All right Welcome back to day two of Admitive Code. Here's my Twitter Here's the code and Look today. We have the keycap So you can see how I type Also my ladder keyboard, so I'm hoping that Because you can see it a typing noise won't be too bad.  All right, let's get started with day two of Admitive Code Code.com Haven't looked at it yet, so Oh, you can't hear me. I spent so long tuning it. Okay Yeah, it should be better Let me see Okay, now I should be better, right? Yeah, okay All right, so always some audio issues. I added some compression today and So I should sound even better than yesterday, but you know it It's always hard because like, you know, I thought I had it fixed and then I got up the volume for the intro and then I That was too much apparently. Anyway Let's get started. So we're going to day two. I haven't looked at this yet so But last time we fixed Santa's finances and just great and now we have to Get there from the coastal airport right on to bargain. Okay. So the shop. Oh No, there's something wrong with the computers at the toboggan rental shop Some of the wood okay, right? Okay They created a list Passwords and the corporate password policy when this password set Okay Each line gives the password policy and then the password The password policy indicates the lowest and highest number of times a given letter must appear For the password to be valid, for example, one to three times a means that password must contain a At least one time and at most three times and the example about two passwords for valid The middle password CDFG is not It contains no instances of B but it needs at least one okay the first and Third passwords are valid. All right. So how many passwords are valid according to their policies? Okay, so I guess Let's get started Copy this. We are going to open day two New file Paste the input Save it We're gonna do a little trick called copy paste I've been doing Computer science since Damn since 2012 that's eight years And I tell you it's all about the copy paste So we're gonna take from file Which is our it just reads and then So a new file Okay module main Face it. We don't need it. It was just a read file From file. Okay. So now we're gonna read the file of inputs And then read them so the format is I think it's you know, it's Number dash number Space letter colon space Okay, so how do we do this I think it's easier to split it at first At the yeah, let's just read them read them and we first Read file Okay Okay Pipe that into let's make it. I don't know but it's always good to just Use what you have Let me see We're gonna do JT Day two. I just oh day two And then you're going to run day two We're not using cabal or anything yet because We don't need it Okay, now we need another function. I think it's called span import data.list Yeah, so it just takes in a billion and then Gives you the things that come before that and the things that come after that so So, okay, now we're gonna it's gonna, you know F string to We're just gonna do unit here string to list the strings Okay, F equals yeah, let's split it just split it into a pair first This is so here we're gonna have the yes Where x on y Equals span and then I think import data dot char I think they have a fun where they just call this char Which a let's just do Equals like this span equals S This will actually just return us one thing Let's just see what happens here if I If I do this first See what happens if I run this All right, it splits. I think we need to do I think it splits on the first one that matches. Yeah, see and Then it keeps the rest We're just gonna be bold. We're just gonna assume that it's here So we're gonna just and also we're just yeah, so we're just gonna assume it's there and Then we know that after it is a space. So we're just gonna match on the space as well Yeah, okay, and then we will return X comma Y. All right, great So now we have the password Next up is the policy so Don't need to split up the X and What is it complaining about here? This is gonna be So let's do first words on words or wait, can I just do on words? Love them initially. Let me see. What is what is so on words of this should be It should be you know this thing and then the space and then the letter and then Letter and the colon and then right Probably simplest, right? Yeah, this is easier, right? So now you just get it as a list Column at the end. So here's the This will be See and then the colon and then the empty list And then the pass equals words s Now the policy we want to split into X comma Y so mean and equals so we Span it equals All okay, so I knew we're gonna just return it Let's say we return In comma in so you got a balance return the jar in the string. It's just gonna be Read Here we're gonna have See and now we need the Type applications because we won't do that in thing We don't need it as I keep doing this I keep like thinking I need type applications Cuz I always just want to make it explicit what I'm actually doing But we have the end here so we can just Figure it out right away Right, let's see But this is not doing so All right, wait. No. Oh shit Split on the dash like this Yeah, that was not minus three. That was bad Okay, and now we have to actually solve the same That is another challenge So, okay, so I think the trick Here is that we only have the one character and we can actually break Early Right, so, you know, we actually don't really have to loop over it once And not even the entire thing so we just We just go over it until we Okay, so Yeah, we go over it until we Make sure that it has You know, we only need to look at the characters until we have seen the maximum And if we've seen the maximum We need to see if there's one more. Okay, so Let's do that So so so here we go cross So check It takes the bounds and it will take a Current number of repetitions and the string so far check And what does it return? It returns Check Okay, actually Yeah, me If it's empty Then we just return So if we if we're at the end, there's no more text to say we just check that a Ma less than or equal to so far And so far less than equal to max so that's if we're at the end Check me comma ma So far Case Access, okay, so All right, we need the character also the char here, okay, so Okay, so here we check if X equals equals char Then we check so okay if If so far is less than So we haven't seen too many then we continue Check shorter So if so far, we're gonna just say here So if if so far is less than ma This then we continue check PC so far plus one Incremented and check the rest if it is the case that X equals equals C So if this is the case and It's so it's not less than it must be more than we just you're in false So we don't actually need this check Here Okay, we just need to check it's less if we've seen so if we're at the end We need to check if we've seen enough of them But while we're at it We need to check if we see too many Other one and then here's the otherwise Check PC Check PC PC so far so let's say String takes the string check pass Now we're gonna do some crazy hacking Let me see check pass Equals, okay, so we're gonna we're gonna S So so my I want to I want to kind of Uncurry the whole thing is that even possible or like curried like music GCI He curry He on curry. Yeah, so I think let me see here. What is the type of curry? Uncurry, okay So I think we should swap these two just to be able to do this one simple trick I can only do switch these two So type uncurry check uncurry uncurry check. All right, you see this it takes in the Yeah, this is what we want. So let's wrap this once more. So then we can see that day two T Uncurry dot so this oh no this applied to So if we Flip this and we apply it to zero. Let's see. So check pass is equal to Flip curry dollar uncurry check zero Crazy, right? So true false true Little password is not Fault to false true. How many passwords are valid? We can just count, right? Okay. Let's just So what's the type of sum? Let's just map it So we have the check passes and then we do some after we've Booleans to integers.  Let's just say Okay Okay, we run it we get to copy this this is a test input, right? Okay, we copied the test input to test input so we can still run that So, you know, I said this would be functional It's actually, you know, this is just a very tight loop this check here It's just a recursive call Calling itself Until it reaches a Boolean. So it's just it's just gonna be a tight loop And that's as functional as anything. You know, I don't have to generate a list and sum over a list or whatever. It's okay Okay Get the input. You're ready 600. Too good to be true, right? Okay, that was right. Very precise number, but okay We did part one We got three stars already Let's see how part two is Part two is usually like either it's easier because you kind of You wrote the code so that, you know, the additional work is just very trivial or You literally have to rewrite the entire thing Because it has some weird stuff that you just didn't think about so let's see here. Yeah like this Okay, okay, so we validated them, but they weren't correct Each policy actually describes two positions In the password where one wins the first character or two wins the second character and so on Be careful to a bargain corporate policy of no concept of index zero Exactly one of these positions must contain the given letter other What? Okay, so exactly one so we just look up both and Okay, okay Check pass to this is a string. So here We say check pass to Where we just apply our function to kind of parse it into the problem.  Okay, this is they say it's not not index zero Okay, so we just save P1 minus one if this is C on that here we want to want to do like a Nor but I don't think we have that basic operation Do we though? One of them we want an X or right? How does exclusive or work again? X or X or a false false Okay, I think a X or a false false equals This is exclusive work So we just say here This is equal to C X or so what does it say for our testing foot? This is still check fast one check pass to negative index They should be P2 minus one two for the five So Does the one match? Yeah, there's always supposed to be one valid one And that's the first one. Let's just Let's just make sure that we're actually Yeah, so it's the first one and it says that the 245 pass rates valid for the second one All right, we done did it again. So now we have four gold stars and Yeah Didn't take long this time What 35 minutes even quicker than The first one. I think I talked more in the first one, but it was also like It was a harder problem In some sense and I think this is pretty fast. I mean, we're not even We're not even doing anything. I mean the only only thing that we're doing is I mean the only kind of optimization we did was This year that we bail out early 21 oh shit, it's like yeah, sometimes 10 sometimes I think it's mostly just like file IO bound. Anyway, 10 milliseconds to 21. Well, he's having a sense It's not a lot All right, I think yeah status No, no, we don't want Okay, we actually have a good This all right, yeah, so That's all for today, I guess Yeah, these will probably become More fun as the challenge increases But you know, I think I think I mean in this this part was mostly the complexity was like the hardest part was parsing the format And then, you know, we even even messed around it spent some time doing this flip flip on curry thing Which we did not have to do so. Yeah Okay So that's it for today. See you all again for day three tomorrow and So I have a YouTube channel where I'm uploading these videos So you want to go check out previous days. Maybe you missed them. You can go there Yeah, like and subscribe I just like doing these So fun and it's a it's a nice Nice playlist. I think. Oh, no It's not actually showing my What the current song is right? Let me see I had a Let me see how it works It seems like it's stopped updating some point Okay Yeah, I think it's because I opened Spotify on one desktop and then One like what that that's about like 4k resolution and then the other one has All right. So yeah, check out my YouTube channel if you want to see previous days and Stay tuned for more Tomorrow, I think it's gonna get even tougher. So All right, enjoy


From VOA Learning English, this is the economics report. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing had to report some bad news recently. He said Detroit was seeking bankruptcy protection. The move would give the city court protection from creditors. The decision to declare bankruptcy is an effort to restructure and reduce debt. It comes at a difficult time for Detroit. In March, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder named Kevin Orr, a bankruptcy expert, to oversee the city's financial problems. Detroit has been struggling to reduce a budget deficit of more than $300 million. In addition, the city's long-term debt has increased to at least $18 billion. Detroit's problems have grown over many years. Michigan State University professor Eric Scorsone says the city depended too much on one industry—automobile manufacturing. Jobs with car makers were a big reason why Detroit was one of the country's largest cities half a century ago. In the 1950s, it had a population of about 1.8 million people. Today, the number is down to less than 800,000. Robin Boyle is a professor of urban planning at Wayne State University. He says over the years, many Detroit residents moved to areas outside the city or even left the state. That hurt Detroit's ability to invest in itself. It is rare for a large American city to seek bankruptcy protection. In 1975, New York City came close before the federal government agreed to provide money. Detroit, however, is the largest city to seek bankruptcy. Now, a federal judge is to consider Detroit's request. One of the main issues is what to do about the retirement pay of city workers. Currently, there are many more retired workers than those paying into the pension system. For VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villareal.


You know, you hear about other people, but you don't think it's going to happen in your life. They knew something was wrong, they knew what it was. And I did a bunch of tests, but I was just not feeling right. Sometime towards the end of January, Dr. Mahendra figured it out. He said, you're going in, you know, we're bringing you right in for the dialysis. Time in Bricktown, dialysis center. And that's where it began. It was kidney failure. Once you start dialysis, or you enter stage five kidney disease, your kidneys are working at less than 15% of normal. Dialysis is recommended. Dialysis, it's a nightmare. Your life is on a standstill.  There's people that are on dialysis. When they come out of that, you're spent. You have no energy. The fatigue hits you. And you realize, I've been doing this for a year. And I'm only 57 years old, you know. I should really, you know, look into other options. Kidney transplant is the best possible treatment for end-stage kidney disease. Not every patient will become a candidate for kidney transplant. We were reading up on transplant. Just getting on the kidney list was the most important thing. It was still a three to five-year waiting list. And that's where Dr. Mahendra came through. I did for all my patients with Dr. Lin at Hecatec University Medical Center for evaluation and possible transplant. Marty was a very good candidate for a number of reasons. One, he was actually on dialysis. And the second part is because he had a living donor transplant from Jane. My girl Jane was reading all the same literature I was and asking questions about being a potential donor. I told him that I wanted to do that. And he said, absolutely not. I don't want you to do this. I just looked at him and said, I don't care what you say. This is what I'm doing. She stepped up to the bed. So I was very thankful for that. Very thankful for that. When we went to Hackensack, that was when everything went quick from there. That's when they were first merging. The merger with Hackensack and Meridian has really been a boon not just for the health system in general, but for the transplant program specifically. So when Dr. Lin and Dr. Mahendra working together in the same deal for transplants, that's what I'm looking for. So this will be a perfect team, you know? I mean, I can't say that I wasn't nervous, but I wasn't really concerned because I felt like we were in good hands. We start this operation first thing in the morning. The patient rolls into the operating room and I start my operation. The donor goes in first and roughly about 30 to 45 minutes later. I go in with morning. Each operation is approximately two to three hours from skin to skin. When we do the donor nephrectomy procedure, we make a few small keyhole incisions. We do the entire operation to free the kidney from the surrounding organs and tissues. And then at the end of the operation, we make that small three-inch incision to remove the kidney. Simultaneously, as far as when the kidney comes out of the donor and Jane, we have exposure in the recipient, Marty, so that as soon as the kidney comes out, we can literally put it in. And they both did so well afterwards. Jane was out in a few days. Marty was out in four days. Dr. Lam has given me nothing but great reports on everything that's happened so far. I mean, they're very happy with the results. The first few months we were going back, they couldn't believe it was only like one month or six weeks since the surgery. It's good stuff. Today we're doing fine. I never felt better in my life. Really, I would do it again. Our merger with Meridian again has really helped us get down literally to the backyard of these patients. It makes it easier for them and more convenient for them to see us after our Jersey Shore office. Now, at least, we could come to Jersey Shore or push in medical, river view, which is great because we live down this way. So that makes the business easier. And this is how success is shown. The outcome is phenomenal. Most of the patients want to have transplant at Hackney County University Medical Center. And eventually Jersey Shore University Medical Center. I think that's one of the things we'll be able to do is to be able to transplant, if you will, our experience and expertise down to Jersey Shore so that, again, they have the convenience to go to the center and they trust them. Hackney Center took very good care of us. I think everything we did was above and beyond.


Thank you so much for taking the time to come and listen to the people, people chat. We are thrilled to be here at Slush, and thank you so much for taking this pre-nap time moment to hang out with us. So I want to quickly introduce myself. My name is Caitlin Holloway. I am founding partner at Alexis O'Hanion's venture capital firm 776, and I am joined on stage here by two phenomenal executives and people leaders and entrepreneurs. So we have Sophia here, who is co-founder and coach at Mamboo, and Vanessa, who is co-founder and chief people officer at Pitch. And we have so much to share with you today, and such a short amount of time. And so I want to start first by not burying the lead. I want to give you the headline of our talk today. And I can tell you this with full confidence, because as a people leader and executive and now investor who has spent the last decade and a half dragging HR out of the back room and into the board room, I can tell you this. We are about to enter an incredibly challenging chapter, not just for technology, but for every business. And the companies who have the capacity to build people-first companies will be the ones that succeed. Everyone else will not make it. And so we believe that people strategy is fantastic business strategy. And it is your job as founders to maintain and manage and tweak that triple bottom line, which is mission, people, and business outcomes. And so today we're going to share a little bit about our combined experience. We all have been deep in the trenches of building companies from the bottom up. We all have been a part of high growth, high success companies from the earliest days through exit. And so we want to share with you what we have learned and what we have discovered along the way. But I challenge all of you as we are having our conversation to really think about your own responsibility and your own organizations in leading people first. And so I don't want you to just think about surrounding yourself with phenomenal people leaders or leaders who happen to believe in leading culture first, but also how you can build your own capacity to become that people-first leader that you're going to need to be to survive this next chapter. And so without further ado, I would love to have you both set a little bit of context please. Vanessa, we'll start with you. Can you share a little bit about how and why you decided to move from being a people leader into being an entrepreneur? Yeah. First of all, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be with you both on stage today and talking about people-first business leadership. Yeah, my background has always been in HR and people-focused work. I was always interested in building organizations that are progressive and innovative. And after being an operator for a very long time, I really knew that in order to really shape the culture of a business, you need to start from the very beginning. And that's why I knew you have to become a part of a founding team and be there in the early days. And because to me, people-first culture start with the first people you hire. It's the first rituals you're starting with your team, even if it's tiny. Yeah, the first 50 people are dictating your culture in the future. And that's why I think it's very, very important as an HR professional to actually be there from day one and be part of the founding team. Yeah. Excellent. And Sophia, how did you translate your HR career into one of starting a company? Mine was a bit of a typical path. I was coming actually from a clinical psychology background. And I moved on then to do a master's in human-computer interaction. That's how I met my future co-founders and how the idea for Mumbo was born. And we were coming from very different backgrounds. So we had one from computer science, the other one computer science and business. And I was the only one with a people-related role in past experience. So it came naturally as having me as the co-founder that would be focusing on people. Because that would bring the people-first mentality that we wanted, we knew we wanted to have in the company. Most excellent. And can you share with the audience quickly a little bit about both of your companies and what those products are? Sorry, Sophia, I'll start with you. So Mumbo is a cloud-based core banking software. We started in Germany. Now we expanded to quite a few countries. And yeah, we've been building that product since 2010. Excellent. And what about Pitch? Yeah. At Pitch we are building the next generation of presentation software. We are believing in rethinking the way how people build decks, interact with decks and share and consume them. Yeah. We've been starting four and a half years ago and have been on the market since two years. And yeah, lots of people already use it. I hope some of you will also check it out after today. Yeah. Excellent. Thank you. I find it interesting that both of those products are very related to people, how we communicate with people, how we tell our stories. And most importantly, how we set those goals to really create those outsized returns. And so it's no surprise that having someone with a background in people makes a lot of sense in that founding team. Now I understand that many founders, and I understand this after years and years of coaching and advising founders, they always ask me, when should I hire my first HR leader? And typically they're asking me this question around their series A, sometimes series B, when they have somewhere between 30 and 50 employees. I fundamentally think that that is wrong. It is too late. And so understanding that both of you started your companies from day zero with a people first strategy and really considering, again, that triple bottom line from the very, very beginning. Vanessa, can you share a little bit about how you think leading people first from day zero actually has impacted not only your company culture, but your product? Yeah, I think if you have someone in the leadership team that actually really thinks intentionally about people and the type of organization you are building, you are basically also able to prevent certain errors that a lot of people make in hiring the wrong people, potentially promoting the wrong people, but also thinking about building an accessible product for various types of users, I think. That's one aspect. But then also, yeah, being part in every conversation that goes into the business strategy, in the end, it touches everyone in the company and all your workforce. So I think it's very important that the people are being considered in those conversations. Absolutely. And what about you, Sophia? I would probably answer that question with a focus on diversity. So the core founding team, we were coming again from diverse backgrounds, nationalities even. And prior to Mambo, we had been working together for at least one year in different projects, and we knew the value that there was in that diversity. We had seen firsthand how each of us coming from a different mindset and contributing to the same problem, the same business case, the same project would give it such a richness that we would never attain if we didn't have that different mindset. So we knew from the get-go that we wanted to have a diverse team to also serve a diverse set of customers. And we focused on that so much that we actually moved our headquarters from Stuttgart in the south of Germany to Berlin where we would be able to attract a more diverse talent. And by doing that, we gained not only that richness of ideas and just contributions from different perspectives, but we were also able to tap into market segments that otherwise we might have not been able to do it because customers were coming from all sorts of also backgrounds, but countries and cultures and having someone in the team who was able to understand the subtleties and nuances of those cultures and communicate with them, understand their needs and translate into the business was key for our success. Right. I love that you bring up communication because communication is actually a very, very big part of the work that we do as people leaders. I think that oftentimes folks relegate HR to payroll and benefits administration, but the reality is that our work impacts not only everyone within our organization, but to both of your points, all of our users as well, which is really where, again, those business outcomes live or die. And so thinking about our roles very holistically, communication is actually very, very, very key to all of our strategy. And especially going into this next chapter where the world is shifting and things are not as known as they were from funding and fundraising becoming more challenging because of the macro and micro economic climate to really watching what's happening with our consumers as they are maybe pulling back or making different business decisions or consumer decisions for themselves. And so when we think about communication internally, it's a really, really powerful tool and most importantly to manage expectations. So oftentimes our employees become upset or they are in a position of not understanding the decisions that executive teams are making because they simply don't have the context. And so a lot of our jobs, as I've mentioned, is communication. How have you, in both of your organizations or at previous organizations, use communication strategy to help you drive or deliver those outsized returns? I believe that Vanessa, you were the one who you have a pretty unique approach to all hands. Is that true? Oh, we do, yeah. We are building a remote first team since day one. So since we started hiring our first employees, we basically decided to have a distributed company across the country and across Europe and then US. And yeah, for us it was very important to set clear intentions around how do we manage a distributed team that's not in the same place and not having these dedicated one-to-one situations. And one aspect of that is asynchronous communication. For that we used our tool pitch in order to have team bulletins going out every Friday where everyone is sharing their progress on their work with the whole company. This is one aspect of replacing these weekly all hands and having this type of moment to share and celebrate each other's work but not being at the same meeting every week. We also just practice very intentional ways of documenting our work, sharing progress in open channels, having transparent communication across the teams and across functions. And yeah, this is just a few of those things that we consider when we think about the communication strategy internally. That's excellent. And how about you, Sophia? How have you used communication as a strategic tool to help your team not only feel engaged but ready to perform? Yeah, I think transparency is key, has always been key but it also evolved as we grew. So in the beginning it's very easy to just communicate. You're seeing people are in the same office in the same space. In our case we were in the same office. So that was very easy to have that two-way communication but as we grew of course that was not sustainable and not scalable. So we started having more formal ways of capturing the overall sentiment of the team, various surveys but we also have our all hands which we call Town Hall which is communication to the team about giving them updates, keeping them in the loop of everything that happens in the company. And we have a more localized approach also for the different offices that we call Village Halls where that information is in a way translated and so that people know how that impacts them in that location. And we have also what we call the Ask Me Anything sessions where leaders sit with anyone can join and they can just ask them any question really and just to break that formality a little bit more in addition to surveys. We have pulse surveys, engagement surveys and so on so to keep that two-way communication going but we had to go a little bit more formal somehow. That makes a lot of sense. I think that there's a pretty strong debate around transparency within organizations. How much or how little a leadership team chooses to share out with employees when, where and how they solicit feedback from the team in order to build their plans and goals for the next quarter. I'm curious to get you both of your takes on the level of transparency that you choose to employ and if maybe that has been different at different organizations and why. Sofia, we'll start with you. It has also evolved and of course I keep saying this, the more the better. However, I think each company will have to look at that and see for their needs and for the team they know and what is needed for them to know. I would always default for more and to share more where I was telling this earlier where we're dealing with adults ultimately and I know as founders we have that tendency to patternize a bit and to protect and it's that parenting just keeping them away from stressful situations that happen at this level but I don't think we need to do that. People are adults, they chose to be there as an adult and they like to be part of that communication that those situations and who knows where ideas can come from maybe because someone heard that we're going through this challenge or this situation then can come up with an idea that will actually support us and help us getting out of it. I love that, treat people like adults. What a novel, shocking thesis here. You heard it first on the stage. Treat people like adults, I think it's salient. How about you Vanessa, what are your thoughts on transparency? Yeah, they totally go into the same direction as a people leader I believe in enabling your team to make decisions and to foster innovation and I think people need to know context and have as much information as possible in order to lead their teams, in order to make decisions, in order to also bring the right ideas to life and I believe that you are building a better business if you're letting your team participate in what you're doing and where you want to go and transparency and open communication is the way to go for that. I love that. Another one of my favorite tools in the HR toolkit is actually policy which sounds, I know riveting, watch out, policy, we're gonna talk HR policy for a little bit, I wanna talk HR policy because I think that it gets a bad rap. The employee handbook, the traditional legalese compliance handbook that we all have to sign away all of our rights the second we started an organization I think is actually highly underutilized and it's become overly bureaucratic. My favorite way to use policy with an organization is actually to serve as a communication tool both internally so to our existing employees to drive employee engagement and to create safe spaces and then also to signal to our new recruits our helpful employees who we are and what we stand for as an organization and so some examples that I've employed throughout my career have been around parental inclusion so ensuring that you have a paid family leave policy especially for us back in America our government has not done a very good job of ensuring that that is protected for our citizens and so the job then rests on the shoulders of the private sector to go ahead and buoy that up but additionally I think that you can take it further and use a policy like loss of pregnancy leave which is something that is very challenging and hard to talk about at work but through my own lived experiences I had had a miscarriage at work and it was not protected thankfully I had a manager who was very understanding and was able to give me that time to grieve and also physically heal but that showed up nowhere in my employee handbook and so I led the way on creating a policy that I then open source to share with other people leaders and other founders to say this is something that every handbook should have to signal again not only to potential future employees we care about this particular community of people but again to your employees to say this is a safe space when we ask you to show up as your whole self I want my policies to reflect that as well and so I typically take the approach of we make rules for the many and not for the few and then deal with the edge cases because you don't want to have again that overly pedantic employee handbook but really thinking very strategically about when we implement a policy when we might adapt or change a policy and when we might want to not include a policy because they work on all directions and so now Sophia I know that you have also used policy in your favor before specifically around employee engagement can you talk to us a little bit about your sabbatical policy? Yes I'm so with you in all of that I used to cringe at the word policy as a founder and thinking no we're all for agility and I would say no policies are hindering agility we want to be an agile company why are we having policies and then I changed my mind because of that so I saw how policies can actually be used to actually design the culture that we want to have in the company and to support us in that design so what we did two years ago about two years ago was to implement this sabbatical policy where every five years employees would get to enjoy a one month paid sabbatical and that was all good until we had the question from a more traditional HR person saying so what happens to people who are now celebrating their sixth, seventh or eighth anniversary when we implement this policy which to me was a no question to me obviously we will back date it and they will get to enjoy that and this was there was a bit of discussion all because not that there were bad intentions from this person but because again they were coming from a more traditional background they were almost lost the ability to ask why why are we doing this why are we not doing this and they had their argument and I was able to fortunately show the human part of it what would happen if we don't do this to these 10, 15 people who are in this situation and so gladly we were able to overcome that and eventually implement the policy for all of them I love that it's so important I really I have a lot of thoughts on policies in general but I really think that if you show up and remember the human and so I challenge all of my founders I say when you are speaking with an employee so you know giving you a handbook filled again with legalese for you to rubber stamp and say yes we're going to use this policy or yes I approve the handbook in whole what happens when a real human knocks on your door or goes into your zoom room and shares something really challenging something very real very human that probably has nothing to do with your work but everything to do with how they are able to show up and participate what happens when someone comes and shares that they've just lost their partner an unexpected loss are you going to pull out the handbook and say here's our bereavement leave you get four days off absolutely not you're going to look at the whites of their eyes and say this is this is the appropriate thing to do here and so why would we not write our policies as if that person was sitting across from us before I move on and continue to wax poetic about policy Vanessa do you have anything to share about your thoughts or views on policy yeah I think for us in a remote first environment I think you need to have ideally as little as possible policies but the right ones and the right ones also for your stage so I think ideally you help your team to thrive within the frame that you define and also within the culture that you want to facilitate and ideally you need to evolve this over time also depending on your growth pace or the size of team you are and ideally communicate with your team and see what are the themes that they are thinking about what is concerning to them what are they struggling with and how can we as a company help efficiently for us for example one thing we implemented during COVID we always had a budget for a personal trainer for everyone for a physical sports coach and during COVID we felt like it's actually much more important to help people dealing with the complexities of the pandemic and we said everyone can see a therapist for a period of time that is also on us and I think this was a reaction to what we felt was needed and we still have a version of that in place and I think this is how we as leaders should interact with our companies I love that the ability to evolve a policy that was implemented at one point is very important similar to values you know values and policies are used to inspire the behaviors we would like to see within our own organizations and therefore cannot be static so I really appreciate the notion of adapting or evolving a policy to help it serve the business needs the business outcomes and so I want to shift gears a little bit into this new chapter that we know we're about to embark on and what I mean by that is things are about to get very hard especially for founders and young startups and I have been around enough blocks I have been doing my job for a very long time and I've seen good and I've seen bad I've seen the contraction and expansion cycles and I think it would be helpful if we could share a little bit about culture and more specifically the founder culture and so I've often said that your culture will reveal itself when things are going poorly it happens culture whether we like it or not it's building itself in the background with or without your permission and when things are going great it's really easy to feel like you have a great culture because you're winning but when things are really hard and they become trying that is when your truest, truest self as an organization reveals itself and so as we know we are entering and some of you have probably already experienced this you are living through a more challenging time so again it's around fundraising it's about your ability to retain talent it's about your ability to hire those key hires how do you take feedback from an investor who just has given you whiplash from going from growth at all costs to focus on revenue and how do you really take those and adapt those into what it is that you have been building and so I would love for each of you to share Vanessa will start with you any advice you have to the founders on how maybe they can easily or more gracefully transition into this potential period of hardship I would say resilience is what we all need right now I think as leaders, as employees, as founders and practicing resilience within yourself but also within your team and your organization is I think key to navigate uncertainties and also uncertain amount of time and I think this is the most important thing then for you or the best possibility for you as a leader to be there for your team and be present and show up for your team members and next to that I think yeah you need to over communicate with your teams you need to tell them where are you at in terms of your thinking as a founder what is the situation outside of our business how do you think about the macroeconomics how do you you know what is the strategy changes we might want to take and I think all these things are super important to just over communicate them to your team all over the place and yeah so resilience and over communication I think are the things I would say I would upvote those Sophia what about you absolutely subscribe to that too and I would just add the fact that you don't have to do it alone again it's very easy for us to take it all and think we need to do it all this is our company we need to do it alone but you don't there's countless people wanting to help and I'm talking about your team of course so if you use that transparency you will have the team also supporting you and giving you ideas but also mentors, advisors people who have done it before and it's not that you're looking for a prescription but you're looking for someone who has done it who has gone through similar situations who has overcome that and who can give you some tip some advice something that will make you feel that you're on the right track people are far more generous than you give them credit for I've discovered this multiple times in my career ask the worst they can do is say no but people are willing to show up and lend a hand and link arms especially folks that have been there and done that because they know they know what it feels like to sit in your shoes you know we are we are getting close to the end of our time on stage here I would share the advice get really good at doing less with less it's a great business practice in general but now it's the time to really exercise that muscle but do less with less with heart there is no reason to neglect the fact that we all have lived through some incredibly challenging times outside of a frothy venture capital market for the last few years we have survived trauma collective trauma together and so do less with less but with heart and before we head off the stage I usually like to end our talks with a call to action so again I challenged you all at the beginning of our conversation to really think deeply about how you can build your own capabilities in becoming a people first leader and really showing up for your team in a way that is not only high integrity and values aligned but in a way that drives those business results and so the second part of that would be to really extend yourself to Sophia's point to surround yourself with people who do lead people first and to her point this does not mean go out and hire the best HR leader to sit by your side today although I think that's also good advice it means surrounding yourself with people who really understand what it means to build and operate a culture first organization and so Sophia what are your final thoughts your final call to action? I would just say remember to look after yourselves also it's really easy to get into our minds and our to do lists into doing, doing, doing and firefighting but ultimately and just like with parents we're better parents and this is our baby too so we're better parents when we have that time to restore, to re-energize to recollect our thoughts and then be able to give because if you just give at some point it's over, the energy is over so just remember that take some time to whatever you do to re-energize to do that urgently Vanessa? Yeah, I would say call to action for all of us founders is to really stay alert on what's happening and yeah, if you decide for things execute fast that's what I would say and then on top of that I think now in times like this when you want to invest in your culture I think it would be great to invest in the right tooling for your team to collaborate and to build out your culture and for that I would recommend everyone to use Pitch and download it and try it. Excellent. Well, thank you to all of you for joining us for the People People Talk we are thrilled to have been invited and like I said I encourage you to go out and make the connections with people who have this area of expertise because it truly will be your competitive advantage but otherwise, good luck out there you've got this, you can do this you're going to build great products that will change the world that are diverse and inclusive and really keep human at the very center of everything you do so thank you so much and we will see you out on the floor.


The signal oil program the whistler whistle is your signal for the signal oil program The whistler and the whistler and I know many things for I walk by night I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadow Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak Yes friends, it's time for the signal oil program the whistler rated tops and popularity for a longer period of time Than any other West Coast program in radio history and signal gasoline is tops to tops in quality It takes extra quality, you know to give you extra mileage and signal is the famous go farther gasoline So look for the signal circle sign in yellow and black that identifies friendly dealer owned signal stations from Canada to Mexico And now the whistler strange story, boiling point Kelly never knew exactly when it was that he decided to kill it Thinking it over afterward he realized that murder is something like a pot boiling over The fire is underneath for a long time and nothing happened Then all at once the heat reaches a certain point and there it blows And you look back in horror to find you kill someone The odd thing of course was that right to the end it wasn't that he hated Janet She had a kind of charm she was capable and she was attractive enough that on the right kind of a spring day With a sunlight filtering through the leaves of an oak tree hitting her face just right A fellow like Kelly might think he was in love with her At least that's how it started three years ago Kelly? Yes Another sandwich? Oh no, no thanks Janice I'm full up What's happened to your appetite? I don't know maybe it's a symptom Oh? Will you do something for me Janice? What Kelly? Tell me something honestly All right I came to this town out of nowhere really I'm a failure 29 years old been fired from the greatest assortment of jobs in captivity I meet you at a party from then on everything's different Is it Kelly? Yeah sure You gave me a build up with your boss at the Star Realty Company He puts me on as a salesman And suddenly for the first time in my life I'm a success Why? Quite simple You're a good salesman No that's not what I mean What I want to know is Why did you do it for me? Oh Now you said you'd be honest Oh maybe I have the interest of the Star Realty Company at heart And maybe I just like you Come on have another sandwich I don't want to take them back All right I want to go over the escrow papers on that Williamson deal again Oh no not now don't you ever relax I'm relaxed Come on come on lean back and take your glasses off Oh all right all right That better You ought to take them off more often I'm blind as a bat without them What's the difference? You're not looking at the world they're looking at you Like you're looking at me Oh they better not I don't want anybody else to look at you like this Don't talk like that Kelly Not unless you really mean it I do mean it Janice I'm busy about you oh I know I'm not much of a guy And I'll never know why you bothered with me But Janice I want to marry you You won't be sorry I'll work hard and be a success There's enough Kelly Oh please please listen to me I had all I wanted here when you said you'd love me Aren't you gonna kiss me darling Just like that Kelly A boy, a girl, a picnic on a green knoll at the edge of town And it's over She's Janice Jamison now You have a small home together And each morning you commute to town in your jobs With a star realty company But Janice isn't satisfied Kelly She talks of nothing but of the two of you and business together Jamison and Jamison real estate brokers It would take more than you could ever save on your salaries of course And it was about then you began to wonder if she'd ever be satisfied Perhaps it was then too that the fire began to burn under the kettle And the temperature slowly but surely started to rise And here's a letter for Kennelly and Botsworth Gentlemen, with reference to the lease on the property at Lilliam Way in Gladstone Boulevard We are informed that the present holder is perfectly... Kelly Oh yes Janice Can I speak to you for a moment? Well I'm tied up couldn't it... No please right now Alright, excuse me Miss Elvidge Now what's it all about? Kelly our chance has come What are you talking about? Jamison and Jamison remember? Oh that Alright Janice, what do we use for money? Look at the teletype from New York offering 40,000 for the corner of 8th and Maple But Knowles has an option on that corner for 30 hasn't he? Did have you mean? It expired her yesterday But shouldn't we tell Knowles, give him a chance to... She won't be back until next Wednesday Well there's no way I can get in touch with him Honest darling Knowles will be tickled pink when he knows we've grabbed this chance to start on our own He's a big man more ways than one I know that's why I... Listen Kelly I tried my best to get Knowles to renew his option He said that corner would never be worth anything This means 10,000 for us on a $1,500 investment Now you run right down to the bank and get a certified check I'll teletype New York that Knowles no longer holds the option I hope you know what you're doing Oh I do know and I know something else too A few days we'll have a brand new office with a nice glass door reading Jamison and Jamison Sign that Jamison and Jamison That's all Jamison and Jamison I'll have it right out You made a slight error Janice What? Not Jamison and Jamison Jamison and Stooge Please Kelly let's not get into that again Why not? Why not let's be honest You've got the brains I run the errands You set up the deals on paper I go through the motions Well that's not true This Brewster deal for instance A nice clean little deal I'm all set to handle it myself Kelly you're just being silly There were just a few things you hadn't considered I thought it might help if I wrote them out for you That's all There's something I don't think you realize yet Angel I'm really not a backward kid at all Why you act like I'm not quite right You're wrong Kelly I think you're the best salesman in the business Besides you're my husband I love you Now what difference does he make?  Vera, what are you talking about Well I won't be on this one forever you know But Vera, it's out of the question She's a sick woman alone in the house and And and and and Oh, why lie about it I think you know why I'm talking this way Vera Yes I do I love you I'd better go in now Oh no no Vera I Kelly please Vera darling If only you were free I'll be free Vera I'll What do you mean Kelly I don't know Vera I don't know With the prologue of Boiling Point The Signal Oil Company is bringing you another strange story By the Whistler Friends, this being the first program of March I'm reminded of that old saying In like a lamb out like a lion With Signal gasoline it's always that way It goes into your car as a clear innocent looking liquid But once inside your motor It generates the power of a lion Live, eager power That's quick to spurt ahead in crowded traffic Or to send you springing effortlessly up steep grades in high With nary a ping of complaint But while Signal's power may be likened to a lion You'll find that your car's appetite for Signal gasoline Is gratifyingly small That's because the extra efficiency Which today's Signal gets from your motor Naturally means extra mileage too But when it comes right down to it Your speedometer is really the best yard stick Of gasoline quality That's why Signal says To be sure of the tops in gasoline quality There are just two things to remember One, in gasoline it takes extra quality to go farther And two, Signal is the famous go farther gasoline And now back to the Whistler It was strange Kelly You didn't know it but that night in the car The last night you took Vera home A murder was taking shape A murder made of several things Of your love for Vera Of Jameson and Jameson And $20,000 in the company account And naturally of Janet She'd never give you up Kelly You're sure of that And the next days you sit alone in your office You're wondering about alternatives Puzzles, even a little frighten By the sudden impulsive thing that popped into your head As you said good night to Vera I'll be free Vera What did you mean? You thrust it out of your mind Try to concentrate on the stack of letters in your desk And then just before noon Jameson speaking Kelly, this is Mac Oh hi, hi Mac, what's on your mind? I've been trying to reach you people I may have run on to something I'm not sure Well, what is it? Well, I had dinner last night With one of the lawyers from Mayberry and Company Yeah? He had a few drinks and sort of got to talking Oh, about what? A property deal It seems that Mayberry and Company Are going to put up a six-story branch In the corner of 84th and Pine What? Why, that's way out in the middle of nowhere It's straight stuff, Kelly Say, anybody else know about this? I don't think so The whole thing's been on the QT They pick up that corner for a song Wish I'd had it Oh, never mind that Maybe the surrounding property Will go for the same kind of a song That's what I wanted to buy In a year, maybe 18 months There'll be a whole community out there And if we had the lots Why this? Why the sky's the limit You think so? Oh, no doubt about it Gee, I'm glad you called me, Mac Yeah, well, I really wanted to talk to Janice Kelly, if she thinks it sounds like... Well, Janice isn't well, you know that Yeah Now, look, we'll have to move fast on this Mac, I'll tell you what we'll do Wait a minute, Kelly Not that fast It's a $40,000 investment I'm not going ahead until we have her opinion What's the matter with you? I'm running the office now Maybe, maybe not This is a big thing I realize that, Mac You're lucky to have someone Like Janice to turn to Yeah, but Mac, I... Listen, either talk it over with her Or count me out, Kelly I have a lot of faith There, skip it I'll... I'll get back to you Okay, I'll be waiting Janice! What does he take me for? I'll go ahead with it alone If he doesn't want to... What? Janice! Surprised Am I interrupting something big? Well, never mind that What are you doing here? I thought that... Did I belong in bed? I know, Dr. Allen thought the same thing But today, he had to admit It was all brought on by strain, overwork The rest did it I'm fit as a fiddle I'm back on the job, that's all Aren't you glad, darling? Why, of course, naturally But what about Vera? What about Vera? Well, I dismissed her Is that what you mean? Well, do you think it was the wise thing to do? Don't you? Anyhow, now, I'm well I certainly don't need a nurse Well, tell me, what are you so excited about? Who are you talking to?  Well, I tell you something, Janice I... All right, it was Mack Oh? Yeah, listen Mayberry and company are building at 84th and Pine We've got a chance to buy the surrounding lots And you're all four Oh, who wouldn't be? Me Well, now, wait a minute Wait a minute, this is the biggest thing That's ever hit this office It sure is, Nick It could knock us flat Nope, we're not going into it Without examining it there But there isn't time Then it isn't a deal Isn't a deal Janice, do you realize what you're saying? Oh, I think so If we can't look before we leap, it's not for us, Kelly I suppose Mack has it wrong What if they don't build? Then we're left with a row of weed-covered lofts That'll never be worth a thing Yeah, but if they do build It's how mighty big is Now, where did Mack hear about it? For one of their lawyers He had dinner with them The guy was that guy started talking Why? What do you mean why? He had some drinks, that's why Are you sure? How well does Mack know? Oh, for the love of... How do we know it wasn't a setup To get all of us worrying about the 84th Street section While they quietly buy up things somewhere else in town Janice, Janice, you have to take chances sometimes I'm sure you do I've taken plenty of chances Not with every set we've got But we might make enough to pull out To forget the whole business What? What would you want to do, Kelly? What do you mean? I don't just say what's on your mind That you're as suspicious of me As you are of every one of your deals It's the truth, Janice Oh, you're wrong, darling I've always trusted you Even while I was ill If you think I'm suspicious of you There must be reason Maybe there is No, you don't mean that Listen, Kelly It was two years ago today We bought the cabin, do you remember? Yes, yes, and we've been up there once since Let's go once more, Kelly, right now Right away Oh, but what about the Mayberry deal, Mack? We need to hear from us Let's forget that At least till we get back from the cabin Maybe we can think more clearly up there And when we come back We may feel differently about a lot of things I don't know, I don't know I'm supposed to drive out to the Paxton's tomorrow They want an appraisal on the ranch Maybe, maybe he's some other time, Janice You can go by the Paxton's too From their place, you can come up the back road to the cabin I'll drive up the main road Meet you there tomorrow afternoon What time? Two o'clock, Kelly All right, Janice Two o'clock at the cabin I'll be waiting for you At the moment you agree to meet Janice The kettle is beginning to boil Listen to Kelly The first tiny bubbles are rising Dangerously close to the rim Threatening to pour over And there's no way to stop them It's the same the next day As you drive up to the cabin Grinding up the narrow mountain road You admit to yourself That the Paxton ranch was just an excuse That you weren't even thinking Of keeping your appointment there You were thinking of an old wooden bridge A bridge over a two hundred foot drop Straight down A bridge that Janice Would have to cross to reach the cabin What you have to do is simple A few bolts removed from the right places And the bridge is ready It loosened ancient support Certain to give way Into the weight of the next car to cross You stand at the brink for a moment looking down Then walk back to the cabin Approaching the porch You stop suddenly staring Max's car is there parked next to yours You move forward stiffly Slowly Wondering if Max saw you at the bridge Or you take a deep breath And brace yourself before going inside Oh, hello, Mac I didn't think it'd be long You mean you saw me when you drove up? No Just saw that good scotch on the table Oh, yeah, yeah I was just out back checking the wood supply Hey, what brings you up here, Mac? I should think you'd be in town hot after that deal The town of it's okay, Kelly, under control All I need is your signature What? I tried to catch you at the Paxton place But you didn't show So I figured you decided to skip it Oh, yeah, yeah I thought I could keep Sure, but the Mayberry thing can't Here, sign this thing and I'll be on my way Oh, Mac, I meant to get back to you I talked to Janice and she isn't interested What? Well, that's not what she told me What? You talked to her? This morning She was worried about my tip But that lawyer's a good friend of mine She's convinced And she signed already? Uh-huh Now you, okay? Well, sure, okay So they give me the pen Right here? Yeah, that's a...  You, uh, came up the back road, didn't you? Yeah, but I'll go back by the front road It's faster Oh, I don't think so, Mac I take the other way No, no, I'm in a hurry But, um... But what?  Run over these papers on the Paxton property See if you think my ideas are right I don't know, Kepp Didn't Janice go over? Oh, yeah, yeah, sure Sure, but Paxton's a pretty tough guy to handle And I'll need all the ideas I can get And look it over, will you?  Because everything is ruined If you can't talk Mac Out of driving down the front road And over the bridge You've got to stop him Or keep him from leaving at all You wanted to get rid of him Wanted to tell your own story of the accident But now you have to settle for the next best thing If only you can keep him here There's something you can do You glance at his car parked next to yours Hurry over to it, lift the hood It won't take a minute to fix it until the car won't start You just get the hood down again As Mac comes out of the cabin, waving the papers Hey, these look fine to me, Kelly I'd say you've covered all the angles Oh, you think so? As far as I can see Here, I better be on my way Can't let any grass grow under our feet on this one Yeah, I guess you're right Well, maybe there's a vapor lock in the gas line No, no, she ought to start I better have a look Hey, listen, Mac Listen, that sounds like a car coming up the front road Oh, it is a car Well, that settles it I got away a little while now One-way road, isn't it? Oh, yeah Yeah, that's right, Mac You just have to wait I guess it's Janice She's meeting me here this afternoon It's supposed to get here about two Oh, that reminds me, Kelly I forgot to talk Hey, Mac Mac, that's not Janice's car No, it isn't, is it? Here, Kelly, I meant to give you this Hey, Mac Mac, that's Vera's car Okay, so it's Vera, maybe this Come on, come on We've got to stop her, Mac She'll go through the bridge What are you talking about? It's a trap I thought Janice would be driving up But I weakened the supports You planned that? Yes, yes, help me, Mac Help me Vera Vera Stop Stop, Vera The whistler will return in just a moment With a strange ending to tonight's story Meantime, in place of the little chat About one of Signal's products Or services that we usually have At this point on the whistler Signal Oil Company is giving this time tonight For an announcement in the interest Of public welfare Once each year in March We're asked to think of those Who, in time of unexpected emergency Need the quick, friendly help That you and I make possible Through the Red Cross Just who are these people? Why, they're the victims of disasters Such as earthquake, flood, fire, wreck Or epidemic Disasters that can strike any one of us Any time without warning Who else? Millions of discharged veterans And their dependents have called On the Red Cross for a helping hand And don't forget the thousands Of hospitalized veterans who may depend On the Red Cross for a long time to come For their recreation and entertainment Their letter writing, shopping, and other assistance These are just a few of the hundreds of ways The Red Cross is called upon to help every day It's going to take 75 million dollars To answer all the calls for help The Red Cross will receive this year So give as generously as you can Remembering that you're the lucky one To be in a position to give help Rather than to need help And now back to the Whistler Yes, Kelly, it was strange, wasn't it? The way it sneaked up on you The way the temperature rose slowly Quietly to the boiling point Now with the temperature back at zero Vera lies dead in the wreckage At the bottom of the gorge beneath the bridge The bridge who supports you Hacked away to trap Janice, your wife So you'll be free to marry Vera And as you stare down in fascinated horror The words of Mack begin to penetrate The cloud of fog surrounding your brain If you hadn't been so insistent In my going over those Paxton papers This might not have happened Paxton papers? That's right. I had a note for you from Janice Janice? Yeah, she decided not to come And asked me to deliver this when I got here Every time I try to tell you about it, you interrupted me Here, you'd better read it while I phone the police The police? Oh, wait a minute, Mack. I can't wait, Kelly. I've got a report of murder Better take a look at Janice's note Yeah, I guess I had, Mack Why not? Dear Kelly I decided not to meet you at the cabin For a long time, I felt you no longer loved me Now I'm sure I had it out with Vera after you left yesterday First she denied everything Then admitted that two of you were in love I was tempted to tell her she couldn't have you Then I realized you weren't worth the fight So I'm going to Reno, and you'll be free I have an idea Vera will join you at the cabin She's your kind, Kelly I hope you both will be happy Janice Possibly your own Broadcasting System


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They are getting closer. Okay, but there's not that much time left pretty nice stiff arm there No, I'm running. Please get out of my way It's 21 to 19 now and France just needs to run around, you know play hot potato keep it away from Australia Don't pick it up and then run out of bounds for surely. Oh Damn, okay, they did that so now Australia has the ball there seven seconds left But it's gonna go to stoppage time so it can continue even when the clock strikes zero Which it does right now zero But now look at this run faith Nathan is her name and she's gonna get the ball and she is going to wait She doesn't have it. I think this is her and no, that's not her and no, this is her I was right. It was her. She has the ball again and she's gonna take it way down Just charges downfield changes the field position gets tackled kicks it to number seven who kicks is it to Madison? Levi scores another try to take the lead in extra time in Australia They get third place. They were they were ranked number one going into this tournament got upset by New Zealand But the fans are happy just to see it end on a win great play here And like I said this run I believe my notes say this is faith Nathan and she passes it right there to Charlotte Kaslick who passes it to Madison Levi who scores the game winning try the Celebration is great a knee to the belly from number five there Who's your sister? I believe and now we're dancing and we're dressed like a crocodile or an alligator? Let me know I could be wrong college is across Notre Dame ranked number one take it on Syracuse ranked number three Notre Dame has been winning a lot of games They've been beating good teams, but Syracuse working the ball behind the back pass gotta love it The orange looks bright and beautiful great ball movement here by Syracuse who's up a player So there's always gonna be someone unguarded. Oh my goodness. That's got a sting What an incredible save by the keeper from Notre Dame Liam Antomin and we got to watch a replay But if you're the Syracuse guy, you thought you were the most open and easiest goal You were ever gonna score on the back door just got to catch it and put it in but look at the goalie Holy cow fully vertical never gives up gets Stick on the ball keeps it out of the net Notre Dame goes on to win their second top three win of this season And they're doing fireball shots in the crowd as they sing the win song. It's a good Day to be Irish as I said at the top of the show this episode is brought to you by slap ball It's a new game we created in our warehouse on our warehouse games channel We wanted something that was like possession by possession team You throw the ball around just slap it weird goals teamwork set plays in our warehouse It's like handball, but our version of it people have been liking it the numbers have been good people seem invested a lot of rule Change suggestions go check it out slap ball three games into the tournament right now My team doing pretty well doing pretty well They're saying this is one of the greatest cornhole matches ever played on the right in the white shirt You have Matt guy the machine the champ the goat the first person named to the cornhole Hall of Fame and in the black shirt You have Jeremiah Ellis a rookie his first year as a pro Matt guy is crushing him. It's 18 to five this game would go 41 rounds 328 bags thrown because Ellis refused to die and Matt guy kind of lost it a little bit so we're 18 to 5 there But you know Ellis is getting fired up. He plays fiery. That's what they say 18 to 7 now Matt guy He leaves that on the board Ellis can attack. He sinks his all right last bag I think for Matt guy and Doesn't drop one so Ellis grabs a couple more points. He's getting fired up. He's starting to scream He's feeling the energy. It's 18 to 15 now. We skip ahead. Uh-oh Matt guy sinks one Ellis sinks one Matt guy needs to leave it on the table for Ellis and he does Yeah, boom. Let's go Ellis is fired up Matt guy shoulder slung 18 to 17 now and they're going Hole for hole I score you score. We all score for ice cream and Okay in so now he needs guy to miss again. Can he close it out? No? Bam come on Hair getting sweaty hat coming off 19 to 18 now he needs two points to win He leaves that one on the table doesn't drop here We go Matt guy looking to circumnavigate his bag drop his end beautiful shot Ellis wants to push both in neither fall Alright Matt guy can win the round here or he can tie if one of Ellis's bags drop Which it does the other two stay on it's a wash. We keep going Ellis maintains the lead on to the next round 1918 Matt guy shoots Leaves it on the table deep breath by Ellis because he knows hey, okay. All I got to do is make all mine Here we go get around him and get in okay, well pushes guys but drops in here We go guy needs to push his in oh he airmails it no drag all the way and still leaves One on the table. Oh, okay. He's got it set up now. He's got it set up. He needs to get oh Yeah, takes it takes it and wins and beats Matt guy Ellis the rookie beats the Hall of Famer and that They're saying is one of the best cornhole matches to ever be matched and you want to know who enjoyed it You want to know who enjoyed it this guy? Sneaking some peaks moving on to the International Ice Hockey Federation the world championships USA vs. Canada, this is a preliminary round matchup these teams find each other in the championship a lot three years running and You know a play in the corner there where the whistle it got heavy it didn't get lifted passed to the middle and Scored to win the game Kirsten Sims puts the USA head and ends it and Canada Loses and they're upset, but the USA is happy. That's how it works. Look at him pushing pushing his dad You didn't believe come on dad. You got to believe Weird to see the color matchups here. I thought it was opposite the all-blue team. I thought was Canada at first I don't know why I don't know why but I did Kirsten Sims who scored that goal. Here's the no-call. What do you think tripping? Tripping did she get her was it a dive? Was it just an angle? Looks like she tripped her They didn't blow the whistle. It's overtime. You pocket the whistle a lot Kirsten Sims gonna get this puck. All right, and she's got the pass wide open on the far side The goalie's got to have that in mind. She kind of opens up her hips a little bit like she might be passing and then nope Firefall through the defense through the goalie. It's her first goal and point of the tournament She's making her debut. She was the leading goal scorer in the NCAA this season with 75 points in 39 games But that's the goal that she remembers the most Maybe you'd have to ask her but I'd guess it to be true This was everything you missed that you never planned on watching Thank you very much for tuning in choose fan of the week boom boom boom boom Who do you got who you choose it and subscribe to the channel if you enjoy these find yourself watching them regularly That would help us out leave a comment those help as well. Let us know Good batch bad batch Cool not cool and go watch slap all see you love you guys. Thanks


We started our community garden over in Almas Park Terrace a couple years ago as we're working on our second year now and part of the grant we got through Greenspaces Alliance was when we do it, most of our garden is kind of these four by four individual plots. Because of that we have individual plots. We wanted a way where people could maintain their garden that was relatively easy without having to water every day or worry about things. And we kind of stumbled upon this idea and it's really worked out nicely. And so through Greenspaces we got a grant to buy clay and we have a number of potters in the neighborhood by just pure luck. And so we all met one weekend and made all the oyas and then we've been using them in our plots now for two years and it was a lifesaver in our first year to have it being last year which was the worst drought on record. And so we actually had a pretty productive garden using those oyas and at the heat of the drought last summer, you know, 100 degree days over and over and over, I really only had to go out to the plot and fill it up twice a week. So fill up the water twice a week and it survived. This year everybody kind of has bought into it and we believe it and so we're just filling up the oyas and it's working out nicely. I didn't invent this technology, nobody invented this technology. This is like a 2,000 year old technology that was happening in North Africa which you can imagine this is desert-y, very important and then also in China so kind of independently. It requires a ceramic pot that's been fired but it's not been fired to a temperature where the clay is not porous anymore so the clay is still porous here. We bury it in the ground up to its neck, plant plants around it, fill it up with water and then this lid just sits on here to prevent evaporation and mosquitoes from growing. And what happens is the plant roots start to grow up against the oyas and they pull the moisture out of the oyas and they only use the water that they need. And so there's been studies done and the plants actually require 70% less water than traditional irrigation methods because you lose so much of that water through evaporation or runoff or whatever. So this is probably the most efficient way to water your plants and that's really important in South Texas now that we're kind of in drought country. So there's another technique I can show though that doesn't require you to be a potter to make it. You can just take a couple of terracotta planters that you can buy even for a dollar at the dollar store as long as you take a broken piece and glue it on the inside to seal up the bottom hole. And what I use is a clear silicone gel because it always stays flexible. So I'll just do a little bit on the broken pottery, stick it in the hole and then I'll go ahead and put glue on the rim and glue them together rim to rim.  I want to talk about the advantages of this. First thing is it's good for the soil structure. If you take plants in the traditional way and you're watering all the time, it's compacting that soil down more and more and more and it doesn't let air get through it and all that problem. So now we're putting water directly below the surface and so the soil can stay light and airy. The other really cool advantage of this technique is especially like last summer when we got no rain, no weed seeds on the surface were able to germinate because there's no water. And so the water is directly underneath with the roots of the plant that you want to happen and so there's less weeds at the surface because of that. I think that's really cool. We still mulch. So we've mulched all around and that helps keep everything in but we're not allowing any weeds to germinate. It inherently checks against over irrigation. I guarantee right now the oils I have in my pot, they're probably more full of water than they were last week because of that great rain we got. So the water from the soil if it's saturated is going to seep into the pot and vice versa. And the roots of the pot through evaporation they're only going to pull the water they need. There's a professor that did it, I guess someone did the doctorate thesis in Africa about the oil system and they scientifically measured everything and it ends up that most plants use about 70% less water with the same yield than any other traditional technique. And I think that's pretty, for us, for South Texas, that's huge. And then fertilizer, I just went, I just got through planting artichokes and they require a lot of fertilizer, a lot of water and so we're using liquid fertilizer and you use about 25% of the amount that's normally recommended and I just pour the liquid fertilizer in the oil, fill it up with water and then it will slowly get directly to the root. So I'm using a lot less fertilizer than you might normally need to.  Now these pots they do have a little bit of maintenance issues. Think of because our water is so limey, if we allow it to get dry out of multiple times then eventually that lime is going to kind of cause a little crustacean, it's going to fill all the pores in the clay. So there's a couple things you can do if that doesn't happen. You can just kind of fill up a tub of water, maybe dump in a gallon of vinegar and let it soak overnight. It'll dissolve that calcium back out of the clay. You can also put it back in the kiln and fire it off again and that will burn out the calcium. So there's a couple of ways you can fix that. You can prevent it from happening completely by just always making sure there's water in there. So once a week you fill up with water, as long as there's always water it's always moving out then it never has a chance to solidify. Okay so we're going to place this in a way we're thinking about the surface that the poorest part is buried underneath. It's good to go ahead and leave this up a little bit because that way dirt and stuff won't fall into it, which isn't a big deal you can clean it out but that just kind of prevents that. And so then if you had let's say you have new plants then what you do is just sort of start filling this in, oh I'm a potter, okay. And then like you take your plant out of the seedling and then you can just plant it right here right up kind of against the pot and you can put four in, right. And then just continue to fill this in, okay. So we fill this full water, you know we had plants around it and just keep the lid on it and then maybe check it twice a week and it's ready to go.


Next, we've got nonprofit expert Jason Shim, who's going to be talking about AI from a different direction around using AI text generation for nonprofits. So I'm going to be talking today about AI text generation and I'm going to jump straight into it. You may have heard of a transformer model and you'll be hearing more about them in 2023. And what it was is a model that was developed by the Google Brain team in their AI department and it was open sourced in 2017. And what came out of that were a couple of subsequent models namely BERT and GPT, which I'm going to be spending the bulk of this presentation talking about now a GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer. And what does pre-trained mean? It means that it was trained on huge bodies of text on the internet, including Wikipedia, as well as something called the common crawl, which is petabytes of data crawled from across the internet. And this is hosted by an organization called OpenAI. Now OpenAI, one of their significant investors is Microsoft and Microsoft owns and GitHub co-pilot was something that came out in 2021 and what it is essentially, you can input comments about what you would like a snippet of code to do and it will autocomplete the rest. Now, it may not always be accurate or correct, but it's co-pilot. So it's alongside a developer that is coding this up and it can significantly accelerate the software development process. Now, why am I sharing all this? And why is this relevant for nonprofits? Similar technology now exists for a general text completion. And so chat GPT is the latest release in a series of GPT models. There has been GPT 2, 3 and chat GPT is considered 3.5. And here's a quick example of how chat GPT could be used with a prompt as a creative experiment to write me a poem about technology in a non-profit sector. And it generated this in a few seconds, a technology of forestill grand in the hands of a nonprofit, a helping hand. It's not the best poem in the world, but it did generate this in a few seconds, take it for the time being requires some editing. But in terms of a practical application, something to keep in mind is it could be potentially used for generating drafts. So let's say if you're writing a grant and here's a pretty standard question that you'll find in a grant, describe your project in detail, including proposed timeline and specifically how you use the funds. And here's the response. The actual response is about five paragraphs long by no means what I say that you should do copy and pastes directly to a grant application, but this could be used to help scaffold a potential response and to help think through how might you integrate some content that is particular to your organization to supplement what is here. Another example would be around like things like marketing drafts. So here's a prompt where it's draft a blog post about how GPT can be used to help nonprofits. And this, the blog post that was generated was about five paragraphs long, you can make it longer or shorter. And again, like the blog post itself, it's okay, it's generic, but it's more around generating that first draft for potential use. So this is something to keep in mind as something that has potential in this area. Now one thing to keep in mind too is that it can be confident, but not necessarily correct. And you definitely a human in the loop there. So here's an example of that confidence that's not necessarily correct. The question how many nonprofits are there in Canada is that it's saying that there's 170 registered charities, 170,000 registered charities in Canada. Now that number is charities and nonprofits number, but it's stating it here quite confidently. And the actual number is closer to 86,000. It does require fact checking and that this really is just pulling from the scouring the internet, but it's not necessarily correct all the time. So what did nonprofits need to keep in mind has a potential use case, first drafts, it could be used and let's say you need to put together something, whether it be a draft of a document or potentially you need to draft an email, you can integrate certain elements where it's okay, can you help draft an email that is going out to a donor also indicate that you just saw them recently, I gala asked them about the following things as well, and it can draft up something in a few seconds. Again, you wouldn't send it outside unseen, you would still need to review it. And on that point, human review is important when you're ever working with AI at this point, making sure that have people to ensure that all the facts are correct in it, and that it's still reflecting your organizational tone, and that it's more of a supplement in that regard. And keeping in mind the quality inputs are needed for effective outputs. In addition to the pre train models, it's expected that you should in the future be able to input additional texts. So let's say if you have a case for support, which may make a great piece of text for a model to to look at as well as things like brand books for your organization. So that indicate how do we talk about organization? What is the tone that you use these kinds of things would be helpful for informing future prompts that you would use for AI text generation. It's not going away anytime soon. This was a tweet last night from Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft and that chat GPT is coming to the Azure Open AI service, so it will be integrated into some of the broader offerings that Microsoft is offering in the future. And moving into the future, there are other models on the horizon GPT for which is going to be the next iteration of the GPT models as well as Lambda, which is Google's offering and others are on the horizon. My suggestion to everyone here is I try it out. I'll drop a link in the in the chat for chat GPT as well if you haven't tried it already. And one thing to keep in mind is that we this is a very quickly evolving space and that the would be helpful for folks to find their own use cases for it. Once again, if you want to ensure that the future with AI is going to be useful for your organization, jump right in there and also experiment with it a little bit and figure out what the use case may be for your particular organization or use case. If you'd like to stay in touch, also drop the more information in the chat to connect on LinkedIn.