hello and welcome to this episode of how to be a great game master, well as promised in our
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the channel. So today we are of course looking at alternative universes,
alternative dimensions. now this is a particular type of adventure that you
can send your players on generally speaking it's a once-off within a bigger
campaign so it's not going to be an entire campaign unless that's what it's
about much case it's very similar to the time travel video that I did a couple
weeks ago insofar as you're changing the location all the time and your players
are experiencing slightly different variants and variations and versions as
they go through the different spaces but alternative dimensions alternative
universes have a whole lot of information that comes with them that we
have to follow we have to make sure that we as game masters comply with otherwise
our players are going to feel very very very disenfranchised they're gonna feel
as if the opportunity was there but that it wasn't taken so these are my six
points or notes on how to make sure that when you're running an alternative
dimension alternative universe type of game you get the most out of it now the
first thing that we need to look at is we need to understand what is it that
our players expect now alternative universes universai multiple universes
alternative universes pop up primarily in science fiction but we have them in
modern-day dramas where it tends towards science fiction there are of course a
fantastical version as well that come out every now and again with fantasy
people move into an alternate dimension here and there but generally speaking
it's in a science fiction setting you can of course said it in any type of
setting that you like because whilst you're the boss now so what we expect is
that we expect to encounter ourselves and that's the biggest thing about an
alternative universe that we expect and the reason for it is because that's what
being taught to expect that's what we've been taught will happen and we expect
those alternative universe selves to be different from how we are so that's a
burden upon you as the game master and I'm going to come back to that a little
bit later that's step 2 in terms of how to make sure that you are going to be
able to portray the PCs as NPCs that are slightly different from what they are in
the actual game itself so that's one thing that they expect we expect
obviously a slightly different setting something that sets this universe apart
from the other again our players are going to expect that this one is more
militant or that some kind of Cataclysm has happened or that this is some kind
of paradise with an evil undertone there's all kinds of things that the
players expect but it is generally accepted that it was it is going to be
slightly different and so that's something that you have to do now the
more subtle the differences you make the less liked that the players are to
realize that they're actually also nervous now there's a reason why these
universes have to be different and there's a particular reason why these
universes have to be different and worse the reason why these universes that
you're creating these alternative dimensions the reason why these
dimensions have to be worse for the player characters in other words whether
it's there's a war going on maybe all elves have been put into
concentration camps and cannot leave maybe there is some kind of
environmental effect maybe the planet is being and being attacked by aliens
whatever the reason you have to come up with some kind of
negative and the reason for that is that you want the players to want to get
their characters home if the alternative dimension or the alternative universe
that you sent them through to is nice why should they bother going back so
it's your job your responsibility to make them want to come back now if this
is the beginning of a campaign of course you have a tough time they have very
little loyalty to the universe that they've just left but if they've been
playing in the campaign for quite some time they will probably want to get back
anyway you can just make it a lot easier if you give them a little nudge making
the universe that much darker or worse than the one that they left so we expect
that we expect that we ignore the crazy notion of chance and that we assume that
everyone is predestined to do pretty much the same thing now in any
alternative history it doesn't matter which one you have a look at because the
idea is to examine yourself in a different space you ultimately have to
always end up meeting yourself otherwise it's basically like there's going to
another country isn't it yes it's got a slightly different this or a slightly
different that but unless you are meeting unless the party is actually
meeting they're doppelgangers they're equivalents in the universe that they're
going to or particularly NPCs are they're very fond of that they know very
well in an alternative dimension there's really no point in doing it so we have
to ignore random chance now if I look at it and I were to pop to an alternate
event dimension for myself what are the chances that there is someone who is
living in Japan who happens to watch my youtube channel invite me to move over
to Japan and I accept the circumstances and the reasons for moving me from South
Africa to Japan are extraordinarily small and yet it happened here so when I
now teleport to the alternative dimension and I happen to teleport to
Japan somehow my character from that
alternative universe needs to have moved literally across the planet so that I
can bump into myself and meet myself and follow the adventure that as a result
happens so we ignore those kind of chances we assume that although this
character is evil and your character is good you've had similar career paths
this one has ended up as an admiral whilst you're still an ensign but you
both kind of have the same friends you move in the same circles you know the
same people because while the rest of the part you want to meet themselves as
well and presumably the party is working together so it's an interesting twist
it's an interesting space that you can play in in terms of doing that but you
must do it otherwise it's not really an alternative dimension it's just another
space so bear that in mind now number two when we look at the PCs
being different this is where it becomes a challenge for you as the game master
and it can be quite daunting it really can be now the trick that you have to
take into account here is that the PCs are played by players whereas the ones
they meet are NPCs and they're played by you so that means that you need to try
now mimic your players and that can be particularly daunting and particularly
difficult especially if your players of either fairly neutral and in their
approach or have rather unique accents or mannerisms that you yourself can't
achieve so how do you do this effectively well for me what I have
found the best way to do it is to find some quirk that my player that I'm
trying to emulate does whether it's sniffing or tapping a pencil or it's a
phrase that they use or it doesn't matter I look for something during
previous sessions earlier sessions so that I can get a sense of what they like
and then I try and focus in just on that I don't worry about the rest so if
they've got a strange accent and icon do the accent I'll focus on a mannerism
or a phrase or something that allows me to do just enough that the rest of the
players will be going oh yeah yeah that's you yeah yeah yeah yeah we've met
your character we know who that is oh yeah that's what you want is you want
them to be able to pick up that you are trying to mimic of that character and
then you just use that device moving throughout for the rest of the players
so that's how I usually do it now another thing is that when you look at
trying to make them different in an alternative universe is you've got to
try and decide how are they going to be different there are stories examples
where people are good in both dimensions in both alternative spaces but the
circumstances of one forces them to behave in different ways the
administrator who's running a city very well in dimension one in alternative
dimension to that very well run city they might be doing their best but it's
actually now a mud village and instead of wearing a business suit they're now
wearing a loincloth with heavy fur because they never advanced out of the
Stone Age so you can not necessarily change the character but change the
circumstances that they're in again although that is interesting it might
not be great to have the characters meet themselves and they pretty much the same
thing maybe one of them is like that that's the quirk the others are either
usually evil where they've been buried body their dark side or have some kind
of moral difference the priest who's always talking is now a quiet
contemplative individual because 20 years ago instead of helping a bar fight
get along he stopped it pick a an alternative outcome now that is another
way in which you can decide how the character is different as you look at
the player character the player's character might pose you look at the
player's character and you look at their past and you go well this is what they
did in that adventure this is what they did in that adventure and this is what
they did in that adventure alright if in this adventure
that had happened how would that have changed the character and then you just
tweak that that way when the character is interacting with the NPC the NPC says
oh did you manage to overcome the chasm well we stopped at that point and we
turned around and went back home and so-and-so died enroute all this happened
all that happened and that changed their entire demeanor so look at events in
your own campaign history and tweak those now something that becomes very
fun to do is to look at the events in your campaign history and tweak them if
the players had been good or the players have been evil and see the outcomes and
then that becomes the alternative universe the alternative dimension that
you use it's always better in my opinion if the universe is different because of
some of the characters did or did not do as a result we're going to come back to
that a little bit later on when we look at how to create these alternate so if
we then look at our tone the tone of an alternative universe because this is a
setting so we go through the usual setting steps but the tone is generally
darker and edgier and the reason for it as I've already mentioned we don't want
the players to decide this is actually better than where we came from we're not
going back we don't want that we want our players to want to head on home we
want them to well go back to where they came from because generally speaking
that's something that our players expect as well is that they are stuck where
they are and they got there by accident or by chance all and we're gonna come to
that also a little bit later on so there's a lot coming up so hang in there
now the tone is generally set by what causes
the difference so what causes this alternative universe to be different
from that one and from base reality was it choices that were made was it
environmental factors was it the actions of PCs that change
wasn't the inaction of pcs that changed it although this is more of a time
shifting story than a alternative universe story in one of my games my
characters were a little bit paralyzed with inaction they would see a situation
they wouldn't know what's happening or they would know what's happening but
they wouldn't know what to do and that's more from the character perspective they
were paralyzed with do I save that person or do I let that happened do I do
this do I do that and ultimately the result was that the event occurred and
they hadn't done anything and it was too late to do anything so what I wanted to
do was I wanted to encourage the players to do certain actions and to not do
other actions to not act rashly but to think about their actions and I had them
project in this pool where they suddenly saw themselves in five years time and
what had become of them so they were seeing an alternative version of
themselves which because of an action had led to their character becoming x
y&z that worked really well several of the players took that as a sign of what
not to do and they corrected and change their behavior and can I say it was for
the better it was a very good change that they went through and I think it it
made the adventure that much better so that was a mini alternative you know
when ative dimension alternative universe view to give my players a
little bit of perspective on how they were playing the game yeah number four
things to avoid now the challenge with an alternative universe is that you want
to throw everything in to the alternative dimension at once you have
lots of alternative dimensions there's no mandate on how many alternatives
there are if you look at one of the theories we have the trousers of time
which every time there's a decision that splits it bifurcates or traffic eight so
it turns into fifty different options or whatever it is depending on whether the
snail goes left or right just before it hits that cloverleaf to eat so you have
all of these alternative universe running in parallel and your people can
move between them as many of them as you need
so don't overwhelm the players by changing too much stuff change one
significant thing and then obviously you change the characters themselves and
then the rest you keep the same it's the familiarity that will show up the
difference if everything is different well again you might as well just be in
a different country rather than an alternative dimension now another thing
that's important to bear in mind is that everything doesn't have to be evil just
for evils sake and the players their characters don't have to all be evil one
can be evil one can be neutral one can be good if you want to go with alignment
sort of idea morally they can be the same there can be opposite there can be
an opposition to one another so instead of a United Party that meeting a split
party really play around with the dynamics of the group and how things
changed and altered and did that kind of thing and that will really help you in
terms of developing this world and making it feel as if it's been ticking
along just as much as the main campaign world has been as well something to
think about is instead of showing a character that is evil or a character
that is morally corrupt you could show a character who is morose or sad because
an inaction or an action or an event occurred which caused them sadness which
caused them to be in a state of decay perhaps it's the noble Paladin from the
real dimension the real world and then the alternative dimension he's a
drunkard and a dropout because he didn't save the child now your character your
players characters change from being antagonistic towards the evil character
or working with themselves to being someone who wants to help themselves and
ultimately that engenders that embodies the idea of an alternative universe
where we get this space that's as breathing and living as the one that
they're in so think about it if the character was born under different
circumstances tenses what would they be like and if
you go the sad route or the pathetic route or the fallen route or maybe they
didn't take their vows that can be as interesting to the players as if they're
just meeting their exact opposite doppelgangers now something that I did
say that we're going to come to in I'm coming back to it now and number five is
how do our characters get from reality to the alternative dimension and how
they get back how do they get back that's the important thing that
MacGuffin that device whether it's whether it's a device or a spell or an
emotional accident or it's an event that has to occur like the alignment of the
planets whatever that is you need to make sure that your players and their
characters know how to get back if they can't if they don't know if they if they
arrive and they're going so how do we get back we've now stepped into an
alternative universe where um there's no electricity Edison didn't live long
enough he was assassinated by Tesla and Tesla was murdered two days later by
Edison's wife in a fit of revenge so there's no electricity it never never
never developed how do we get our electrical power device back in time now
back to our present reality although it is a time-traveling show the Back to the
Future series had this exact problem Marty goes back to the Wild West where
there's no electricity there's no petroleum for their vehicle and they
need to reach a speed of 89 miles per hour 89 kilometers an hour or whatever
the the speed is that the DeLorean needs in order to jump through time so that
was a very clever solution to this problem the players need to know how to
move between dimensions if they don't then they have no hope of getting back
which means that you don't have an adventure
more so if they arrived by accident they need to over here they need to get a
clear picture that in that building over there or there's a crazy scientist who
lives out on the mountains or those are this orders of that if they don't get
that they are not going to be invested in your story so bear that in mind that
is something that's very important to give your players and I mean give don't
make them work for it if they need to figure out how to get back give them
enough clues and hints that they can actually figure it out don't be afraid
to make that an obvious plot here we go this is it don't be afraid to do that
now finally if we look at if we look at inspirational content we look at films
and television shows that handle alternative universes the first one that
springs to mind of course is Star Trek which is replete with alternative
universe mirror universe alternative dimensions this then the next thing
current show I haven't been able to catch up with it after season 1 is all
about dimensional or alternative universe travel and it became quite a
thing in the shows for each of the series to have an alternative dimension
to go to and that alternative dimension ran in parallel for as long as the
series ran so whether the next generation went to that dimensional Deep
Space nine or Voyager it was always still linked to the alternative
dimension that had been established way back in the 80s the 1980s so that's a
that's a fairly good example of it but at the same time I felt that it was also
a fairly bad example of it they they didn't change up enough things the
federation becomes militant so their starships have a slight modification i
know they didn't do it because of budgetary restraints but there are
certain things that honda mentally have to change so bear that in mind use it as
an example of what not to do if you have a peace-loving nation and the
alternative universe is that they're militant and warlike their architecture
is going to be significantly different now something
that comes to mind when we are talking about this kind of thing is a very good
example the man in the high castle which is a phenomenal series in which the
Nazis have taken over most of the USA they defeated the British and they
managed to get into the USA and that was the end of that so the story follows the
lives of the people that are in this world but it is established that it is
an alternative world or from their perspective they're the real world and
there's an alternative world that runs parallel to it now what does that mean
and how do they get across and all those kind of wonderful things hasn't been
answers at least not as far as I know season 3 isn't out yet there is an
example of where they've changed up certain things it's the 1950s and yet
technology hasn't moved as far forward as it had by the by our standards by our
real-world standards so there's a good example we've got there's a show called
sliders which was done in the 90s where they were sliding between dimensions
between parallel worlds and discovering the changes and difficulties that they
had there too then if you look at another option something that may not
necessarily present itself immediately as an alternative universe is the Harry
Potter series Harry Potter and his companions have to step through that
magical 9 and 3/4 platform on the train station to get to their magical world
and they have this transition between reality and this fake space so it's
almost an alternative dimension where magic works and all these amazing
creatures still exist and then you've got real world which they have to return
to from time to time The Chronicles of Narnia is a similar kind of idea but
again we've got the situation where reality in Harry Potter's case is
definitely the darker side even though you've got all these horrid things
running around and Lord Voldemort running around there doesn't really
matter it's a happier brighter place because you've got magic so why go back
to it is the real question that I don't think was ever successfully answered and
then of course later on was a fantastic piece that was totally ignored there's
broke barriers no mr. although maybe I'm getting it wrong I'm not a big Harry
Potter fan so that is in a nutshell I think how one can use alternative
dimensions and I think they're very good to use as a prompt as a poke as just a
bit of fun maybe someone doesn't turn up for a session so you run an
alternate-dimension game with the same characters but this is different and
that's different that's also an option to to to explore until next time I hope
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How to MAKE IT FREELANCING in 2018! - Duration: 10:21.
what's the craic everybody my name is Connor Dunne I'm a freelance videographer
working in Dublin Ireland this video is specifically aimed at helping you crack
the freelancing code in 2018 if you're into that kind of content consider
subscribing it might help you out with future videos coming down the line let's
go firstly I want to say you need to start small if you're in a position
where you can moonlight on the side that is ideal because as long as you're
employed it takes the pressure off your freelancing work so say..I don't know you work
retail I used to work retail if I had the opportunity to do my freelancing
build up a portfolio on the side while actually still earning an income so that
I wasn't jeopardizing my livelihood by going freelance that works really well
and that's a really good place for you guys to start you're gonna need a solid
portfolio okay now this is really scary because a lot of people don't really
have portfolio I started doing video work with no real portfolio because I
was kind of just learning on my own through YouTube cutting different things
together and kind of not having anything of substance to show anybody if you're
gonna start freelancing you need to start building a portfolio and anywhere
between 5 to 10 videos is good enough to show that you have an understanding and
a style that potential clients can pick up on and go yeah you know I like the
color I like the way they frame it i like the pacing like the edit style all
that really pays dividends from having a functioning portfolio on your side and
that's really cool because when i was saying earlier that if you moonlight on
the side it takes the stress out of building your portfolio because a lot of
people you know you can't just go in charging money a lot of people have to
start like for free contacting businesses contacting you know different
influencing people and asking can they actually create a piece of content that
could stand to that potential client i mean a lot of people like stuff for free
reach out a lot of people are going to take you up on the offer because companies
need content and maybe don't have the budget to stretch for it and you can put
that into your portfolio as a clause in that contract for creating the piece of
content for them and again if you are working and using your free time to do
this it takes the stress out of not having being paid for that particular
job but also lets you make your mistakes and the first few jobs that you do
you're gonna get into a pattern and a process where you won't make as many
mistakes further down the line you know you'll start to streamline
you'll start to see what works for you when you're building your portfolio you
know aim for the sort of work that you want to get into the niche and get into
your niche as early on as you can because there's no point making a couple
of videos for you know a bread company baking bread and stuff I suppose but
like when the ultimate goal is you want to actually just film surfers and and
kayaking you know or like underwater stuff they don't really match up so go
after your niche while you're doing it for free or for cheap it's the same if I
was gonna do like fashion if I was gonna skew in fashion I'd start contacting
you know fashion outlets you know local fashion suppliers and so that your
portfolio is reflective of what you want to go after in the future so you're
gonna be your own boss name but the thing is because you're actually making
a living using your creative talents you have to separate the sort of product
from your service if that makes sense you are your service so Connor is my
service I sell myself kind of weird but you know that's what I do
I am so focused on delivering a quality interaction between me and a client
because that's what matters it's a people business you need to be
interacting with people and showing that you're willing to go above and beyond it
really breaks my heart because in like certain feels like say wedding
videography there's just these old heads in it that like are just there for the
cash it's a cash grab they don't care they're not gonna add anything to that
newly weds couple's life but if you start focusing on the customer
experience that you offer through being you know approachable to being professional
timely friendly people really like this you know people like that you're
attentive to emails to making meetings you know going above and beyond is
really important so you need to sell your service which is you and then the
client ultimately ends up with the product and the product is the finished
video but everything in between like the handing over the finished video is the
easy part it's the weeks and and sometimes months
of work that goes in pre-production that you need to make their life as easy as
possible because they will enjoy working with you and if they enjoy working with
you they will come back or they will go and they will recommend you to other
people so remember you have a product and you have a service so I personally
feel you need to price yourself on what you're worth and not just what the video
is worth at the end but actually the entire interactions that's where the
service is so important from you I have this thing that like there's a million
people that will do a cheaper than you but will they do it to the same
attention to detail and the same customer experience as you and I'm gonna
say like a lot of people don't a lot of people fall down there focus on yourself
price it on what you deliver as a person as a creative as a editor and a shooter
don't focus on what competitors are charging there's no point undercutting a
competitor that offers a vastly different experience people won't use
them again clients won't go back to them but as long as you're in and around your
comfortable ballpark for what you feel you deserve companies have money you
know value is based on what you give if people perceive value in how much a
pleasant experience it was working with you they'll come back they'll see value
in it just remember that there's no price too high for anybody if you offer
enough value you need to be good at liaising with other people whether it be
other Creators or brands in and around your local area that you want to work
with so for instance you need to run a blog like a blog is a good way of
engaging with brands and people that you want to potentially work with and so
when I started the you need to identify brands that you want to work with within
your niche okay so you for instance go after and hiking company so I really
want to work with like hikers take them around film this trail company okay so I
start to like look at the different shoes the different sort of equipment
that's being used and start to build sort of little blog post around it so
that when a potential client comes up that's like you know oh we're gonna take
a punt on you you know do you know your stuff about our product you knows stuff
about you know the mountains in Ireland you can already reference that you have
blog posts based around equipment that they use about trails in the local area
it shows this like engagement and potentially you can get them to share
that content and if you can get them sharing stuff that you're making on
their social platforms it'll be seen by other people and that in turn will come
back to you so it's really good to think a better like this like you make a video
for a newlywed and they throw up the teaser and it gets 150 likes and a
thousand views and then all the comments under it because if the products good
enough people are gonna want to know who did it
so everybody underneath like oh who did you get in and can I get a reference to
that company so what you would want that couple to do is tag you in that post and
type the company if it's a really positive experience and they're happy
and proud that shouldn't be a problem and they're you're opening yourself up
to that demographic potentially all their friends are in and around the same
age of getting married and then they see the work and I go oh I'd like that and
they come looking for it and if you take that one step further you take that
video you take the teaser you give it to the hotel and you get the hotel to share
it on their platform and again tag you tag the couple and you know that sort of
traction is really important because it starts to set you apart on a social
platform where people are talking about you so you need to actively engage with
products that you want to work with the people that you have work with you need
to utilize their reach and everybody's got to reach and lastly you got to pitch
yourself like it is probably the hardest thing cause there's talkers and talkers
are really easy at you know bigging themselves up and talking a load of
shite and then there's sort of more quiet people that you know are a bit
more modest you know this is my work I'll let it speak for itself and
that's sort of where I'm at I let my work speak for itself I let my
interaction and my client rapport speak for itself
I feel like I offer a product that is really really top quality but also the
interaction and how I make the client feel during that process is really
valuable so I'm not afraid to lean on that or to lean on getting references
from people that I've worked with to improve my chances of getting work
further down the line you know if you work well with people they will be happy
to help you able to reference and being able to name-drop and being able to
positively say you work with different brands
to leverage yourself in a situation where you're going to be working or
potentially working with the client in the future that you like a job that
you're pitching on for instance that's really important so being able to be
confident in how you deliver how you portray yourself to other people will
ultimately end up with you bagging the job and that confidence you know it's
sort of it's it's a front like some people are naturally that confident they
believe in it and like your product has to back it up and you have to be able to
put on a front of life you know what I'm confident enough in myself I'm confident
enough in my delivery I think I can deliver a really top-notch product for
you now you might have to do a lot of breathing exercises like positive
psychology but you'll get there but the important thing is that you start
valuing your time and don't let anybody tell you that your time's meaningless or
not worth it that's a huge issue in this industry where it's like people don't
want to pay you for your creative influence like everybody wants a video
but nobody wants to pay the video person you know nobody wants to pay the
editor but you have to actually be bold enough to say hold on a second no I'm
worth this I think that I will do the job better than anybody else and you
know your confidence will be rewarded hopefully we'll get a bit of interaction
between a couple of people that might have started freelancing you know what's
keeping you from doing it I am taking a punt on backing myself because I really
want to be my own boss I really want to work for myself I want to engage in
content that I am really passionate about
would you ever be tempted into going freelance thank you so much for watching
I will catch you on the next video consider subscribing if this video
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DIY Yarn Wall Hanging | Easy & Cheap Wall Hanging Decor Idea | DIY Boho Wall Hanging - Duration: 3:07.
Hey what's up you guys? My name is Emily and in this video I'm gonna show you how
to make this yarn wall decoration idea.
Let's get on with the video!
What you will need for this DIY is two hoops of two different sizes.
I used a metal embroidery hoop for the big hoop and a metal bracelet for the smaller hoop
but you can use whatever you would like.
You will also need scissors, one or more colors of yarn,
and something that you can wrap the yarn around like a book or a piece of cardboard.
The first thing you want to do is to wrap the yarn you want to use for the bigger hoop
around a book or a piece of cardboard about one hundred
or more times or you can just cut as much as you will need.
After you are done wrapping the yarn you want to cut one end of all of the loops.
Then you want to separate the yarn into five strands of yarn or more.
It just depends on how you want the yarn to look like while it's on the hoop.
Now you want to take the yarn and fold it in half
and take the middle part of the yarn and place it under the hoop
and then you want take the tails and pull them through the loop to create a knot.
You want to continue to do the same steps until you like how it looks.
I made about nine more of these so there is ten on the hoop.
For the smaller hoop you just follow the same steps as the bigger hoop
but you make the yarn shorter than the yarn on the bigger hoop
by wrapping around a smaller book or you can just cut the yarn shorter
and you can also use a different color of yarn if you want.
I made seven of these.
Now you want to take another piece of yarn from any of the colors of yarn that you used.
I used the same color of yarn that's on the smaller hoop.
You want to tie the hoops together at the top of the hoops with the yarn into a knot.
Then you want to make a loop and tie another knot like this
so the decoration can hang on a wall or you could just use the hoops instead of making a loop with the yarn.
All you have to do now is to hang it on a wall and trim the excess yarn off
and you can form the yarn into a shape like a triangle
or you can use the shape of the hoops to create your shape
and then you would be finished with this decoration.
and that's how you make this yarn wall decoration idea!
In the comments down below let me know what you think about this decoration idea and if
you like this video give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to see more videos like this.
I will see you in the next video. Bye!
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Internet FENOMEN 10 Cat (There are more FOLLOWERS than you!) - Duration: 11:43.
Today's sitandardıda everyone's instagram or Facebook profile look as standard 300 figure
we can see it.What is the mystery of the number of AAC 300 we investigate, but we can not
reach a conclusion. But the most important point of today's youth
has been the follower, the more followers you have.
you are popular in the region or in the eyes of a girl or in the eyes of a man.
Now I'm going to show you 10 interesting cats, and make sure these cats have more followers
than most of us., I wonder if we can not be loved as a cat in
this question is digging into the minds of the question.Description of instagram
we have a link to follow me from there.To give us the support of the channel like videya
throw like you can subscribe to.
This is the first time I've ever seen this movie.
he became quite famous on the internet for resembling a dog in his appearance.Thanks
to its image the popularity has grabbed even 288 thousand
followers in the instagramda. The world's most mafia, pislopat, has a cat
with a look on our list of names Albert,owner of her
he found him sick on the edge of the office and fed him care,as Albert grew older.
the world's most nervous cat.It's pretty much under the aces in the image.
a smart brain lies.In the instangram, 27,000 followers a week from the life of Albert continues
to earn he seems happy.
The most beautiful-eyed cat in the world is driving the Instagram.She has eyes that are
hard to believe. this Coby cat doesn't tell you where she lives.Because
it's so beautiful. Four attempts to kidnap the cat, Coby.Instagram
has 200,000 followers. Facebok has 335 thousand followers.We can't
finish it without saying it's so beautiful. My forefathers do more harm than good.
His name is garfi, and he's a Persians cat.Think about it, you get up in the morning and your
chest looks like this. a cat,like a full horror movie scene,took
part in many films because of the cat garfi image.,
He was involved in many commercials, Catholicism footage, and many more.The money you won
we can say no line accounts.He became a favorite cat on the internet in his nervousness.
Albert is a cat breaking.But his image is unique and incredible, with his eyes and his
nose it attracts a lot of attention with the color.He's
a model.The cat mannequin.Cats are wearing clothes.
and a lot of photos are taken.This is a very well-known instagramda 581 thousand followers,
facebok has 600 thousand followers. A kimera type of cat named side.Ypan is a
two-DNA feline burned in research. learned.So half have a different color and
half have a different color.Specific this image has given him popularity.A very
popular Cat on the internet, he was in cat food commercials.Instagramda
64 thousand followers Facebook 500 thousand followers are available.
The cat named gimo brings us to mind the song of Murat kekilin, your ass eyes.
Gimo takes care of himself, so to speak.Even now
I'm out of my mind.It's pretty popular in the eye, in the intagram and facebok.
Meet another phenomenon called Mandy.This cat is so smart.Thanks to his own Intelligence,
the internet it's a phenomenon.One day
the owner who wears GoPro on his head, mandin goproyu took off and went across him
he saw him press the keys to pull the selft.Recognizing this feature, the owner mandiye 3-4 one of
the camera gorpo it's hard to believe, but press and hold the
button. he's got a lot of selves.
Smoothie has stolen a lot of people's hearts.Thanks to its perfect eyes and image
it's quite remarkable.The perfect attitude underlying the image
it's even more remarkable, you know, that rich people walk differently.It's like that
in the cat. he's aware of himself.Instagram has 1.3 million
followers on Facebook. 55,000 followers on YouTube.
Cats don't like water, especially what they don't like most is getting their hair wet.
But this is a special cat named Kuli.Meet the One-Eyed pirate.
Perfectly floating, awesome, who loves to surf in the wavy seas
a cat.The cat who was born on the street when he was a kitten has one of
his eyes he has lost, but he has not lost his joy in
life no matter what, and his incredible success he's pretty popular on the internet.
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Live What You Love: Heena - Duration: 1:01.
Hi, I am Heena Iqbal
and I teach Hindi at Silver Mountain School.
But that doesn't mean you have to talk to me in Sanskrit.
You don't talk to your math teacher in maths do you?
A teacher's life is very hectic.
Tutoring kids,
going to the market,
going to the movies,
running a house
Cooking food,
getting a wax,
Catching up on my shows,
Getting this, getting that, etc. etc. etc…
Your brain gets fried.
But with yoga I get shanti…
And then I make LV bags with Shanti.
Lace Vaaley bags…
Making time for the things you love,
it's hard but not impossible.
I just love this D.I.Y culture
and who knew our bags would become such a hit.
Yup, that's my life.
I'm Heena, and I know the A B C's of fashion.
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I'm Sandeep, but my friends call me Sandy.
I'm a family man, a businessman, 58, 5'8
and my wife thinks I've put on a bit of weight over the last 27 years.
I don't.
I like politics and fast cars, as long as they don't get me in trouble.
(Oh no, he's cheated, he's cheated)
And I don't understand the difference between a meme and a me-me
aur mujhe lagta hai. Kids these days need to stop being so entitled.
(Champi)
I love the ocean... Mmm salmon is my favourite!
(Dad please!)
I'm an audiophile and I collect records.
And I have these very exclusive events in what my daughter calls my 'man cave'.
(Oye como va!)
My wife only allows me to have them once a month...
makes it more exclusive, I guess.
Good thing I'm a man of many interests.
Life's a beach, that's why they call me Sandy.
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How To Prevent Leather Cracks and Fading? | Bentley Continental GT | Chemical Guys Car Care - Duration: 13:28.
Welcome back to the Detail Garage.
In this video, we're going to show you guys how to go ahead and properly clean and condition
the interior leather on your vehicle.
As you guys can see, we have a beautiful Bentley with black leather and it also has some diamond
stitching right in the middle.
Unfortunately, on this Bentley, the convertible top does not work so we do have some imperfections
into the leather, such as cracking and some wrinkling, as well as some staining and some
dirt into it.
In this video, we are going to show you guys how to properly clean it without damaging
it and putting any scuff marks down the line.
We're going to be using our leather cleaner, which is going to help us clean the leather,
agitate it- lifting up any type of dirt and oils that we have in the leather, giving up
a nice, soft finish and not just that, it's also going to start reviving the look of the
leather.
As well, we'll be using our leather brush, which is a very soft horsehair brush, which
is going to be very soft to go ahead and scrub it, yet kind of rough to go ahead and start
agitating the leather without causing any damage.
At the end of that, we are going ahead and condition it, which is going to be our leather
conditioner to add a little bit of glossiness to our leather and not just that, we're also
going to protect it and give it some moisturization since it's been quite a long time since this
leather got actually treated.
Our first step is going to consist of actually grabbing our leather brush and our leather
cleaner, generally agitating it.
You don't want to spray it directly onto the surface.
The reason you don't want to spray it directly onto the surface is because some leathers
are just dyed or they're not protected and as you go ahead and spray any product onto
the surface, you could actually leave a stain or a mark.
So what we're going to go ahead and do is just gently spray some of the product into
my brush and you, like I said, have different types of scenarios here.
You have diamond plate stitching and you have your regular, soft leather.
In this occasion, since you also have perforated leather but it is not fully perforated, it
is perfectly fine for us to go ahead and tackle down this leather the proper way without causing
any damage or staining into the stitching.
Very gently, like I said, we're going to spread some leather cleaner into our brush.
So softly we're going to start massaging it in.
And you guys can see that our cleaner is already foaming, cleaning the leather without causing
any damage.
We're going to use a little bit more product and we are going to keep on going.
Remember that leather is also porous, so you want to go ahead and agitate it in circular
motions so you can go ahead and get in between all crevices and all the pores of the leather,
so we can make sure we can remove all types of dirt and all types of grain from all types
of angles.
Let's not forget to always go ahead and clean in between all the crevices as well.
Just like so.
So now, what we are going ahead and do is grab our microfiber towel, which on this occasion,
I chose to use the yellow workhorse towel to make sure what kind of dirt and what kinds
of body oils that we are actually pulling away from this leather.
Very gently we're wiping it away and we're not putting any pressure into our leather
or we're not scuffing it by scrubbing it too hard.
Just gently wiping it away, since our cleaner already did the job by starting loosening up
any debris, any dirt, and any body oils away from the leather.
Very easy.
And as you guys can see, here's the dirt and all of the body oils that we have in it, and
not just that, our leather feels a lot softer and it looks a lot cleaner as well.
We're going to keep proceeding on cleaning up the rest of our leather and our front seat.
We also want to go ahead and keep focus on what is going to be this small crevice here.
For the most part, a lot of people do not pay attention to this part of the vehicle.
Why?
Because it's where your legs actually rest as you ride in the vehicle.
But, at the same time, we eat in the vehicle when we ride in our vehicle.
We are going to have some type of dirt, some type of grime, maybe some food in between
these crevices, so we want to make sure to clean out all of the seat to make sure we
clean it properly and condition it the correct way.
Keep in mind we do not want to scrub very hard.
Just gently agitating our leather, that's going to start, like I said, loosening up
any dirt, any body oils, and any debris we have embedded into our leather without causing
any damage.
Just very simply and very gently, we're making this leather look fantastic.
We're going to come back to our microfiber towel and gently wipe away.
And remember, it's just a very soft wipe.
Just like so.
And as you guys can see, those are the marks, or if I should say, the dirt and body oils
that were embedded into this leather.
If you guys can see, our leather looks more revived, nonetheless, it looks a lot softer
and clean as well.
Our next step is going to consist of grabbing our leather conditioner, which is also going
ahead and help us condition, give a little shine, but not just that, moisturize the leather,
which is going to prevent it from cracking, from getting more of the wrinkles, or preventing
it from going stiff because we never conditioned it.
In this location, since, like I mentioned, we do have different scenarios, different
types of material- you do you have your full leather, your soft, nice leather, and you
have perforated leather, as well as some stitching.
What you want to go ahead and do is you want to prevent from going straight with your conditioner
into the perforated side.
Why?
Because if you have a perforated area, you're going to clog up those pores and those heaters
are not going to work properly.
So, you're going to have to come back with like a toothpick or another tool to make sure
that you unclog those pores and it's going to take a lot more work.
The way that I like to go ahead and attack this type of leather, we also have to keep
in mind that we have colored stitching on the side.
We do not want to go ahead and stain that type of stitching because it is going to be
a lot harder for us to clean it down the line and we don't want to, like I said, scrub it
too hard with any type of abrasive brush or soap that will leave some type of marring
or some type of damage into the leather.
Very gently, agitating my leather conditioner, I'm only going to do about three to four dots.
I like to spread it out throughout my applicator because you don't want to spread it directly.
I did about three to four dots and they were a little bit bigger than the usual.
But the way that I like to do it, I like to massage my leather conditioner into my applicator
so it doesn't become caked on into the surface and it doesn't look brushed into some certain
areas and we're going to have a nice finish and a nice even application.
On this occasion, I would like to go ahead and start off on the smooth side of the leather,
working my way into the stitching, into the perforated area for the same reason.
Like I said, I do not want to go ahead and clog up those pores or stain any stitching,
just like in any other vehicle or any different kind of leather we have in any type of vehicle
that is going to cause any trouble.
Very gently just massaging it in, I'm rubbing it back and forth, and as you guys can see,
our leather is getting some nice shine, moisturization, and nonetheless, it's also getting protected.
Now, I can safely come into my perforated and stitched area and very gently apply my
application of conditioner.
You also want to keep in mind that the leather conditioner will not be oily and will not
be greasy whenever you apply it into the surface.
It will actually be dry to the touch, without having the greasy feeling, or the oily finish
into the leather.
We're gong to add just a little bit more.
Just three dots and the same way, I want to make sure I work it into my microfiber applicator.
Starting off on the smooth area, working it into the suspicious compartments that we actually
kind of just neglect and never pay attention to.
And the proper way you want to go ahead and take care of your leather: if your vehicle
is fairly brand new, or your vehicle has never been treated, the proper way and the correct
time for you to go ahead and protect the leather is when your car is fairly brand new.
The reason why you want to go ahead and protect it is like I said, to prevent any cracks and
wrinkles into the leather.
Not only that, you actually prolong the look of the leather and you're maintaining it from
getting cracked or any damages down the line because of the sun rays, the UV blocking has
never been cleaned, whatever.
You have kids maybe in the vehicle, and if it doesn't get cleaned off, that's when you
start getting tearing throughout the whole vehicle.
And same thing, once we go ahead and touch our leather, it's dry to the touch and it's
not oily.
As you guys can see, right in the back section here, it actually ready absorbed the conditioner,
it's actually moisturizing it, and it's actually protecting it at the same time, not giving
it glossy finish and not giving it an very oily finish as well.
Simple.
We're go ahead and keep cleaning the full vehicle, dashboard if it's leather based,
our steering wheel we can also go head and clean it and condition it.
But let's not forget that we want to go ahead and clean it the proper way and also condition
it right after that because if we do not condition it, there could be consequences down the line
and it starts cracking, or some wrinkling into the leather.
My name is Hector, this video was just to pretty much teach you guys how to clean, maintain,
and protect your leather.
If you guys liked this video, comment, share it, and subscribe and comment below as well.
Let us know what kind of videos you guys like to see in the near future and like I said,
the proper way to go ahead and clean the leather is by using a leather brush, our leather cleaner,
and our leather conditioner to make sure that we condition and moisturize our leather and
prevent it from any future damages.
This is Chemical Guys.
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The 10 Things That Terrify Narcissists - Their Worst Fears Revealed - Duration: 6:08.
Brainy Dose Presents:
The 10 Things That Terrify Narcissists - Their Worst Fears Revealed!
Each one of us has fears, but somehow narcissists appear to fear nothing.
When confronted, they will even say that they don't care.
But, that's just how they appear.
In actuality, these people are very fragile individuals with low self-esteem, and there
are many things that terrify narcissists to their core!
Because of their inflated ego and lack of care for anything but themselves, it is actually
quite easy to point out their fears.
Here are the top 10!
Number 1 – Getting Exposed
Narcissists thrive on their illusion of self-worth.
When they look in a mirror, they only see what they want to, and they see themselves
as perfect.
They expect nothing but praise from everyone around them.
One of the biggest fears a narcissist has is being exposed for who they really are.
They are terrified by the thought of letting anyone know that they actually have flaws.
They always do whatever most benefits themselves and it terrifies them to be exposed.
They hate being called out on their abusive behaviors.
It throws them into a fit of rage and they never want to be held accountable for the
things they do.
Number 2 - Failing
Narcissists are obsessed with materialism.
They get their self-worth from objects, looks, and wealth.
But, failure is something that incredibly terrifies these people.
Be it a career, hobby, or just about anything else.
They cannot stand taking steps backward.
Losing all of their money or getting pushed off by a company they worked for their whole
life, is something that scares them.
If they aren't 'successful' in life it's over.
Nothing else matters to them.
Number 3 - Aging
A narcissist will typically get worse with age because with age comes many negative things
that they simply cannot handle.
They are completely obsessed with themselves and really concerned with their physical appearance.
They want to stay young and dominant over others.
So, when signs of aging begin to occur, they get angry, frustrated and ultimately, depressed.
And thus, the older they get, the crankier they become.
Number 4 - Commitment
Narcissists are often characterized by a failure or inability to pursue meaningful and lasting
relationships.
Of course, the reasons for this are quite obvious…
To be in a relationship, you have to let your guard down, and this is something that really
scares narcissists.
Being in a relationship means that your partner will get to know you, including your faults
and embarrassments.
For narcissists, letting people see the imperfections in their character just seem unthinkable,
even frightening!
Number 5 - Being Disrespected
Nobody likes being disrespected, but a narcissist fears it more than others.
They feel like they're going to die when someone disrespects them.
They think that their opinion is more important than anyone else's and everyone should kiss
the ground they walk on.
So, when someone doesn't approve of their words or actions, they will do anything to
prove them wrong.
They will deny what you said, they will lie and try to turn it around to make it look
like you're the villain.
They'll even ridicule you for not being able to see their greatness.
Number 6 - Being Made Fun Of
A narcissist will make fun of everyone around them and they like to play all the jokes.
But, when the tables are turned, even if you are joking, they cannot stand to be made fun
of.
They just can't accept that they have flaws, much less have people laugh at them.
They're really sensitive like this because deep inside, they know they're flawed, so
when someone puts attention on these flaws, they get really worked up.
Number 7 - Being Ignored
When you ignore a narcissist, things can get ugly, fast.
They want your attention, and they want all of it, now!
If they don't have your attention, they go into a fit.
They feel that whatever they have to say has more value and is more important than anything
else, and they don't care if they are interrupting you, regardless of what you might be busy
with.
They would rather be hated than ignored.
This way, they are still getting something from you.
Number 8 - Abandonment
If a narcissist feels that they are losing grip, in the sense that someone is leaving
them or abandoning them, they spring into action and will do whatever they can to try
to convince you to stay.
This is why all of a sudden, they shower you with kindness.
It's not because they have miraculously changed or have any remorse for their actions.
They need you!
Because when someone leaves a narcissist, they are forced to confront their own emptiness.
Number 9 - Rejection
A narcissist has an inflated ego, and because of this, they think that they can have anything
and anyone they want.
When rejected, they go into a rage.
They make threats and will do anything to make you feel bad.
Then after, they will even spread around negative things about you.
You see, when you reject a narcissist you are rejecting the person they want to be.
This contradicts their reasoning for their entire existence.
Number 10 – Passing Away
Narcissists always love to feel like they are in control of everything, and this is
the ultimate thing that they cannot control, so they fear passing away.
Of course it's all for selfish reasons.
They don't see it as an end to their life, but rather the end of an illusion they worked
hard to maintain throughout their living years.
You see, there are lots of things that terrify narcissists to their core.
But what it all comes down to, is their constant need to be in control of everything.
And if you take away that control, they have nothing.
Does this sound like someone you know?
We'd love to hear about it.
Tell us in the comments below!
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How to Capture User Data You Didn't Know Existed - Duration: 10:26.
Rob: Hi. Welcome to another issue the Ship It Show. I'm here with Carter Rabasa
from Fizbuz.com. So today we're
going to be talking about BI and analytics, and we're really going to be talking about
analyzing—once you've already got something in place, once you've gone
through the process of figuring out how to analyze your system, and you have some
metrics flowing, and you have some data coming through—what we're talking
about today is how do you know about the things that you aren't measuring, like
some of the dark data that your users are producing that you're not capturing.
And I think this is a unique problem in in organizations—both startups and also
right at the other end of the spectrum, in established companies who are
learning to be tech companies—where the the commercial, off-the-shelf software
will give you a set of users that they know about, and they will sit there and
say, 'Here's all the data for it,' and you'll be like, 'This is great, I've got
all the data for my users. And you'll be happy as Larry, and then all of a sudden,
bam, you'll lose a massive set of customers and
you won't be able to figure why. You describe the problem
as dark data, almost like information that you that you can't see. Carter: Yeah.
So I spent over five years working at a company called Twilio,
a developer-focused company, and they have an API product.
So in a lot of ways, it's a new kind of customer. You're
building a SaaS product. People can go to a website, they can sign up for it.
But they're not regular consumers; they're developers. So a lot of the tools
that Twilio was using— off-the-shelf things like Google
Analytics and Mixpanel—it was great for tracking traditional
metrics that you would associate with SaaS products. But developers are
different. There was a lot of things that developers were doing
with Twilio that weren't reflected in those products. And if you're a product
manager or you're in marketing, you could see all these dashboards and these
charts, and it could make you feel like, 'Hey, this is fantastic. People are
signing up for Twilio.' Signups
are going up and to the right, and everything's fine.
And then next thing you know, a whole cohort of developers,
customers stop using your product. And you start to rip
your hair out trying to figure out what happened. Why aren't they
happy? Why aren't they still using Twilio? Frankly
it just took us a long time to really root around and figure out what
some of those root causes were. And then once you figure that out, it's
great. You can start to make sure
that that data is captured and is presented to the right people. But
it's never really over, because sometimes you just don't
know what you don't know. Rob: And just because you're capturing data, doesn't
mean you're capturing all the data. Sometimes the fact that you
have something now almost brings a certain complacency to it. It's
like, 'We've got all the data.' Are you tracking signups? 'Yes, we're tracking
signups.' Are you tracking churn? 'Yes, we're tracking churn.' But really continuing
to ask you that question—What are we missing?—is really the core of the
problem. And I think you came you came up with a good suggestion, which is stay
close to the customers. That is really the number one
thing. What are your customers doing with the product. And the example that
you gave was Twitter and the hashtags. They were really just customers using
the product in a completely unexpected way. And by staying close to the customer,
Twitter was able to create a feature out of that. But it's not always obvious
when the customer is an enterprise consumer or an API consumer. It's harder
to understand what they're doing. Carter: That's right. Number one, you
have to actually be capturing the data. It has to be absorbable. But even
even after you do that—let's just use the Twitter
example—you could be a product manager, you could be
some kind of person at Twitter, and you can be completely aware that
this is happening. But there could be other people in other parts of the
company that are not aware of it. So so the data hasn't been democratized.
It hasn't been shared across the organization. And that can be pretty
disastrous. If you work in the ad units
department at Twitter and you're not really aware that this hashtag thing
is happening, that's problematic. Because now hashtags are
basically an ad unit. So if
you're the PM and you're like, 'This hashtag is a thing, and I can imagine how
to iterate on the consumer side of the product to make it better,' that's
that's okay. But that's not nearly as good as if all the
right people across the organization had access to that
data and were aware of it. I've seen this at
Twilio, and I've seen this a lot of other companies. This is not
just capturing the data. It's putting it in some kind of
centralized place and making sure that different people across the organization
have access to it also. Rob: And having forums for discussion is
important. You mentioned the product manager who identified
something. How, in our viewers organizations, are they
enabling forums for discussion around user behavior, around data, and not just
in silos—like across silos and across different product lines. That's
that's super-important. So the other thing we talked about is this need
to identify ways that your products, your
software application is being used in unexpected ways
but not letting your team get bogged down with trying to identify
all of the unexpected ways and ending up with... I once saw a
spreadsheet for all the data that was to be captured for
a website, which had 500 items on it because the approach to the data capture
was, 'What are all the things we might possibly ever want to capture about
customers that we have or don't have or might have or aliens that will possibly
land on our software and start using it. And here are all the different metrics
you want to capture.' And I think becomes almost useless
because there's just too much of it and people get blindness from all the data.
So how do you weigh the need to focus on unexpected behavior with the danger of
getting bogged down with too much data. Carter: It
kind of goes back to my early point about making sure that information
is flowing freely and that people are empowered to ask
interesting questions or questions that are interesting to them and get
that information back. So to your example, trying to preemptively capture
50 data points, just in case, isn't productive. It actually might be
really counterproductive. But if you can make sure that the
friction for any person across an organization to A) have the insight that
they want to capture one net new piece of data—if you can reduce the friction
for making that possible, whether it's the software that you're
using, the tools or the process, if you can just make sure that the friction is
minimal so that someone who has a hypothesis knows how to go to somebody
and test that hypothesis and then find out if that data is indeed
worth capturing or not, I think that's that's really really important.
Because then you're iterating. Then
you start off with five obvious pieces of data that everybody agrees upon, but
then over time you're adding to it and you're subtracting from
it. And the important point is you need to empower the people who
are either closest to the customer or closest to the use case,
whether it's the PM who's trying to iterate on the product or
someone in the marketing organization that's trying to think
about a different way to reach potential customers and really affect the top
of the funnel. Put them in a position to actually be able to
influence what's happening from a data perspective.
I think traditionally that's just simply not the case.
Traditionally it's whoever the engineers were that
built the first few versions of this product, they were the
ones that decided what was or wasn't worth capturing. And then it's
over. And sure, you can try to capture new stuff, but it
is a tremendous effort to make that happen. Most people just sort of
give up and just go about trying to achieve their goals a different way.
It's too bad. Rob: Or they fly another analytics package under the radar,
and all of a sudden you have 50 analytics packages and your data is spread everywhere.
Carter: That happens. You'll go into companies,
maybe startups that have been around for five or six or seven years, and you'll
have Google Analytics, Mixpanel, a bunch of
logging tools—even tools that are arguably
competitors to one another, you'll have them both. You'll have Heap and Mixpanel.
This is because people were trying to solve a problem. It
was like a local optimization. They're trying to solve a very narrow
problem for themselves. But that's actually very painful and
counterproductive to the company, because instead of having
of a coherent data warehouse that you can really make sense of what's
going on, you just end up with these data silos all over the place. You
can't run a reasonable query on anything, and everyone is just really unhappy.
Rob: So to summarize, be wary of what data you're not capturing. Make sure that
you're understanding where your customers are.
I think as an organization grows in complexity, it's always
important to make sure those user personas and those user journeys are
apparent at all stages of the process. Make sure you have forums for open
discussion—knowledge sharing— and dashboards and forums for
discussion, even maybe creating a Slackchannel as a quick win for posting
data questions. That's always a good and interesting thing, where people can just
post questions about data. And finally making it easy for people to get access
to data and capture new things. Excellent. Well,
thanks so much for the time Carter. Carter: Yeah. Rob: Great to have you on the show.
Carter: Thanks
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