The 7 star terror raid event for Delphox has finally been announced for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. We're going to go over all the details on what to expect from this raid as well as the best builds to help you prepare for beating this thing solo in your game. So as we know later this week the 7 star terror raid event for Delphox will be coming to Scarlet and Violet. It'll be the first time I'll have access to this exclusive Pokemon in the games and with it comes a big challenge because the Delphox as we know is going to be a fairy terror type when it arrives in Scarlet and Violet later this week. It's going to be week 2 moves like steel type attacks like poison type attacks and it will have resists to things like dragon it's got an immunity to that and it's going to be resistant to dark and fighting type attacks so just keep those things in mind when you're going into this raid if you're putting your own builds together. We can take a quick look at all of the details on what to expect from Delphox. It is of course going to be level 100 and it is going to have that fairy terror typing it's likely like other 7 star terror raids to have its hidden ability which for Delphox is the magician ability. So for those of you that don't know how magician works if Delphox hasn't got a held item which it's likely not gonna have and it uses an attack into a Pokemon that has a held item like yourself it will actually activate the ability and that held item will be stolen and then Delphox will get it. This can be pretty problematic when we have such a reliance on held items in these 7 star raid events so we're going to have to look at other measures for recovery in particular because a lot of Pokemon rely on things like a shell bell to get that recovery so they've got the longevity to get the attacks off in the battle that they need so your timer isn't affected once you get knocked out without the shell bell that becomes a bit more difficult so we are going to address that with some of the specific builds that we go over in today's video but Delphox is a pretty speedy Pokemon as well with a base 104 speed stats so it is going to outspeed the majority of things when in the raid if you can get something that's faster than it then that will obviously help it is going to have a HP multiplier of 30 because it is a 7 star raid so it's going to be sitting on around 8,730 hit points that's what you're going to have to do to remove it from the field and then if we move over to its move options it's got things like over heat heat wave from its base fire typing as well as psychic and Psy shock that play off that psychic typing that it has got access to other moves that you're going to look at especially because it is that fairy terror typing it has got access to dazzling gleam so that is going to be boosted with the terror typing there has got access to solar beam as well as well as shadow ball hyper voice stored power and fire plate it also gets options like mud slap but i didn't really put it down as necessary in this it does make sense to have mud slap in there potentially as a coverage move for steel types in particular but you do have that fire typing there's a lot better time with over the mud slap now the set of options that del fox does have access to it does get sunny day that's going to boost the fire type attacks that it has got access to like your over heat your heat waves your flame throws if we see that there and it also means that solar beam can be a one turn move rather than the charge turn without the sun on the field it does get access to charm as well so that's something that it can potentially use it is a fairy type attack as well so it's likely it it's likely that we do see that on there and that reduces the attacks that on it reduces the attacks that on targets by two stages so if it has got charm i think it changes the dynamic of some of the options that we could bring into this raid potentially and then an eyelid i think with that the fine ability feels like a really good option going into this raid king gamut not so much because it's so threatened by those big fire type attacks that are going to be there on the del fox it does get access to nasty plots that has a way to boost its own special attack and become pretty threatening very quickly as well as calm mind which isn't as quick a setup as nasty plot but it does boost the special defense as well as the special attack every turn that it uses it then it gets access to psychic terrain that's going to boost its psychic type attacks in particular that psychic and side shock and this could be tricky on picking pokemon and ev and them for del fox because if we see something like side shock it's not like psychic that hits on that special defensive side side shock actually takes its calculation damage from the defensive stat of the pokemon even though it is coming off the special attacking side from del fox if that makes sense so you have to kind of adjust evs if that is there but hopefully it's not and it just has psychic or something like stored power to play off the boosting moves that it's got access to and then the final move that we have listed here that it could potentially using is magic room as well so magic room works for five turns once it's set up and nullifies all of the effects for held items on the field so again a little bit like the magician ability that's going to disrupt our held items magic room if that is something on del fox which you could see it's kind of like a magician pokemon it is going to have those signature kind of moves and magic room being one of them you could see things like shell bar be totally ineffective here and that's why I say when we go into the builds these things are kept in mind for how and what we expect to see the del fox using with all of that information out the way this is what the expected set I see the del fox to run going into this raid we were very close with our intelion guests with the mist and obviously the blizzard and the hydro pump and things like that so hopefully we're close with the del fox as well I think it will have overheat it's its most powerful fire type attack it does get the detrimental side of it where it can reduce its special attack by two stages every time it uses it but it's gonna have the option to remove those stat drops at any time it won't so you could see a similar situation playing out with this like we saw with the charizard where it uses it turn zero and then nullifies all stat boosts straight away to kind of get that clean slate going into turn one I think it's gonna have a psychic type attack I would say it's between psychic and side shock the curveball here would be that side shock that plays off the defensive stat instead of the special defensive stat like psychic does it's a no brainer it's gonna have dazzling gleam because of fairy terra typing it's it's only fairy stab move so either that or terra blast could be options but I would say dazzling gleam makes more sense for this one and then it's between for me at least solar beam and hex now it depends if we see either sunny day or willow isp as supporting options here if we see the sunny day it make more sense to have the solar beam because then it's benefiting both the solar beam and the overheat and the willow isp could benefit the hex where it gets double damage and it is a ghost type move that gives you ghost type coverage I think the willow isp doesn't give the defiant users a boost like charm does but charm definitely feels like something we might see going into this raid magic room is another option that I do see on it and I 100% think it's going to have nasty plot to become pretty threatening very quickly with those plus two setup options there and it kind of complements the overheat as well if it does go for overheat gets a drop it can just nasty plot and remove those drops the next turn so between the two there they've got really nice synergy so this is what I expect the del fox to look like when it goes live we'll have to wait and see though but this is the information I've kind of gathered from what it can learn in game and taking that into the builds that we'll be showing you and now jumping into game we've got five builds we're going to feature today the first one we're going to start off with is slalking I feel like slalking is the better option out of that and slow bro because slalking has a slightly higher special defense and del fox is predominantly going to be a special attacking pokemon so you want that higher special defense where possible slalking fits the build here it is water and it is psychic so it's going to resist the psychic type attacks that are going to come up from del fox and it's going to resist the fire type attacks with the water typing so it's a really nice pokemon to bring into this raid I think the only things you're going to have to worry about if the del fox has coverage for are going to be things like the solar beam and then that any ghost type coverage like hex or shadow ball they could be a little bit problematic but otherwise slalking going to be a really nice option going into this raid now we've given the leftovers so it's got a little bit of recovery when it needs to but it's not relying on it if that magician ability procs and it gets stolen you don't mind that too much and it also if magic room gets used as well leftovers is something that we can kind of forget about but if we've got it then it is just a bonus for us the move set that we've got for this slalking is going to be slack off amnesia nasty plot and stored power the slack off is there for recovery when we need it with pp maxed it out as well just make sure that you do that amnesia is there so we can boost our special defensive stat that is going to give us a boost of two stages every time you use it so we only need to use three to max our special defense stat out make taking any even super effective attacks from the delt fox really easy then we've got nasty plot we know the role with that that's going to boost our special attack by two stages every time we use it so that isn't going to be another three and then we're going to be set up ready to use our stored power now it's not going to hit the delt fox with super effective damage but coming off stab and it's going to be hitting into the delt fox for neutral it's going to still be doing a lot of damage the ev spread that we've got on this slalking is going to be 252 hp 252 special defense and the four remaining put in special attack with a modest nature so that is the slalking i feel like a really consistent build going into this one and one that will do good work we know how good slowbrow is into the previous seven star raids and i think depending on a few move selections that the delt fox could have i feel like slalking is going to be something you're going to be able to build and have a good amount of confidence going into this raid with then you're going to be able to deal with it pretty easily the next build that we've got featured for this raid is going to be serral edge and serral edge obviously going to have that fire and ghost typing but the terror typing on this serral edge is going to be steel because we're going to be taking advantage of that steel type weakness that the fairy type delt fox will have it's not going to be threatened either when we do terrestrialize by any of the fire type attacks because we've got that flash fire ability on it so that is going to give us that complete immunity and also give us a resist to the psychic type attacks as well as the fairy type attacks when we do terrestrialize so all in all a really solid choice going into this raid we've given the option of a shell bell item so we've got that line of recovery but not super reliant on it either because we've got so many resistances especially after we terrestrialize with the serral edge now the move set that we've gone for here is sword stance we've got clear smog iron head and bitter blade the ev spread that we've got is 252 hp 252 attack with an adamant nature and like i've already mentioned the ability is flash fire here now the bitter blade gives us a line of recovery into the delt fox it's not super effective but it does give us a way to get some recovery throughout the battle when we are playing with it the sword stance is there to boost our attack by two stages every time we use it so we can use it three times to boost our attack stat clear smog is a really nice option because it will remove any stack boosts on the delt fox side of the field so if it has got that nasty plot you're going to be able to use clear smog even through a shield and remove any of those stat boosts that delt fox has so it's not as threatening going into the next turns and then iron head is there for when you are terrestrialize you've got that steel terra typing active and you can just do super effective damage to this delt fox with a plus six attack and remove it from the field pretty easily and i think the serral edge really is one of the nicer picks going into this raid this week next pokemon is going to be armor rouge the brethren of serral edge and going to have that psychic terra typing on this one we're going to have the shell bell as the held item the move set is going to be psychic terrain acid spray calm mind and expanding force with an eevee spread of 252 special attack 252 special defense and the flash fire ability again giving it complete immunity to any fire type attacks as well coming out from the delt fox with the psychic typing as well it's going to have a resistance to the psychic type attacks coming out from the delt fox and with the special defensive investment and calm mind on top of that you're not going to worry too much about the fairy type attacks or any other coverage that's got like ghost type attacks that could be potentially threatening once you've got these acid sprays off you're going to be in a good position to terrestrialize pretty quickly after this point you want to try and get a couple of calm minds up get the psychic terrain active and then the expanding force in the psychic terrain with those boosts and the special defense drops on the delt fox after the acid sprays you're going to be doing some huge damage to it honestly and with the shell bell item you have got a line of recovery there you will get a little bit more punished with the magician ability and the magic room if we do see it there because you don't have really any line of recovery outside of the shell bell so that's one of the drawbacks with this set if we do see those options on the delt fox but again uh you're going to have your heal cheers that you can take advantage of but again a really nice build and i think the the armor rouge is a nice option and it's an there's an option there for both violet players and scarlet players with both of these pokemon being exclusive pokemon to each version and the next pokemon that we're going to feature in today's video is going to be arcanine i feel like another really good option it's an alternative option to the serral edge and the armor rouge because it does also get access to that flash fire ability and i feel like it could do a decent job into the delt fox we obviously have got that steel terra typing that's probably the most important thing for this particular build and we've got that shell bell item as well so we've got a line of recovery when we need it but it's not massively necessary because we do have a move set of morning sun that is an egg move so you're going to have to teach that to arcanine find something with morning sun in your boxes put a mirror herb item on the arcanine and then set up a picnic with the morning sun pokemon and the arcanine in your party and the move will be transferred over to the arcanine it's pretty easy you don't need to breed it down necessarily but you can do that as well of course if you'd like to then we've got howl that is going to boost our attack stat every time you use it we've got snarl as well that's going to reduce the special attack stat on the delt fox every time we use it so if it does have nasty plot then we've got a way to kind of negate that by reducing those boosts down by one stage every time we use it and then the big attacking option on the arcanine is going to play off that steel terra typing that we've got and it's going to be iron head and like i say we've got the ability flash fire there so when we do to our slides we don't have that weakness to fire type attacks and we have the resistance to fairy and we also have the resist to the psychic type attacks as well the ev spread that we've got in the arcanine is pretty straightforward just 252 hp 252 attack in adamant nature and the rest put in special defense and that is everything that you need to know for the arcanine pretty much you're just going to rely on the morning sun for recovery when you need it if the sunny days set up by the delt fox that's a bonus for you because you've got the flash fire you don't worry about the big fire type attacks that are going to come off from that and it will mean that you get a full health recovery with the morning sun every time you use it you might want a pp max morning sun out so you've got a really good consistent line of recovery when you need to use it if you need to call on it but the steel terra typing is the big important thing to make sure that you've got on this arcanine going into it just so you've got more damage output when you do use the iron head after you trust lance and the final pokemon that we're mentioning in today's video how could i do a video about flash fire users and not include houndoom now it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea going into this raid but i do feel like houndoom has a place going in again to delt fox that it has got flash fire ability and it has got the dark typing so it is going to resist the psychic type attacks and it only going to take neutral damage from the fairy type attacks so because of that fire typing that resists the fairy with the dark typing that's weak you kind of just take neutral damage of course you're not going to take too much damage with the houndoom but the shell bell as the item on there for a line of recovery like we normally do it's important to have the fire type terra typing because you want to resist the fairy type attacks once you do terastalize you are then going to be more susceptible to things like psychic type attacks but again you're going to resist the big fire type attacks anyway with that flash fire ability that we've got on here the move set that we've got for the houndoom is going to be taunt nasty plot snarl and flamethrower with an ev spread of 252 special attack and 252 special defense with the rest put in hp the basic premise is to try and shut down the delt fox if it does try to set up anything early on you've got the taunt you can stop at setting up moves like magic room you can stop at setting up things like nasty plots or sunny days or anything along those lines so that's a really useful thing to support you and your partner in pokemon nasty plot is there to boost your special attack up you only need to use it three times to max that out and then you can fire off flamethrowers as well as utilizing the snarl which is there to reduce the special attacking stat on the delt fox a really nice kind of all rounds supporting option i think houndoom gives you rather than just a flat out good attacking pokemon that's going to be able to solo this really quickly i think things like the serra ledger the armor ocean the arcanine are probably your best options for that with the slot game probably being the most consistent option out of everything that we've got here so they are all of the builds that we're going to feature in today's video of course as always the builds will be down in the description below if you'd like to take a closer look at those in your own time but that is everything and i think with these builds going into this terrarium you're going to have a pretty nice time going into it with any of these honestly i feel like they'll all do a really good job going in and soloing the delt fox in game or even taking them online to do online with the the the resistances that they've got in the builds and specific things that you can do to set up against the delt fox it's going to make it pretty easy but let me know down in the comment section below what you are thinking about bringing into this delt fox raid and of course when the event goes live itself we'll go live with the video after doing some testing and show you the best solo pokemon to go into this raid with so keep an eye on that if you don't want to miss that video when it goes up make sure you hit that subscribe button so you stay up to date with that and all the rest of our pokemon scholar and violet content if you found today's video useful please drop a like it really does help the channel out and the video and just share it get awareness about these builds and finally i'll leave it there and i hope you all have a great rest of your day make sure you have more important than anything else you take care of yourself and i will see you all in another video very soon so until then friends take care of yourself and bye bye


me watching red velvet psycho performance video also me i'm going to go check twitter whilst watching this the sole story xo chen announces marriage plans with handwritten letter congratulations me what the f hey how's it going everyone it's like nema back again with another video and today's one is going to be a short one um chen from xo uh he's getting married uh everyone i think everyone's freaking out right now uh because it instantly went trending worldwide and then for chen and um yeah for real though this is freaking awesome it's actually sick i'm that's ah so sick actually let's go down and see what this was saying sm entertainment confirms xo chen's marriage news and revealed that it will be a private event between the two families as she is a non celebrity congratulations to the couple oh my god that is freaking awesome holy crap yeah where's my invite i'm kidding i'm kidding i actually really like this i support this no matter what i mean you should we should always support love when it comes to just anyone with love you know like we we should be supporting this and i can't wait to see like what everyone's reactions are if i see people hating on this i'm gonna be so mad because if they're that delusional that they think that you know the idols and not allowed to date or marry anyone i'm gonna be mad so let's just go see everyone's reactions to this a jong day not only jong day is getting married but he's gonna be a huh wait in the midst of that a blessing came to us because the situation became one where i couldn't do the things i plan with the company and members i was quite taken aback but i was so found strength through this blessing i'm not gonna i'm not gonna say that is true because i don't know if that is true or not so i'm going with false because i mean like i don't know i don't know if it actually is confirmed then yes congratulations for you kid but if not then uh don't it's already spreading fast it is going it is going like oh my god whoa i'm just gonna sit my coke for a while and just see how fast it just i'm gonna see when it goes to 1000 let's do it start a timer right um there we go you guys you guys having a good day what's happening on twitter on my phone oh okay oh okay breaking um kpop herald um in the handwritten letter the singer from uh we are one exo or exo uh wrote that a blessing has arrived hinting at his soon to be wise pregnancy so that is wow okay well no that is uh true um you know what i'm gonna how get that to 1000 um here we go oh time is gone let's bring that back up okay so like um just any plans for today tonight you know you guys just gonna relax stream some music videos surely surely uh surely we oh dude i just want to watch some exo music videos tonight now god damn i might do that i'm just gonna watch exo music videos make a playlist just watch them oh i'm gonna do that um and what about you guys um have you listened to sf9's new album it's pretty freaking good i was gonna do a reaction to it but it just took way too long right when i say way too long i i i was like five days behind and i wanted to listen to it each day but i just never had time to actually make my reaction so last night i just caved in and listened to it so you guys should listen to it it's real good it's sf9 and exo like pretty good for you let's just say um i want this to hit 1000 just so we could go to the next part of the video you know like it's just spreading around real fast day why can't i have a tweet like this that goes like bro can you guys just show some support for me as well just like hey man you'll get big one day on youtube oh thanks yeah i like that it's almost there 144 143 142 148 134 132 131 132 122 oh god i can't map that fast so anyways how's you guys day been again i just wanted to ask again come on that down below you know let's just man the beauty of twitter right maybe i should do some tweets like that like wow congrats on the marriage and potential baby just like come on yeah i'm leaving this all in so like if you guys just want to like leave some support for chen in my comments as well i don't he won't even say it but if you want you can do that as well um yeah just just take my time i forgot how long it's been probably like three minutes that's pretty fast actually three minutes for one k likes uh it's almost there it's almost there okay yeah yeah only uh 52 more oh 49 my bed oh yeah wow isn't this just beautiful isn't that just beautiful wow just wow just wow just wow just wow look at all the support oh my god you know what i think i deserve another sip oh oh it's going like one at a time now okay okay everyone at john day news right now i know it's beautiful yes it's beautiful the way john day wrote a handwritten letter to introduce his girlfriend saying that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her please this is so cute what are with these reaction videos man oh man oh sorry i'm so embarrassed but i'm just so lucky to be the part of this history is probably the most important day of my life and i'm so great it was all nice i'm loving it everyone's just supporting it everyone is legitimately supporting it and oh man i support your support because i support this too now i mean there's one thing i am a little bit curious about like his promotions with xo and stuff i'm guessing he's not going to quit and all that stuff but i think it might go down a bit if he's having a child and getting married you know i think he wants to might his promotion stuff might go down a bit we don't know but at the same time it doesn't matter the man's happy the man's happy you know so i'm fine with it no matter what people do if they're happy uh then yeah i'm fine with what they do oh now i i just want to go back to the psycho way so yeah uh red velvet slaps uh chin or jongday slaps with the snooze and it's just slapping everyone in the face but yeah everyone thank you guys all for watching this video if you guys enjoyed show some support by leaving a like comment down below how much you freaking love the news of idols like coming out as um marriage marriage coming out as marriage coming out as marriage and uh dating uh it's cool it's we're seeing it a bit more often you know like the big groups it's like starting to like happen more for a lot of the big groups now you know like twice super junior uh xo uh and then uh well pentagon but pentagon suffered from it so it's good that no like groups aren't starting to suffer from it anymore that's what i like but anyways yeah other than that hopefully you guys have a great day keep on smiling we're gonna be smiling for a while because this news is just beautiful uh to just see and uh yeah hope you guys have a great day anyway and keep smiling i think i just said that um so hopefully you guys have a great day and just keep on smiling don't forget have a great day and just keep smiling and also just keep smiling and have a great day come on guys just smile great day peace don't forget to have a great day uh and smile um i could do this for a while because um why the hell not anyways um peace all right don't forget to keep smiling


So this week, I just got done finishing a whole week working in the COVID ICU. Here's my reaction. All right guys, welcome to the MD journey. A channel completely dedicated to helping people succeed on the Michael journey, but doing it with less trust. My name is Lakshman, internal medicine physician and resident training. And today's video and episode is all about basically what I've learned after working a week at the COVID ICU. Now in this video, I'm going to share with you five surprising things that I learned while working in the COVID ICU that I didn't expect to. Now I'm hoping that by sharing these for those of you that are joining medicine or just wanted to experience and understand what it's like working with COVID patients, ideally, you can take these lessons in your own life. And I know for sure I'm going to do the same. So we're going to get right into it. I'm going to go into number five, which I didn't really understand the severity of the disease itself. Now, honestly, this is a little bit of kind of admitting to my ignorance. I'm a physician by trade. I do this for a living. I know kind of the consequences that come with somebody getting COVID. But you don't really understand it until you experience it in ICU. And when you have to present in front of the team, and then you say that a patient has been there for 80 days, for 30 days, for 15 days and 10 days. If you say somebody has been there 10 days, you know that they potentially can be there much longer. That part just did not stick with me until these patients were actually my own. If you know even a little bit about COVID, then you probably know about the damage that I can do to your lungs. But sometimes we don't think about what the damage to your lungs can do to the rest of your body, whether it's related to COVID or not. And I'll talk about that a little bit later in this video. But I just got to appreciate how severely sick these people are.  And it's just so remarkable. And I'll get back to this point, but you don't really understand it again until you have to present that a patient has been with you and your hospital team for 80 plus days. And you're still making strides potentially to move them in the right direction. Some people are just kind of stuck in one area where they're supported by the same level of ventilation and you haven't been able to make any progress. And that's just kind of the course of the disease. And I didn't get to appreciate that until I really started to actually take care of these patients this week. Number four, again, kind of admitting to my ignorance. I didn't understand the sacrifices that frontline healthcare workers are making. Now, again, I'm a healthcare worker, but by no means that I ever consider myself to be a frontline or a central worker. I was pretty much protected from my residency program because I'm an internal medicine residency right now. From taking care of COVID patients and making sure that the rest of the hospital was functioning while those physicians who were designated to take care of these patients could do so. So while I was busy taking care of non COVID patients, I never actually got to experience, take care of a COVID patient until this specific week. And I knew about the sacrifices I read about the different experiences, especially in physicians in Italy, when the pandemic was hitting them hard early in 2020 of things that physicians were doing in terms of sacrifices of not seeing their families and how long they were working and the risk of getting sick themselves. But again, I didn't really get to appreciate that until I worked with attendings and CRNAs and nursing staffs. I've been only doing COVID for nine plus months. And you really understand that they just look a war in town. It was burnt out and it's sad.  And sometimes that progress that we're looking for in our patient population to do better also keeps us motivated. But when you don't see enough examples of your patients doing well, because of the disease is just so horrible once it gets really bad, it really starts to hit a toll on a physician. And you can see that in your attendings. You can see that in the nurses. You can see that in the CRNAs. And I didn't appreciate kind of how much they had put themselves through. Now, again, I'm done with this rotation after this week. I've had my COVID experience, but there are people who are going to continue to do this until this is over. And it's not going to be over any time soon. So for those of you guys that are truly frontline workers in the emergency rooms and the COVID wards and the COVID ICUs, just by putting myself in your shoes for seven days, it can only imagine what kind of sacrifices and mental stress that has done to you over the last few months. So thank you really doesn't do enough. But to say that I hope that after this is a little bit calmed down, that you're able to go to some sense of normalcy. I'm hoping that's the case for you. But by any means, I've learned that your hard work or definition of hard work can truly be for me. Now, the third thing that really surprised me working in the COVID ICU was the importance of team compartmentalizing. I'm not really sure if compartmentalizing is a word probably is, but basically the way my COVID IC worked is that my job was basically to be the intensivist for the week. So I managed the ventilators, I managed the pressers. I managed basically what was keeping these people alive, as well as doing the medicine like managing their diabetes, managing their lower high blood pressure, managing infections. That was my job. And so while you're dealing with all of these patients on the COVID ICU, with the other tasks that you may also be doing as a physician, like talking to families, understanding where their goals of care for their family members are, especially if patients have been there for 30 or 40 days and things aren't getting better, having those conversations with families take a long, lengthy time and you have to build reports that has to be consistent. So it's hard for me as a physician to be able to take care of these patients, as well as call families other, and I pretty much will be in the hospital all the time. Thankfully the way that my ICU was structured is that my job was really just to manage the acute stuff and keep these patients alive and potentially do better. I had a team of residents and palliative care faculty who would then take over the interactions and communications with the family. So they were in our rounds. They basically understood if the patient was getting worse, the thing to stay in, even potentially getting better. And then they were able to give updates to the families on my behalf, on the team's behalf, so then I could just take care of the medicine part. And in addition, we had a great and fantastic team of CRNAs, which is basically a nurse, a anesthetist, or an anesthesia nurse, and they did a great job of also being able to take care of the ventilators and the sedations for these patients. So then again, I can manage blood pressures, I can manage infections. So it was a great kind of, this is my role and this is what I'm gonna stick to. There's a family that wanted an update. I was able to then triage them and point them to the palliative care team and the team of residents that were then able to do the communication. So it truly was a collaborative team effort and I'm sure it's taken some time for it to look the way it did for me this week. I'm sure it's gonna make more improvements in the future but really when you go back to a normal medicine and kind of service, it's there to some extent but you as a physician, they're really doing the family conversations, the acute management, the chronic management, the disposition and there's a lot of stuff in the background that you deal with and this sitting just doesn't work. And so I was so thankful for truly having a team to take care of every single patient. Now getting into number two, which is really learning the extremes of medical management. Now when you work as a physician in an ICU, really start to see the extremes of what the body really needs to support itself to stay alive. So you may find yourself putting a patient on multiple different forms of life support. This includes an ventilator to help them breathe, medications to keep their blood pressures up and maybe multiple medications to keep their blood pressure up as well as things like dialysis to help their kidneys functioning, other medications to keep their heart pumping. There's so much support that you can give to a patient but I probably have not seen that level of extreme on basically almost every patient than you do here in COVID. So for example, when I was managing somebody on a ventilator, there is a level of kind of dial turning that I'm allowed to do. So I know kind of this is what those patients lungs are able to do. And here is me giving a little bit more support by turning these respective settings and giving them more support. I was finding myself more often than not of putting basically the max settings that I could do safely for somebody through the ventilator and still not able to give them enough support to help their lungs. That's how sick these patients were. I was finding people who were pushing their kidney disease and their respiratory status and their volume status and their blood pressures to the extreme. And despite what I did, I was still having to take basically 50% of what I normally would. So for example, in a normal situation, even an ICU patient, I'd be like, this is the acceptable line. At which point, you know, I'm hoping that my max support does something. Well, in a COVID patient, even with that max support, that line kind of goes a little bit down and I have to say, okay, well, I hope that they can turn a corner because I can't really do much for them. And this extreme of how sick these patients are also leads to very creative ideas of how you can manage them. For example, in my institution, I was basically hooking up half a bypass machine to a dialysis machine to basically create a fancy kind of bypass machine to then be able to surpass the work that somebody's lungs and hearts were doing at the bedside. And this was basically just makeshift. We were using technology that was meant for one thing and technology is used for another thing and trying to put it together and hopefully it would work to take care of these patients that were more secure than we're used to. And so really getting to practice that extreme level of medicine, then when I go back to a real ICU, you know, I will feel so much more comfortable because I've seen what max settings on a ventilator do or max settings on medications do and I just feel much more comfortable. So I really am thankful for this experience because I've seen extremes of extremes. And now when I go back to probably like a normal ICU with non-COVID patients, I'll be able to do it with much more confidence. And finally, number one, the most important surprising thing that I've learned is I truly had a humbling week. And I don't know how to put that in a phrase that's saying this is surprising, but I really just felt myself humbled throughout this whole week. I admitted my ignorance early in this episode, but really it came to grips with how much I can do as a physician.  But that just comes with acceptance that the fact that your medical knowledge and what medicine can do for that patient is kind of at its limits. And you just hope that time and a little bit of luck goes in the direction for both you and the patient. There's a little bit of humility you have to accept that you can only do so much. And the more and more I experience with sick patients, the more I've learned that. Well, I've learned that really fast this week because I had a bunch of sick patients which regardless of what direction I was turning the dials on the ventilators or changing their medications or making small creative adjustments, often I didn't really do much. And I just had to kind of accept that either my bar had to be a little bit lower and I just had to accept that they may turn the corner and just give them some time. Sometimes the best thing in medicine is not to do anything, it just wait. And there's a little bit of humility that you have to take. So it was a very humbling week as a physician who's always kind of trained to do something. In this situation, sometimes I had to just do and wait and watch and just see what the course, the body took and what these courses for the patients took. So to say that it's been an educational week and an enlightening week is an understatement. Hopefully for those of you guys that haven't really experienced interacting with patients that are extremely sick with COVID, this was a little bit helpful. This is just one spectrum of somebody with COVID. Obviously there's people who get the disease and are completely asymptomatic. There's people who get the disease and go to the hospital, feel a little bit short of breath and get medications and then potentially are able to get better. But those who unfortunately get to that far extreme are just so sick. And to be able to have this experience, take care of them as a physician and to be able to share that with you, hopefully you found that to be a little bit educational and enlightening. I know I have to surely have, but I'm gonna stop babbling. Usually at the end of this video I'll have some kind of call to action for you guys to do, but really just stay safe, wash your hands, make sure you're wearing a mask. Be mindful of who you interact with and try to limit your interactions while this is still getting a little bit settled over the next months to potentially a year. And we don't know how much time. Let me know what questions you guys have down below about taking care of COVID patients or working in these ICU. They'll be happy to answer them. But with that being said, thank you guys so much for joining me on my journey of reflection. Hopefully I've been a little helped to you on yours. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


Welcome to Passion Projects. This is our first talk at GitHub. I want to thank you guys all for being a part of it and I also want to thank our first speaker Rachel Myers who's amazing. She's going to come up here and rock your faces off for lack of a better term. I actually think this is the most women who have ever been at GitHub at one time. This is a really big deal for us. I don't know. Anyway, so thank you guys all for showing up and if anyone you know that's not here wants to catch it live it's just passionprojects.github.com for slash live. There was a GitHub tweet that went out about it too. So thank you guys again and I'm just going to give the stage to Rachel Myers. Thank you. Okay, so I want to start by thanking GitHub and thanking Julia especially. So there's a lot of work that went on. My co-workers are in the back trolling me. Okay. So I'm really excited about this series and I'm really excited to be included. Thank you. So tonight let me start with a quick bio. My name is Rachel Myers and if you want to talk or argue with me after this you can. I exist on the internet. I spend a lot of time drawing on my iPad and I do other things too. My day-to-day work is Ruby. Whoa. I forgive you. Okay. So my day-to-day work is in Ruby Rails, JavaScript, and Backbone. I also really love knowing the whole stack though so I bug our ops team a lot with annoying questions. And recently thanks to Women Who Code I started learning to make silly little iOS apps. I've worked at Modcloth for two years so it's kind of hard for me to summarize my favorite projects. Broadly, the things I've been most excited to work on have been security. We have a giant monorail app so breaking that into service oriented architecture has been great. And then I got to work a lot with mobile web experiences so that has been wonderful. So tonight I'm not going to talk about any of that. I'm going to talk about what I do outside of work. My passion is for expanding the franchise of people who program, making it easier for people to learn to program. And I spend my mornings, my evenings, sometimes a large chunk of my weekend doing this because I think it's really important. I think it improves our world. I think it improves programming and I want to be part of that. There are a lot of awesome organizations that are working to make this possible but I volunteer with RailsBridge. So that's who I am and that's what I'm going to talk about. So tonight I'm going to break my talk into three main parts. Thank you. How I found my way, you guys. First I'm going to talk about how I found my way into programming with the help of RailsBridge. I think that RailsBridge feels a different nook than a lot of other ways that people come to programming. I'm going to talk about the organization as it evolves and how the volunteers are evolving as well. And I'm going to talk about why I think this approach is the best way to spread a love of programming. So I learned to program because someone pointed me to why is point it guide to Ruby. I don't know if anyone knows about or I don't know if everyone, I know that some people know about why. Why the Lucky Stiff really loved the inane details of Ruby. Lots of his projects were about sparking that same love in people. So in my case I read the text and I worked the examples that he gave. And if you asked me a question about Ruby that he had specifically like parroted to me I would parrot it back. What I didn't have was a larger context for what he was telling me. So I'm about to change the slide, this is just a warning. Okay. So what I lacked was a larger sense of what I knew and what I didn't know because there's no book that really tells you. Here's what I've told you and here's all the other stuff that you'll need to do your job. So I in fact thought that he was joking. One of the first things that why has you do is make a Star Monkey. I have a slide of Star Monkey. At some point you'll get there it is. And so I thought he was joking. I thought that programming was for serious and clearly Star Monkeys are not for serious. Next slide. Yeah, sure. The next thing I did was I attended a RailsBridge workshop. Thanks.  Everyone else would know how programming worked and I would be the dumbest person there. But I didn't realize that there's nothing in the whole world embarrassing about not knowing something. It just means that I have to learn it, right? Okay. I can try to go without this. Okay. So as it turned out when I went to RailsBridge what I learned was that I knew a lot more than I realized I did, right? I was talking to people about problems and I was reading and what I needed was a way to connect all those dots, pull all those things together. So when I went to my first RailsBridge workshop, my other students, I went into the like the most beginning class because I didn't know any better, right? They said, are you a beginner? I said, I'm a super beginner. And then I get into my class and all of my fellow students would ask questions like what's a symbol? It's a lightweight string. And what's rake? It's ruby make. Why do I even know that, right? So I was really obnoxious. I'm sure my teachers hated me. But it gave me this context of here's what I know and I know you don't get that any other way. The other thing I realized was that I had gotten this far and I had this far to go, right? There we go. Yay. Okay, thank you. You're going to have to listen because it's a mirroring. Okay, I'm going to try to figure out if I put all the content that I need to say onto my slides are only pictures. We'll see how this goes. That's okay. We all do this you can. Okay. Yeah, we all did that. Okay, so I gained a greater context for what I was learning. I have no idea. I was just to say here. Oh, yeah. Then we created study groups out of that. So when I went to the Rails Ridge, I realized that I had a lot more that I need to learn, right? I gained context for these bits I had been learning in books. So we started putting together study groups. If I realized that I didn't know how version control worked, we would get together and we would learn get. We realized that we didn't know how testing works. So we would get together and we would say TDD. And we didn't understand some core computer science concepts because really you can get started really fast in Ruby and you don't have to learn that. So we realized if we're really going to do this for real, we have to learn these things. So that's how I got started learning. And then once I kind of understood the material, I didn't stop going to Rails Ridge. I just started helping out. So transition. So every time someone would ask a question at a Rails Ridge workshop, so I started TAing and teaching, right? And every time someone would ask a question, I would have to explain it and I would get a little bit better at understanding what the foundational parts of Ruby were. For example, great question about hash. Oh, let me go find that for you.  So I really want my speaker notes. So around the time I got my first programming job, my first non-internship programming job, Rails Ridge had grown to the point where the organizers of the workshops needed people to organize them. They needed meta organizers. And so I stepped into that role. Broadly, what it means to be a meta organizer at Rails Ridge is that you find people who want to host a workshop. You find people who want to organize a workshop. You find people willing to spend their marketing budgets on beer and babysitting. So it's great. So when I started doing that, this is supposed to be a picture of San Francisco. We went from having, I know I'm not that good. We went from having one workshop once a quarter in the Bay Area to having workshops about, I would say, every month, every 18 days now. How's that? Is that about accurate?  So we're having a ton of workshops. And when the workshops happen at the same time, they Skype with each other from across the world and they wave at each other. It's great. So that's how I got into Rails Ridge. That's what Rails Ridge is doing. Now I want to take you on a sidetrack into Starfish. So one of our, we have two founders of Rails Ridge, Sarah Allen and Sarah May. And Sarah Allen read this book, The Starfish and the Spider. And she asked us all to read it. I can't entirely recommend this book. I was very frustrated by some parts of it. If this book about open sourcing things had been open sourced, I would have submitted a lot of pull requests, but it's not. So broadly to give away the thesis, there are hierarchical organizations that rely on leaders for the direction and their vision. There are, there are alternatively some flats and leaderless organizations where and broadly what it means to be an open organization like this is that the people doing the work determine the direction of the entire organization. So the best companies that want to remain innovative and profitable find a way to combine these elements. That's how I get it. Okay, so in the book, the hierarchical organizations correspond to spiders. Spiders are one unit that kind of knows everything about web and can make decisions as like a unified like as a unit, right? And they and they can execute on that idea. In my own in my version of the story, because I want to draw my own pictures, there are there's like a leader, there's a queen bee and there are worker bees. And it's assumed in this model that the queen bee has all of the knowledge and and that the worker bees have craft and technical knowledge that they use to execute on the queen bees on the queen bees vision. So the queen has is supposed to have a vision for everything. But that's, but it if you limit what you, if you limit your set of decision makers, then you then you narrow the scope of the evolution for the organization. Sweet. What is happening? Oh, I know why. One second. This is probably a flat organization. Okay. So there are worker bees, the worker bees have a lot of have a lot of knowledge about what they're doing. They don't have a great ability to structure how to push the organization in one way or another. Alternatively, so starfish don't have a centralized brain. It's kind of a downer. On the other hand, it has a hidden benefit. To illustrate that, there was a voracious like starfish epidemic off the coast of Australia that was destroying coral. And so the dive, the well meaning divers of Australia banded together and they set out to kill the starfish one by one. Unfortunately, they were killing them by cutting them in half with a knife. This is really effective for almost every other form of life on the planet, but not for starfish. So starfish are regenerative. And if you cut them in half with a knife in a couple months, you have two starfish. So these well intentioned divers double the number of predators on the coral. You see the benefit, right? You don't have a brain. And on the other hand, you can evolve and survive things. So in my world, this just means there are a lot of worker bees. There are no queen bees here. And it def and open organizations definitely rely on on some on certain individuals for organization or for inspiration. But that's not the same thing as having a queen bee. Okay, so that was my side track and my side track into starfish. Now I want to bring it back to Railsbridge. So Railsbridge in its early days was headed in a very spidery direction. We had two leaders and they were they were asking their friends to do things for them. Unfortunately, those two leaders are full time engineers with families and lives. So it was like cutting starfish in half or cutting a spider in half. So this magical thing happened. Sarah Allen read this book and she asked us all if we were doing anything for Railsbridge that no one else knew how to do, if we could find someone and recruit them and teach them what we do. In a sense, she asked us all to starfish ourselves, right? We need to grow our organization and this is a way to do it. So in my case, I showed up I showed up to a to meet someone who is going to organize a workshop and she immediately yelled at me for picking a tape as soon as we met. She wandered all over the restaurant and she said, I thought that might be you, but why would you be so dumb as to pick a table without enough chairs? And I realized that was my starfish. She was the person that I would need to help me of all this organization. So Lily is organized and she thinks about things like three steps ahead. I'm very good at skating on chaos. And so this thing that the book predicted really did happen and that is when we starfished ourselves, we evolved as well. We now have two skill sets solving all of our problems. So it was great. Okay, so that's Railsbridge as a starfish. This doesn't quite solve our problem though. So we want to not just affect people in the Bay Area. So Railsbridge as an organization, did I go backwards? Okay. Okay, so Railsbridge as an organization wants to change the world. We have this ambitious goal. We don't just want to help women program in San Francisco. We want to make programming accessible to everyone all over the world. We want to be a starting point for anyone who has this goal. All of our curriculum is open sourced. If you feel like you can contribute in this way, take what we have, make that the starting point and go do your thing. So we have some scaling problems. Community is hard to scale. That's my punchline. Okay. If I had my speaker notes. Okay. So for example, every time I, so I know lots of people are writing really fantastic books for people who want to level up as programmers. They're making podcasts. They're making tutorial videos. Every time you make a video, it can scale almost infinitely. It's over one, right? It's constant time. You create the book one time. You affect lots and lots of people. By contrast, so there's my punchline. By contrast, every time we want to start up a Railsbridge workshop, we have to find money. We have to find volunteers. We have to find organizers. We have to find a venue. So it's not constant time. It's an event. Every person that we want to affect, we have to go out and get them and we have to work for that.  So we have some ideas. Let's go back to the, to some examples. Okay. So my first case study in how to scale Railsbridge is to look at Starbucks. So this is the building in Seattle from which all edicts come for Starbucks. Do you guys recognize it? Okay. So this is where the queen bees live. And the queen bees have a lot of, have a lot of knowledge. They know how long every, it should take to make every drink. They know where the best beans are. They, where some beans are. They know, they know, they know how they need to, they know how every barista needs to work for Starbucks to deliver an efficient experience to all of its over 20,000 locations around the world. So the baristas that we meet every day at Starbucks have a lot of expertise about how to make coffee. They know about Starbucks coffee. There's a craft that they have, and they use that to very efficiently deliver all of our coffee every day. So this model scales really well, right? As long as, as long as people want Starbucks coffee and want this product, this organizational style is going to be fantastic at delivering it to me. So there's a queen bee here. I don't remember what I'm supposed to say about it. Oh, that's my sister. This is so terrible. Okay. So if we, if we lose our queen bee in this model, we hate to think what will happen, right? Like, we don't trust our baristas in this model without a queen bee. This is what we get if we, if we lose our queen bee. This is an intentional humor, you guys. Okay. My next example of, so, so there are some things that work there well for Railsbridge. I really like that they scale so well. I don't want to have a leader because that's how we end up with spiders that like feel like they're being torn into. So we'll take what we can from there. Wikipedia. That's my next case study. So the way that, the way that Wikipedia gets people to contribute is by having a vision of collecting all of human knowledge that's exciting and it's engaging and people want to help. Sounds like Railsbridge, right? So there's no head and every person just puts, puts in what they can. It's a little bit like a tributary flowing into a river. Every person's contribution is helping the entire group of people who want to consume Wikipedia. Is that all I had? This must be all I had. So, I, so this, some of this is really great for Railsbridge, right? We want one person's contribution to benefit lots of people. That sounds awesome. I have another case study, Alcoholics Anonymous. What's interesting about this case is that it's not like Wikipedia. It's essential to the vision of, of Alcoholics Anonymous that every group be independent and that knowledge not spread beyond, beyond the group. The other thing that's interesting here is that the overall organization only contributes a little bit to each one of these cluster of beats. So, they have a book. It's distributed at cost and that's all that the organization has done. They have proclaimed their values, they've given a methodology and they back away. So, this is a bit like silos where each organization is very independent and self-sufficient and that sounds fantastic. So, let's look at an example of a combination of combining the best parts of all these organizational styles. I have a great example. Internet. Before I talk about how the internet actually works, I'm going to talk about how people were not quite ready to understand how the internet works.  So, in 1995, a young ISP, Netcom, hired a new CEO to help them fundraise. They were, they were new. They needed money and he was meeting with French investors. It's not relevant to their French. It's kind of funny that they're French. And over dinner, sorry French people in the audience. So, over dinner, he tries to explain how the internet works, what an ISP is and what their business model would be. And one of the investors just hounds him demanding an answer to this question. He won't let him move on until he answers this question. The question that he has to have an answer to is, who is the president of the internet? Right? Like, it just, it doesn't enter his mind that there could, like, that's such a large organization that seemingly works reliably doesn't have someone in charge, right? And so, our brave CEO is very determined and he tries to, he tries to explain things over and over and eventually, just to move the conversation along so he can get to the point where he asks for money, he says, I am the president of the internet. So, that's not actually how it works. So, each one of, each one of these is meant to be an autonomous system and the way that the internet works is that an autonomous system can peer with another system and they can share traffic. They do this using the border gateway protocol which sets, which lets each user set rules for when traffic can access their network. Does that make sense? Yeah, maybe? Okay, cool. So, this is fantastic, right? This is great. Like, so each one of these is very hierarchical. They want to make money. They have a profit motive and yet all of these monopolistically minded companies managed to cooperate in building something awesome. It's kind of badass, especially for someone trying to grow a global organization. So, oh yeah, so I was going to explain. This is an autonomous system. It can't reach this autonomous system over, over there. Anyway, it doesn't matter, I'd explain it. Okay, so those are some organizational examples and now I want to go through those and say all the wonderful things that I want to steal from them. So, from Starbucks, I want to steal its structure. I really, if you come to Railsbridge and you say I want to organize a workshop, I want to hand you something. Just like Starbucks says do you want to be a barista? Here's how to make a cappuccino. I want to have that level of detail so anyone who wants to volunteer knows exactly how they can volunteer. If you show up to be a volunteer at a Railsbridge workshop, I want to make the best possible use of you, right? I want to be able to take what you have to give and put it to the best possible use for the organization. So, love the structure. From Wikipedia, I really love that if I give something to the organization, it benefits everybody. For example, if I find a bug in the curriculum, which happens rarely, then I want to be able to change it and benefit everybody.  So, that's what I want to take from Wikipedia. This is a great point to mention how you too can become a tributary, leading to this wonderful river of knowledge. So, if you want to just use the curriculum, take the curriculum out into the world and do something with it, here's where to get it. If you want to improve the documentation that we have, we have many curricula. If you want to use, if you want to improve any of it, go there. And if you want to have a workshop in your area, use our cookbook. Yeah, this is another great place to mention my second favorite repo. I have to say second favorite because Ali is in the front row. My second favorite repo in the world is Opschool. I'm really excited about this. Just like Railsbridge wants to create engineers, they're trying to create operation engineers, engineers. And I'm super excited because this weekend they're going to have their first workshop where they teach the curriculum that everyone's been contributing to for a while. So, yay. Okay, and from Alcoholics Anonymous, I want to steal the, I want to steal the independence and self-sufficiency. So, even though we have this curriculum that everyone can contribute to, every place that we have a workshop still needs to find venues, still needs to find volunteers, still needs to find organizers. And so, despite all of our best efforts, despite lots of generosity from everywhere around the world, every place that has a workshop needs to be somewhat self-sufficient. This is the coolest part. So, from the internet, I want to steal the ability for lots of independent groups to be able to talk to each other, to share what's best and what they've learned in every organization, and to share that back with everybody else. It's kind of awesome. Okay, so those are some ideas for how we can scale. Let's bring it back. This is a book, so remember when I was like, the other book was kind of, man, this book is fantastic. It spends 10 pages on the creation story of Unix Pipes. They have the values in the right place. So, there's this great quote. I'm going to read it to you, even though they say never return your slides. Much of the history of computer programming can be seen as the effort to expand the franchise, to make it easier for more people to program. And, when you read the book, that really comes through.  We should, we should make it easier for people. We should have a higher level language. What we ended up doing was making it easier for the professional programmers to program. And, we didn't really bring people in. So, I went to end with a story of someone here, actually, who is bringing in, is like, is like carrying out that goal that people had for programming for a long time. There was a Rails Ridge workshop in this very space a few months ago, and I came and I taught, and I met Allison. Allison is an accountant. She, she is this person that cobalt was made for. Is Allison here? Am I embarrassing? That's awesome! I can say whatever I want now. Okay, so Allison and I worked through the curriculum, the began curriculum, and we called it a day. We like high five, we had a beer and then that was it. And then she went home and she kept learning. So, I ran into her at a party recently, and she told me that she is making an app to help with end of month accounting. She's doing that exact thing that Grace Hopper pushed four years ago when she talked about automatic computing, improving the way that computers and people interact.  So, thanks for listening. I drew all my papers in paper, and thanks to all my co-workers who told me what should be about my talks, I made it better. We made everything. So, we're going to take a five-minute break, at which point we're going to set up some fancy chairs, and we're going to do a little bit of panel discussion and open QA with all of you guys. QA, Q and A. There we go. Thank you, Rachel, for just putting up with that shitstorm, and our technical team who is just dealing with it right now. They're actually doing a great job. So, thank you guys all for dealing with the lulls. We'll be back in five. So, Rachel Myers, thank you again for dealing with our complicated technical situation. You handled that very gracefully. So, thanks. So, I have kind of like a list of questions that I took down during your talk, and we can just kind of talk about them, and also I heard you're a fan of whiskey. And so, I broke out a bottle of our slow-merge whiskey, and we also had, I deliberately made yours a little taller than mine. So, we can do it. Yeah, cheers. Cheers to Rachel Myers. No, cheers! Awkward silence while we drink. Enjoy. Yeah. Can I clarify that it's whiskey? Uh, yeah, we had those labels. This is uh, I don't even know if I'm supposed to talk about this legally, to be honest. Uh, we had this made for employees internally. We just basically made a label for us, for, it's like four roses, I think. Yeah, it's pretty tasty. I mean, they gave us the barrel that it was uh, slow-merged in.  My first question is, what did you do?  But like, where did you start?  Um, okay, so before I was a programmer, I was a philosophy teacher at, so what that actually means is I was teen for uh, for like um, first year undergraduate students who needed a humanities credit.  Um, and it was, it was kind of demoralizing, because you spend your life reading and getting really into the details, and you don't feel like you're doing something with it, and you don't feel like most people care. So, um, so I still really love philosophy. Um, it's not what I do now, because I want to feel like I'm doing a little bit more. Cool, that's awesome. Uh, how many people here studied computer science in college? Wow, that's actually a lot of people, surprise. We have, we have a, we have a philosophy, we have a philosophy major at GitHub, and I've met and fought with Ted over drinks. Nice, I think Ted's watching.  Um, sorry Ted. Uh, so, so did you ever consider like computer programming when you were in school before college? So, um, when I was in brownies, one of our badges was to learn binary, and I did that. That was like the extent of it. They, like they, they ask you, um, like you can, you can translate to base to essentially, right? So, um, they would, they would, like, I would write a sentence, and then I would like translate into ones in zeros, and then I got my badge. And you never looked back. No, I looked at, like, I was like, well that was interesting, I'm not sure anyone does with that, let's move on, right? So, like, brownies could do a better job of showing how that relates to life. That's amazing. Uh, you talked a little bit about open source, and that was a wonderful thing. Um, what was, what was your gateway drug into open source? Like, what was your first open source project? Honestly, my first, uh, open source project was that I couldn't make them by default private, right? Like, and so, and so everything I started doing, like, by default, if you're poor and you want to use GitHub, it just becomes an open source project. So, so I got to do it that way. Good business model. Um, but then, like, my first serious open source project. Um, so, when we would work on, when, like, when we would get together in little study groups, uh, we would work through examples from books, and I would, I would, um, see someone's example and say, well what if we do it this way, and, you know, really just went the diff, and so that kind of interaction was probably, like, my first introduction, which is different from, like, a production-ready open source project, right? Yeah. Um, where the standard is a little higher, hopefully. Some places. Some places. Awesome. Well, that's a pretty good answer. I only have a couple more questions, so if you guys start thinking of things that you want to ask Rachel, feel free to, we have a question. That was easy. Okay. I fired a starfish and it doesn't respire. Okay, that's a great question. Do you want to repeat it for everyone? Um, it was a really long, how does an organization, like Railsbridge, go from spider to starfish without going back to spider? Awesome. Cycles. Yeah, how do we not fall back into spidering? Okay, um, so one, I think that's, so it's a really great point. Um, we, we tried to starfish, and it's been a couple years, so we probably need to continue to spider, or starfish. Um, and I've been really tempted to spider in my days, so when Steven Vang, um, what, wanted a conference bio, I wanted some way to represent his contributions to the organization. So I suggested, on text to several people, hey, how about we have a core team, just so Steven can be on the core team, right? That was, that was my idea. And, and then I realized that's a terrible idea, right? So like, so some of the things that Railsbridge can do to avoid becoming a, a spider are to avoid having a core team to, um, to continue to starfish, and to, like, and by continue to starfish, I don't want to be like, I don't want to make it sound easy, right? Like what that means is you find people who are as committed as they need to be, like, very committed. And, um, and find a way for them to contribute in a way that they can, right? So, so I found Lily, because Lily was really, she had a clear vision of how things should happen, and that was exactly what we needed. To continue to do that, I think you'd have to continue meeting people and finding people and starfishing them into, like, your other starfish. I don't know, does that answer your question? Does that not quite answer your question? There's a but. Lily, are you upset about being my starfish? The question was, wait, what was it? Can you say anything? Sorry. So, if people make crazy contributions like Steven has, and you say, no, you can't be on the core team because we don't have one, how do you then go in and say, like, but we love you and thank you so much? Um, Steven's here, so maybe we can just say, uh, can we have like a party or something with that, like, would you feel appreciated? So, so the the original question was how do you know that, or how do you ensure that your starfish are happy being starfish? I'm not sure, I guess, is the like the ultimate answer. That's okay. Okay. Okay. We'll have to all work on that. That's cool. So, I have another programming question. Okay. I hope you're not bored with these yet. So, there are so many different languages and specific disciplines in programming, like, how do you, I think it's really common for, uh, you know, new learners to just be kind of overwhelmed, especially if they don't immediately click with something. There's like, they're not getting that immediate satisfaction, they get overwhelmed with it, and they kind of just shut down, and they're like, no, programming is not for me. So, how do you, like, how do you pick the language? Like, how did you pick Ruby, or how did you, you know, is it, it can't be solely based on organizations like Railsbridge, right? Like, there needs to be like a different avenue. So, I'm betting that it can totally be based on organizations like Rails, but that won't be my answer. Um, so I got into programming Ruby because of why. Like, there's a very, like, direct connection, like, this was my first book, um, this book seemed accessible, um, and I, and I just, like, decided I'm gonna, I'm just gonna, like, power through this book and try to learn it, right? And, like, after you put so much into learning one language, there's, like, I was disincentivized to go try to do Python immediately, I went to, like, finish Ruby through, and, like, feel like I understood that. Um, and, like, how you choose your first language, I think, is very accidental. Right? Do you think it has a lot to do with, like, trends? Like, I knew, like, Ruby on Rails, and, like, web startups, you know, it's, like, very popular right now, so, like, I'm not saying that's, you know, specifically, like, why a few of us have chosen it, but, like, do you think that has a big impact? Um, it must have a big impact, right? Like, the more, so Ruby was terrific, a terrific starting language for me because so much of the, um, community is invested in building out projects for people to learn. So, um, so there was never a shortage of projects, of cones, of, of, like, uh, exercise to the reader, right? There were, there were always many of those for me. So many that, like, I always felt like, oh, I have to do three more today because there were, there were these eight new repos that showed up today, right? Um, so I would say, I would say, like, it's accidental, but Ruby made it very easy for me. Gateway language, you would say. Exactly. Um, cool. Do we have any other questions from you guys? Yeah? I'm not, I'm not familiar with RailsBridge and I kind of wanted to know kind of the scope of the side of the organization so, you know, approximately the only people involved in the project. That's, um, part of being a, a flat organization is that we're really bad. Like, it's, it's a little bit like alcoholics anonymous, right? To, um, to have a chapter of, oh wait, do you want to repeat, sorry. Yeah, I can repeat it. Um, so I think, so one of our audience members wants to know what the scale of RailsBridge actually is, like, the number of people, right? I think it's that ballpark. Ballpark. Rachel does not have these tattooed on her forearm. I'm looking at it right now, turns out. So, uh, part of being, like, alcoholics anonymous in addition to, never mind, I'm not going to make a bed joke, um, is that we're not good at, um, sending information back to headquarters as it were. So we've started to get better at that, but we still have about four years of data that's missing. So, um, it's hard to estimate. Um, what we can say is, like, what the RSVP limit, generally, is, like, on average, and then, like, do multiplication for the workshops that we know about. And, um, I, like, at this point, it's something like a hundred thousand people, or, wait, what, what is it, Lillie, you're here. Because you'll have ever attended a workshop at the student org office here. Is that true? Okay. But that other city, but that whole other city that we've had workshops in? It's nice. It's like a number of organizers, just non-organizations. Okay. I'm starting to think that Lillie might, like, work in different organizations. Not the greatest starfish. So the correct answer is we don't know. Fighting harder. Uh, okay. Hi. The question was how many people have gone on to become ruby developers from this organization? I have only anecdotal, knowledge of this, because we're bad at sending information back up the hierarchy, because there's not a hierarchy. The, the people that I kind of, like, moved with when I was going through Reelsbridge are almost now all engineers. And that's entirely anecdotal, and it's about, like, the people who I was around. That's, so that's like, so I can say there are at least 10 of us, right? I'm sure you have. Which is, which is more female engineers than I've ever worked with, at any company. So that's a pretty good number, I would say. Yeah. So I have one more question. It's kind of a big one. I'll let you think. I'll maybe let you drink on it. So, the, one of the reasons that I started passion projects was to get, get GitHub. Get GitHub, that's such a hard thing to say. Get GitHub more involved in sort of these grassroots efforts with just, not just women, but also in teaching and learning. And like, there are a ton of people at GitHub who volunteer with Reelsbridge and Reelsgirls and a couple other organizations. But like, on a grander scale, what can GitHub do to make it easier to learn to program? So I think GitHub is particularly well positioned to minimize like the, the costs that you pay to get into programming. Because, because you go to GitHub, like when, as soon as you have written your first like three lines of code, you want to like start posting it. You want to show your friends. I think, well, there, there are tons of good answers. And in this particular audience, like I'm not the most expert on what GitHub can do. Like I have, like some things that people can do and all organizations can do are like giving engineers the time to like spend time mentoring, right? Those kinds of, those kinds of projects. When you, when you have projects that bring more people in. And I don't mean to make it even about women exclusively. I mean to just say, all forms of diversity. That, like that's a huge, that's a huge step. Like to, to show people, to sit down with people and work through problems the way that you would work through them. Show us people that they can work through those problems in the same way. That's awesome. And I'm assuming this is kind of like a second part, but I'm assuming that's something you look for in a company you want to work for. I was like, my next question was when you, like we're looking at companies and you join ModCloth. Like what are the, what are the attributes of a company that you look for? So when I joined ModCloth, they told me, when I talked to the recruiter, they said we're 80% women as a company. And I didn't ask the follow-up question, how many women are on your engineering team? I just assumed, right? There were none. I was the first one. And now I ask much harder questions. Like now we have, now we have a terrific team on the team that I work with every day. We are 50% women, which is fantastic. They're in the back. They're enjoying that applause. And so, and so like, it's like we're very good at holding our company accountable. We, we work with our CTO to make sure that the way that we're presenting ourselves to the world is maximizes like the good, the good candidates that we're getting in. I guess that's how I would say it. That's awesome. Okay. Well, thank you, Rachel. Do you guys have any more questions? I know I missed someone. Yeah? I'm a Rails bridge, right? Like Rails bridge is amazing for building this enthusiasm over two days, kind of getting the snowball rolling. Have you seen anybody who are trying to engage over months? Yeah, that's a, that's, oh, go ahead, sorry. Have you seen any long-term, I don't know, what's a good word for that? Like, continued learning or continued studying through Rails bridge, specifically. So there, so sometimes people will spontaneously create study groups. Another thing that I have to say is women who code is great at forming long-term study groups. So the person who runs the Ruby, and is it Ruby specific or Ruby in Rails? So Ruby Tuesdays is the women who code group that does, like an ongoing every single Tuesday. They'll have a meetup where they work on their Rails project. They also have ones for iOS and JavaScripts and probably leaving others out. So that, that's one example. That's women specific in a way that Rails bridge is like, not a Rails bridge. Oh, and it came out of Rails bridge. That's awesome. I didn't know that. It's good to have all the starfish in the room in a tag like this. Awesome. Any more questions? Yeah. Trying to learn how to program, when was the kind of transition where you felt comfortable enough that you wanted entering the professional program? So this is really interesting. So it was, the question was, what was the point at which you felt comfortable in like going on interviews and entering the professional world of programming? So I was working, I was working examples kind of on my own and I went to, and I would go to a lot of meetups because that was another way to get a sense of where I stand and what I'd need to learn after this. And I like, I guess the short answer is I never felt that way. I felt that way long after I had been doing it. I don't think, I don't think anyone ever feels like they know everything because the thing about technology is it moves so quickly and there's, everything changes so fast. Like, I don't think it's like, everyone is everyone like, okay, we're done. Like, we're done. We don't have to learn anymore. Like you're always constantly having to learn or you're going to get left behind. So it's like really hard to feel comfortable. Like, yeah. Just quick sidetrack. There was, Justice Breyer was on Charlie Rose like years ago and he was talking about trying to encourage his son who didn't want to do his homework.  Right. And that's what it's like to be a programmer. Right. Like if you, if you get good at learning, you're going to get to do this for the rest of your life and that's what you're aiming for. Yeah. There's a really great quote. I don't know where this comes from, but learn to learn is basically like the way to, like teaching yourself to be resourceful is probably like the best gift you can give yourself and kind of, that's job security. Like that's, that's what that is. And then I have one story about how I started. And that is I was at a meetup and Sarah Allen, before she had started Railsbridge, said, you know, I find it really hard to find, to find junior people to hire. Like if you have a great junior person, I would love to pair with them in my spare time. And I was sitting in the bag, I said, and I just shouted out obnoxiously like, I would pair with you for free if you want to do that sometimes. And so she brought me into interview and she's like, well, you definitely can be pairing with me for free, but you can if you want. So, that's how I got into it. And then I worked for like, I worked there for free for a long time. And then I became like the real intern and then I like moved on. And at every step, I always feel like I'm jumping a little bit ahead of where I really belong. But, oh well. So it goes. All right. Thank you guys so much for coming out. We're actually having, sorry, Melissa, don't get too excited. So we're actually throwing a drink up nearby at the Alchemist, I think is the name of the bar and they look like they have really good cocktails and they're free because they're on GitHub. So come help me spend our money and celebrate. You guys all coming out for our first talk.


Hey everybody, it's Hari Swaminathan from optiontiger.com. What I wanted to do in this video is to lay out four or five simple rules for the proper usage of the SPX Tix Algo as well as the custom RSI indicator. Now these things are very powerful and we just need to follow some of these rules and apply them on a daily basis and even if you take a five contract position on the SPX with the 35 Delta, you can easily generate anywhere from thousand to two thousand dollars a day. So what I want to do in this video is to lay out these rules and then what we'll do is we'll go back and look at a few days of market action and see if we applied these rules properly what would have been the performance of these SPX daydrays. So on this slide we have the rules and guidelines for the usage of the Tix and custom RSI. The rules per se are just a few and then there are just some usage parameters or usage guidelines and let's go through each one of them. The first one of course is we have to let the Tix develop for one hour at least when the market's open. So we're talking about 9 30 a.m. US Eastern time and you want to let the Tix develop for one hour at least. Now there could be situations where there's strong momentum at the open and the market rushes off either to the upside or to the downside but you have to bear in mind that's more of a momentum play rather than a Tix play. So that could be a great day trade if you get into that but it's not a really based on the Tix per se. It's based on the strong momentum coming out at the open. The second one is once that one hour or 45 minutes to an hour has passed by then you want to gauge the market sentiment because by that point the Tix will probably tell you which side of the market it wants to go. Now granted later on in the day that might change but at least for the morning session you might get a good idea as to which way it wants to go. Now bear in mind when you have the ES which is just plus or minus five on either side of the flatline that's really considered neutral. The average two range for the S&P on a daily basis now is about 15 points and so it can go anywhere from plus or minus 15 on any given day. Obviously it can go more also and it can go less but if the market remains within a plus or minus five points then that is more of a neutral day and therefore you might have to be a little bit more patient with that particular day. Then once a sentiment has been set you want to align your trades. So basically whether you're going to go to the call side or to the put side you want to align it with the market sentiment on a five-minute chart. So until then you may be looking at a one-minute chart just to get some quicker feedback loop. However once a one hour has passed you want to be looking at the five-minute chart and that would be a lot more clearer that will provide a lot more clarity. So if the ES is bullish the ticks are above the zero line and it's increasing and custom RSI is in the bullish zone that's the perfect time to take a call frame. If the ES is bearish the ticks are below zero and decreasing and custom RSI has entered the bearish zone that is the time to go in for puts and once the custom RSI enters the bullish or bearish zones then you want to remain in the trade until that direction changes and of course you want to look for some persistence. So which means on the five-minute chart you want to see at least two dots with the above conditions and that's what gives you confidence for the trade. Bear in mind if the ticks and the custom RSI are not in sync then there is no trade. If the custom RSI or the ticks are turning around and you're already in a trade please take profits because you can always get back into another trade if that's what is needed but for now when you have profits you can take it and then when you want to see a little bit more finer view of the chart you can step down to the one-minute chart anytime but always come back to the five-minute chart when you're making trading decisions because after the first one hour or so you're going to find much more clarity on the five-minute chart. Let's now go into the platform and let's see a few days of trading and see if we can apply these rules and guidelines and how these trades would have played out. So this is the trading action for Friday July 19th. Now you can see the market started right here and it was up about six or seven points at the open and then as it comes down you can see that it's still near the flat line the ticks are near the flat line besides we are not even in the first hour so the first hour gets over somewhere here so it's only after this that you really start thinking of taking trades and now you can see there is some persistence here there could be a bearish trade right there after that you can see that the green ticks are coming in so you would have gotten out over here this is below the zero line so even though you're seeing green ticks first of all the custom RSI is still more closer towards the bearish zone and the green ticks are below the zero line so there is no call trade at all then if you look at this once again it's choppy and so there is no persistence there here you find a couple of green dots and coming up nicely but it is all below the zero line and the custom RSI has not yet come out of the bearish zone and so there's no trade there either and then once you come here once again lot of choppiness here perhaps you might have taken a trade over here but that would have gotten stopped out right away because it went away that opportunity is gone and then you see some persistence but once again now we are above the zero line and so there is no put trade there and so you would want to wait over here and then this is in the it goes into the bearish zone and once again there is no trade at all all the way till here and perhaps maybe this was a good trade one you see some you know a sudden drop in the ticks and then it becomes persistent and the custom RSI clearly goes into the bearish zone and it remains there for a while now you do see some slight green ticks over here you might have come out and that's fine this would have been a decent trade from this level to this level and this would have been a decent very good trade this would have been on a five contract position as I said this would be about a thousand dollar trade at least you know that's it so really one great trading opportunity on Friday let's go back one day to Thursday this would be July 18th and as you can see the first one hour the ticks are settling in there is no real clear direction here even though you see the RSI in the bullish zone there is no clear trade it's only here that you start getting some persistence on the bearish side and this would have been a very very good trade you can see that you could have come from this level all the way down till here so and even till here you would have gotten out at this bar and so that would have been a fantastic trade a fifteen hundred dollar trade I would say but then the green dots now are below the zero line so there's no trade there and there's no trade through any of this and the only time now you get some persistence is on the upside towards the close and this would have been a decent bullish trade because as you can see this starts becoming persistent and that's really what takes the market to really high levels over here in fact it closes somewhere here but the trade would have gotten over somewhere around this level here that would have been another thousand dollar twelve hundred dollar trade all right let's go back one more day here and this is where you get fantastic opportunities because you can see that you're starting off and right away the ticks are going below zero and then you have some persistent conditions with the RSI completely here so this would have been a great trade and this might be a day where you take the trade a little earlier than one hour because you can see that there is some persistence going on here and especially after these two or three dots you want to take the trade so here I would say from a three zero zero three level you can come till at least two nine nine five that's eight points on the S&P so this would have been a fifteen hundred to two thousand dollar trade right there and then of course you're seeing some bullish action you don't get into that because everything is below zero and then you want to see to see see if you can get some more bearish but the customer RSI never really gets in there so there's no trade through any of this and then from here perhaps you might get into a trade because this is you know this is pretty good but then you would have been stopped out over here so it would have been a small trade and then that's really it after that it just chops around so on Thursday you would have had two very good trades both of them would have been approximately fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars and then now let's go back one more day here you see once again the tick starts and it tries to go up but there's no there's no real momentum to the upside there's a little bit here on the ticks but the customer RSI is not cooperating and therefore there is no trade so when the ticks and the customer RSI are not in sync there is no trade so even though you see these green dots you don't want to get into the trade so really the first time you start getting into a trade is a bearish trade right here and you see the customer RSI is already in the bearish zone now you see two or three dots and so somewhere around here which is about three zero one three and then you ride it all the way till here perhaps anywhere here you can see the choppiness you just get out because you would have made your fifteen hundred dollar profit on this trade after that may be a small trade here that's about it and then it just becomes choppy and actually makes its way up a little bit so let's go back one more day here and then see this this is also something there is momentum coming in at the open the ticks are showing higher but you can see the customer RSI it's not it's not there and that because look at the price action very very choppy there's nothing going on there and therefore there is no trade on this as well so the only time you do look at it now clearly everything is above the zero line by the time you reach into the afternoon session and so somewhere here you might be tempted to take a trade it wouldn't have lasted very well you would have probably been stopped out very quickly and then there is no trade there's just choppiness here so really on this was on the 15th of July there's no real big trading opportunity at all and that's to be expected because not every day is going to present opportunities and the key is not to over trade and just take the best trading opportunities so once again you see at the open the ticks are just flat lining and then there is this is in the bearish zone but there's no trade there and then once it starts getting over here once again it's quite choppy so there is no there's no real trade and all the way till here there's no real trade the only trade that comes is right here and once you see this condition right there and the customer RSI clearly in the bullish zone yes you can go in for a trade and that could have lasted anywhere till here so I would say somewhere from the 30 one one level up to the 3013 so not a huge trade this would have been a five to seven hundred dollar trade but it would have been a profitable trade there all right let's do one more and here you can see as the markets open tries to go up there's nothing there but in any case we don't do anything for one hour and then you can see some bearish action coming in so somewhere here maybe after 45 minutes after the markets open you can take the trade somewhere here and that would be a 3000 level and then you would have gotten out at the 2996 not too bad about an 800 dollar trade and then once again you see the customer RSI is still coming out of the bearish zone so all through this you don't want to take any trade even though the price action on the chart looks attractive you don't want to take the trade and so you let it go and once again you can see some weakness coming in but it also cannot sustain itself the ticks is still above the zero line so that's it there's no real trade there perhaps here towards the close is what you're looking at because now customer RSI is flirting with the bullish zone and over here it goes into the bullish zone so in the last half an hour you do have a nice trade about an 800 dollar trade again if you apply these rules consistently on a daily basis I feel you can get one to two trades don't look for more trades than that unless it presents you with the opportunity but even if you do one to two trades and on a five contract position I think you can average about a thousand dollar day profit using the SPX ticks indicator as well as the customer RSI if you have any questions you can email me at infoadoptiontiger.com thanks