the form accordingly and the move line on resize will determine you can set it Whether or not it will resize along with the form which it should By default it looks like a it is set by It is set to false by default looks like though if you're interested in that one You can totally play with it. I don't think I'm going to because I never have the need to resize my terminal Okay, now I want to check out action form action form is super cool because it gives you a little bit more functionality with your form I'll get rid of my draw line at argument and We'll change this to an action form And you can see right away what the change is we got cancel as well as okay We got two options here now both of them at the moment do nothing They Kind of don't do anything with our program. They still exit the code exit the program But they have special functions So this action form class creates ok and cancel buttons selecting either exits the form The method on ok or on cancel is called when the form exits assuming one of those is selected So subclassing these kind of normally would override them or both which is what we will end up doing But by default they do nothing so on ok. It's interesting normally all the other functions are like lowercase letter capital letter or For after editing and blood for like on start but on ok and on cancel interesting that they're both underscored and lowercase letters So now you could see if we had forms on ok We'll take in the self keyword Right now that we'll have it do nothing, but we'll say Ok button pressed on cancel cancel button pressed now here's an interesting thing because Obviously these functions are being called because I mean that's what we just learned that we know that's happening, but we're not able to really see it if I tried to Like change a value as to one of these oh Notice yeah, I was playing this with with this before actually where I set a variable name to the Widgets that I added f name and L name refer to first name and last name and I set that up because I wanted to actually See if I could modify the values After I press the button it's because you can access any attributes and variables to a widget on the form by actually Using the dot selector and then getting to that so I can say f name dot value can equal ok button pressed But the thing is since this exits the form it wouldn't it wouldn't be able to see it even if I removed the What is it? Next form option, I think yeah right over at the in the after editing if I remove that Even if I try to do this Fight the ok button. Okay, cool. It does work for us. That's awesome Ok button is pressed Now if I cancel nothing's gonna really change But I had to use control C to break out of that like I said here and then we can say For the cancel button if we want L name Cancel button is pressed. Let's see this code Cancel cancel button pressed or okay. Okay, Brun is pressed So again control C to break out of that So, okay, that was kind of a two-fold lesson that I didn't really mean to do but it's awesome that it happened that way You can access specific attributes and properties of your widgets by having them be variables that are returned by the self-add function or The add function of your form object and then the on okay and on cancel functions that come with an action form You can override and have functionality depending on what button is pressed So sweet that's that's I mean there we go. That's what I wanted to show you guys Pretty simple split form and action form. We'll get into others very very soon I know there is one more that I want to look at hint hint, but I want to show you something else before that because I think this is a good time To show you notifying and message boxes and confirm and deek and unconfirm Popup boxes. So yeah, we'll get into that in the next tutorial and I hope you guys enjoyed it Thank you for watching. Maybe you liked the video. Maybe leave me a comment So I'm gonna show you a criticism if you're feeling generous subscribe, you know, I'd love that. Thanks guys. Adios


So we just checked in to our suite at the Beverly Hills. It's so cute. So this is the bathroom Nice we've got a shower and a bathtub scenario, and then we've got the living area the bed and then over here made me feel like negging me or Salahee because there is pictures of me here in the Frame which I've always seen happens to negging when she comes here. I was like, ah, who am I and then Out here is the patio Where we have some sun loungers and The terrace is beautiful. We're gonna change into our bathing suits now and go and lay out by the pool I can't wait So if you can hear the Water sign is in the shower, but guys we've come back to the room to this surprise from Vic Vic you are the kindest person ever look at this She's made us Chocolates to celebrate that we're going to watch the formula one in Vega He has made us these chocolates with pictures of me and Sina and my family and congratulating me on my new res well Residency is what we call like specials training here in America's they call it here and then we've got some champagne as well And I think I showed you guys these pictures, which is so adorable and some balloons. I'm feeling so special I love this hotel might be just my favorite experience in a hotel ever Just at how thoughtful they are and how kind they are for welcoming Sina back as well because she was here a month and a half ago. So I absolutely love it We're gonna shower now take a little nap and then get ready for I'm kind of ready for dinner. I'm just waiting for sign is to be ready so I can take this roller out But I literally had a bath after my day by the pool and it was really nice and I just chilled dried my hair and Yeah, I didn't have time to curl it because it's 8 30 and I'll do the reservation is now at Delilah And they're really strict here in the US like if you're a few minutes late They literally will give your table away to the next person. So I'm really stressing with sign is ready.  Thanks cross Good afternoon Today is Sunday. I woke up and went for breakfast with Sina We sat out a bit by the pool and now we're getting ready to go visit some family in Laguna Beach. Look how pretty our patio looks by the way.  So this is our scenario before we go out. I am going to sit at the bar and have a drink whilst I wait for Sina to get ready and Off we go. I think I'm gonna take this bag. I think I'm gonna do this bag and just imagine without the color Good morning. I am really sorry. I didn't film yesterday We went to the OC to see some family like I said and we were just chilling So it's a little bit weird to get my camera out. So anyway, I'm filming today. We've got my camera This is the outfit and the vibes wait. I need to set you guys down somewhere So you can see you know what you guys can sit on the desk with Sina This is me in my full glory. I am wearing a jumper from Zara scat. It's a poly Laura shoes Chanel bag. I actually don't know if I need a bag. I'm probably gonna go without actually What do you think Sina? I Don't need a bag around the hotel Kind of CBA though. I feel like I just I don't need one if I wasn't like if I was not staying here I would anyway Gonna go and have some breakfast now with Sina But I'm gonna walk around a little bit because I want to like explore the hotel I feel like we've been here for two days and we've not done as much Exploring you said it's like a half an hour drive right we can go tonight The dinner we can go to noble Malbo That was my attempt at an American accent, which sucks Just a quick outfit change to go lay out by the pool. I'm wearing this Ozeri dress Which I get a lot of compliments on And with a blue ozeri bikini that belongs to Sina. So I've borrowed it off her I had another bikini with me that I wanted to wear But it turns out I've got like two bikini tops to match one bottom like it's the same pattern And I brought both the tops. I will show you So I brought this top That's like this and then I thought this was the the bottoms but don't say I've packed the other top So that's annoying. Anyway, we're gonna go lay out in the sun. It's like 23 24 degrees today I think if we're in direct sunlight, it'll be nice and warm. Otherwise, it's a little bit chillier today compared to yesterday um, so yeah, we're just gonna lay out enjoy yourselves relax and Like enjoy this beautiful hotel because it's honestly stunning Going to rodeo drive While you're behind the bed Do you want to come show your outfit? We're dressed all in black How Persian girl of ours I'm loving the detail on this top. I don't know if you guys could see from that far, but I'm in like a Fur color. You look so cute. You look so cute. I'm cool. What's yours? Yes. It's from Zara I think Sina's outfits. I feel like yeah mine's from at Zara as well. I feel like I imagine shoes I feel like my shoes really don't go with like actually it goes. I think it goes quite well but We're 20s. I'm loving uh, I used to set these curling one thing like a few days ago on my hair And it's now become like it's given a wavy look which I actually weirdly like. Yeah, your hair looks really nice. It looks beachy Let's go to town I want to be a Hollywood star that's going to be found here in LA Just do it. Bijan for men. Christmas decor is up decor Oh, it's a taking picture And someone volunteered It's like As per usual I'm the first one ready for dinner This evening Sina and I are both wearing white. I've literally got you guys on top of a champagne glass That is dangerous games. So this is my dress. It's from oh poly And I've styled it with the snappers from mail And then my heels are lobotons. I've had them for years And this is my outfit of the night. We're going to the polo bar at Our hotel just where you guys saw us have breakfast today. I look quite orange in this though and um Yeah, we're just gonna have some dinner and some drinks. I feel really sick um not like ill sick, but I think maybe I don't know if like I'm a bit light headed or like my blood sugar is a bit low I don't know. So I'm hoping when we eat something I'm going to feel a bit better Because I feel just a bit weird. You know how to explain it. It's like I feel like I'm classic Even though I've not been in like a long distance car journey So hopefully I will feel better once we eat something. Sina's got the prettiest dress. Sina come show your dress Vlog how dress is from the attico. Wow Sina's dress is from the attico. You look beautiful So nice, I love it. If we go also if my hair looks weird, I just shallered and like pretty much only blow dried the front So the rest of it's a bit mopey. Do you think?   This is my breakfast out there Paired with some orange handles my bikini bag as like my pouch and I'm gonna put my room key in here These are my shades They're like quite cool tortoise print Um, I went for a workout in the morning, which was nice Um, the gym has got a lot of facilities, which is good And Sina has gone down to breakfast. I'm gonna go and join her now. I'm excited. We're gonna Sunday today It's 25 degrees. So it's definitely warm enough to Sunday and just get a bit of a tan if possible Anyway, see you by the pool No, no, no, no, no, no No This lady left her weights here. I I don't know if they're floaties or weights, but we're a bit concerned that she might have I'm scared that she's gonna she's fitted. She's gone through the gap in the pool Yeah, Sina's really freaked out by the size of the gaps in the pool Finished sunbathing for the day and we're gonna go back to our room to get changed So that we can go and have some drinks before dinner We're going to Nobu and Malibu tonight. I feel like the only tourist sightseeing I've been doing is all the restaurants that are hip here Um, I've not seen anything like the Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood sign Um, I don't know what else there is to see What are you doing trying to tear myself feel a little bit bored? Um, that's a bit rude And it's not you Too much Just having a little room service moment. Oh my god, this is hot. Ouch How am I meant to remove that? Yours doesn't advertise it.  Really, mine does in my opinion It's giving first lady, you know classic girl fun winter I love the fur collar detail this outfit is from self portrait and then I paired it with the white Chanel For a super classy moment. We're off to Nobu in Malibu And I'm excited even though we just had room service like two hours. Um, sorry I got cut off because my memory card ran out. But yeah, we're going to Nobu in Malibu And I feel like I'm done a food tour of LA Um, rather than anything else That is Like I would have loved to have gone for a hike. Should we do that tomorrow morning? Let's wake up and go for a hike to go and see the Hollywood sign Let's um What else is there to do sign up? I think so like the Santa Monica, which is a beach, right? But I feel like I mean we saw Laguna Beach So I don't know that we'd go if you Like I feel like that's places to go if You know, you've got a lot of time on your hands and then you're gonna go there.  We won't actually eat anything So we'll have like a healthy breakfast or brunch at Erwin And then we'll go to Rodeo because I need to fix my I need to get my make up my Mario contour stick Because I got one guys and it's broken I need to go to Rodeo next Okay, there we go. So that's our day planned and I want to wake up like kind of earlier, which we've been doing most days Anyway Sign up you look beautiful. It's the first day. We didn't wake up super. Yeah, but we did you woke up early and I was like I like to go back to sleep. I always wake up early every day.  I'm waiting for him It's one of the most beautiful restaurants I've ever been to It's just like I'm like I'm kind of absorbed the energy of the ocean It's like this is the sound of the waves crashing Is really what makes it even more stunning and this is like our view The Nobu Monaco is similar in that it's like got a deck that's out on the ocean But like there's no way of crashing beach like sandy element because you're like on top of the ocean if that makes sense Hola, you look really pretty So I know and I own like quite a similar vibe. I will show you Yeah, oh my god guys last night we had to wake up because we Meet the room we go to two degrees Anyway, we're quite similar in vibe Basically We we've got ready. It's like 12 30 or so but guys look at this rain. I actually can't So awful. Look at this weather.  My battery's low The Beverly Hills are done this blue me weather honestly to go Guys the restaurant that we just sat at in our hotel Timothy Shalama and Kylie Jenner was sat opposite us eating She is just as beautiful in her pictures. I think more beautiful in real life than in her pictures because she had incredible skin And I don't I don't really know who he was before she started dating Kim Which probably might shock people because I know he's quite famous Um, but he looked like his pictures too if that's any consolation. I can't imagine why he wouldn't um, but she was really lovely like she smiled like she looked that she walked past me like this distance and like smiled and Yeah, I just thought that was such a Hollywood LA moment for me on this trip, which I laughed. You know, you're just walking now to find Sila She's in the next floor Um, and it's been raining here in LA. So, yeah, we're just more in the winter attire So we've come to the bar at Avra I think it's because we're not wrapped. I think I'm gonna be hungry again. Yeah, I would be either Wait, but it's just basically everything The rest is like, right, it was past the meeting hour. So Because we went to Hermes and then we went to Sephora like we were doing such something Which we should have technically come here first and then got all that Why? It only took us like half an hour. We waited And I wasn't that hungry in the evening I wasn't that hungry in the evening But anyway, that is Um, the sweetest girl who waxed her. She's a great friend to us. She's pretty nice And so shout out to you too Why is your face like that? The sun is so so down. I can't help it, no. It's because the guy behind was like, oh have you been to Namwon? And then the girl's like, oh Yeah And you could tell she has her And he was like, do you know where Namwon's going? Thank you Thanks so much And Beverly Hills in LA has come to an end By the way, Beverly Hills hotel is incredible If I had to pick between Beverly Hills hotel and the Wiltshire I'd pick Beverly Hills hotel over and over Everything about it the stay the the resort the the staff the service all incredible And I loved it. Our next stop is Vegas. We're so excited. We're going to go watch the formula one And see some of our friends and Yeah, are you excited to sign? Oh my god. Yes, I'm coming. I'm just waiting for suitcases. Anyway guys, we will see you


Hey everyone, my last video was about matchmaking and social systems in Destiny 2. I went through all the long running problems that arise from their bad matchmaking and briefly mentioned how few Destiny and Destiny 2 players have completed a raid. Since that recording I've done some of the last wish raid and did a bit more googling on exactly how many players have completed end game activities and all that brought me to this question. Why does so few players raid in Destiny? Now there are some answers that seem obvious that we'll briefly touch on but there's also the less obvious reasons that point to flaws in the design of the gameplay itself in other areas. Destiny 2's raids are the very best content that Bungie has ever created as a studio and I stand by my assertion that they are the very best co-op content ever to appear on console. And that means that every time a player leaves without raiding they fail to get full value from their purchase and Bungie fail to put their best foot forward for their customers. I'm gonna fix this problem for Bungie. First things first. Before we get to the less obvious problems and fixes I think we should probably start with the most glaring and easily fixed issues standing between players and the raids. The complete lack of any in-game LFG as well as no way for players to really meet each other within the game. The tower has always been called Destiny's social space but let's be honest here man, there is zero socialization going on. When a player entered one of the capital cities in WoW they are completely flooded with area and trade chat. Players would go to the capital cities to hang out. Was some of that chat toxic? Yes. Was much of it actually fine? Yes. That's the nature of socializing with other people. Bungie has no text chat in social spaces. The extent of being social is emoting at someone or jumping up and down or kicking a ball at them for a few seconds. What this means is that there is almost nowhere to meet a player that you might get along with. Let's go to the console market instead. Elder Scrolls Online has a local chat feature in the cities. When you get near players you can hear them talking. This means that players can actually meet like-minded people. The only thing that pushes you to meet people in Destiny 2 is their gameplay but that's a piss poor way to meet others. Just because someone is good at shooting things doesn't mean I'll get along with them. Simply adding text and offed out area chat to the tower would go a long way towards letting people meet inside the game. A text chat would probably be best because then Bungie can have filters to cut down a toxic behavior and have a written record they can use to punish people who are reported for bad behavior. Either way, the lack of any way to meet people in the game is one of the main reasons the game feels like a solo experience with human-controlled NPCs running around. Seeing a player on the patrol map doesn't feel like you met someone. The Xbox or PS4 messaging systems are clunky. They require backing out several menus, correctly finding that person and spelling their name right, then going through a couple more menus and sending the message. And then, if you get messages, you're only notified that you received a message. They've got to back out a couple of menus to even read it. Sending people random party invites isn't a solution either because I don't have my headset on most of the time and I'm not interested in speaking to someone until I know they are in a douche. Are there risks and difficult design decisions to be made? Yes, of course. Playing with other people is always a small risk, but Destiny wants to get all of its cool gameplay behind grouping with five others. All the lack of social features in the game is done is abdicate any responsibility on the studio's part. They've just let others deal with any negatives, presumably so they can say, Oh, you had a shitty interaction? That's a shame. Good thing it had nothing to do with us. It's a cop-out. And in my opinion, the sole reason there aren't any actual social features in the game. But let's move beyond these features, okay? Do they make it easier to meet people? Absolutely. Are they slightly risky for Bungie? Sure, I guess. They want to have an all-ages rating and almost certainly are nervous about exposing young kids to the voices of strangers. Fine. Even though the lack of those features is one of the reasons social engagement is dismally low, there is at least a compelling argument for their exclusion. What can't be argued with is that the lack of an in-game LFG is completely inexcusable. There is literally zero compelling argument against it. Having to have an impossible-to-miss menu option for finding a group is the main social failure of the game. Right now, the Destiny 2 LFG is spread across multiple different websites of varying quality and population. If a player doesn't know they exist, they are totally fucked and will never play any end-game activity. If they only know about the Bungie app, their options are severely limited. Destiny's LFG is on Bungie.net, Destiny LFG, The 100.io, and several other smaller sites. There are at least five different places I know of that players are posting looking for others.  Making an in-game LFG right on the director that players could post detailed group listings on would immediately bring the entire player population onto one list where everyone can see it. Players who hadn't rated would see that floating there every single day and eventually the odds of them clicking it and signing up for a game are very high. Players of magnitude higher than them leaving the game, googling for Destiny LFG sites, picking one, creating an account, verifying that account, figure out how the site works, scrolling through the listings, signing up for a listing, and then not getting an invite and getting pissed off and giving up. A robust, fully functioning LFG would considerably lower the barrier for entry. That simple, tried and tested feature would immediately raise the percentage of people who have tried to raid. And the better the feature, the more successful it would be. It should filter for mics. If a mic isn't working, you can't sign up for a game that requires mics in the listing. It can draw from the platforms to make sure the ages line up with listings requirements. It would allow for a detailed notes section. It's a tool that allows players to find each other without actually having to leave the game.  Completely inexcusable and probably the single most important factor in the dismal rates of people who have even tried to raid. The continued obstinance of Bungie and failing to deliver this feature is drastically hurting their franchise. It's another example of Bungie not wanting the responsibility of player interaction. They like to harp on how social the game is, push players to get a fireteam, but then abdicate any responsibility for providing players with a platform for grouping within the game itself. That's the main reason so few people have tried raids, but it isn't the reason so few people have completed raids. That comes down to the game design itself. A third way. Alright, that's the stuff that's completely easy to see and fix. I remain totally salty and annoyed that Bungie refuses to do anything about the total lack of social features in their supposedly social game, but it is what it is. But there's something that contributes even more to the lack of raid completions across the franchise. And that's the fact that raiding is, functionally, a completely different game. Players who raid aren't playing Destiny 2 or Destiny, but a little harder. They are playing, quote unquote, Destiny Raids, an entirely different game that expects completely different things from a player and has a very high bar for entry. Let's begin by imagining a player who never played Destiny 1 and has never played any kind of MMO that has raids in it. We don't need to stretch our imagination for this. Destiny is and always has been first and foremost a big budget, AAA FPS game with a huge marketing campaign aimed at regular casual consumers. Now, this person, let's say their main FPS experience is Call of Duty campaigns. That player can turn on Destiny 2, boot it up to play that campaign and have no issues at all. Are there some different mechanics? Sure, a couple I suppose. The player needs to learn to use their super and... Yeah, that's actually basically it. The experience of playing Destiny or Destiny 2 is easily familiar to anyone who has played another FPS campaign. As that player goes through the campaign, the open world stuff and even the strikes, they are almost never asked to do anything they haven't done in another FPS game before.  That's it. Now, let's say that player very much loves the gunplay of Destiny. The mechanics and look is won them over and they decided like to see the raids everyone's talking so much about. And so he goes on LFG and gets into a group for the last wish. He's heard you get your third super from the first boss. How much different can it be? And then the person who posted the group starts talking. Okay, see those symbols? All right, we're gonna split into three groups of two. Each group is gonna have to find and run to a plate with those symbols. Then you stand on the plate, but only one third of the plate. And as those black things spawn, you run to the other third. Then after a while, the boss might come and try to shoot you. You just shoot her and stay on the correct third of your plate. All right, then after a while, a knight is gonna spawn. Kill that knight. Once that knight's killed, make sure everyone else has killed their knight. If they haven't, go help them. After that, we all run to the middle and shoot the boss. But after a while, the boss will do this thing. You'll know because the bottom left of your screen, there'll be a small little text notice about preparing some weapon or whatever. Well, once that happens, you keep shooting her for a bit, but there'll be six doors that open. You're going to go into the bottom middle door. No, the bottom middle door. Except about 30% of the time, there'll only be two doors in the bottom. If that happens, you're going to go into the top right door. And then once in a while, there'll only be one door in the bottom. If that happens, you go into the second to last door on the top right. But don't worry, that only happens every so often. Then after that, we jump out and do the same thing three more times. Then we repeat. Simple.  So be perfect, okay? Cool.   Now, I'm not saying the raid encounters are too hard. In fact, the only thing too hard is that the light level is annoyingly high right now. So there's always someone in the group who gets killed by thralls. That's not the problem. The problem is Bungie does nothing to prepare players for what they're going to encounter in the raids. And this has only gotten worse over time. You see, vanilla Destiny players' first two raids were Vault of Glass and Crota. Those raids were immeasurably mechanically simpler than everything that has come since. And that's understandable because people like me who've been raiding since vanilla Destiny need to continually have the difficulty and complexity amped up to prevent us from getting bored. Just shooting the Templar after someone bops him with a shield isn't enough anymore. But if someone's first raid was King's Fall, that is a much more difficult nut to crack. Vault of Glass was simple enough mechanically so that even though it was considerably more complex in the regular gameplay, it was still in the ballpark. If someone's first raid experience is Cali in The Last Wish, they have had absolutely no introduction to any of these mechanics beyond occasionally being asked to stand on a plate to begin an encounter. And even that, only once or twice in their gameplay. You can literally play Destiny 2 for hundreds of hours without encountering any of the mechanics you'll need to be familiar with in the raids. Every raid from King's Fall on has been far too hard for someone who has never raided before. And again, it's understandable and necessary that the raids continue getting more complex. Still, this problem has now existed for several years and Bungie has failed to address it so I'm gonna fix the problem for them. How to prepare players for raiding. Because Destiny's best content is their raids and very few people raid, Bungie has a serious problem that needs fixing. Luckily, a relatively simple couple of changes can completely solve the issue and ensure that every player is exposed to raid mechanics slowly in a lower stress environment. I've been thinking about this for a couple of years now and I've come up with several different ways it could be tackled. I originally wanted Bungie to include raid-type mechanics within the campaign but decided against that because I believe that Bungie rightly doesn't want to risk making it too hard for any player to complete. Bungie needs to make certain that even an eight-year-old who gets the game for Christmas can have a good time with the campaign. I moved on to wanting a completely different three-man activity that would be in-between raids and strikes in mechanical difficulty. But after seeing just how much Bungie struggles to provide value, I quickly abandoned that idea as impractical and impossible. It was only in the last couple of months that it came up with the perfect solution. It doesn't require an entirely new mode. It doesn't require making campaign missions or strikes considerably more complex and it reuses existing assets. It's basically an idea Taylor made for Bungie. The one-man raid. As we've gone over, Bungie currently devotes a significant amount of resources developing their raids only to see a tiny fraction of players even try them, much less complete them. I have to imagine that's very frustrating and must have led them to consider making the raids much easier.  So the quite obvious solution? There should be five versions of each raid that unlock over time. Currently, we've only had three. We would have normal, hard, and challenge mode in D1. In D2, we just get normal and hard. But my idea goes like this and we'll use the last wish as an example, but this works for any raid. Bungie would release the raid just as they do now. For two weeks only, the normal version of the raid would be available, but at week three, there would be a new node to land on, the solo raid encounter. This version of the raid would keep as many mechanics as possible but be able to be played solo and provide normal, weekly milestone rewards, not raid rewards. So on the third Tuesday after the last wish released, a milestone would be to defeat Callie. This new solo Callie would have players enter and see only one symbol floating above her head. There'd be a brief tool tip explaining exactly what's required. Activate corresponding plate. That's enough. No other information is needed. Players know to kill things and they know not to stand on bombs. They'd summon the knight, kill it, and damage boss and center would flash on screen. Players would damage the boss until she did her white mechanic, at which point a door would open and the player would go in and repeat three times until she died. You've now taught in a low stress, solo environment, all of the mechanics needed to not feel like a lead in weight on a raid team. Each week, another encounter would open up like this. After each boss was defeated, there would be a simplified, match made three man version of the raid. Every boss would have less phases than normal but require more mechanics than the solo version. Mechanics that were particularly hard would be pulled out but either way, players are now actually completing raid mechanics in a low stress environment and because they are so cool, you would instantly explode the amount of players who want to do the real thing and get the rewards. Some raid encounters would be easier than others but almost every single raid encounter in Destiny 2 could be adjusted like this. Argos could be almost exactly the same except the skulls could be used one at a time instead of three at a time to bring down the shield. Calus could have the player transported into the void where they'd see one symbol on Calus's forehead before needing to shoot skulls and a scion. Then they'd be transported out and would have to melee the scion that corresponded to the symbol they saw before going to the plates and doing damage. Baths could require players to rotate through all four plates with each rotation alone stopping the chain before doing the damage phase exactly as it is. Gardens could have players alternate between shooting the flower with a prism and then having to go down and sneak to that flower to get the spores for the buff needed to kill a single dog. Gauntlet could just require the platforming and killing ads parts. I could do this for almost every raid encounter in the franchise's history and over time, as more and more players became familiar with these mechanics in a low stress, solo or three man environment, they could start making their way into the game in other places and the raids themselves could get even more complex. Finally, with players properly trained and comfortable, the only mechanics they will not have been exposed to are those that rely on team communication. And that's the experience players would still need to master in the six man raids. Not only does this add value to tens of thousands of players who don't raid, not only does it make use of all the content Bungie has created for as many people as possible, it fully trains the players on every mechanic needed in a raid other than team communication. But if players only had to learn communication and one or two other mechanics instead of basically learning everything new with a group of five strangers who will fail the encounter if they mess up, I'm confident thousands more players would feel comfortable signing up to raid groups. Years ago, when players saw videos of Vault of Glass, they almost certainly thought to themselves, oh, I can do that. Players who maybe aren't super confident and have watched tutorials of Shiro or Kali, those encounters are like nothing they've ever tried in a shooter. They are almost certainly alienating significant portions of the player base because Bungie has done nothing to prepare them for what to expect inside their six man, several hour long, high pressure raid environments. It's an unfair ask of players who've never raided before. This one new activity that uses nothing other than existing raid assets and mechanics not only gives solo players a cool new activity, it could feature different modifiers and become another excellent end game addition for everyone, experienced raiders and not. And after this change, the only reason people wouldn't raid would be because they either didn't like it or the lack of end game social features. Not because the mechanics themselves are so foreign and off-putting and the amount of people who are totally unprepared in LFG groups would go down making the LFG raid experience smoother and more enjoyable. Sailing because players just can't get their heads around mechanics is frustrating. And that happens because for newer raiders it takes a long time for these things to become intuitive. People who've raided can walk into a new raid and instantly get an idea of what's expected of them. Players who've never done a raid are coming in completely blind with no experience that's even remotely related anywhere else in the game. This is a win, win, win. Raiders get another fun activity and more players in LFG. Bungie gets happier solo players and less wasted resources and solo players who don't want to raid get to explore and play the game's best content in a low stress solo environment. And I'm positive it can't be all that hard to implement considering the vast majority of encounters would only need very small changes, if any at all. Bungie really needs to think long and hard about how to get more people into their raids and not to toot my own horn here. I don't think they'll come up with a better idea than this. What do you guys think? All right, I'll see you next time. Bye.


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Hello, hello everyone, my name is Laura, and this is my channel Laura's Little Library, and welcome to today's July bullet journal video. It's gonna be a little different than the other bullet journal videos I have done because this one, it's the spread when it's almost completed. And what I mean by that is I didn't end up creating my July spread until very late in the month. It was very hard on me not to have it ready to go. And so because of that, I just needed to focus on getting it done, and then I filled it out as I always do. So I'm just going to do a flip through of what my July bullet journal looked like this month, not necessarily creating it or focusing on the theme, but just everything as it's done. And it's not completely filled out because we still have a few days left in July, so there are a few things that are still open, but I still wanted to get something out there and just kind of show you how I go through my bullet journal. So the theme was kind of a cocktails and fruity theme. I think the intro page is the worst page of them all. I need to say the intro page is for last, not first, so that it actually looks nicer because this was so disappointing. As always, I have my calendar first and again, this one's quite simple. I've just got the fruits on the edge and a cocktail on the left side. It's pretty blank. I didn't do much in June. And then again, my TBR page, which is like the same setup as last time, just a different color scheme. And I kind of like that. It's easier to organize. And then Summerween was also here. I did not end up doing it, even though I completely planned on it, hence why it's partially filled out. Book's red, it's cute little cocktail with the bubbles that kind of go around like when you see a champagne bottle. That's not idea. So those are all the books I've read so far as of filming this and my rankings page and books I'm going to buy. It's all very much the same as what I've been doing the past spread or two, just with the cocktails and fruity theme. You can see how I am planning my videos and that videos are being planned. And I almost never fill out Twitter and TikTok, but I still have them there just in case I get an idea that I can't act upon. And that's actually the end of this notebook. So I will be starting a new notebook. Let me know if you want a flip through of everything in this notebook. It is all completely bullet journals. Well that's it for this video. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to like, leave a comment if you also do videos and what your spreads are if you do bullet journals. Feel free to subscribe. I am posting videos Sundays and Wednesdays, although this video is going up on Monday, which is kind of late. But thank you all so much. And until I see you in the next one, I wish you happy reading.


Nigerian President Mohamed Buhari has stressed the urgent need for Nigeria and her neighbors to place high premium on effective policing of borders as the fragile nature of entry points into various countries and has terrorism, economic sabotage and a leased-sit flow of arms. The President spoke at the State House, Abuja, while playing host to Secretary-General of World Customs Organization, who was in Nigeria for a global conference on fragile borders. He said the theme of the conference, which is enabling custom in fragile and conflict-affected situation, is of critical importance for us as a country as we go to the polls, but equal important to most countries on the continent and I daresay the world. I made it a careful cardinal commitment of mine to ensure each Nigeria is able to exercise their franchise by participating in a free and fair election in true practice of our relatively nascent democracy. It is our objective to ensure this takes place in a peaceful and conducive atmosphere despite all the usual excitement and givemanship that is known to occur during election campaign. The fragility of our borders has been a major Achilles heel in our fight against terrorism, economic sabotage and a leased flow of small arms and light weapons. See how comprehensive and exhausting solutions can be proposed that deal with the multifaceted nature of this issue. Customs should play a more active role in security area because without security we can't collect revenue or facilitate trade and especially we are mindful of small traders at land borders because unless we promote their trade whether it is formal or informal we can't really secure the stability and prosperity of that borderline.


Tell me about your imposter syndrome. My experience of you, it's you earned, you didn't get any breaks that I'm aware of. I missed a few steps. Yeah. Yeah. So why the imposter syndrome?  Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like- You're handling it pretty well.  Woo, two specials changed the game.


Yeah, so I just added you into our email list, but I, yeah, I didn't know if that's you wanted to keep coming to these meetings or if you wanted to join the committee or yeah. Yeah, I think I appreciate being added to the distribution list because I definitely want to stay up on what you're doing. But right now I feel like I shouldn't join the committee. I just, I mean, I've been in my job for a year but it feel like I'm still in transition because of the pandemic and you know my learning curve was much flatter than it than it might have been if I had been in person and being trained so I appreciate that and I probably will keep coming because I'm really interested in the topic and I'm also attending the police review committee meetings because the work is all intertwined. And I want to be available for you know to help with any way I can if there's anything that the Justice Center can can assist with so yeah but so thank you and and staying on the email list is awesome. Great. Um, we all do just review and approve the minutes public comments of education learning around people report backs and related city committees and then creative discourse work plan updates so look at the survey results and distribution, and then any fundraising or recruitment. And we all talk about that when I get there. And the committee chair meeting so update and requested materials from the city. Dates agenda other considerations, other business. And so the next meeting, and I'm just realizing I think I had committed to coming up with a draft agenda for that meeting and I never I did didn't even realize that I can do it until right now. So apologies for dropping that ball. Um, to anything. Yeah, anything else to add have a salad to folks. Good. So let's take a look at Michael's minutes. Anyone want to make a motion to approve. I move we approve the minutes. And Lauren seconds. Thanks. Long favor. Hi, any post. All right. Thank you so much Michael. You're welcome. I'm on my own today. It's going to be harder without Carol and Cameron's backup, which I'll muddle through. You've got it. I'm going to go back to the work I hear. Okay. And then any public comment or self education and learning round table. Anyone's been reading, watching, listening, learning. Anything on racial social economic justice recently that they want to share. The newspapers. Nothing, nothing for me other than the newspapers. I've definitely been a few weeks. Yeah, all the, all the time. I'll just share that May day is on Saturday and there's a rally at the state house. If anyone is interested, I can find that link and put it in the chat. Rally for what? For May day. So, okay. I think that's a big like labor organizing day, Michael. Yeah, I just wanted to be sure that. Yeah, that's the, so. I mean, there are so many things that one could be rallying for. That is so true. In this case, it is tied to that. And nothing else. I always share all the things. I just wanted to make sure that. I just wanted to make sure that. Report backs from other related city committees. So I. Please review committee and city council. Anything else that would be helpful to have report backs from. I'll report for the city. The police review. First of all, Shayna. No, not you. Cameron. No. Keisha. Thank you. We attended the last meeting that was Monday and gave an update on. What's going on with the survey. And review some of the questions that are. The question that's most relevant to us. We're starting to pull together. Our report. A draft of our report. First draft is first draft to do. We want to get a draft out to the public. And by the, I think the end of May is what we, we said. So we're starting, we're starting to, to narratives. And the final reports do by the end of June. So we're hoping to be able to make that deadline. Any questions on any of that. Yeah. Yeah, I think we need to. Like reality check when there's going to be a full draft to get public comment on. And then how that will be done. A lot of. A lot of sections, a lot of complexity to it. So. It hasn't been written yet. So we're not scheduling anything until we have something in hand. Yeah, I think we need to.  Like you are doing with the committee with our patients doing with the committee and then we'll. So it will be like an iterative process within the committee before going out to public permit. I'm sorry.  I'm just like, I don't wrap my head around it. Ask, ask it again. I'm sorry. I didn't, they didn't follow it. Like, are you co-writing it with the committee? And with Kasia or it's like Kasia's writing it and don't go to. Kasia will, they'll do their summary and that's relevant for us. We will know about, we will get a copy of it or we'll get the text. Okay. But they're not writing any part of our report. We're just, we're just waiting to hear what the results of the survey show. And we'll incorporate it into our report. Yeah. Thanks, Michael. Anything. From the city or anywhere else. I mean, the. The things that are on the agenda. I again. Like the, I think. Figuring out the, how we spend this one time money. Like I would love. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would love to have this committee to be thinking about how there's process around that in a way that is. You know, prioritizing social justice and how we think through that. So thinking of like the tool that. This group had developed and all that. So, but that timeline. It is still not totally clear to me. I mean, some of the money doesn't even come in for a year. So there's, there's time. Some of it comes in pretty soon. I mean, I don't know how long it's going to take to start getting made, but. But that's, that's one piece. There is the. I mean, policy-wise. I'm trying to get what's. What intersects most with this group. You know, there, there have been questions around the home energy ordinance, which I know we talked about two weeks ago. And I know like Michael had emailed me and I owe you an email, Michael. I've heard it. I've heard it. I've heard it. From people who were curious about that or had like more specific questions or if I can talk, happy to talk to anyone offline if. I don't want to take too much of our shared. Time together. But. One. I'll ask one question about. Yeah. When that was being discussed. And drafted, did you use the, did the council use the, the. the model of equity decision-making that we had submitted, was that brought into the discussion? No, that's a good question. I've like been thinking through that, but more just like, but okay, who benefits? Who, you know, is this a potential burden on? And like, so I've been kind of like thinking through it, but we didn't do an explicit exercise around that. Yeah, I might talk to Ann about that. That's a good idea to like try to even get that on paper to do that, because like, to me, it's like clearly a pro-equity thing. And like the concerns I'm hearing, some of them just aren't accurate about what this ordinance actually does, but I think there's general, there are people who will have, you know, a burden from doing this, and there's other people who will benefit. So it's like getting that all down and like making sure our own, those of us who are like just in it, our biases are being like, of just being like bought into it, are like actually make sense on paper to people. So that's a great idea. I am gonna- The main critique that's come from Peter Kilman, says a lot about that. I mean, he makes that one of his kind of central points in some, in a way that's very difficult to kind of pull apart and understand exactly. But I think it would be good to know that the council actually thought about those issues as an answer to his, one of his fundamental criticisms. Yeah. And like there has been a lot of thought about it, but we didn't use that specific rubric. So, but I think that rubric would be helpful to get it down. And yeah, some of the like equity critiques he's bringing forward, I think fundamentally misunderstand what this actually requires of people. But I wanna make sure that that's true. And there are obviously with anything, there's genuine equity issues and considerations and pros and cons, like there are to everything. So I think some of what he's saying is not right, but there's other things that are not part of what he's saying that I think are true. And some of what he's saying is true. And some I think is a little off base. But all right, well, I'm totally happy to do that. And then that's something I would love to share with this group and just see if like, just be an email and see if people have thoughts or like things that seem missing or concerns. We do have one more meeting. So it says this discussion got bumped to May 12 at city council because we haven't heard from the lawyer who was looking at some revised language to try to respond to some of the community concerns. So I believe we have one more meeting. Like I think we've got a meeting that morning. So we'd have a chance to have a discussion before council is taking it up for any action. So I'll put that on my list to work on and then share with you all. Does that sound okay? Thanks, yeah. Thanks for that idea, Michael. Put May 12th on the calendar. Good questions. Anything else there? We're going to work on updates. So we are, we're chugging along here folks. So we've got the survey out. Huge thank you to Michael for going, you know, doing the paper delivery to Jeremy for posting up from Fort Forum, for Pelham for posting up from Fort Forum this week. And I'm sure I like shout out if you've had enough of that success posting it somewhere else that you wanna share. What's in here? I'm trying to get it into the library. I haven't been able to connect with the librarians but I'm going to go try again today. I dropped off paper copies. You did?  I was like, here, can you take these? So I did it. I liked like five or 10, but. Well, maybe that's why they didn't call me back because I won't, I'll check that's off my list then. Good. Yeah, last week checked. I know Cameron hadn't gotten paper results back and then obviously she's out today. And so I'm not sure how successful those have been but and then has anyone gotten any requests for language translation services? You put that out in the newsletter and other places as well and have not heard anything. So, okay. So the goal that we had set in collaboration with Creative Discourse was to get 300 survey responses by Friday. So by May, by April 30th, right? We've gotten a huge spike this past week. We're now about 225 and we wanted to get 10% from BIPOC residents and we're currently at 9%. So pretty close, but this is 75 new responses by Friday. How do people feel about that? Can we get it? We need a plan to do that and not just let chance. Cross our fingers. Yeah. It's a wish to live. I mean, it feels like we could be posting daily again and in Promcourt forum. And I don't know if there's any other groups we can circle back with from our kind of stakeholder list. I have an email. I thought the parents was such a good idea like the parent committee. And I have not heard from the Union Elementary School and I haven't heard back from anyone that I've emailed and I've bumped several times. And so I don't know if other people have relationships or if I should just give them a call or just be a little bit more assertive than sending emails. I can. Do you have maybe forward me what you sent Shayna and I can try just emailing same people if they're hearing from more than one, maybe I'll shake it loose or maybe I knew some other people if I see who you had sent it to you. If you're going to send it to Lauren, just if you'd circulate it, I guess to all of us and then we can do what we're gonna do again. It's in my email inbox somewhere but I don't know where anymore. Great. Thank you. Jeremy, were there other lists that you were thinking of or should I pull up the list of where we were gonna send? Well, I don't know if it ever got sent through Surge. That's the one. And I can see if they'll send it, email somebody there today. An action action, I thought that just occurred to me is we're asking everybody, right? So students can also be filling out the survey. Is that correct? I think we did have a good number of students fill it out. Pelin, did you send it to the high school group or not, I mean a good number. I remember early on when we looked at it with Gation so there was like a slice of, I mean it looked like there was a bunch of high schoolers who took it, I'm not sure. Pelin, could you forward to the high school group again? Is that? Yeah, I can ask my daughter again. And when you were talking about parents, I remembered that there's a parent organization. I don't remember its name but I will check my inbox and send you. Maybe we can share with them. Maybe they will be more proactive than the schools because they are organizing so many things. It's like a volunteer parent group, does things about school and charity and everything. I think they are pretty active. So let me find their email address and share it with you today. Maybe we can send them, maybe they will be more interested doing something with us. I'm assuming, Shayna, you or others have got Facebook covered on this? You know, no, because the city was going to be posting on Facebook, on the city Facebook page. And if Cameron's out, I'll circle back with, who would the right person be? Justin? Well, Cameron's out. Michael, Lauren, she is now. Maybe Mary, Samantha. Yeah, she's the assistant to the manager. Okay, good call. How about Recreation Department? I think they might have good data base, right? Is there offering so many things to kids, parents, elderly? There's also a, well, it's monthly newsletter from the Senior Activity Center, but there's there are weekly one from Live. We could try them again. Great. Okay, I'm just circling all the way back up to Front Porch Forum, the first idea here. I hope, yeah, Pellan just posted yesterday. So if we want to post, you know, today, tomorrow and Friday, who can post on what days? I can post again today. And I'll just kind of put a deadline soon, kind of preamble. Yeah, I think that's, yeah, we're like, do Friday. You know, we want to hit our goal by Friday. Those things, like when I get those emails, like we have a fundraising deadline at midnight tonight, I'm like, oh no, okay, let me go now. So real. Thanks, Jerry. I can do it tomorrow. You want to do it? Really? Great. And I can do Friday. Done, boom. Go team. All right, so just to review this, we've got Front Porch Forum, Jeremy today, Lauren tomorrow, Pellan Friday. I'm going to send the student email stuff to Lauren. I'm going to recirculate it to this team. I also put down my neighborhood list, and then to circle back with Mary from Montpelier staff to post on the city Facebook, and I'll recirculate back with Montpelier Live. And we've got Pellan forwarding to the high school group and the parent organization at the high school. And then we've got, did we say, Jeremy posted to search. Did we ever ask like, I'm spacing on their name, the Sustainable Montpelier Coalition, like the community neighborhood groups? Like, do those leaders have it? Do they have email list they can send it out to? Did we do that? Yeah, Cameron was going to send to them. Okay. Yeah, thanks. And who would be the main, I wanted to bump them, you know, I don't, who would be the person to? I think you could ask like, Elizabeth, that came to present here. Great. What's the name of that group again? Sustainable Montpelier, I mean, CAN is the acronym for their program. What is CAN for though? Why can't I? Community Action Network or something, maybe. It's like capital area neighborhoods. Yeah, that's right. They're very stuck. I was like, I need to know what this is. I know, no, these are acronyms, like, yes. You just can, you got it. And so they're going to start processing these results in early May. I think our next meeting is on Monday to just look at the survey results and kind of see where people are landing with all of this. And then we, yeah, by over May, we'll be, they'll be writing the report as well. So, you know, hand in hand with this, please review committee timeline. Any other questions on the creative disperse work plan stuff or thoughts or reactions? When they're, when they've got the report completed, will they, will they be kind of joining one of our meetings to present it to us or how's that going to work? Yeah, they're going to be circulating it back to CJAC and to the focus group participants to get their feedback on it. They said it'll probably be a pretty tight deadline, to turn around. Actually, let me find my notes from this too. I'm sorry. Hold on a sec. Sorry, I didn't have this pulled up before. Well, and it's not where I thought it would be. Sorry, I don't want them to have it. But it would be a pretty tight turnaround. I think they said, you know, about three days. So that they'd be sending it out to focus groups and then I'm getting our feedback on it, but it did coincide with one of our meetings. So we could, you know, take a look at it in our meeting to be able to provide feedback right then and there. But so, and then would want to get all this feedback, incorporate all this feedback and then present it to city council as well. You know, or like more formally, once it's getting presented to city council, it's kind of like no longer a draft, but actually presented at the next meeting. Okay. Cool. Sorry, yeah, I don't think I have those. I don't think I have those. All right, committee share meeting? Should we talk about that? So the dates that Cameron sent out were a non-council Wednesday at 5.30. So that looks at, you know, if we want to do it in May, May 5th or May 19th. One of the other things that we talked about was a potentially offering different times. So like what we want to offer this, you know, first of all, let's like look at our calendars. Is May 5th and 19th at 5.30 work for folks?  Yeah, what do folks think of those dates? Well, I think May 5th is too soon to give warning and get people there. So I don't think it could be any time earlier than the 19th. 15th works for me. We get thumbs up for 19th, 5.30 to 7, say. Yay, look at this, 13. Okay, I've got it on my calendar and do that. So then for our agenda for that, as we had talked about last time, just to circle back. Again, I was, I had said I was going to write a more thorough script and I completely did not. But goals of informing other city committees of CJAC's goals, processes, work to date, share information and perspectives of ongoing equity issues from the city committees and then do some of that. You know, so then the agenda would be, you know, doing some introductions of us sharing information about CJAC and then going into breakout groups moderated by us about what is your community to do? Like how does your committee work? What's your process? How are you engaged with equity issues? How can you improve or expand access to your committee meetings and your work? And so I, like yeah, I don't know. Reflecting on that, how does that sound for folks? And then maybe we can think a little bit more about roles and the plan for that. I think that still feels right. It's fairly straightforward, not too complicated, not trying to pack too much in. One thought, I wonder if we could have folks RSVP just to get a good sense of the numbers before we head in to the meeting, which might help us with facilitation decisions. Yeah, and it's on the 19th, we all meet on the 12th. So maybe like that could be the deadline for RSVPs because we want people to show up but ask people to RSVP by the 12th. Yeah, and for the breakout rooms, the city can't do that, but I have a personal Zoom account and so I was gonna set that up and send that to the city to be appropriately warned and everything. Does everyone feel comfortable moderating a breakout group for this discussion? And like what would that entail? Would that be taking notes, facilitating, starting conversation? Yeah, I think we can, we'll know more as we kind of design what the session is, but it seems like a large part of it is keeping folks kind of on focus with the prompts that we're presenting, making sure everyone is getting a chance to contribute when no one's dominating. I mean, it could get more complicated. So a lot of the facilitation I do has a visual component, especially in the remote environment, just to help folks track and see what's happening in the conversation. That may be more than we wanna do because it can be a little bit complicated, but definitely like some kind of note-taking, I think just to track main points. And then we had talked about coming all back together and doing a brief shareout. So I think that's another moment to capture. Do the breakout rooms get recorded as well, Shayna? I think there's a way to do that. Yeah, where I make you all co-hosts, but I'll have to double check on that. That would be good, because it's hard to facilitate a conversation and keep the notes at the same time. Well, that's, yeah, or do we wanna like do it in pairs, you know, or something like that, but that could be challenging too. It's gonna be kind of a numbers game. You don't want such big groups that you can't really have conversation. So for notes, Jeremy, or for the visual component, I'm just thinking of the virtual whiteboard that you were using many months ago now. Is that what you were envisioning? That's one that I use because I'm really comfortable with it. In the past though, I've also just used Google Slides because you can kind of make digital stickies just in those slides that, or you can just use bullet points. I mean, it's a pretty low-fi solution that I think everybody can use pretty well. I appreciate it's a Google slide, so then each breakout group can get a slide or something like that. And right, and if we're coming in, asking, you know, having people know what the questions are too, like they could even come in like prepared with, I mean, that's over ambitious.  So nevermind. Okay, so let's think more about that and we can flag that for when we actually have RSVPs and know what we're gonna be dealing with. For the large group of going over introductions, information about CJAQ, what are the key points that we wanna hit there? You know, we wanna inform other city committees of CJAQ's goals, processes and work to date. And again, sorry that this is where I thought I would have a draft, so yes. Would this just be more helpful if I just drafted this and we could work off of that next? I apologize, you guys. I think we can talk through it. I mean, it seems like there's a bit of a narrative there around why the committee was formed in the first place. I don't know that actually, I don't think. So what's the reason that this committee exists? And then, I mean, we have stuff about the charge that we could run through and what the committee was set up to do in theory. And then, of course, there's a few projects or initiatives that the committee has worked on that I think give a good example of what we're trying to do. And then share about the consulting, you know, when we're created discourse and stuff. Yeah. As far as I remember, we have like three or four categories in our strategic plan. Maybe we can share the headings. It will be a good summary, right? I don't remember very vividly now, but doing something with community, right? There are very, you know, direct aims of the committee, I think it will be good. Yep. I'm just, I'm thinking a little, I'm like wondering if we can get this invitation out before Friday with the survey in it too. So you can be like, see, this is our work. You should take the survey right now and send it out to your committee. Cool. All right. So yeah, so we need the invitation. We need the Zoom link. We've got the agenda. Anything else that we need to do to, you know, prepare now before you will say May 19th, what love for, you know, committee chair or if you can't make it a number of your committee to come. We can't offer really any, you know, no cookies because it'll be on Zoom, but if there's anything else. Your considerations that we would, we want to think about here too. I'm just wondering, like, so in how this is gonna be conveyed to people, like, is this something that, like we as the committee can invite them, like is the city gonna be like, we really want, you know, as many people, like it'd be great if it was coming from the city who has created these, like really encouraging people. And I think just like real clarity. And I think we have it. I'm just like, like, how are we conveying exactly what our goal of this, like, so people know what, why they're coming and what to expect to get out of it. Just like making sure in the invitation, that's really clear to people. Could we ask the mayor to write a letter, a note to each of the committee chairs and urging them to participate? Yeah, we can ask. We'll do that. Yeah, I think that's really great point, Lauren. I wonder if also, and maybe as a part of the ask, do you think you could reach out to Ann and just let her know that this is something we're trying to do and why we're trying to do it and maybe she'll have some thoughts about how to marshal. Yeah, yeah, I have to do it too. Yeah, anything else here, that was a really good point. All right, so I'm gonna be doing some tech stuff. Jeremy and all of us are gonna be thinking about the visuals for the facilitation. You're in drafting the... Just to ask if that'd be simple. I'm really a tech unsavvy. I'm still a pencil and paper guy. So if I'm gonna get distracted by having to deal with the technology, I won't be able to do all of that. I'm sorry to say that. No, and I don't think that's a problem. I think it can be a tool to use if you like, if you're facilitating one of these conversations. I don't think it's something that we should rely on because I agree simplicity is much better than the kind of, especially a digital facilitation realm. So don't worry about that, Michael. All right. Good. Jaina, would it be helpful if I spent some time to sketch out what this activity or conversation structure could look like? And then we can kind of get into some more of the details on the 12th. I think that would be awesome. I mean, that's, I was just thinking, I was trying to think through like, how can I be most helpful? Maybe Jeremy, like, maybe can we put our heads together? I just want to learn from you about your professional facility there about how, like, what you're thinking about or things like that. Yeah, we can chat maybe in like a week and just talk through some stuff. Cool, that'd be awesome. Like this time next week, could we just be done some work there? Let me, yeah, actually I think that would work pretty well. And I recognize this will make it like more complicated for you. Yeah, I would love to. I know, I don't trust myself to work alone. Oh. Yeah, how about a next Wednesday at nine? Sounds great. Cool. I was going to mention this later, but this may be important to say now, I will not be able to attend the May 12th meeting. I'm going to be in Arizona. Yay. And that means it's 6.30 in the morning when this meeting, and because I'm going to be staying in my son's house, I think that would be disturbing too. Even though they have an interest and a one and a half year old who, you know, unpredictable hours, but I just, I'll try to, I'm taking my computer, I'll try to come, but you can't depend on me being there. Now I think you need to take the time with your son. So fun. And my new granddaughter, I assume. The first traveling of the past while, I assume. Like good luck with all of that. That sounds so... Yeah.  So I'm sorry to miss the meeting because it's going to be important, but I just can't guarantee being there. Well, that totally makes sense. I'm glad you're able to go. And I'm glad we're going to be able to check in it one more time before the meeting on the 19th. Anything else? Any other business? So the check-in meeting is going to be next Monday. Jeremy and I are going to check in next Wednesday. All right. So there's nothing that all of us are involved in. And then I believe our meeting on the 12th is going to be pretty packed. We're going to be... I think we're going to be reviewing the draft, although we might not have it by then. It might be the 26th. Okay. Yeah. Of course, I don't have it on my computer anywhere that I can tell. So either the 12th or the 26th will have the draft from creative discourse to review. And then on the 12th will also be, really digging in on making the plan for the committee chair meeting. And if it's just that, it might end up being pretty quick and we'll just review it and do that recruitment and head out. And then if we have to do that and review the work plan, I think we'll still have time to do all of that. Anything else for Denda for the 12th? I don't think so. All righty. Well, thank you all. Thanks, everyone. Yeah. I'm going to have to use Zoomy things and send out the emails right now. See you later. See you later, Michael. Nice to see you all. Nice to see you all. Bye. Good luck with your travels, Michael. Thank you.


Our next color is Ryan from Florida. Hi Ryan. What's happening? How can we help you guys? Hey So I just wanted to start things off by kind of saying thanks to everyone at my pump and especially the before you guys that kind of Started off for being some great role models in my life at a time that I really needed it and didn't have much guidance I started I finished her anyone on 16 and that's when I started listening to you guys So for the past five years you guys have had a major influence on my life and got me to where I'm back Today cool. That's awesome. Oh, thank you. Yep. Yep. So for the question So I'm the personal training director at an eSport of fitness, which is basically like an LA fitness It's a five million dollar facility with a thousand daily check-ins on average in Tampa Bay, Florida I've been working for the company about a year now a little over a year and went into it with zero sales Experience and about a year of personal training experience I now have sold about five hundred thousand dollars in personal training invoice and have been the top producer in my district Almost every month since I've started Listen every episode you guys have and say I'm in a synth way you guys were around my age What advice would you guys give me to help me grow as a person meaning like work like balance finding purpose developing my Relationships as well as financially and I got to just throw it in there because I've always wanted to kind of hear Which guys would have to say Aesthetically in terms of lifting on my stats are I'm six one 21 years old about 205 pounds and about 15% body fat Ryan. You're killing it. Yeah, so real quick So what do you what are you in the path? How much you sell per month in personal training?  So the way it works is I'm mostly the only one selling the personal training and on average I mean, I've had a month where I've sold like 60,000 in invoice and then on average. I'll sell about like You're doing a great job. All right, so I'll start with your 20 I'm 21. You got you married with kids. No, okay. So why you wait wait? Yeah, stop asking me for about work Okay, listen, here's the here's the at your age without the responsibilities of you know, family kids that kind of stuff Work-life balance doesn't exist. Now you want to have some balance.  This is the time you test your limits This is the time you work as hard as you can and you can see what you do Trust me, you'll have time for work-life balance later on in your life But now is not the time when you're 21 you you want to do is see how far you could push yourself. That's the goal Yeah, okay, and that's that's on the Empire. That's that's number one number two I would look for mentorship with people who are doing better than you that you could watch observe and Be around this may be your manager and maybe your VP or your president and maybe someone else But this is where you're gonna learn and absorb as much as possible Because with your energy and your success already at your age You can only go up by learning from people who've already been there before you and that's where I got the most growth And my entire life was was through mentorship Now do you have aspirations to grow further within the company? Are you planning on doing things off on your own and and have any ideas of what that might look like? Yeah, so I I do want to get into a GM role where I'd be kind of like the main guy at my club I'm not exactly sure if I want to go down like the VP route just because I know like how much like I'll take a lot of years But I do want to eventually kind of going I love personal training. That's what kind of got me into it I like that one-on-one with people so maybe branching out into to doing that either on my own or Which within the company Ryan, I don't really know. I got lots for you, bro That's like just getting a chance to talk to you is like getting a chance to go back and talk to one of our younger selves Right like here. We all started in the in the space 1920 21 years old. We were all really young We all were really successful at it and there's lots of things if I could go back and tell younger self Then I would tell myself first off. Are you a big reader at all? I'm not a big reader. I I'm trying to read I Just started this week adding in 20 minutes a night of reading a book Come one become one. Well, it took I didn't I didn't start till I was 25 26 If I'm looking back if I would have started when I was 20 21 I'd be that much further ahead if I would be coming set like the way you set fitness goals set reading goals So start chipping away at books the same way you chipped away at getting stronger at your squat and deadlift and bench And stuff like that in your sales. Okay That's first and foremost because that'll serve you the stuff I would be reading if I was you if I was you if you haven't picked up millionaire next door That's a must read at your age right now where you're starting to do well and make some good money So you don't blow it all like I did make sure you do that the other one is all things leadership So I would 100% be diving into like that That's gonna serve and that serves you regardless if you stay within the company you shift to GM You move on and build your own thing get deep in the weeds with with leadership stuff like that And then take advantage of the fact that you're working for a multi-million dollar company And that they were at one day made zero dollars and now they make millions and millions and be Very curious to how they scale to that Because one it's gonna serve you in your current position obviously to know more detail about the company But really learn all the ins and out of what it took that company and when you work for it like that There's you have access to that which is kind of in line with what Sal was saying Which is like you know reach out to the you know VPs and DMs and like sure if that that's that what but the point is that you Figure that out like learn about the P&L's engineer the whole thing Yes figure out why why they spend so much on advertising what things they done in the past that failed them What was the biggest growth years? Why were they how do they manage X amount of employees where where's the biggest profit margins like Understand all the ins and outs of the of the business You're in the you're in a great seat that if you're asking Upper management those type of questions are gonna love you for that and that's going to serve you so much if you decide to go out And build something yourself. So reading like crazy. I would definitely pick up like I said the financial books The millionaire next door like I told you leadership type stuff Hang on and learn everything you possibly can about how that company got built to where it's at and you stay right there And keep doing what you're doing because as far as where your body fat percentages and your size and the success You're having already business. You're killing it right now And but piggybacking off what salad said this is the time when you aren't thinking about work life balance so much It's like I don't have any you get to be selfish. I get to invest every ounce. I have into myself I don't have to think about a wife. I don't have to think about a kid All I have to do is build me right now And so every waking moment you have you're investing in yourself and if you're not then you're wasting time Yeah, Ryan, are you how badly do you do you want to succeed at this like like becoming let's say a general manager? By the way, this is sport of fitness is where you're at. It says sister company to LA fitness. So there's multiple locations, right? Yeah, yeah, there's probably about a hundred and fifty sport of fitness is alright. How bad do you want to be a GM? I'm gonna tell you what to do, but you got to follow through and it's almost guaranteed way to do it Yeah, I mean that's pretty much what's right in front of me right now I want you to contact a person who would be the decision maker with that and that what you're gonna say to them is You're gonna say hey look I want to become a general manager as fast as possible Tell me what I need to do and what I need to deliver in order to do that and they're gonna Tell you what you got to do in order to become a general manager and then all you gotta do is hit it That's the exact conversation. I had With my leadership at the time and they had no choice But to promote me because they gave me some lofty stuff and I think they thought I wouldn't do it But I went out and I did it and then it was like where's my where's my spot? Where's my position and managers love that if you work for me and you said that to me I'd be like look at this son of a bit. Okay. Here's what you got to do and then I'd watch you do it And then I'd be like done. It's worse now aesthetically.   I know I can sit here all day with you right here I feel like I Your circle of friends. Are you the most financially successful? Whoa Yeah, yeah, I'd say from because I'm actually from Wisconsin Um, and like I'm younger my friends are in college still and I mean out of them Yeah, I'm the only one make money right now.  Do you break up with your old? I was like, no It just it'll naturally happen you just make to make effort Make effort to hang out with the new friends that are doing the things that you want to do in your life And it'll just it'll naturally work itself out.  Okay, and they and they allow them to bring them down to their level Because that it just naturally happens that way, right? Yeah, Ryan one more thing. I'm gonna add to what Adam saying This is important and you know why we're excited because it's great. It's not every day We get our hands on somebody more things after like you last thing. I'm gonna say is Is this don't think you're missing out on anything?  I'm missing out man.     Okay. Yeah, put you in the form. I want you in there. Yeah, I want to keep keep right on keep up on you, man Thanks guys. I appreciate everything. All right. I wish I love Like I do I talked to a kid like that.  Let's do this get it Yeah, I could talk to him for I mean it's like going back and thinking about all the things I think we touch the most important things because the hard thing is gonna be hanging out with your buddies In the same place and then the like it might miss a little trap. Yeah, it happens the best of us hundred percent kids kids killing it though hundred percent