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InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Endrow Metelus Uses Graphic Tees to Showcase the Beauty of Inner Cities
"So you mentioned that your graphic tees captures the beauty of the inner city. So how do you design your clothing to convey this message while also supporting STEM initiative or STEM education? So when it comes to showing the beauty of the inner city, to me, what that means is, I guess it's something that has to do with me. It's the vision that I see. Okay. What I deem beauty. Because as I said earlier, if you turn on the 6 o 'clock news, just in general, you look at the history, especially in America, we, especially the black male itself, just black people in general, it's never, we're never seen in a good light. It's always been, even when you say something black, it's never seen. Unless it's a car or something. Or the gala or whatever. It's never seen in a positive way. And the thing is these kids that I want to have, who's going to be the next, I don't know, cybersecurity personnel or whatever in STEM related. I want them to be represented, to see themselves, to see the beauty within themselves, to see the beauty where they stay, where they live. Okay. I want them to tell you, Hey, you're beautiful. And at the same time, give them that confidence. Hey, you can also transition to STEM. That confidence. Hey, I'm beautiful. Right? There's a beauty where I live. It's not what the TV says. Yeah, there's struggle, there's things we can do better, but the people within are beautiful. Right? Have that confidence when it comes to, Hey, you can be a cybersecurity, you can be an engineer. You can be all this because you already have that beauty within you. You won't have no doubts to go ahead and pursue it. So it's all connected is to build that confidence at the same time.
Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh update on "steam" discussed on Bloomberg Surveillance
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InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
How Endrow Metelus Is Bridging the Gap Between STEM, Gaming, and Fashion
"So I know that one of your vision and aspiration is to sponsor STEM programs. So why the interest in STEM? The reason the interest in STEM, I work. So let me tell you what I do. Outside of this, I have a normal nine to five. Right. OK, so I work in the STEM field. So my job currently as a business development manager for Intel with an S .H .I. My job function is mainly talking to customers, mostly schools, universities, mostly I cover public sector. So I have conversation about their curriculum, the hardware piece. That's where Intel comes in. The funding, the grant and space design. So what we've seen is that STEM is also attached to e -sports. Right. So e -sports is the largest right after the NFL. Yeah. Can you tell us what is e -sports? e -sports is entertainment sports. It's gaming, competitive gaming. OK. So you have thousands of schools in the United States giving out scholarship for e -sports. Wow. We at S .H .I., we had what we call Battle Academy, which was a scholastic e -sports tournament platform. We were giving out hundreds of thousand dollars for curriculum, hardware and space design to schools and everything. So I go to a lot of conferences. We have a lot of OEM partners like LG, Intel, Microsoft, all the big manufacturers. They all have interest in e -sports because e -sports is attached to STEM. And the reason STEM is very important is there's a lot of open positions right now. Millions, hundreds of thousands of open positions right now that we cannot fill in America. Seriously. So we have to get outside workers to come in to fill these roles. Yeah. Yeah. So the thing is, we have a lot of young black male and women, Hispanic, Asian, white, whatever, who can fill in these roles. So why don't we, why don't we like. Wait a minute. You said who can fill in this role? But we all know about the low representation of our population in the STEM field. Many of them are not really interested in STEM education. So how can they fill those without experience and knowledge? How can they fill those? That's why we come in. That's why we want to. That's what Fervolo Boy is about, right? Because we know these young people, they love clothing. They got style, they love wearing. So they're already spending their money in clothing. They all like wearing, they're already there. This is innovative. So while we attach it, bring the awareness because the clothing is the awareness as well. And also showing the beauty is all connected. So they're spending the clothing. The clothing business is a trillion dollar business is only increasing even more. Absolutely. Right. So my thing is, we know where they are. Yeah. We know what interests these kids. And people always want to wear nicest clothes, right? You go on TikTok, you go on Instagram. People always want to dress in a different way, different clothes and everything, right? So why don't we create a clothing that is cool to wear, that is nice. The aesthetics is beautiful. Also gives back, right? Also showing their beauty, but at the same time, give them interest into STEM. Because some people don't know what STEM is. That's true. Then now they're going to have the understanding of STEM. But at the same time, we have a bunch of young kids in the inner cities, they're all gamers. Gaming and STEM go hand in hand. Absolutely. So we increase the interest, have the understanding, hey, I can go ahead and be cybersecurity. I can go ahead and not only do all these other things.
Accelerate Your Business Growth
Fresh update on "steam" discussed on Accelerate Your Business Growth
"Okay. Wow. Okay. How do you get a small business owner to look at themselves differently? You say there's like six CEO habits, so maybe that's where we should focus. What are they? And is that what helps a small business owner stay in that lane? Yeah, for sure it does. And really, Diane, it starts with mindset, right? So it's actually getting up and starting your day believing that I am the leader of this company and what I do with my time matters. So we all have the same 24 hours in the day, but we have to be intentional with how we use that time. I have a quote by James Clear that's, you know, to the essence of we all think there's not enough time. And he says, that's a myth. There is enough time. We just have to focus on the right things with the time we have. So whether you're a business owner who works 20 hours a week, 30 hours a week, 50 hours a week, whatever that looks like for you, you have to really focus on where am I spending my time and is that giving me the best return on investment? So there are some habits which I hope CEOs institute within their business and their daily weeks and months to help them really get out of the weeds, take a step back and be able to put on that CEO hat and run their business more smoothly. So a couple of those we'll just run through to give you an idea of what those are. Number one is starting with a CEO power hour. And this is really a CEO date with yourself. So again, if we think about big businesses, they have board of directors, they have VPs of sales, marketing, and each of those are coming to report to the CEO about what's happening in the business. And so this CEO power hour is for you to reflect and review about your own business. So it's a time to kind of take a step back, get that bird's eye view and say, where am I? What's happening in my business? And where do I want to go? And am I on the right track to get where I want to go? And so it's a one hour recurring meeting that you set up in your calendar with yourself that's non-negotiable. And when I say non-negotiable, I mean nothing except for a life circumstance that you don't expect to happen would push it aside. So consider it just an important meeting as you would with a client, a sales call, that type of thing. And so you're going to do three things. You're going to review some top metrics to see where am I compared to my goals and what do I need to do to get closer to them if I'm falling off the track. Or if I'm steaming ahead and I'm going to surpass my goal, great. What can be a next level goal for me in this area? To review what's happening in your business in terms of what's happening this week and then for certain to look at what your top three priorities are going to be as CEO that you need to work on this week. And make sure you have time blocked off in your calendar to do those three things because most of us as entrepreneurs live and breathe by what's in our calendar, right? If it's not in there, we might not have the time or the opportunity to actually go and do it. So you block off time for those really important things that you need to do this week.
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Endrow Metelus of Favela Boys Apparel Describes His Journey From Haiti to the US
"Can you share your story, the story behind your journey from Haiti to the United States and how your experience growing up in various communities have influenced your part? Obviously, I see that the focus of your organization is to try to change a conversation from the inner city being as it is portrayed out there in a positive light. Look at the illustration in the back of this shirt, of this t -shirt. This is really amazing. I love what you just said earlier. We're talking about this young man, for example, in the inner city. It's just to portray the environment, the mood in that very environment to tell a story, basically. Correct me if I am wrong, but while you're describing your journey from Haiti to the United States and how your experience in all this community has affected or influenced your view, your perspective to this point, can you please also integrate what I just shared, what you just shared about this young man, please? Correct. Pretty much born and raised in Haiti. I live in Port -au -Prince, the biggest city in Haiti. We live in Port -au -Prince. At some point, there was a coup d 'etat that happened. I ended up living in a farm for a couple of years. I've had that experience, living on a farm, 100 acres of land with mules, taking showers in the lake. Wait a minute. Why did you come to the United States, man? The coup d 'etat, the mules, everything, 100 acres. I live in a farm, doing the farmland, and I live in the city. Eventually, I was one of the lucky ones. Haiti, the life and experience of Haiti, there wasn't a lot of opportunity. I was one of the lucky ones to be able to migrate to the United States. The first place I landed was Brooklyn, Crown Heights back in the 90s, 96 to be exact. If anyone was in Brooklyn, not the Brooklyn of today, Brooklyn back in 96, you understand it wasn't the Brooklyn of today, the Brooklyn of gentrification Brooklyn that we know. I had to go ahead. I didn't speak any English. I had to learn the language. I had to learn the language. At the same time, I was also an outsider because it's so new to me, so I had to be outside trying to understand the culture as well, understand the culture, understand the language. Eventually, I moved to Queens, Hollis, Queens to be exact. Same thing, it's a whole different culture. Even though it's still New York, there's a different culture there. It's more residential, but still the inner city at the same time. Start to learn a little bit more English to communicate with friends, start making more friends because I can speak now instead of being, because when you don't speak English, you just analyze it. You're just observing because you don't speak the language. You can't communicate with other people unless they speak your language. It actually is a gift because you're just analyzing everything. You're just learning everything. You're just trying to understand everything. Then once you're able to communicate, now you start talking about music, films, and so on and so forth. Then eventually, when they hit 1999, I moved to the suburbs of Philadelphia, right outside of Philadelphia, right outside of the city. That was a shock as well because I'm going to school where, when I was in New York, some of the kids had the clothes, the fashion and everything, some of them. Most didn't. When you go to where I went to the suburbs, all the kids, they turned 16, they got brand new cars. It's true. They got Mercedes. Everybody's looking fresh. It was a whole different thing. It was very different. It was more focused on education. You talk about college, university. These are conversations. I didn't even know what college was when I was in New York. I didn't even know what high school was when I was in New York. When you go to the suburbs, that's the conversation you were having. That's the conversation. Is there a difference? There's a huge difference. Oh, really? A huge difference because when you're in the suburbs, the kids are talking about what college we're going to. What did you get in the SATs? That's the focus. The focus is that. Because most of the parents are white collar doctors, lawyers, or pretty much doing well. They wanted to make sure their kids have the skill set to continue that path moving forward. That's also all these things. From Haiti to New York, the inner city, to the suburbs. I had a taste of everything. It's so easy for me to get along with pretty much everyone. I'm able to do that over the world because I travel a lot as well. I love it. I love it being able to have all these different experiences. That's pretty much how I came with this whole clothing brand.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "steam" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"steam" Discussed on InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"Everyone. This is Dr. Oh, how are you? Again, we are on one of the episodes, STEAM to a guest who is just phenomenal. His name is Andrew Matilas. He is incredible. I say that he is incredible because one of the things that he is doing that I truly like is that he had a fashion, actually a fashion design company, and it is called Favela, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, Favela Boys Apparel, correct. Oh my God. Wow. And then guess what he's doing? Guess what he's doing with that company? So he's also using that company, man. He's a man after my heart. He's also using that company actually to also get resources to sponsor STEM programs in the Caribbean and also in the United States. I thought that is innovative. I like that because we all know how it is difficult to get sponsors, right? Or when you write a grant, it's very competitive and it takes time. But having your own project and using part of that project to sponsor a STEM program, I think that it is innovative and all of us should be doing the same thing. We're smart enough to do that. I said I was going to use 10 % of my source, African source, if I ever get successful, right? He's going to be using, he told me that he's going to be using 15 % of his profit, whatever profit that he gets to sponsor his STEM programs. I thought that is innovative. Now he's challenging me now. Now I've started to reconsider my 10%. So let me let him introduce himself and tell us a little bit about what he's doing. Please go ahead. Hey, I'm doing great. Like I said, every day is a holiday and I really mean that. Life is beautiful, right? So thank you very much for having me. I'm gladly appreciated being here to talk about STEM and talking about the brand I have and also talking about how I can get pretty much people to come and be part of this project, right? Because it's not just for me, it's for us because we can all benefit from this, right? So just to go in more details, the brand name is Favela Boys Apparel, which is a brand that we donate 15 % of a net profit towards STEM education for underserved communities, right? So not only in the US, but we also operate in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, as well as we're looking also into Africa. Just to give you a little example, earlier this year in January, I was in Brazil. We were donating a few computers to a nonprofit organization that focused on STEM because the kids needed for coding cybersecurity where they teach at that particular nonprofit organization, but also the adults will come in at night also learning different skills, different trade, that kind of system as well.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "steam" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
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InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Favela's Endrow Metelus Is Empowering Communities Through Fashion and STEM
"Everyone. This is Dr. Oh, how are you? Again, we are on one of the episodes, STEAM to a guest who is just phenomenal. His name is Andrew Matilas. He is incredible. I say that he is incredible because one of the things that he is doing that I truly like is that he had a fashion, actually a fashion design company, and it is called Favela, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, Favela Boys Apparel, correct. Oh my God. Wow. And then guess what he's doing? Guess what he's doing with that company? So he's also using that company, man. He's a man after my heart. He's also using that company actually to also get resources to sponsor STEM programs in the Caribbean and also in the United States. I thought that is innovative. I like that because we all know how it is difficult to get sponsors, right? Or when you write a grant, it's very competitive and it takes time. But having your own project and using part of that project to sponsor a STEM program, I think that it is innovative and all of us should be doing the same thing. We're smart enough to do that. I said I was going to use 10 % of my source, African source, if I ever get successful, right? He's going to be using, he told me that he's going to be using 15 % of his profit, whatever profit that he gets to sponsor his STEM programs. I thought that is innovative. Now he's challenging me now. Now I've started to reconsider my 10%. So let me let him introduce himself and tell us a little bit about what he's doing. Please go ahead. Hey, I'm doing great. Like I said, every day is a holiday and I really mean that. Life is beautiful, right? So thank you very much for having me. I'm gladly appreciated being here to talk about STEM and talking about the brand I have and also talking about how I can get pretty much people to come and be part of this project, right? Because it's not just for me, it's for us because we can all benefit from this, right? So just to go in more details, the brand name is Favela Boys Apparel, which is a brand that we donate 15 % of a net profit towards STEM education for underserved communities, right? So not only in the US, but we also operate in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, as well as we're looking also into Africa. Just to give you a little example, earlier this year in January, I was in Brazil. We were donating a few computers to a nonprofit organization that focused on STEM because the kids needed for coding cybersecurity where they teach at that particular nonprofit organization, but also the adults will come in at night also learning different skills, different trade, that kind of system as well.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "steam" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
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InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"steam" Discussed on InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"Yeah. Thank you so much for that. I really appreciate it. So ladies and gentlemen, we have been really fortunate to have on this podcast, De Bayo. Mr. De Bayo is from Nigeria. So if people want to reach out to you, how will they go about reaching out to you? Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. Thank you for having me on this podcast. Thank you for what you do. Thank you for the interest. I'm so grateful. So yeah, basically I'm on LinkedIn. For me, that's where the world is. I feel like if you're not on LinkedIn, you're not alive. If you come to LinkedIn, just look for De Bayo Law Maja. I guess I'm doing De Bayo Law Maja there. If you find, of course, you're able to recognize my face. And of course, right there, we can connect. I love your profile. I love your profile. That's a beautiful profile. Thank you. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So we can catch up on LinkedIn or if you just want something real quick, you can do bio.link slash De Bayo Law Maja. If you hit that on your browser, it just takes you to my bio and some other things about me right there. bio.link slash De Bayo Law Maja. Or just find me on LinkedIn. So let's connect. Excellent. Excellent. Again, thank you so much, Mr. De Bayo. I appreciate your presence. He is the Head of Research and Chief Learning Designer at EZDG. A K-12 digital transformation and hybrid learning consultant. So STEAM is important and vital to our community because our community's health, economy, agriculture, resources, waste and sanitation and technology are vital and are key to sustainability and they all fall in the top 10 areas of innovation across all of our industry in touch. Think, STEAM, career podcasts, explore the evolving world of science, technology, arts and mathematics, and how those career pathways intersect and bring into focus the underrepresentation of blacks, indigenous peoples of color and women in STEM collegial programs and career in our society. As STEAM field continues to evolve, this podcast will continue to connect with men and women who are champions of STEAM education and have experience in STEAM career to allow viewers to engage with the content to gain insight into how the vibrant community can be part of the STEAM innovation. It is my hope that conversation like this will bring awareness to the importance of STEAM education and career and be a source of empowerment to potentially positioning our people in our community to all the innovation taking place and to also help to increase the BIPOC representation in this field to spark new research and innovation. I want to thank you again, Mr. Adebayo Alomaja, for gracing us on InTouch, STEAM, careers podcast. And now to my audience, to our audience, if you like the content we have provided you, please support this program. We are on YouTube. We are also on LinkedIn. We are on Buzzsprout. We are on Spotify. We are on Amazon. Please support us so that we can continue to bring you content and programs like this. We'd like to thank you all for taking the time to watch our discussion on the innovation taking place in our community. Thank you. Have a great day, everyone.
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"steam" Discussed on InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"So that tells me, that tells K-12, that tells every educator that you cannot be effective if you don't understand what is coming. You don't understand what the world is asking for. You cannot be effective in a classroom because you only keep offering what is not needed. So there's a need for educators to understand the context, what is obtainable. For example, I always say that vocabularies are seasonal. There was nothing like child deputy in the year 2010, nothing like that, nothing like that. So if we want to stick with what our syllabus and the scheme of work says, and we want to just keep following it head on and on, what will happen is that- No innovation. Yeah, so we'll just keep disconnecting our learners from the reality and what real life is saying by the hour, right? And that's really going to be quite problematic. So in the course, I opened up educators to being able to get more familiar with context and how to begin to use context to influence how they design their learning experiences I sped up some very simple steps, practically, that educators can adopt to help them move and move and just keep gravitating. So that course is just like a starting point for every educator that wants to go into the world of authentic learning. That is good because when I was thinking of when you say context and content, I was thinking in terms of the student's experience within their environment. So for a teacher, in order to design a content, a learning content, the teacher has to be able to understand the student's context in terms of experience and use that to develop their learning so that their learning is authentic. But again, you want us to expand a little bit, right? You want us to think in terms of looking at things more projected more into what life would be like in the future and use that as a way. And it requires a little bit of imagination and creativity. And that leads me to my next question. Probably this will be one of our last, and then we can pick up, we can do another episode. AI, it's really, especially chat GPT, has just revolutionized everything. I think we're living in another age. We're living in the age of AI. That's what I feel. So how do you see the role of AI in education, particularly in terms of teachers' involvement in learning processes, please? I think that AI is an answer to prayers. In the sense that recently I have built two chatbots and by the way, it wasn't related. I talked about EZDG. We always want to make it easy. So in my research, I'm busy looking for what can be the easiest way for people to get on this thing, right? So I've been able to easily build two chatbots and what I discovered was that AI has the potential to deepen personalization across schools. So what it means is that for me as a student in a classroom, I can have a chatbot that I can ask any question, anytime. Anytime. So if I need help with anything, I can ask a chatbot that I can get questions from. I could you help me with this and all of that. But this time around, they are going to be customized chatbots, not the general or GPT and there's more generalized. So K to 12, we need to embrace AI and the chatbot era in a more customized manner. So schools are going to have chatbots internally that they are using to drive personalization for their students. So these chatbots are going to be trained on their content, right? On the content that are particular to what they're offering their students in their schools. So that's going to be possible. But the traditional teachers are going to have a problem with this because the traditional teacher is the teacher that when it comes to assessment, the questions they ask are the questions that students can get from Google, can get from chat GPT by just asking it. So I don't think it's about chat GPT, right? So before chat GPT came without Google, that we can type and we can get answers to questions that has been, right? So I don't think it's chat GPT. I think this is about teachers who don't want to move away from the traditional, right? Because right now, what AI can do for us, AI can help us to move from lower-order thinking to higher-order thinking. And here's why I mean, here's why I mean. Instead of feeding students with knowledge and asking them to point back to us like a chatbot, right? So what we're going to have is that we're going to have a different kind of engagement, which is going to be a high level, right? So imagine asking students to use chat GPT to generate, to write out five prompts, to write out five prompts, five prompts, or let's say two or three prompts to generate different response from chat GPT and then analyze these three prompts, right? To now build an original content for themselves. Like look at that kind of thing. Look at that kind of thing, right? That's a high level task. That's a high level task. And that kind of engagement is now in the equation because we have AI in the equation, because AI is involved, right? So AI is going to help us push to the level of higher-order thinking, right? If we're looking at the Bloch's taxonomy, where students are now evaluating, where they are now analyzing, and where they are creating, I think that getting to that creating zone is very important. It's very important. Traditionally, it doesn't go beyond the first three categories, beyond remembering, remembering factor, and pouring down and just applying it in artificial, what I call simple problems, solving on paper problems and those things are not real problems. But what we're going to do is that AI can help us push our learners to the realm of real problems, where they are engaging in that kind of manner, right? So students are going to have to learn prompting, right? Of course, that's another conversation, the issue of addressing curriculums and those things, right? So students are going to start hearing words like prompt, prompting, tuning, fine tuning. It's going to become part of the conversation, right? Because that's going to be an AI classroom, right? That's going to be a tech classroom, right? So we're going to be having that kind of high-level conversation with students, right? So our students are coming to the classroom to say, hi, sir, so the first prompt I entered gave me this response, all right? I got about five paragraphs and after analyzing the first, the second, and the third, looking at the variable, these are my prompts. So imagine students giving that kind of response, and this is about something in biology, or this is about something in chemistry, or maybe I've asked them to go and investigate something that happened in a particular industry in China, or in a particular industry in Taiwan with a particular chemical that we're talking about in the classroom. So AI can help us move away from high and low order thinking to the realm where these students are able to unleash the potential, because I believe every child is created by God to carry potentials. But most of the time it's the AI education system that fuels them, doesn't help them to unleash the potentials inside of them, right? So that's the kind of thing that we see. So when I think about AI and what AI is going to do, that is what I see AI doing for us, right? Beyond the, it's going to deepen personalization. It's going to help us move to the realm of high order thinking. It's going to help teachers with their mental health and being, because they're going to start worrying less about things because many of the things they worry about can be easily accessible, can be easily gotten. Excellent, excellent. But again, that also brings up another point. The teachers are also concerned that the AI could lead to cheating in terms of student cheating, not doing the work, being lazy and all that. What is your perspective on this concern? Yeah. So I think that the word cheating can only be used in the context of the traditional. For example, if I think about how professionals are using AI today, right? For example, how I am using AI today, I wanted to write a proposal and then I just entered the prompt. I told this AI to the kind of proposal I want. And so I just entered it. And within a second, it gave me a set of slides, right? It gave me a set of slides. That would have taken me a lot of hours to put that presentation together. But just because I just entered the right prompt, in less than a minute, I was able to get the slides that I will use for a presentation. And the content was beautiful and so great. I'm leading there to just add a few things, all right? So that eased my life, right? You wouldn't say I'm cheating for doing that. I wasn't cheating. I wasn't cheating. This is about my productivity being increased. This is about my mental health and wellbeing. This is about allowing me to focus on high level. So I think that right now, what AI has done to us is that AI has redefined high level and low level tasks. There were some things that before its emergence, right? Actually generative AI, some things we saw as high level. Right now, they are now low level. Now there's a new caliber of tasks that we call high level now. So AI has brought about that shift. So I think that cheating will not be in the equation if we are looking at higher order thinking. Cheating will not be in the equation. Because if the learning experience is skill based, like I always say that there can be exams in my practice, but there can be skills in my practice, right? Because skills have to be shown. You have to show it. Critical thinking cannot be copied. You have to show it. You have to show it. Collaboration cannot be copied. You have to show it. Innovation cannot be copied. You have to show it. Which is why I was saying that if the experience is still traditional, we still keep talking about cheating. But the moment we move away from the traditional, we won't see cheating again because we will not be dealing with skills. We'll be dealing with skills. We'll be dealing with competencies. That's what we'll be dealing with. And the question will not be about how to measure those things. If it's about the root memorization and point of information, cheating has always been before those tough schemes. Google will give us answers on those things. So we have that. We still have that. That's true. Profound, everything that you have said. Thank you. It's really profound. As we conclude, what is your final thoughts and recommendation for teachers, educators, and professionals who are navigating the intersection of AI, STEM education, and most especially your passion? Attempted learning in K12. Yeah, absolutely. I'll say that speed is a strategy and you want to move fast. Speed in networking is very important. I think that networking is one of the things that has changed my life. And I'm going to talk about it big time. It's golden. You are only as disruptive, as innovative as your network. You want to put yourself in that environment where you are seeing what is possible. The more you see what is possible, the more you are inspired to do what is possible. I think that is one thing that I have done to myself over the years. I have put myself in a place where I am seeing what is possible often. And so the more I see what is possible, the more I want to do what is possible. So I think that's very important. There's going to be so many sides to these things, but I think that networking is going to play a critical role and you've got to move very fast. Speed is a strategy. You have to move very fast. That's very crucial. Yeah. I think that would be my last words. And let's connect. Let's connect. Let's connect. I'm on LinkedIn. Let's connect. Networking is very crucial. And you want to be very active on platforms like LinkedIn is very crucial.
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"The teachers are also concerned that the AI could lead to cheating in terms of student cheating, not doing the work, being lazy and all that. What is your perspective on this concern? Yeah. So I think that the word cheating can only be used in the context of the traditional. For example, if I think about how professionals are using AI today, right? For example, how I am using AI today, I wanted to write a proposal and then I just entered the prompt. I told this AI to the kind of proposal I want. And so I just entered it. And within a second, it gave me a set of slides, right? It gave me a set of slides. That would have taken me a lot of hours to put that presentation together. But just because I just entered the right prompt, in less than a minute, I was able to get the slides that I will use for a presentation. And the content was beautiful and so great. I'm leading there to just add a few things, all right? So that eased my life, right? You wouldn't say I'm cheating for doing that. I wasn't cheating. I wasn't cheating. This is about my productivity being increased. This is about my mental health and wellbeing. This is about allowing me to focus on high level. So I think that right now, what AI has done to us is that AI has redefined high level and low level tasks. There were some things that before its emergence, right? Actually generative AI, some things we saw as high level. Right now, they are now low level. Now there's a new caliber of tasks that we call high level now. So AI has brought about that shift. So I think that cheating will not be in the equation if we are looking at higher order thinking. Cheating will not be in the equation. Because if the learning experience is skill based, like I always say that there can be exams in my practice, but there can be skills in my practice, right? Because skills have to be shown. You have to show it. Critical thinking cannot be copied. You have to show it. You have to show it. Collaboration cannot be copied. You have to show it. Innovation cannot be copied. You have to show it. Which is why I was saying that if the experience is still traditional, we still keep talking about cheating. But the moment we move away from the traditional, we won't see cheating again because we will not be dealing with skills. We'll be dealing with skills. We'll be dealing with competencies. That's what we'll be dealing with. And the question will not be about how to measure those
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Addressing Concerns of AI "Cheating" With Adebayo Alomaja
"The teachers are also concerned that the AI could lead to cheating in terms of student cheating, not doing the work, being lazy and all that. What is your perspective on this concern? Yeah. So I think that the word cheating can only be used in the context of the traditional. For example, if I think about how professionals are using AI today, right? For example, how I am using AI today, I wanted to write a proposal and then I just entered the prompt. I told this AI to the kind of proposal I want. And so I just entered it. And within a second, it gave me a set of slides, right? It gave me a set of slides. That would have taken me a lot of hours to put that presentation together. But just because I just entered the right prompt, in less than a minute, I was able to get the slides that I will use for a presentation. And the content was beautiful and so great. I'm leading there to just add a few things, all right? So that eased my life, right? You wouldn't say I'm cheating for doing that. I wasn't cheating. I wasn't cheating. This is about my productivity being increased. This is about my mental health and wellbeing. This is about allowing me to focus on high level. So I think that right now, what AI has done to us is that AI has redefined high level and low level tasks. There were some things that before its emergence, right? Actually generative AI, some things we saw as high level. Right now, they are now low level. Now there's a new caliber of tasks that we call high level now. So AI has brought about that shift. So I think that cheating will not be in the equation if we are looking at higher order thinking. Cheating will not be in the equation. Because if the learning experience is skill based, like I always say that there can be exams in my practice, but there can be skills in my practice, right? Because skills have to be shown. You have to show it. Critical thinking cannot be copied. You have to show it. You have to show it. Collaboration cannot be copied. You have to show it. Innovation cannot be copied. You have to show it. Which is why I was saying that if the experience is still traditional, we still keep talking about cheating. But the moment we move away from the traditional, we won't see cheating again because we will not be dealing with skills. We'll be dealing with skills. We'll be dealing with competencies. That's what we'll be dealing with. And the question will not be about how to measure those
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"Tell us a little bit about the course that you have designed. What topics do you cover? Yeah, sure. Sure. Thank you. As I think about how learning is going to become more and more interesting, more fun, even in K -12, we see a place of micro -learning coming into the equation. Okay. We see the place of micro -learning coming into the equation. So if you see what the course looks like, it's designed to cut off the noise. One of the things we need to, the problem we need to solve in K -12 is that there's a lot of noise. We expose kids to too many things that are not important. These things can be streamlined and presented from a micro -learning perspective such that what we are giving kids is just exactly what they need to know, just exactly what they need to know. And that's the idea of micro -learning. People think, is it going to be effective? It's going to be effective. And that's why we talk about teachers becoming learning designers, because by the time you're thinking as a learning designer, you will begin to focus on specifics, specific things that needs to be addressed and how you want to capture in the learning experience is just nothing but those specifics. In this course, it's about how to design authentic learning in K -12. And I just decided to address the basics, the starting point for anybody from anywhere, wherever you are across the world. If you're thinking about offering your learners something more than just being able to pass exams, something more that will make their society respect them, something more that will put them in a place where they can have real value to their society. You want to join the class of educators that are not traditional, but that are offering kids real value. Then you want to think about jumping on this course. I taught them all the basics. And then in the course, I talked about basically how teachers can become more familiar with context as against content. I talked about substituting content for context. Like I always say that context should determine content when it comes to engaging learners. I always say that. I got my inspiration from the story of what's happening in Dubai. I mentioned it in the course too, how Dubai wants to go and live in Mars by year 2017. That's like next 90 something years. So they lost the project in 2017. It was an 100 years project. So they traveled to Mars. And what they went to do was to study everything about Mars. And so when they were done with that, they came back to the earth and then built a colony, built something that looks like Mars. When it's right now, that thing is in Dubai. They built it. The whole atmosphere in terms of pressure, temperature, and everything in Mars, they came to replicate. They built like a simulation of that under the earth. So they are saying that they are going to live in that thing. And if they can live in it and survive in it between now, between 2017 and 2017, then that means they are now right to move to Mars, to build, to go and start building Mars. And the lesson I learned from that is that we need the atmosphere of a reality to prepare for that reality. That's the lesson I learned from that. So Dubai looked into the future, created the future and the present to prepare for the future. So that tells me, that tells K -12, that tells every educator that you cannot be effective if you don't understand what is coming. You don't understand what the world is asking for. You cannot be effective in a classroom because you only keep offering what is not needed. So there's a need for educators to understand the context, what is obtainable. For example, I always say that vocabularies are seasonal. There was nothing like child deputy in the year 2010, nothing like that, nothing like that. So if we want to stick with what our syllabus and the scheme of work says, and we want to just keep following it head on and on, what will happen is that - No innovation. Yeah, so we'll just keep disconnecting our learners from the reality and what real life is saying by the hour, right? And that's really going to be quite problematic. So in the course, I opened up educators to being able to get more familiar with context and how to begin to use context to influence how they design their learning experiences I sped up some very simple steps, practically, that educators can adopt to help them move and move and just keep gravitating. So that course is just like a starting point for every educator that wants to go into the world of authentic learning.
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Adebayo Alomaja Is Revolutionizing Education With Micro-Learning
"Tell us a little bit about the course that you have designed. What topics do you cover? Yeah, sure. Sure. Thank you. As I think about how learning is going to become more and more interesting, more fun, even in K -12, we see a place of micro -learning coming into the equation. Okay. We see the place of micro -learning coming into the equation. So if you see what the course looks like, it's designed to cut off the noise. One of the things we need to, the problem we need to solve in K -12 is that there's a lot of noise. We expose kids to too many things that are not important. These things can be streamlined and presented from a micro -learning perspective such that what we are giving kids is just exactly what they need to know, just exactly what they need to know. And that's the idea of micro -learning. People think, is it going to be effective? It's going to be effective. And that's why we talk about teachers becoming learning designers, because by the time you're thinking as a learning designer, you will begin to focus on specifics, specific things that needs to be addressed and how you want to capture in the learning experience is just nothing but those specifics. In this course, it's about how to design authentic learning in K -12. And I just decided to address the basics, the starting point for anybody from anywhere, wherever you are across the world. If you're thinking about offering your learners something more than just being able to pass exams, something more that will make their society respect them, something more that will put them in a place where they can have real value to their society. You want to join the class of educators that are not traditional, but that are offering kids real value. Then you want to think about jumping on this course. I taught them all the basics. And then in the course, I talked about basically how teachers can become more familiar with context as against content. I talked about substituting content for context. Like I always say that context should determine content when it comes to engaging learners. I always say that. I got my inspiration from the story of what's happening in Dubai. I mentioned it in the course too, how Dubai wants to go and live in Mars by year 2017. That's like next 90 something years. So they lost the project in 2017. It was an 100 years project. So they traveled to Mars. And what they went to do was to study everything about Mars. And so when they were done with that, they came back to the earth and then built a colony, built something that looks like Mars. When it's right now, that thing is in Dubai. They built it. The whole atmosphere in terms of pressure, temperature, and everything in Mars, they came to replicate. They built like a simulation of that under the earth. So they are saying that they are going to live in that thing. And if they can live in it and survive in it between now, between 2017 and 2017, then that means they are now right to move to Mars, to build, to go and start building Mars. And the lesson I learned from that is that we need the atmosphere of a reality to prepare for that reality. That's the lesson I learned from that. So Dubai looked into the future, created the future and the present to prepare for the future. So that tells me, that tells K -12, that tells every educator that you cannot be effective if you don't understand what is coming. You don't understand what the world is asking for. You cannot be effective in a classroom because you only keep offering what is not needed. So there's a need for educators to understand the context, what is obtainable. For example, I always say that vocabularies are seasonal. There was nothing like child deputy in the year 2010, nothing like that, nothing like that. So if we want to stick with what our syllabus and the scheme of work says, and we want to just keep following it head on and on, what will happen is that - No innovation. Yeah, so we'll just keep disconnecting our learners from the reality and what real life is saying by the hour, right? And that's really going to be quite problematic. So in the course, I opened up educators to being able to get more familiar with context and how to begin to use context to influence how they design their learning experiences I sped up some very simple steps, practically, that educators can adopt to help them move and move and just keep gravitating. So that course is just like a starting point for every educator that wants to go into the world of authentic learning.
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"So this particular thing is something that is happening even right now. So we see, for example, the school I talked about earlier, first guidance school, they are now hybrid. I'm an hybrid in the constant. They are now hybrid in the sense that there are days that some kids don't come to the physical school. They just learn from home. They just learn from home because the structure within the school environment is that the kids can connect with their classroom from anywhere. So we're going to have connected classrooms. They can connect to their classroom from anywhere. That is happening today in Nigeria. So would that be a norm in Africa by 2030? Yes. Very true. That's going to be a norm. It's going to become possible for kids to be able to learn from anywhere because technology is going to be deep in. AI is going to make that very possible. So kids are going to be able to learn from anywhere, anytime and any day. And so we're going to have rather, so the homework, classwork paradigm, because there's this mental distortion in African kids. I use that word in quotes because when we say homework, they believe that when they get to home, homework is the work I do at home. Classwork is the work I do in the class. And so conventionally, an average African child has no passion for learning when they are not in the school environment, because the school is what drives their learning. They don't really want to learn because actually every time learning happens is because somebody called the teacher starts before a group of students and then drives it. So it's teacher driven and not student driven. And when these kids get home, the only thing they do is do homework and then they're back again. So that's traditional saga. That's a big problem. So what would I want to have is just assessment that can be taken anywhere. So if you finish a particular learning area over the night and the morning, you can just do your assessment in the morning, do it anytime, right? So there's the lifelong learning paradigm. In the world of lifelong learning, I don't think there's anything like classwork or homework. What we can talk about is assessment. And we're taking courses from Google, this platform and the likes, we just talk about assessment. I think that if I start explaining all the points, I might take a lot of time. I'll just read them out. Number two is that as the world becomes increasingly interconnected, global citizenship will become the order as learners become so aware and leverage on platforms like LinkedIn and others for collaboration on a global level to model the fourth industrial revolution concepts of a diversified and inclusive society. School will no longer become like an isolation center. And that's one of the things I see. Global citizenship research is saying that our world is going to become more and more interconnected, right? Right now in Lagos, you see a lot of workstations, young Nigerian guys, Gen Zs, and that goes right now, Africa's youngest population. Africa's youngest population, the whole world is going to come looking for talent in Africa. Right now they are doing that. They've been doing that for some years back now. So they're going to keep coming and coming, they're going to come in looking for it. So we're going to have this globalization. Technology is going to keep deepening that effect. It's going to keep bringing the whole world closer and closer. We're talking about globalization. That's going to keep improving. And so what will happen is that even like last year, I was able to connect three schools in Nigeria with three schools from India. Now they are doing stuff together, they are learning together in the same space. They are sending gifts, they are having a nice time. We're just trying to model what the future will look like. That's what the future is going to look like. That's what it's going to look like. We're going to have that. Number three, teachers will have a new identity. They are going to become learning designers and facilitators indeed. They will no longer be required to teach because AI will take care of that. They will step into the creativity as they now have more time to think beyond preparing kids for tests and exams. They will begin to see clearly what the society is asking for and prepare learners for that. That's going to happen. That's going to happen. Number four. In terms of number three, many teachers are concerned, at least in the iceberg, about the jobs away, but at the same time, according to them, some teachers, that it will make students lazy and all that. But you said because of AI, it will lessen the job or what the teachers do, but it will literally help teachers. The role of teachers, the best practices is to be facilitators, right? So what you're saying is it will enable the teachers to be more of a great designer of lessons and being able to facilitate instructions and learning. Yeah. So can you elaborate more on that because this is of interest. I'm a teacher. Yeah, exactly. What we see happening today is that, as I said, teachers are going to step into their creative age. They are going to become more creative than ever because they are going to be delivered from the old of the demands from the traditional system, right? Teachers are busy with lesson plans. They have to do so many things and so many things and a whole lot of that. But we're going to see that, for example, right now, we have the iTunes that you just keep Curipod. You just give Curipod a prompt and say you want this topic in this class and all you see immediately, within a minute, is just a full blown lesson, right? And not just in terms of value, right? So you see what's in it, how rich and how valuable that can be, right? So teachers are going to become, the teaching profession is going to become more interesting. It's going to become most interesting, right? And teaching is, here I would get teaching to that level and all in all so that teachers can have more time to think beyond the classroom, the school environment, right? Teachers can have more time to collaborate. But one thing I'm saying lately, one thing I've just, part of my latest discoveries is the fact that school needs to move to what I call the partnership age. So right now, teachers need to start collaborating with professionals from other industries. The school of the future is going to become an environment that brings professionals back into the classroom. We say school produces professionals, but right now, school is going to bring them back into the classroom. And to be honest with you, AI, because AI has access to a lot of data, right? So actually it is, if the interest is to make teams, is to encourage collaboration and to also, not only within between teachers, but between teachers and the industry, right? I think AI can facilitate that. The use of AI can facilitate that. If the whole idea is using data, right? The use of AI to inform a decision-making or instruction, I can do a marvelous job in regards to the use of technology, which goes to moving schools to using technology to become technology savvy, right? So it creates, you said that it creates an emergence of global schools, can you elaborate? So talking about global schools, so what we're seeing is that right now it's going to become easy. For example, I work with a school in Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, as an instructor. And yeah, so I teach math there, right? Of course, that's the school with learners distributed as a global school. So when we talk about global schools, what we're seeing, what we're seeing right now, which is a possibility, is very possible. Like I was speaking to a school owner, I said, all your teachers, you are in Nigeria. I said, all your teachers don't have to be Nigerians. I said that, I said, when we talk about global citizenship, when we see every child in Nigeria, I said global citizenship in every one of us, we are global citizenship in the whole world right now is a global village, right? Global citizenship is not a title. It has to be an experience. It has to be, so I like calling myself a global village evangelist, just talking about a global village, there was this plug into what is a global village, and that's a reality. That's a reality because even right now it's very possible. So schools in Nigeria can get volunteer teachers free of charge that are going to work with your kids, either for personalized learning interventions, or just even as a member of their team, which is to support teachers, there are many teachers, a thousand or one teachers who are happy and who are willing to work in that kind of setting, right? Because they also want to reach their portfolio and say, oh, I've been able to work with kids from, right? So global globalization is something that people are loving these days. That's what's happening on LinkedIn. What drove all of us to, what makes us excited about LinkedIn is globalization. We're loving it. We're enjoying it. We're able to reach people, the diversification, equity, the DER, one of the few, what is a global village? We are connected. We don't want to be separated. We want to sell ourselves as one, right? So we see these factors as promoters, as drivers of concepts like the global school, right? So we are going to see more and more things like that. So for example, I know about three years ago, I was able to discover a platform that was offering free homework assistance. So I introduced that to a school owner. And so what happened was actually she's in Nigeria. So one of our students got on a platform and was able to connect with an Indian. And then they had a class together and she so much enjoyed the class. Was like, wow, this is interesting. So these are realities, but addressing the fact that the world is a global village. Every child is a global citizen. Every school can be a global school. And these are experiences that are real and that are gifts you have. Sometimes you just want to go on LinkedIn and get a teacher and bring that person into your classroom and allow that person to teach your kids for that day. So the reason for that is because by design, there's an experience or a skill called global citizenry that every child needs to have in your classroom. And if they're going to have that skill, they need to experience. There's a learning experience that's going to produce that skill, which is something like exposing them, bringing them in contact with professionals from other industries and other countries or educators from other countries and doing that from time to time. And you're absolutely correct. Especially past pandemic, the pandemic, COVID-19, but it does really facilitate that transition of technology, of global citizenship and you're like technology. You're absolutely correct. Yeah. Please continue. So at number five, you said radical shift from traditional to authentic learning with evidence, such as products, which this is the, this is one of my best, right? Product services, discovery and solution, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So we're going to say a lot of that. I interviewed, I interviewed some kids from Botswana, I think the last few years were about, and so these kids were, they worked on a project and there was a community around, around them and this community was fed with water from a cliff and this water was actually acidified, it wasn't good for the community. And so these kids went out and they were going to solve that problem. They're going to solve that problem. Think that just like I cited the instance of the school in Lagos here, who went into their community, did flyers, I wanted people to come and get some health benefits and understand some things about diabetes, how to stay healthy and get some professional consultation and the likes that made that happen. So we are going to see more authentic learning outcomes like this. Because I'm very passionate about this, I believe that the only way that we can see transformation in our society is when learning is designed, is when we have an education system that is powerful enough to affect our immediate society. Because when a child goes to a certain quality school for 12 years and after 12 years, that child cannot identify the society, it's problematic. From a product perspective, if I am given 12 years to build a product and after building the product, I come out of the market and nobody's willing to die for that. Nobody's saying, hey, I need, I've got to have this thing badly. I'm going to pay for it. This thing has real value that is so good. It's going to be a serious problem, right? Given the space of 12 years. So we see right now that if we're thinking about transformational education, then we have to reveal the end in mind. We have to review the outcomes. The reason for what I've said before, because the outcomes have not been authentic, they've been so artificial and not valuable to the society. So look at it. Look at examples I just gave of young kids going to their community. Now, if these kids become politicians in the future, right from their young age, you have given them a training that helps them to see how to impact their society. That's the kind of education one will have. The kind of education that turns their communities to their classroom, right? So their classroom is their community. They always want to go to the community and do something. They always, they keep their highest on the community often. Not the kind of education that is so traditional that disconnects them from their community, right? So everything they learned for 12 years has nothing to do with their community because all they were busy with were just exams by and large. So we see that big problem right there. And so we are seeing this shift right now. And because there's going to be more and more evidence, right? There's going to be more and more evidence. I see a lot of competitions right now globally where they're asking kids to come and submit products, to come and submit services and things that they've come up with. I see a lot of that. So that is happening today. That tells me that by 2030, there's going to be a big increase on that. There's going to be more and more competitions like that where kids across the globe are going to start coming to the fall to share their project, just to share the solutions that they have. And now they are willing to affect their society. So summarily, what is going to happen is that we're going to see kids becoming more and more entrepreneurial. We're going to see more and more of that right from K to 12. Excellent, excellent. One of the questions that I wanted to ask you deals with your vision of a radical shift from traditional to authentic learning with tangible products and services discovery and solution. I wanted to ask how will this transform the role of exams and grades and how will it impact your position of in-demand skills and competency? I believe that you really, you articulated that beautifully. You've cited some good examples on how you have seen it being demonstrated. I know we're running a little out of time. Your accomplishments, your experience, what you're doing excites me so much. So I over-planned, I have a lot of questions. We have to do another episode. I wanted to talk to you about the course that you have designed for teachers and educators. I also wanted to talk to you regarding the role of AI in education. Tell us a little bit about the course that you have designed. What topics do you cover? Yeah, sure. Sure. Thank you. As I think about how learning is going to become more and more interesting, more fun, even in K-12, we see a place of micro-learning coming into the equation. Okay. We see the place of micro-learning coming into the equation. So if you see what the course looks like, it's designed to cut off the noise. One of the things we need to, the problem we need to solve in K-12 is that there's a lot of noise. We expose kids to too many things that are not important. These things can be streamlined and presented from a micro-learning perspective such that what we are giving kids is just exactly what they need to know, just exactly what they need to know. And that's the idea of micro-learning. People think, is it going to be effective? It's going to be effective. And that's why we talk about teachers becoming learning designers, because by the time you're thinking as a learning designer, you will begin to focus on specifics, specific things that needs to be addressed and how you want to capture in the learning experience is just nothing but those specifics. In this course, it's about how to design authentic learning in K-12. And I just decided to address the basics, the starting point for anybody from anywhere, wherever you are across the world. If you're thinking about offering your learners something more than just being able to pass exams, something more that will make their society respect them, something more that will put them in a place where they can have real value to their society. You want to join the class of educators that are not traditional, but that are offering kids real value. Then you want to think about jumping on this course. I taught them all the basics. And then in the course, I talked about basically how teachers can become more familiar with context as against content. I talked about substituting content for context. Like I always say that context should determine content when it comes to engaging learners. I always say that. I got my inspiration from the story of what's happening in Dubai. I mentioned it in the course too, how Dubai wants to go and live in Mars by year 2017. That's like next 90 something years. So they lost the project in 2017. It was an 100 years project.
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"steam" Discussed on InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"Teachers are concerned, at least in the iceberg, about the jobs away, but at the same time, according to them, some teachers, that it will make students lazy and all that. But you said because of AI, it will lessen the job or what the teachers do, but it will literally help teachers. The role of teachers, the best practices is to be facilitators, right? So what you're saying is it will enable the teachers to be more of a great designer of lessons and being able to facilitate instructions and learning. Yeah. So can you elaborate more on that because this is of interest. I'm a teacher. Yeah, exactly. What we see happening today is that, as I said, teachers are going to step into their creative age. They are going to become more creative than ever because they are going to be the delivered from old of the demands from the traditional system, right? Teachers are busy with lesson plans. They have to do so many things and so many things and a whole lot of that. But we're going to see that, for example, right now, we have the iTunes that you just keep Curipod. You just give Curipod a prompt and say you want this topic in this class and all you see immediately, within a minute, is just a full blown lesson, right? And not just in terms of value, right? So you see what's in it, how rich and how valuable that can be, right? So teachers are going to become, the teaching profession is going to become more interesting. It's going to become most interesting, right? And teaching is, here I would get teaching to that level and all in all so that teachers can have more time to think beyond the classroom, the school environment, right? Teachers can have more time to collaborate. But one thing I'm saying lately, one thing I've just, part of my latest discoveries is the fact that school needs to move to what I call the partnership age. So right now, teachers need to start collaborating with professionals from other industries. The school of the future is going to become an environment that brings professionals back into the classroom. We say school produces professionals, but right now, school is going to bring them back into the classroom. And to be honest with you, AI, because AI has access to a lot of data, right? So actually it is, if the interest is to make teams, is to encourage collaboration and to also, not only within between teachers, but between teachers and the industry, right? I think AI can facilitate that. The use of AI can facilitate that. If the whole idea is using data, right? The use of AI to inform a decision -making or instruction, I can do a marvelous job in regards to the use of technology, which goes to moving schools to using technology to become technology savvy, right? So it creates, you said that it creates an emergence of global schools, can you elaborate? So talking about global schools, so what we're seeing is that right now it's going to become easy. For example, I work with a school in Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, as an instructor. And yeah, so I teach math there, right? Of course, that's the school with learners distributed as a global school. So when we talk about global schools, what we're seeing, what we're seeing right now, which is a possibility, is very possible. Like I was speaking to a school owner, I said, all your teachers, you are in Nigeria. I said, all your teachers don't have to be Nigerians. I said that, I said, when we talk about global citizenship, when we see every child in Nigeria, I said global citizenship in every one of us, we are global citizenship in the whole world right now is a global village, right? Global citizenship is not a title. It has to be an experience. It has to be, so I like calling myself a global village evangelist, just talking about a global village, there was this plug into what is a global village, and that's a reality. That's a reality because even right now it's very possible. So schools in Nigeria can get volunteer teachers free of charge that are going to work with your kids, either for personalized learning interventions, or just even as a member of their team, which is to support teachers, there are many teachers, a thousand or one teachers who are happy and who are willing to work in that kind of setting, right? Because they also want to reach their portfolio and say, oh, I've been able to work with kids from, right? So global globalization is something that people are loving these days. That's what's happening on LinkedIn. What drove all of us to, what makes us excited about LinkedIn is globalization. We're loving it. We're enjoying it. We're able to reach people, the diversification, equity, the DER, one of the few, what is a global village? We are connected. We don't want to be separated. We want to sell ourselves as one, right? So we see these factors as promoters, as drivers of concepts like the global school, right? So we are going to see more and more things like that.
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AI's Impact on Teaching With Mr. Adebayo Alomaja
"Teachers are concerned, at least in the iceberg, about the jobs away, but at the same time, according to them, some teachers, that it will make students lazy and all that. But you said because of AI, it will lessen the job or what the teachers do, but it will literally help teachers. The role of teachers, the best practices is to be facilitators, right? So what you're saying is it will enable the teachers to be more of a great designer of lessons and being able to facilitate instructions and learning. Yeah. So can you elaborate more on that because this is of interest. I'm a teacher. Yeah, exactly. What we see happening today is that, as I said, teachers are going to step into their creative age. They are going to become more creative than ever because they are going to be the delivered from old of the demands from the traditional system, right? Teachers are busy with lesson plans. They have to do so many things and so many things and a whole lot of that. But we're going to see that, for example, right now, we have the iTunes that you just keep Curipod. You just give Curipod a prompt and say you want this topic in this class and all you see immediately, within a minute, is just a full blown lesson, right? And not just in terms of value, right? So you see what's in it, how rich and how valuable that can be, right? So teachers are going to become, the teaching profession is going to become more interesting. It's going to become most interesting, right? And teaching is, here I would get teaching to that level and all in all so that teachers can have more time to think beyond the classroom, the school environment, right? Teachers can have more time to collaborate. But one thing I'm saying lately, one thing I've just, part of my latest discoveries is the fact that school needs to move to what I call the partnership age. So right now, teachers need to start collaborating with professionals from other industries. The school of the future is going to become an environment that brings professionals back into the classroom. We say school produces professionals, but right now, school is going to bring them back into the classroom. And to be honest with you, AI, because AI has access to a lot of data, right? So actually it is, if the interest is to make teams, is to encourage collaboration and to also, not only within between teachers, but between teachers and the industry, right? I think AI can facilitate that. The use of AI can facilitate that. If the whole idea is using data, right? The use of AI to inform a decision -making or instruction, I can do a marvelous job in regards to the use of technology, which goes to moving schools to using technology to become technology savvy, right? So it creates, you said that it creates an emergence of global schools, can you elaborate? So talking about global schools, so what we're seeing is that right now it's going to become easy. For example, I work with a school in Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, as an instructor. And yeah, so I teach math there, right? Of course, that's the school with learners distributed as a global school. So when we talk about global schools, what we're seeing, what we're seeing right now, which is a possibility, is very possible. Like I was speaking to a school owner, I said, all your teachers, you are in Nigeria. I said, all your teachers don't have to be Nigerians. I said that, I said, when we talk about global citizenship, when we see every child in Nigeria, I said global citizenship in every one of us, we are global citizenship in the whole world right now is a global village, right? Global citizenship is not a title. It has to be an experience. It has to be, so I like calling myself a global village evangelist, just talking about a global village, there was this plug into what is a global village, and that's a reality. That's a reality because even right now it's very possible. So schools in Nigeria can get volunteer teachers free of charge that are going to work with your kids, either for personalized learning interventions, or just even as a member of their team, which is to support teachers, there are many teachers, a thousand or one teachers who are happy and who are willing to work in that kind of setting, right? Because they also want to reach their portfolio and say, oh, I've been able to work with kids from, right? So global globalization is something that people are loving these days. That's what's happening on LinkedIn. What drove all of us to, what makes us excited about LinkedIn is globalization. We're loving it. We're enjoying it. We're able to reach people, the diversification, equity, the DER, one of the few, what is a global village? We are connected. We don't want to be separated. We want to sell ourselves as one, right? So we see these factors as promoters, as drivers of concepts like the global school, right? So we are going to see more and more things like that.
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"steam" Discussed on InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"Was looking at your LinkedIn, you mentioned your work at EZDG, where you've been studying the educational trends. You read a lot. So you have identified five key trends. Could you share those trends with us and how does that inform, I guess, your vision as we talk about the use of data? Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you so much, Dr. Eyal. In one of my posts, I talked about five key trends that will characterize K -12 education in Africa by 2030. And of course, I always say that the future is not vague. When we look at the future, for example, if I am in year two today, if I'm in year two today, in the next four years, I should be in year six. That's by design. So all things being equal, I should be in year six. But okay, so for the sake of eventualities and the likes, let me put two, three or four years ahead. So if I'm in year two today, I will say that in the next four to eight years, I should be done or I should be done with anything called year six. So look at that kind of simple analysis. So the future is not totally vague. If we do backcasting and backcasting is just basically about studying how things have evolved in the previous years. For example, I checked how 3G, 4G and 5G came to Nigeria. And then I discovered from my research that the gap between their adoption was six to eight years. That's 3G, 4G and 5G in Nigeria. So the gap was just between six to eight years. Now, that's just something to me. Of course, if I look at the impact of that on the digital economy in Nigeria and the predictions around the digital economy in Nigeria. Sorry, I'm digressing a little bit. No, no, I won't say analogies. That's great. Yeah, that's something because I am always thinking about the future and what needs to be done today in K -12 so that we're raising kids that can thrive when they get to the future. Kids are not going to be confused. Kids that can be so much empowered and even think beyond themselves to add value to the society. So when I think about that, for example, I'm talking about 3G, 4G, 5G and how it came to Nigeria. That backcasting review gives an insight. So based on that, I can say that if 5G came to Nigeria this year, they're most likely in the next six to eight years, we're going to have another version, maybe 6G or something else, or maybe not 6G. But that pattern shows that there's a likelihood that around that period, something is going to happen. So when we, as future priests, when we see some things like that, I don't think it's spiritual, actually. I just think that it's just studying the way things are evolving, which anybody can actually do if you're passionate about and understand that this is what might happen at this period because of what we have seen that has happened in this particular period in the past. So five key things, five key things I put here, I said, number one, I said, learning will no longer be tied to a place called school, but an experience that promotes lifelong learning. As learners, we now be able to learn anywhere and anytime. So there will be nothing like homework or classwork, but assessments to provide feedback and ensure mastery. Now, the question, is this happening right now? This is happening right now. I forgot to mention something. So when we look at the future, that there are three P's, there is the possible, there's the preferable, and there's the predictable. So there are things that when we look at the future, we can say that this is possible at this time. There are things that we can say that this one is still in the predictable realm. So it's still in the predictable realm. We can have five years or some six, seven years to it. It looks like it might happen this period. There's something is shaking about it. But some factors are trying to say that it might or it might not, it's quite predictable. And why some things may not just be preferable. So right now, there's a flying car. A flying car was just launched, I think, last week thereabouts. And so the question is in Nigeria, are we going to have your flying car by 2030? The issue is that's not possible and it's not even preferable because right now, we're just trying to bring in electric cars into Nigeria. We have some electric cars in Nigeria right now. We're just trying to get on our own. And for infrastructure and many reasons, we can't use flying cars in Nigeria by 2030. That's going to be a big problem. So this particular thing is something that is happening even right now. So we see, for example, the school I talked about earlier, first guidance school, they are now hybrid. I'm an hybrid in the constant. They are now hybrid in the sense that there are days that some kids don't come to the physical school. They just learn from home. They just learn from home because the structure within the school environment is that the kids can connect with their classroom from anywhere. So we're going to have connected classrooms. They can connect to their classroom from anywhere. That is happening today in Nigeria.
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Adebayo Alomaja Unpacks Key Trends Shaping the Future of Education
"Was looking at your LinkedIn, you mentioned your work at EZDG, where you've been studying the educational trends. You read a lot. So you have identified five key trends. Could you share those trends with us and how does that inform, I guess, your vision as we talk about the use of data? Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you so much, Dr. Eyal. In one of my posts, I talked about five key trends that will characterize K -12 education in Africa by 2030. And of course, I always say that the future is not vague. When we look at the future, for example, if I am in year two today, if I'm in year two today, in the next four years, I should be in year six. That's by design. So all things being equal, I should be in year six. But okay, so for the sake of eventualities and the likes, let me put two, three or four years ahead. So if I'm in year two today, I will say that in the next four to eight years, I should be done or I should be done with anything called year six. So look at that kind of simple analysis. So the future is not totally vague. If we do backcasting and backcasting is just basically about studying how things have evolved in the previous years. For example, I checked how 3G, 4G and 5G came to Nigeria. And then I discovered from my research that the gap between their adoption was six to eight years. That's 3G, 4G and 5G in Nigeria. So the gap was just between six to eight years. Now, that's just something to me. Of course, if I look at the impact of that on the digital economy in Nigeria and the predictions around the digital economy in Nigeria. Sorry, I'm digressing a little bit. No, no, I won't say analogies. That's great. Yeah, that's something because I am always thinking about the future and what needs to be done today in K -12 so that we're raising kids that can thrive when they get to the future. Kids are not going to be confused. Kids that can be so much empowered and even think beyond themselves to add value to the society. So when I think about that, for example, I'm talking about 3G, 4G, 5G and how it came to Nigeria. That backcasting review gives an insight. So based on that, I can say that if 5G came to Nigeria this year, they're most likely in the next six to eight years, we're going to have another version, maybe 6G or something else, or maybe not 6G. But that pattern shows that there's a likelihood that around that period, something is going to happen. So when we, as future priests, when we see some things like that, I don't think it's spiritual, actually. I just think that it's just studying the way things are evolving, which anybody can actually do if you're passionate about and understand that this is what might happen at this period because of what we have seen that has happened in this particular period in the past. So five key things, five key things I put here, I said, number one, I said, learning will no longer be tied to a place called school, but an experience that promotes lifelong learning. As learners, we now be able to learn anywhere and anytime. So there will be nothing like homework or classwork, but assessments to provide feedback and ensure mastery. Now, the question, is this happening right now? This is happening right now. I forgot to mention something. So when we look at the future, that there are three P's, there is the possible, there's the preferable, and there's the predictable. So there are things that when we look at the future, we can say that this is possible at this time. There are things that we can say that this one is still in the predictable realm. So it's still in the predictable realm. We can have five years or some six, seven years to it. It looks like it might happen this period. There's something is shaking about it. But some factors are trying to say that it might or it might not, it's quite predictable. And why some things may not just be preferable. So right now, there's a flying car. A flying car was just launched, I think, last week thereabouts. And so the question is in Nigeria, are we going to have your flying car by 2030? The issue is that's not possible and it's not even preferable because right now, we're just trying to bring in electric cars into Nigeria. We have some electric cars in Nigeria right now. We're just trying to get on our own. And for infrastructure and many reasons, we can't use flying cars in Nigeria by 2030. That's going to be a big problem. So this particular thing is something that is happening even right now. So we see, for example, the school I talked about earlier, first guidance school, they are now hybrid. I'm an hybrid in the constant. They are now hybrid in the sense that there are days that some kids don't come to the physical school. They just learn from home. They just learn from home because the structure within the school environment is that the kids can connect with their classroom from anywhere. So we're going to have connected classrooms. They can connect to their classroom from anywhere. That is happening today in Nigeria.
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"steam" Discussed on InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"I was looking at your LinkedIn, you mentioned your work at EZDG, where you've been studying the educational trends. You read a lot. So you have identified five key trends. Could you share those trends with us and how does that inform, I guess, your vision as we talk about the use of data? Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you so much, Dr. Eyal. In one of my posts, I talked about five key trends that will characterize K-12 education in Africa by 2030. And of course, I always say that the future is not vague. When we look at the future, for example, if I am in year two today, if I'm in year two today, in the next four years, I should be in year six. That's by design. So all things being equal, I should be in year six. But okay, so for the sake of eventualities and the likes, let me put two, three or four years ahead. So if I'm in year two today, I will say that in the next four to eight years, I should be done or I should be done with anything called year six. So look at that kind of simple analysis. So the future is not totally vague. If we do backcasting and backcasting is just basically about studying how things have evolved in the previous years. For example, I checked how 3G, 4G and 5G came to Nigeria. And then I discovered from my research that the gap between their adoption was six to eight years. That's 3G, 4G and 5G in Nigeria. So the gap was just between six to eight years. Now, that's just something to me. Of course, if I look at the impact of that on the digital economy in Nigeria and the predictions around the digital economy in Nigeria. Sorry, I'm digressing a little bit. No, no, I won't say analogies. That's great. Yeah, that's something because I am always thinking about the future and what needs to be done today in K-12 so that we're raising kids that can thrive when they get to the future. Kids are not going to be confused. Kids that can be so much empowered and even think beyond themselves to add value to the society. So when I think about that, for example, I'm talking about 3G, 4G, 5G and how it came to Nigeria. That backcasting review gives an insight. So based on that, I can say that if 5G came to Nigeria this year, they're most likely in the next six to eight years, we're going to have another version, maybe 6G or something else, or maybe not 6G. But that pattern shows that there's a likelihood that around that period, something is going to happen. So when we, as future priests, when we see some things like that, I don't think it's spiritual, actually. I just think that it's just studying the way things are evolving, which anybody can actually do if you're passionate about and understand that this is what might happen at this period because of what we have seen that has happened in this particular period in the past. So five key things, five key things I put here, I said, number one, I said, learning will no longer be tied to a place called school, but an experience that promotes lifelong learning. As learners, we now be able to learn anywhere and anytime. So there will be nothing like homework or classwork, but assessments to provide feedback and ensure mastery.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from The Best Altcoins To Buy This Week! (Act Fast)
"This may not be the optimal market to start DCAing into coins for long -term holds, but right now is the optimal time for trading with a lot of amazing trade setups presenting themselves every single week. So in today's video, I'm going to run through the 14, yes, 14 trade setups, all of which are long setups this week, because you know what happens when you try to fight the trend, you get wrecked. This is a market where as long as the uptrend lasts, is your friend until the end of the trend. And that means we long more than we short. So today I have 14 long setups I want to discuss with you. Most of the setups are a little bit shorter term, like mostly focused on this week, but a couple are a little bit longer term, I would say like in the three to four month range. Not focusing on super long term trades here, but still definitely going to have some alpha for you in today's video as to what altcoins I think could be part of a rotation. As we're seeing right now, basically narratives hop from narrative to narrative as traders seem to be rotating profits into different sectors. And we're going to discuss where I think that rotation could take us. 14 very different altcoins in today's show. We're going to cover a couple narratives like gaming, like ZK, and hopefully you enjoy. Smash the like button if you are enjoying the content at the moment. Let's just start with Bitcoin. An interesting observation to make on Bitcoin is that the last time it had four consecutive weekly candles in a row to the upside, as you can see, like we have currently gotten, it actually did this in early January and ended up reversing for two weeks before continuing an uptrend. So I mean, just because it happened once doesn't mean we're necessarily going to get like a sustained pullback now. But I think what needs to happen and what the market is already starting to show us with weekly open here is that Bitcoin needs a little bit of a cooldown. Now a cooldown is not bad for altcoins. A cooldown, if Bitcoin just moves sideways, maybe a little bit down is actually good for altcoins because it gives the alt some breathing room. It takes the wind out of Bitcoin sales a little bit and gives the alt some room to run. So what I want to see longer term is definitely a sustained increase in Bitcoin dominance that shows liquidity is flowing into Bitcoin. And then eventually I want to see that siphon off into the alts. So I actually want to see dominance pushing up to 60 % for a really healthy market. So altcoins can have a sustained run. But for now, if Bitcoin just cools and alts run a little bit, that's okay for now. Another interesting thing to note is that Bloomberg analysts still expect a 90 % chance of a Bitcoin spot ETF approval by the 10th of January. At the moment, the SEC has another five days to approve an ETF. If they don't approve it, then they're going to have to delay until January. So we could see an approval this week. I don't think this will be the case, but it is a possibility given the fact this week we are in an approval window. So definitely look for some volatility on Bitcoin. All right, let's get into the official list of altcoins that I'm looking at my weekly watch list. By the way, this is a show that I've been doing pretty much every week, but obviously now there's extra attention on the show because we're finally getting some market movers. If you looked at my watch list last week, basically I think six out of the seven tokens that I listed all ended up in profits. We had some amazing trades from that watch list. So congratulations to everyone that got involved there. Hopefully from this week's watch list, similarly, we have some good trades that come out of this one as well. The first place I want to start is ThorChain. What you need to understand about ThorChain is that it's the ultimate bull market token. Because of its reflexive mechanism, the more capital that goes into Roon, basically the better the yields end up being because they need to incentivize LPs to stake tokens in the pools to balance out the Roon LP because Roon is pumped in price, right? So when you have a higher APR, a lot of people ape into Roon, increasing the TVL. We can see the TVL is skyrocketing at the moment, as you can see here. And what that means is that Roon has this really explosive effect, this compounding effect, this flywheel when the market starts to deposit into Roon. So Roon is actually pretty much the ultimate bull market token. In a bear market, it's the opposite. It's one of the worst tokens because it gets hit really hard the other way. When the Roon price is going down, the yields tank. A lot of people exit the ecosystem because remember, to facilitate omni -chain swaps, what Roon does is it basically has LPs where you're required to hold an asset one to one with Roon. So if you want to swap from, let's say, Ethereum to Bitcoin, you're going to need in the omni -pool your Roon pairing with Ethereum and Bitcoin in order to facilitate that swap. So that's why in a bull market it does really well and in a bear market it does really bad. Because we're in a bull trend at the moment, Roon is clearly performing really well. It's one of the strongest performers in the market at the moment. And for that reason, if we do see a pullback like we're seeing right now, this is one that I'll look to ladder into on continuation. As I mentioned at the start of the video, this is really a traders market and it's a market where you probably want to be longing more than you are shorting. And when we're longing more than we're shorting, we want to look at the strongest coins. There are a few rotational players that I want to talk about but you generally want to look at the strongest coins and on any major pullbacks you can use them as dip buying opportunities, not for spot but for trades only. So depending on your risk tolerance, you can use different amounts of leverage. Some people, if you have more capital, you'll prefer spot trading. For me, I actually do a fair bit of spot trading so I might go in with a bigger position or a low leverage position because I don't want to get wicked out like we saw on the 10th of November. But here are some levels that you can look at to enter Roon on the pullback. The major level I'm looking at is this cross section here between the horizontal and the upwards diagonal trend which comes at around $4. If Roon somehow makes its way back down there, I don't think it will. This would be an amazing zone to do some buying. If not, then you do have this zone right here at the 4 .7 area that could be an interesting look as a small ladder in zone. You could probably ladder in here and then your last gasp is at $3 .60. If it starts breaking this trend, then that looks really bad that it's just going to reverse all the way back down. I don't think that's going to happen though. I think momentum for Roon has been upwards and as such, we should treat it with respect and it's certainly what I'm looking to have a nibble at if we continue to get any sort of sustained pullback in terms of trading, of course, not long -term. Long -term positions will be on more key high time frame supports. If you want to learn a bit more about that, I actually uploaded a video called If You Miss The Crypto Rally Follows This Exact Roadmap, which talks about long -term investing. So today is the short -term show. Yesterday, if you go onto the channel and go onto my playlist, and there's also a playlist linked in the description, that will give you a roadmap for the spot side of things. In terms of buying spot Roon, you want to be doing so on key support levels on the higher time frames because we don't like to buy long -term positions on the shorter time frames. It just doesn't make or the lower time frames. It just doesn't make any sense, right? 4 swaps an interesting play now starting to wake up as well being the main decks on Roon. This is definitely a 4 beta play or a Roon beta play rather. So 4 is definitely what I'm looking at in a similar gist to what I'm doing with Roon. Any major pullbacks probably going to gobble them up from a trading point of view. And you can also see they closed with an all -time high trading volume right now. A lot of people are actually using Roon to swap, which is an amazing thing and great for the ecosystem. So that's Roon. Now I want to talk about Solana because Solana is in a similar position to Roon in the sense that being one of the most explosive price movers. But it's kind of an interesting spot, right? Because it's come all the way up from what $15 to $53 in price. It actually hit $60 for a brief period of time. Spot holders don't know if they should take profits here. Traders don't know if they should be longing here. It's kind of in a weird position. But if we look at Sol, we can see that it broke above the key weekly resistance at the $48 level. So for me, a pullback into this zone similar to a buying opportunity, because I think what tends to happen with these coins is the most explosive move happens last. We haven't, I don't think seen that blow off top yet. And I may be wrong, this $65 zone could have been this blow off top. But I still have a feeling that we get that final thrust from Solana that just squeezes all those shorts that are now starting to pile up a little bit. And that will be your final blow off top for Solana. So because I think there's a tiny bit of juice left in the lemon here, I would be looking at any major pullback similarly to Rune continuing to ladder in until the trend reverses. Happy to kind of lose a bit of money trying to play this game considering that the upside is fairly immense in my opinion, if you can hit that trade. So Solana is one that I'd be interested in longing on a major pullback. You know the key level on the weekly. Obviously, you want to confirm that with lower timeframe trade setups because you have a fantastic level to look at. And on let's say the one hourly, the four hourly, that's when you'd actually be entering. Okay, let's move on to a new subset of tokens. These are the tokens that haven't moved. I know Rune and Solana have moved aggressively and we are playing the by the dip game, I guess on those ones. But some of the coins I want to talk about now actually haven't really moved. Now they have moved because the whole market's moved, but just not as much like Polygon hasn't done a 5x like Solana has or you know, 6x, 7x like Rune has. It is significantly up of course, but there is a really interesting narrative starting to brew here and that's the ZK narrative. So if you actually remember back to earlier in the year, January, February, some of the strongest performers alongside like AI and LSDs were the ZK coins. There was a lot of ZK hype and Matic being your biggest coin in this ZK basket of coins tends to be a market leader and it also happens to have this big announcement happening on November 14th which is garnering a leader of the ZK sector if ZK starts to wake up. Because right now we're in this rotational market, we saw Solana rotate into Avalanche, we saw that rotate into Phantom, we saw gaming pop off, we're seeing all these narratives pop off, AI popped off last week. I think next, a narrative that hasn't really popped off, but one that did in January is ZK. So Matic's definitely one of them. In terms of trading this, you do have your major support at 76, but what I would be more interested in is a break of the 92 cent level on the four hourly. Any confirmation above this level would be a decent entry in my opinion and you can see this level mapped out on the daily chart as your key resistance that we're currently trying to test at the moment. If we break that level, then suddenly we can look at a scenario that happened earlier in the year in February, as I said during that ZK run, where Matic ran all the way to 150. A 150 Matic in this run is not out of the question at all. In fact, I think it could happen if ZK gains steam. So that's what I'm keeping my eye on. Now let's talk about some of the other ZK protocols, but before we get into that, while we're speaking on the topic of Polygon, if you do want to earn any yield on the Polygon side, you can go to the farming page on SmartX, which is one of our official show partners. It's an AMM, which reduces the negative effects of impermanent loss and sometimes leads to impermanent gain that currently offers some of the most competitive, in fact, the best rates on the Polygon side for yield farming. So you can see in front of you, you've got 30 to 40 % APRs on a variety of pools, which as I said, have a mechanism which reduces impermanent loss, which is obviously one of the biggest headaches when it comes to Lping in crypto. So I highly recommend using the link in the description below to check out SmartX if you are interested in farming, or you can also do swapping on SmartX and get some of the best swap in the market as well. Link in the description below to check out SmartX. I've got some big announcements coming soon that I'm excited to share with you as well, so stay tuned for that. So let's talk about some of the other ZK protocols. So if Matic starts to make a run here, what will I long? Well, I'm going to long the leaders. I'm not going to try and pick the laggards in this sector. I want to pick the strongest coins in this sector. If we look back to the last run, as I mentioned at the start of the year, some of the best performers were Mina Protocol, Loop Ring, Nute and Dusk. So these are the ones I'm looking at because the market's really familiar with them. I think there's a bit of synergy here with that narrative in these coins. So those are some of the ones I'm looking at. But whatever leads in this sector after Polygon, those will be the ones that I'm interested in. And you can see Polygon and Immutable, the two biggest ZK protocols have run, but a lot of the others haven't run yet. So I think it's a narrative that's flying slightly under the radar, but I think it'll catch up quick once it starts to gain steam. So as a rotational play, this is definitely one that I'm interested in this week. Another one I'm interested in, which is already starting to pump, but probably has a little more upside left in it, is Sei Network. Now we know how explosive these career pumps have been in recent times. Pretty much every token that's been listed on Korean exchange a bit has exploded. We saw this earlier in the year with Sui and Aptos. We've recently seen it with Mina Protocol. Now we're on its pair on Upbit. So Sei is definitely one that I'm watching. It's catching a strong career pump. It has moved, but Sei is what I would call a new coin, right? It's a coin that has launched in the bear market. It's newer. It has pumpermentals because there's less underwater bag holders, and it still is down from its original trading price on its first day. Not from IDO price, but from the peak that it hit on its first day because it had a huge pump, ended up coming back down. It did hit its low of, what is it, like 0 .09 here. It's now started to move back up to 0 .15, but that's less than a 2X on a coin that has, as I said, pumpermentals. It's obviously a trading blockchain built in the Cosmos ecosystem. So some interesting stuff with Sei. If you do want an entry here, I mean, you could look to get an initial position, but if you're using leverage, you want to be careful. I mean, this is kind of not really a great place to trade. Obviously on one hourly, you might be able to find, it depends how, like if you're trading breakouts, you could probably look for like a breakout of this trend here. By the time you're watching this video, it might be too late. So the best I can do for you is actually looking on the four hourly and showing you these key support levels. The 0 .1344 level, if we do get some sort of confluence with the horizontal and diagonal trend here, this would be a great pocket to buy in. But any zone along this major support zone will be an area that I load up, but it does depend on your trading strategy. If you are a high leverage trader, you want to be a lot more precise. Me, I'll either go in this with spot or super low leverage. So I'm not so concerned about getting the exact entry. I'm just trying to really catch it for the uptrend. So depends how you trade, of course, if you're trying to snipe that entry, got to be a lot more careful. For me, a much lower leverage than your average person because I found that's what works for me because I don't have time just personally to sit in front of my computer all day and snipe entries. That's not me. I much more size. So let's say instead of taking a 2k position, I'll take let's say a 10k or a 15k spot position. And then I can't get wrecked on margin, which has been helping me a lot. Or I'll just go in with like a 3x leverage position. So it would take a lot to shake me out of a trade. So that is one I'm looking at. Similarly to say another coin that has pumpamentals and has shown this in recent times as another new coin is Celestia. Remember guys, the new coins can pump so much harder than all coins in the market. That's why I've been saying for a long time, you should definitely keep your eye on the new coins from both accumulation and a trading perspective. Celestia, by the way, is one if you've been following me on Twitter that you may have gotten an airdrop for because I did an airdrop guide last year and I included Celestia and this could end up being one of the most lucrative airdrops of the year. Congrats to anyone that watched that guide or watch my tweet and got involved because right now if you held your Celestia bag, you'd won to $2 ,000 but for some people it could be a lot more if you use multiple wallets. So I think this one is fantastic and there's a few people that have been coming out and saying that it's this cycle's soul. Smartestmoney .eth, it's an account I respect. The number one coin m p &l trader on Binance, that's pretty crazy, that is very crazy actually, has added spot to a massive seed position quote unquote and basically said watch and learn wannabes. These guys out here buying salt while I'm buying the next Solana. Big call but I mean the market cap is reasonably valued 700 mil okay five bill fdvs a lot but we know in the short term the circulating supply definitely goes to dictate how explosive the price moves can be market cap 700 mils reasonable at rank 71 calling it the next soul I don't know I like this one I like it as a spot play but not maybe after this massive pump in terms of a trade though super interesting now actually on support trend you'll notice a lot of coins are following the same trend they have a diagonal up trend as long as they stick to that trend you long if they start to break down below you've got to be a little bit wary but they've also got these horizontal support levels that they make after their retracements so this is actually a good one too long there's a couple of levels here for you to look out for on the one hourly on Celestia so that's an interesting one and let's move into some of the final narratives here I've got two more to share with you and both of these include a variety of alt coins so the first one is perpetuals I think if this volatility is to remain in the market we could definitely see perpetuals performing well we're starting to see a catch up in terms of price and fundamentals despite that not being the case a couple of weeks ago and if you see in front of you volume is performing really well this is purpose trading season this is an on -chain aping season this is the season where people are trading perps I think the centralized exchanges are doing the best that's where most people are trading but I think decks could catch up and for this reason as well as the fact that I think volatility could remain for the foreseeable future I think the perp decks remain super interesting looks at the moment not for short -term trades this week but over let's say the medium term so two to three months maybe even six months so these are definitely ones I've got my eye on dydx I'm going to do a video on this week that's a very interesting trade GMX and gains network being the ones that are kind of your decks perp decks proxies and a few others and as you can see on the weekly a lot of these are barely moved so especially like GMX and games they're a very interesting look in my opinion and if you do want to snipe better entries on a coin like GMX I recommend you use Kyber AI which is a software that basically tells you the momentum of a coin based on a variety of on -chain indicators like the number and types of trades trading volume net flow to whale wallets and what I would do on a coin like GMX is essentially if you're lining up a buy and let's say you want to start buying when shifts momentum what I would look for is a pattern like this where it shifts from bearish into bullish territory now since this video is not live you're gonna have to open your up your own Kyber AI using the link in the description below to see where it currently is but right now this would actually be potentially an interesting place to long GMX if on the lower time frames it lines up with what the Kyber score is showing which is basically bearish price momentum shown by a strong reversal so heading back into bullish territory as you can see buys are now starting to outpace cells and volume is also up ticking across GMX all of those are metrics that go into the Kyber score Kyber score is one of my favorite metrics in crypto if you go to rankings you can actually sort by market cap I love doing this so I go more than 500 million for the large caps that you can actually trade perps on and you can see which coins are looking the most bullish this can help you get entries in the market especially in a bullish market like this searching for the bullish coins can be an amazing way especially using on -chain analysis to get better trading entries so link in the description to check out Kyber AI it's an extremely useful tool especially for confluence with getting trading entries and crypto bad to subscribers will get early access versus the rest of the pack so link in the description below of course it's free so not showing you anything paid it is a free service to use the last narrative I want to talk about quickly is one I think people are forgetting about it has had a bit of a pullback um but it's the gaming narrative into YGG the reason I say people are forgetting people aren't forgetting about gaming there's a lot of talk about crypto gaming on twitter but I think they're forgetting about one of the biggest gaming conferences in five days time starting on November 18th it lasts for a week there definitely could be some I mean a lot of the major projects are speaking there so there could be some interesting announcements and even if not I think there's bound to be hype into that conference so for that reason definitely keep your eye on the gaming projects there's two in particular that I like YGG because it's their conference and this is now having a pullback into a decent zone in my opinion and also GMT which on the weekly and I know once again you don't enter short -term trades on the weekly but on the weekly if it can pull back down into this pocket at 0 .22 and confirm this is support and if you line that up with your lower time frame indicators of course that could be a decent zone also to enter a GMT trade so gaming is something I'm not going to fade the bees are kind of going from one narrative to another but gaming is one that I've got my eye on ahead of the conference so I hope you enjoyed this video these are all the narratives I'm looking at right now mostly short -term some medium to long -term hope you enjoyed this was fast it was alpha packed let me know in the comments below if there are any other coins I should look at and I'll see you in the next one. Peace out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan's Northvale, NJ Book Signing Was an Epic Success!
"That for this weekend special so a lot happened since I've been with you last first we had a book signing Friday in Northvale New Jersey I expected like 350 people 500 people showed up it was crazy the nicest people huge shout out to the cops and a lot of people showed up I I had some DEA guys FBI guys couple of 75 precinct guy ESU SWAT guys there and one guy came up to me and said Dan I love it when you give shout outs to the truckers and the HVAC guys and the carpenters and the electricians and the steam fitters but you got to mention this railroad guys shout out to the railroad guy and railroad guys out there we love you too but seeing everyone up close and personal is crazy we were there three and a half hours guy said the book signing was nuts our last book signing for a while little while probably not the last one but for a while is this week in Dallas so this is kind of a weekend update on Diana Ball here Dallas this Friday November 17th 2pm local time Grapevine Texas at the Books -A -Million don't miss it we will be there their WBAP audience Jim is saying this is going to be the most packed one yet we've had anywhere from 300 to 800 people these things they're always crowded I don't know we'll see Jim's saying yes WBAP audience represent Grapevine Texas this Friday November 17th 2 p .m. local time book signing at Books -A -Million and Grapevine if you want the deets it's on my Instagram Twitter and true social just scroll through you'll see a lot of them there that's pretty cool so that happened and I want to thank the guy who his gave up parking spot in front of the bookstore they forgot to save us a parking spot so we there was not a single spot in this entire parking lot and the guy in the black truck who he's I said listen if we get you line in first will you give us his spot I had
ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
A highlight from Modern Warfare 3 Taken Out | Steamdeck 1.1 | Mass Effect on Trial and More | The Best Gaming Podcast 425
"What's up everybody? This is Carrick with ACG and I'm here with Silver and Johnny, No Abzi and Khadiz for the Best Gaming Podcast number 425. If you get a chance tweet out that we're doing this we're gonna be talking about Modern Warfare 3's reviews. We're gonna be talking about WB's service games, GTA maybe. We're gonna be talking about Steam Deck 1 .2 .000 Upgrade AQB. I have no clue what it's called but it is the weirdest upgrade I think I've ever seen on a handheld system. We're gonna be talking about Red Dead and its sales. Johnny's played some Yakuza. We'll see what Silver and Khadiz have been playing. We're gonna talk about Fallout 4's Inevitable remake. I'm just joking. But Fallout 4's eight year, eight years. Does Fallout 4 seem older than that? Because Red Dead is five. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, Red Dead is five. It's feeling like it's almost due for like a, you know, anniversary edition or re -release like a Skyrim release. Special edition. Special compressed audio edition. Oh my god that's a deep cut. Wow and they did they did release the like 4k texture packs I think. Oh did they? I know and one of them had like the, you know, the upgraded FPS boost which I think is awesome. If you want your mods to work you need to get this version edition. A secret edition of or secret. It should be secret because it sucked but the special edition of Skyrim was that way. It's just all over the place. I had issues with audio and then like certain executables wouldn't work. I think they got it fixed up but it's just one of those things. What's everybody in chat playing right now? What are the games? Looks like some people are playing Modern Warfare. Live Carrick's the best Carrick. Well, that is a super low bar. That is a ridiculously low bar. Conscious, somewhat alive breathing Carrick is the best Carrick. Yeah, I don't know if all my family would agree. Groggy Carrick. Yeah, I've been playing Starfield on the ROG Ally. Do you guys call it R -O -G or ROG? ROG. I typically just say R -O -G. I don't know but anybody and I had occasionally I'll hear ROG. You're a fucking hipster, man. Come on, ROG. I'm just joking. I've never quite known exactly what it's supposed to be but I do. I also, you know. Yeah, I think it's like GIF and GIF. One sounds more correct than the other to different people but it's like. Isn't it Republic of Gamers is what it's supposed to look like. It's an acronym or something for ROG. Yeah, Republic of Gamers, so they think it's the actual brand name. As dumb as that is, I think actually just having ROG by itself is a better version of that. That's like one time I gave some money to Dr. Disrespect on Twitch. He was doing something hilarious and I was like dude this deserves a little bit of money. I gave him some and he pronounced it a cog or you know like a game and I was like that's so true. It's so true like you could see that and immediately think of it. Someone choking on a peanut rig rundown. Yeah, these are all my guitars. This is all my setup. Those are Johnny's. My setup's better. There's a guy in one of my backgrounds but he's not there this time because somebody asked me if I was paying that dude in the background and I didn't realize there's a guy in the background. He's the self -producer. Yeah, totally. Yeah, that's exactly it. He's the video editor. He's just editing. Yep, he's back there editing. I mean you can tell dude how good my edits are, right? Like if you saw the last time on ACG prior to this video starting, I mean you know that my edits there might be no better edits. Honestly, you give yourself shit but dude like in reviews I'm always like did this man really dig up the specific video footage for what he's commenting right now? Well, I appreciate you getting it because I do do that but most people are like what's he talking about? I'm like you damn like that missed them you know like that complete I'll be talking about something in the background. You hope the reference lands before it's wine. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's just it's a little bit like wine tasting where some people are like this is just not for me. That's ACG in a nutshell. That's all of us. That's why we're like people are also playing Tales of Arise. There's a DLC that dropped, right? Oh, okay. What is it? I mean what's the what's the nine? I know nothing about it. ACG best gaming podcast. Let's talk about. You have been informed. It's out. That's as far as did you guys hear about the Steam Deck? Yeah, I think that's a handheld. So anyway about what we were talking and walking and doing on the on the background. What about you Silver? What have you been playing because you didn't get to come to last Friday's? What what's the game? I'm kind of still trying to get into Alan Wake 2 and I hate it because my brain kind of won't let me because I can't I can't for some reason get beyond the sound of like Sagas footsteps in that game where it sounds like she has soggy shoes. Yeah, so it completely undercuts like any tension like oh no, it's dark and people are hunting me and then I hear like wouldn't it be scarier if you were in that but also having to like deal with soggy shoes. That would be scary. Yeah, it would be except then I would then I would hear like the sound of my my actual you're just utterly distracted by the soggin before which is unintentionally funny.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from These 5 Altcoins Will Explode In November!
"The crypto market is pumping and Total 3 just broke out of a yearly long downtrend. In today's video I want to run you through my favourite altcoins for Q4 2024, specifically zooming in on this week and the month of November as a whole to look at some of the altcoins with specific catalysts at the moment and alts that could potentially outperform based on current events. I also want to talk about some of my favourite trades, a couple of which are actually also short setups as I think there are a couple coins which are starting to look frothy and run you through exactly what I'm thinking at this point in the market. If you're looking forward to this video, smash the like button, subscribe if you're not already subscribed, and without further ado, let's get straight into the show. It would be remiss of me not to start with Bitcoin, just on a quick Bitcoin update, almost looks like a bull flag here is starting to form on the four -alley timeframe and the daily, but more structurally zooming out and looking at things for Bitcoin, we can see that it's clearly still holding above its range high, resistance flipped into support at the 31 ,500 zone. It's still in an uptrend, we can see it had multiple support retests of this channel, although it did break down below, it's now successfully holding above. Maybe we do get some sort of pullback back down to the mean deviation, that is something that I'm looking for, but generally this is positive signs for Bitcoin undoubtedly from a macro perspective. It's very nice that it also broke above the QEMA 200, this is one of my major bull versus bear indicators. Typically when Bitcoin is above this level for a sustained period of time, that does indicate sustainable bullish momentum and vice versa when it holds down for a sustained period of time, as you can see when it held underneath in March 2022, it pretty much went on a yearly long downtrend. Conversely when it breaks above as it did in January 2023, it's been able to maintain bullish momentum pretty much all the way through, disregarding one of the fake outs that we did get after we got a short term shake out with a bunch of regulatory FUD happening back in September, but ever since then it's bounced strongly and responded strongly to the upside. So that is where Bitcoin is looking strong, but what about the altcoins, what are we seeing in the altcoin market? Well I think there has been a real turning of the tide for alts, a lot of people now starting to perpetuate this bull market is back narrative and many people starting to foam it back into the alt market. So if you want to take advantage of some of that new momentum, the first thing we need to do is identify the strongest coins in the market and in today's show let's go through some of the coins that I think are exhibiting strength not only based on price action, so technicals but also based on fundamentals and some of the underlying catalysts that are powering a lot of these narratives. The first narrative I want to talk about is crypto gaming, it's one that has been silent for quite some time but is starting to come back into the forefront of the market with a lot of creators now starting to talk about crypto gaming again. Alex Becker even said he was going to do a video on gaming on Wednesday, Elio doing a lot of gaming coverage again, a lot of the big creators starting to pick it up, Hustle of course he hasn't gone anywhere but his gaming videos from a view perspective are now starting to really uptick in terms of general interest and you can see the interest is back in this sector. Long term gaming is a vertical I'm really bullish on, I think it's one of the strongest crypto adoption verticals we have for retail to come into the market apart from speculation which crypto basically is one big casino in a way right, but crypto gaming is a bonafide way for users to come into the ecosystem and use web3 without even knowing that they're using web3 so I'm bullish on it long term, in the short term though I am seeing it starting to garner more steam, how sustainable it will be let's see but there are a couple of specific altcoins which I want to point out now which are bucking the trend even within the niche. The first one is YGG which is Yield Guild Games and they have a big conference on November 18th till November 25th in the Philippines so this is one that started to run, we know that pre -conference runs have been some of the most powerful trades in recent times in the market, we can see this with Adjix and FET and the AI coin narrative, XRP, Solana running into Breakpoint, this is the next conference that's still a couple of weeks away so do we see a gaming run into this summit, I mean maybe but YGG specifically does stand out to me considering you're still going to be able to position yourself around two weeks ahead of the pinnacle, the apex of this summit so definitely that's one to keep your eye on, YGG, a lot of the other crypto games as well are starting to tick up if I have to pick my favourites in terms of trades over the next few weeks if gaming does continue in its uptrend, I think Axie Infinity is one that I'm looking at, this one pumps really hard when the market decides to bid, Alluvium as well is one that's already been pumping but I'm starting to see a lot of big creators talking about it and a lot of hype around it, Steppen is an interesting one, we all know how well Steppen performs when gaming catches a bid, on the daily this is one of the strongest performers in crypto gaming alongside Vulcan Forge which is also on my watchlist because it just broke above a major level on the higher time frame so it broke above resistance and that is also looking super strong, so those are some of the gaming coins I'm looking at, I'm sure Hustle shows will do the more specific short term trades some justice but if you want to look more at actually trading a lot of the gaming coins, what I'm doing is I'm actually looking at a lot of the on -chain data because a lot of the smart money trades on -chain so I do like to track the on -chain whale net flow and one way you can do that is by going into an application like Kyber AI, if you sort by market cap by more than 100 you can kind of filter for a lot of the bigger gaming coins, you can see like PYR here is actually number 2 out of any altcoin in terms of its bullish scores, this is an AI generated metric based on machine learning data that is compounded from Kyber AI's database worth of resources and you can see here in terms of on -chain analysis we're starting to see a lot of traders flick into the long territory with 249 buys versus 202 sells over the past day and you can also see that trading volumes experiencing an uptick alongside net flow to whale wallets which is also ticking in the green territory which means whale wallets are essentially buying, negative net flow to whale wallets generally indicates that whales are selling so this is a positive sign that shows the big players they're starting to position themselves in gaming so definitely if you want to try and use this kind of data check it out on Kyber AI there's a link in the description below to sign up for early access because you're a crypto banter subscriber or at least we hope so by using the link you can get early access versus the rest of the pack that have to wait you'll be expedited as part of the crypto banter member so Kyber AI definitely check it out and get some of that on -chain data for yourself not only for PYR but for a lot of other coins in the market that are available on -chain most coins are on -chain obviously some coins they're traded more in centralized exchanges so I usually use it for the ones that are mostly traded on -chain PYR being one that is heavily traded on a chain like Ethereum as well.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from The #1 Trading Strategy For Making Money In Crypto November 2023
"The number one trading meta in the market at the moment is conference pumps. Over the last two to three weeks, we've seen the strongest gainers in the altcoin market actually be coins with upcoming crypto conferences. So in today's video, I want to talk about this strategy, how you can apply it to your trading, what it tells us about the market, and also look at some of the upcoming conferences to see if there are any trade opportunities on the table. So in the last 30 days, Solana pumped over 104%, Nia pumped over 48 % in 18 days, XRP rose 26 % over the same period, and two of the biggest AI coins, FET and AGIX, also rose 83 % and 43 % over 18 days. For context, during this exact same period, the total three index, which is the total cryptocurrency market cap, excluding Bitcoin and Ethereum, rose a mere 15 % in comparison. So it's clear right now that the market dynamics have shifted because before the anticipation of good news leading into a conference or leading into an announcement wasn't really garnering much hype in terms of price action. But now with market dynamics starting to shift, retail sentiment slightly increasing after the latest Bitcoin pump that we've gotten, the market is now more susceptible to these pre -conference and these pre -announcement pumps, which makes the whole buy the rumor, sell the news trade more applicable to trading because before the market wasn't really responding. So let's go through some of the major conferences now, look at what the tokens are doing, and also look at what happened in the last time they had a conference pump. The first one is Solana, the red lines exhibit the breakpoint conferences in Lisbon, this year it was in Amsterdam. And you can see here that every Solana breakpoint conference, Sol pumps aggressively into the conference and then has a sell off. It happened in 2021, it happened again, we had a 40 % pump in October 2022, then the FTX saga happened and it crashed. And now we've had a pump again, we're starting to get that rejection. You see that wick here on the top of the candle right into the conference towards the end of the conference. Will this be another buy the rumor, sell the news event? Well, history tends to indicate that that is the case for Solana. The only caveat that I'm going to throw into the mix here is that the FTX saga was basically unprecedented. So that was a very rare black swan event for the market, which impacted Solana's price. And then also the Solana breakpoint conference in November 2021, corresponded with the overall market top, obviously the rate hike fear started to climb back into the market, Bitcoin started to reverse, sentiment from a macro perspective started to shift and the entire market sold off. So it wasn't a Solana specific buy the rumor, sell the news. So there were two macro events, which maybe impeded our ability to read the price action accurately here. But one thing is for sure, there has been a sell off into the event. So that's one thing. Let's look at some of the other events though. Nia protocol, pretty much the exact same thing happened into Niacon in September 2022. We saw Nia pump and then dump aggressively post conference. If we see what total three was doing during this time, the market was relatively sideways. It did have that major drop in November, but as you can see, the Nia drop happened even sooner. So the fact that the market didn't take a huge sell off during the Nia conference, sell off indicates that this was a buy the rumor, sell the news event. And then it went on to make lower lows. You can see now into the next conference, which is exhibited by this second red vertical line here, we are seeing strong price movement from Nia pumping over 48 % in 18 days. So these coins are now starting to be responsive to these conferences, but historically it's been buy the rumor, sell the news. But let's go into another one. Let's look at the XRP conference. They didn't have a swell conference last year, but it is pumping in the lead up to the conference once again. XRP actually looks really good. It is making higher lows on the weekly timeframe here, which from a macro perspective is quite good. You can see FET and AGIX also moving aggressively into the AI conference season. I think the one that has garnered the most attention is the inaugural open AI developer conference on the six, lots of announcements being teased there. I don't necessarily think there's going to be a FET or AGIX announcement, but nonetheless, the AI narrative is running into the hype of that conference. So what can we kind of look at from this data? Well, what we can see is that in the past, buy the rumor, sell the news events have definitely been prevalent for conference pumps. So you do have to be careful in terms of longing into the conference, like on the actual day of the conference. However, there is definitely a trading opportunity leading into conferences. In fact, there is a trading opportunity leading into a lot of major conferences. Timing it can be tricky because the further out the conference is from the time you're positioning yourself, yes, you are front running the narrative, so you're getting in early. That can be an edge, but the downside is market conditions can change in the meantime. So let's say the market takes a huge sell off in the interim, even though you get a conference pump that may erode most of your gains. So there is a risk positioning yourself super far out for conferences, but what we can observe with conference pumps is that they tend to gain steam roughly 18 to 25 days pre -conference. So this is typically your best time to position yourself in the shakeouts in the month prior to the conference. You can see this happen with Solana in the lead up to Amsterdam this year. You can see it happen with Nia with that shakeout a few weeks before the conference in August 2022. So the best trading opportunities are actually usually a few weeks out because then you're not holding onto your bags for let's say an entire month and exposing yourself to general market downside if there is downside. Instead maybe you miss out on a little bit of potential gains, but you're getting in during a time period which is still early enough before the conference that traders don't pile into the trade. I do think conference trades though only really work when the market is feeling okay towards altcoins. In complete bear markets like we've seen over the past year or so, the market has been unresponsive to conference or announcement pumps. So this is definitely a trading strategy that you can use. And another thing you can do when you are taking entries for these sort of trades, obviously you want to be getting in during the pre -conference shakeouts if there are any. When you're getting your entry you can actually make sure that you're buying in during a time where that token has momentum. For example if you were buying into Solana pre -conference you could search up Solana on Kaiba AI and you could get a metric which is its Kaiba score to dictate whether momentum is starting to go from bearish to bullish territory or bullish to bearish territory which gives you an indicator as to whether you're catching the momentum of the market. So Kaiba AI is a really good tool because it's going to give you on -chain analytics which show you the amount of trades, type of trades that are happening, whether you're seeing net flow onto exchanges or back onto DEXs and I think this is a really important thing to keep your eye on because this can help you get better entries and the Kaiba score aggregates a lot of that data to give you an indicator as to what the momentum of a token is at any given moment and you don't only need to do this on a token like Sol, you can do this for any token which is across any of the EVM networks. Although Sol technically isn't an EVM token, it's natural to the Solana blockchain, it is wormholed onto other chains like the BNB chain. So maybe the on -chain analytics aren't as accurate but a lot of people still do trade Solana on wormhole. You can see here just the amount of trading volume we can see, 523 total trade spot Solana trades on the BNB chain. So there's a link to Kaiba AI in the description below. If you do want to sign up and get market alpha before the rest of the market, CryptoBanta subscribers do get early access to Kaiba AI versus the normal waiting list that you'll go into if you weren't, clicking through the link in the description which can run you a few weeks. So now we've looked at some of the biggest coins that are pumping into the conferences and their historic data but now I want to look at the lesser known ones because buying into a Solana conference hype or an XRP conference hype or NIA or ADA conference hype, it's very different from trading some of the smaller coins. Typically the lesser known coins, they won't pump as aggressively into the conference but if there is any announcement or hype around the time of the conference, there can be good trading opportunities. So I'll name a few that have conferences over the next few days that I think you should keep your eye on in case there are any big announcements. Remember, the market is now more responsive to news. You've got Apecoin being one with Apefest, by the way, token doesn't look that strong TA wise but this is definitely something to keep your eye on, who knows, they might pull a rabbit out of a hat. You've got Helium Network as well. This conference is in another five days so there is more time for a trade here on HNT so this is what I would look at into this conference. You've got YGG which is nice because it overlaps with the gaming industry, this is a little bit further out so this is in that window that I discussed before about trading into pre -conference hype and YGG also overlaps with gaming which has been one of the hotter narratives over the past couple of weeks. This is actually one that I might look to trade leading into the conference as well as Helium which I'm keeping my eye on and Apecoin for me is only if there's really any major announcements in the conference, it's not a very hyped coin. So as I said, the lesser known coins typically, they might not outperform as well into the major news. Now I have another strategy for you that you can implement which is actually just keeping track of your own calendar. So you can really front run the narratives by like months or weeks, a lot of the time the conferences aren't necessarily announced like 6 months to 12 months ahead but at least a few months ahead, you can get an idea of what conferences are at what times and this can actually help you start to pre -empt the rest of the market. So if you do have a bit of patience and you're willing to market out in your calendar, these can be great trades. Definitely, definitely great trades. I know a lot of traders who actually get their own edge through a lot of these conference slash announcement trades. So there's a website called coinmarketcal .com. What you can do is you can use the filters here to sort by conference or other announcements. You can also sort by date and what you can do is you can scroll through and see what upcoming conferences there are. You can see there's a few general events, there's a few specific events. You can go further down the list and get dates further in the future. You can also set your own dates and this will allow you to see what conferences there are. You can see here Neocon, then we've got Helium House, then Ripple. These are some of the more hyped ones like Neocon and Ripple price -wise but then as we go further forward, you have Avalanche happening in two weeks time. That might be one to keep an eye on. You've got a few other ones as well to keep your eye on and also broader crypto conferences which may have announcements. Always good to look at these too and look at who the speakers are so you can start taking your destiny in your own hands and preempting for some of these conferences. A lot of them aren't listed until closer to the conference but we know the sweet spot pre -conference is usually around a month out to start looking at positioning yourself due to the market conditions effect that I mentioned earlier so that's really fine anyway. Three to four weeks out I think is a decent trade. Anything longer than that and you're kind of holding on to hope a little bit and if you're in a leverage position, you might be paying crazy funding to hold your position in the meantime so that is also something to note. I want to give a shout out to today's sponsor SmartX who are offering some of the best APRs in crypto for stakers so if you are holding any Arbitrum, USDC, Bitcoin and you would like to stake it, SmartX has a solution which minimizes the impact of impermanent loss which is an awesome feature which I think makes LPs feel a lot more comfortable staking. You can earn some pretty insane yields between as you can see here 29 % all the way up to 51 % across a variety of chains. Some chains have higher APRs depending on the pool and also different assets on BNB you can stake BNB, on Polygon you can stake MATIC so I would highly recommend checking out the SmartX Farms if you would like to earn some passive income and they also just reached $100 million worth of on -chain volume. They recently partnered with 1inch to offer their liquidity across a variety of other service providers which is a massive milestone for the ecosystem as well so there's a link in the description to SmartX if you want to check them out and earn some passive income. I hope you enjoyed today's video and learned something about trading conferences. Let me know in the comments below which altcoins you're trading and if there are any conferences you're looking forward to from a trading perspective. It is really the meta in the market at the moment and not just conferences by the way but announcements, good news, this kind of thing, this preemptive positioning ahead of events I mean that's really what the entire BitcoinSpot ETF trade is, is super effective in this market environment so definitely something for traders to take out of today's video. I'll see you in the next one. Peace out.
She Podcasts
A highlight from 403 YouTube Podcasting
"Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 403 of She Podcasts. I am your co -host, Jessica Kupferman, with me as always. I'm off my game today. My illustrious, I like using that one. Sure. Illustrious is good. Glowing co -host, Elsie Escobar. Yes. Our vibe today is clearly downtrodden, for whatever reason. I, you know, I, mind you, it is still summer. It is 90 degrees outside, y 'all. It's 90 degrees muggy, not too sunny. It's like super cloudy out here. Pretty terrible. And I'm wearing fuzzy socks and sweats, like I have sweatpants on and a sweatshirt on. And I was like, and my hands are a little bit cold right now. I'm not too hot. And I took off the sweatshirt and I was going to not wear it. And then when I took it off, I felt not OK. I was like, I want to put my sweatshirt back on. I feel warm and cozy and protected, I guess. I think that's why people wear sweatshirts sometimes, because it's like, it's like you're getting a constant little hug. And I think I need that right now. So, oh, yeah. So I'm just wearing a sweatshirt. You should build a hugging machine like Temple Grandin. You know what I mean? I don't want somebody to hold me and I can't move. Like, I don't want that kind of a hug. I just feel like I just want to be like, feel like cozy and safe. I mean, tomato, tomato. But I understand. Have you seen there's this actually is a thing and it's very like hip on TikTok. Mind you, the only reason I know this is because the ads on Instagram say this is hip on TikTok. I don't know whether or not that's true or not, but there is a sweatshirt that basically sells it, sells itself. I don't even know what company is from, but their their messaging is around that it is a anxiety reducing sweatshirt and it's supposedly also weighted, kind of like the blankets, supposedly. Yeah, you don't even have to get a whole blanket. You can just get like a weighted like shoulder pads kind of thing. But yeah. So there's that. So supposedly, but it's not weighted in the sense that it's like, whoa, this is like a serious weight. I think that the weightedness of this sweatshirt is the fact that the material is of a thicker nature. I'm assuming the you know, the actual sweatshirt. So it's a little bit thicker because of that. And I cannot tell you how appealing that messaging is for me, although the more research I did, the more I realized this is a sweatshirt. There's no specialness about it. There's no like it because it says call her daddy. No, no, not the one that. Well, the one that I'm wearing right now is a call her daddy sweatshirt. It's her merch. But what I'm saying, the other one that I saw on Instagram that was a weighted whatevers, I really wanted. Oh, sorry. Yeah, that's what I meant. Like the one that this is not that sweatshirt. This is just a sweatshirt. It's merch. But are you saying such a thing existed or that you thought it existed, but in fact does not? I don't know if it actually exists. I didn't want to invest in this sweatshirt that claim to be a anxiety reducing weighted sweatshirt that I that what I said is that's the messaging. And I think it's working for people to buy it because people are craving that cozy, like anxiety, like a warm and like I feel safe vibe. And when the more I researched, I did about not necessarily the company, but the product itself. And I was looking at what it was made from. And I was like, I was like, it's just a sweatshirt. Like there was nothing in it that was, oh, that's the specialness. That's right. The X factor. So it's just the way that they're marketing their clothing, which I think is a good angle, but it doesn't make the product special, if you will. I have a confession to make. Oh, no, I don't really like wearing sweatshirts and I don't own that many. Not pullover ones like what you have on. I'm not surprised. I will wear hoodie that zip. You're not surprised? Why? Because you hate being hot. But even as a kid, it felt they felt very like they were choking me like a sweater has some give kind of, you know, and I'm like showing my bra or whatever. But, you know, like, you know, sweaters have give, but like, I don't like the stiff, the stiffer the sweatshirt, the more I hate it. And there was like a time when champion sweatshirts were like all the rage. And I mean, it was like wearing movable cardboard. I hated it. Like, I agree with you. I do not like the stiff kind. I love the soft kind. This is pretty soft and squishy and it's kind of light. It's got it's made out of really light material. So it's not as dense as some of those heavier sweatshirts. And I am partial to a well -designed sweatshirt and I am also very much partial to what you're talking like. There's been a couple I have like a zippity ones are good. I I have a hoodie that, you know, the one that you pull over your head without the zipper that I bought. That is I think it's a she podcast one and I really love it. It's gray and she podcast on it. I love the color, but I you know why I don't ever wear it, because every time I put it over my head, it's so tight. It's like and then it's very tight around my neck. And that balance between having it be a properly fitting, cozy one and having the neck be open and have the hood fit properly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A hood fit. Y 'all, a hood fits everything, because if you put the hood on and it pulls you down, have you ever put that where you feel your neck or it's like your whole entire neck is getting squashed because the hoodie doesn't have enough material behind? Yeah, that's my my pet peeve, like for sweatshirts. And if you can have a sweatshirt that's like so comfy and you don't even know you have the hood on it and it's spacious, it's so rare. But yes, everything. Yes, I don't know how we got into this, but it's just because my hands are freezing. My I don't know what's going on with my body temperature at this moment, but I have two fans going on me right now. It also looks like the air quality is pitiful in here, which I don't know if that is because of the outside, but it doesn't look it does look kind of hazy out. And also I have a new one, which I can't show you, but it's like it's supposed to be like a portable air conditioner. It's like this big and you freeze the filter and then water blows out of it. And it's supposed to be it's pretty cold. I have to say there's like steam coming out of it, like cold steam. What's that called? Frost.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Will Ripple IPO in 2024? SEC Ripple XRP Ruling with Linqto Ray Fuentes
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Ray Fuentes, who's the Community Director at Link2. Ray, it's great to have you on, my friend. Tony, it's quite the privilege to be on your podcast, sir. I'm a huge fan. Thank you for having me. For sure. We obviously bumped into each other recently at the Ripple Proper Party. It was a real good time. Did you have a good time at the party as well? I had an amazing time, Tony, and it's so funny because when I think back of the event itself, all I could see is you wearing your famous, I love Gary t -shirt, Gary Gensler t -shirt. Just kidding, but it was great bumping into you, it was great bumping into the XRP community and the energy was high. We got to dance to Lenny Kravitz. That took me back to a really great time just getting dropped off at school by my mom because all we would do is listen to... We literally had a Lenny Kravitz CD playing for quite some time, maybe a couple of years of middle school into high school, but regardless, it took me back to a great time of just dancing with my mom and also she was even there at the Ripple Proper Party alongside. Oh, that's great. Yeah, so it was a good time and it was even... Some other takeaways are obviously bumping into you, DAI, Brad Kimes, Stu Alderati, and others from the space as well and where I'm going is it was really exciting to hear even Brad lean Garlinghouse in and talk about XRP Las Vegas 2024 and so kudos to Brad Kimes and his team for what I believe they're going to be hosting another successful conference in Vegas come 2024. So hopefully I have an opportunity to MC that like I did last year and maybe you'll be there this year, hopefully. Yeah, I'm hoping to be there. I couldn't make it this year due to some family issues, but yeah, I have it on the calendar and I'm definitely going to try to make it out and it's Vegas, so it should be fun. Yeah, it should be a really good time and it wouldn't be the same without you. So I'm looking forward to seeing you there, sir. Now, since we're on the topic of Ripple, with the ruling in Ripple's favor for the large part, XRP being declared a security in many different instances, was there a higher demand for Ripple equity, which is already something that's been on your platform, on the link to platform after that ruling, was there a higher demand? Absolutely, Tony, 100%, I mean, around even this time last week, if you were to look at link, if you did look at link to his website, we were hovering around 285 million in total member investments. Now fast forward to today, or even since the Ripple proper party, we're now succeeded past 293 million. Now I'm not saying all of that is generated because of Ripple, because it's not. We have thankfully a breadth of high quality private companies, including PolySign, Axiom Space, Zipline, Cerebrum Systems. So we're seeing demand for all of these companies in addition to Ripple, but definitely Ripple is driving the volume for that essentially, I mean, I think we saw about 10 million in investments since roughly around this time, even last week. So we are picking up steam, we are ramping up and we're definitely seeing the demand. So in regards to the lawsuit, XRP has, yes, been declared, thankfully, not a security and the SEC can appeal that. So right now, I think it's safe to say XRP is the only digital asset in the USA with legal clarity and I believe people are picking up on what's coming down the pike and it's an exciting time, not just for link to, not just for the XRP community, but I believe for crypto at large.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Mike Gallagher Week in Review for Friday, October 20, 2023
"Welcome to The Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review Podcast. I'm Eric Hansen. This is Friday, October 20th, 2023. It's been a busy week, and of course, the demonstrations picked up steam this week as Americans took side in the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. Disturbingly, the pro -Palestinian supporters showed up in numbers in places like Harvard University, as well as many other college campuses. These pro bizarre -Hamas protests that we've seen break out all over the world, particularly in London. Did you see London over the weekend? A lot of European capitals. What's going on over there? And if they have people who say, hey, the Palestinian people have some grievances too. Okay. But it's almost pro, almost it's decidedly pro -terrorism. It's pro -Hamas. Yes. Hey, let me break this down for you. If you're pro -Hamas, you're pro -terrorist. Because there was Joe Biden yesterday saying, well, sort of the extremist element of Hamas doesn't represent, there is no non -extremist element of Hamas. Yeah. I mean, how do you have proportionality over something like this? Andrew McCarthy wrote a great column over the weekend in the New York Post, what proportionality really means in Israel's about the need for proportionality. Oh, really? So should Israel limit itself to raping the precise number of women as Hamas did? Should we just kill precisely the same amount of babies in Gaza as they did? Or elderly non -combatants and young peace concert revelers? What in the hell, pardon my language, the hell is going on with the world and progressives and now progressives calling on us taking in Gaza refugees? I think I'm going to throw this out to you. And I could be dead wrong on this, but, but this is the only thing that makes sense. Anti -Semitism. It has to be a hatred of the Jewish people. And it has to be okay. If a progressive says, if I got to take a side between a Jew and a terrorist, I'm going to side with the terrorist. What else explains it, Mark? There's only one other thing, because I spent a lot of time thinking about this as well. What drives hate? What guides, I mean, what is the reason for hating Jews? The reason for hating blacks, the reason for hating whites, the reason for hating Hispanics, the reason for hating Mormons, whatever. What drives it? And anti -Semitism has historically been, I think a lot of it about envy, a lot of it about suspicion. A lot of it, there are a lot of ancient gripes that might go into people's desire not to process today. But I think some of this is the enemy of my enemy is my friend, or the friend of my enemy is my enemy. Meaning that since, you ever hear Donald Trump say that conservative Christians care more about Israel than a lot of American Jews do? And by the way, he's right about that. So if indeed conservative Christianity is one of the most pro Israeli contingents to be found today, the American left is going to oppose anything that conservative Christians. They must run from that. They must run and you're right. They must say, well, I can't be on the side of what conservatives. Now I will tell you this, a lot of the media, a lot of the American media has been very pro Israel throughout all of this. Bill Maher had a great deal of clarity over this. And yet you still see this weird penchant for proportionality. You know, of course the battle isn't with the Gaza people, the people of Gaza, but Hamas is using the people of Gaza as human shields, including hostages, including some Americans. Mike had a chance to catch up with his friend, podcaster, author, and filmmaker Dinesh D 'Souza this week. His latest movie Police State is coming out and he talked about it on the show. 72 % of likely US voters are concerned that America is becoming a police state. Dinesh, this has happened pretty rapidly. Don't you agree that this has only been within the last few years that we've seen these incredible abuses of the justice system and the judicial system and law enforcement? This has not been years and years and years in the making, has it? Well, the germs of it do go back to the aftermath of 9 -11 when many people, I think Mike, you included, me included, said to the US government, we're willing to grant you these expanded surveillance powers, these expanded police powers, but of course in the expectation that they will be used against foreign terrorists who are trying to kill us, people like the Hamas terrorists that you've been talking about. Now, I think under the Obama administration, there was a shift in which these police agencies of government said, we have all this power, but there's no reason that we have to simply limit it to foreign terrorists. How about if we start going after some domestic political opponents? Now, that began slowly under Obama in kind of an unprecedented period in the last two years. There's been a tremendous escalation so that the FBI and the police agencies have turned their attention to what they now call domestic extremists. And I think this is part of the reason that the US intelligence agencies were clueless about the Hamas attack, because they're not focusing on foreign terrorists anymore. They're focusing on some 70 -year -old grandma who strolled into the Capitol for 10 minutes on January 6th. You know, one of the most high -profile examples of a police state, it seems to me, is when we witnessed in the early morning hours law enforcement raiding Mar -a -Lago, the residence of the 45th President of the United States. We have seen such egregious abuses in the guise of stopping him from becoming reelected. We all know what's going on here, but it seems to me that more and more Americans, Dinesh, are able to recognize what Trump is experiencing, and they're saying to themselves, if they can do this to Donald Trump, they sure as heck can do this to me. Police states, Mike, tend to be one -party states. And that doesn't mean that they don't have any opposition, and it doesn't mean they don't have elections. China has elections. Iran has elections. But the opposition is always controlled. It's subordinate to the regime. Now, with Trump, if they had said that this is unprecedented, but guess what? We've found that he took some classified documents. He pugnaciously held onto them. He refused to turn them back. So we're going to make a single charge against him. But the fact, Mike, that you're dealing with 90 -plus charges and decades and decades in prison, it's very obvious they're using a shotgun approach. Let's get them in DC. If we can't get them in DC, maybe in Florida. If not in Florida, maybe in Georgia. If not in Georgia, then in New York. If we can't get them on the criminal stuff, we'll get them on civil stuff and wreck his business. I mean, this is classic police state thuggery. And we're seeing it blatantly before our eyes. And of course, Dinesh's new movie, Police State, comes out next week. You know, we talked about all the pro -Hamas supporters on college campuses, which got us wondering about those students. They'll all need a job after graduation, right? So would you hire a Hamas supporter at your company? Hi, Jackie. Welcome to The Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor studios. How are you today? I'm good. Thank you. I'm a small company owner down here in Southwest Missouri. And I have to say, I wouldn't hire these kids for sure. And the reason, yes, they're protesting for Palestine. But the problem is it really shows a disconnect with reality. They don't have any ability to research or find their own opinion. They just listen to whatever somebody tells them to think. And that's not somebody I want in my company. If you drop these kids off in Israel and they had to look, like really look at what happened, I guarantee you they're going to think differently. But they've been so sheltered. They've been so sheltered for any type of suffering or any reality. It's just a movie to them, just TV. It's not real. It's like a video game. They don't really realize that young women were raped brutally raped. One of the women carried away as a hostage. You've seen the video. And she has blood all over her pants from where she was raped viciously by these monsters. The videos have been confirmed and the pictures were confirmed of the murdered babies.
Six Minutes
A highlight from S3 E46: Time to Start Worrying About Penn
"There are kids in this world who are different, special. They go to school in a place you can't find on a map, and they're about to get a new classmate. Okay, sir, your garage is clean. Your disgusting, disgusting garage. Well, I'll be. It's like Mary Poppins swept through here. We aim to please. Now, you mentioned you'd paying cash. Ever been so happy to part with it in my life? Your parents should be very proud of you two. Here you go. This is five dollars. For a job well done. Don't spend it all in one place now. Are you kidding? We spent the entire day going through your nasty, filthy, horary. This is so generous, sir. Thank you. Enjoy your garage. Come on, Casey. Let's just be on our way. On our way to where? Thanks to this old cheapskate. Casey. Hey, maybe we could use this crumbled up fiver and hop on a bus to, I don't know, the next town over in Minnesota. Yep, thanks again. Sir, appreciate the opportunity. Have a lovely day. We should take his wallet. Or his car. Or his wallet and his car. We're not stealing anything. He stole from us. A part of my soul died in that garage. Relax, Casey. We got what we needed. How? Pretty sure I have all the parts I need to fix Hovey. Really? So we can hoverboard to Florida? I can hoverboard to Florida. You want to come? You've got to finish your story. Tell me why you came to Alaska. The headmaster sent me. The headmaster of Elixir Academy. No, the headmaster of Hogwarts. Yes, of course Elixir. Look, a few weeks ago, Brinley and I saw a boat offshore. She thought it was your dad coming to rescue her. Spoiler alert, it was not. So these farmie guys - Fake army? Of course you understand Brin speak. Anyway, Jude. You met him on the tour. He saved us. And then... And then the island went on lockdown. They sealed it off. Everyone was ordered back to their rooms. Everyone but me. I was escorted to the office for a mission. They promised to give me the one thing I wanted most. We are sending you on an off -campus assignment. To where? Juno Alaska. If you do as you're told, we can arrange for Mila's return. You'll embed yourself with the Anders family and wait for orders from a woman named Delphine. A robot named Delphine. Didn't know that part. All I knew was that she would help me with my mission. What was the mission exactly? To keep you and your family in Juno. And as far away from Brinley and Elixir Key as possible. No matter what it took. Like setting up my parents at the courthouse? So the child catchers could catch them? I didn't know that was going to happen. Right, you were totally innocent. Did nothing wrong. Well, not totally. There is this one other thing I did. How bad is it? Not sure. It's about your friend, Bruce. Hey, Bird. What you doing out here? Oh, hey Bruce. What's new? Not much. But you seem off. You're the one to talk. What was that? Uh, nothing. I'm just... I'm worried about my family. Me too. Bruce, remember before you asked about the mess out here? Yeah. You're the one who caused it. Badger and I, we... We saw you smashing things like you were really mad. Oh. Yeah, I know that. I was frustrated because I couldn't find your parents. I had just to let off some steam, you know? Uh -huh. Maybe we should all just hit the road, retrace every step, follow every lead until we find them. No. What do you mean no? I mean, I'm the only member of my family left here. Just little old Birdie the baby. The world thinks that Holiday Corp is in a spiral, that it'll fall apart without my parents, and I need to show them that we're still strong and solid and good. We spent so much of my childhood running. From Angelica Graves, the Childcatchers, from Holidays Past, from you, I mean, Adam. Birdie. This time, I don't run. This time, I represent. I stand my ground. Do you understand why I need to do that, Bruce? You with me? Uh, you know, I should head back in. Six -minute nap time. Yeah. Happy nappy -vee. You're okay, Bruce. Whatever is happening to you, you can fight it. You're stronger than this. Jude and Penn are my friends. You can trust them, Casey. It's not about trust, Brinley. I told you, it's Penn. I think he's the one. The one what? The one I was looking for. abilities. He has Like, abilities? Or something worse? I don't know. And I don't think the Headmaster really knows how to harness those powers either. But I believe Penn has something to do with the electromagnetic anomaly I detected near the island. That might explain why he causes your memory issues. Yeah. From what I could tell in that auditorium, the Headmaster was hoping to amplify his abilities by connecting him to a power boost. And your Casey! The battery. What you saw? It wasn't the first time they tried the experiment. Casey, do you really believe that Penn is that dangerous? Not on purpose, but yeah, very. Oh, terrific. Shouldn't we let him know? Maybe we can make him, I don't know, use his powers for good? That's cute, but he doesn't know how to control them. And take it from me, that's a recipe for disaster. So that swirly thingy we saw down in the auditorium, that was Penn? With my help. I stopped at Midway. Before it got too big, right? But it sucked Kazu in any way. I mean, if it got any bigger, it could take out... Everything.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
A highlight from Preseason Begins & The Annual GM Survey
"This is the crossover NBA podcast Chris Mannix joined as I always am by Chris Herring and Rohan Nadkarni. Quick housekeeping note fellas the NBA preview issue is out I guess the basketball preview issue because there is a lot of college stuff in there as well but the cover is NBA Jimmy Butler guest editor for this NBA preview issue Rohan you spent some time with Jimmy Butler in parts unknown I assume South Florida did a a story with him it's excellent check that out I've got a piece on the Phoenix Suns spent some time talking to Matt Ishbia James Jones Frank Vogel key pieces of that organization trying to recreate exactly what happened after the season ended how they got this point where they have one of the most expensive teams in NBA history a lot of good stuff there scouting reports different elements as well make sure you pick up the magazine on stands right now. So fellas we've got the NBA GM survey that's out and I want to dive into some of the elements of that but before we start recording this podcast I was just going through social media looking up some clips and all that stuff and I came across one from the Pat Bev pod the Patrick Beverly pod he does with Barstool Sports I just want to play this clip for you because Pat Bev was joined by Michael Rubin the former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers now this still the CEO with fanatics someone who has a strong relationship with a lot of players including James Harden who they discussed in this clip here as a past NBA owner obviously you're close to the Sixers the situation that's going on with James Harden how would you handle it it wouldn't have happened you know first of all James is family to me and like I'm not going to hide about that I love James this thing is breaking my heart this thing was just not handled well he was playing with us in practice and boy he was cooking he was oh I'm talking about the pot was out and he was stirring that bitch up there's nobody who wants to win a championship more than James Harden I know this guy like my brother people give James a hard time because you know he likes to have fun it's bullshit like the guy the guy's work ethic for basketball is insane and his attitude has been great he's been leading he's been giving advice so you might hear all the bad shit you know TV from reporters that's not there but actually being a teammate that's there he's he's been phenomenal I block out the noises really same because I think a lot of people just don't know like the real James Harden how badly he wants to win I think he's in great not good shape he's in great shape yeah he's in great shape right that's right body looks great yeah every time I'm in the weight room he's in the weight room he's gonna ball out this year so herring I know my blood shouldn't boil when I hear stuff like this and I know it you know the podcast is doing its job if it gets me kind of drawn in and talking about it but to hear Michael Rubin say that James Harden wants to win a championship more than anyone at the same time that James Harden is trying to force his way off a championship contender that is a Rubik's Cube of nonsense that I'm really having a hard time wrapping my head around your thoughts on the propaganda emerging from the Pat Bev pod about James Harden I'm just trying to think of a stranger mashup than the one you just explained I mean the the whole universe of Michael Rubin and all the there's so many things lately that just on social media that I've wanted to mute and I don't think I know enough about how to do it I haven't taken the time to do it but if I had a way of muting like Michael that Rubin parties James Harden and any other number of athletes are at or like all these white parties and everything else it's like I would do that but that makes this element of this story this this framing odd because it's like okay well he presumably is friendly with James Harden or James Harden is friendly with him but also the fundamental standpoint now at this point that maybe there are people in the organization that instead of kind of just gloves off which it seemed like it would be based on what James Harden said about Daryl Morey earlier this summer that there's also the very real possibility that maybe he's not traded and so they need him to feel wanted and they need him to feel like they want him to perform well which is what you would want if you're a team that at least there's a you said in one of the last pockets we did it's not out of the realm of possibility that they could be a winner a contender a champion if everything fell right you know the right way so I think that's all this is is just positive reinforcement but I mean it's also silly from the standpoint that you're saying that clearly people that are making trade demands whether it's behind the scenes whether it's publicly whether it's saying my general manager my president is a liar it's hard to hold those two thoughts in the same time in your head that you know on the one hand he can say those things but also nobody wants it more than he does come on like I did I know it's just you know the first thing probably that popped into Ruben's mind but it's just silly Rowan I know you're you're a regular at these white parties but do you have a issue let me just first of all echo my esteemed colleague Chris herrings fatigue with Michael Rubin just this guy's everywhere all the time fanatics sucks I'll say it fanatics is not good wow let's start there I mean like kudos to Michael Rubin you know what he did getting involved with meat mill etc but like we could have left it at that listen I if I were James Harden I might be living my life a similar way I let me put it that way but there is now a what is it a preponderance of evidence that winning a championship is not necessarily number one on this guy's priority list just not only in terms of how he's carried himself this offseason but how he likes to carry himself during the season when he's staying in Miami or Vegas for an extra night I'm away from steam mates are flying separately etc that all that stuff's been reported I'm just I'm sick of the the Sixers offseason I'm sick of the Embiid hard in partnership I respect you Mannix for still holding out hope having faith you've always been kind of an optimist a wanderer a dream I died that's why I don't describe you but I'm just so over this it just well like you said I mean respect to that podcast we're here talking about it I love Pat Bev he's a good personality but like what are we doing here Michael Rubin who are you who are you fooling okay we are familiar with James Harden's game okay you're not fooling us game off the court specifically right like you you can't say James Harden is misunderstood or gets a bad rap when right he he forced his way out of Houston by throwing a multi -week temper tantrum he effectively quit on the Nets which forced them to make a when deal they probably didn't want to and now here he is trying to get out of Philadelphia after holding you know one of the worst holdouts in holdout history to stay away from the team it just the the I mean just trying to get us to believe that is just wild so you know we had to talk about it you know James Harden still officially member of the 76ers we'll see what happens as these preseason games go on and what they do with them but right now James Harden kind of between a rock and a hard place might have to play for Philadelphia this season so I want to talk in this episode about the GM survey which always provides good preseason material whenever it comes out and there were some interesting elements in this year's GM survey guys and I want to start with the championship prediction from the NBA GMs which turned into a two -way tie between the Boston Celtics and the Denver Nuggets Milwaukee coming into third place 23 % Phoenix 7 % they came in fourth in the LA Clippers finishing at 3 % last year the Bucks were the leader at 43 % Denver doesn't surprise me Denver has the core of that team back we've talked about this before I think they can expect some organic growth from Christian Brown I think Peyton Watson might be able to play they've some other guys on that roster that can take steps up by the way while we're speaking of the Nuggets condolences to Mike Malone's family for the passing of Brendan Malone his father that was revealed by the organization this week but when it comes to Denver on the floor I can see why they'd be a championship contender the Celtics I might be one of the few pessimists I don't know if I'm pessimistic about the South I have more questions about the Celtics than many people do my good friend Scalabrini was on TV recently and he said every GM would want this roster and I tend to agree with that sort of because if you could bubble wrap this roster and guarantee that it plays 65 to 70 games together and will be healthy going into the playoffs I think you're absolutely right I think the backcourt is really strong especially defensively Drew Holliday elite defender Derek White big time defender we know what Jalen Brown Jason Tatum can do you know that that that speaks for itself the front court is good right Chris has Porzingis good player Al Horford good player but Porzingis chronically injured right like he played what 60 -65 games last year but that was a contract year and I have less confidence he's going to be able to repeat that he was already injured this off season with whatever happened with his foot over in the World Cup Al Horford's 37 by design he's probably only going to play like 50 games this year because they want to keep him healthy for the playoffs so we don't know what's what Al Horford is going to look like at the end of this season after that what is there they signed Wennion Gabriel Wennion Gabriel last year played 68 games for the Lakers in the playoffs he played 10 he averaged 3 .7 minutes per game in the playoffs with the Lakers last year that is the definition of playable in the regular season and unplayable in the playoffs like it just is what it is Luke Cornette is still there he was unplayable for Boston in the playoffs last year you know this is a team that was already thin when Grant Williams was there now Grant Williams is gone and I don't know what they do if one of these two guys goes down for any length of time so that's a long way of saying like yeah I can buy the argument that the Celtics are the team to beat Eastern Conference I can buy the argument that they are a championship contender but Rohan I just I have a lot of concerns about what happens if anything goes south in that front court I agree I mean that's why I thought the holiday trade was so fascinating and why I wasn't sure how seriously to take Boston as a contender for holiday even though his name was obviously their name was obviously coming up that entire weekend before he was traded a huge reason why they've been been special the last few years is kind of the alchemy of their front court mix -in matching Horford, Rob Williams, and Grant Williams that's gone entirely I see people saying now Porzingis and Horford might start together this talks about does Derek White come off the bench there's a right that's another thing I don't understand I mean you don't you don't have a backup really for either guy right now why aren't they backing up each other that already is starting to not make a ton of sense for me the way I look at it Mannix is I do think we're starting to see some trickle -down effect of the second apron because you look at the top teams right now whether it's Milwaukee, Boston, Phoenix, Denver to an extent it's not that the championship teams of yesteryear were flawless but we're looking at teams that are especially top heavy these days and Boston doesn't have a lot of avenues to improve the roster same for Milwaukee I mean I think Milwaukee has a great five and uh Holliday, Conaton, Middleton, Giannis, and Lopez but then they have Bobby Portis and they have a bunch of question marks after that they don't have a lot of playoff rotation guys uh Phoenix is in a similar boat Denver I think you and I are probably high on Denver's bench than most people we like what we think Peyton Watkins can do Peyton Watson can do Zeke Najee Swarther had a nice pre -season debut but those are a bunch of question marks for them right now so on one hand I echo your skepticism about Boston only in terms of Horford's coming off the worst postseason of his career um I think on both ends of the floor and he's only getting older Porzingis he's played 10 playoff games in his life but when you match them up against kind of the other contenders unless you think like a team like the Lakers or Warriors who have a little bit more depth maybe not quite as much top and talent uh can make a push I understand why you'd put Boston there only because I think a lot of the contenders are really top heavy right now well I mean but the the front court like to get out of the Eastern Conference you gotta get through Milwaukee and Milwaukee's front court is still really strong they still have all the pieces that were in place they still got Giannis still got Brook Lopez still got Bobby Portis they've still got all the guys that have the potential to give Boston a lot of problems and I go back a couple of years and the Celtics back when they had Rob Williams and they had Grant Williams they were in the mix for Yaka Purdle when San Antonio was trying to deal him they wanted to get Purdle they didn't want to get two first -round draft picks back then but they knew back then when they had you know three you know strong front court guys that they needed one more to get through Milwaukee that was when they made the deal for Mike Mascala and he turned out to be unplayable in the playoffs as well so I have concerns about Boston's front court anything about the predictions hearing concern you or you know stand out to you whether it's the Celtics or somebody else I mean I can admit to the same thing you guys are saying that I was surprised that Boston was tied for first for just you know the team that GM's thought was the most likely to win the whole thing it's really hard for me to look at this roster without wincing just a little bit we all can acknowledge that there's a lot of top and talent in this team there was before the moves they made this summer there is now the Porzingis fit is interesting I think everybody can look at that and say wow that if this works out they can win a title obviously no one's denying that it's just to have him and Horford as your two centers and then Wendy and Gabriel who I really like but I don't think of as necessarily my second or third string center or you know if he's even a center he's like six nine or whatever he is so that's all it's just you know and look I've been critical of the Celtics from the standpoint of you're trading away a lot to get Porzingis if only you're talking about Marcus Smart from the standpoint of you know a backbone a heart and soul obviously a very versatile important defender within that cog that they have defensively so they go get Drew Holliday and I think it does kind of answer a lot of those questions a lot of those criticisms but I just I still wonder a little bit of if now you're doing that and in doing that you give away Robert Williams if it makes you thinner at the spot that I was most concerned about now you know it's center even when they had those three it was kind of a weird hodgepodge of guys that you're not for any reason you're not gonna feel comfortable about whether they can hold up and be healthy the whole year also stylistically if you're missing one of guys it changes the way your offense looks because two of them are guys that can shoot from three one is a guy that's kind of more around the rim and setting screens and stuff like that so anyway I was just a little bit surprised that as we're all acknowledging the potential thinness of this group that they would be a co -favorite here I think the Nuggets still deserve to be the favorite and I personally would probably take the Bucks over the Celtics as a favorite but but all that said you know I don't think there's a runaway team here after the Nuggets I would probably leave them at number one because there was a lot of other stuff that happened between the depth of the Lakers the top end stuff of the Celtics the top end stuff of the Bucks to me when I see that much stuff happening I'm just going to defer to the team that won last year that granted they did lose some things but they have the potential to get better with more continuity of the top end guys that they have that haven't been healthy up until last year so I would you know I was a little bit surprised to see that Boston pulled into a tie with Denver among the GMs well we as we know the Boston media mafia is working over time in these kinds of situations I'm kidding I know it was the GM survey one thing I want to throw out there is in a in kind of a funny twist like the Celtics have had the best Joel Embiid defender over the years in Al Horford and Horford was giving Embiid problems in the semis last year to the point where Tucker had to get in his face and be like bro you need to take this matchup but what does Boston do now in that matchup because if you're playing Horford against Embiid does that mean you're playing Porzingis and Horford together and which of your guards are you keeping off the floor does that mean you keep Derek White off the floor it's kind of an interesting problem they've created for themselves unless they're willing to live with Porzingis on Embiid but that kind of takes away one of the biggest strengths they've had in that matchup over the years yeah is it going to be a challenge for them because Horford has been excellent I mean Embiid he gives him so many problems he clearly has the timing down on Embiid like he does he knows yeah it's fat it's fantastic to watch he pushes him off his spots he's he's just got a lot of you know and maybe some of it's mental too like Embiid's seen him so many times over the years that it's like all right well Al Horford again and you know he's asked about every single postseason he's had great games against Horford don't get me wrong he's played really well at times but it is I have a little surprise guys that the team nobody's really in on the Suns yet seven percent seem a little low for me you know man look I understand maybe Herring you got to give this team time to figure itself out and see if these guys can play together and see if this mix of players can work but you know if that team gets the playoffs fully healthy hard to stop very hard to stop in the postseason no no question I mean you know I watched clips I watched bits of the the game that they played against the Pistons and granted it's the Pistons you know one of the youngest teams in the league but to watch the Suns who you know have just started playing together that you know have 80 points between the first and the third quarter of a road game road opener for preseason there's obviously a lot of potential there offensively I would say that as we talk the things we like and dislike about teams the thinness the depth of these rosters I'm a little bit surprised that the Suns haven't done a little bit more to go out and get a a bonafide point guard I think it's a big granted you have a lot of ball handling on that roster it's not to say you don't and top level guys that can do it but it's a big change to go from having Chris Paul be your point guard and even to have campaign be your backup point guard to then going and just saying we're you know we're going to kind of take the Clippers route to have our forwards handle the ball to have Devin Booker handle the ball again all guys that can do it but these are also guys that you like to just kind of throw in iso situations you don't want to wear them down the whole season of having them handle the ball so I they've added depth and I think they need that they obviously needed it last offseason or I'm sorry last postseason and so they've done well to add to that but I think that they still it would do them well to have even if it's you know I look at something like what the Bulls did they went and got Javon Carter someone that played for the Suns at one point the sort of guy that could really be helpful to this team I also wonder just a little bit just a little and I think I saw some of this in their first preseason game as well Yusuf Nurkic is an interesting fit I think he can do good things for them he's good you know as a playmaker here and there defensively I worry just a little bit about him of how big it seemed like he took in Portland and you know for all the problems Ayton has at times I wonder if he's more nimble defensively and would work better defensively with that team but we'll see we'll see what happens I think that the Suns absolutely could win it they absolutely have the talent and skill to do it I think they have you know a coach that I really like one of my favorites in league and Vogel but I definitely have some questions about them which is why again would still take Denver head and shoulders above everybody else for now I actually am a little bit surprised the Lakers didn't get more picks here as well in this in the survey I maybe would have liked the Suns more before the Nurkic trade I'm just I'm replaying that Denver series in my head and while Landry Shammet was getting a ton of open threes and theoretically that could be Bradley now I mean I look at them as even worse or you know more poorly equipped to slow down the Nuggets than they were last year and while we're on the subject of health I mean Durant you know he missed some time obviously he came back right before the start of the playoffs and looked great at times and I think bookers only continue to improve but I mean there's a health there's a health question mark hanging over them you know as long as Durant is there and I I need to see it I mean there's definitely some exciting moments just watching kind of Beale Booker and Durant take their turns in that preseason game and it's like oh man like they have three guys who can go just iso and get a score seemingly anytime they want but and I'm I'm warming to the Nurkic move more than when it first happened but I really need to see that defense in action for a little while before I can take them seriously as a title contender yeah I think you guys just articulated why they only got seven percent of the vote there's a lot of question marks out there about them until we see them actually come together and play all right we had Nicole Jokic picked up first place in two different categories and I want to talk about both of them first was the player most likely to win the 2023 -24 MVP he got 43 percent of the vote in that category Yanis at number two at 20 percent and then if you were starting a franchise today and could sign any player who would it be he got 33 percent of the vote in in that category Victor Webayama coming in second with 23 percent on the subject of MVP guys let's start there 43 percent of the vote I'm actually shocked it wasn't higher like I thought it would be like 70 percent because not look first he's 28 years old he's in his prime he's durable he's just won a championship he was you know the best player on the best team in the NBA there's no reason to believe he's not going to come in next year and put up comparable or this year put up comparable numbers and I do think that the people that were divided on Nicole Jokic last year are not going to be divided this year the people that were skeptics about his ability to win and use that against him when it came to MVP voting and use that as a reason to vote for Joel Embiid those people aren't going to exist or that feeling isn't going to exist if Nicole Jokic puts up MVP numbers on the guy on the team that is at or near the top of the western conference there is no doubt in my mind he is going to win MVP he is going to get deservedly I think every benefit of the doubt this year when it comes to MVP votes so whether it's you know Embiid, Giannis, Jason Tatum, Luka Doncic I think Jokic is going to get the benefit of the doubt there Herring I think he's going to be by far and away he is by far and away the front runner to win the MVP.
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"steam" Discussed on InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
"And today it's so stunning. I walk and I see the reflection of my shadow and I realize my shadow always with me all the time. But so, and when I see my shadow, I see, Joe, bro, you're here all the time, bro. Like now I see you. And I was trying to always follow us. It's us. It's just that it's a reflection of us. Like it's the reflection of ourselves from the light of the sun. And it's the eye, I think it's the eye that always with us all the time. And I think that's a really, I think that's also the importance of emptiness also, to empty our mind, to unplug the earphones and listen. Because I think that it's about the space and time. I don't know, but you guys realize that when we turn on TV and we watch movies or some shows, a lot of sound, we get immersed in it. It was fun. When we turn it off, it's empty. It's just silence. So the question is, where's the noises? But when we turn it off, it goes away. It's a space, silence. But people are, I think that some people don't realize that it's already there. It's just when we turn it on, we fill the space with the sound and noise. And we turn it off, but it proves that the silence and the space, emptiness is already there. It's just that we fill ourselves with things that we lose track of ourselves, of the eye. And to learn to listen is to learn to be patient and silent, to be silent so empty our mind is through in the emptiness. It's us. It's about purifying and being selective and clarifying our minds. It's to be mindful. We could find our gem inside our chaotic minds. I think it's like the same as when we dig like diamonds. We've got to dig all the dirt out to find the diamonds. Or we've got to clean and clear and organize, make space for the importance and the priorities and happiness. I believe that to be mindful, practice mindful, and to have a mindful mindset, we confide our peace with simplicity and with openness. And that makes me from cyber security. I was going to ask you what got you into cyber security. Tell us about your passion in cyber security. That's a good segue. Please continue. Cyber security. I know for me it's just that because I read a lot about being a cyber freelance person, I like beautiful words. And I like the word security. And I like the word cyber security. Cyber security sounds cool. No, because when I was born, like I have a dream of becoming a police because it looks so cool. It's just, I like the word. That's kind of make me love the word justice and security. And that's it. I think it's our words. It's about listen to my heart, to listen to what I deep, deep, deep down, deep inside what I really aspire to be and aspire to do. Yeah, it's nothing simple. I hope that to the younger generation, we should do, we should be the one. Like we should listen to ourselves, listen to our heart and just follow what the heart and the minds and the connection of mind, the heart tells us to do. Because it's a journey and it's about the journey. And I think our life is about the journey to find ourselves. We are born with nothing and we should be living with everything. So what do we mean everything? For me, everything is, it's my life's family, friends. It's about the meanings and the purpose that I will be attempting to achieve. Yeah, I think, because I see, I met a lot of people who are rich, but I see some people don't get happy. I don't know why, because my parents, I'm privileged. I admit that I'm a privileged person. To have the opportunity to study and graduate here, it's like a real blessing. And my parents are like, I cannot be easy to you or be hard on you because it's a real life. That's the real life. I think it's great. Yeah, it's true. I think parenting is really important and parenting is irreplaceable. It cannot be replaced with services because I believe that our children are me as a son of my parents. What do I need the love from? I need love from my parents, right? I need love from the people that I love. And that's as a son of my parents. And as a university graduate, I hope that all the parents can understand that our children just want to hear, I love you from the parents. And it took a really long time for me to influence and to persuade my parents from a traditional parenting mindset to a more open-minded and more flexible mindset. It's about letting us or letting family members fly with security and awareness to fly or to climb without worries. I think that should be the motto of a new era. To be born with consciousness, to be grown up with consciousness, and to live with consciousness. I think that's why I'm saying it's about to change or to transform. When we're going to inspire from inside to outside, and outside to inside, it's like a rotating, it's like an amphibian emoji. It's about come and go and back and rotate and come back. It's like electricity, it's like a full barrel. For me as well, because right now I'm 22 and I'm living like when I was small. I'm wearing slippers and that was what I do when I was small. Because right now I realize our experience when we were young dictates how we will become in the present and in the future. I think for me the past is the reflection to the future, to the present day, to the future. I know for the future and to the present because I think it's really important to have a suitable of mindset and perceptions about what is our past is. To us, what does our past mean? And because to us, past is something that's negative. But to me right now, I can say that everything happened for a reason. We got both blessings and we have losses because of time and I think that's it. But I think that to find peace, we gotta love ourselves first. So loving ourselves and because I want to clarify to you guys about loving yourself. So loving ourselves is about loving ourselves like we love people. I think it's about loving yourself and include people inside of self. Because I think that if we just use the word love ourselves alone, it's just about ourselves. But if we conclude that our perception of happiness is us, it's me, and people, and my friends, and my bros, my family. And I think it's about our inner voice. That's very important. Because for me, because I used to be really careless about my thoughts. But right now, I realize that if we were young, being ourselves, because if we're being ourselves, we expose ourselves, we could really find our flaws and improve and fix it. Or if we're just being safe, playing safe, it's like we're protecting our flaws to be out. But our flaws will be out anyway. Now we have graduated. So what's the next step? For me, I have a dream to become a cybersecurity officer. Okay, I understand. That is a really good field. And I think that I believe that every person, every billion people, is a billion dreams. It's about whether we are consistent and resilient enough to pursue and fight for our dreams. And for me, I live a life like I'm not afraid of losing myself. I'm not afraid of protecting something that's right for the safety and for the peaceful. Yeah, it's just because I have witnessed too many activities. And I don't, it's just that I really want to have a feeling of safety when I walk outside. And the safety to the future, to the people that we love and care. I think it's about the words serving and serving for the security of the world, just to find our peace. I think that's it. Security is just about we will have a good night's sleep. And when we wake up, it's gonna be sunshines and love. Just simple as that. And I think that if we simplify, I don't, because that's like my journey. Because I was the reasons, and right now, just that's it. Why do I have to think much? Simple as that. I love it. I love the word security. That's my dream. I'm willing to serve for justice. That's it. Thank you. Thank you so much. Many students really need help choosing what major they want to major in college. Based on your own experience, what advice will you give to students seeking help in determining a meaningful career path? That's a really interesting question. To me, if right now they're in front of a younger generation, I would say boys or girls, go out, explore and experience, and to understand the world, to understand reality. And to be truthful and honest. And I think that's it, because I think that to experience life so that we could understand life. And to understand life, we will realize that security is really important. And we always need to have and develop security just for ourselves, just for our family. That's it. Because the world's dangerous. And we're gonna need to be able to protect the people and the families. Because for me, like, parents and my grandparents are getting older and getting weaker. I'm getting stronger. So when I see that, when I see my parents cry of me, I see that a lot of people disappointed me. And I don't want to, I just don't want to let my family disappointed again and just want to be able to make them proud and protect them. To protect and to find the security in life is to showing to people that I'm a person of pride and family values. And I'll be willing to lose myself for the security and for safety of all of the people that we love. And I think that if some young people could see that, it's really amazing. Because I think if we, because I think that security or cyber security is really important. And it's a lifestyle also. It's a lifestyle. It's a healthy, it's a fitness lifestyle. For me as well, I do training every day, play sports weekly. I watch sports. I'm playing FIFA. Exercising, always walking, always active. And that brings me health. That brings me security. That brings me knowledge. And that brings me ourselves. And I think that if I have the chance to spread the message, and I think that believe that people are different and people are born with different purpose. But it's about not only about cyber security, but it's about finding our inner purpose. To anything, any job, equally, not only cyber security, but anything. As soon as it's for the goods of the world, then we could be anything that we aspire want to be. And I hope that this message or the words, it could be spread. And if that works, then I'm expecting to see a world of more laughter and love. That's my dream. See the world with more greens and blue skies and waters and trees. The dream in the future that I really want to see. Because with good health, but a healthy health, a healthy health, but also a healthy mind. Because right now, people are just having a healthy, but like, we forget that we need to be healthy and gentle with ourselves too. That's the thing that I'm starting to do because I used to be so forceful and self-criticized. But since recently, I realized that I have been so forceful to myself. And since I'm learning to be gentle in my inner voice and with myself, it's incredible. And I think that it's about what I share about my experience and the result. And you have to try and apply that. And I just share what I experience and what I apply and I see. So I hope you guys could do it and do more walking therapy and do more plug-out therapy to disconnect, to reconnect. Yep. I think that's like the words that I want to share, like disconnect to reconnect. Excellent. I love that. This is going to be our final question. What advice will you give policymakers and colleges hearing to help students that may be frustrated find the space, the major that they really enjoy? What advice will you give students as they go through their journey in colleges? I think that we need to like put a brand friendly neighborhood classes.Oh, that's a good one. I like that. And I have I changed the glasses a lot because I'm into fashion also. And I realized that it's about the glasses that we choose to wear. You know, it's when we walk out, get blurry, we need to clear it. Or when it's broken or it's maybe something is not suitable, we need to fix the glasses or change glasses. Try to like I think glasses is the metaphor for methods or approaches. We've got to be flexible. And that's why we need to learn. Because to understand the world and to understand ourselves is to keep learning, keep learning. For wisdom, constant seek wisdom. I think if I'm standing here with the highest level kids, I'll say play some football and meditate and drink a lot of water and be healthy, be active and be creative. And to be creative, I think that it's about allowing outside or allowing people to be creative. And allowing people to be creative is let people fly freely in a safe way. So I think it's through music, through arts, through sports, through games also, through extracurricular activities. And I think we should make it free. Because I think that it's about equality. Sports is about equality.
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"I think you alluded to it as well, that just that way of thinking, even if you go be a historian, you can apply that engineering design process where you're brainstorming, you're getting ideas, you're iterating, you're building, you're documenting. You can apply that to any field, any industry. So it really is just a way of training your brain to think. So if you are proficient in just STEM, it's going to serve you well in life no matter where you go. But I agree with you more and more that this stuff, hence why we're starting to think about this and work on it. The stuff needs to get put and just be exposed to kids at a younger age for those going into the trades, because we've had this massive shift of everyone needs to go to college and get an accounting degree or engineering degree. Right. We need our talents and engineers for sure, like you were just talking about. But we also need people working in the trades. And I've got all the respect in the world for people. I think they're some of the smartest people I know anecdotally and very kind of people. And I mentioned the industry partnerships aspect because they for sure know they need future technicians and future engineers and groundsmen, for example. So they're investing lots in the next generation. So hopefully that's how we can partner up with them and get kids excited about it from a young age. Excellent. Excellent. I like that. I like that. I'm going to pivot a little bit. You also are a founder of a company called Accomptability. I saw that video, man. That was good stuff. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Can you tell us about Accomptability? What is that all about? Oh, that's a curveball. This is good. So it's the Accomptability card is what we call it. OK. OK. That's actually a side project. So that's just what I'm passionate about. But what is fun is we get to we do get it's in my email signature. Is that how you saw it? Yes. That's how I saw it. So you're not an action project. We're not marketing it by any means and just letting it grow organically. We have an Instagram account, but we've been able to do some cool things with it. And that just goes back to just how first sticks we try. I'm passionate about kids being creative, maybe. And although we have screens for sure, getting off screens, being creative, working with their hands, the accountability card, which I'll show you one. I got him back here. This goes back to I'm passionate about people having real conversations with each other. And this is everybody. This is what I was referring to. It's these accountability cards. And it just talks about the New Year's resolution is what you can think of. That's what the intention is for you to write on the back of this and put your name on there and give it to a friend. And the hope slash goal is to give them to friends and then hold you accountable to those lofty goals and just have you in mind and have real conversations around what you write on that card. It's a cool use case for kids all the way up to people 100 years old who could all use accountability and people helping us achieve our goals and what and helping get the most out of us. And what is cool is we just because I'm in the school world, people also see my email signature and they say, we want a few hundred of these for our front office. So it has been a cool way to leverage my platform as the founder of Sticks to get these. And it's all free, right? It's all free, of course, for them to get these in the hands of lots of families just through our relationships with principals and people in the front office and that kind of thing. That's the accountability card. I really like it. Do you mind if I share your website? There. Sharon, I'll send you a few too. That's another one. You should have seen my original design for them. Oh, wow. Remember, I'm colorblind.
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"EdTech technology landscape is constantly evolving. So how do you ensure that hands -on experience provided by Stakes aligns with educational standards and goals of school districts that you work with? And how do you keep Stakes at a forefront of innovation to ensure students receive the best possible learning experience? That's the question that the administration is going to be asking you. And I'm pretty sure you've experienced it already. Totally. Yeah. I never take anything away from any of the other companies in the EdTech world. There's so much cool stuff going on. And I always leave calls and meetings with people and conferences as well. I always say I'm so jealous of kids these days that when I was going through school, we had none of this cool stuff. And there's been so many cool strides taken and just the things these kids are exposed to. I'm jealous, frankly. Thank you. They're lucky. They're lucky ducks. And yeah, I was just talking about my favorite part of the job conferences, developing these fun projects. That's my least favorite, actually, is the standards. And although we totally align, we align to all kinds of national and state science and CTE and STEM standards. And I've actually grown to like it a little bit, but these projects do align. It's that open ended design or open ended design challenge nature of them do align to a lot of those problem solving skills. And when you get into the stoplight project, like I was showing you, it aligns with some of those electricity and magnetism related standards that you that you encounter when you start to get to the fifth grade middle school. We totally align to all the standards. It's important, right? If you want to be if you want to be working with schools and helping them and all their cool initiatives, you got to align to them. And as far as just the technology related part, it's funny you mentioned that right after I mentioned our app. So that's something we're working on and that's something that we're trying to be innovative through. And of course, I mentioned it's a free resource. So that's where we really have. We've got a cool platform online, right, where we share cool videos, well done videos. But it's augmented reality stuff and virtual reality. I've always thought that the best use case for it was education. So now we're swimming in that space a little bit. So we have got this app that we've developed where each of our projects is going to have a module. And within that module, three different career strains the kids are going to get to check out. And so one's kind of your engineering related career. So for your bridge project is the first one we've developed. That's your civil engineer. And then we have a technical related career strain in there as well. So that's a bridge welder. And then the third one, we try to bring in a business oriented career and we're doing like a management. And for each one of those, you're going to go through you're going to learn a couple of things, watch a couple of videos, hear about common personality traits and statistics. Frankly, what do these people make as on average? Because it's tough to know and there's no reason to hide that. And then they go in, they reflect on questions. They have they do a cool augmented reality activity in each just to spice it up. What a day in the life is. And it's just a cool tool. And that's something we're really proud of. That's where we're trying to be innovative and do some cool things in a free way as well.
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"There was a little bit of a method to the madness. By the way, I love it. I love it. Can you say it again? So the STiX stands for what again? It stands for solving technicalities with imagination, innovation and excitement. And it just goes back to that is a passion of mine, right? Being creative, working with their hands in that open ended design challenge environment. And thank you for the nice words. I like it, too. I wear a lot of hats as the founder of the organization, but that's one that I cannot take credit for. I'm colorblind, funny enough. So branding and logos and all that stuff was not me. So I can't take credit for that. But I appreciate the kind words. Excellent. Excellent. I'm really excited to learn more about your company. How long have STiX been around? Short answer, a little over three years now, which is to say out loud. And like I said, we have pivoted a little bit. We started as a subscription model where we're trying to sell these individual STEM kits as a subscription to families. And that was great for a bootstrapping operation at first. Right. So I was knocking on doors trying to sell that. And then we pivoted when we started getting some traction to schools. And that's been a really rewarding thing for us because naturally with that original business model, we were targeting families who maybe had some disposable income, who valued education, et cetera. And now we get to work with schools who could really use the help and all their STEM initiatives. So on top of allowing that to grow our business and impact, it's been really rewarding personally, helping impact kids that could use it and appreciate these STEM experiences a lot more, too. Okay. Engineering is very important to us teachers, especially when we are asked to make sure that we are approaching our lesson in terms of science and engineering practices. For many of our science teachers, we know a lot about science, but the engineering practices is where the problem is. And to be honest with you, and one of the major challenge for a lot of science teachers is they don't have engineering background. And then compartmental of that is resources. How does TIGS help? What kind of resources do you provide or can you provide the science teachers to meet the needs of students when it comes to engineering practices? Yeah, great question. I hear and I see that need and that problem all day, every day, too. And as far as the resources we provide, and I'll just back up actually to the engineering design process of a famous slogan, right? And that's an engineer's the STEM world's scientific method. And that's something that I just think is one of the coolest things. And it talks about brainstorming, which is an ideation phase and identifying the problem on paper and designing it. And then where the real fun happens, my opinion is the iteration of it, where you're improving things and then you're documenting. And that's all on top of the design and the actual build. That's where we're engineering and the engineering design process differentiates from just plain old science a little bit. And I think that's cool about this stuff. And as far as Stix goes, that's that is a big part of what we do is what if you were to ask me to part of our value add, if you will. It is that we make these fun, memorable, impactful STEM experiences for kids while at the same time making accessible for educators who are already being pulled in a million directions, not want to pull their hair out. So we've got all kinds of resources like these instructional videos on our website that aren't protected by passwords or log in for any means. They can access those and that's a student facing part and those videos. They take a lot of the heavy lifting out of the actual pedagogy and teaching for the teachers on top of showing instructional videos for how to build a fun, hands on project. And I've got a few behind my screen here when you want to see them. Yeah. Go ahead, please. Go ahead. Yeah. And I was just going to say that's all those videos are on top of lesson plans and activity guides. We even have another teacher tips video where we share what works and what doesn't while leading this project. Sorry for getting a little long winded on you, but we do have all kinds of great resources that make these fun, meaningful STEM projects really easy for teachers to teach, even without a STEM background. Oh, no, I don't mind you being a long winded, but I can keep going. I can. The moment you mention resources, my ears is all open. I love the sound of that resources. We are every teacher, especially every science teacher. Love the sound of that resources to teach all to integrate engineering practices within the science curriculum. This is really powerful. I know earlier we were talking about hydraulics and the wind turbine. I know you showed me. Do you mind sharing the rest of our audience? I got you. And this is always a popular one for me to bring to conferences and show people that type of thing. But this is just an example of some of the stuff that students get to build and be immersed in when they're doing projects with us is this is a cool hydraulic lift project. So you can see a little bit of the setup. Of course, they get immersed into a story. They learn the science behind this stuff, and then they get to build and test out a fun project like this hydraulic lift. I promise a funny business going on. It's just all the principles of hydraulics. And we teach about the industry related to that as well. This wind turbine project is one of my favorites as well. It deals with the renewable energy. The actual kit comes with a blow dryer or a hair dryer. I'm sorry to test this out, but I'll do my best with my mouth. Oh, that's pretty cool. Even a little bit of wind, not the wind turbine. And then I'll show you one more if you like. It's the stoplight project where we teach about the principles of electrical engineering and that kind of stuff. And of course, give them a chance to build a fun project. Hopefully the LED light is popping up. Yeah, it is. Kind of a fun project teaching them about electricity and current and everything associated with that. Oh, that is really awesome. That is really cool. I love it.
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"So why Africa? Why? I noticed that you also collaborated with Africans, but your target is Africa. Why Africa? Sure. It's very personal. So I'm not just, we call ourselves black Americans and call ourselves African -Americans. My family way before I even thought to get my genealogy report, which I didn't even get my own yet. I still need to get my own, but I got the version. You need to. I got my brothers, right? And my nephew. And I looked at theirs and I was so proud of it. My great grandmother, I have a picture of her. I have a picture of my great grandfather, right? Then there's my mother, my grandfather, and my mom and dad. And my great grandmother is direct out of West Africa. Wow. A very dark woman. Her name was Anna, hence me giving myself the middle name, Anna Lee. Which a in way, Anna Lee is favor and grace. And I have felt blessed to feel like the favor of God over my ideas, my whole life. I always submit myself to the spiritual realm first and say, is this going to work? And I pray on it. I meditate on it. And Anna, my great grandmother, sixties, she was West African. And then great grandfather was from England, not England, he was from Europe. He was from a country in Europe, right? They had, was it 16 children? And they were unable at that time to live together as husband and wives, but they did live together. So we have a lot of our history, there was a pretending she was a servant kind of thing going on to, and they raised her children and my grandmother and grandfather. So we got this long story. So when my brother finally went in our whole family is very proud to at least know that much of our history, but we didn't know which part of Africa we didn't exactly know. And then we got it back. I looked at my brothers and I was like, yeah. I was so excited when we added all together, there were four African countries. When we added all together, 67 % West African. Wow. Then most of it came out of Nigeria. Oh, congratulations. I was like, I had met Nigerians and they were like, I'm so comfortable over there. They're just like, she's comfortable. I tried to walk by myself and the locals that were at the house would be like, you're never going anywhere by yourself. You should, you might as well stop trying because in this land, you're still foreign and it may not be safe for you. So they're always behind me. Cause I walk every morning. That's part of my exercise. But I was telling them, I was like, you guys know I'm Nigerian, right?
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"So because you're a network engineer and I know when you were in college you did coding and you have a lot of programming knowledge. So how important is coding and programming knowledge in today's job market? What is the potential? How important is it in today's job market? And what advice do you have for young people who want to improve their coding skill? Please. Well, thank you, professor. So in the world of coding itself, I think most of the time the name comes or explains itself, especially to me. With coding, it actually speeds up the process and the scalability of things. For example, now looking at fast forward to 2023, there's Amazon Web Service, AWS, there's Google Cloud and all sorts of different type of like cloud technologies that came about. All of these actually kind of like grew from people that did a lot of programming and coding just because they just wanted to speed up the process. For example, in Amazon, Amazon hasn't been able to come up with a certain set of codes that instead of manually creating accounts for 2000 new employees that you hired last month, there's a set of code that you can actually put in there. All you have to do is get all the employees names listed, feed it to the program or the code that you wrote and then just hit enter. Wow. You could just walk away, come back an hour or two, however long it takes. You are sure that it's always going to be faster than actually sitting down manually creating users. So on that side, we're saving money, we're saving too much longer hours of labor and what have you. Everybody wins at the end of the day. The engineer gets to go home early. The company is actually creating and being efficient and at the end of the day, it's like overall, there's kind of like the efficiency for people to do jobs faster than we used to be. And coding has always been one of the reasons why there's so many technologies that have been innovative. Talk of Tesla, talk of Alexa, all of that technology, you could say the backbone of it was originated from people coding and creating programs.
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"What is the chips and the science act? And can it help boost your global competitiveness in science and technology? Can you please tell our audience what is it and how can it help boost our competition, especially with China coming along, now becoming a competitor? Yeah. So it's a major legislation, as you know, was adopted by Congress last year with bipartisan support and focuses on global competition in science technology. The NSF director actually called it the most important U .S. science and engineering legislation in a generation. It's, of course, a large bill, covers on the one hand a number of technology areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum and others. And for the purposes of the discussion today, we'll be looking at the end science part of the bill, which is focused on enabling federal agencies to support research and development funding broadly, given that, of course, science and engineering drive innovation and economic development in a number of areas. So just to highlight a few aspects, there are a few areas to look at. One is fundamental science, research facilities and instrumentation, so really looking at the basic research support. And on the other hand, applied research through the NSF, the SIP directorate, so this is directorate of technology innovation and partnerships. It's meant to expand regional innovation across the country and also discusses the sort of basic and applied research of the system. And then also has a strong focus on step education and workforce development through skills and experiences for trainees as well as educators and highlights a number of training programs that can help support the future of pipeline. I think as you too, sort of your second question, how it can help boost competitiveness, I think, and we'll talk about this sort of, it focuses on funding for National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, including the Office of Science and the National Institute of Standards and Technology programs to support education in a number of areas. And a few things, of course, for a few years, sorry, the legislation that has undergone a number of iterations and changes in name was a number of programs have been authorized, but not appropriated. So of course, the real question is where the real money comes from to really support these programs and what will happen.
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"Do you think is going to be the biggest challenge facing computer science industry in the near future? Security, security, security. And that's why there's so many, well, I think as of 2022, there were over 600 ,000 security jobs open in America alone. So what do you advise the young people in our community? Cybersecurity guys. Do cloud. Okay. Do cloud. Know about cloud. Know about cloud security. It's different from cybersecurity. So the future is looking at cloud. Now we have to have someone to protect it. So cloud security, I do have one certification in cloud security. I have a degree on this certification I have is with Microsoft Azure, Azure, Azure network security. Okay. It was a tough one because it was fairly new. The things that they were mentioning and I'm talking about, like, for example, the vault that I was talking about, I actually got to know it from taking that certification. So get yourself updated with the latest technology because there's always going to be one when you wake up the next day that you never heard of. And it's going to keep coming for the next 20, 30 years from now. So keep yourself, if you want to stay in this field with everything, fall in love with any other field that you want. For example, me, nothing is going to stop me from moving from doing network engineering, right? But I have to know a little bit of security just in case I'm the network engineer on schedule or on duty and some security infringement happens and I don't know anything about it. And in as much as I'm a network engineer, if I don't know anything about security, I can get a computer to go online and I don't know a little bit of how to protect it to stay online and be safe. That's kind of like a little bit of a shortcoming over there. So kind of get used to be a 360 kind of person, but exactly focus on what you want to do. If you want to be a cloud network engineer, focus on that. But no, just know a little bit about security. That's all I'm