🍎 Tech Career Beginner Boost Planning

before we could talk. Oh, let me just jump right in. All right. So, today I'm gonna just do a bunch of planning. Um, I can I'll start the stream by saying that we're going to be doing we're going to be doing a lot more streaming. I am going to be doing a lot more streaming uh during the week in addition to like the regular stuff on Sunday. So, um this is something I got to do carefully. I don't want to do too much of it. So, I'm going to be doing this pretty much uh every other day or so. I'm going to I'm going to try to work more of it in um uh for lot for lots of reasons that I don't I don't I don't want to get into, but for mostly just because we're just going to be we have a lot of content to cover and I don't know if we're going to be able to just do it all for three hours on Sunday and it needs to be organized. So, today the goal is to just get everything organized. Uh I just finished my workday and stuff like that. So, this is the, you know, the obligatory beginning of the VOD stuff. Nobody's in the chat yet. Um, so just know uh that the rest of this video is going to be very messy. Hi, how you doing? And, you know, all over the place and there's really no agenda other than hopefully a general thing to to get the beginner boost planning going. Um, and you know, there will be at least one tangent into like some element of my personal life as usual, but that's where we're going. How you doing, YouTube? Benny, how you doing? Good to see you from YouTube. Cryptic, good to see you, too. Uh, it's fun. It's actually really great to have so many people coming from YouTube. Uh, which I'm super happy that I'm able to stream to YouTube and to Facebook and to to Twitch. Um, you just bought your Mac. You literally just bought your Mac. You're getting ready to go. What? That's excellent. Good for you. Yeah, I Yeah, I have a another um few people have told me they got they've got Macs and stuff. I just want to put it out there. You can use a computer that you already have. Uh, actually, that reminds me. Let's actually go find the the website and go to I want to go see if I got the playlist created. I think I do. I don't think I put that video in the playlist, though. Uh oh, there's my my search history. There's my YouTube history. [laughter] I'm not ashamed. That's I don't care if you know what I like to watch. Like that guy by the way talked about OMIC. He talks about a lot of really good health stuff. Besides that, um tech began boost planning. Oh, look at that. It's like it's got the same thumbnail from when I was doing this before. That is weird. All right. So, the tech car. Yeah. So, that was not added to the playlist. I need to add what computer should I get to the playlist. Um, so I'm gonna do that right now. Like reveal my playlists here. Here's all my playlists. Watch later. Hey, look. There's like what? How did it look? Wait, it's working. God, look at this. Look at how old these are. Damn, the dot files. We need to go through dot files, too. Learning go. Oh, that reminds me. We're going to talk about coding because this is going to be the first beginner boost where we learn to code before we do anything else. So, I'm going to try that and see what happens. [laughter] I don't know what will happen if we do that, but we're going to find out. So, uh, we're going to go to the playlist. That's already We don't do that. What? Where is How do I I want to edit a playlist. I want to add a thing to my post. Where's my studio? Your videos. How many streamers actually show you all their stuff in the back end? Probably not many, but that's just me. learn to code before learning to turn the PC on. [laughter] [snorts] Uh, active IRL streaming setup. Uh, that is not a thing. I'm going to put that there. Techqu best. Let's see. Best computer for streaming. Oh, the flying to Charlotte. Yeah, we do that. Okay, let me add this one. So, add to Wait, how do I do that? How do I do it? It's not monetized. Well, we got to fix that. They got to monetize them. What the heck? Even if they don't ad Google doesn't pay anything. YouTube doesn't pay anything when you get monetized. When you monetize, it doesn't pay crap. Yeah, I think I think like maybe I got like It's only if you like are really you have like a lot of stuff. Um, let's see. Best computer for tech public. I I don't like you. You have to you can't set monetization by default. So you have to go in every single time and do it. It's really annoying. But I get rich from that video. Everybody's going to go. No, they're not. Look at that. There's like only 23 likes. Yeah, these are like these are like small potatoes compared to my Rust videos. My R my Rust videos like blew up. So anyway, so we need to put that one into a playlist. This one I should go ahead and monetize. Can you do it while it's actually still streaming live? I think you can. Um, we have seven whole live viewers on YouTube. That is unheard of and wonderful. Thank you for being here, YouTubers. Okay, so um, what was I doing? I was going to click on this video and I was going to add it to the playlist. Uh, visibility public subtitles playlist. Okay, here we go. Tech career beginner boost. Yeah. Okay. Done. We'll add that. And then if we go back to the playlist. Uh, cancel. I guess I must Did I not save it? No. Okay, here we go. Uh, I got lost for 30 minutes after filming the Micro Center video. Why would you say that? Now everybody knows. They all know. I'm sad, Rob. They have just how pathetic I am. I am pretty damn pathetic. Wait, what? What's going on? Your content is not available. Hey, look. There's this guy talking about something about whether we should have a beginner. Okay, where's the playlist? Give me a second. We're going to go find the playlist. I can't wait to get my teeth back. By the way, I am so annoyed by not having teeth at this point. It's now been over three years. At the end of this month, I'm gonna go through surgery. I might have to cancel my thing. I'm gonna get get my teeth all started up. So, just so you know, I'm starting to get annoyed by it because I can't pronounce things. So, like when I'm live streaming, it's like it impacts my ability to live stream because I cannot talk. I like literally people can't understand me. I was I went to I went to a thing uh and I was talking to people and there was lots of music. There was like music bumping and everything and nobody could understand. I was already hard enough to understand me with the music, but then with the teeth, they couldn't understand anything. Anyway, eat more berries. [laughter] Wait, where? Wait, wait. Okay, wait. I'm clicking on the playlist. What? I want to see. Wait. Okay, that's what I wanted. There we go. What? What? What is this? Go away. Why is that doing that? I don't know. How much will it be cost for the full denture? Uh, I do not know yet. Fun fact, I spent all my money on other things. You know, it'll be fine. It'll be fine. I'm going to get another bonus coming up pretty soon. I got a raise, by the way. Yeah. My manager was all excited about telling me what my raise was. Uhhuh. So, so you too can get a tech career. But turn it turn it turn it into like an advertisement for like getting a tech career if you can stand it. It's not it's not for the faint of heart. Working in tech is not for the faint of heart. All right. So best computer for tech streaming. Why is it number one? I want it to be like date date published. We're going to say uh oldest oldest to the newest. Yeah. Let's move on. Right. Uh we watched you enough to understand me at this point. Well, you certainly have. You You Bel, you've been watching me for at least six years. Yeah. 50k brand new car in your mouth. Not exactly that much. But yeah, my the bonus is a different thing. And that's going to be interesting because our company did really well. Our company did really really well this year and stuff. Three years and nine months to 17 hours. You've been here. You've been here for six. Quite quite has been here since like practically Quitus. I think you were here back when I was doing uh hacking, right? Some of you are old enough to remember the hacking before I switched. That's what I started streaming by the way. I started streaming studying for the OCP which a bunch of other streamers are studying for. By the way, it's my category, right? It's software. Okay, let's talk about category for a second. All right. So, um, software and gamedev is a category that I have despised in the past which has gotten better. Um there is another category called co-working and studying which is interesting because that category is more about hey let's all learn it together right uh back to science and technology right so quite you might actually remember that the category wars era when the science and dev when the when the soft for those of you who don't know when this was what five years ago uh when the software and gamedev category came out. Um the only other category was science and tech and so you had people building games and stuff like that in the science and tech category and it didn't fit. So a bunch of people got together and twisted Twitch's arm to add a new category and they added the software and gamedev category uh which immediately became the place to do all of that, you know. So, you know, and it's primarily game development, which kind of triggered me because I'm like, what about other software? Why are you lumping, you know, enterprise software development in with game development, right? And I and I I made some some some jokes at the expense of people that were in that category and that triggered a war. [laughter] You think this software should be split from the end of I agree. I agree completely. So, you can't do anything about the current war. Oh, yeah. I don't We're not going to talk about that. It's really sad. I We're I'm going to try my hardest to avoid uh dating these videos with with current events. Uh but yeah, so there are things going on in the world right now that motivate me even more to stream. In fact, the the recent events have I actually I watched this is going to go in our actual content, but I watched uh I watched pay it forward again and was reminded how sad it is, but also because I the concept of pay it forward has always been a kind of a part of me. It's like do something really substantial for other people and don't ask for anything in return. Just ask if they pay it forward. And kind of ever since I saw it, it's been kind of a thing in my head. That's what I do. um to a fault actually. A lot of times I'll put my own self in jeopardy by trying to help others a lot of times and I got to be careful with that because I'll you know so that is an important element of this tech industry thing and I people are going to be surprised how much non-technical content we're going to discuss in the beginner boost because work and employment is fundamentally about relationships and social interaction. Just today, I'm going to give you a specific example of this. Um, just today, we had we were about to fill up our disc drives and and bring down our corporate uh container engine. Uh, our our our we have several, but this was our main our our main one. And that just means that stuff was really important, expensive stuff was going to stop working. And we needed to clear out images. and we were able to come together as a group and find a solution and then uh we kind of divided and conquered and we went out to these individual users that we found and we said, "Hey, we're kind of in a bind. Can you help us?" and and they went out and deleted and freed up two terabytes of data and we got out of a crisis. And it was all because, you know, we knew so and so or we were willing to reach out to somebody that we didn't know and and to do it in a non-combative way uh to get a result that ended up getting us to go ahead. All of those skills are not technical, but they are critical to the tech career path and because a lot of times in tech, you're going to be dealing with, you know, highly inflammatory issues and and there it's easy to like get into the blame game and all that. So, um I mentioned that because it's kind of a a precursor to the discussion about uh planning for the beginner booth. So, this is fundamentally going to be me writing an outline today uh about what I intend to cover uh in this year's beginner boost and how much time it will take and how important it is. And uh some of you have been watching the videos that I've already deleted this year uh may already know that this has been on my mind a lot since I came back to yoga and since I moved and since I've gone through a lot of life changes. Um it's just been it's just really really brought home to me how important um these soft skills are uh to the tech career to any career but primarily to a tech career. So you know uh soft skills are going to be even more important in the age of AI. Oh brilliant. That's a brilliant comment uh Bellum. I totally agree. How you doing unsigned in it? Um uh and you watch that and you watched it in health class you're um so so anyway let's let's talk about that. So we've got we got the best computer for streaming here. That video is kind of crap. I actually went through that video and watched it and the Moblin was was not very happy for some reason. I don't know why. I apologize for that. Um I'm not promising you a high quality video. I'm just not going to promise that. I'll promise you the the content will be good but the the you know the rest will be kind of bearable but this the the stuff that you need should be there right so let's actually embark in and write writing an outline for this and I am going to be doing the outline in uh Vim. So if you guys if you guys know Vim that is what we're going to use. Um, but we'll be learning about them here. So, actually, if you guys want to, um, this might be fun. Um, there there are a number of other ways we could do this. Um, we could also have people run uh VS Code uh or Obsidian and uh we're taking notes. In fact, let's let's let's make a decision here because this is a very early thing. How do you take notes? So, taking notes is going to be a super big part of this approach because it's all about mentoring and you writing your own textbook. There's no textbook to follow. So, you kind of got to write your own. And how do we do that? In the past, I've recommended people learn VI or whatever, but the truth is probably the best tool for the job today, and I've already switched to it. I use it for everything. It's on my phone. It's on my computers, uh, is something called Obsidian. So, I actually don't think I have it on here. Um, and I I have to be careful because I have some pretty private things written in here. I'm working on a book and some other stuff. Um, so I I need to be careful when I pull it up. I'll make sure to go to privacy mode because I don't I don't want you reading my book. [laughter] Not yet. Anyway, eventually you can go read it and give me feedback. Uh, I'm not going to I'm refusing to plug it here. Uh, yeah, the book itself might actually end up getting its own channel at some point. Um, anyway, we're going to go ahead and uh go look up the Obsidian DMG and install it. If you want to get Obsidian, you can go ahead and do this. I might actually make a video clip of this that shows how to install Obsidian. You just download it and put it in your applications directory. Uh, looks like I already have one. I'm going to go ahead and keep the new one. Uh, do you want to replace it? I want to replace it. Uh, how you doing, Tony Pa? Now, there's probably my oldest follower. Tannipa the Great. Tony Pa the Great is now in the house. Tony has been here at least six years, maybe five, I don't know. So, let's go do Obsidian. Okay. Now, for this, before I pop this up, I I need to be really clear that I have privacy mode enabled. Second here, because I just don't want to risk it. I don't want to ruin a whole video because I showed you something. 5 years, 10 months, 4 days. Damn. I think Tony, I think you are the oldest person in my following group. Um, I do. I really think you're the oldest. the oldest veteran. Thanks so much for your support and being here as usual. Those of you who don't know Tony Pawa, Tony Paw has done I'm not going to dox anything other than to say they've done really amazing things in the real world. Uh it's very likely that if you are in tech, you would know Tanipa by name. I'm just going to put that out there. That's all I'm going to say. So, I am very fortunate to have some extremely influential important people in my live streams. Uh, the real world. Yeah, this is this does not qualify, right? Does this count as the real world? All right, I'm opening Obsidian in the in my privacy mode so I can check to make sure I'm not going to be um you know doxing my private content. Oh no, look at this. I would have doxed my I would have doxed my my uh recipe for food. [laughter] Uh this is my journal. Yeah, see I don't want you to see my journal. Yeah, there's my book and there's my yoga notes and there's my other notes. Um, I'm trying I kind of screwed up because I took my notes directory and I made a new one. I'm actually going to open a new I wonder Well, this is something we need to do on the stream. um at some point. So if you want to follow I'm not going to use Obsidian for this actually, but we will definitely be covering uh you just say Lennis Torvalds has said your work is good. So now we know you're not Linus Toralds. At least that's part we know. So So yeah. Um, yeah, we we have some really great people on the stream and I I I'm really really really very proud and happy that I have them here. Uh, for those of you who don't know, I actually got my job through Twitch. I met uh a technologist on Twitch uh right around the COVID era and u my my company that I I had kind of was failing. It it we didn't really fail. I was fine, but we didn't have insurance or anything. So I switched and went to work for corporate America and made like five times the salary. [snorts] Uh only one or two people in the world you're that your work is good. You just basically do yourself to does not say people's work is good. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I'm just reading the chat here. It's pretty interesting. Okay. So let's actually go. So I've been debating about this. So, if you don't know what GitHub is and you want to follow along, um, github.com rvexro/boost, uh, you can go open this anywhere or you can use the GH tool if you have it installed. So, all this stuff on the terminal, don't worry. Don't let it panic you. We're going to learn all of that, okay? So, I'm just using it because it's my everyday tool. I've been I spent all day today doing this and you're going to learn how to do it. So, if you're here and you're trying to follow along as if this is the boost, just know that this is just planning for the boost. So, don't be overwhelmed. I don't want anybody to get too afraid by this. Um uh but this thing is that I'm working on is called the command line in a terminal. And I just pulled up the um the GitHub um you know, stuff here. I'm actually really curious to see if that's going to work inside of a container. I should probably install a container to try that. So what this is is this is a container uh so that you can run it anywhere and you can practice running Linux on a Mac or on Windows and you can just use it from the command line and it will just work. So I'm actually going to try the reason I'm opening it because I want to decide if this is the best place to put the outline for what we're going to cover. I think it might be because that way you'll have it. you'll have it available and you can just go run a command and see it uh once you just copy and run the container. So I'm going to be building that right now uh putting putting the calendar the schedule and everything um in sort of a text file inside of here that can be read just by clicking on it like by clicking on read me. These are all in something called markdown which we'll also be learning about um and how to install wisdom which is the terminal I'm using and podman which is the container engine. So uh let's actually follow this. So build and run this boost container locally. Install wizm install podman. I'm actually going to go ahead and do this right now just to see if it works. This is all stuff I need to test anyway. Uh Jalapy Jones has been helping me test all this stuff. Um he's new as well. Well, new to the tech stuff anyway. Um please be better for a connection. Okay. So I haven't started up a machine which is a virtual machine that's running. Uh VM already exists. Must have to just do start. It goes down when your machine goes down. So we'll start up the container engine. The virtual machine that's going to be running the container engine. Uh I don't think we need a rootful one. I don't think we the configurless mode of container requires root permissions. I don't know. You wouldn't want root permissions because that would get you. We're going to everything we're doing here is going to be in the beginner boost. In fact, I'm debating about whether I should put this video in the series because it might confuse people. I probably won't. Um, all right. Copy this. I'm going to paste this. So, again, if you if you are planning on doing the boost with me and you have something else to do, uh, you don't have to be here or you can just for fun, if you want to hang out with us, you can do something else and just kind of watch to get a sense of what it takes to to do this kind of tech stuff. Um, but otherwise it might be a waste of your time. So, you know, if because I'm actually doing the work uh to build these containers and stuff without explaining what they are. Um, so don't feel obligated to hang out here. Uh, if you, you know, if you have other productive things to do, there's going to be large moments where I'm not saying anything at all because I want to save my voice. My voice is still my voice is I spent a lot of time in a club. So So my voice and it was just loud music and I was trying to talk to my friends and we just I I went on vacation this last weekend and I might my voice is still recovering from that because we were talking so loud the whole time. Yeah. My buddy I have a buddy at work who goes to concerts all the time and he had the same problem. Well, he's going to veil next week. I'm so jealous. He's taking off. He's going to veil next week. I hope they have snow for him. By the way, there's another reason to learn tech skills. You want to like pop off the bail on a airflight with your partner on some weekend pro streamer. This stream might be a waste of your time. [laughter] I am the anti- streamer. I am I'm like the opposite of a good streamer. So I I continue to shamwow that the whole tech world though. like yes you need to you can be you too can be a streamer. Hey look run neovim headless plugin install all this is so cool. All right so this is installing the container. Oh my god sunrise is on there. Also the latest bonsai. Yeah, all the latest bonsai is on there. That reminds me I have to work on the bonsai stuff. All right. So now I have a container installed and now I need to run the container. I'm just copy and pasting. I don't even care. I'm doing exactly what the user would do, what you would do. A mentor person being mentored. Uh it's already in use. Damn. Did I already have it on there? Sounds like I did. Podman ls. I don't even remember. I honestly I This is the thing about my videos. I don't remember like basic stuff. I don't. And you're going to see me go ask Google or the LLM a lot because I don't remember. I This is the same thing I do every day. Uh Pman PS- a I think. There we go. I did. No, I think what I did is I I installed the Voost container before and I forgot to remove it. It was still on my system. So, I just want to make sure it's the same one. uh CPD copy paste development. [laughter] It's really not. No, not completely. That's a fair assessment. But yeah, uh PS the thing this the you have to like get rid of the idea that you have to have everything memorized in tech. It's one of the things you're going to need to to do immediately. You have to disavow yourself of that notion that that you're not good enough unless you know how to do everything. Even commands that you do every day that you forget. If you allow yourself to feel bad about that, you'll never survive in the tech world because there's just too much to learn. There's too many things that change constantly. There's just not enough space in your brain for all that to be there. Um, and that honestly that's why AI is so powerful because it's not because it takes you away from doing your job. It helps you help you remember how to do your job. Um, and I I think that's very valuable. And I'm not the only one. My my many very young people as well as older people on my team have discovered this and we all use it. We use it. We kind of joke about it. It's like the almighty LLM says. So let's, you know, take a look at that. um use of an use of an AI and or a large language model for um like Chad GBT to do work is going to be at least a half an hour conversation. So let's let's get let's get looking at what that outline is going to going to look like. In the past when we've done a beginner boost, what we've done is we've kind of got the outline before it begins and uh we adapt the outline as we go depending on how much time is needed for each thing. But that kind of gives me a sense of how long it's going to take to get through all the content. And I'll tell you right now, um, you know, working through the content with you and including coding as well as Linux is going to substantially increase the amount of time that it takes to get through the beginner boost. Um, the goal of course has always been every year to get a body of content that will withstand at least one or two years. Now, I have removed all of the content and videos from Beginner Boost in the past because they are so out of date. There might be one or two videos here and there that are still relevant, but for the most part, they are no longer relevant. And so I really feel for the people who are in college programs for computer science. Uh I recently heard of a story of somebody who completed a web development uh degree and could not get a job and they are still working as a server uh you know in a in a restaurant because they can't get a job. They've spent all this money and they can't get a job and they they went to school to get a tech job and they couldn't get one because most of the tech education out there sucks. they just can't keep up. And this is a good example of that. Here I am trying to make these things and I cannot keep up either. Uh nobody can. It's just it's impossible to keep up with the pace of this stuff. And you know that's that can be really frustrating to some people. It can be super you know invigorating to other people. So it just depends on what kind of person you are. I I am going on 59. I know I'm old, right? So, a lot of people don't know that about me. I don't mind. I'm not shy with my age. Um, but there there's at least one person who's listening to this will be like, "What? That's how old you are?" Because, you know, I've been, you know, I've been around the block. The point is is that you there are people who have retired that are younger than me. Uh, and some of them I feel like they retired because they were tired of having to catch up with the technology. So that is going to be all of these things are super important that we talk about. Every time though that I get into these soft skills and these like tech career, this career advice stuff, I inevitably run into people who are like just give us the the code, dude. Just get to the point. Just get to the stuff that was going to make us the money. And I and I always have to, you know, wonder why don't they think that's related to making money? It is. And a lot of them don't know it. You know why? Because I worked with some of them and they don't last very long. Uh, one guy, oh, horrible story. But anyway, so so we have one already. That's was five months ago. So we're going to go ahead and delete this one. I think it's delete, but I don't remember. So we'll try. Good old tab completion will usually help you out. So podman, uh, let's see, what do we got? Unmount, build, create, generate, exec images. Um, manifest play, pause, restart, rename, run, remove. Let's do remove. It must be remove. Don't you love how some people have remove and some people have delete? Pretty hard to keep up with that, right? So, we can remove it by name. And now when we do a list, we won't see any of them. I know Cryptic saying you graduated with a degree without being able to get a job. So, I had to pivot away from technology, but you found your channel, so I'm giving a second chance. Well, thank you so much, Cryptic, for being here. I I sincerely hope I can help you make that happen. Um, I love telling the story, but there was one uh individual that came to me in person uh in 2019. They spent a year with me, and um they had a psychology degree, couldn't get a job, and they ended up within a year getting a job for $100,000 doing go coding, go programming, and Linux. and their interviewer actually apologized for not using Vim and the terminal. Instead, they were using, you know, a graphic user interface. So, um you know, I I I've seen these these things. This was a very dedicated person, though. This is a person who came to me every week. Every time they came to me, they had they they dominated the entire hour that they were with me because they had questions. They took their their learning on their own. They worked tons on their own time and when they would got together they were full of questions to get them unblocked so they could continue their own learning and they dominated and I introduced this person to somebody at a Linux meetup and then they proceeded to have an internship with them and then they I have a really nice uh write up from the person that gave him the interview uh that they wrote to me in my nice things file which I have to keep myself kind of going. Um, if you can't tell, I'm kind of tired. I I been working pretty hard all day today. So, I'm testing a few things out here. One of them is, do I actually have the energy to uh, you know, to to work through a stream or two before I go do yoga or whatever. So, uh, normally right now, I'd be like watching a movie and taking a little nap before I do my evening or whatever is going to happen. So, let's see where we can go with this. Um, all right. Let's try the the the run command again. All right. So, as you can see, it's already changed and I'm running inside of the beginner the container. Now, I'm running in a new container. It's running abuntu Linux, which we'll talk about, and then a boost. The name of the container, the host name is boost. And that was all determined by this command right here. So, so now that we're in here, uh, we can test things. We have our fishies command. We have our sunrise command. I think warning, your eyes may be burned out. So, we have a bunch of fun little pieces of code we can run. And uh, I think do we have do we have uh, we are the test batch chat behave? Yes. Um, so I'm hypnotizing you. Yes. [snorts] Once you get an LM to explain the format stuff, it's way faster for you to consume the information. Absolutely. Uh, and in fact, that's one of the things I want to do is I want to have the LLM consume all my video content and be able to um summarize that at some point. So, all right. So, that just goes to show. So, the the container is still working. What is a container? All of that. Those are all going to be things that are going to go in here. Um I Oh, what I wanted to check was um I need to attach actually what how do you attach again? I don't remember. Is it exec running containers run boost attach boost? You can't attach to running container. Oh, I need to do uh dash it. I don't remember any of this. So, we're going to have to go look it up. I don't do this every day. I am not Oh, there we go. So, that ran one, but it made a new one. Oh, well, we're going to have to know how to reconnect to our boost container. That's got to go in our list here. Oh, there we go. Podman start a boost. Whoopsie. I was right there and I missed it. Shut up, Bellum. [laughter] Senior infrastructure engineer can't start a container. I don't mind. Makes it makes me a better teacher. It does because I'm just like you. Like every five minutes I forget everything I ever knew. When you're ready to use the man page consideration studio unmin. Yeah. Uh customizing west term blah blah blah. Okay. Um, what I'm looking for is to see if this readme is in here. I don't. Yeah, there it is. So, the readme is here. Um, this is interesting. Why did I have that error? Did you guys see that? What was that about? detection and buffer markdown file script not recognize term. This looks like there is a bug in the uh that file. So let's make sure that doesn't persist. That's going to really be a bummer. I'm what I'm doing is I'm getting a container ready so you guys can do stuff. Yeah, see that? That's an error. That should not be there. Uh, check processing buff new. I need these are the kind of things I need to come up with because if that happens to a beginner, they're going to get really confused. Hey, Gigabyte, how you doing? Uh, welcome. And line 666. LOL. It is literally line 666. Yeah. All right. So, that's in my that's in my m config. which it should be in here. I don't know. We'll see. Also, the the the colors are a little off, so we might have to mess with that. I'm kind of wondering if this is the same as my other one. How do you copy something into a into a thing? I know it can be done. Um, I need to copy a file. This is again I need this is why I'm doing this. Oh, shut up. It's not that. It's um podman copyrc into boost I think. No. Did you mean copy? Yes. Graduate degree in electrical engineering. Nice. Uh cut that a couple months ago. I really like it. Oh, you're from Greece. Awesome. Even though it says you're from the Bronx uh container, let's see. Copy. Okay. So, booster me. All right. So, we're going to copy MRC to the boost slashtemp. Now I can do start attach boost. Now I'm in here and I can go look at Hey, there we go. So I look at temp mrc. And there's our file. So let's let's dip that file and see what's different between that file and the one on the machine. I think there's been some changes. I've made a lot of changes. The hardest part about doing it this way is that when I make changes to my dot files, these configuration files, they don't necessarily propagate. It's 2 am. Wow. So, let's see if there's a different. Yeah. Okay, there we go. So, that actually might be the reason for the bug. Looks like it is actually. So, this is the command is called dip and this is telling us that temp bimrc uh has this stuff in it, whereas this uh has this in it. So, that is definitely a difference. I can actually do some cool stuff here. I can write that um out to a dip command, but I don't remember that how to do that. I'm going to turn this out down for a second. A little loud. Uh and oh, good. My sister's home from the Yeah. Anyway, where was I? Let's let's actually apply this patch. So, I don't remember how to do this. So, I'm going to actually ask the the the computer how to do it. Uh how do I make a diff a patch with the diff command? There's another argument you have to provide to it. I can't remember it. So, uh I'll create a blog stack overflow patch with this. Usually the AI will come up and say something. So dip run source source with fixes goes to patch dip. I like this dip run. All right. So let's do that. Dip run and uh source of pictures from the source. We want to use this one. Now we want to use the source source with fixes. Okay. So we want the one that is broken to be the first one. So VRC and we're going to write that compare it to the one that just got loaded in. We're going to we're going to redirect that output to uh something.patch which is a known format to stuff. pde and div has an entire structure like you can put uh header notes up here and mime types and all kinds of cool things. So this is actually a patch file and so what we can do in fact git if you don't know get g get source management is entirely built on this idea. So I can now apply that patch uh to what I am using. So I can say uh patch um and I don't remember what the first argument is. So let's go look man patch system has been minimized right or man pages are gone. We we'll unminimize eventually to look up all that stuff. But before the a before AI was a thing, people would do that. Put it pass it to a page or more. So we can read everything. We have the number of files, the lines, uh ignoring whites space, the context. So we have options. So we have the original file and then we apply the patch file. Okay. So we're going to try this. This again, this is a container. So I'm not hurting anything. This can be recreated any time. Um, I'm actually going to copy this patch off of this active uh container so that I can apply it to the one that's that's in here. But uh let's go ahead and do this. So we do patch um and I think was the first one the original pile. Okay. So that's MRC and then we give it the name of the patch which I think is in is it in patch.tip. Yeah. And then what that does is that actually just made a bunch of changes to the file. And if we look at the patch itself, we can go check to see what changed. So we see that there is a word rup ruf in here. So we can visit look at the file 81 kip and we can look at rup and we see that those lines are now here. Right? In fact, if we do uh the same dip that we used to create this now uh without the redirect, you'll see that uh there's no difference. So that's how you apply patches. Kind of when you're dealing with text files, it's a super useful thing to do. Um and now that I've written a patch that I can use, I can actually copy it off of here. Um and this is in my root directory. So, I can do the copy and uh let's actually find out where it goes. I think there's a MRC in here. VRC message file. What? Oh, Vim RC. Vim VMRC. Oopsie. All right. So that file has not been updated. That's the one that needs it. So uh so let's see what we can do here. We can first of all pull the file down. Actually, we could pull the file down and overwrite this file. So let's try that. So, we're going to do podman uh copy um uh boost colon that says go into the boost container and grab that file and then overwrite uh the same file at the local relative path from here uh to abundu.mrc and if we did that right cannot be found container resources file directory Okay. Pman copy boost. Oh. Uh, it's just a mrc. There we go. All right. So now because we made a change, we can use git which is used for source management to see what had changed. So we can do git dip and that'll show us everything that changed when we and this if this looks familiar because this g because git the source management tool uses the same thing uh to check whether the things are the same. So by copying the file over we see the same dip and we can validate that that that thing was done and it made a change. So uh and by saving this I can go ahead. I'm I'm committing to main which is normally a bad thing in git but I do it because I'm the only one committing here. So I can say get addit commit uh dashm uh fix uh uh the mrc uh bug with color and I can do get push and if you want to learn about why I put pixon that's something called conventional commits. Uh, we're starting at No, we're starting a beginner boost this weekend. March 20 whatever 2nd. No, March March whatever. [laughter] I'm tired. Somebody help me out. This this Sunday. This Sunday. And well, we're going to go through the calendar. Um, I'm pretty sure it's going to be 3 o'clock my time, though. Maybe four o'clock my time. Four o'clock my time turns out to be pretty regular. In fact, I've been starting to think that 4:30 my time is a good time to do all of this stuff because every day I'm available at about 4:30. So from 4:30 until 6 I'm available to do whatever. And um you know until I move I probably can do the beginner boost during that time. when I eventually when I move that time will be reserved for uh going rock climbing or um paddle boarding or something. So, but for now, you know, I'm I'm doing a little bit of that every day. U but yeah, so that's that's going to be the time. I think March 8th is a Sunday. All right, great. So, um the cool thing about this is Okay, so now we can go back and attach to our thing. And now I'm back in here. And now let's make sure that we fix the problem. So now when I go to boot.md, we still get the error. So obviously something is still bad. Um it looks like I'm still I'm in Utah. It's 518 right now. Yep. So the change we needed to do that synchronization anyway. That was not wasted time. But it looks like there's something else that's wrong. color name or number not recognized. C term FG. So, makes me wonder if the if the Pandock BIM plugin, which is one I wrote, um has a bug. So, we're going to need to do the same thing here. local let's see home Ubuntu local share plugins BIM BIM penox syntax simple all right so I mean this this this container has to be really good for us to have a thing if it if the BIM tools are throwing errors like this okay so before Sunday this container has to be more or less perfect to get started because once somebody creates a container, they're not going to want to throw it away and throw their work away. Um, however, that is kind of, you know, a part of it. Um, it does make me wonder if we should have them mount files, which is what I did. I made a a tool that did that automatically so that you can have stuff in the container and then you can it can actually access outside of the container. um by mounting a directory. I I made a I made a whole script and everything for that to to manage all that. Um I don't know that we want to do that again though. But I do I am concerned though because if somebody throws away their container, they would lose their work they were doing if they were coding or something. Actually, that's not a concern because they should be getting configured on their machine and it should be able to do that relatively quickly. Being able to configure git really quickly on a new system is super valuable. Um, so so let's actually I I'm going to look at the issues on this really quick. I want to see all the issues. So focus items for the new boost. Um, work with all OS by eight months ago. Add custom vim tutor. add new X. Um, we have to figure out why that error is happening. Yep, we'll figure that out. So, focus for new items on the boost X39. Oh, here we go. Learn Linux terminal velocity learning code. So, this is kind of what I was going to write. So I'm glad actually now open this um visual studio code gith get up markdown obsidian mic docs uh learn linux terminal velocity bash for scripting uh learn to code polyglot kubernetes for hbcml get a tech job yeah so this is kind of the beginning of the outline which I'm glad I found that because I was wondering where that went this should go in an issue though I think eventually this all should go inside of the boost containers so that when people are in there they can look it up instantaneously. Uh how you doing Siri? Here you're a huge fan of the work on YouTube. Thank you. Um looks like YouTube's being really nice to me today. There's been a lot of complimentary stuff. We got quite a few viewers on YouTube. Um, not I mean relatively [laughter] compared to the other sort of content that's other so I I I can't stop until we get the BIM bug fixed. So I'm going to be debugging that pandock bug bug now. Um because we just we just can't we cannot have a container that throws an error when Vim starts up. That's just not allowed. The whole point of this is so to keep it easy so people don't have to do their own building and configuring. How you doing, Wizard? Install Arch Linux. Yeah, that would be the stupidest thing in the world to have them do. Uh yeah, Arch Linux is absolutely useless for a tech job. It's absolutely useless. No companies use it. You'll never get a job by knowing it. That's [snorts] all I'm going to say about that. That's inevitably some Arch user is gonna go after me though. They always do. So, it's it's a great Linux. It's a really cool Linux distro for like esoteric weird things that people might want to do instead of going paddle boarding. But that's fine. That's not me. I would rather go paddle boarding. [laughter] Wiggle, did you like follow me for slamming on Arch? Thanks for the follow. Thank you for the follow. Appreciate that. Wiggly Mitten. What a name. What a great name that is. That's excellent name. I'll say cash. Here we go. XD, you know what? You just jumped in. Great. Uh, I'll say that Cash Cash has been the first actually sucker. I try to get away from Windows for years. This is when I done it. Yeah. Okay. So, this is the thing. Maybe you guys can help me convey this early on and to pick the words for this. Um I am not I am teaching enterprise Linux usage. I'm not teaching esoteric favorite fight me Linux. I'm not teaching that. It has it serves no purpose to me. For me I am laser focused on learning Linux to get and keep a job. And that is not desktop Linux. You might have desktop Linux as your preferred way to connect to server Linux, but you're not being paid for using a desktop Linux distro. You're being paid because you know how to do Linux server administration, configuration, setup, containerization. That's what you're getting paid for. There are only a few people on the planet probably who are getting paid for managing Linux distributions for the desktop. That would probably include Arch uh people over at uh whoever uh Steam Deck is you know stuff like that. So business Linux is not playground Linux is not run this favorite game on this Linux uh Open CV shop for production. Yeah. And there are a lot of open susie shops for for production. a lot of them uh open susie particularly in Europe is very is very much pop it's very popular we you know it does say here learn Linux with DRO and all that stuff we're going to go there it's definitely in the list of things to talk about probably not the place today to talk about that I'm running out of time already um but um yeah uh I'm just reading comments here but hey bull how you doing from YouTube learning just say as a beginner paves the way to becoming a great Linux system administrator. I I see what you're saying by the by the same way that learning mock Linux when I on you know when I was a kid uh you know and having to roll your own Linux distro made me a kick-ass Linux distri distribution person. It does make you a much better Linux system administrator uh at very great cost to time, energy, and hair loss. [laughter] And I'm just that's how come I have no hair because I learned Linux the hard way. [snorts] You think you think I'm kidding? I am not. What about DHS in the whole who's DHH and why do you care? I know who DH is. You don't care. You don't need to know. Again, stay focused people. The number one failure from tech engineers and people in the tech career path is not staying focused. And I'm going to raise your hand. I'm going to raise my hand because I am the first among them to have failed at this over many decades. The faster you learn to focus on what matters and what can get. I just got reminded that I need to do quick and dirty and focus on something today by my senior manager just today. He's like, "No, no rapid prototyping, dude." And I'm like, "Oh, but that's so ugly." And he's like, "No, that's what we need." That means doing things you don't want to do that are against your instincts, like using just you don't like or even, I don't know, using WSL on Windows because you only get Windows machines on your enterprise. They won't give you a Mac or or a Linux machine. So, you learn to adapt and you learn to do what you're getting paid for, which is produce value for your company. And I am going to be hitting this home every day. In fact, one time I was sitting at a pub that's now not there. We went there over the weekend. It was really sad. They closed it. My oldtown public house. I loved it. And it was closed down. And I went I used to I remember sitting there with this senior consultant who was consulting for Lowe's. And he was half drunk and so was I. And we were sharing stories and and he said he turned to me, grabbed me by the arm and he said, "Promise me that you will tell them that their job is to produce value and not to just play around." Because this senior consultant had been so jaded by all these super hyper brilliant intelligent engineers out there who don't do for the bottom line value of the company. Their motivation is what new tech can I play with? What can I blah blah blah? And they lose view. They lose sight of why they're there. You're there to produce value for the company. The end. And if you don't like that, don't work there. Okay. End end of my little soap box for now. For now. But it's a big it's a big thing. And you're going to hear me say it over and over and over again. Young people in particular are excited. I was I was I was I was I did things that I should not probably not have done because I want I want to do this the hard way or I want to do this. Oh, or this would be more fun if I do it this way. Blah blah blah, you know, and or or I am never touching that. That's the wrong thing for the world. I'm not using anything that's not open source. Oh god, no. you know, any of that dogmatic stuff, you can you can do that on your own time, but when you're being paid to produce value for a company, you do what's best for that company. That means if that company has a Red Hat has a Red Hat support contract agreement, doesn't matter how much you hate Red Hat, that's the thing that they need to do and you need to learn it and you need to do that for the job. Open Suzie, Windows, whatever, you have to work around that. You can complain. You can complain all you want in back channels with your buddies, but at the end of the day, you need to shut up and deliver. There I said my piece. Um, the less more skill. The bigger the beard, the more you appear. Yeah. Actually, my beard I had to like regrow it. It's like I have a really wimpy beard right now and a wimpy chin. Yeah. And I have no teeth. Amus, how you doing? Am I going to teach you how to use AI? That's not really hard to teach you, but yeah, like go ask you the question and the end. [laughter] I always like those things where where they there are those uh where it's who they are and how they are seen. For systems, it's always just someone giving you the finger. Except for systems who see ourselves as Neo in the matrix. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Uh yeah, [laughter] Wizard says if you Google for years, you can you can use AI as source. Trust me. Um yeah, actually it's something funny you guys might be might appreciate here. Um uh what is AI? So I'm actually querying my AI from the command line uh to go give me some answers. Of course, I'm out of I'm out of This is good to know. I'm out of tokens because So, if you don't want to do that, you can actually put two question marks and then you can query the internets directly. And if you want to, you can navigate the internets way faster than those slow graphic web browsers. Those things are arcane and slow. You can actually go straight to the first one. You can navigate with one hand while your other hand drinks copy. You can just use one hand, one-handed web browsing using a textbased terminal. And how many people in the world know about this? Now you do. Consider yourself lucky because this is way faster than AI for a lot of things. Uh because it goes, first of all, it goes straight to the docs. Um you know, and the docs are are the source for AI. Now, sometimes AI is still faster, particularly if it's more complicated query, but I I'm going to show you how to beat everybody uh when it comes to to to research and searching. Other thing too that's really great about textbased browsers is you can uh your eyes can gle glaze over the text much faster than they would with having to decipher what font and what color background everybody's used. It's really really fast. I've been beating people in research for years using textbased browsers and a lot of people will complain about it. I'm like fine. Yeah, I continue to complain while I get work done like 10 times faster than you. I mean I don't even have to be a dick about it. So I then I then I'm going to go climbing earlier than you. So and that's actually that there's an arch meme about that. I'm getting ready for my meme and the other two people like leave and they go out for drinks and he's still they're still he's still configuring his Linux machine. [laughter] So you have to choose where do you want to spend your life. You want to spend it, you know, doing what you love or do you want to spend it around with your Linux machine? Maybe that's what you love. Great. textbased browsers were that use case. Yeah, because you're slow like everybody else. And and I'm not I'm not I'm not that's not I'm not attacking you. Everybody does it. I do it. The thing is really great about this is that when you find something that you want to see graphically, you just push dot and you get the graphic web page. Did you see how fast I pulled that up? Yep. I'll show you how to do all of that. You can become like super fast. I go to all these web pages like this web page has a map on it or I can't see it. I press the comma and boom opens the web in my graphic web browser. Now I can see the pretty useless picture. Close that down. Go back. So this is still a technique. There's no AI involved. Did you see how much faster it was than AI? It's also not destroying the planet because it's just using a web browser. So you people can't give me about this. Yes, it's not the future. blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, fine. Fine. Become hacker. This is hackerman. An AI generated image. Yeah. 90% of the images that are on web pages that slow their loading and the processing and your ability to read them are useless. It's all marketing. I don't want marketing. I want the answer. Okay. So, there. I'm done. I'm done with that rant. [laughter] I have a lot of rants though. So, you're going to have to apologize. You're going to have to forgive me. Um, we do still have that bug that I need to deal with. And we only have like 30 minutes left. So, let's see if we can figure out how to get that bug. I need to try to edit a file again. Um, let's go. Actually, let's run T-Mox. So, we have two two browsers at once or two terminals at once. What's my current position? I am a uh very well- paid uh high performance uh machine learning CISDE system development engineer. That means that we make work and we keep it running so that they're AI and and systems and high performance computing keep running. There's really big money in it. You want to you want to get in the money stream. Get between uh high performance computing and the delivery of products. So you're providing the value to the company for all the other developers who need to submit jobs and do work and everything uh in order to to do what they need to do to make money. So yeah, head will tell you by the way you're doing work for Noah right now. Are you back at Noah Tannis enter the house? Woot to the woot. somebody. So, make sure you shout out Had actually has order and and and expertise and certificates and I don't I have a single certificate. I have a Russian degree, [laughter] but [snorts] I make a lot of money. I mean, so prioritize moving and speed. Uh I get what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. Searching through browser is slow. Absolutely. That's we're going to cover that. That's like a small little thing we're going to cover. Like I I I started writing a book called terminal velocity and it's basically why you should learn the terminal because there is a very finite very small number of engineers who actually get this and those that do are the 10x engineers that blow the rest of the world the away. And I have overwhelming evidence of this, not just in my own life, but in the lives of the people that I have seen adopt the terminal and live and work by terminal velocity. And their entire lives have been so much better than everybody else, even in technology, because they're just overall faster and more efficient at everything they do. There are some things that the graphic user interface is more efficient for, and for those things, you use it. Use the right tool for the job. And the problem is is that learning the terminal is tantamount to learning how to play the piano properly. It takes time. You can't you can't just sit down and do your job. And you've got to spend time investing in learning the terminal to be this person. Um yeah. Uh yeah. Make work and keep it running. Absolutely. um the the the way the reason that the high performance and we're going to talk about how there's really no shortage of of jobs. This this there's this myth that there's no work. The the truth is is that there is a an amazing amount of very highpaying work that's going unfilled. We just got headcount. We're hiring another person today. We're hiring another person like today or this week or something because we can't get enough people. You know why people the the popular news is out there telling you, "Oh, there's no job. My jobs are going. you. Stop your complaining. There's tons of work. There's work that pays well north of $200,000 and they can't fill these jobs, but you're too lazy to learn it. Just own it. I'm sorry. You don't even have to be smart to learn it. I'm I'm a perfect example of that." Okay, I'm done. Calm down, Rob. I just get frustrated by this. I get so frustrated by this because there are jobs, good jobs that are going unfilled and they're the reason they're not being filled because the schools are too screwed up to teach the right thing and the only way you can learn it is by going out and suffering and learning it yourself. So me and Misha and Het Tannis and a number of people on the internet have taken it upon ourselves sort of pass it forward style to help other people get these skills. You can learn these things and I will hire you. I I literally will hire you if I if you have the skills. My recruiter colleague talked to me last week. Do you have anybody for us? I'm sorry. I get really excited. What I learned from my CS professional is that a guey is just a wrapper for command for what can also be done in the terminal. Absolutely. It made being exposed. It made exposed to using the terminal easier. Wizard, that's a really great idea. Yeah. Uh most people want to work. There's no jobs at the skill level most people want to work at. That's a good way to put it. That's a good way to put it. Uh 90% of what I do is shing another some damn system. Exactly. [laughter] Right. [clears throat] Exactly. Totally agree. Uh please do I have a mod? It doesn't look like I have any mods. I'm going to do my own shout out. Um Dennis Scott, I mean Scott, I'm sorry I can't shout you out. I don't have a mod here. I I want to somebody I'm going to do it. Is it slash? Is it slash? Shout out. I can't I don't know. I can't Twitch. Is Bellum there? Somebody there. Nobody's listening. They're like They're like He's ranting again. I've heard it 10 times already. Um Dennis provides absolutely free one of the most comprehensive get a job in high performance computing courses I have ever seen. And the number of people who are not taking advantage of it absolutely baffles me, you know, and and I'll like I'll be like browsing through Twitch and like I'll see people watching Boobas or whatever, getting drunk on their favorite DJ stream and then, you know, they're complaining they don't have a job or something and I'm like meanwhile, you know, Scott's over there with like 50 people taking his like HPC computer career course and then he can't even get people to go there. It's like anyway, [laughter] I I I'm sorry. I There are people who can't do it because they, you know, they they just don't have the patience and I accept that, but I I don't want to be, you know, I that's way too long of like me complaining. I I I this is what happens when I stream. This is what happens. I get all opinionated and my blood goes up and you had enough of it. Good for you. BS BS repellent. Well said. I'm I'm getting ready to retire. I'm just trying to like give back before I do. Did that shout out work? Did that shout out work, friends? I hope it did. There are so AI builds the same. Yeah, I'm not I'm not anti-AI at all. I'm very pro AI and you'll hear that about me. Uh I pony I wish I could put that anywhere. There are no jobs at the skill level most people want to work at. Most people want entry level stuff. So the secret there is, you know, stop being entry level. And they're like, well, how do I do that? And I'm going to show you. But it takes time. Takes a lot of time. Um it remind me of a little college professor giving minister TED talks. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. I completely agree. By the way, uh Scott, when do you stream? Are our streams going to conflict because I don't want to do that. Do you stream on Sunday? Let's This part of the reason I'm doing this is because I want to coordinate schedules and stuff. So, I was thinking of streaming Sunday at 4 4:30 my time. I'm I'm Wet Mountain time right now. I should be later. I have You have labs on Sunday. Okay. So, so people could still go by and do your labs and and my stuff. They can always do my stuff after the fact anyway. Oh, you be earlier. Okay. Um, so I'm going to be 4:30 Mountain time until uh September and I'm going to move to North Carolina. So, some of you may not know that about me, but I moved to Logan for personal reasons and I'm moving back to North Carolina for also for personal reasons. Um, and I will be back in North Carolina in midepptember. So, uh, that's that's just something to know. So, the what the reason you might care is because it's going to change the time. The instead of it being 4:30 Sunday uh, mountain time, it'll be 4:30 Eastern time. So, yeah, I might I don't know if I'm going to do the bike rides again. In fact, I'm I'm actually seriously thinking about uh selling most of my bikes. Um, I've been doing a lot of paddle boarding and yoga and serious amount of rock climbing. So, I plan on continuing. In fact, in Moresville, I went, while I was there this last week, I went and visited the um cliffhanger rock climbing gym that was built in 2016 in my hometown of Morsville. And I was like, damn, it's like it beats anything I've ever seen in Utah. And I'm like, I'm totally moving there. So, I'm moving [laughter] back to Morsville, in case people want to know. It's really funny. That's where I did a lot of That's I've did so many streams there. That's where I I picked up the homeless guy and helped him catch a lot of tickets where I did um you like the bike streams. The problem with the bike streams is they cost me $500 a month to do because they take three modems and stuff like that. Hey girl, what's up? Yeah. And I I have I have some friends. I have a lot of new friends in in uh in Morsville uh that I met some through yoga and you know so I'm and stuff. So it's funny because I've been I've been reconnecting with some of my old friends too since there's been some changes in my personal life some of you know about. So I've had an opportunity to reconnect with people from my in fact I just just today I hope she'll come in. I hope she'll come into the stream. one of the uh one of the one of the people who got me into te tech education. Um and she lives now in a in a different city in and she reached out. So I'm going to be uh actually I hope she comes in. I hope she'll start streaming with me. She's actually on spring break right now. She teaches for a profess for a university. So it's been really fun. And why do you care? because you're going to end up seeing a lot more people who are beginners, people who have been doing this forever and stuff like that. Uh, let me teach people a bunch of Hey girl, thank you for the woohoo. Welcome, by the way, to the stream. [laughter] What's up with that name? I I totally need to know. I need to know the story behind that name at some point. Kappa votes. Rob, what might be better than teaching people a bunch of tech things is teaching people how to get stay motivated, how you're able to do all these outside things that other people can't be bothered to even start doing. That's interesting you say that. Um, you know, so to to that end, I I am going to I I know I am going to stream paddle boarding for sure. So the era, where's Bellum? Bellum loves to like make these, you know, predictions about eras and the arc, Rob's arc and all that. This is we're going to enter. So, so next year, 2027, 2027, I know that's a ways away, but 2027, possibly 2026 will be the era of IRL paddle board streaming. So, um because I can paddle board stream anywhere is the the equipment is waterproof. Um, I can go paddle really slowly and we can go do stuff. We did a little of that a while ago. So, uh, and who knows, I might end up, you know, streaming like yoga on a paddle board. I think it would be really fun though because I have a lot of friends, um, in North Carolina who love paddle boarding and uh, in terms of making good streaming content, I think it would be awesome because a lot of them are female. [laughter] so shallow of me to say that, but if you're on Twitch, you know what I'm talking about because [laughter] like, you know, so it would be way more when I do the bike streams is pretty I mean, it's fun. You get to see everything, but it's more fun when you're like behind someone. Only when you're biking, you're kind of like fixing on their rear end. Um, so anyway, it it's going to be interesting. So yeah, I'm going to try to get a lot of my friends back together and start start going out paddle boarding and go. I'm obviously really excited about that because I haven't paddle boarded in a long time. The last time I got seriously into paddle boarding was probably 15 years ago before I got married and actually met my wife. Paddle boarding was a big part of it and uh that sort of stopped being a part of it of our lives. Um mostly because of me, but anyway. So, so long story short, there's not going to be any bike streams, okay? Bike streams are too expensive. Paddle board streams are easier. They're more fun. And um so that's probably what I'm going to be do. Paddle board yoga stream. Absolutely. You betcha. I am totally doing that. In fact, in fact, I have already run this. I've got six paddle boards uh for yoga and I I'm getting ready to teach here. I'm teaching yoga here locally, which you guys might not know about. Can I ask you guys a question since this is kind of a planning session? Very very honestly, we have, you know, enough people in here to actually talk about this. I have I've dabbled in teaching yoga as a part of my tech stuff in the past. And in fact, when I taught at the school I started, I held an optional yoga class uh for techies because technologists tend to forget to move, right? We forget to move. We forget to stay healthy. We forget to to stretch. We forget all of those things, you know? And and I've done this in the past. These videos are all unpublished now, but I've done this in the past where I've done videos about yoga for technologists, for geeks. Yoga for geeks. How about that? And I'm seriously interested. I don't know where it fits into the beginner boost. Uh I came for the boost tech, but I can't but but I'd hang out for Yoga. Yeah, I think most people want the tech content. Um I I guess what I'm gonna what I'm saying is the IRL and the tech content are going to be on the same channel that I I I've gone through I can't tell you how many times Bellum could how many times I've tried to separate into separate channels. It's just not practical. So you're going to continue to see a lot of IRL stuff mixed in with the real tech content. And as long as you you know go to the playlist you should be able to bypass the you know random uh real life kind of stuff. So, uh, you just do stuff. Yeah. Uh, yeah. All right. So, let's get back to it. We only have a few more minutes. I only have about 10 10 10 more minutes and I'm going to go take off. Um, let's actually let's since I have you guys, I I can pick some of the stuff on my own time. But, um, I do want to go into that issue. What issue was it? Uh, can't remember what issue it was. issues. So, issue 39. Uh, all right. So, here we go. Issue 39, knowledge management. Um, I I need to edit this. I'm going to go ahead and actually Oh boy. Wait. Exact GH issue list. Okay. Wait. Issue view- C. Okay. G issue view C. You like yoga. The goal mobility your moility does get sluggish especially as you get older around. I told you I'm pretty old here so with content great a lot of you like the mixture MJ you like that uh tech and nature I think you know what's funny is how well tech tech and the outdoors go together especially remote work. In fact I I'm toying with the idea because this is something I can do before I move. I'm toying with the idea of of moving to Moab and living out of my car for two weeks and going rock climbing. So, I would still do the beginner boost and everything else, but as you guys know, I can work from anywhere. In fact, two years ago, I I worked from Oh, we're running out of battery. Oh, my um my mic this mic here is running out of battery. Only at 10%. It'll die, but the camera will still work, so it's fine. uh and everything. Man, I wish I I like spent the last hour doing yoga. [laughter] I do think that with tech streams. Yes. Yes. Right. With content is great. Yeah. Okay. So, um what was the issue we were looking at? 39. I'm trying to get it to to display. I'm trying to stick it into a file so we can go edit it. All right. Here we go. uh focus uh focus items for the new boost and was helping me. I can't I can't believe is not back. He's actually was like X was probably my biggest tech fan for a while. Oh my god, this is so awesome. [laughter] Do you guys remember what Xel was like talking to Thea when she was streaming and she was like, "You have no idea what a big thing this is. You're so fortunate." And it was like you just, you know, you can't make people appreciate this stuff. You really can't. I can't. It's like motivation. I can't motivate you to try to do it. I can't. There's certain things I can't do. I can make it available. It's like when they, you know, but if you build it, maybe they'll come. Maybe, maybe not. Uh, knowledge management. So, we do need to do knowledge management. Uh, we need I I definitely need Why are these all ones? Because they're marked down. So, actually, let's move this Let's move this to out dot. Uh, I mean, where where should we put this? Should we put it in? I mean, if it's not Yeah. Seab Bear, what's up? Jebus Chur, [laughter] that's lore here, by the way. People, we we need to make an emoji for Jibus Cheers. We definitely do. Yeah, that's a pimp thing. It's funny because this has been really nice because Seab Bear and Pimp and a few others. Landre actually Landre is a tech person, but there's a lot of I have kind of a a melding of people here. I have people that are from my yoga land, yoga world. I have people that are from IRL world and, you know, like cycling and everything. And then I have, you know, people that are from uh the tech world and they're kind of all here at the same time. uh they all get a little bit annoyed because I'm not covering the thing they want me to do. So today we're covering sort of tech things and but this this is a planning session and you know I'm trying to stay healthy here and know my boundaries and know how much to stream blah blah blah. Every time I get out of out of you guys, there's video of me which thank God I took down. I I was ridiculously huge and and it was because I I got out of balance with my streaming in my life and I don't ever want to do that again. You're doing great. You're moving into SAS CIS minroll. You're becoming a blacksmith. Yes. Become the blacksmith. Be the blacksmith. Be the blacksmith. Be the blacksmith. I don't like that I'm a kek. I'm definitely a ke though. That's great. Seab Bear, for those of you who don't know, Seab Bear got a job last year while we were here. And I remember I remember Seab Bear saying there was no jobs and blah blah blah. Woe is me and I can't survive. And there's seab bears getting a promotion and working into different things. You guys remember? Some of you probably remember that. Do you remember how depressed Seabar is the one who got me to go buy pink panties by the way? [laughter] Seab Bear is like, "Yes." I said, "How much to go buy? How many bits to go? How many bitties? How many bitties to go buy a thong?" And I think Seab Bear dropped like 10 bucks or something. And they're like, "Damn, I'm going to I'm going to frame them pink panties. Not wearing them. Don't you worry. I'm going to frame them pink panties. I'm going to put them like right on the wall right here, right behind me." And people are like, "Whose panties are those?" Mine. Those my panties. This is all on YouTube. And everybody's going to be like, "Oh my god, this guy is so weird. We're not going to follow this guy." The Pink Panty Club. Hell yeah. A lot of my best friends wore pink panties, male and female, and everything in between. No judgment. They're comfortable. Yeah, that's a little crossover from the IRL streams. Yeah. So, [laughter] anyway, if you have to ask exactly what color are your panties, why are we talking about this? This is not technology. Or is it? How to be comfortable while coding for eight hours a day? Hm. The selection of the right undergarments. I think it I think it could be a thing. I think it should be a topic. That's a legitimate topic. How do you stay comfortable sitting sitting [laughter] in the same spot? What kind of chair should you get? You know, should you sit with an armrest or should you sit in lotus comfort chair? I know it's called what? Wait, wait, what's the fancy word? What's the fancy word? Uh ergonomics, right? Ergonomics. All right. Anyway, all right. We're going to move out.txt into the home directory so it's there automatically automatically. And we're going to say um what should we say? What should we call it? Okay, this is what everybody's going to see when they open it up for the first time. You have old man clogs. Oh, my ex-wife would love you. Yeah, small little tidbit there. I actually got meet her to sign some stuff and uh I was like not facing her and I could hear her coming from like a block away cuz she had clogs. I mean, here she comes. [laughter] So anyway, um so what do we what do we want to call this? Okay. Hey, hey, hey. Let's we we only have a little bit of time left, so let's focus. So, if if um how do we what do what do we want to have be um the name of the file that they see for the first time? Should we call it welcome or should we call it readme or we should call it read me, right? I think we should call it read me. That's what I think because read me readme kind of has like a tradition in the land of um of this kind of stuff. So, readme.md. Yeah, let's do that. So, we're going to move that and then we're going to do this. This This is going to be our outline. Okay. And I need to get this done before Sunday. So, I probably will be streaming again later tonight or tomorrow. Yeah. Read MD. I'm going to do the all caps so it stands out. That's kind of a common thing. Um, anyway, we need to fit soft skills in here. And you know what? I should actually probably use Well, oh, you want me to show a trick? This is the coolest trick ever. Watch this. Watch this. I'm going to do uh txt to Did I not Did I not write that? Oh, wait. MD to MD. Oh, god. txt. Some of the stuff I didn't bring in. Oh, it did it. You see what it did? It rendered it all. You see how it made it all into like numbers? Cool, right? Yep. Terminal magic right there. Misha, big time streamer, tech streamer. He said he found my videos from that. He found me doing magic wands. These are Vim commands that we'll learn about. So, uh, we need soft skills in there somewhere. I don't know if that's a first thing. Uh we need to have uh kind of an overview uh overview of tech uh career life. You know what I like doing this in I like doing this in the form of questions. What do you guys think? Uh should I I say why would I say why should I pursue a career in tech? So I like I like putting everything as questions because it's just easier to answer. Will they be learning slurm? Um that is a fair question. I think slur would be one of the fastest ways to get a really freaking highpaying job right now. U slur and Kubernetes in my opinion are the most important technologies to learn in the enterprise and and they are the ways that that that AI is used. Um so you know learning it is very valuable. I I don't I don't anticipate that we'll be there there's kind of at the end of everything. This is supposed to be for beginners, right? Um so I don't know. Um so I I think I think the the first question we need to gather away is is this worth your time? Right? And I have a lot of stories about this. The people that I've that I've helped and some that I've helped who decided they didn't want to go into tech and they told me why and I helped them realize that. And if for no other sometimes sometimes it's good to go through this just to realize I don't want to do tech. Uh ironically I probably would have done something besides tech if I had not had a fundamental requirement to make them a lot of money as a Mormon father and husband. um I probably would have done something entirely differently. I probably would have most likely I would have been a journalist or a writer. Um but I didn't have the choice, right? A lot of people, a lot of us don't have the choice. A lot of us the choice is I need to make a lot of money because I have people that depend on me or whatever. So, and by the way, if your if your desire is to make a lot of money, then tech is one way, but it's very there's a lot of easier ways to make a lot of money that usually involve investing money and stuff. Uh but but that's not within the scope here. So, why should I pursue a career in tech? Um um this kind there's a there's a bunch of other things related to this like how do I get a job? That stuff I I always wait until the end. Um but uh I kind of I kind of feel like we should talk about it first. The reason I keep moving it to the end is because this stuff, as I said, people complain all the time. I mean, they're nice about it, but they complain about not getting into the tech fast enough. They like they immediately they want to learn how to code or something and they they don't care about the rest and then they they go through it. But the the I'm kind of terrified of the same situation that happens to people when they don't learn how to get a job and they get all the tech skills, but they still can't get a job. That happens in happens constantly. And I I'm gonna make a decision here. I'm going to put this this this stuff at the very beginning. And let me tell you why. Because you need to start working on this stuff on the first day. If you wait for a year to finish the beginner boost, because that's probably how long it's going to take to include all the stuff I have in here. Three hours every every week. Uh which is nothing, guys. There's 12 months. Wait, there's what? 52 weeks in the year. 52 weeks times Let's do the math. So, let's say we did one. We did a three-hour thing for 52 weeks. 52 weeks times uh 3 hours. Let's do this math in line, by the way. Run it through BC. Hey, look. I just made a thing. I have a calculator built into my editor. Pretty cool, huh? Want me to do that again? This is This is why it's so freaking cool. Okay, look. I I wrote I wrote a math equation in here. And I'm going to replace that line. This is a magic wand command. and the ones that Miesa likes this I this is a so I'm going to replace that line with the output of the command that I'm going to run. So I do exclamation point bang bang and it says down here down below at the bottom here it says what to do. Uh and then we're going to go it's not hard to break into the field. Yeah. Uh yeah you it's it's not hard to break in if you know the right thing. I I disagree with that. There's a perception that it's hard. It's not. I I the the regular calls from my recruiter and the fact that we're hiring somebody this week would suggest that otherwise. So, um and we're talking about some of them are beginners, but they know their stuff. Um all right. So, we're going to run BC, which is a calculator, and that'll run it, pass it out, and then do the calculation. So, uh to be fair, it's difficult to break into the field at the moment, but it is possible. I'm a self-taught just over two weeks in my professional career, right? So, so it is it is it can be I started just over two weeks ago in the role where I'm at, right? Um it honestly this is really careful too. I want to be super careful because um get a tech job in America. You know I I have a lot of people in India. This is something I had to kind of revise is I have people in India and and uh some of the countries that are there's not a really prominent tech uh presence in the country and and I'm learning more about this because I was actually planning on being an expat in Barcelona when I retire which I still am actively pursuing that idea. Um that is super exciting though uh Priscilla honestly I'm really happy for you. Um yeah, and um seriously, if you are here and you just got a job, please help us help other people find a job because that's really what this is about. It's about helping each other. It's about passing it forward. By the way, I I'm going to put that whole thing here. Um uh pay it forward. And um why are you doing this for free? Uh, this takes a tremendous amount of time, energy, and money. And to do these boosts, and I could easily sell the stuff I have sold this stuff for a lot of money. Uh, the amount of content that I'm going to be individually helping people with, uh, at $50 an hour, which is what the rate I charge for 13 years. Um, you know, it's valuable. So, when stuff when stuff's free, they don't they don't they don't value it sometimes. I hope that's not true. But yeah, we're going to be talking about um uh who's learning here, right? Personal projects. Yeah, build complex personal projects that you can use and then get the job. Absolutely. I've been saying this. This is the first thing I'm going to tell everybody. The fastest way to get a job is not to go get necessarily get assert. It's to prove it's to prove I'm going to just do the spiel. This is a regular spiel. I do it all the time. Employment is about trust. You need to get the person who's going to pay you to trust you. How do you do that? Every job is different. The end. Um, and you know, if you're in art field, you need a portfolio. If you're my my son Gordon, who's in animation, he's moving to Burbank, by the way. And uh, boy, if you haven't followed uh, Abridge, if you haven't followed AP, make sure you go follow him if you're into animation and stuff you want to. He's my son and he regularly streams now, too, as well. and he's u uh he's he's he's going to be streaming a lot of stuff about how to break into the to the Hollywood animation industry in Burbank where he's moving. So, that's going to be super fun. I just want to put a plug out there for him as well. Uh there's there's a number of other other people I've been helping getting into streaming as well and I can't wait to to to be able to give them shout outs as well because they're all getting started. Um anyway, yeah, there's a lot of people working on breaking in. How do you break in? Well, let's go back to how much time it's going to take. I have to go pretty soon because I have yoga at 7. Um, so, but I'm really I'm really getting excited about this again. Um, I actually I figured I think I might have have stumbled on a a good recipe here because um by streaming before I go do yoga um you know I can go do yoga and get all the dopamine from it and relax and not be sitting in the chair for three hours and so and it you know streaming does kind of energize me. At the beginning of the stream I was kind of like you know slow moving slowly and by the end I'm I get a little bit more energy. The point is um by doing yoga after streaming I think I might be able to preserve my health a little bit better. It's going to be posted on GitHub. All of this is on GitHub. Yes. So just a reminder this is in down here at the bottom. It's um well I guess it's not visible. Uh this is on GitHub. So this is GitHub github.com/rwxrob um boost and we can go through that build LinkedIn profile portfolio build jobs posted by within 24 hours less than 50 people. Yeah, I think the fastest way to get a job is to network with other people through meetups and stuff or Twitch or if you want. That's how I got my job. So, and this is one of those places, by the way, this this channel, this channel through no fault. I mean, really, no, I can't really take credit, but I'm saying people come here who are hiring and people come here who need jobs. This is one of the places that people come together and they're, you know, you never know. That's all I'm saying. You just never know. You might run into somebody get a job. Um or does having proper sleep schedule fit into this planet under knowledge management? I I think I think it's the the uh the the the balancing tech career um actually um learn with Leon covers this really well. Um uh tech uh what did he call it? He called it a tech lifestyle understanding the commitment. Do you want to live the Do you really want to live? How about that? Do you really want to live the tech lifestyle? So, just like doctors have a lifestyle, uh you have you'll need a lifestyle. So, you're excited. [snorts] I'm glad. So, we do need to cover this. So, these are again this year I'm going to cover this because the primary reason for covering all of the easy what's going on, how to get a job and how to start preparing to get a job is because you should immediately start doing this stuff as as the people in the chat right now are talking about. Before you even get started learning how to code and everything, you should immediately start networking with people who are in the profession so that you can understand the profession so that you can leverage that network to get a job as well as understand what the job is. And a lot of you, this this goes for me, a lot of you will will realize when you do that that that might not be the job you want. For example, let me give you a very specific example from my own life. When I started Twitch streaming in was it 2020? I wanted to go into hacking. I've been wanting to go into hacking all my life. I've been a hacker informally for years. Um, and that's actually one of the reasons I started streaming because I was for a while I was a boy scout leader and all the kids would ask me teach me to teach us to hack Mr. Rob and um, hacker hoodier era Bellum remembers. And I thought I wanted to be a hacker until I met a bunch of people in the hacking community by networking through Twitch. And one of them actually owned a thing. He says, "Most hacking jobs are 57% writing documents talking about vulnerabilities that they discovered and submitting really boring secretarial work." So this idea that I'm a guy hacks everything, it's like total, you know, that's not the job. And and you you watch you watch people on Twitch who go into hacking or or pushing hacking and all that stuff. Um managing frustration. Yes. Um that's actually a really big one. Uh frustration and rejection. So do I need a [laughter] full disclosure? I'm actually thinking about uh getting officially diagnosed. I know people have told me to watch out for that in the past because it's super addicting and stuff. I don't know. I'm I'm going to I'm going to look into it. I know Bellum's worried about that. Everybody's worried about the aderall phase. Um I I I don't but but it is, you know, um you got to like know thyself. This is really what it comes down to, right? Uh, learn to deal with different types of people. Yeah, I mean, there's going to be so many things that go in there. Um, and this this is this is kind of the problem, right? But what we want to do is we want to put the things at the very top of the list that the very first things we talk about this week should be what can you do today to start helping you find a job? And uh Adal take I probably would I I the one experiment I did with Adderall I that I just completely owned that entire night. [laughter] I it was I it was like I could write like a nobleleta on it like one night on aderall. Um I'm look I am not pushing drugs here. That's against switch switch things. I am actually the reason I was going here is I was trying to say figure out what your own limitations are and some of those are going to be psychological particularly for you geeks out there. I know I am one of you. A lot of you geeks out there. It's not only that you're socially awkward but you don't you have a brain that works completely differently than other people. I am the father and stepfather of an autist of autistic kids. I had at least at least 20 autistic people through my school. Um I regularly deal with people from all over who have different kind of neurode divergent sort of things. And I I was trying to find a bullet point for that and it turned out to be hey I took aderall once. [laughter] But there needs to be that's kind of the know thyself, right? You got to know your limitations. So for example, if you are not good with if you're too OCD, you need to know your OCD. And I'm going to put that all under no. So uh hey yeah HR recruiters tends to be active in morning around list. Yeah try contact with HR managers companies of five. Thank that's great education. That's great education. Great great help is already happening in the chat. If you can't see it you need to join us. All right you need to go to YouTube and see the chat history. There's already people helping each other in the chat. And this is exactly why I do this. This is exactly why I do this because there's something about doing it live that creates the energy that's necessary to get people together and actually feel the motivation by helping each other out. And there there are communities like that out there besides my community. So it's it's more a matter of finding that community and that's really um a professional learning network. So I would say that's like got to be higher on the list because right away you can go start to build that network. You can look up where the Linux meetups are. You can go look up where uh what Twitch channels are related to technology so you can follow them, get a different sense of them. These are all things you can do today. Um that and I'm going to pretty much repeat myself here on Mon on Sunday because I this stuff I've always put it to the end because I like no let's get into the code and no we don't want to do that. What we want to do is we want to we want to get people interested in learning about what the job is before they even make a decision so they can decide if they want to do that. Maybe maybe they don't want to do that. Maybe they want to be a hacker. Maybe they want to be a project manager. Maybe they and by the way there's tons of management work. My manager right now is the salt of the earth. If she's watching, I love you. She knows I love her. She's I have one of the best managers you could ever dream of right now. Uh I recently had a manager change and I liked my other manager too a lot. But my current manager is like so she's so amazing and and she's non-technical. I mean she's technical but she's she openly admits like okay can somebody tell me in 30 seconds about this thing? But you know what she's really good at? Project management. She's really good at communicating project management and she's really great at like prioritizing and shutting us down and saying, "Don't make me stop this car." [laughter] She literally said something like that cuz we were arguing in the chat once. Me and my other engineering buddies were like we're so close that we like we act like kids with each other sometimes. Like why are you being a dick about that like don't make me stop the car. So, what I'm trying to say is there's like she's not AI. No, she's not. Absolutely not. No, she's not. She's absolutely not. She she doesn't do anything with AI. Um, and she she does she's just a really really great people person and she's really great at managing. So what I'm trying to say is that this beginner boost is is largely about it used to be about Linux and I changed the name to the tech career beginner boost because there are a lot of people who could help in the tech space who don't necessarily have to have coding skills. Now those people we want to identify those people early in the beginner boost because the rest of the boost is for the engineers. But if you are one of these people who likes project management or is is really good at like putting your foot down in a nice way or can communicate really well, speaks multiple languages, there's a lot there's a job for you, right? There's definitely a job for you as well in the tech world and you can make that sweet sweet tech money without having to know how to code or Linux or any of those things. So, um, but really it and that and that's why right away what everybody should do who's watching this on Monday, in fact, I I kind of know what my stream about on Monday is going to be. On Monday, I'm going to try to on Sunday, I'm sorry, on Sunday, I'm going to try to fit all of this into one three-hour session. All of all of the soft skills and because I can't really teach you the soft skills. I can't like I used to teach the soft skills actually. I was a missionary trainer for the Mormons. I trained um missionaries in building relationships of trust and and all of the things that actually apply really. This is why this is why Mormons are really good at sales and management and stuff like that because all of them go through most of the men anyway. They go through training to be good with people and how to help them and make them trust them, help them trust them and everything. And quite honestly, those skills are not taught anywhere. So, I've thought about actually doing that. But to do that, you kind of have to have a roleplay situation. Um, and but but otherwise, we just kind of have to to talk about it. Um, one of the best places to to learn those things is is in social situations. And I know that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. So, um, yeah, and we'll talk about that. So, yeah. Uh, let's see. You were diagnos I I I don't know what my neurological divergence is. and I don't want to wear it on my sleeve like my zodiac sign like so many people do. I was like, "Hi, I'm Erica and I have ADHD plus a tad of bipolar. Also, I'm a Sagittarius. I I'm not into that. It's just not I don't I don't want my neurological disorders to define me. So, but you got to know them, right? You got to you got to understand what they are because you're just going to be kind of left out there, you know, uh in the in the and and quite honestly, if you need to medicate, do it. But, um, you know, do that with a professional, not not with me. Just make sure you know what you're getting into because if you This is one thing I've learned the hard way, too. If you get into a situation that is overly stressful, um, I on I'm going to confess something here. over the over my vacation, I got so overstimulated um that I had a panic attack and in a very unlikely place and and I learned something about myself. That's actually one of the reasons that I'm thinking about actually talking to a professional. So, so anyway, all of this stuff is going to be talk. We're going to talk about all of this uh first and this this will be the first time in a beginner boost that I have covered um the sort of know thyself um you know what can you do immediately to get to get to be sure that you want a tech career and and how can you start the ball rolling for a job even if it's not writing code you can start attending Linux meetups and Kubernetes cons and go you know learning slurm or whatever and and joining these these channels and you can hang out with people in the tech community even though you're not technical and then you can sort of network with them and land a job in sales and people people like engineers like and I'm guilty of this they're they're super easy at like stepping on you know they're stepping on like other jobs I have one quick story I'm going to end with this because I got oh god I'm really late I'm going to end with this I'm going to go straight to yoga so I and I'll tell the story again on Sunday. So, if you miss it today, there was this super sexy dude that I that I was teaching and he was he was like number one. He was he was a lead track star of of the entire region. And I mean, he was just a specimen of a you know, of an 18-year-old. and you'd know him actually uh maybe if I mentioned his name, but um uh and he he was obsessed with with Bitcoin and all this and he was really into the idea of tech and but and he never did any of his Python stuff. So he'd come every week and he didn't want to do it. He didn't he didn't challenge himself to do anything all the other people did. And one day he told me I' I' I've said this story several times. up bell and remembers he could probably recite it. But he said one day he came to me and he he took me aside and he said, "Mr. Rob, I I'm really sorry, but I just I just really don't like to code." And he was all apologetic. And I was like, "You don't have to like to I mean, this this guy this guy had coded a Bitcoin query thing in Python from his phone on Thanksgiving. So, he had the ability to code, but he didn't want to code. He didn't like it and he came clean and he told me, you know, I just really don't like it. I I can do it. He goes, I and I said, well, what do you like? And I was like, well, you know, I like I like technology. I like talking about it and everything. I said, well, there are tons of jobs in technology where they need people like you. There are a lot of engineers who don't have the skills you have. This guy is really personable, really approachable, really good on the eyes, you know, and he was he's a perfect recruiter. He would have been a perfect recruiter, a tech recruiter. would have been a perfect um you know salesperson. He would have he would have been a great project manager because he could talk to talk. He knew the concepts and everything but he just absolutely hated writing code all the time. So the point of that story is that you know don't rule out a tech career just because you don't want to code or you're not able to code or you don't think you're smart enough to code. You know, you you might have skills that are in other areas that a lot of engineer I, for example, I I've been around true programmers. There's a lot of them in this category right now and they're not me. I I mean, I enjoy programming when I have to do something to get something done, but I don't live to code. I don't code in my free time as a a thing. And I don't have any problem with people who do that. It's just I choose not to do it. So, the point is, you know, know thyself and and you should be able to enter. And I'm going to repeat all this. So, this has been really helpful everybody. The main takeaway from this was um I know what to do for the next three hours and I have a feeling that we're hitting a pattern here. So, my pattern is probably going to be on Tuesday or Wednesday in the week I will do a planning session that's this. It's very informal and we can talk and stuff. Try not to get too distracted. But the goal will be and it might not necessarily have to go all three hours or two hours. The goal of this session during the week will be to plan what we're going to go over in the Sunday session so that the Sunday session is like ding ding ding ding ding, right? And we can like stay with what we what we feel like we want to talk about. That way you guys can provide feedback. I guess what I'm saying is that those who have already in the the tech profession or who are educators who want to contribute to how this gets taught and how it's shared, this is the time to come in will be this time. And I'll I'll put this on the schedule. I don't know if it'll be Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Um I really don't want to do more than one planning session per week. uh given how much time and that that's already uh dedicating five hours of time and um I will probably be streaming other things, you know, IRL, you know, stuff. Um I do want to do some informal music and I actually want to make a Minecraft server uh as a separate um thing. Uh, I think that would be really fun to make a Minecraft server, but that is kind of a complement or a supplementary thing to this, right? So, uh, somebody says, Kappa says, "How do you recognize social situations that allow you to grow the most in terms of tech career? Is that a skill or something your brain subconsciously picks up on?" Uh, that's a good question and I I can't wait to talk about that um this Sunday. I with other people. I don't I don't know. Um, you know, it gets into just what are your skills with people in general, right? Can you communicate? Can you you know, are you a communicator in general? So, but I have to go everybody. I only have I only have like a few minutes before I have to go to yoga. So, this has been really fun. I I don't have time to raid unfortunately. So, uh, we will come together and talk on, uh, on Sunday and we'll get through that and then next next week we'll come back. Um, if there's there's a possibility that I'll come back on later, uh, tonight or another day uh to do this, but I I need to make sure to get out and do yoga. You two, go do something active. Stand up, go walk around, go for a walk, go ride your indoor bike, go lift some weights, go do some yoga, go listen to music. Music is really great at reducing your cortisol. So, go do those things. It'll be great for you. Go do that.

Let's figure out how much time per week and how to organize the 2026 version of this.