Any sensitive human being will be concerned about this question. Any sensitive human being is going to be weighted down by the sins of their life. Not just because we hurt ourselves and we often hurt other people, but we understand that these sins interrupt, they get in the way, they disrupt our relationship with God. If sin basically is a violation of the will of God, a transgression of the will of God, these sins, these transgressions get in the way, they really, they in many ways sabotage our relationship with God. And so the sensitive person asks themselves, how can I stand before God in the wake of sin? How am I able to stand in the presence of God and be in good standing and have a good relationship with God when I've sinned? There is one place in our Bible where this question is raised directly. There's one place where in the Hebrew Scriptures, in the Tanakh, this question is directly raised. What do we do to get out from under the weight of our sins? How are we able to stand before God after we've sinned? And this question and its answer can be found in the 33rd chapter in the prophet Ezekiel in Yaheskel, verses 10 and 11. And the prophet answers the question directly. And the prophet does not give a Christian answer. The Christian answer would be the only way to respond to your sins is by having an animal or a sacrifice die on your behalf. Or more precisely, more specifically the Christian answer would be the only way to get out from under the burden of sin is to believe that Jesus was the sacrifice that died for your sins. But the focus of Christianity is upon sacrifice as the response to sin. The prophet Ezekiel in addressing this question does not mention the institution of sacrifices. Either the sacrifices of animals or the future sacrifice of Jesus or any Messiah. The prophet Ezekiel says that if you are weighted down by your sins, the prophet says turn from your sins, repent and turn back to God. And the prophet repeats it. He speaks in the same verse twice about repenting, turning away from your sins. We don't find any stories in the Bible that describe, that speak about someone who sinned and the way they are able to restore their relationship with God is they went and they offered sacrifices. You don't find stories like that. But you do find stories of people who sin in the Bible and their response to the sins is to repent, is to return to God, to turn away from their sins and then God forgives them. We see this in the book of Jonah which we read on Yom Kippur where Jonah the prophet, Jonah comes to the city of Nineveh and tells the people God is very angry with them. He doesn't tell them that if they want to really get right with God they better start offering sacrifices. The people immediately change their behavior. They turn away from their sins we're told. They begin to fast and to pray to God. And God sees that they turned away from their sins and we're told in the book of Jonah that God forgives the sins of the people of Nineveh. And throughout the Hebrew Bible this is the single solitary response to sin. The prophets all tell us with one voice that the real response to sin is Chuvah is turning away from your sin and turning back to God. The prophet Zechariah, Zechariah in the first chapter says, has God saying, turn to me and I will turn back to you. That God will turn back to us. God will restore our relationship with him if we turn away from our sins and turn back to him. What then is the purpose of sacrifices? Well it's important to remember that sacrifices were not simply a universal response to sin even when they were brought in the times of the temple.  There were many kinds of sacrifices. Some were there to celebrate various holidays. Some were there to offer thanks to God when a miracle happened to you. There were sacrifices that specifically dealt with sin. The most important one being the Corban Chattat, the sin offering. And yet that was not brought for all kinds of sins. It was only brought for unintentional sins. And even when sin offerings were brought, the sin offering in and of itself did not get a restored relationship with God. The mistake that all the prophets spoke about, every single prophet of the Bible practically said, don't think that what God ultimately wants from you is your sacrifices. It says in the book of Proverbs that the sacrifice of a wicked person is an abomination to God. That for God, for you to think that the real response to sin is simply to bring a sacrifice. And once you offer that sacrifice, everything is hunky-dory. The Bible is saying to us that's not how it works. And if you think that you can restore your relationship to God simply with a sacrifice, that's an abomination to God. The purpose of the sacrifice was to be essentially both a teaching tool, was a pedagogic tool that God used to help us understand the gravity of sin for us to go through, to help us go through the process of repentance and ultimately to be an external symbol of the internal change that's going on inside of us. But if we don't have that change and we only have the symbol, the prophets say that that sacrifice is an abomination. But to have the essence, to have the change, to have the repentance, to have the chuva and you don't bring the sacrifice either because in some cases you couldn't afford the animal sacrifice or that you don't have access to the temple. You're either living in a different country where there is no temple or the temple's been destroyed. That eventuality is dealt with in the Bible. When Solomon builds the first temple in the first book of Kings chapter 8, Solomon says, and if the Jewish people are taken far away from Israel and there is no temple there, they simply turn to God, they turn away from their sins and God will hear their prayers and God will forgive them. So sacrifices are never the primary response to sin in the Bible. We don't have any of the prophets, any of the prophets telling the Jewish people that you people sinned, you better start bringing sacrifices. However, the prophets all warned us. Don't think that the sacrifice by itself will forgive you. And you have all the prophets telling us that the real, essential, core response to sin is repentance is turning away from the sins and turning back to God.


نعم اهم النشاءة والرجيم والصلاة والسلام على محمد الأمين وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المظلومين ولعنا طلع على عداهم أجمعين من الآن إلى قيام يوم الدين آمين أشهدين لكم أشهدين لكم في إمام هوسين تي بي نتوارك شكرا لكم for joining us live from the holy city of Karbala شكرا لكم منخبارك جيحيا سيمور وللما انه يجب على هذا الانتقال من خلال المطابقات في which we discuss the basics of our doctrinal theological jurisprudential and ethical foundations in addition to a framework by which we may be able to discuss with those of the opposing ideologies and sects. And when I say opposing here I don't necessarily mean that every such individual is an opponent ومثل باستخدامنا على أحسناء أساسية أو أحسناء أساسية التي تختلف من نفسنا ويجب أن يشعر على التقديل ويؤكد عن أساسينا. في أحسناء أساسية ، لقد نحن نتحدث عن أكثر أشهر المهمات التي تضع إلى أكثر أساسي ومعنى أن نجد أساسية ومعنى جنرية أساسية ومعنى أن نتكلم أنها أساسية by which we analyze how do we maintain these religious beliefs and what is the best way for us to view our religion of course in the previous few episodes I introduced the concept known as the world view that every belief, every ideology, every religion tends to be composed of what we would call a world view now I defined a world view for those of you who may have forgotten I'm only going to remind everyone for the next few episodes my tongue gets tired of repeating it but a world view is of course an interconnected set of beliefs pertaining to us, the universe, of our man, our experiences and essentially an interconnected set of beliefs connecting the bigger questions about life and how we are to interact with them of course in light of that I had mentioned that there are several key tools that we want to look at when looking at any world view number one, what is its view in regards to God number two, what is its view in regards to man is man intrinsically evil, is he intrinsically good maybe a bit of both what's its view in regards to knowledge and how we ascertain knowledge and what we can trust about knowledge is it like the scientific materialistic empiricist world view which believes that our only source of knowledge is indeed that which we can detect with the five senses that is to say our sight, our hearing, our ability to smell, our ability to touch and our ability to taste or are we able to trust our rationality these were all great and important questions and of course we gave several tools which are used in interrogating and interpreting looking at the superior world view when digesting these different topics some of them just to remind you all were number one, is the world view consistent is it consistent with itself or is it consistent with the other beliefs that it holds that is to say as the Quran states if anyone is in doubt as to what has been revealed by Allah as-Rujal then had it been from anyone other than Allah they would have found in it much inconsistency inconsistency within itself why? because inconsistency is a natural fingerprint for something which is deficient and not from God so if you find a set of beliefs is inconsistent with your experience of the world it's inconsistent with reality then know that your world view is false it's explanatory scope how much of this world and our experiences that we see in day-to-day life can our world view explain this is of course another great question that we need to ask how much of our experience does this world view account for that's another one how does this world view's ethics resonate with the fitra or the innate disposition of mankind is the world view livable is it fulfilling and doesn't provide hope these were some of the tools we spoke about yesterday now I mentioned yesterday that I want you to analyze the following question if we are to continue discussing world views if we are to have discussions with anyone anyone that shares a different ideology different set of beliefs from our own what would mark the first place or the first thing that we would need in order to have such a discussion with them number one I mentioned of course was the intellect in order for us to be able to have any discussion with anyone well first we'd need a life, we'd need existence we'd need bodies, we'd need minds we'd need tongues to be able to discuss but more importantly we'd need a mind which is able to digest what is being said and what is being read and so we spoke about how several world views in the world can be disqualified from the very inception because they call us to doubt in the very human ability to reason what I call playing Russian roulette with all six bullets loaded and essentially philosophically beheading yourself because essentially what you're doing is coming up with a rational framework then telling someone you can't trust for rationality of course this was something that I pointed out several world views do actually do yesterday I cited the example of a Christian apologist who happens to be someone I'm slightly friends with Richard who said that he trusts his mind to get him to the belief in God but then when it comes to the trinity and the incarnation of God in his world view he suspends his reason because who is he and what is his reason to question the wisdom of God now of course this was not something unique to Richard we gave the example of Richard and this Christian world view that he belongs to because we wanted to show that look these poor individuals in order to justify their belief set in order to perpetuate that unfortunate deficient inconsistent and quite frankly shortcoming lacking sets of beliefs we find that they are willing to shoot themselves in the foot and philosophically behead themselves betraying the very ability to even continue a rational discussion because they want to hold on to that deficient world view of theirs and so we've mentioned that the intellect is one of the most important things another thing which we mentioned just now in any discussion we would need pertaining to a world view which ties into the intellect and we are mentioning it just now is the concept of language the ability to communicate now why does this tie into our discussion of world view today what does this relate to in our discussion pertaining to the intellect you find that in any language there are certain ways of speaking there are certain terms used certain expressions used which might betray the apparent meaning that someone who is first learning the first time might take in so for example if you take the linguistic expression used commonly in the English language it's raining cats and dogs or in Scotland we have a slightly different expression but it's a bit too crude so I'm not going to use it but it would literally take a very foul process done by human beings on a daily basis and we would use that word but that's not the word we want to be using we're going to stick to it's raining cats and dogs if we take it's raining cats and dogs and we take that particular expression and we were to bring in a foreigner that's learned the language fairly well but he's not studied literal idioms what's he going to understand from that particular term and what would he be justified in understanding from those particular words he would be justified in understanding from this particular expression that perhaps someone had been thrown dogs and cats outside of a window perhaps in a divine catastrophe a miraculous event dogs and cats started hailing down from the skies perhaps there was a plane which was transporting a set of domesticated animals and from the skies rained down those domesticated animals be they cats and dogs and he would be justified because only a parent it's accurate but then if he were to see the reality and see that no it was just raining heavily he would be forced to reinterpret what that statement meant and understand that a literal idiom was being used likewise anyone that hears certain expressions saying things like it's hot as hell today they might literally take that literally and be like wow this man must have been to hell before in order for him to understand how hot hell really is but then we understand that no this is just a metaphor this is not something that is literally being meant we don't literally mean that it is as hot as the fires of jahannam or when we say it is cold as hell today we don't literally mean that there's a part of jahannam which is as cold as the prophetic temperature in the winters of the western world this is not what's meant this is symbolic language and so any rational mind understands that languages include symbols and symbolism and that's something I wanted to come back to in our discussion of the intellect and those who refuse to allow the intellect to judge and would rather reduce the role of the intellect in order to justify a very theological set of beliefs in interpreting scriptures interpreting religious texts given that they are written within a framework of human language languages which already existed now some atheists create problems about this why didn't God create a new language the reason God didn't create a new language was because he wanted everyone to understand his scripture and the scriptures were sent to people that had fallen away from the tracks of belief and so the scriptures were revealed in bare languages in the languages that those people happened to follow in the case of the jaheli Arabs they had reached a peak of the Arabic language and were more than familiar with what the Arabic language meant and so we understand that they had even had a comprehensive understanding of literal metaphors metaphors that we can find in their poetry today when we look at the jaheli poetry which still survives until this day and these metaphors need to be understood in light of what we give a particular framework which states the following when scripture contradicts rationality as we have it I've already stated that Imam Sadaq may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon Imam Sadaq Sadaq Ali Muhammad this individual the sixth Imam who states that the intellect is that by which the merciful one of the names of Allah is worshiped so when he gives this high status to the intellect what we understand from this is if we have any text which on the apparent surface reading contradicts the intellect then the intellect must be given primacy because you have only three options either you've misunderstood the text and the text truly is from God or you've understood the text and the text is not from God or it's impossible for anyone to understand that text or you haven't understood the text but if you have understood that text and the apparent meaning is something which is rationally absurd something which could never be affirmed by any rational human being then we would be forced to say that there must be an alternative explanation within the linguistic capabilities and possibilities of that particular word within what we would call the semantical domain of that word utilized and if the primary meaning contradicts our rationality and therefore cannot be from God we must search within that semantical domain and find is there any other possible meanings which could possibly be utilized here which do not contradict the intellect this is of course sound reasoning and how one would apply their reason in order to understand how we should interpret divine scripture and of course interpreting divine scripture is important because it is the very crux of our religion and for where we get our doctrines dear viewers, inshallah to Allah we're going to go for a very short break but we'll be right back after that thank you for allowing me to take that short break as I was saying any discussion pertaining to religious texts to the way we interpret scripture is extremely important and it is through this methodology that we would see which methodology truly respects the intellect I quoted yesterday a very prominent Salafi Persuasion which tends to adopt a standard higher than the average internet polemical forum that is to say it is moderated by people who are considered at the very least students of knowledge and therefore conduct themselves with the etiquette and morality of a student of knowledge it's not filled with profanity nor insults nor basic vial and bile that you find on an average internet forum let me quote what is stated by one of the scholars who is an admin on this website the website is of course called مطلقة أهل الحدي it states the following حيفم حمدان one of the scholars on that website he states the position of the Salaf and by this he means the Salaf al-Sala which according to him is the first three generations of Muslims his ultimate standard for looking back to the terms of knowledge he states about them the position of the Salaf is simply that our great lord الله سبحانه وتعالى has a form that is suitable to his majesty of course I've already asked what does the word forum mean in the English language in the English language forum is to have a very distinct image is to have a distinct set or basic limitations which make you distinct from something else so what does it mean to say that الله سبحانه وتعالى has basic distinctions which befit his majesty I quoted someone that is normally of the utmost intelligence and someone I must truly commend for I know him personally and he's a man of great even though we disagree heavily on Islamic concepts his name is Bassam Zawadi who's known out for debating with Christians and others and even debating with Muslims he states the following and I quote again as I quoted last night Christian philosophers and I'm assuming Ash-Ari philosophers by Ash-Ari's he means the majority of those who call themselves Sunni will argue that Allah is like an unembodied mind thus arguing that Allah does not have a form however just because Allah does not have a body doesn't necessitate that he doesn't have a form even Casper the friendly ghost in the cartoons has a form yet no body so if our limited minds could imagine this for the creation then what about the creator Allah سبحانه وتعالى are all the viewers following this if our limited minds can attribute to Casper the friendly ghost a body and he's a creation he's a creation of the human mind then Bassam Zawadi argues why couldn't we imagine this for the creator we seek the refuge of Allah from such thoughts comparing Allah as a وجل to a cartoon and to claim that it's an act of greatness of تعظيم to be able to assume that Allah can have a form not a body because we can do so with this fictional child's humorous cartoon my friends if you want to hold cartoons as a basic source of your theology then please don't expect the rest of the Muslims to do it this is disgusting and it's quite frankly something which is a bit of a joke that we are bringing such discussions into the remit of classical rational theology when we talk about the theological schools of Islam there was never a day where we could imagine that this would be done with Allah as a وجل he continues to state if Allah does not have a form then what are we going to look at on the day of judgment the prophet said we will see Allah as clearly as the moon on a cloudless night how on earth does that happen if Allah has nothing of himself for us to see so we see that the ultimate binding factor here is that they have a narration the narration states one thing and therefore the Samzawadi and the Salafis would rather restrict the remit of the intellect and go with the apparent meaning of a narration which of course contradicts the intellect because they want to follow the apparent meaning of the narration this is exactly something we see as well with the so-called Salafi theologian who makes a big effort to elaborate and clarify that he is a theologian to the world his name is Dr. Yasser Qavi a graduate from I believe Yale University and a theologian for those of you who are not aware Yasser Qavi states in one of his papers which is available online entitled the theological implications of the story of Ibrahim and the stars of course he's referring to Nabi Ibrahim and the great narrative in the Quran the great story in which Nabi Ibrahim in order to establish a hudja upon his people falsify is the fake belief that the stars the moon and the sun are deities worthy of worship in this paper Yasser Qavi compares to the entamea to the rational theologians and what he states is that this proof that the rational theologians have given namely the proof of the motion of bodies celestial bodies and the movement being something which cannot be an attribute of Allah that this rational argument is not something we can use based upon the Quranic story and we should not entertain such rational arguments in order to prove Allah's existence what is the crux of Yasser Qavi the theologian what is the crux of this argument and why he believes it is a deficient argument for Muslims to use his argument is that the Quran does not use this argument even though the whole paper questions whether or not this Quranic anecdote is a use of the argument of what he calls the first three generations to utilize such a methodology I'm sorry just because the Salafasala did not utilize this argument does not make it a non-sound rational argument that can be used for calling people to the existence of Allah the imams of the Ahl al-Bayt have respected the human intellect enough to say that we are the ones who give you the principles and it is upon you to branch out and expand those principles the imams give us the usul it is upon us to branch out those principles that the imams have given us rational principles but with someone like Dr. Yasser Qavi he would rather just stick to well the classical first three generations did not use this argument not going to use this argument but what are the complications of such a statement as I mentioned earlier we quoted my friend Basam Zawadi and their approach when it comes to what we call سفات الخبارية those attributes of described terms describing certain attributes of Allah as a وجل so in the Quran you might find a statement saying that the hand of Allah is above the hands of the believers when they give allegiance when you find such a statement the ultimate ipso facto default position of the salafi movement is to say we do not look at what this word means we accept it without discussing how we affirm the literal meaning so they affirm that Allah has a hand again not taking into account the usage of metaphor let me give a very very quick analogy of how this can sometimes turn slightly foul my brothers and sisters not respecting the intellect one of our scholars ألاوي بن عبد القادر السقاف who of course is Yemeni in origin describes in his book called the attributes of Allah or سفات الله he states in volume 1 page 232 الحرولة الحرولة سفة فعلية خبرية لله عز وجل بالحديث of صحيح that the attribute he states that the attribute of running is one of the attributes of Allah عز وجل and that this attribute is necessarily proven to be an attribute of Allah due to a صحيح حديث and of course that صحيح حديث is found in صحي البخاري it's narrated from Abu Huraira and what they say here is that Allah عز وجل runs but his running is not like the running of human beings سبحان الله there are many such examples of these beliefs these beliefs which really perplex and confuse the human mind about how this is being attributed as being the purest form of توهيد إلهي إليك when we talk to the Christians when those who have a very simple understanding of Christian theology debate for Christians what do they say? when he did things like eat and sleep and drink all human attributes can you imagine that the Christian would turn around and say but you see he ate and sleep and drank in a way which was befitting of his majesty we would not accept this answer from them in the same way my brothers and sisters when it comes to this debate when it comes to looking at a worldview when it comes to looking at our intellects we need to respect our intellect we'll continue this topic in the next few episodes إن شاء الله تعالى thank you once more for joining me dear viewers السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards ripping one box of 2022 Pini absolute football hobby for Alexander C. It's a good luck here Alexander. See what we got in here for you, buddy See if we can get a kaboom out of this Boom gold that'd be so awesome, dude. Hey, we've got Kyron Williams 7 out of 25 for the Rams Nice one there for for you Alexander base. Hey James with a couple more playbooks Looking forward to that James.   I cannot stand Greg Roman.  He just doesn't know what he can do like he doesn't know what to do It's like an act Yeah, but still it's like every it's like, do you know what Gus Edwards and JK Dobbins average yesterday for yards per carry I think Gus Edwards average six and JK Dobbins average nine and then we just started passing the ball the entire time And it's like what's not working clearly But no let's get rid of it and then every time that like our running or our passing games doing really well That's when we start running like half-back draws on third and eight and we start with throwing wide receiver screens on third and eight That lose yard like it's so dumb dude. I can't stand Greg Roman. He's fired Got TJ Hawkinson to 166 out of 100 Got base and base Next up is gonna be Robert Woods Bobby trees 36 out of 99 tools of the trade for the Titans nice one there and how about Iconic Inc. Eli Manning 19 out of 20 There we go congrats on that That is Tom Brady's kryptonite. That's true Ryan. I'm so used to it at this point. Nice one there nice Eli 19 out of 20 Look at the color match there too. I'm so used to it Matt It's just whatever like whatever's working Greg Roman decides to go with the opposite part of the offensive game And then it doesn't work and then it's like wow, it's not working. No kidding. It's not working All right, we've got the kid reporter followed by rookie introductions Kenny Pickett 11 out of 75 There you go Alexander nice one there, buddy. That's a base base and George Pickett's the 275 Nice one there. No, I think I I think Greg Roman needs to be fired. I think it's time I think you should have been fired after last season. I I I firmly believe you should not be there And we've got Eric Azucan ma 44 out of 99 easy E jersey ball and a four color patch Nice one there. I don't think so Matt. I think he was pretty relatively quiet Do it for your break there congrats on that one Alexander we'll get these right out to you buddy. Do appreciate it


Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Jen Blake. The Navy's newest submarine, USS North Dakota, joined the fleet in a commissioning ceremony October 25th at Naval Submarine Base, New London. The North Dakota is the 11th Virginia class submarine and has upgrades designed to lower cost and increase missile firing payload possibilities. They're nuclear powered, limited only by the amount of food that we can put on board them. Power, firepower of torpedoes, missiles, mines, and unmanned underwater vehicles that can deliver in their own right anything from sensors to weapons. And as I said before, they bring us intelligence, they bring us surveillance, and they give us reconnaissance. Hundreds of citizens from the state of North Dakota, including the governor and senators attended the ceremony. For more information about Naval Submarine Base, New London, visit their website.


Adventures by Morse, Carlton E. Morse presents Dead Men Proul featuring Captain Friday. If you like high adventure, come with me. If you like the stealth of intrigue, come with me. If you like blood and thunder, come with me. Probably no village of 30 houses in the world besides Holman on the Marin County coast of California had the morbid luxury of its own morgue, certainly not with a morgue so modernally equipped with slabs and ice niches and refrigeration rooms. You will remember that earlier this afternoon Captain Friday and Dr. Croft were knocked unconscious and locked in a closet in Andrew Walter's home. When they broke out they found that Carmel and Andres Ruiz and Gail and Martin Stanley had disappeared from Captain Friday's cottage. But here is Captain Friday himself. We began the search and finally discovered the four locked in the refrigeration room in the basement of the morgue. We found them all right. We also found something we hadn't bargained for. Standing guard in the anti-room before the door were the bodies of the three prowling dead. Doc Sims, Andrew Walters and Rich Hartley's murdered half-wit boy. While Dr. Croft rushed the half-frozen young people back to the cottage on a morgue hand wagon, I dumped the three corpses into the icy refrigeration room and locked them in. There would be no more prowling dead if I could prevent it. For half the night the doctor and Captain Friday worked over the four young people with stimulants and in the case of Carmel Ruiz with even harsher methods for she of the four was almost past saving. But toward midnight the danger seemed past. Leaving the four in the doctor's care then Captain Friday disappeared for two hours and when he returned he was full of unsuppressable excitement. Doctor! Dr. Croft, where are you? Doctor! Oh, hello. I sound asleep before the fire. What? What is it Captain? Oh, I'm sorry Doctor. I'd known you were asleep. I wouldn't have stormed in like this. Sleep? Oh, I wanted to be sorry. I had no business dosing. I'll see you here Doctor.  A little tired. But I must say you're standing up under the strain as though you hadn't missed an hour's sleep. I'm used to it. I can live on nothing but excitement for a week if necessary. The sleep I had has revived me. Better go on back to sleep. With you bursting with news? Yeah. How'd you know that?  Come out with it. Glitter. Yeah, I got one thing cleared up anyway. You have? Anything of importance? I think so. I know who killed the Halfwit Hartley boy. Really, Captain? Haven't any idea yourself. Oh, I say not. Don't keep me waiting like this. Well, I'll tell you. It was Andres Ruiz. Andres Ruiz. Captain Friday, I think you are my friend. Hey, what did you pop from? I heard you say I do this murder. Andres, I thought you were asleep. No, I'm not asleep. I can see that.  Lie, huh? You catch this great one. Hey, hey, hey, Andres, don't shake your fist like that. Well, then you say it is not true. Come on and sit down. I want to talk to you. No, I will not sit with anybody who will say I am a murderer. Sit down. You say this thing. Sit down.  Doctor, you do not think I have killed anyone. You better sit down and hear what Captain Friday has to say. Well, very well. But I tell you... Now then, Andres, I've been out poking around the beach. I found this not very far from where we first met you and Carmel last night. The cloak. The cloak which the skeleton wear. I thought you'd recognize it. You find this on the beach? And a little further on, I found this. George Captain, you seem to have had a very profitable evening. This is the hat we see him wear. There is no doubt. There's no doubt all right. And did you find the skeleton? Sure. You did? Andres, I found tracks and blood on the sand. Blood, eh? Yeah. And even you, Andres, would hardly expect to get blood out of a skeleton. Now, would you? But no. What is this you are saying? If you shot at a skeleton and... You admit you did shoot at the skeleton, don't you? Yes. If you shot at the skeleton and drew blood, you'd be willing to admit that there was something mighty queer, wouldn't you? Please, senor, what is it you wish to say? We'll get at that in a moment. I followed the footprints for a bit, and then pretty soon the footprints got wobbly, and they stopped all together. After that, there was only a sort of blurred trail. So somebody was dragging himself along in his hands and knees. Plenty of blood, though. Oh, what have I done? Oh, it is not possible... Just a minute, Andres. Where do you think the trail led? To the morgue? Right. To the back entrance. The door was unlocked. There were blood stains on the steps and a smear here and there on the floor. Oh, this is most terrible thing ever happened to me. I even found stains on the edge of the slab where his soaked shirt had rubbed as he pulled himself up under the barma piece. Oh, see here, Captain, that's a bit far-fetched. Supposing Andres here did mistake the Hartley boy for a skeleton and shoot him. You can't expect us to believe that the fellow raced to the morgue and climbed up on the slab to die. Everything indicates that he went there by himself. But if it was the Halfred boy, well, what made him look like skeleton? I found out that, too. That was done with phosphorescent paint. See here, Captain, you're making this village more on a most unusual character. No, Doctor, not when you get to the bottom of the thing. As soon as I got all this material together, I beat it over to his father's house and routed him out. Will he send me to jail? We'll talk about that later, Andres. I told Rich Hartley the whole story and he saw right away what had happened to his son. To amuse the boy last Halloween, he'd given him several rubber masks and a can of phosphorescent paint and showed him how to fix himself up like a skeleton. Oh, and the poor lad was simply carrying his Halloween celebration over several months? Uh-huh. I was just out for a little fun and Andres here, not understanding, took a shot at him. Oh, never as long as I live while I shoot another gun. As for him going to the morgue when he was shot, his father explained that in spite of everything that Doc Sims had ever been able to do, the boy had insisted on making the place his playhouse Joe.  That's right. But still, Captain, that doesn't explain how his bossy came to join in the antics of the prowling dead. No, it takes an awful burden off my mind. Now we can concentrate on Doc Sims and Andrew Waters. There's where the sinister business is concerned. But what is to become of me? Please, Seniors, if I have killed a boy. See here, Andres, which hardly is a decent sort of fellow. Old moss back, but a just man all the same. I'd advise you go over and have a heart-to-heart talk with him tomorrow. Oh, please, Senor, if this will do any good. But still, he'll probably be at the inquest. We'll take you along. I will do anything. I think if we can convince him that the shooting was a mistake, that it was accidental, and that the whole thing is as horrible to you. Yes, yes, see. Oh, I will make him understand. I don't think you'll have any trouble with him, Andres. Oh, never. Never in my life have I killed a man before. No, no, Andres, you mustn't brood like this.  Bed? Oh, no, I will never sleep again.  Oh, please, you will not mind if I go outside.  All right, go along out and get some fresh air then. You think he's recovered enough from the chili gut, doctor? Oh, quite. But, Andres, wrap up a bit. Oh, yes, yes, I will. Oh, never have I known anything like this before. Poor chap. He's utterly distracted. How's this cousin Carmel, doctor? Is she going to be all right? Oh, right as rain. Not only that, Ms. Stanley and her brother will be as fit as ever by morning. Marvelous, the recuperative forces in you. Yeah, that's a load off my mind. Uh, uh, you know what, doctor? What's that? I'm all for taking your catnap. I'm getting fuzzy from lack of sleep. I think that's a good idea, captain. So far as I know, there were never more than two keys to the refrigeration room over at the morgue. And I've got both of them. Only two, mm-hmm. And I don't care how much supernatural power those three dead bodies have. I'll bet they can't break out of that ice room. No, I imagine not. And with them safe on ice, I figure we owe ourselves a couple of hours rest.  I have a notion to toast myself before the fire. The chair's comfortable.  Do you more good to go to bed? I fancy not. I'd rather be fully dressed if anything should come up. Uh-huh. Um, anticipating anything? Nothing especially, except, uh, well, captain, what do you think is the real reason Andres felt the need of cold night air when we only saved him from freezing less than seven hours ago? Oh, well, I see. I think you're flushing out a clue. Well, doctor, maybe, maybe not. Anyway, I think I'll sit here. Okay. Good night. Oh, uh, and doctor, yes, captain. If there's anything unusual, call up. Yes, I will. Captain Friday, what are you two girls doing awake? Say, what are you two girls doing sitting up in bed jabbering like magpies? You're supposed to be asleep. Captain, there's somebody prowling around outside our window. Uh-oh. Are you sure? Yes, there really is, Captain Friday. We were afraid to get up to call anybody. Crawling outside, huh? If nobody could get in, window in here's too small. Besides, it's way up high. I know, but, well, nothing seems to make any difference to these, these dead creatures. You wait here a minute. I'll go take a peek out of the window in my room. Please be careful. I'll be all right. Gail, he's going to do just what you did when, when that awful thing pulled you out of the window. Oh, Captain, please wait. Oh, nothing in sight. Uh-oh. I'll be back in just a minute. I'm going out the window. Gail, you seen something?  Captain Friday can take care of himself. I wouldn't feel so frightened if, if... If what, Carmel? If I could only forget about that awful cold room and the more terrible cold feeling out of me. Well, you mustn't think about it. Just be glad that... Well, Martin, are you awake too? I thought I heard voices. Oh, I'm glad your girls are all right. Well, Martin, what is it? You're as white as a ghost. I was having a horrible nightmare. Finally woke me up. Carmel, are you all right? I think so. Yes, of course. What's the door doing open between your room and Captain Friday's? Well, the Captain just went out the window. Out the window? You mean... Somebody's been prowling outside the window again. Was it another dead body? Did you see who it was? No, we just heard footsteps. There's someone at the Captain's window now. Listen. Come on, Phillip. It's all right. I brought the prowler along with me. For 20 years, not a single death has marred the tranquil life of the little village of Holman. Suddenly, three deaths occurred in one night. Doc Sims died a natural death on the beach. Andrew Waters, the other rich man of Holman, hanged himself in his home. Rich Hartley's half-wit son was accidentally shot through the heart by Andres Ruiz. These three dead men have been prowling the village streets until Captain Friday locked the bodies in Holman's tiny moor. But even with these precautions, a prowler has just been captured outside the Captain's summer cottage. It's okay, folks. I brought the prowler along with me. Brought the prowler? Yeah. Oh, hello there, Stanley. You joined the pajama party too, huh? Well, here's your prowler. Andres... Oh, please, Carmel. Please, everybody. I did not mean to frighten anyone. I could not sleep, and I wished to do something, and so I woke up and down the beach. So I would know everything would be all right with you, Ms. Stanley, and Carmel. Oh, that's it. Well, you did give us an awfully bad half-hour, Andres. Oh, I am too sorry. Mighty decent thought, just the same, Andres. Uh, what do you say, Stanley? You just said I thought it was mighty decent of you, why? Oh, uh, nothing. Nothing. See, here now. Aren't any of you going back to sleep? Well, I'm not the least bit sleepy. Oh, no. I want to stay awake. Well, as long as you're all staying awake, I'm going to round up Dr. Croft, and then I want to get the straight of this morgue business. Oh, you got yourself locked in the refrigeration room with the doctor's medical kit. And that won't take long. And you girls stay in bed and keep warm. You two fellas make yourself comfortable. I'll get Dr. Croft. Martin, are you sure you're all right? You look awfully sick. No, honest, Gail. Don't worry about me. I'm all right. Please. Carmel, please. You will keep warm. I'm all right now, Andres. Really, I am. Oh, and I think how you suffer in that horrible place, I turn to water in my heart. I cannot bear it.  Brother? Brother? You wish me for a brother? Why, Andres, you look so hurt.  Oh, but of course, Carmel, me. It is beautiful compliment you give me. Now, the doctor's falling asleep. All worn out. I'm not going to bother him. We'll get along without him. Of course, the poor man. I'd like to have had him here to see if all you folks are okay. If anybody gets tired, we can stop, eh? Yeah, yeah. Hey, mind if I perch on the foot of your bed, Miss Stanley? Of course not. No, thanks. Okay, now, I want the whole dope. The minute Dr. Croft and I left you four here in the cottage yesterday afternoon, till we pulled you out of the ice room at the morgue. Well, we were staying... No, I don't want to go anywhere. Not all at once. Miss Stanley, suppose you begin. All right. After you left, Carmel and I began getting lunch just as you told us. Everything went all right. That is, we straightened everything out. No, wait a minute. What do you mean, straightened everything out? Why... Please, senor. Stanley and I have quarreled. Quarrel, eh? Yeah, and it was my fault. I'm sorry, Andre. It's really I am. Stanley, a trip to the morgue ice park seems to have done you some good. I don't know. Perhaps. All right, Miss Stanley, what then? Well, we got everything on the stove cooking nicely, when suddenly someone ran up on the porch and pounded on the door and began to yell. It was awful. You'd have thought he was crazy the way he went on. Well, he yelled for us not to stop for anything, that you, Captain, and Dr. Croft had been dreadfully hurt and that we were to get bandages and medicine and rush over to the morgue. He said you were in the basement. Who was this fellow? We don't know. Did you get a look at it? No, he shouted through the door. We were petrified. Well, as soon as I come to my senses, I rush to the door. But he is gone. That's a crazy business. All we could think about was you two being hurt. We forgot all about the lunch we were cooking. Oh, we did not waste one minute. We grabbed everything we could find in the bathroom, bandage, medicine, everything. Well, I happened to think of Dr. Croft's medicine case, so I got that too. It was so foggy outside we lost our way and went past the morgue. We had to come back. Yeah, we were so excited. We didn't know what we were doing. Tell me, was the front door of the morgue open? Yes, and the whole place was lighted too. We never think it might be a trap. Why should we? They said you were badly hurt, and so we went out. So you went down into the basement and then what? Well, we all rushed into a big room. Oh, it was so cold. Was the door open and the light on in the refrigeration room? See, yes. But of course we didn't know it was refrigeration room when we went in. We all dashed in. The doors slammed shut behind us, and there we were. And then the lights went out. All of a sudden, I realized what had happened. Knew you had walked into a trap? Yes. I never had such a feeling in my life. My whole body was filled with such a revulsion. I was so nauseated I couldn't stand. I don't think we'd better go into the rest of it. But, police, and you're? Where were you in the doctor all this time? You say the fellow came to the door about a half hour after we left the cottage? Well, it couldn't have been longer than that. Well, long about that time, maybe a few minutes before, the doctor and I were getting our heads bashed in. You mean you were attacked too? Yeah, over in Andrew Walter's house. Oh, this is too much. Somebody slugged me and then locked us in a closet where we'd put the Hartley Boy's body. But, but didn't you see who it was? Yeah, not a chance. I got us from behind. Well, how'd you get out of the closet? Smashed in the door. Look here, Captain, could the same person have done both jobs? You'd have been busier than a bird dog if you didn't. Yeah, this is gonna take some figuring. Let's see now. None of you went outside the cottage until this voice called to you. I'll say not. We stuck to each other like birds. Please, I know. You were thinking about me. About you? Well, you think that because... Please, most you tell about what I have done. Oh, I got you. You mean our little conversation about the halfway. Oh, please, if it is not necessary. Don't you worry, Andres. That's in the bag for the time being. Oh, for this, I thank you, sir. Captain! Captain Fryne! Listen, that's Dr. Croft. Captain! Quick, something's gone wrong. What's the matter? Well, I was awakened by a woman screaming. I had dropped off to sleep. Woman screaming? Where? I didn't hear anything. I heard it twice. It was an agonized cry, one right on top of the other. Strange. Where did it come from? In the distance. You don't suppose it... It was what? Why, it occurred to me that our dead friends may have escaped from the morgue and are prowling in some of the neighbor's home. Yes, that's a possibility. Come on, Doctor, we'll check on it. Oh, please! Please, you're not going to leave us alone again? See here, Captain, this is pretty serious. These young people shouldn't have been awakened this way after the harrowing experiences they've been through. Well, the Captain didn't awaken us, Doctor. We were awake. I'm perfectly all right. Hmm, no. Carmel isn't.  Oh, really? I am. Please, please don't leave us. Oh, Doctor, don't go away. See here, Doctor. Maybe you'd better stay here. Stanley, will you stay here with Dr. Croft? Well, anything you say, Captain. Come out here a minute first, Stanley. I want to talk to you. Oh, I know. I've been making a horse's neck a month. Now then, Carmel, you lie down. I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want to be left alone. Now then, no one's going to leave you alone. I'm going to stay right here with you and so is Martin Stanley and his sister. Of course, Carmel. We won't leave you. All right, Stanley. Mind what I tell you. Andres, are you ready? You're coming with me. Please, if anything should happen to Carmel... Nothing's going to happen. I'll put on your hat and step on it. Carmel, you will do what the good doctors say. Everything will be all right. Andres, come here. Oh, please. Please, you get well and we will go away. Let her alone, Andres. You're simply upsetting her. I will kiss you on the forehead. See? I am your big brother. I will be back. All right, Andres. Let's get out of here. We've wasted too much time already. Cut across the lawn with the sidewalk. Oh, the doctor was angry because we upset Carmel. I suppose we did go too far. I had to get that information, though. Maybe I should have called him after all. Please, where are we going? I don't know. The doctor said he heard a woman scream. Somebody in the village has been yelling. There'll be a crowd around. Oh, if it was not for this thick fog. Yeah, beastly. Here's the sidewalk. I'll have to patrol up one side of the street and down the other. Nothing will get biased that way. It is good there is only one street. Yeah, the short one at that. You see anything, Andres? That's out of the ordinary. Sing out. Please, if I may ask it, have you no idea who is, uh, cause all this? Idea, huh? I've been collecting a lot of ideas lately, Andres. A lot of them. Well, then, um, then you'll perhaps know who is to this thing, eh? You'd be surprised what I know, Andres. Well, then why you do not arrest somebody, if you know? Listen, fella, all I'm waiting for now is a break. Things are piling up, and when the right time comes, I would see you here, Andres. Keep mum. Oh, with all my heart, I will not say a thing. But please, if I can give any little help, I... What is that? It's the morgue. Come on, it's the morgue. Please, I am losing you in this dark. Come on, come on, Andres. They're blowing up the morgue. Oh, this is awful. Here, here I am, Andres.  How can I watch out when I cannot see one little thing? Yeah, watch yourself. Here, over this way through the light. Imagine that, blowing up the morgue. Maybe these bodies which have given us so much trouble are no more. Blowing up, huh? I hope they are. Oh, it is terrible thought. Uh, yeah, I don't see why. They better run for their money. Only mad men would run around in fog like this. Yeah, gotta take a chance on breaking your neck once in a while in this game. I do not think I wish to be detective. Now, here we are. Look there, doors busted open. Blast. Wonder if the lights will turn on. Are you, are you not afraid of what you will find? Won't be anybody inside. If there is, he got blown up plenty with that blast. Well, where is the lights? Here along the wall somewhere. Yeah, here they are. Yeah, that's a break. Wonder if it didn't tear out the wiring. But they do not see any explosion. I have an idea where to look. Come on down into the basement. You, do you mean this refrigeration room? Yeah, come on. Here. The way that I find the stair lights. Yeah, there she is. Look, look there are the stairs. I'm a son of a gun if it isn't our old friend the Hartley boy. Oh, he must come upstairs and he could not go any further. Look how he is fall on his face. Yeah, looks like a jailbreak, all right.  Oh, if I never see this place again, I will be just as happy. Careful, you don't step on him. Oh, I would never do that. Frozen stiff. Yep, here's Doc Sins. Is, is he freeze too?  Old water corpse Sins. Oh, it is no job for me, I can tell you. Hey, look. Look there at the door of the refrigeration room. Why, it is blow clear across the room. Yeah, that's peculiar. That door was blown open from the inside. But how is it possible? Three dead men frozen in ice room and they did not have any powder. Yeah, remember Doc Sins busted out of his ropes and bashed down the door of his study even after I tied him down? You, you think they have some ghostly power? Hey look, there's Andrew Waters. He didn't get very far. Uh oh, here's something. Huh? What is it? I do not see anything. Never mind, it doesn't amount to much. Look, look Captain, I have not noticed this before. This string under Doc Sins' hand. A string, huh? What does it lead to? Well, I do not know. I will find out. For I see there's nothing. Look out, Andres. You've set off a bomb. Look out. The walls are falling in. And you're... Captain Friday and Andres Ruiz trapped in the ruins of Doc Sins Morgue. Have these two walked into a trap set by the three prowling dead? A string in the hands of a dead man caused the explosion. Again evidence that the dead may rise and go about them more but duties. Listen next week to the ninth episode of Dead Men Proul entitled The Prowler Dead Walk Again. Next week at this same hour, you are listening to Adventures by Morgue.


I want to ask Ms. Rose, the copyright office report did not distinguish between traditional creators such as recording artists and purely online creators such as those who produce content for YouTube or Facebook, such as Mr. Biato. What makes the interest of such online creators different from traditional creators with respect to Section 512? Thank you. I actually also am a fan of Mr. Biato, so I will commiserate there with the occasional disappearance of his videos. It's certainly, there are a number of points of difference between what we consider sort of the more traditional trajectories and traditional artists, in scare quotes, and those sort of new creators that we see emerging largely through online platforms. One is obviously the method of getting your content out to the public. Those are going to be governed by different systems. When you are a traditional recording artist, you go through a record label, the publishers. Mr. Biato completely makes the content releases through YouTube and thus is entirely subject to the way in which YouTube has structured its particular implementation of things like monetization, demonetization, and notice and takedown. At the end of the day, a lot of these new creators, Mr. Biato in particular, are really reliant on some of the provisions of fair use, which is a built-in sort of safety valve to a First Amendment concerns to alleviate some of the problems that would arise from sort of total copyright control. In his case, it's education, criticism, and commentary. Is the bread and butter of what he does? What he's been facing is a good illustration of the fact that these systems, especially algorithmic ones designed in-house for specific companies to address their business needs, cannot care for those things. They fundamentally can't. They are binary systems in a lot of ways, and copyright is not a binary system. So it's a poor match to say that really what we need to do is just sort of nerd harder and develop better algorithms, and that will somehow take care of these things, because at the end of the day, they're just not capable of doing that. So when we look at Section 512f, and you've been critical of victims of abusive takedown notices that the provision of 512f are too weak, what would you say is a better way to beef up that for frivolous notices, while not going so far as to penalize copyright holders to issue notices in good faith, but just turn out to be wrong? So I think the easy, or the lowest-hanging fruit on this is to, Lensburg's Universal decided that there was a subjective knowledge standard for what constitutes good faith notice. Changing that to an objective standard would be far more enforceable at a minimum. Okay, thank you.


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Hi everyone. Hope you're well and thank you for joining me to talk a bit about feature strategy. Today, I'd like to share some thoughts around how to prioritize features in products, how to launch them, and evaluate the impact to be able to enhance the product over the long term. But before we start, I'd like to share a little bit about myself. I'm Dan. I'm a product manager for more than 12 years now. I came from business where I was keen to improve processes and make our teams work more efficient. Due to my curiosity, I slowly transitioned to product management, which back then was writing huge specifications and praying for six months that the feature will be delivered as expected. But what shall I say? They never did. We quickly realized that we need to change our approach and apply agile principles to deliver incremental value quickly and get insights about most pressing problem spaces. I then joined SoundCloud, where we built insights and analytics platform from scratch with the mission to empower emerging artists through actionable recommendation to understand, build, and connect with their audience and grow their careers. In addition, we launched fan powered royalties, also known as the user centric model, a new way for artists to earn money from streaming services. I recently joined Spotify to help achieving the mission to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million of creative artists the opportunity to live of their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. But enough about me. Let's jump into the topic. The feature strategy is one pillar of the wider product strategy work. The feature strategy focuses on improving our ability to create and capture value. The growth strategy on the other hand largely focuses on maximizing products existing value proposition. Effective growth strategies connect acquisition, retention, and monetization. It's important to move away from the funnel thinking towards growth loops where we have an input and action and an output which will feed the next loop and so on. The product market expansion strategy tries to add value in two ways. One is to adapt products to new complementary markets. The other on adding new complementary products with the goal to overcome saturations like market saturations, market capture reaches the natural ceiling or product saturations where the product becomes fully optimized for its use case. The last product strategy pillar is scaling where you invest in supporting processes, infrastructure, and strategies which support the three previous mentioned strategy layers. Key pillars here are tech scaling, platformization, technical depth management, monetization of UX, process scaling, process improvement evaluations, value stream mapping, and user scaling. Value added use cases, underserved user segments, or identifying bad behavior. So with our feature strategy work our goal is to improve the ability to create and capture value. Features can create value in three ways through acquiring new users, retaining assisting ones, and monetizing. It's crucial to evaluate and enhance existing features as this will inform your future build strategy and help you develop new features and continue the loop of evaluating new feature performances post launch with the goal to achieve feature product fit. There are strategic insights you need to consider like what is our company vision, what are our group or team objectives, and how will this feature help achieving them. Then we have user insights. These are our qualitative insights together from interviews, user research, or surveys to fully understand the problems our users have. In addition we have data insights, and here we track the actual consumption or behavior to understand patterns, identify, and validate hypothesis we have. Qualitative evaluations are very important as they help you with questions like how many users is this feature or product designed for, how does the feature add value to the users, and how does the feature add value to our business. It's also crucial to think about user problem severity. If the user has low disruptions usually they found easy workarounds. With moderate disruptions these workarounds become more complex and painful. High disruptions on the other hand prevent the user's experience in the value proposition, which is very critical. Another aspect is identifying user categories. Who are my core users, those for whom the feature is designed for? Who are my adjacent users who are getting some value from the feature but they haven't been considered why designing it? And non-adjacent users. These aren't getting any value from the feature or product. Based on all previous mentioned areas you're able to create this qualitative feature map. This map has three pillars. The first is the target population in which you describe the target group. The segment your features is designed for and the target size. The estimated percentage of users or segment represents. The second pillar is the user value. Here you describe the user problem. The feature or product tries to solve the problem frequency. So how often the user is experiencing it and the problem severity. How painful is it for our users? The last pillar is the business value. What impact will this feature bring and how strategically important is it? A great mythology that you can use to help you be better prepared for the upcoming release is the pre-mortem. It helps you think about what could happen, good or bad, so that you can plan before it starts. Some questions you can ask are how does the feature add value to a product? What target segment are the primary set of users? How much confidence do you have in the success of the feature? How will we launch this feature? What metrics will indicate the success? What outcomes are possible for the feature performance? What would each outcome teach us about the performance? And what would the next step be after each of those outcomes? These are only, of course, recommendations and you should identify outcomes and metrics tied to your company and product. This framework is great as you're able to validate and compare your assumptions with the actual results post implementation and it will also help you strengthen your product sense. And before you roll up your sleeves, you should make sure to pressure test your insights. Did you use the right data? Have you avoided biases? Make sure the right feature has been prioritized and sense check the launch plan in order to minimize the costs and maximize the value. Now we should be well prepared to release our features but how shall we do it? Which model is appropriate? We have the experimental release which focuses on running experiments to validate key assumptions we have for our feature in order to learn and shape it over the time. Then we have the minimum viable feature release, a fully functioning version of the feature but with a minimum functionality as our goal is to validate the core value proposition. And lastly the face release which delivers a more robust version of the feature but broken down into faces in order to continuously release a value when ready. These methods don't compete with each other it's actually the opposite. A feature needs to run through each of those release methods based on the ambiguity spectrum. If you have high ambiguity and not enough insights from our already mentioned sources like strategic user or data insights then the experimental release is your choice as you need to figure out what the right feature product is to solve the biggest problem for our users. If you have high confidence and you validated your hypotheses through the other releases then the face release is your choice as this focus more on building the feature or product right in order to deliver incremental value. Let me dig deeper into each of those methods. With the experimental release our goal is to learn and shape the feature continuously with user behavior. We're able to do it when we list all assumptions we believe in the success of the feature. Turn these into experiments that can be validated with users and refine our features with every experimental outcome. Hypothesis driven validations are key to success as clearly defined incremental experimentations lead to faster learnings and deeper insights. They're much more valuable than writing detailed specifications as I have done previously. Here you can see a step-to-step guide. First you identify your assumptions then you reframe your assumptions and hypotheses rank them in order of importance design appropriate experiments conduct these synthesize your learnings and act. The validated learning loop is really powerful you start to build your minimum viable product experiment based on your hypotheses you have then you measure the qualitative and quantitative user data learn from the results and create newly improved hypotheses and start the process again until you gain enough evidence and confidence in your solution. I receive a lot of questions around what I consider to be an experiment and the answer is whatever helps you validate your assumptions as fast as possible it could be a spreadsheet with which you validate the business logic UI sketch on paper a user flow a low no-code prototype so basically anything that makes you learn so once we have enough confidence that we have identified the right feature we can move to the minimum viable feature release method since here our goal is to validate the core user value proposition by using minimal design and functionality we can achieve that by minimizing the number of platforms the feature is built for so for example only releasing it on iOS and build desktop or Android versions later or by minimizing the number of integrations the feature needs or minimizing design and engineering resources needed now that we have validated the core user value proposition we are very confident that this is the right thing to build we can use the face release method now for smaller features this means that we can fully build the entire feature and release it for more complex features we will be breaking down the feature into faces which can be released independently by continuously delivering value we did it we have successfully released our feature but here our job doesn't end we need to evaluate the performance of the feature post launch a great tool that is doing that is the so-called retention score based on our pre-work creating the quality feature map we know what our target users are then we check how many of those users have tried the product once so adopted and how many use the feature regularly now so are retained we then need to divide the retained users with our target audience and have the retention score this exercise helps us evaluate our features as calculating the retention score is the first step which is followed by plotting the score against the strategic importance with this approach we are able to evaluate our features and the great tool for that is the so-called feature matches on the y-axis you have the retention score and on the x-axis the strategic importance we're able to categorize our features in four areas the core overperforming project and liability features we as product folks we need to have a special eye on the liability features as they have a very high strategic importance but are not satisfying our users yet for core and overperforming features it's important to maximize the value capture and try to expand the target audience for our project features you should ask yourself if it's worth investing or if we should sunset them as it's important to the overall health and success of our product if you let too many features creep into your product the core value proposition and vision can easily get diluted i hope you enjoyed and found this webinar useful please start experimenting with some of the frameworks and ideas i mentioned i look forward to hearing your feedback thank you and all the best


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Hey, don't judge me But can we just go out like right there and be safe? Okay, let's just lie down. Okay, I know it's kind of weird, bro Oh Wait, are you close it? Oh, no, we're dead, bro.   Did you open the door enough? Oh, we'll be back on this Friday with some more scary tiktok part 28. All right, so you ready, bro Are you guys ready? Make sure to grab snacks kick back relax and let's enjoy the show Let's get it. Oh All the back room back room. She just did that video too. Yeah, go check it out by the way Oh Wait, wait, there was something there, right? Oh, no, it kind of look like the Vegas hotels. That's how they look sometimes Like he was right there Do we kind of look like Manny the mannequin? All right, my soul left my body for a second. Say man Oh, we've seen this one, right? Yeah, we should all right moving on to shortest blockbuster. So I've only had one. Yeah Oh shortest bloodbusters 22 nymars have begun It's an entire army I just started kicking them All right, and start this blockbuster only has one. Yeah, we've seen this one already. All right moving on to Ziko It's been a while since we've seen him. Oh, dude, he's Mikey. I'm Mr. Wiener and I have a blockbuster Oh Pretty creepy for an after music video. It's pretty lit. Yeah, this is pretty fire. I mean Bonnie I mean it is Chica. What am I saying? I'm gonna give birth. Oh, here it comes.  I miss you All right now we're on YouTube Horus page Oh This is our fun after like in their nightmare The horrors of Five nights at Just taste There's the bull And we just got jump-scared Yeah Oh, I think I remember seeing this and I was a kid.  It looks weird Oh, wait, I think it's this one or maybe they had more than one maybe they used to be creepy videos, dude Don't hug me. I'm scared. That's not familiar. Oh Okay, yeah, it gets like really dark That's Oscar the Crouch Of course, that's to be sure. Hopefully all this music is using is not copyright music. Yeah, all right. We got broken finger paradise Oh Was the peanut SCP. Oh, he's like mutated SCP 173. Yeah, the peanut SCP. What does SCP stand for the cure contain protect? It's like a devil go again now. What? Yeah for a stranger thing hyperventilating Always turn into stone and then into sand turn to ashes ashes He's 173 they just fed him on live TV Donkey Kong and toad 64 link I think that's what's also looks like a hobbit But you're a mask. Oh, they're moon always use the creepy That's a creepy face. You've met a terrible face, haven't you? Oh Mangas we haven't seen one of these in a while Kind of creatures are these bro like mythical ancient creatures. Oh, we're not gonna Put them in a coffin. She just came out of his body. What the heck?  Sorry's a red one, bro Can't trust that guy. There's another channel right here. It's called. I want to go for a ride Chuddley, I'm not really sure. I'm nice and warm on the inside Come and find out for yourselves What's in it for us?  What a privilege.  You kids want to sit on my lap free turnips for anyone who does Thank you He wants to go sit at his lap Let's kick it. All aboard Heck no, man.  I played on the channel like I'm not even lying. Oh I've done her it's actually pretty funny and scary so go check it out, please Here we go lights are off. Yeah, yeah, lights are off. Oh Damn, but it's a bigger. There's always a bigger fish Lights are off again. Oh What's the name? The new ones Yeah, broken finger paradise, I love it's fun problems. They're always scared Oh Dandy got clapped she's got clapped and now she's a zombie Patrick stand the water is breaking in Then he's just dehydrated bro, or little. Yeah poor Patrick Patrick get out of there. Bro. He's getting to oh Where you active Krabby Patties, huh? Yeah, that's dude. That was terrifying with the heck man. It's contaminated Oh broken finger paradise Peanut SCP Yes It just ate a soul. Oh man. All right peace to the Prisoner. Oh my Oh into dust he's dead then bro. Oh, that's the other Oh, they were feeding him. Yeah feeding time, bro. Hey monsters gotta eat Gore-Fielder way comment animation But yours are bleeding thanks a lot comment animation Oh, we got laser beam Martin yeah, okay, it's a random All right gobbling animation I see gobbling with that BS Yes, the boyfriend. Hey boyfriend. How you doing boyfriend? Oh, we got a little beat.  That's does and it's like the actual game separate Why would just turn at us, bro?  Yeah It's like squid game minions minions. Yeah, they're all over the place Violet It looked like a robot character This shoot up because he lost his mask. Yeah, huh? Oh, yeah, I think if they reveal their identity Disgusting why would you do so? What is kind of cute bro? Yeah, he's likeable. He's likeable person Loki I tried eyeballs before yeah from the fish.  It's nasty for me. It's not bad It's like It doesn't really taste like anything to be honest. Yeah.  I didn't the relief after that. Oh must feel like you're not happy.  How did you wow that was cool It's from this page called trippy all right, and they're trippy now. Look at how I like the spider I think they have a king fry ball. Oh look it's a high Oh Sausage neck That's a new girl Oh Kind of magic what you can do with that thing Did you got a little mustache? All the q-tip. Oh, that's how I'd be feeling very sensational. Yep. Yep. She weak she can die.  Oh?  Oh, he's a security at us at a cemetery making sure there's nobody in here anybody in here Hello There was a voice right? Yeah, but listen you gotta get out of here. You're gonna have to come talk to me. Okay, that's the part where you run I can't see you. You're correct. So you need to come out. Okay? You guys hear this house is that like I don't know where this kid is Where are you? Now that could probably be fake you know it's probably like someone on the other side It's like echoing. I don't know black widow captured rattlesnake and it's a bad. Yeah, oh Bro, that's spider bites Miles Morales I'm gonna totally run out that room. Oh, I think this This channel's ego film.  We're back with scary tiktok's part 30. We know this is part 31 Last time was part 30 It's part 31. We found some new tiktoks pretty exciting They have some fire content for us and for you guys of course more importantly, so let's go ahead and begin. You ready? Oh, is it lights are off by the way, okay lights are off and pretty cool. The gold man. Yes, it's character right there I love the gold man. I do want to pin him.  Who did our grasshopper? What's wrong with the baby? What's in your throat, bro?  Oh Be a next stop wait what Snap another train. How is there a train inside of a train? He made me jump twice already, bro. Oh Marguerite Think I think those guys pretty good with the jump scares to see. Yes. Oh Man I'm actually like a couple now terrified today. Yeah Yeah, because my senses are are on right now I actually like those type of it like like when they put like stuff swimming in the air. That's pretty crazy, bro Yeah, it's a different time. Have you ever heard of people that think that that there's like stuff like that in the universe? Just like big huge animals like they don't want to be lying. I'll be scary if there is Okay, we're another one of the channels Bully something. Oh, yeah, boy boy boy. Oh King of the skeletons That's the king of the skeletons in Minecraft if you get scared you have to share. Oh, this is ghost. What is it ghost?  There's another one of the newer ones We found don't think you're safe out there, bro. Come back. You're gonna float away. They need abduction Oh, yeah, yeah, it's an abduction one. They're like the galaxy you have beautiful eyes alien And they are beautiful.  I don't know this.   Oh, that's okay. Okay He's gone Ain't no way boy No, he's looking out there. All right, go start real. Let's see come on. Oh more more more Is this a twice Because the first one's like a compilation and then I forgot I don't like to say maybe one more all right times, bro I mean he like he has a lot of beautiful eyes. I wouldn't say it again does that man That's like like the star or whatever that is They find that funny World vision is another new channel we found on tic-tac. Oh, we thought I yeah Oh snap, okay Why you looking at it? Oh This jumpscares gonna get me a feeling like carnage and venom. Oh, there's always a bigger fish Another pop I guess New different angle.  Yeah, wait, it's great. No, bro He's doing double signs. It's on it. Oh, it's no man, bro Nah, just punch them Because I'm fired requests Something like this Right look creepy pot size isn't it? Yeah, I Guess this is like his character Destroyed it though Guys while that was getting a scary tic-tac spark 30 or 31 What are those? Today we're being guys some more scary tic-tac, you know, we love these and you love these we all love them Everybody loves a man. So you ready to get in this? Let's just get to it. Let's go Let's get it. Oh wait brah now we can get it It lights are off this is it coming. Oh He has a game coming out y'all Lights are off has a game coming out. We gotta play it. What's the baby doing? That's kind of good Mark Castro films Mark and natural films.  No, I haven't Oh, baby, that doesn't happen in Boba fit We're vibing World Visions. Oh That was fast. Yeah, that's pretty fast. Oh He go oh now we're dead. Oh The battle of the century I I think I know who wins this one Yeah, that dude was just chilling He's just watching TV man. He's trying to say hi. Oh Jack Skellington. That is pretty dope.  Oh Oh, I'll throw visions the pumpkin going off right now. Yeah, he is Be careful with the copyright on this one Was that I wonder where the kind of creatures are in space. Oh Ben that looks pretty crazy Initial fell off I think he made this one last year That's a pretty guy. I feel like it's going by fast like a lot of stuff is happening Where's the back room? Oh what the heck? Like a slug Jump jump bro. I mean you have no option. It was gonna happen here something out to come. Oh That's a big eel bro. That is one giant. There has to be big animals like that in the ocean Oh, yeah, and it's definitely as creepy as these videos yo turn the lights up.  This one is um, I think this might be the body south. Okay, please. I'll blow ease.   Oh more back rooms the river Broke the chair Just broke the chair, bro. Oh Hunter You got hunter in the back room Oh That's very scary though. Yeah I feel like I'm sure it looks a little bit happier. Oh I got the big old scary grin. Yeah, no, that was dope more Pokemon is ghastly This tongue. Yes. Yes. Don't go away, bro. Shiver me timbers What was that it's out the point by I don't know Be careful with copyright The copyright is the scariest. Oh, what Pokemon is that? Oh, that's the Regirock Regirock they just haven't right now in Pokemon go like in the 5-2 race. I think this works it out for Regis deal. Nice Nice. Oh, he's like the Pokemon. They're pretty cool They make them a little iffy. There's another one Reggie ice Pretty dope. Yeah, it's cool, too. Hey, those are nice graphics. Yeah, you should make like a little Pokemon movie Zickel What's the name of this one?   Oh, I think I made that up right now Imagine how many children have died to that slide little kidders playground Hey, that's in like a fun playground. I don't know man Okay backyard security cam Well the backyard against Out of another names. I never watched this. I'm gonna say a little penguin. Oh The moosin Yeah, the broken job when the go right there. Oh, that's Bonnie from FNAF. Yeah, that's a deadly squad Yeah, I don't think I've ever watched that cartoon, bro Oh, I added this guy because he's dope dude. Look at her. He does like like anime stuff Okay, Louis from a hunter hunter Pretty cool effect, bro. It looks legit, bro.  That looks like a nightmare.  It's a ghost a south walking ladder Yo, that's kind of scary though. Like if you just see that just like, you know, you're hanging out Starts moving. Yeah, you need some help, sir Maybe he's tired of just being standing around.  It does That's literally creepy pasta before Wow, that was a one creepy pasta right there Is there have ever experienced the most terrifying cinema experience? What? The midgets? Remember that creepy CXE? Hey, did you ever play that when you were younger? They got me good Did you won? You have to do the next one. Right, come on. Do the next one. But there's just a video. They're not even playing. But there was a game too, right? It's a classic game guys. We're all started We jump scares on the internet started at its prime That's why now I'm here watching scary videos They're lucky they didn't like punch the TV or like drop it I know the TV falls on them They die they get crushed Yeah, it's super long art. It's probably KD, bro. It's giving their end They drags are so slow This is one of the most scariest things I've seen Undertaker music Yo, what? At that point, you don't return to that store.  He's gone Oh, man. Oh, man. I don't know about that one, bro The scariest Santa's in history You got a creeper look All right, that one looks like a demon. He's on a donkey. That's a mask.   I don't know. I don't know, bro. You know what? We're skipping Christmas this year Who just did we saw this? Dude, that's a witch, bro. No, bro. That's a witch. That thing was definitely possessed. Oh, that was it All right. Well, that is the end the scary tiktoks Um, I don't even know what part this is 31 or 30. I think Bro, I legit don't know this count. We're bad.  All right, you guys ready? Of course. All right, let's begin. Does that lights are off? Yeah, yeah, it lights are off. It's like a teletubby You need some corn? What the heck? I don't run Bro, that looks creepy, bro Leave now behind you. Is that the slide monster? I want to touch it. It's like the Spongebob hooks. Yeah, bro. That's pretty that's pretty crazy That's a ghost pirate ship up there. That's a crazy concept. Oh, the lights are off museum. Yeah There's some heat. What are you pointing at? Oh, oh, give me the chills, bro. Music the shadow man Oh, hey, not. Oh, dude. The shadow man is everywhere and he likes to point at things It's like he summons it or like he's letting us know. I don't know man.  I'm kind of strophic, man. Oh, that's an anxiety attack that is so bigfoot Oh, it's a big belly, man Oh, that's how I'd be feeling after I eat some pizza Does that's where I hit the buffet, man? I'm standing here. I get that big belly, you know Oh, I should stomp this out. Oh That's the same name with it. It is I like the hand monster so weird like top to the hand man. Oh, I see you Oh, not the eyeballs. They're just watching heart and give them pink eye Just throw some dirt on it Exactly You love god Oh, this is wreck room. Do you love god? Oh that bend we should check out that game wreck room. Yeah, I want to check it out. I'm down Oh, Ben It is Ben That's supposed to be speed Is that? Ben and speed who knew that would be one of the wow But I guess since you didn't like make all those videos No, that's not saying it's like the greatest match ups New page active.  Wow. That was pretty bad. He knows who what he is Who'd you walk into that door? Maybe I wouldn't have seen too many movies But you know just to be curious what an alternate reality would be like That was your walk in the door closes behind you then there's no door anymore.  See I put some furniture in there Oh Tom Colvin. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He has some new stuff So trippy stuff What you want my bro Make some Thomas bags and Thomas curse Thomas back bro. We miss it.  They're all Thomas. I think even on his youtube.   Yeah, is there anyone sitting in the bottom of their boat? hard They thought they were wrong. I've got good TV You Silly yeah, it looks like Lomo.  What the heck? So the real mermaid monster real mermaid or it could be a real mermaid. Oh, is that a chicken? They're looking like they're holding a chicken or something.   What's the name Jacob? Take up God take up glass though. I can't read that Oh the heavens Sun and the moon What universe is this? She's the chosen one Said I got this I have no idea But she's summon something Bro, she's possessed now So mutant Oh, well damn What happened there? She was friendly then she was evil Support Jacob uncle from me Oh, wow What you doing?  So hot coffee in his face. That's my stuff. What? Freddy? Freddy fazbear. Oh, yo He changed after the money.  It was that right there. It is that I beat this day to dance. They were about to kill the guy. That looked like a cool monster Yeah, I did it. Um, oh that guy makes music. Oh offworld visions The freaking floating piranha monster Oh students This head was like deforming stare at it. Oh, it's from attack on titan, bro The rumba blossom titan Why you got a small head? Is this a pokemon redger rock headers? No lighthouse headers something like that Oh, real life witch. It's harry potter It is harry potter, right? Yeah, it's like a monster. That was a cool take All right, uh, we do have one my broken finger paradise And the last clip is by broken finger paradise shout out to him It's a family guy one Is that you peter? Oh man, she's ugly as always I feel like chris probably did that to himself probably Oh, peter. Oh, he grew a big kind of has the same beard as me. You're matching. Okay. Oh, we're so with his hand Oh, louis. It's just like do we crawl down or something? Oh He walked into a stew Into a hot boiling stew and he came out. Yes. Wow. That was something That was probably the most terrifying family guy I've ever seen Man, all right. Oh, wow that is the end. Oh, by the way, this was a part like what what was it like part 30 something 32 It's even like part 33. I don't even know man, but that is the end of scary tiktoks Um, I kind of missed it honestly, but good to have it back We're back with it and hopefully we'll bring you guys another episode in the next week as usual We're trying to keep it on friday. I feel like friday's. Yeah, I think friday's is a good tiktok friday Yeah, friday sounds good for scary tiktoks. All right, you guys well, thank you all for watching Thank you all for the amazing support as always. We truly appreciate it I hope you all enjoy your friday nights and words for these people go like subscribe share every do that That or that's what we keep doing is