Marjorie Furay: Coffee.
Royee Mundelboim: OK.
Marjorie Furay: Welcome everybody to master class this week.
Marjorie Furay: Uh, we have 3 presenters tonight, UM being May 4th. May the fourth be with you. We are here and we're going to enjoy this evening together. Looking forward to these three.
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Marjorie Furay: There we go. We have Jonathan Ulery for IT. Project management, career Path, Roy Mundelboim recording software and issues and how to fix them. And Alyssa Prater with blockchain and tick tock, maybe. OK. So, Jonathan, Are you ready to start?
Jonathan Ulery: Absolutely ready as I'll ever be.
Marjorie Furay: Take it away.
Jonathan Ulery: All right, let's make sure. Can everybody see my screen?
Marjorie Furay: Yes.
Royee Mundelboim: Yep.
Jonathan Ulery: Alright.
Jonathan Ulery: So.
Jonathan Ulery: Alright, so diving into it project management as a career path.
Jonathan Ulery: First thing we are going to see is what is IT project management. So there are two different paths of it project manager so it is one is an IT project manager that is and they typically work for the company and they are on their company's payroll and we'll do most of their IT projects. The more popular way now is far as the thing the trend has been going is the.
Jonathan Ulery: It consultants are being brought in to lead IT projects for companies and it's more of a one time just contract deal and they typically you'll actually even start to see them on indeed and they're very popular now where they are contract positions for six months or one year and they will just hire them like that assigned to organizations to help achieve it goals.
Jonathan Ulery: As I said, as far as the consultants go, they're contracted and they do not work for the company. And then the types of projects that these guys do. So they do new software solutions, they set up clouds, introduce introduction of it to the business and these can be IoT solutions. These can be setting up new servers, converting into cloud projects, building websites as our projects are and just they can, they can oversee almost anything.
Jonathan Ulery: Anywhere from networking clear, clear through the back end and security systems.
Jonathan Ulery: Umm. And then they either have a team with them and they're usually brought in with their IT consulting firm or it is going to be a bid and they are going to be contracted a budget to fill out and bring on a team via bids.
Jonathan Ulery: So what does an IP project manager do? So normally they do not just have one project. Usually if they are with a company they are supposed to provide analysis. They are supposed to do a complete overhaul of what the IT system is. They will typically have a couple different stages of the project that they're going to have to go through, because whenever they do their original analysis, they have to bring it and get it approved by the board or the management.
Jonathan Ulery: And things like and or and whoever's overseeing that part for the company.
Jonathan Ulery: The proposal and the budget will be done by the IT consultant or IT project manager. Both of these typically have to be approved by the stakeholders, so this does take some time. It going back and forth with the company and the IT manager.
Jonathan Ulery: It they are 100% responsible for managing the budget and this is something that it becomes very difficult for an IT project manager because as we all know, as we're all in the IT field, sometimes things don't go well and solutions don't work out. And one of the hardest things in this field is that you're managing that and your budgets going great and then a solution doesn't work and now you have to.
Jonathan Ulery: Find another solution or kind of turn turn coat and go to a whole different provider and it can blow the budget very quickly. That's why when you see budgets for companies at the end of the year, one thing that you will typically notice that they're gonna go over on is their IT budget. This is gonna be part of the reason why as well.
Jonathan Ulery: So the progress all goes to the stakeholders to ensure the project meets the deadline. What the stakeholders are looking for as far as results go, you need to make sure that you're meeting their vision and you have to make sure that the project is going according to what their expectations were. This is where the budget can kind of get out of control too, because you could be you wanna make sure to check in very often because you don't want to be 3 months into a project and check back with the stakeholders 3 months in and they say.
Jonathan Ulery: That's not what we wanted at all, which sometimes you will see because them not being in the IT world, in their view is that's what you're here for. So you must make sure that their vision is met each step of the project to make sure that the budget or the timeline does not get affected.
Jonathan Ulery: So they also have to do the risk management on every step of the project, so this will they'll need to present to the company as well because in the IT world, when you're making changes to a company, there's also risk involved. So things like does this integrate with your systems that you currently have, things like does this, is this going to make you more vulnerable to an attack. So say that we're switching from a server system to a cloud system. So yes, you're going to be a little bit more vulnerable because we're now.
Jonathan Ulery: Open in in a cloud network is exposed as opposed to everything being contained in this system, so the risks are all going to fall on you as well, and you will have to give every single risk possible to the customer that you're working for and make them aware of it. And then they also leave the testing team. Usually when the project is complete, to ensure that the scope of the project is met, that the stakeholders are happy, that the system is up and running well, and it is.
Jonathan Ulery: Basically, doing what you said it was going to do.
Jonathan Ulery: So how do you become an IT project manager? So the first thing you do is develop a relevant skill set for the job.
Jonathan Ulery: So we will go a little bit over some of the skills and some of the things that a project manager looks for in the next slide following.
Jonathan Ulery: But obviously it's it is IT based? But there are management properties, there are time, time management properties. There are leadership skills that people will look for in an IT project manager.
Jonathan Ulery: There are a bunch of different project methodologies, so the agile is probably the most popular in the in the field. Now this is where you kind of take it step by step and it's very easy to change directions or change the way that the project has to work. Normally you are going back and forth very often with your stakeholder or your client and kind of compromising and working together and you can take the project step by step.
Jonathan Ulery: Scrum is also a newer version of Project management, so the whole ideology behind Scrum is the project manager. Sole job is to once the project is listed out is to remove problems and blockades from the project. So I use this in an example as we worked on digital collections, one of our biggest problems was that figuring out the database. So I went out and I found us a partner.
Jonathan Ulery: That we can use their database and and.
Jonathan Ulery: Some of the things that they have to offer by becoming an affiliate for them and that solves a big problem with us. Therefore removing the blockade and allowing us to speed up the time frame to get the project up and running.
Jonathan Ulery: Lean is actually exactly what you would think it means, so it is cutting the fat and or trimming the fat from the project. So whenever a lean project is happening, usually a team is bringing you in so they can make sure that you are taking all of the excess out of a process or a system that are either costing them money or wasting resources. So they basically have you come in and do an audit or an analysis of a.
Jonathan Ulery: Business or process and then you kind of reformate that process for them and kind of trim the fat for them and then last but not least is the is the older waterfall model, this is where you go literally step by step and you lay out the entire project before anything has begun.
Jonathan Ulery: So a lot of things do still use waterfall just because they need that structured step-by-step dead time frame. You will see the government and military still using a lot of waterfall projects because they like to have everything planned out so they can foresee what the next 36912 months are going to look like while they're working on this project. The downfall of Waterfall is it is very structured. So that means your budget is all structured out already.
Jonathan Ulery: Your timeline is all structured that already, so if you need to do a change, you actually have to do a change order on a waterfall project and that will change your budget and then it will also change your timeline. The problem is is whatever step you learn. So say let's say that we're halfway through the project, we put a change order in so now our budget is affected. So we have to figure out our budget and our timeline from the point we are in the project and then redo everything behind that because now this is probably all going to affect that and it's going to change.
Jonathan Ulery: And then the flow of the project, you go initiation, planning, executing, closing that is just a very broad overview. We will dive in later and I will show you some of the tools that break that down even further, start building experience and the portfolio. So get into project support roles, get some certifications which we will go over some certifications that you can use to kind of get into this job frame and things like internships.
Jonathan Ulery: Jump into pro. Just being able to jump into a project or helping out and get underneath a project manager. That's all great things to start experience so you can start the path to do it and then Taylor your resume so the big important thing is is you will find that a company looking for a IT project manager is not looking for your normal skill sets. They're going to look for leadership. They're going to look for innovation, they're going to look for.
Jonathan Ulery: Thinking outside the box so you have to tailor your resume to highlight those skills that you have in order to make it look promising and want them want to take the chance on you.
Jonathan Ulery: So the useful certifications to have is a certified associate and project management.
Jonathan Ulery: A project management professional is probably the number one certificate that is looked at. It is very.
Jonathan Ulery: Respected and sought after, also from what I hear in from kind of looking into the material and studying myself is one of the hardest certifications to acquire.
Jonathan Ulery: You can do a agile certified practitioner.
Jonathan Ulery: A professional in project management, this is a great starter. So once you have this certificate it's a little bit easier to obtain than your PMP and then you will start picking up roles as project support and you can start getting into project management teams pretty regularly with this certification. The CompTIA project Plus is a everybody likes to see the CompTIA.
Jonathan Ulery: And there's different obviously organizations that it follows. It is no different in project management. It is a very well respected certificate and well sought after certified project manager. Now you do have to have five years in the field for this one and then certifications are A+ but not necessary for your first job if you are looking to get into any kind of senior project management or any advanced project management.
Jonathan Ulery: Uh, they will want you to have your PMP at the very least.
Jonathan Ulery: So let's look at some average pays and see, you know, is this even a viable career? So I went on national averages and in I will tell you in the IT field it is higher than some of the other fields of project management. So your support role, you're looking to 80 to 85,000 a year. Your project manager and this is entry level experience is going to be about 95,000 technical project manager. These are typically the people that are overseeing it.
Jonathan Ulery: Teams and overseeing network overhauls and a business. They're 117 senior IT project manager now this one is typically the one that will actually work for a company senior IT project managers or even senior IT managers typically kind of fill this role as well. They'll usually stay with the one company and they are the lead of the IT department and kind of oversee all the projects in their company.
Jonathan Ulery: Then you add your certifications. So uh. In most jobs there are is a slight pay bump for having certifications in project managers. People that have certifications in the project manager world, they can be a significant pay increase from 10 to 20,000. Especially having your PMP. So you can walk in and ask for at least a 10 to 20% raise off of what they're offering. If you have the PMP CERT and then the IT project consultants.
Jonathan Ulery: And these are a senior level. So the qualifications are they have their certification, they've spent more than five years in the field and they have at least 10 projects under their belt and they're gonna look at 180 plus. These are also usually your guys that are working on contracts. As we spoke earlier. So they're not signing with any company or anything like that though either work for a big IT firm or they'll just do contract work and sign contract to contract.
Jonathan Ulery: So tools of the trade.
Jonathan Ulery: So you will create documents to when the job or present a plan of action as a business proposal. So the biggest thing to win a job as a project manager, they're going to want to see your plan of action and your business proposal right off the bat. And that's kind of your interview for the job and the unfortunately in this line of work, if you're in the top three, will probably get some feedback. But if you're one of 10.
Jonathan Ulery: And they didn't even consider you as top. You don't even know what you did wrong, because they're not even going to bother calling you back.
Jonathan Ulery: You have to.
Jonathan Ulery: Get very good at writing business proposals because as as I said, this is the only thing that they are looking at in some companies. Unfortunately don't go off of skills, they go off of pricing as well. So you'll definitely have to learn your audience.
Jonathan Ulery: Some of the things that the business profitable contain is the scope of work, the risk assessments and the return on investment projections for the company. They those can be very hard to figure out, especially because you don't exactly know all of the parameters of the of the project, but you will have to.
Jonathan Ulery: Make an educated guess, and that's where we talk the the experience is really coming in and able to help you out in this matter, because I've done these types of projects, I've seen what customers and that will help you secure that ROI projection portion of it.
Jonathan Ulery: They always can be counted by the by the client, so you might say that this is going to take 12 months. They will come back and say you know what, we love your plan. We love your budget, but we want you to do it in seven and that's where that kind of negotiation will go from there. And then you will turn it in at the end of the job on one of the.
Jonathan Ulery: Not so fun part parts of project management is there's a lot of documentation you have to be very organized and you will turn in everything at the end of the project.
Jonathan Ulery: Swat analysis. So this is a acronym and it is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The business wants to see how these look and it basically will show them what their.
Jonathan Ulery: Cut what the companies around them are doing. Some of the what they're doing well, some of what they could definitely work on. And the big thing that they always look at is threats to their company. So what is this process going to do in changing how we do business and what our security needs to be?
Jonathan Ulery: They will all this will be one of the things that you turn in with your business proposal. So it is usually done before you even win the project. You will help the business at aside on based on this SWAT analysis where they will head in the future and then you will end up doing a SWOT analysis after your project is complete and then you can kind of compare and show the improvements and what their new SWOT analysis looks like. And this also helps the project manager devise the plan of attack so.
Jonathan Ulery: Once you know a little bit about the company then this helps tailor how you're going to do the project.
Jonathan Ulery: Work breakdown structure or a WBS form. So this is a detailed form that breaks down the scope, the cost and resources needed for a project it is. This is probably is one of the most time consuming parts of being a project manager.
Jonathan Ulery: This usually is done at the beginning of the project and with agile and scrum it is a little more fluid and easy to create because you kind of go step by step in the waterfall that we talked about earlier. This takes a good amount of time to complete as you have to go through and do the entire project.
Jonathan Ulery: It will help the PM create the Gantt chart so the Gantt chart is what we will control your timeline. Thankfully, now that you have software like Microsoft Project and click up which I prefer actually to use, it is easy to put your tasks in and as you are putting your task in and your times and dates it will auto fill and I will actually show you an example of that here in a little bit and it's will.
Jonathan Ulery: Turn the this actually turns your project into all of your measurables, so when you go and you start to track your project, if you win the project, you will have a step by step guide of you'll be able to check off timeline and project attainable with the work breakdown structure.
Jonathan Ulery: And then the Gantt chart. So the Gantt chart is the timeline for tracking. As we talked about. Umm, some of the softwares that I alluded to before and then there are actually a bunch of free tools that you can actually start practicing and some of the things as you're building a portfolio and actually if you're interested in applying for some project management jobs, I encourage you to do some test versions of these show that you can put one together because one of the harder things.
Jonathan Ulery: As a project manager is documentation, so somebody wants to see that you are organized, that you can document and you know how to use these tools. They're not used a whole lot in the outside world. It When you're not doing projects and things like that. So these tools are some of the ones that you don't find people having skills like everybody knows how to use Excel for example. Does everybody know how to put together a Gantt chart? No. Probably not. So being able to show that you can fill these out and do some work.
Jonathan Ulery: Is a fantastic leg up in your competition.
Jonathan Ulery: And the final finally, it is a request for proposal.
Jonathan Ulery: This kind of goes with the business proposal, the business proposal. Sorry, but the business proposal is when you are trying to win the bid, the request for proposal is when you win the bid and now you actually have to bring your plan, your budget and your final timeline to the customer, they will, it will act as a contract, they will hold you to it. I promise you every single time to the dollar and to the minute pretty much two things you can guarantee.
Jonathan Ulery: It is all the materials that are going to be used in the in the project and that will include if you actually have to go out and get bids for the third parties or other companies to do work as well.
Jonathan Ulery: PM and client will actually make a lot of these decisions together as when you guys are starting to do RFP's and bids on some of the materials and some of the people that must work on the job, you have to complete this before you can set a finalized budget just because obviously if you are taking bids to outsource some of the work you have to have that bid before you can put and put it in the final budget and then you need to add a cost sheet to the Gantt chart.
Jonathan Ulery: And that'll be some of the documentation that you will turn in at the end of the project as well.
Jonathan Ulery: So I brought some examples of the tools that we had talked about. So these are from some of the classes that I've taken. Here is some of the projects that I have done in things like that. So first we're gonna take a look at a SWAT analysis.
Jonathan Ulery: Maybe we're going to take a look at the SWOT analysis, all right.
Jonathan Ulery: So let's look at a cost sheet first.
Jonathan Ulery: I'll pull up the SWOT analysis and the 2nd. I have that and a separate folder. Alright, so we talked about the work breakdown structure. So as you can see in the left hand so you have to break every single project down. And so as you see here office relocation is step #1. Now in step number one there are five different pieces that we have to have done in that step. So then you just start breaking it down as you see to the left.
Jonathan Ulery: And so the project that ends up having.
Jonathan Ulery: Five steps. Still, everything has to be detailed. Your timeline has to be detailed, your start and end dates have to be detailed and your costs also will be detailed and all of your totals end up always going at the top in these kind of breakdowns. This is very important to a customer. They look at this document very sincerely they it shows that you are organized. It shows that you have a very detailed plan of what your timeline looks like.
Jonathan Ulery: And this that sheet right there can win or lose you a job with them. Just looking at that and nothing else. This is a different view of the work breakdown sheet and this is a little bit more description and writing into it. This is before the cost of the budget is added into it. So this will typically be when you do your business proposal, you'll do a very high level of your work breakdown.
Jonathan Ulery: Get charts now. This one I did with an ex. This one I actually built in Excel and not Microsoft project. But as you can see your your steps will be listed on the left hand side. This was actually developed for. This was for a web development and it was very simple breakdown. I think it ended up being built in just a few weeks and.
Jonathan Ulery: You'll see how the dates run along the top, and these will usually be color-coded. So if you run late on a project it will go red. I always typically used blue if something is running on track and then green once it is completed. It's always been easier for me that way to do that and then if it's in progress we actually put it in yellow.
Jonathan Ulery: Sometimes as a project manager, you will not be dealing with a whole local team. So so I I did a project that had did a project when I worked at Verizon where the companies tech support was in Spain. So you will have to write a plane on how you plan on dealing with that.
Jonathan Ulery: In this that basically details the time breaks downs, the frequency of your communications, who needs to be on team meetings and what time it will be for every single person on that meeting. Because it's something you have to consider, especially when you start to get into 56789 hours of.
Jonathan Ulery: Difference in time?
Jonathan Ulery: Your business proposal.
Jonathan Ulery: This is what wins you the job and basically what you do is the project and then you break down the summary. You're objectives. The strategy is what you will need as far as a team to complete it.
Jonathan Ulery: You will do a little bit of a demo of your work breakdown structure, a little bit of your budget and some of the costs that you think a customer will be interested in.
Jonathan Ulery: And your method of communication, you win the job, your customer and you will sign it and it becomes a contract.
Jonathan Ulery: Responsibilities are in is always color-coded. You always have to have a key. This is the projects that are going to be completed and these are who are going to be responsible for each one. This is a very simple level breakdown. Just showing who is able to do what project and if something goes wrong. It's who's getting yelled at. I will tell you as a project manager somebody else might be getting yelled at. Ultimately you will be the one.
Jonathan Ulery: And then finally, this is a work breakdown structure with all cost after the project and the bids are done, you will have to then submit another one on top and you'll have to show the customer and explain to the customer why the price was this when you did it and why it is now after the bids are done. And that could be material materials going up, that could be something going wrong with the project that could be a team member that you had to fire and hire somebody else.
Jonathan Ulery: But you will have to account for every dime and you will be questioning on it. So you need to be able to speak to every single thing.
Jonathan Ulery: And then that is it for me. So thank everybody for your time. And if are there any questions that could be answered?
Jonathan Ulery: Certainly.
Jonathan Ulery: Yep.
Sydney Pearson: Hey, Jonathan. So obviously you have a lot of experience being a project manager. What advice would you give someone who has never been a manager or oversee or of any projects and has, who wants to take a step at it? What would you what advice or steps would you give them to help them?
Sydney Pearson: Help them.
Jonathan Ulery: So as I talked before the.
Jonathan Ulery: When you go into the certifications, this guy right here, the professional in project management is a great one to obtain. It is not very hard to do. It is not very expensive to take the test and that will start to give you some experience and it will allow you to start getting on as like a project helper and then you really start building experience. The other thing you can do is now with some of these online resources like fiver and things like that.
Jonathan Ulery: You can jump in and as a freelancer and start getting involved in some projects and getting some experience that way as well.
Sydney Pearson: OK. Thank you.
Jonathan Ulery: Alyssa.
Alyssa Prater: You actually answered my question as you were answering Sydney, as I was curious about which one of the certifications for project management we're gonna be the most cost effective to start with.
Jonathan Ulery: Yep, PPM is definitely the one that you wanna go with right off right off the bat.
Alyssa Prater: Fantastic. Thank you.
Jonathan Ulery: Yep.
Jonathan Ulery: Alright, thank you guys so much and I'll turn it back over to Marjorie.
Marjorie Furay: Well, thank you, Jonathan. That was excellent. Let me tell you because it's always good for everybody to understand what a project manager has to do to make something come out of the project that you know we're building and we have three projects. So we definitely have three project managers, if not want at least one who's doing all the project management. But we definitely take on some interns that will do project management too if you want to learn it or work on it with somebody would definitely willing to go ahead and do that.
Marjorie Furay: To give you some training in it, I do have training in PM if you want to do that, I can give that to you in planner as well, but that was excellent. Thank you so much. And you did really well with it and it just shows me I can get a job as project managers too.
Jonathan Ulery: Yeah, I'll also just the things that I'm gonna throw out is I am actually running ancient salve and digital collections. So if any of you guys are kind of want some experience in it, come on a bit of the project and I'll just turn you into under study and start showing you some things in that way you can start building a portfolio.
Marjorie Furay: There you go. Sounds awesome.
Marjorie Furay: Thank you.
Marjorie Furay: Perfect.
Marjorie Furay: All right, so next we're going to do, Roy.
Marjorie Furay: Are you ready? Alright.
Royee Mundelboim: OK so I I am gonna enjoy this one.
Royee Mundelboim: One second.
Royee Mundelboim: OK. Should I be able to see my screen now?
Marjorie Furay: Yes.
Royee Mundelboim: Yeah, OK. Why is it not starting?
Royee Mundelboim: To the one summer slideshow, OK.
Royee Mundelboim: We're on.
Royee Mundelboim: Yeah. There we go. Nice. OK.
Royee Mundelboim: So I'm gonna be talking about recording software. This is Bob. The main reason is this is my passion. I'm a musician. Besides doing this. So I enjoyed this a lot. This is gonna be that's what it's gonna be fun. So this is not deal with any of the recording meetings that we have. This deals with the actual recording, your voice or any type of audio.
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Royee Mundelboim: So this is my pet peeve.
Royee Mundelboim: Did you record video and audio together? Always wants sense offer. I didn't know options are limited.
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Royee Mundelboim: It really bothers me that, like being a musician, audio was very important to me. That's the main reason.
Royee Mundelboim: Now.
Royee Mundelboim: These are calling software applications that have used. This does not include uh, streams.
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Royee Mundelboim: And it's they're fine. I like this stuff. But This is why you can get and if what most of you will probably have would be audacity.
Royee Mundelboim: Now so I used as audacity for all the recordings I'm gonna I have here so and I hate them. So I'm sorry to say it, but they are asking does not give me what I needed to do.
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Royee Mundelboim: So these are the waves you get you here on regular basis, the ones that you hear in everyday life is known as a sine wave.
Royee Mundelboim: The sine wave is what is what you hear, what you speak and and and all that. This is the wave that we're focused on. Gonna be focusing on today.
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Royee Mundelboim: The Beatles are actually very important in this. They are created many things and when they were recording stuff so they.
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Royee Mundelboim: Play you.
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Marjorie Furay: No sound, I don't think you, uh.
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Marjorie Furay: Yeah.
Royee Mundelboim: No.
Royee Mundelboim: Whether.
Royee Mundelboim: Uh, can you hear that?
Marjorie Furay: Yes.
Royee Mundelboim: OK, so I've keyboard next to me, so I'll just play something quickly.
Royee Mundelboim: Something simple, nothing crazy.
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Royee Mundelboim: And what The Beatles is? John Lennon hated his voice.
Royee Mundelboim: This is Nigel. Jonathan heard his voice and The Beatles.
Royee Mundelboim: You have audio engineer at that time.
Royee Mundelboim: What he created two tape method.
Royee Mundelboim: So it's two different corners going on to so John Lennon would not have to hear his voice and it also created flange course and reverb and the two two the tape method is still used to this day and all of these are still used and the issues that was created was digital reverb.
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Royee Mundelboim: No, what's the?
Royee Mundelboim: OK, I know what happened. OK, so this is how course wave looks like. It's that it's it's split off by less than that. Then no more than a millisecond.
Royee Mundelboim: And it's it does add a bit of length to it and.
Royee Mundelboim: It's a very, very precise when when it's done now flange.
Royee Mundelboim: Is the basis way I think about it. When one wave is up the other way is down.
Royee Mundelboim: And I've been allows a lot more.
Royee Mundelboim: You get to play with that a lot more, but not the flange does not work unless it's a sine wave. All the all the waves will not make it work correctly. This is actually a very important and these in every song you listen to you will hear one of these.
Royee Mundelboim: And reverb.
Royee Mundelboim: This is where the so your ears naturally are able to connect all sounds they hear to create one sound.
Royee Mundelboim: Reverb is just what bounces off, so whatever you view me says speak right now. You're actually hearing digital reverb.
Royee Mundelboim: Reverb is just the natural thing and your ears are picking up. If you. If you have anything in your area. Again, it's kind of hit that and then hit your ears and then you're actually gonna be able to hear.
Royee Mundelboim: That's all revert. We're not hearing any dry sound usually. Cause if you look on the picture on the right, it's a giant the giant stadium. And to goes, there's the whatever is placed, bounces off every single wall.
Royee Mundelboim: And by that time you might be barely hear a dry sound.
Royee Mundelboim: Because you got in this picture, there is 7 different sound sitting you, but it's usually it's millions and millions.
Royee Mundelboim: It's a very big thing that this will existed, but.
Royee Mundelboim: The views can digital reverb and this is where the problem comes in, because reverb will give an issue two people when it exists if you can if if it's not done. If it's not done correctly and this does happen meetings in meetings dot teams I've had. I've had happened to zoom. I've had it happened everywhere.
Royee Mundelboim: And he says that whatever the bound, the sound bounces off, though it will come back to you, to your ears and your brain and your ears when we could be one thing.
Royee Mundelboim: Now.
Royee Mundelboim: This is an issue that won't happen too often. I'm only gonna get two issues that you guys might have to deal with on a regular basis.
Royee Mundelboim: Now this is.
Royee Mundelboim: How volume was measured? So this is a volume is measured like liters and meters. It's all. There's mega that's just decibels. There's some decimals, medicinals, whatever we want, they're they exist in decimals.
Royee Mundelboim: Now.
Royee Mundelboim: Around here is what you're gonna hear in a a this is what the problems that you're gonna hear on every single day.
Royee Mundelboim: Every single day you're gonna hear about 70 decibels.
Royee Mundelboim: So you might again, this is every day at work brought driving your car everywhere. You're gonna hit that somebody Gables on normally there's no issue with that.
Royee Mundelboim: And just to show you, 60 disposes half as loud so as 70. So it's not exactly it's not 70 and 35, it's 70 and 60.
Royee Mundelboim: So there's a few something, and again you can see one 4th 40 and it gives you nice stuff on the side. And this is all from Purdue. I found this on Purdue.
Royee Mundelboim: Now.
Royee Mundelboim: What do you want to look at? This is where. This is where your ears are actually important is 80 decibels. It's two times as loud, and I'm pretty sure you've all used any one of the things here or bin next to it.
Royee Mundelboim: And that means your years I've already had possible damage. And then of course, it just keeps going up.
Royee Mundelboim: I can tell you I've been do you don't want to get up to here because then you're deaf. You're up for those of your life.
Royee Mundelboim: And it's something you all be careful about. And I can tell you I use. I'm 120 decibels on a regular basis because I use a chainsaw and I go to live rock music all of this.
Royee Mundelboim: Happens to you on a regular basis, you just don't think about it because it's.
Royee Mundelboim: Not something that usually occurs.
Royee Mundelboim: And This is why.
Royee Mundelboim: Back to.
Royee Mundelboim: This.
Royee Mundelboim: There are recording decibels, which are done differently, so I recorded and it's at -, 12 decibels. So like what this was showed you the level, but when you record it shows you minus.
Royee Mundelboim: It's uses the same methodology and the zero actually stands for 70 decibels usually.
Royee Mundelboim: Now this is how density shows it and.
Royee Mundelboim: The thing the thing to remember.
Royee Mundelboim: Is how do support this?
Royee Mundelboim: Is all programs allow you go, you are able to bring your volume down to 0.
Royee Mundelboim: Like I'm negative Infinity.
Royee Mundelboim: But every single program I've used, you can only bring it up by plus 12 decibels.
Royee Mundelboim: You can never bring it down.
Royee Mundelboim: No, I because my sound isn't working. I wish I could show I could talk show.
Royee Mundelboim: So there are three. So when you see your record, there's green, yellow and red. Audacity doesn't show this, but I have to talk about green and yellow, right? It's just like light green is good. Yellow. Slow down. Red is stopped.
Royee Mundelboim: And it just means same thing with corn and green. You're good, yellow. You wanna? You want quiet down? Red. You're way too loud. You have to stop.
Royee Mundelboim: There's no this is issues that occur on regular basis.
Royee Mundelboim: Now.
Royee Mundelboim: I hope you could hear this, but the second thing that I have to deal with when you guys record is gonna be known as clipping.
Royee Mundelboim: So clipping is when you hit right over here. That plus 12 area what happens.
Royee Mundelboim: You don't necessarily cut out.
Royee Mundelboim: But everything kind of stops. It's just things are missing.
Royee Mundelboim: Uh, like if you're way too loud, you all of a sudden you're syllables are gonna be missing.
Royee Mundelboim: It's not clear. Everything just goes away almost, and I have had this. This actually happened. We also two weeks ago that I remember that somebody for some reason their Michael was way too loud and who you're screaming don't most.
Royee Mundelboim: And it's very, very drunk and how it's used.
Royee Mundelboim: And it's very important, like I personally disagree, but that this is just right. But again, as you see.
Royee Mundelboim: OK, I don't know what just happened, but do you guys hear that?
Yvette Lareaux: No.
Royee Mundelboim: Great. OK, now yeah, it was very loud.
Royee Mundelboim: I don't know what I hate. That's not working. I want you could show you guys.
Royee Mundelboim: Go ahead.
Royee Mundelboim: As you see, again it's it show you it's showing your negatives. It's not showing you that actual numbers.
Royee Mundelboim: On how loud it is.
Royee Mundelboim: Does it shows you plus 6 + 12? I guess said I'll programs only drive you to go to 12, but you can see all the way down to minus Infinity on what you want.
Royee Mundelboim: Which usually you will. It's better to go down and go up as I was told. So if you ever somehow hit anything.
Royee Mundelboim: You have the bad news. There's officially. If you are clipping, there's no way to fix it.
Royee Mundelboim: You have to rerecord because it's things will be missing and it usually it will be a circle that you're missing. And even if you try to bring it down, it's not gonna work and with reverb.
Royee Mundelboim: You might be able to get away with it, but you're still gonna hear that reverb if it happens, because that's why you wanna record it and place that is not like never recorded in like a bracket like a brick room that's empty cuz. Then you're just gonna. It's gonna have a lot of reverb and it's not going to be clear. And it's also adds adds extra volume. You always on being recorded like an off and hopefully your Home Office.
Royee Mundelboim: It's like not. There's stuff in there, it's small and it's not gonna bounce off too many walls before it actually hits the mic that you're using.
Royee Mundelboim: That's actually something to so this is. This is stuff that you wanna keep in mind when you're recording because because this will happen. I'm. I can tell you that I have more issues that occur where every time I go into the studio, but all of these have happened to me while I'm recording either audacity, any of the.
Royee Mundelboim: I need program I've used. I've had these issues actually happen to me. It's just something to keep in mind.
Royee Mundelboim: And this is how like when you're doing, I know it's forcing the choir videos. Keep this in mind. You wanna make sure you might not hate like your voice. But like I said, John Lennon also hated his voice and he was amazing singer. It's just something to keep in mind. You wanna not necessarily care about what your voice sounds like. You wanna care about the after effects of what can occur while you're actually recording.
Royee Mundelboim: Are there any questions?
Jonathan Ulery: So when running sound and obviously I've actually ran sound from bands and and things in my in my younger life. So obviously the one of the things that you have done is playing outside. So can you just kind of give us the rundown of why things, a band or anything like that sounds so much worse outside as opposed to if you go see them in a club or a venue, something like that?
Royee Mundelboim: So I'll climbing Ave.
Royee Mundelboim: You know, we should be able to actually they control their own sound. Usually they have a PA system.
Royee Mundelboim: Outside, there's usually less control that it can be done to what two, like the band or artist who's playing.
Royee Mundelboim: Because all it is, it's just kind of streaming out and it's also silly gonna sound worse. There's just less control over it, and you just gotta trust whoever's like coming by or and listening. Because I've played porch fast. I can tell you I have no idea what it sound like for if I go, if I'm playing like a ball or club or anything, I can actually hear myself because there's a.
Royee Mundelboim: Speaker actually hitting me also and I always have I also it's just something you gotta like.
Royee Mundelboim: You gotta listen to something. Matter what? That's why when you're recording, you gotta listen to it. You might hear how you sound, but you still gotta listen to yourself because you wanna avoid any issue that occurs while you're recording that you might not be aware of.
Royee Mundelboim: The answer your question.
Jonathan Ulery: Yes, Sir. Thank you.
Royee Mundelboim: The idea it's very it's very this stuff is very also personal in a sense.
Royee Mundelboim: I for me, when I hear when 60 does pulls hits I it bothers me and I have to put a new plugs usually but.
Royee Mundelboim: I can start the other people. I've had people who are when they're nondigestible. So that's four times as that as a regular 70.
Royee Mundelboim: They are just fine. They can walk around, they go crazy, doesn't matter to them.
Royee Mundelboim: All of this stuff like you just gonna make sure there's a standard that you need to follow to make sure everybody is actually OK with what you listen to.
Royee Mundelboim: And it's very, very.
Royee Mundelboim: Personal at the same time, but you gotta understand that they're all issues that occur that you need to fix.
Royee Mundelboim: Alex, you have a question?
Royee Mundelboim: Any other questions?
Royee Mundelboim: OK. I guess that's it.
Marjorie Furay: Well, Roy, that was excellent. Great job.
Royee Mundelboim: Yeah, I know.
Royee Mundelboim: Yeah, yeah, it's not exactly. I told you it wasn't like my first one. It's not Microsoft streams. It's a lot more involved.
Marjorie Furay: Yeah, this one is definitely when it comes to sound, absolutely. But that's a that's a good thing for those that if they're going to record different things or even make videos, it's good for them to understand that the sound, even though that we're taking it from one spot and we're doing it, I mean, even doing it on something simple, you know, you you really should to get a great video, you do separate the video from.
Royee Mundelboim: Yes.
Marjorie Furay: The the sound you want to redo the sound you want to add to it. I mean, there's definitely different ways to do it, but that's basically what they do in the big world of making videos.
Marjorie Furay: Yeah.
Royee Mundelboim: Yeah. And it's very easy to do actually, if you have Microsoft, there's Microsoft Video editor, which you can easily like record a video and if you recording video and again most of you should probably use audacity. Then you just edit the video itself and it just adds sound to the video cuz you did at the same time. And you also make sure there's nothing too loud.
Royee Mundelboim: And again, once you get it, it's actually it sounds great. I've done it multiple times.
Royee Mundelboim: I have our entire YouTube page of this my van doing stuff and it sounds like it sounds great.
Marjorie Furay: Sweet, yeah.
Marjorie Furay: What about OS? How do you feel about that?
Marjorie Furay: Yeah.
Royee Mundelboim: Uh, I don't feel good about that because I haven't really played thought done enough with that. I go most of the time my life has been involved cause my bachelors in music with my computer science. I've been in studio so many times.
Royee Mundelboim: That was followed been following this studio standards over other standards.
Marjorie Furay: Umm.
Royee Mundelboim: So it's, it's just me personally like I have. If I don't like obvious, I might be able to understand it in like a week or two, but I just like again later this month. I'm back in the studio for no reason.
Marjorie Furay: Yeah.
Royee Mundelboim: I don't know why but.
Marjorie Furay: Yeah, no, I get it.
Royee Mundelboim: Serial standards is just what I live by.
Alexander Montgomery: Yeah.
Marjorie Furay: Yep, sounds good. Awesome. Well, thank you very much for your presentation. Very good.
Royee Mundelboim: No problem.
Marjorie Furay: All right, Alyssa, it is all yours.
Alyssa Prater: Awesome. I'm not nervous at all.
Alyssa Prater: I actually I don't know why, but the option to take control of the meeting has disappeared. It was here earlier and now it's gone.
Alyssa Prater: I never is the share button. Let's see.
Alyssa Prater: This.
Marjorie Furay: You might want to pop out and pop back in.
Alyssa Prater: This will work. Can you guys see my screen?
Marjorie Furay: Yes.
Alyssa Prater: Fantastic.
Alyssa Prater: OK, blockchain and TikTok.
Alyssa Prater: I'm gonna treat this a little bit like a Ted talk just because I consider myself a master of nothing because my degree has been pretty generalized.
Alyssa Prater: But I'm unsure how uncomfortable everyone is with the block chain technology. Things that are new, complicated, and potentially dangerous reasonably tend to make us uncomfortable. We're hardwired to shy away from such feelings at the service level. Blockchain was created to be nothing more than a decentralized database where no single node or user can make changes to the Ledger. I was driven to get into technology because it and the other sciences is the closest thing to magic that is tangible to me.
Alyssa Prater: I search for magic because I believe the world needs it. I want the opportunity to bring a child into the world and give it the life I've dreamed of. The love and show them how to love the way I wish I had been.
Alyssa Prater: I want that love for all children and people. I like to believe that this is the motivation behind many people wanting to have children. You can't say that I believe that it's a reality for very many.
Alyssa Prater: I know I'm incapable of having that experience in the current world, so a little over four years ago I enrolled in college and dedicated myself to finding a way to make a big enough impact on the world that one day there won't be a need for us to dream of a better life for our kids.
Alyssa Prater: Christmas to the next.
Alyssa Prater: Working here.
Alyssa Prater: That would still play in this silly.
Alyssa Prater: Fabulous.
Alyssa Prater: OK, blockchain 101.
Alyssa Prater: The concept of blockchain was introduced in a white paper in 2008 by user operating under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
Alyssa Prater: Was later actualized at the Bitcoin digital currency Ledger in 2009. Users can join the Bitcoin network to buy and trade digital currencies without the need for a centralized entity to validate transactions or update the Ledger.
Alyssa Prater: Since the launch of Bitcoin, hundreds of digital currencies have utilized the same technological approach and made an appearance in the market. Some of the new solutions have introduced new algorithms and concepts to improve scalability, security, and expand the functionality of their blockchain services.
Alyssa Prater: In any database or instances of activity that need to be recorded. Traditionally these databases could be updated or changed by anyone who could gain the appropriate access permissions.
Alyssa Prater: And a typical blockchain network, every user has the same permissions and these records are. Transactions are grouped together in blocks during a process called mining.
Alyssa Prater: Before they're finalized in the Ledger, which is most often stored locally, on each node participating in the network, and it's updated with each new edition. When a mining node or group called a mining pool has the best block constructed according to the stipulations outlined in the networks consensus algorithm.
Alyssa Prater: Mining nodes perform a series of cryptographic operations to perform the validity to confirm the validity of the block by solving cryptographic puzzles or performing a series of strength stringent checks against the Ledger.
Alyssa Prater: When the consensus algorithm is satisfied, the hash of the new block is created and added to the block, followed by the hash of the previous block by referencing the previously generated block to each new block, the chain is created and each node can verify the integrity of each block by comparing hash values.
Alyssa Prater: Blockchains that are used in cryptocurrencies include elements known to coins and or tokens.
Alyssa Prater: That represent the currencies.
Alyssa Prater: Checking the movement of these coins across different network participants is included in the consensus algorithm.
Alyssa Prater: Algorithms they use to eliminate the possibility of double spending and the harmful effects of Byzantine nodes, which is basically just a fancy term for liar.
Alyssa Prater: Decentralization.
Alyssa Prater: Consensus or?
Alyssa Prater: An agreement made between untrusting participants is achieved on the blockchain by using an algorithm established when the blockchain is created and before it's implemented.
Alyssa Prater: Think of it like a terms of use agreement. When you use the blockchain network, you agree that no transaction will be finalized on the Ledger unless they need a predefined set of criteria.
Alyssa Prater: Whenever user has no choice but to comply with these rules, nodes who do not inherently trust each other are able to trust the Ledger and make confident decisions based on it.
Alyssa Prater: Many blockchain services have stipulations for nodes who wish to mine. Restricting the number or type of transactions they are allowed to mine at certain times.
Alyssa Prater: Mining nodes also frequently receives some form of incentive for their operations based on the value of the blocks they produced for the block chain network.
Alyssa Prater: In currency ledgers, the incentive is provided in the form of coins.
Alyssa Prater: Common consensus algorithms is used in financial currencies today include the proof of work and proof of stake used in Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Alyssa Prater: Proof of ownership, or numerous Byzantine fault tolerance algorithms also exist.
Alyssa Prater: That work leaders are mining nodes are also determined by the consensus mechanisms put into place. They may be elected by leadership.
Alyssa Prater: May be elected to leadership by participating those or designated based on the stake they have in the network most commonly and for optimal decentralization. Leaders rotate on a regular basis.
Alyssa Prater: Decentralization was the main purpose of the original blockchain network Bitcoin, to ensure.
Alyssa Prater: The transaction handling.
Alyssa Prater: Fair, transactional and handling reliable record keeping and full scale transparency for participating notes.
Alyssa Prater: Organization and government leaders are less interested in transparency and have begun to develop centralized blockchain solutions where the network, its rules and the mining nodes are owned and controlled by the government or organization rather than the participating notes.
Alyssa Prater: They claim this is necessary for security purposes and for an organization's trade secrets. It makes some sense a centralized digital currency controlled by our lawmakers is frankly terrifying. Even though the Federal Reserve is denying any intention to replace traditional cash and banking practices.
Alyssa Prater: Like to remind you guys that they also denied any intention on reversing the Roe V Wade trial outcomes.
Alyssa Prater: Scott next.
Alyssa Prater: Hang on.
Alyssa Prater: Think I skipped a page. There we go.
Alyssa Prater: The cryptographic operations performed within a blockchain are intended to guarantee confidentiality.
Alyssa Prater: Integrity, non repudiation and authentication. The availability of the blockchain Ledger is determined by the operating state of participating nodes. Because the Ledger is typically stored locally on each node as it's updated.
Alyssa Prater: The transparent nature of public distributed ledgers reduces the need for internal confidentiality, but does not eliminate it. Blockchain networks can.
Alyssa Prater: It can and do use various implementations of symmetric and public create key cryptography English.
Alyssa Prater: Is hard.
Alyssa Prater: Digital signatures and hashing algorithms are used to secure the networks as well.
Alyssa Prater: Smart contracts, when used in the blockchain network provide a secure, automatic and unstoppable execution of processes, processes required when certain conditions are met. Smart contracts are not effective when written in domain specific are most effective when written in domain specific languages like solidity or Viper, which were developed for small smart contract development in the Ethereum network.
Alyssa Prater: However, some platforms.
Alyssa Prater: Support smart contract development with more mainstream languages such as Java and JavaScript.
Alyssa Prater: There's also being.
Alyssa Prater: Research being done into natural language smart contract development, which is an expect to succeed soon.
Alyssa Prater: Smart contracts use Oracle systems which cannot edit data to access the information relative to their contractual enactment.
Alyssa Prater: Because they are developed to maintain and maintain separately from any blockchain, they might be deployed to execute on.
Alyssa Prater: The importance of careful smart contracts, careful, smart contract development cannot be understated.
Alyssa Prater: Each time the contract executes, it must be trusted to execute the same way and in the same locations, meaning that any bugs must be thoroughly sought out and remedied before the contract is deployed.
Alyssa Prater: Side chains can be developed to work alongside a functioning blockchain network. It essentially creates a second chain that can be configured to transfer data with the main chain on the network through a single trusted point.
Alyssa Prater: This can permit the network to schedule certain data to seclude certain data from general network population, and help with the execution of smart contracts.
Alyssa Prater: Side chains like standalone blockchains can be constructed to require permissions. These permissions can be used to limit access to the data on the chain and create a more centralized peer-to-peer network architecture.
Alyssa Prater: OK. Well, what about TikTok?
Alyssa Prater: Developing a social application with a similar structure to tick Tock is backed by a blockchain Ledger.
Alyssa Prater: That's backed by blockchain, Ledger could open up opportunity for a completely new civilization.
Alyssa Prater: Artificial intelligence could easily play a role in dissecting the content created and actions taken by network participants.
Alyssa Prater: Probably mirroring the up and down votes scheme, seeing in the popular social media application Reddit.
Alyssa Prater: We could use the immutable and decentralized nature of the blockchain technology to analyze the moral, economic, political, and spiritual standpoints in the country.
Alyssa Prater: We'll get spot the root cause of disasters like homelessness, climate change, food shortage and waste, criminal activity and mental illness.
Alyssa Prater: Smart contracts can be used in combination with AI or analytic data to automatically write new policies and laws, or announce new leaders in play language.
Alyssa Prater: To provide a transparency and accessibility to citizens as they are notified on the same platform where they cast their votes.
Alyssa Prater: But what is the leader do?
Alyssa Prater: The content of the leader was simply joining the rotation of advertisements that are pushed to citizens as updates to the consensus are made.
Alyssa Prater: An official decentralized social media application could ensure that the nation citizens are seeing in able to contribute and respond to important political, economic, environmental and educational information in a way that they enjoy.
Alyssa Prater: Side chains could be added and constructed in a way that allows for local communities to post and make resources.
Alyssa Prater: And make decisions among and about themselves and their resources separately from state or national concerns. Organizations could also join the networks with the side chain designed to keep their sensitive data secure and remain active in their active in their communities and the national market.
Alyssa Prater: In addition to all of this, decentralized social media application would eliminate the suppression of content.
Alyssa Prater: Currently presented by the algorithms in place on traditional social applications, they're predetermined what users want or can see on their feed without conducting a search.
Alyssa Prater: Each chain on the network could be represented by a different feed stream. Local national education, political and even religious content can be automatically and immutably categorized and provided on a fair and easy to locate Ledger.
Alyssa Prater: Allowing users to choose what they care about the most and provide data that can help create new laws, regulations, economic practices, and cultural changes according to the desires of participants.
Alyssa Prater: There are some challenges.
Alyssa Prater: Regardless of your political standpoint, it's a fact that our current governing system is known for passing legislation designed to benefit their personal interest and confuse the average citizen.
Alyssa Prater: The last thing they are going to want is to give that power up and give it back to you and me, the people.
Alyssa Prater: Now the current government has already begun its colonization of the blockchain technology and what it was originally created to do. By centralizing blockchain to create government regulated currencies could essentially give the government total control over how and when we spend our earned financial resources.
Alyssa Prater: This terrifies me more than any security or scalability problem that could be presented.
Alyssa Prater: Narcissistic abusers make their victims believe that the trauma they experience comes from compassion and love.
Alyssa Prater: They're gaslit into believing that they can't trust themselves, and that the only thing keeping them alive is their abuser writing laws and policies that lead to subpar living standards and censoring history education in public schools are a few examples of narcissism in our current government structure.
Alyssa Prater: A child who grows up with narcissistic parents often finds that similar toxic behavior tends to be the theme of their adult lives. This happened because their brains are hardwired to believe that that behavior is what is safe, because that behavior is love.
Alyssa Prater: When the people.
Alyssa Prater: When we the people form our own chain band together and rewrite our brains to see the reality of our situation and begin seeking a better life.
Alyssa Prater: Scalability and security issues are also present in a project this large. The team of magical nerds behind it. This challenge doesn't compare to the government and public resistance.
Alyssa Prater: I know the things I suggest seem radical and a lot of people call dreams like this delusions, but the world around me is frightening. I'd rather be radically delusional than scared into submitting to a system that doesn't believe in me.
Alyssa Prater: May the force be with you. Thanks for listening. Are there any questions?
Marjorie Furay: Sydney, go ahead.
Sydney Pearson: Hello Lisa. I really loved your presentation. It was really cool and first time I've ever heard about block blockchain. That was really cool.
Sydney Pearson: Why do you think there is a would be a public backlash on blockchain if it could potentially help us in the long one. Why? You know, I know that the Congress, you know and so like that they want to push back a lot of stuff. But why would the public be scared to try this new technology?
Sydney Pearson: Umm.
Alyssa Prater: I was trying to elaborate that in the narcissistic bit that I put in, so the the the American population has been.
Alyssa Prater: Pushed to believe that the government is always right and.
Alyssa Prater: They they have a hard time with people, have a hard time with change and naturally.
Alyssa Prater: So.
Alyssa Prater: Even like in a small corporate organization, when you have.
Alyssa Prater: Senior employees that have been with the company for 1520 years and now all of a sudden the organization is switching from paper records to digital records or from their local digital records to cloud computing.
Alyssa Prater: The the employees there have a hard time accepting that kind of change, so something this big and this massive on such a huge scale would definitely present with some sort of backlash from the public, even though it's designed with their.
Alyssa Prater: Happiness and mine, with their benefit and mind.
Alyssa Prater: They might not be able to see that just because of the way that society has traditionally been ran.
Sydney Pearson: Umm.
Alyssa Prater: Does that help or make sense?
Sydney Pearson: Yeah, it does. And once again, thank you for the good presentation on that was really cool.
Alyssa Prater: Thank you.
Alyssa Prater: Jonathan.
Alyssa Prater: OK.
Jonathan Ulery: Uh, yeah. So mine's more of a comment and then I will, I will hang up and listen to your response if you if you, uh. So we'll we'll let that way. So I know that blockchain, I love blockchain. I love the topic. I love the presentation. I think one of the things that is the most scary is the fact that you can make it blockchain with a public key and wanna you put your money in. People are always worried and that people are trying to scare you and the not doing it because 3 transactions and your money's gone right. It's never traceable again.
Jonathan Ulery: Well, they can trace it to an IP address, but if it was done on somebody else's Wi-Fi, if it was done on a public Wi-Fi or via VPN, it's gone forever because there's no real owner of that wallet for any.
Jonathan Ulery: Example or any any ideal. But what I find funny I guess in society today is we hold on to all of this cash and we put our trust in banking and routing numbers and that is where all of our finances lie anyhow. So I guess my disconnect is I know it's a new technology and that scares people, but it's not like they can't just hit the erase button anyhow and the bank account also sudden registers all zeros.
Jonathan Ulery: The the cache or the monetary thing that you're holding has no backing or has no value, so that's always been my thought behind blockchain and I just kind of want to see what your thoughts are and in is that on a line that you also share?
Alyssa Prater: Yes and no, because that's kind of why I shide away from.
Alyssa Prater: The idea of using blockchain for currency just because and in my ideal world, I'm an idealist, 100% I'm not gonna lie, I might be delusional whatever. But I think that the concept of money is completely ludicrous, period, because we're born on a planet that naturally provides us with food and oxygen and shelter and all of these things that we need to survive and thrive.
Alyssa Prater: And instead of.
Alyssa Prater: Tending to those resources and making sure that they last, we segregate ourselves from nature and develop our own sense of value in currency.
Alyssa Prater: So the the social media application that I'm dreaming about has nothing to do with currency. It has everything to do with the the voices of the people that live on this planet and bringing them together in one location where we can collectively make decisions based on what everybody wants and the life that everybody wants to live and environmental, health, health.
Alyssa Prater: Prosperous life, access to education and healthcare, all all things like that, is just.
Alyssa Prater: I think money is.
Alyssa Prater: Ludicrous.
Alyssa Prater: Is the the only point that I can make on that? I would like to destroy all of it in one big fail swoop and just give everybody.
Alyssa Prater: The space and the freedom and the opportunity to see and interact with their communities and their their people so that they can start to create a world where.
Alyssa Prater: Everybody can just sit and breathe and enjoy the earth instead of working 4550 hours a week and.
Alyssa Prater: Scrambling to pay off student debts.
Alyssa Prater: But that's just me.
Alyssa Prater: Thank you guys so much for listening. I've worked really hard on this presentation.
Marjorie Furay: Well, it was a very good presentation, that's for sure. It's excellent.
Yvette Lareaux: Did an incredible job.
Marjorie Furay: Yes, it is very good.
Marjorie Furay: Richard.
Marjorie Furay: Did you have a question?
Alyssa Prater: Open to all questions and comments.
Marjorie Furay: Or was that an accident? You raise your hand.
Marjorie Furay: Miss click OK. Sounds good. Alright. Well, no, excellent. They're all excellent presentations tonight. Definitely. And you know that's what I say about master class which just constantly having this great presentations and topics. It's just all goes round. And I think as long as we stay out of certain topics, we'll always make it.
Marjorie Furay: I think we all know what that is and we stay with it. We're good.
Marjorie Furay: Umm, I love what you had to say. Alyssa, this is great and it's always something new that we have to learn because things change so quickly and so often on it. And we have to keep our eyes open.
Marjorie Furay: Uh to see what's happening right in the world. It's really our part to keep that to be awake on what's happening so.
Marjorie Furay: Uh, great points that you have made.
Marjorie Furay: So if there are no more questions, I think we are good.
Marjorie Furay: Umm.
Marjorie Furay: To go, I congratulate everybody on their presentations tonight. You did a great job. This will go U on iPods as well. Just like all the other ones are on PGI pods. They're all in the master class stream as well. So you can see all of those as well.
Marjorie Furay: And umm, you all have a great night and a great weekend.
Marjorie Furay: And thanks for everything that you guys are doing.
Yvette Lareaux: Goodnight.
Alyssa Prater: Thank you. Good night.
Jonathan Ulery: No.