Good day, fellow investors. There have been some very interesting comments and I thank you for that, so please comment, comment, comment. You add so much value to this channel. Today's topics are how to invest in blockchain because there is an interesting debate developing there, how to turn $6500 into a million and then I will discuss why I don't invest into insurance stocks. So let's start with how to invest in blockchain. So Slavomir says how cryptocurrencies may be a joke, but blockchain technology is not. It may very well be the most significant innovation in finances in the last 50 years. So the blockchain technology is something completely different than cryptocurrencies and all the fuss that has was created especially in 2017. Now it's getting lower, lower and lower, so cryptocurrencies were a sentiment play. Now people are a little bit scared what's going on with what they bought in the hype and we later also discussed from $6500 to how to get to a million, how these things work and when do those things explode. It's not that easy to invest, I'll put it in a longer term perspective. Back to the blockchain, there were really, really a lot of scams and still 99% of whatever is going on in relation to blockchain are scams. Let me show you something that we discussed in the past. So long blockchain corporation, usually called Long Island Tea Company that exploded, that had seen its stock price explode in 2017, when they changed their name to Long Blockchain Corporation and the ticker from LTEA to LBCC has seen its stock price decline 93% and even more 95% from the blockchain craziness peak in what was it, I think December, November 2017. The stock is now trading at 30 cents in comparison to the 949 high that somebody paid because the company changed their name and wanted to get funds to invest in mining, I think. Another company that I discussed in December of 2017, I made a video about it and some other blockchain stocks, I wasn't that positive and I was right about it. Look at this, Aero Hive Networks, again a company that changed its name because it was called Hive Blockchain when it was mining, repurchasing, mining operations, usually issuing stocks and then giving it directly to the management that was selling computers in Sweden or Iceland or some Iceland or something like that. Crazy and the result is here, the stock is still okay but down from the 767 that it was when 650 that it was in the hype times. Check the video about my blockchain views back in December, so it's not really easy to invest in the blockchain technology and a lot of that are scams but there is something else going on. Some serious companies like IBM are investing and developing the blockchain technologies. However, IBM's stock price didn't explode because it suddenly became a blockchain stock and the stock is up and down in relation to the market, in relation to what's going on with earnings and normal IBM stuff. So you can get exposure by investing in those crazy companies that go up and down but you can lose everything or on the other hand you can buy IBM which is a blockchain stock but you never know when you will benefit from that. As the purpose of blockchain is to lower the cost of everything, lower the cost of transactions, make everything faster, then also those companies that offer those blockchain technologies will not make money, will not make more money because the fees will be lower, lower and lower. Perhaps IBM will sell the technology, implement the technology but that might come in the next 5, 10, 20 years and then there will again be normal margins because it's just technology and those technological companies have their normal standard margins. So be careful about that and I know it's easy to get excited on a great story especially students get excited on those stories but put things into a longer term perspective and those let's say call them scams really show how things go and when you invest in blockchains just look at the fees that those who are selling you charge and look at the transaction costs that the whole technology has because somebody is making money there and that's a good business. Everything else is pure speculation where you have to find the biggest fool that will pay more than you pay. So really put that into perspective there is time for blockchain the next four decades and this leads me to the next story because you will see how there is time for blockchain and there is time for making millions and how it takes a little bit longer let's see before digging that this is the bitcoin price and plotted with search results google trends and you can see how as people searched more for bitcoins they were buying more but now the sentiment has weakened and so has the stock price. I'm still surprised why the bitcoin who are the buyers at 8000 but there is still strong sentiment but not as strong as it was. We'll see how this ends. It's very interesting for me to analyze human behavior human investment psychology speculation and that's why I follow cryptocurrencies nothing else. As there are lots of you who know more who have invested a lot more of time please share in the comments so that we learn together from this. If blockchain really will work if we invest now 2, 3, 4, 5 years from now or in 10 years we will still manage to reap the benefits so we'll see about that but let's discuss a related story that we can learn a lot from. So Van says how he invested in Amazon in 2003 when the stock price I think was 40 and he sold immediately at 45 taking a nice profit. What he invested what he lost then the 6500 that he made would now be a million so that's a lottery ticket that he missed. However let's see at Amazon's stock price so he bought somewhere in 2003 sold immediately a little bit later for a 20% gain. Now Amazon is 1863 a huge return but let's look at some other points of view. In 2007 so four years later the stock was again where it was in 2003 2008 so five years later the stock was again where it was in 2003 and if I go back to 1998 it took Amazon 10 11 years to get from the 1998 50 back to the 50 in 2009 and this was a winner from the dot-com crisis. This tells me okay to reap really the rewards of the dot-com internet expansion it took 20 years and it really rewarded only those who invested in Amazon or lately Tencent Alibaba but that's for a shorter time so there is plenty of time to invest in such trends if the trends really gain instructions there will be time to invest you don't have to chase chase those crazy scams that everybody is offering now so give yourself time there will be plenty of time to invest in blockchain. On this topic of investing in such high return high potential multibaggers I have made a video about extremistan investments it's in the card it will be also in the end screen and we'll discuss and I'll discuss there how if you give it time even boring investments not Amazon's not blockchain can make 10 20 50 times the return on investment so if you keep that in mind so it's mindset keep an eye open for such opportunities you will find even low risk extremely high potential investments so over 10 20 years a lot of things can happen and you can find that stock that goes 20 50 100 times up in relation to what you paid watch the video about extremistan and mediocristan investment it's an amazing investing lecture then Timu I think is from Finland but I might be wrong says thank you Sven for your great insights as a more general comment I wonder why you seem not to have an interest in insurance companies they currently trade with pretty low valuations and the business is pretty stable even in recessions even in bad weather dividends keep coming in I like for example Munich re-insurance in Germany stable or rising dividends for decades and here I disagree because insurance companies have a low valuation why because there is a high risk and I think it was in the latest annual report that Buffett discussed how if there is a four magnitude in the US now I'm talking four magnitude natural disaster in comparison to what was happening in 2017 with three hurricanes so four times more then Berkshire loses about 20 billion he knows exactly what he will lose and he says everybody else goes bust and that will happen two times in a century so two times in a century 98% of US insurance will go bust that's and everybody's reinsured so you never know how that change of going chain of going bust develops so that's one why I don't invest in insurers because the potential for permanent capital loss is huge there and if I go in dig into what did they do what is their reinsurance I cannot see that I cannot see the complete chain or of insuring reinsuring the risking and I don't trust also their risk management they have kids that go to school use value at risk plotting the data and really behave on what the computer says they don't apply common sense Buffett does and Buffett thinks okay two times in a century I will lose 20 billion in a year and he's protected for that nobody else does it because nobody else cares about the two times in a century potential events on European insurance my mortgage is financed from an insurer that gave me 103% of the value of the home I was buying no down payment no nothing I didn't even have a permanent contract yet it was a flexible contract later became permanent but still so when I see those risks that those insurers are taking when I see what's going on in the European Union it's simply crazy for me to invest for any kind of yield and that's also why the PE ratio is low and will probably remain low because institutional investors big money smart money sees the risks and understands what's going on so really dig deep before investing into an insurer similarly Deutsche Bank you just see it going down down and down and the world might also change for those insurers just an example here American international group it was trading at 1193 in 2007 then it went bust bailed out now it's okay a little bit higher but still you see what can happen with those insurers even if everybody thinks stable dividends for 20 40 years you never know what's behind that and that's something I'm not going willing to risk my capital for that for any kind of yield so the message here is take a century perspective give yourself a few decades for those stocks to become hundred beggars really try to expose yourself with low risk high reward and check my extremistan investments where you can really find low risk high explosive investments that are not blockchain cryptocurrencies or insurance insurance companies perhaps the opposite if you short them at the right time but that's a different story thank you for watching looking forward to your comments and I'll see you in the next video


So I'm Paul, I'm from the promo team and I'm going to talk about why sometimes you don't get all the love you deserve for your project. This is kind of a trailer to what I will be talking about on Monday at quarter past 12, where I'll do a workshop explaining where we will see how to improve the text on your website. Here's the thing, very often, 90% of the time, when I go to a website of one of your projects, the first thing I see is a text that tells me what that project is. This is a top down way of looking at things.  But there is a problem with that. Very often, the people who come to your websites don't have the knowledge to understand what that thing is. So I suggest that you do it the other way round, that we have a bottom up explanation. So you start by saying how it is useful to the reader. Let me give you an example with Kirigami. Anybody is the person who wrote that here? No? Good for him or her or whatever. I was going to suggest that maybe he should leave. This is another thing. When you come on Monday, you're going to have to check your egos at the door because we're going to destroy everything you have written. Then build it up again. No problem. Let's have a look at this one. We have here Kirigami is a lightweight user interface framework for mobile and convergent applications. I think that everybody here probably understands that. But everybody who is not here doesn't. I can guarantee that. You think it's intelligible, but it's not. You are reading it through the filter of your knowledge, right? Let me give you an example of, maybe some of you will get what I'm going to say, but I'm going to give you an example from another website, from another project that is not a KDE, but it's also gobbledygook. The XYZ is the first notarized cryptocurrency P2P exchange for server blockchain entirely owned by its clients. Okay, who can tell me what is it? No, it's not Bitcoin. You're cheating. You have blockchain and you said Bitcoin. No? It's not even a cryptocurrency. It is something else entirely, right? Now, let's break, but let's get back to this, right? Let's break that down. Let's see how it is really gobbledygook. So let's take that first sentence, right? KDE is an acronym. Lightweight is a buzzword. User interface is jargon and a buzzword. Framework is jargon. Mobile is jargon. Convergent is jargon and a buzzword. Application is jargon. So you have eight words. If we take out is for and and, which I think everybody can understand. We have eight words. Seven are jargon or buzzwords, and one is the name of the project. So, you know, what can we do with this? This is something that nobody outside this room can understand. You are writing for your peers. You're writing for your colleagues. You're not writing for the world. Okay.  It's back. It's back. It's back. So there are two problems with that first sentence. One is that it is full of words that only you understand or only you understand in that context. What I mean is that, sure, application is a word that you can use in everyday language, but it doesn't mean outside this room what it means inside this room. Okay. That's why it's jargon. And the rest are just terrible. I look at that and I want to cry. Yes. And then we get on to the second sentence, which is better, much better, because it explains what it does. What it does for the user. It says, allows QT developers to easily create applications that run on most major mobile and desktop platforms without modification. It is much better. That should probably be the first sentence, right? Because it says what it does. Then we can get to what it is, right? The problem with something like that is that in the first sentence you're going to use most, you're going to lose most of the readers. Now, you may think, but why should I care? Because this is only interesting for developers, right? True or not? Yes. Why do you care? Exactly. Why? Why should you care? Well, it's very simple. You don't know who is going to be interested in Keregami. For example, if somebody came along and said, okay, I have money to spend on a free software project. Keregami sounds interesting, goes here, doesn't understand it and leaves without leaving his money, right? That's one.  Some of them are new and they don't have the vocabulary, right? And you want to introduce them to KD and its technologies. So you have to write for everybody. You have to write for the world. You don't know who you're going to need to understand this, right? I suggest, for example, an alternative to this. I haven't written it down for a slide or anything like this. But if I were to write that, I mean, I do this all the time. I do it for KDE and I do it for companies and things like that. They send me their press releases and it's always tech companies I work for. They send me their press releases. They send me their white papers, etc. And my job is to convert it into something that everybody can understand, a journalist, a boss, right? Or any reader, okay? So after dedicating a long five minutes to this, I thought that maybe this would be a good alternative, right? I'm trying to keep all the meaning here, right? So bear with me. If you want to create apps that work the same on mobile phones and desktop computers and you don't want to have to program everything twice or three times, KDE Gavme gives you all the tools you need and that's it. Okay, what would the problems be with that? Who objects to that? Say, who objects to that text, that one? Yes, buzzword? What buzzwords are they in here? If you want to create apps, apps is a buzzword, maybe. Okay, that work the same on mobile phones. Mobile phones is a buzzword, not really. And desktop computers, buzzword, not really. And you don't want to have to program everything twice, no buzzwords there, or three times? One second, one second, one second. Okay, first of all, first of all, as I said, written in five minutes. It's not necessarily the final draft. It sounds like a sales speech, but that is exactly what your website is. It's a sales mechanism. That is what you want to do. You want people to be interested in your... Because otherwise, why bother? Yes. I didn't say it was awesome. I think KDE Gavme is awesome, by the way, if anybody here is developers of KDE Gavme, I do think it is awesome. I didn't say it was awesome. I just said what it was. Yeah, I have a... Oh, sorry, sorry. Sorry, man. Here you go. I do have it in Haiku form also. You want to hear it? Develop for phones for desktop computers to KDE Gavme rules. I think that summarizes in what KDE Gavme is quite nicely. Okay, it's a bit obscure, but I wouldn't probably use it. But there are many ways of saying what you want to say. Okay, mine may sound very salesmanship, but you know why it sounds like that to you? Because you fucking... You can understand it, because it's for everybody. It sounds like some guy on television selling you detergent. Because he has to go to the lowest denominator, but you too, because that's why you have a website. Tell me. Yeah, but it's public, but wait one second. Yeah, one second, one second, but you put KDE Gavme, KDE in Google, that's the first thing that comes up. So the problem is that it's the first result on Google. So people who are interested in this, I mean, yesterday I wrote an article for a general tech blog. It's for people that like things like iPhones and PS3s and stuff like that. But I said, okay, I'm going to stick KDE Gavme in there, right? And I did, okay, and I explained it like I just said. This is this thing that computer programmers can use to program for all sorts of platforms, right? And they don't have to write things twice or three times, etc. Basically that was it. And I said, and with this, the KDE community is going to take over the world, the mobile phone world, okay? Because, you know, you have to finish with something like that. The thing is that people would read that and go click on KDE Gavme and then be, I mean, don't you guys want people to like your, do you want to put them off? Really? Is that the end game? Say, I don't know. Absolutely. Yes, yes. Okay. Yes, but yes and no, yes and no. I cheated a bit. I cheated a bit. I cheated a bit by picking KDE Gavme. I cheated, obviously. But that said, that's it. There's nothing wrong in this webpage and this, even in the top it says tech base. What is wrong is the fact that we don't have the counterpart, the commercial counterpart that you want. So this actually, the fault is that you don't have the other part. But this is not wrong. This is for developers. Yeah, that's the problem. The problem is that this is the only thing. This is the only thing, right? This is, so as I say, if we, if, if there was an alternative to this, if there was another first result in Google and this was the second result, okay, no problem. But this is the first result. And below that, there's nothing else. Okay. Yes. Sorry. Yes. Fine. But so the state of the discussion in the room right now is that his version is less well targeted as developers. And that's been accepted as a factor. I totally disagree with that because this text that's on the wiki right now doesn't speak to anything that I would actually do as a developer. Like his version says you write it once and it runs across devices, right? Which is how I would actually make an application using Kirigami. So his version tells me what my process of using Kirigami as a developer would be. Whereas the version on the wiki page, the only word that hints at this right at once and it runs across devices is convergent. And convergent is not how I develop. Like I'm not a convergent developer. The problem is. It's not a verb, right? Yeah. Sorry. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Convergence is a word that became so like popular two, three years ago tops, right? Convergence outside this room also doesn't mean what it means in this room. Okay. It doesn't even mean the same in develop in communities that develop for things that are not mobile. Okay. So, you know, I'll tell you what, what, what is happening here. My job here is to get the most, the biggest number of quality members into your community as possible. Right. And one way that I want to achieve this is by having you make your message more accessible to a larger audience. Is that, does that make sense? Does that make sense to you? So, yes? Right. So, the problem I have with these things is that, and sorry, I don't know your name, but Dennis. Dennis said, I cheated because I picked Karygami, but that doesn't only happen in Karygami. I have tons of examples that we will see on Monday if you don't bring your own where you will see that end user applications are the explanation on their website. Their first paragraph is chock-a-block with jargon, and it doesn't say what it does. This thing, yeah? I mean, if now most of you go home and look at your, your websites and start thinking of, oh, mission accomplished for me? Yes. I can't hear you very well, sorry. Sorry. Developers? This is what you get, yeah. But there are, there are, there are tricks, which, which is what, sorry. Yeah, sure. Developers writing documentation. Writing things. Yeah, okay. I agree that the, that the wording is very, is boring, basically. So, it could be a bit lighter, like a lighter style. On the other hand, it's probably due to the fact that whoever wrote this was trying to start a page for developers and so on. So, yeah, I see the problem. The problem is that it's not even, it's not even more precise than what I said. Yeah, okay. I agree. Your part, your first expression was, was first, it was actually better than what was written there. On the other hand, this one is a wiki, so. Yeah. The thing is, the thing is that, that you say developers writing documentation. Well, I'm going to tell you something. You were not born this way, okay?   You like, you're like Don Quixote, right?  You guys have been contaminated. The thing is also that the version on the wiki page, whoever wrote the text didn't do it with the mission on mind of respecting developers. They tried to pretend to be PR people and picked words that they thought said a lot and said very little like lightweight and conversion. Like it's trying to emulate something without really knowing what you're doing. Yeah. And that usually doesn't work. So the point that this version is somehow more respectful of the developer audience is not true at all to me. There is one interesting, sorry. Yeah. Just so one thing. There is an interesting point. When I write press releases for companies, you know, there is nothing that annoys me more. I mean, I get my red pen out and there's nothing that annoys me more than when they start with, we are excited to announce. We are market leaders and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All that goes out. Then I send my version back and they say, oh, but this is not like a press release at all. I mean, we go to, you go to press release sent out by IBM and by, one second, we're having an interesting conversation here. All right. We're getting kicked out. Sure. So please stop. I see you all are having a lot of fun with this, but the bus leaves in exactly 15 minutes. So we should probably try to wrap this up. So you can attack me in the, in the passage or whatever. Thank you.


20 years later and I finally got the shoes. Today we're gonna be talking about the Air Jordan 9 low Mike Bibby PE. There is so much history and nostalgia when it comes to this sneaker right here, especially to all my OG heads out there in the game and the people that have been collecting for a long time or people that just simply like player edition sneakers. I know for a fact you're gonna love this video. So I'll be talking to you guys how much I got the shoe for and where I got the shoe from. But before we do all that, we gotta talk about the history first. Mike Bibby is a Jordan Brown athlete that used to play in the NBA and no longer does, but he was on Jordan Brown for a really long time, played for multiple teams and throughout those years we all remember the moments when he played for the Sacramento Kings and his Bibby PEs for that era because the purple alone is just a nice touch. Mike Bibby signed with Jordan Brown back in 1999 along with notable players like Randy Moss, Derek Jeter and Roy Jones Jr. During this time Jordan Brown was making a huge stance to bring on some of the best athletes in all sports and really dominate the game on and off the court. But before that we gotta mention back in 1997 when Jordan Brown decided to become their own entity within Nike. Now during that era we had the original five guys that were signed to Jordan Brown and that was Ray Allen, Vin Baker, Mike Finley, Derek Anderson and Eddie Jones. So during that time that was essentially Jordan Brown starting five in 97 and I'm telling you right now, if it wasn't for them we probably wouldn't have anything that we see today when it comes to the PEs and the player edition things that we love to collect in current time. So I gotta give respect to those guys and trust me I feel like they need their own video when it comes to PEs and players in the game. So if you guys wanna see a real breakdown of the history of PEs, let me know down below in the comment section and I'll make sure I give you guys a nice in depth video of that. But for right now we need to talk more about this shoe right here. One thing that not a lot of people know is Mike Bibby liked to play in a lot of low cut sneakers on the court. So when you see a lot of his models and his different PEs versions they're all gonna be more in that low cut style whether it may be the 12s or the 9s or even the 17s and the more of the three quarter cut different things like that. You're gonna see a lot of different versions more in that low cut style. Yes he did have higher cut models as well but overall I think a lot of people know Mike Bibby PEs for being the low top versions. Now when it comes to the Jordan 9 model in particular there were a lot of different colorways and variations whether you had the purple with the white or even on the back end right here you see the 23. There's actually another version that has a 10 on the back as well. So not only did they have different colors and cool colorways that were never available to the public but there were different versions of the number that they decided to use on the presentation of the PE as well with the 23 or the 10 on the side or the back whatever it is.  There was a lot of different iterations alone just with this model and honestly I love them all but this one in particular this is my favorite Air Jordan 9 low Mike Bibby colorway of all time. I know that white and red colorway is clean don't get me wrong but this purple this just hits different. So now that you guys know a little bit more about the sneaker don't worry I'll make sure that I get into the in-depth detail shots of the shoe for you guys but we need to talk about how I got the shoe how much I got it for before we get into the details of the sneaker. So when it comes to where I got the shoe from I got it from the what not app. So if you haven't heard of it I have the link for you down below sign up that'll get you guys a $15 credit for your account as soon as you sign up. So make sure you hit that link and that'll get you guys all you need to get set up and everything going but basically on the what not app it's live auctions and when you go to their app honestly you have a really high percent chance of finding some dope sneakers for a really really good price. So in particular on this shoe we'll talk about price in a second. I feel like I got these for a really good deal saying based off of the other resale prices that I've seen over the years. So like I was saying I got these from the what not app and on the app I actually got these from Soul Steel. So if you guys haven't heard of Soul Steel I'll have their link for you guys down below in the description as well. But they also do live streams on the what not app which makes things even better because I know they're a great authentic seller. I don't have anything to worry about. I know they got PEs and samples and things like that. And then with them doing the auctions on there there's a high percent chance I can get the shoes for even better price. So honestly it was a win-win. As soon as I saw they were doing a live stream I was tapped in the entire time. I was trying to screen record things but I was so mentally focused on trying to win the different bids. There were a lot of bangers on there and honestly there was a couple of shoes that I let slip through the cracks. But it's okay I will get them eventually. Shout out to Soul Steel as I appreciate y'all as always. But either way I got this shoe. So now I can officially say oh we got this shoe. So I'm sure you guys are probably wondering now how much did I get this shoe for. I ended up getting these for $1,000 and honestly I think that was a really really good deal. Saying that this is the OG classic nostalgic PE and able to get these for $1,000. Typically when I go to find a dead stock pair of PEs like this from back in the day it's gonna be anywhere from $2,500 to $4,000 on the resell price. But again they always have really really good deals on the what not app. So like I said if you guys wanna check it out make sure you guys hit that link in below. You'll get a $15 credit as well.  So yes I know I could go and resell this sneaker and make some money on it and all those different things. But I got these for the collection. I've been waiting to get these. I have other BBPs in my collection as well.  This is one that slipped through the cracks and I'm glad to finally have it. And I'm excited to share this with you guys. So now that you guys know all that, where I got it from, how much I got it for. Let's talk a little bit more about the details and everything in this shoe because it may look so simple. But trust me they did a really really nice job on this shoe. So starting with the bottom you have your classic Air Jordan 9 sole all white right here. Then you got the purple jump man on the bottom. And then going up to the midsole same thing purple jump man here. And then you have that metallic purple paint all around right here on the midsole. And then on the upper you got that purple patent leather with the thick premium white leather on there. A white mesh silver plastic agglis right here holding the white laces in. And then on the front end right here you have Air Jordan stitched in purple on a patch.  So yes, this shoe is very simple, very clean. But trust me when I tell you this when you're talking about PEs from 2002, 2003, anything from the early 2000s like this the quality on these things is so nice. And that's something that I love about Collecting Sneakers and all those dope aspects when it comes to the classic nostalgic PEs like this. So for me, I'm a very, very happy camper and I'm excited to finally add these to my collection. Let me know what you guys think about these down below in the comments section. We definitely got a lot of cool pickups when it comes to the PEs. So stick around to the end of the year for my top 10 pickups list because yeah, this might be one of my best ones of the year. Yo, before you go, I just launched my Sneakerhead Academy where we got everything on the inside. I teach you all the stuff that I learned over the past 15 years. When it comes to sneakers, scaling, real estate, you name it, we talk about all of it in there.  I give away shoes literally way too much honestly. But either way, I'll see you guys on the inside. Hit the link down below in my description or pinned in the comments section for DJ Sneakerhead Academy. And I'll see you guys over there.


I'm not a scrum master. I do Python. I love Python and I still love agile I implemented successfully few times in few different teams as crumb and Tried a little bit of Kanban and I would like to share my experience with you How many of you are using scrum or any agile technology at work? Rise a hand keep keep holding them if you like scrum or agile.  Nice nice to meet you Just one person to be honest, I'm a bit surprised and And so first we will go to the hell Through me you pass into the city of whoa through me you pass into eternal pain through me among the people lost for I I'll hope abandon you who enter here This is the famous wording from Dante Alighieri from the divine comedy and today We are going to have the same journey as he had But together with our Virgilius scrum To the paradise Now we are starting our journey So what do we all want here? We would like to be more productive We would like to be helpful to all our projects and to our project managers to make them happy But also to be happier at work to be happy with our technologies So let's go through all the failures and challenges which we could meet on our way to paradise We would like to be more productive the question is how to do so Here comes the Manifesto for agile software development with the key points to satisfy customer Welcome changing requirements. We all love changing requirements. Of course. Why not? Let's change everything in the moment and Deliver frequently We all need agility in our projects. We want to be flexible and we want to be as fast as possible Sounds great. Yes, that's exactly what we are looking for here And if we would like to go for it, there are so many frameworks agile frameworks scrum Kanban extreme programming crystal dynamic Dynamic systems development method feature driven development and many more and when someone asks you How do you keep the project on the schedule? How do you deliver on time? Usually the answer is like, oh, we have agile and then the team or the team members they start discussing scrum And I'm just wondering is the agile and scrum the same is agile is is agile scrum or scrum is agile It's like the same if you would say that the object is the same as a class Do you agree? I Don't so the first first of all, I would like to tell you that agile is not a noun It's an objective It's like he's he's in the jail. He's very fast and flexible run as fast as you can So a gel is a set of principles and scrum is an agile framework and Nowadays to be honest a gel became a buzzword and every company would like to implement it Every everyone is keen to start with all the principles of any of the frameworks and to be successful in The company and they are really afraid to fail of not having them So let our journey begin together with our virgilio scrum. We are going to paradise We will continue our join a journey into success and let's imagine that our company decided to implement scrum for example, but what does it mean to me as a person to me To me as a team member Let's imagine That let's imagine that our company has a goal. They want to be productive. They want to be fast they want to deliver frequently and they all have different requirements changing every week or maybe every day and The meaning behind those words is usually whatever it takes and the problem is here Whatever it takes part because then it takes all our inspiration or our all our abilities to work Then all the teams are frustrated. They don't really know how to deal with it And this is the problem here comes the hell in the companies We would like to be happy at work we would like to apply it all the best practices and To be honest to have any kind of options Crafted for the teams, but that's not really possible because all the teams. They are different Every personality is different and also the projects even with the same topic for example two different companies But the same kind of product the processes may be different, of course So the possible solutions Here is like the most exciting one to have a scrum master It's very fancy buzzy and nice to have a dedicated scrum master for one team Who will set up all the sprints But there are multiple more options the first one is to have a team lead as a scrum master But hey, you know that there is no team lead role in the scrum There is the product owner the team and the scrum master and where is the team lead in this case? The team lead is becoming not a real scrum master This person is more like a controller For the management to control if the project is on time is everything is on schedule if everything is delivered and it's kind of Not the nice way to set up a scrum because then team is not really happy with the scrum Everyone is not energetic and not willing to report to the same team lead because it's not a facilitator It's just a person who has even more control The second option is to have a dedicated scrum master, which is nice. It's always nice the third one to hire One person or maybe a group of people maybe a separate company to train the team to be Agile or scrum to deliver on time to know which meetings do they need to set up like To get a bit of a feeling how should it work and there are even nice trainings I had that for the company but the problem afterwards that the team should set up it and Then the company who is running all the workshops They're leaving the company in the same state as they were With some kind of knowledge and then they need to implement a new framework. It's the same as development You are reading a book and then you have to try it, but does it really work all the time? And then the other option is to have one scrum master for few different teams And there are so many open questions in Those four different options For example, do we really need a full-time scrum master? Is it a full-time job? because the company would probably think that The scrum master will have not enough work to do it's like 50 50 and maybe it's an option to share One scrum master between different teams. Why not? Yeah for sure that might work But if one scrum master shares different teams and one team has impediments They cannot really deliver on time because they don't have enough resources or maybe they don't have enough communications with the customer and The other team has some issues with the scrum or they just cannot work together They have arguments and they needed a solution What to do how scrum master will decide which team is more important how to do so? It's kind of impossible then one team will succeed and then the second one will fail and Who will be responsible for that manager or a team? Of course the team and For the scrum training the question here is if one person is going to be a scrum master or they will share responsibilities then At the very beginning as a full-time job. I tried it. I was a developer. I entered the new team. Everyone was very Frustrated with the job. They didn't talk with each other and then I tried to bring them together with some Team buildings and also explain them all the principles how it works and what can they do with the scrum Which meetings can we have and how can we be happy and successful and It really took a lot of time to adjust for the team and to bring a safe environment for the team So then they will open up and be able to speak up during the meetings Do you agree that the scrum is about things developers do when they are not writing code? Anyone that's nice Maybe you have perfect scrum or agile principles in your companies I heard that a lot from all the developers and They are not really happy because they have to do even more work at work. They have to write the code They have to attend meetings and also they have to fill all the forms for the Sometimes for the daily you have to really fill the form.  So how to start? there is a hope and Dave Thomas one of the creators of Agile methodology gave us a hope he crafted a way how to start with all the agile Principles and how to implement that first search for a solution pick one most fitting one But just one then try it out and Then review the results just stop for a moment look back and then decide if it works or not Then adjust and start over again and Here the most important part is to try just one solution at a time because if you will try multiple ones Then you will not see what is working and what is not it may not work And then you still need to adjust again again and it depends on the teams sometimes all the improvements They just simply work sometimes nothing works and you need to Go outside of the box and see what is happening So implementing a gel principles is not a goal The goal is to be more productive and to be happier at work But that's not the goal of the company company wants to have more deliveries and Better products for sure but for people and for the scrum master The goal is to make the team so comfortable that they can share ideas They can speak up and they can craft a solution together So the scrum master is more like a full-time job at the beginning But then afterwards the team is self-organized and it should just simply work together They're finding the solutions together without a scrum master So if the company would go for the scrum Then they would have all those meetings that they list and up the sprint review the demo the retrospective and the sprint planning and many more So the daily stand up it should be less than 15 minutes Everyone should be standing to be as uncomfortable as possible So to finish earlier than 59 minutes and then answer three questions and the three questions are usually Always what I did yesterday. What am I going to do today and which impediments I had and usually the answer is For the first one for developers. Yeah, I did some coding yesterday.  Isn't it boring, right? So how to change it? There is a way because boring stuff prevents us from working and from inspiration And if you are trying out the new technology and then you have to sit at the meeting for an hour Or even worse for two hours, then you don't want to work anymore So how to make it fun There are multiple solutions first Change the location if you're standing up at the same place where you work every day Just go for a coffee. Why not meet up at the kitchen or maybe while walking to take a coffee Just do the stand up answer the questions or talk with each other sometimes changing the question helps because if you will answer the questions what inspired me yesterday and What am I going to do today to bring up the energy into my product? That's a bit different or maybe you can answer those questions for a colleague of yours You can just switch the order and then you share kind of understanding what everyone does in your team Or even visualizing the product the progress helps and the way Which you would like to have for example You can set up some kind of local currency you earn like 100 points and then you got a coin For the team and then the team member who got more coins can do some kind of review or something like that also making notes and making it visual helps a lot and Changing the order you can for example bring the big bowl and then throw to the person and say like you are the next one That works So the sprint retrospective Nothing funny here. It's just reviewing the processes. It's not about the product just about the team You're sitting there listening each other sleeping. No, actually, it's not it could be even funny When the whole team interacts with each other for example, what I did in the team it was like the timeline and Every team member was able to use either green or red or the orange sticky notes The green is like everything good happened and they would like to have it more the red something bad happened And the orange is like oh, I don't really know it's something in the middle And then if you will put it on the timeline Then you will see how the product how the product was developed and how the processes went For example from the green to the red at some point and then to the green or orange And you really can see the progress at the very beginning. It was some kind of very Funny because everyone would like to have more team buildings more beers more coffee It's like green and then from the red We didn't have chocolate for example yesterday. Yeah, it was kind of Fred. We fixed that until the next spring because Somebody from the team brought a chocolate and it was improvement, of course, so it worked and to make in your retrospectives even more fun retrospective Could have sort of a name as Result of the work you did how it went It could have a story for example like this if in our Sprint we were throwing out the stories. We were losing money and like just Doing that and the name was Wolf of the Wall Street and Here's the paradise almost so close. We are almost there But there is one but The overall knowledge About our scrum The orange one is something that we don't know The dark blue is something that we know about scrum and the biggest part is something that we don't know that we don't know But we don't really know it that we don't really know it It's a hard question how to discover this part. It's a huge part And we don't even know what to do because we don't really know what what it's happening in there and I would recommend one book about Playing games at work is about it's about developing the products And Playing at work. It's not just about scrum or a gel or any methodology. It's about methods how to Sex up your the products and how to deliver based on the customer Because customer usually doesn't really know what what they want They are frustrated. Sometimes they really know like we need these but Sometimes They like oh we want this product No matter what and how we just need it and with those games you can discover what you don't know about the product and about the customer and One more thing to say sometimes on the way to paradise we meet zombies Why are we talking about zombies and scrum? That's kind of weird They appear to be human but in reality they are not there is no beating heart and the same Is in scrum there is a zombie scrum approach It appears to be scrum But in reality there is no fun in it. There is no beating heart. I would highly recommend you to go to the link Let me show it to you to this one They will suggest you how to discover if your scrum is a zombie scrum and how to fix it It's zombie scrum Resistance and I would like to say from a small spark great flame had risen And I wish you all to all your projects and to all your teams a Small spark and inspiration and fun. Thank you Thanks a lot Anastasia. I Found myself and how I work in the in my team in many things you talk about I'm happy. I'm a guy And do you have question? Hi I have a question regarding External influences so you want to improve your processes may bring in more automation more CICD But always the product owners or some senior business people. They always want more products, right and They generally don't give you enough time to work on your technical debt and things like those we have Experiences with that and how do you influence those guys who are outside the team? I can see two questions the first one about the processes how to change them within the company and the second how to Deliver on time still was the change in processes I Got the question and the concern of yours and the answer is sometimes you have to Tell them how much will they get? instead of just delivering the Products all the time because if they will see at least one improvement within a week or two weeks Then they would believe you So what we did we asked for some extra time for one sprint and then we started Then we showed like hey we committed for this and we delivered that let's try one more sprint and in two sprints in it improved a lot and they really could see the progress or Sometimes you can really lie for some For some big companies when they are not flexible at all So for example you have a scrum for the whole company and it's not flexible You have to follow all the rules and it's kind of hard and easy. It's easy because you can Be one separated team and just don't show all the processes in your team. You can kind of fly Yeah, we are following but you're not and afterwards when the scrum master or somebody from the team is Showing the progress then they're very happy and surprised Another question. I think like sometimes with stand-ups when a manager is present You sort of say things different to when he's not present because you may be like oh, yeah I did this yesterday. I did this yesterday. I did this yesterday When he's not there, you don't care about giving so much detail Do you think there's some value in having different people at standards on each day or not? Different people in different people is in I'd say like with your manager and without your manager I mean you still have the same team. You cannot change team members. I mean you can do. Yeah, that's possible What we did in the current company I recently started and it was kind of a challenge for me to find the company where There are already kind of principles implemented So I would be still happy joining them and not changing them completely as I did before So what they do they invited more people because it's a startup and we have More than 10 people is like 20 people standing around and we still manage to finish in 15 minutes We usually answer those questions, but it's more like playing around and having fun one of the other But the thing is we didn't we did wanted to have a change of opinions and be on the same track every day So it's still possible. You can invite more people. You can un-invite them If you don't like them. Oh just don't come. Yes or change the location and they will not see the changing thanks for your talk What is the difference between a scrum master and just a middle manager and the manager and a middle manager? Yes, there's somebody who is sort of above the team and is responsible for higher levels of management. I Mean they do management and the scrum master doesn't scrum master is responsible for the team's happiness so it's kind of facilitator between the teams and The manager should trust the team and the team Shouldn't be controlled to be honest because it's self-organized team and they can manage whatever they have except impediments which are there to be a result by the scrum master and the scrum master could go to the management and ask for resolutions But usually yeah, they do everything Kind of so the scrum master has to protect the team from the management Good question. Thank you question We are time for another couple of questions if you have So thanks a lot again Anastasia and See you soon in Berlin


Thank you very much. First of all, I would like to thank Hans and Gulchin for the invitation here as a few years ago, Antony Müller aptly said this conference is the Wimbledon of the Libertarians So I'm really honored to be here I'll be talking about Italy today about Italian history and the theme of my speech is state-making as war-making so the deep connection between state and war and I will start with with Five quotes from different writers and thinkers and so on which can be a good introduction for Italy as a theme the first one is from Francesco Petrarca. We heard about Dante Petrarca is another Outstanding medieval writer and this is a piece from a poetry of Petrarca dedicated to Italy Quote Valor will take up arms against wild attacks and the battle will be short for ancient valor is still strong in Italian hearts This was deeply inspiring for Italian patriots the second one is from the Prince of Machiavelli, you know Machiavelli had two versions the one team referred to yesterday the in his commentaries to Livy and where he advocates for virtue and and Ethical values and then you have the Prince where he advocates for a ruthless Ruler and this is from Machiavelli quote Italy half dead is still waiting for someone to heal its wounds and put an end to the Ravaging of Lombardy and to the extortionate taxing of the kingdom of Naples and of Tuscany Cleansing the source that have festered for so long It's clear that Italy is begging God to send someone who will deliver it from its cruel ill treatment at the hands of the foreigners It's also clear that Italy is ready and willing to march behind a flag if only someone will raise one and quote the third is the most interesting quote and it comes from Fyodor Dostoevsky the Russian writer in his The book it's okay. It's not a book. It's from his diary of a writer Quote take the instance of Count Kavur Kavur was the the prime minister who unified Italy just as a footnote Wasn't his a great mind wasn't he a diplomat? I am citing him because his genius is generally recognized and also because he is dead Yet, what did he do look? Oh, he did achieve his aim He did unite Italy, but what was the result for 2000 years? Italy bore in herself a universal unifying idea not some abstract idea not a speculation of some theoretical mind but a realistic organic idea the fruit of the national and universal life This was the unification of the whole world First the ancient Roman and later the papal unification the peoples who have been growing and disappearing in Italy in the course of these two and one half millennia Understood that they were the bearers of a universal idea while those who did not understand it felt and Divined it science art. Everything was invested and permeated with this universal significance Oh, let us admit that at length this unismersal idea became worn out and wasted there Although hardly so but what in the long run has come in its stead upon what can Italy be? Congratulated what advantage has she achieved after Count Kavur's diplomacy? There arose a second-rate little kingdom which has lost every kind of universal aspiration Which exchanged it for the most worn-out bourgeois principle the 30th repetition of this principle since the French Revolution a Kingdom fully content with its unity, which means nothing a mechanical not a spiritual unity It has not the former universal unity and on top of that a kingdom burdened with Insolvent indebtedness and in addition one specifically content with its own second-ratedness This is what came of it such was Count Kavur's creation unquote and Then the last two quotes This is from Prince Metternich the Austrian general. It's very short quote Italy is a geographical expression unquote and the last is from a Italian singer Giorgio Gabber who had very deep insights about the Italian character and The quote is this I have it from memory. Maybe I'll be a little bit wrong I'm not proud of being Italian but luckily or unluckily I am one So with these quotations in mind will start My reflections about war and state-making with the case of Italy Italy as a place is the birthplace of militarism The militarism we have nowadays with its symbols acronyms medals eagles and so on was invented by the ancient Romans and Militarism is still the Roman tradition changed during the centuries and millennia, but it's still the same tradition It is the tradition of what the ancient Romans called Imperium Imperium is the Right of the military ruler. It is an absolute right It is the right to decide about life and death of the subjects. It is the right of conquest and You cannot but think of Oppenheimer who was Quoted yesterday as well as you know Oppenheimer distinguished between two systems of Social life what he called the economic means which is producing and exchanging goods on a voluntary basis on the basis of contracts and the political means the political means is forced appropriation of other people's goods by violence or fraud and the Roman Empire is the big example of The political means made as a system Rome lived on the exploitation of other countries of wars and conquests for a long time and Once it became impossible to conquer other people. They had to start a war against their own citizens The works of Rostov-Tsev are probably the best ones in describing the fiscal collapse of the Roman Empire and My personal interpretation is that This is the time when Italians were born so until Italians were ancient Romans. They belonged to this great military Republican and later imperial enterprise of conquering other people and and making And grabbing their their wealth the the phrase from Virgil to Romani populus imperio dominares memento is the The idea so the Imperium the military might is the way to be the rulers of the world once this ended and once The Roman citizens began to be exploited by the taxes of the Empire typically during the third century after Christ and in the later in the later centuries there Was established Deep divide between the state and the citizens and this is in my opinion the birthplace of Italy Italians Don't like the state there. Sometimes you say they are natural anarchists. Although this is not the case anymore, but anyway lots of barbarians who invaded the Western Empire were saluted as Liberators because they brought with them very light states, of course They were warriors and and conquerors, but they had not the organization of the Roman Empire Especially the fiscal organization of the Roman Empire and they could not get so many taxes from the from the from the citizens After the so-called dark ages and the and the Period of the first middle-aged Italy Experienced what Peter Schwartz was referring to An incredible flourishing of arts of building of wealth banking was invented in the in Italy the city-states were very powerful were very rich and They could enjoy a situation where the Political cloud of the German emperors and of the popes was in place, but was not so strong Italians Won very important battles against the the German emperors the most important one Which is always cited is the battle of legnano against the Emperor Federico Frederick Barbarossa and the League of Northern Italian cities defeated the Emperor and The independence of city-states the Different laws different rules is maybe one of the best examples of Spontaneous order of an anarchist society Not exactly what we would like as a as a private law society, but it was pretty close the situation of Italy and the wealth of the Italians attracted of course foreigners and Starting from the late 15th and early 16th century Italy became Territory of conquest for the Spanish for the French for and later for the Austrians Italians didn't really care about this. There's a saying in Italy, which is Franza or Lemania This means France or Germany the important thing is that we eat and this is a yeah Yeah, this is a very very Good description of the Italian attitude Italians don't care who the ruler is and the ruler is someone who is very far away Maybe French maybe Spanish that's that makes no difference. The important thing is that their private life is a good life and There was a famous Expert on Italian literature in the 19th century Francesco de Santis who Criticized this Italian attitude in his opinion there were two Two ideas of Italy one represented by Machiavelli. So the idea of the ruthless ruler war as the System to build up states and this was his ideal We will speak of it later The other one is another historian who is not so famous as Machiavelli, but in my opinion who was the best Interpreter of the Italian attitude towards life and social life who was Francesco with Cerdini and in his Book of the remembrances, it's a book of short pieces where he remembers his life as a diplomat He was a high-ranking diplomat of the of Florence and he said Italians Look after their own business. We would say in English in Italian in Italian. It's the particula re suo We have also very vulgar expression to say this but anyway, I won't mention it here But it this is a is a typical attitude of Italians, so I mind my own business. I I don't care about the state I don't care about the others. So there's a lack of of solidarity a lack of of unity between Italians, but This is a very intelligent Description of of Italians And not withstanding the fact that Italy had been conquered by foreign powers the Flourishing in in arts in literature in architecture continued Every everyone who has visited Italy has it Before his eyes we have wonderful churches palaces Works of art even after the French stole them and brought them to Paris we still have an amount of of works of art which is incredible and The idea of Italy as a concept began to Be gathered around a cultural unity So the first ones during the 18th century speaking of Italy as an idea where especially writers I can Quote Alfieri Vittorio Alfieri. He was a writer for of tragedies for the theater and the very famous Hugo Foscolo who was a poet and The idea was that there was some kind of cultural unity of Italians of course at that time this was no more than an illusion the little elite who were in who had the capacity of Reading Dante Petrarch and understand even understanding Italian They were just a few the majority of the Italians spoke dialect never read anything. It couldn't even She conceived the idea of of Italy as a cultural unity anyway The idea became stronger and stronger, but the problem is The most of these writers were deeply Connected with the classical culture. So instead of Going to the to the liberal tradition which was starting in England in the United States so the idea of a minimal state of Freedom of personal freedom They went back to the classical writers who saw freedom political freedom as the freedom to be part of a political community and so they tried and they the idea was to Bring back the idea of of ancient Rome and of ancient Greek cities to Italy, which was of course completely impossible and ancient writers always celebrated war and Violence as a way of establishing political power This became particularly important with the Napoleonic conquests of Italy Napoleon changed the political geography of Italy completely because he established Different republics and and independent states in Italy and for the first time Italians got the idea that they could be involved in politics and That they could build their own state The the Napoleon hadn't really an interest to build an independent Italian state He wanted satellite countries, which would be buffer states around France But anyway, his public proclamations, especially during the first time when he still was Council and not not emperor where along these lines and he stirred interest among Italians for this kind of new idea of politics What is very interesting? Napoleon gave the beginning also to a another Let's say political movement that was very important during the 19th century Which is the wars of resistance against Napoleonic invasions In Italy you had something similar or comparable to the resistance against Napoleon in Spain Although not as a national movement, but what is very important is especially in the south of Italy the king recruited criminals to fight against against Napoleon and this may be the birth of the mafia in and of the criminal organizations in southern Italy since Napoleon wasn't Able to keep in check the territory and since the king has had been ousted of his territories the only way of establishing a kind of control on on the territory and on the citizens where an alliance with criminals with the so-called banditie and they were the ones who fought even with great success against the French soldiers very famous criminals were promoted to generals of the army and the very strict connection between State power and organized criminality began during these years During the beginning of the 19th century there were attempts at revolutions attempts to build unified state The main idea which came from Two very prominent persons in the Italian unifications of the so-called Risorgimento the new birth of Italy Namely, Mazzini and Garibaldi Was to build a national character because they all knew that there is there was no national character of the Italians and especially they knew that Italians didn't have a big interest in Unified Italy especially in the south so the idea was to build Italy by means of a war of blood of They say that they always said the baptism of fire and blood. This was the idea so the idea was to build a war-like nation although Italians never had been war-like and very fond of war and to Achieve unification of Italy during by means of war. It's significant that Germans Did the same a few years after Italy because the the idea was the same to achieve unity through a war in this case Against France for the Italians. It was Austria in fact Unification of Italy was not an achievement of a war-like nation Italian armies Did not so well during the wars of your unification who was the real maker of Italy was Camillo Kavur It's interesting to note he had a French surname and his first language was French He usually wrote French in his letters to other to the king and to other politicians yet he had this idea of Italy and how did he achieve Italian unification mainly by means of intrigues secret services he exploited very very ruthlessly the sexual appetites of the French Emperor Napoleon the third and of the Italian King he provided high-ranking prostitutes to get in the beds of these two monarchs and He bribed the army officers of the southern Kingdom he Had a very ambiguous position as far as Garibaldi was concerned You know it Italian unification was achieved by means of the expedition of the thousand so-called to boats left the port of Quarto in the near near Jenova and they sailed to Sicily to invade Sicily and free southern Italy from the Bourbon Kings from King Francis and When Garibaldi arrived the more or less thousands Soldiers were joined by rebels. This is the official official history and big rebellion in Sicily ousted the king then he passed over to the mainland Italy and Was joined by the by the army of of Piedmont of the King of Sardinia and Piedmont and they achieved unification of Italy and Garibaldi and the King were described as sort of brothers in this Venture of unifying Italy. In fact, it was also a thing of secret service of British financing to the whole enterprise and most important Garibaldi could achieve this result only by an alliance with the local criminal organization the mafia Otherwise, he couldn't have done it. It is very interesting that the ship where the whole accounting of the expedition of the thousand soldiers of Garibaldi the ship was called Hercules and commanded by young Italian writer Ippolito Nievo who was only 30 years old the Ship disappeared with all the documents. No corpses were found Nothing was found at all of the ship and this made impossible to See how the money had been spent who paid the money because probably it came from from Britain who had an interest of building up power against the French in the Mediterranean and so the whole official narrative is very very Unlikely there is a very interesting book that not many know of a Filippo Curletti who was a spy a secret service agent for for Kavur who Described exactly what he did to bribe the people in the southern Italy to Bring about elections in favor of the unification of Italy which were completely fake like maybe in the United States now They they brought the people to the to the to the polls with with the With the election slides already with yes, we want unification of Italy. They couldn't even read and so on anyway Italy was more or less unified in 1861 During the next ten years we had a brutal civil war which is always not usually Described in in mainstream history books in southern Italy we had a civil war of former militaries of the of the southern army together with Criminals the so-called banditi in fact they were Freedom fighters or fighters against an invasion from a foreign country because this was the unification of southern Italy There were very famous Banditi Carmine crocco Ninko nanko they were very romantic figures because they could held in check a very organized army like the Piedmontese army for ten years more or less They were defeated at the end and This gave rise to true movements which are very important in Italian modern history on one side the Emigration there were lots of southern Italians who felt that they didn't have a fatherland anymore They did not it identify with Italy and they left Italy millions of Italians Sailed to the United States to Argentina to South America to Brazil and We still have so many Italians in the whole world and this comes from that time and it continued for more or less 100 years Another very important movement that came out of the war of conquest is Italian anarchism Italian anarchism is one of the most Strong anarchist movement was one of the most strong anarchist movements in the in the 19th century and For a certain time. It was really a danger for the newborn Italian state Both Prime Minister Chris P who was a very important Prime Minister during at the end of the 19th century and Jolieti fought against the anarchist with special laws with ruthless police interventions, but the anarchists weren't Peaceful people at this must be said. There have been lots of Kings and Queens killed by the anarchists the most Important episode of the anarchist fight against the Italian government is that of Gaitano Brischi in 1898 a new tax was passed on on on Bread and flour and this made for many Italians the the Bread really expensive so it meant hunger Servation for lots of Italians and in Milano There was there were big protests in the city with barricades and people protesting against this tax and King Umberto the first ordered one of his generals Baba Beccaris to Finish the rebellion ruthlessly and with violence and Baba Beccaris shot the the crowd with cannons and killed officially 90 persons probably around 300 400 it was a great tragedy and Not happy of that the King awarded the general with a with a medal for his brave and outstanding results during the rebellion in Milano And this Sturred the reactions of the anarchists, especially of one gaitano Brischi He was one of the many Italians who Went to the United States to escape the the Italian state He was living in the same city where later very famous anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were living it was a sort of Anarchist enclosure in the United States. He went back to Italy with the idea to shoot the king and in fact In on July 1900 he shot the king in Monza and Umberto primo died of this Brischi was very successfully Defended by a great anarchist lawyer whom I admire very much Francesco Savei Merlino And he was incredibly condemned to life and not to to to lifelong sentence and not Hanged what would have been the the natural thing, of course He was killed in in jail a few a few years after but anyway Anarchists were a strong force at the beginning of the 20th century in Italy and The Polarization of Italian politics at the beginning of the 19th century were along two lines on one side Anarchists and socialists at that time they were still allied Although there had been a big divide between anarchists and socialists because Anarchists didn't believe in the state and socialists of course believed in the state as a means of acquiring the control of the means of production on the other side nationalists and of course Catholics who were a little bit outside the the Italian politics because they The conquest of Rome by the Italian state in 1870 created a big divide between the Pope and the Italian state But yet there was a let's say a bourgeois alliance of liberals of a little some Catholics Who called the shots in Italy on the other side where the revolutionaries the anarchists the socialists and so on in this Political situation there rose a very important political movement, which is Not often mentioned and which is Really the birthplace of fascism, which is nationalism you can cite as very important persons of nationalism Gabelle D'Annunzio the poet the futurists so Magneti the movement of the futurism and they wanted to Establish the same thing that was the ideal of the Risorgimento They wanted to establish a strong country with a strong army and possibly to achieve military victories In 1915 this movement was the movement behind the interventionism of Italy in World War one Italy had an alliance with Germany and Austria and According to the treaty Italy was entitled to Remain neutral during World War one which was the idea of Jolitti. He was a liberal prime minister He was well aware that Italy hadn't the possibility to join the war and He wanted to keep Italy out out of the war It would have been a very intelligent course of action, but the nationalists weren't of that idea They began a very hard and strong campaign in favor of the intervention of Italy in World War one They were joined by Mussolini at that time still a socialist and The Jolitti Government fell he was substituted by another politician Antonio Salander who Made a secret treaty with with Great Britain and France in order to get Italy into Into World War one and he presented the treaty as a feta complet to the parliament and to the to the king The majority of the members of parliament went to Jolitti and pledged their Assistance to him in order to reverse the treaty, but Jolitti was afraid of Not holding the promises to to Great Britain and France and this is how Italy entered World War one World War one was aptly called by Pope Benedict the 15th as the suicide of Europe and the useless massacre He was very against World War one when Italy entered World War one. He Called it not a war, but a big war. It will run an enormous war and Okay, he was right Starting with World War one as in many countries Italy changed completely we had command economy government spending and the whole of the economy was Was Used for the interests of the state so the beginning of big state in Italy is the beginning of is Connected with World War one. So since that time In my opinion fascism was born the idea there is a very Important phrase by Mussolini. He said everything in the state nothing outside the state nothing against the state and This attitude began during World War one. In fact Mussolini came to power in 1922 with the march on Rome But the origins of what was later to become fascism can be searched in World War one World War one was for the Italian brutal war Conscripts from all From all of Italy most of them Ignorant peasants who didn't understand anything not even the officers commanding them because they spoke a dialect and they didn't understand the officers were forced to assault against Austrian machine guns and just die Italian the Italian front was organized on two lines on the first line There were the soldiers who were supposed to attack against the Austrians behind them.  So this was the World War one the on the front there was ruthless discipline with summary shootings of soldiers on by officers with Decimations which I think were the only army who who did this was the Italian army if Part of the army wasn't Obedient to the orders and if it was impossible to establish who was the responsible for this obedience The commanders ordered that one in ten soldiers to be shot There is a very interesting book by a writer whose name is Emilio Lussu A year on the high mountains and he describes this atmosphere and there is also a very interesting movie about about this From this book by Francesco Rossi the movie was prohibited in the 70s as Offense to the armed forces still so This is Italy I'll try to be fast after World War one as everyone knows Fascism was established As Umberto Eco said Fascism is eternal. It never went away Italians were enthusiastic about Mussolini about fascism They liked the idea of having a big nanny state which would provide for the Italians from the cradle to the tomb and If it had not been for the errors of Mussolini of entering the war at a timing when when Italy wasn't Capable of Sustaining the war we would still be fascists in Italy I think or maybe would have abandoned fascism as the Spanish Frankism in the 70s or something like that and the Italy was Liberated by the Americans and not by the resistance fighters as the common legend goes and The most important thing to say is that after fascism as in part in Germany, but more so than that the high-ranking bureaucrats and the Fascist system was not abandoned So we had a constitution in 1948 and the constitution provides for certain Fundamental rights, but the main architecture of the fascist state remained in place and in part still is in place one of the interesting things which give you an impression of how it went in Italy after the war is that the President of the racial Commission in Italy who was a Lawyer Gaetano at Zeriti it was the Commission who had could decide if someone belonged to the Jewish race and then had this thus had to be deported or not He became the first president of the Italian constitutional court. So this gives you a good impression of what Italy is We did have in the 50s and the 60s these short retreat of the state You can see it from the from the public debt In 90 in the 1960s public debt was around 20 30 percent of GDP In 1970 it soared to 40 percent in 1990 we came close to 100 percent now we are to 155 percent of GDP so the presence of the state which was a little bit lighter during the 50s and the 60s Retreated and then came back. We had a big comeback of the state during the years of terrorism and Later so during the years where when Italy joined the the euro and became part of of of the monetary union and during the last years the very last years We had a big big comeback of of the state The fiscal oppression in Italy is crazy Milton Friedman famously said when he they asked him what is the the biggest economic resource of Italy he said it's tax evasion and in fact It still is like this, but it's going back so the Thanks to technology the fiscal authorities are becoming more and more efficient and so they are just extortioning around 65 70 percent of the of the national revenue. This can't go on in fact, we witness it The end of democracy more or less since the government of Mario Monty Elections have no importance whatsoever as far as the prime ministers are concerned and during the covid crisis and here I end The oppression of the state became unbearable I leave you with a glimmer of hope in this very Sad description of Italy a big protest movement is Building up in Italy I myself are I'm one of the of the They call police called me the leader of the rebellion I'm I'm fighting the government and The interest for anti-state movements is coming back. I have funny conversations with State employees who asked me about Rothbard and Frank Choderoff and what they can read about About the idea of getting rid of the state. I Recommended them to read Hans's books so Something is changing. Maybe we can achieve it. Maybe we can We can achieve at least to go back a little bit more in the direction of a minimal state maybe we can achieve to Give force to secessionist movements like in Sardinia and in Veneto if not, we will be in a statist nightmare, which was the dream of the fascists and which will be Unluckily the end of my country. Thank you very much for your attention


I like to back them through the middle of that turn because the further from the cow you can get, the slower it is, the closer you are to the cow, the faster the cow's going to go. So if you can create some space with that cow, easy that cow's going to slow down on the cows we've cut now, Dave. See there she stopped better. It's okay if this cow travels a little bit, I don't mind that. I can pull them back and go through there just like that. I don't take them across, I just bring them to the middle and back them. It just softens everything up and soft and like when I knock that hip out and back them through that turn what happens is when they stop, next time when they stop and draw, they kind of draw through the middle of the turn rather than straight because not all horses can stop and draw straight. Not all have physical ability to do that so if you can make it a little easier for them they they feel comfortable and confident and they think they're they think they're doing what their mother horses are doing but they're just I'm gonna work a shell horse now just so you can see maybe the difference in the three-year-olds and showers which there really isn't. I don't work it much different. I kind of do the same same preparation. You know you walk and draw through the middle of that turn. If they want to turn a little bit fast this one way, I'm gonna turn them around even though that cow went and I'm gonna go like one thing when I drive off when that cow goes like a horse. When you pull them around there are you worried about what foot goes where you just want some softness? I just want some softness and let you know where they pick that front end up move across there. I'm not worried about what foot goes where where this or that but to me if from their withers back


Cybra can't become a reality using Apple Vision Pro. This is crazy. And imagine this if we wear Apple Vision Pro potentially able to replace computers and screens.  So easily integrate human vision and computers into one place without having a surgery such as Neuralink what Elon Musk is doing. Wow, this is revolutionary. This is also very scary. Are we all turning into half human and half robot? I don't know. Let me know if you agree or do you think this is so future out. Like, subscribe, watch the next video and comment below.


Now that my new book The Plant Paradox has hit the shelves, I'm getting a lot of questions from readers. And today, I want to take a moment and answer a few of the most common questions for you. Why did you write The Plant Paradox? Well, quite simply, Diet Evolution was a great book, but it unfortunately didn't go far enough. So this is actually the evolution of Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution. One of the things that I think is unique about me and my practice is that I'm willing to always look again. And when patients came to me after reading Diet Evolution and told me about the changes in their health that was positive, I studied them and why that happened. And in my dedication in the book, The Plant Paradox, I actually thank all my patients who made this possible. This book was written for them because of them, and it's a new guide book that goes beyond Diet Evolution. So what exactly is the difference between Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution and The Plant Paradox? Quite frankly, I've become meaner and nastier in my old age, and I want to take certain foods that I allowed in Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution away for even better health. The other thing that's different in The Plant Paradox is there's real guides to how to incredibly increase your health span. This span is how I say every one of us wants to die young at a very old age. And that's what's in The Plant Paradox. So where can I get The Plant Paradox? Well, you can go online at Amazon.com. You can go to BarnesandNoble.com. You can go to your local bookstore. Oftentimes, Costco will have it. But quite frankly, go to your local bookstore. Give them a chance. I'm a big fan of keeping local bookstores alive and well. Are there recipes and meal plans in The Plant Paradox? Well, you may not know, but I actually did all the recipes in both of my books. And I don't think there's any physician who could actually say that who's ever written a health book. They're all mine. My mother taught me to cook. I've worked with James Beard award-winning chefs to give you some fantastic, easy-to-do recipes at home. So who can The Plant Paradox Plan help? It turns out everybody can benefit from this. The fascinating thing is, through years of research of looking at blood work on my patients every three months, I can tell you that most of us, even if we think we have vibrant health, have some blood indicators that all is not well inside of us. We may not feel it, but these things can appear 10, 20, 30, 40 years later with arthritis or heart disease or cancer. And it's never too early to start making positive changes. And The Plant Paradox is not only for an 80-year-old, but also for a 20-something who wants to have vibrant health. Now, wait a minute. You're saying that plants are bad for me?  Well it turns out that, in fact, plants, many plants, don't want you to eat them.   So that's the big difference. But I'm a confirmed plant predator, but you've got to know which plants are going to be good for you and which plants don't have your back. So what's the story with fruit? It turns out that fruit is a modern invention. In times past, our ancestors only ate fruit once a year. That's because fruit only grew once a year in the summer, and we actually used fruit to fatten up for the winter. One of the things that's striking is that when I took fruit away from people and only allowed them to have it in a minimal time period during when it would normally be ripe, their cholesterol numbers plummeted, their obesity plummeted, their weight plummeted, and they felt significantly better. So give fruit the boot. I'm a vegetarian. Can I still follow the plant paradox plan? Can a vegan follow it? So as a professor at Loma Linda, which is a vegetarian institution, I can tell you that this book is empowering for vegetarians and vegans. Every one of the recipes has a vegetarian option, and every one of the recipes has a vegan option. And quite frankly, you'll see as you go through the book that I'm very anti-animal protein, and that includes fish and shellfish, which is a shocker. And you'll find out why I'm against these things. So many diet plans are expensive. How can I do the plant paradox plan in an affordable way? One of the things that's very interesting to me is that I have a lot of lower income families and patients in my practice. I still take Medi-Cal or Medicaid because I think everyone has the right to thriving health no matter what your income. One of the interesting things is most people save significant amounts of money by following this. Because most of us eat processed foods, and processed foods are actually extremely expensive for the amount of nutrition you actually get. Now what you are going to have to do is you're going to have to do a little more work in the kitchen. But the way I've structured my recipes is that many of these things can be prepared in advance on a weekend, for instance, and then you can just bring them out and reheat them. Heck, you can even nuke them in the microwave if you have to. But you'll be amazed how much money you actually save because you're not paying the middleman to do something to food for you. I don't have a fancy health food store in the area. Where should I shop? Quite frankly, stores are getting better and better at getting you good food. Rouse, for instance, has large amounts of organic food. But Trader Joe's is now ubiquitous in most of the United States. It's a great place to shop. The other great thing is that Walmart and Costco now have great organic products, and they're all over the country. We're beginning to see grass-fed beef, grass-fed pork, grass-fed chickens, pastured chickens. So get into Walmart, go into Costco. You'll save lots of money and still get great ingredients. So what else should I know about the plant paradox? So the plant paradox is a new way to think about saving your life, saving your health, and thriving for a very long time. It's not hard to do. Most people who embark on this within a couple of weeks are struck by how much more energy they have, how much their gut feels so much better.  And if someone had asked me that this was possible 15 years ago, I would have laughed them out of the room, but now I get to see it every day, and it brings the program to you.


We're standing here in Silverton at one of our fantastic volunteer sites putting together fire kits for Unfortunately for families who have lost their home We had several of my team members at Northline Castro were directly impacted by this one of my nurses has lost her childhood home And another one of our medical assistants lost her secondary home that she's worked so hard for once the fire started I reached out to some of them to take in their animals. My husband actually helped our neighbor's family Evacuate from Scott's mills. So I knew that continuing to help and be present in the community and lending a helping hand was really important When we put out the call and said hey, we need help Kaiser stepped up and answered that call And that's why they're thrilled to be able to give the rest Cross cascades this $300,000 donation to support your efforts A $1 donation from somebody buys a little bit of hope, right? A $10 donation buys a little bit more of hope the donation the project made today and your time here buys a huge amount of hope There's a tote there's a tarp. There's a some hand sanitizer some trash bags Some work gloves a rake a shovel and unfortunately a sifter and all of these things what they'll do is allow a family to go through and find that family memento It's always Such a joy to volunteer But I think there's a different element to volunteering when there's so much emotion behind it And I'm just really proud of Kaiser Permanente for being here today and finding a way to donate to this efforts I think we're really blessed to work with companies like American Red Cross and they have already sent up about 500 kits and they said these 500 kits will go out by the end of today