The Power of Knowing You're Not Alone

Like the recording started so that's good and secondly I think I have the right audio now so it should be coming through my microphone which is good I'm trying to download a spinning wheel um application oh to see if I can I'm trying to put you on the big screen so I can look make my life easier it's amazing what blankets can do I'm just throwing it over all the rubbish behind me this is going to do loads of Noise by.

Been looking at the camera then I'd be like oh very nice you have to also speak at the same time that you spin otherwise nobody nobody see you [Music] perfect and you're on the green hype as well which is good to see I'm inceptioning you with the aqua and the greens I'm wearing blue today so I'm wearing your color although Red's well this and yellow this is I think turquoise manabe it looked video image right I can't remember my password oh well I'll leave.

Think some of it branding so now you can upate a background color rather than inserting in an image so then you can select a color yeah they're all little improvements which are good because I think even you know down in the bottom you can edit the name of the individual now and put a job title and all that stuff which is which is good as well like a title so oh that was it yeah you can do that in here now and I guess.

Able to edit it so we might be able to change it to Blue to much branding or yeah change the style of it what what I find is a bit annoying is they keep on saying like cool so we've upgraded to this version which is like the AI version with all these AI tools but then now they also want you to pay another $15 to get The Branding ability or something so they're still they're still holding back little little things which.

Five things for you and I was like I wonder if there's a way to do a a wheel spin but I can't download the app and my phone's taken so um if you is there like a online wheel spin uh there must be all right there's an online wheel spinner if you just Google online wheel spinner there's one in Google and all I wonder if we can just change it to wheel size and I need it to be five.

IPad because technically my iPad is newer than my phone i' would love to do continuity camera with the iPad using it as the uh camera instead of my phone so then I could actually use my phone right now because that would be really helpful fair enough I know it's people on the road assuming that you don't have the iPad with you it's just your laptop and your phone but you literally can do everything else with your iPad why can't.

That killed enough time no it hasn't there's so many there's so many different wheels that have like different settings and sadly the one that loads up in Google doesn't show properly but um because I can't open it to big screen but nonetheless in some ways I kind of want you to spin the wheel but we're going to spin the wheel and we have five topics so I'll just I'll just headline you in but before we start I'll just kick in with the intro.

[Music] we don't be a don't stop don't be up door welcome back to another episode of don't be a doorstop you're here with your regular hosts and co-hosts yeah we're both hosts aren't we Dan Ryland and Tom Ryland if you have not subscribed to our individual channels um jump over to Mr Tom Ryland and real D Ryland And subscribe because we are um basically Tom is doing 100 videos in 100 hours right Tom and then I'm doing I've already failed them yeah.

Got well there's still enough time maybe before we produce this one you publish it so then it'll still look fine so by the time this comes out you will have two videos out of your 98 to go basically so I've got five things to speak about today so one loneliness two AFK which stands for away from keyboard three cleaning I thought it was the airport okay yeah it's JFK uh an AI comment and option option trading so I'm I'm going.

Spin the number number five so number five is options trading so do you know about options trading Tom uh I know it's some form of getting on the stock market but that's as much as I know yes correct so they essentially it's a financial instrument which is tied to the share price going up or down and there's things called calls which is a bet on the share price going up and there's a thing called put which is BET.

Company will declare if they've made more Revenue this year than last year or more Revenue um in particular Industries or sections or or um like Departments of the business and stuff and um basically the US government obviously create policies which sometimes help businesses or hinder businesses and the like I don't know what they're called in the States but they're like members of parliament right they have to document when they've purchased shares and options not only do they have to.

Always think it's Nancy Pelosi so there is a Twitter account that tweets out every time she's bought shares or sold shares and they're tracking her um her portfolio and she's better sometimes than other companies or other ETFs as it were her performance is better sometimes so I'm like cool can I keep an eye on what she's purchasing or what she's selling there is a delay in when they buy versus when they actually put in this kind of like transaction report but.

Something similar when they have to declare Financial interests but they're not necessarily declaring that they're buying and selling options or or like doing trades at certain points you'll know from company house that they own different parts of companies but you won't necessarily see what their actual individual like portfolio looks like so so if you're into options trading if you're into stocks and shares trying to find these periodic transfer uh transaction reports um to kind of give you an idea as to what's going to happen.

Been just a clip out of whatever they were talking about they were talking how they it mirrors what she buys but it's probably yeah so there are there are AIS that mimic her thing so the Twitter account um that's running and tweeting out what she buys is matched to a trading platform I think that automatically does it on your behalf so when they see she does something or the partner do something or like the husband um it will buy it for you and um it also.

Can have longer ones but usually in the platforms that you get they're they're like uh a particular set set time so yeah if you're interested in options trading I I use plus 500 it only has a subset so you can't choose any company you can choose like five or six out of the big five or six companies you can uh purchase calls and puts um yeah so have you changed that cuz weren't you on a different yes I was on free trade so.

Cuz I think I did have free trade for a little bit just to trial and mess up stuff but then I got trade 212 um only because it says that it has a section that you can basically have fake money to trial um the functionality yeah I get yeah I guess it's like turning the functionality into a game to figure out what what works and doesn't work and gives you that I guess yeah more playful way of doing it but I've never actually.

Learn and and kind of understand and kind do the the kind of like gut guesses of whether or not some it's going to go up or or down I recently did buy an option um a call option for Apple before the event which then I sold it too soon so I sold it at a loss but if I would have held on the next day it rocketed up so I'm like it's a shame because when I I I literally prayed before the event.

Think it went up like a th% or or something insane like that it went up like a lot but obviously I came out before it happened because I was like cool it's just going to carry on going down because people are unimpressed with the Apple AI stuff um and everybody was saying you know typically you buy the like the hype um beforehand and then like sell it before it happens um but I kind of like came in late hoping that it would happen in the.

Out which then I guess gets another B yeah it's always was difficult to know between like the typical kind of like the typical day-to-day investor I could have took I could have took a cut on that oh there you go yeah that was my cut on zero yeah so minus but now now I'm like waiting for like the next event the next WDC is obviously in a year's time we obviously again have like the um earnings reports but.

Really interesting it's like if they could tap into when you're focusing or not focusing or whatever and mapping that with Siri 2.0 it'd be so fascinating it's like you're really tired your Apple watch's top rate is going down so go for a nap now I've closed the curtains right go to bed and it's like in a weird way but having so much technology and information I wonder if it'll pull away from The Human Experience of just figuring it out and.

Element of fail and those types of things I like how the lights just randomly turned on obviously said something to trigger it um would really struggle with that Dynamic so it' be a very interesting shift if they can do that yeah makes sense cool yeah it's if because patterns are all public aren't they so if you're able to see them then hopefully that will give you Direction because everybody's looking for some sort of s quote unquote signal right.

Liverpool's like song that You'll Never Walk Alone You'll Never Walk I think understanding that you're not the only person going through something is probably one of the most beneficial starting points to a journey of like healing or like uh resolve right realizing that you're not alone so I was like could you have an app idea which essentially is like highlighting the fact that you are not alone so for example if you had like a mental health app where you're logging your emotions.

Could there be some sort of integrated like hey you're not the only one that's struggling so for example even in fitness apps I've recently downloaded this um callisthenic thing right and I've literally not done any of them because I just haven't had time to do them so could it be like a notification but like don't worry 500 other people are struggling to do it too and then I'd be like ah cool and then I don't feel like guilty does.

I'm really struggling to start but I'm going to try to start to tomorrow and then you get people to vote in to be like yes I'm going to start tomorrow because I guess it's the account how can you tap into the accountability element of someone saying I'm going to get up at 5 and then how do you without them let's say sharing a phone number and texting and calling to be like oh you up at 5 o'clock in the.

Because I didn't do it this morning yeah integrated into fitness apps is good there's something called a friend of ours does load of running and I think there's an app called like Strada or something like that which is like is it stra yeah which is a a running like you blend running with like social so you can say like oh such and such did this run this 5K run and you're like I want to beat that person because I saw their.

Of loneliness is dealing I'm assuming with people that are more likely to be like the comp competition is crushing like just getting up yeah it's crushing you but it's like actually it's how do you create a competition to be like no I'm not going to lie and watch Netflix for five hours let me do four hours now let me do three hours it's like what is an achievement achievable thing rather than are you friend that's killing it in.

You're building up to the end rather than work like doing your swiming regime around someone that can swim around the world or whatever it reminds me of um this is more on the kind of accountability side someone was like I'm going to do this thing and I have this friend that if I don't do it then I have to pay him5 pounds and I think there was like a and that friend is Rich now and I think there was an app that kind of.

The whole competition kind of Spurs you on approach yeah I thought the You Are Not Alone could that be a feature that you embed into Apps um to kind of give you more reassurance that it's kind of like removing the like the pressure of hustle culture so if it's like it's all right like you know any sort of stats like you know I think there's a stat somewhere that like 80% of the stuff on Spotify is just like one.

That you're less kind of like um you're kinder to yourself I thought that was like a really interesting thing to think about yeah plus I guess it's it's the difficulty of where we're heading with to some extent culture is not wanting any negative emotions or negative feelings and actually stops us from learning how to actually navigate when those feelings or thoughts come along it's like if you're trying to constantly push down sadness grieving loneliness and all these topics it sort of becomes.

Something is like how do you get meet the need of that person to be like oh it's okay to be alone but then here are the tools to step away it like try and catch up with a friend or try and do that it's like that do you remember the meter that I tried um the mood meter that I tried to create that I've not finished yet and it's like you tap on it it's basically a way of you figuring out.

If you've got high energy that you want to get stuff done how do you ride that to then basically get tasks around the house done or get work done and be productive and then if it's low waves it's like how do you then go just to a neutral space like how do you process like sadness or pain or whatever to then get to a place of you've got the holistic you have tools for when you're in a high place um neutral place or low.

There are hostile hostile customer right um so like let's say aggressive customers that are demanding unrealistic things and that takes its toll on customer support people so they're using AI to make those angry customers sound calm when they're on a phone call somebody so this is a tweet that I saw earlier in the week and somebody commented on it saying in a negative sense they didn't like the fact that that was suppression of emotion right on the customer's behalf and really that.

Person they can't do much except for create a ticket and send it up the food chain right so I'm Pro AI being used to calm people down because the angry person is still being angry so they're venting and getting it off their chest however I feel that there's probably a better way to emotionally regulate than shouting at a customer service report support person yeah you're like let me pass you on to this what it manager but really it's like an AI agent who's like.

The specific customer support person right like being hostile or or whatever it reminds me of those have you seen those like wrecking rooms I'm not sure if they're called Wrecking rooms but oh yeah yeah I'm like maybe that should be like a healthier way to like disband like anger by just smashing up a TV or something you know it' be pretty easy to do I wonder if actually instead of being on because I guess what frustrates people the most is the music and just.

Things to potentially say I guess coaches you to some extent to be like tell them that you have lost your money and that you need it for some wedding tomorrow and it's 10 grand or whatever so you might need to go to a bank and visit and your local banks are this or what and it's like I wonder if it DF escalate CU you're not basically what is it ruminating is that the word in your stress and angst and frustration you're.

First number you'll be on hold they say you've called the wrong number send you to a second number and then the call might drop so I think the whole like passing people around you're in the wrong Department stuff like one if we're talking about fixing the system one I think like empowering singular individuals to do like every possible outcome rather than like oh that's not my department I'll pass you on to the business team or the sales team or.

That so much easier or even just like human human chat Bots like um sorry that was a weird way to phrase it like humans through a chat function is I think quick because the human could probably do multiple chat windows at the same time and be able to resolve the thing and then I don't have to phone anybody up but um because what what I do like about the leave your number you get a call back you're not waiting around but what.

On or not Vibe or is there a way of you leaving your number but then you get a text like 10 minutes before to be like your next in que or whatever so then you have that right I could prepare to get all my notes for for whatever topic it is to talk about if you're changing your I don't know your uh car insurance for example that you're like great I've got all my notes I've got my head.

They try and call you a little bit later on or something but it all depends on the urgency of the issues and and all that stuff but yeah hopefully AI agents that are like fully empowered to be able to do far more actions would be better like for example like you know how monzo like if you want to change your address you can do it in the app you don't need to call somebody whereas other things are like oh no you need to speak to the.

AFK stands for away from keyboard I hope it does because I've been saying that and I think it does and so I was on Twitch recently and I noticed that um because I've watched sidan inside I now have been introduced to angry Ging quite like his stuff so I've been following him because I've also been Twitch streaming I've noticed that he's also live right now so I click on it and I realize it's not him it's his away from keyboard channel so in the.

Over here and over here for the behind the scenes stuff which I think is great and I didn't realize that streamers are essentially doing the same so that's one clever thing because if you're being introduced to somebody for the first time you might not be that interested in like you might not be that bothered about chatting to the individual is more so chatting with the other people that are in the group right because sometimes streamers aren't always conversing with you as you're.

And and provide multiple interactions at different time zones and different things because right now he's sleeping and making money right because it's s said what it's like what you said isn't it is sometimes when you're creating stuff and don't have a big following it's just creating a bank so when someone does come across you that they've got a bank of content to binge that was it a binge cont absolutely sash whatever absolutely and I think that's the thing is you're.

You to do that which just takes old streams and basically reproduces them because I guess ret because I guess a lot of it retention base you get paid so if you're on 247 and as long as someone's on there to some extent your retention analytics would be huge it's similar to these Tik Tok shops there's Tik Tok shops that are potentially being run by AIS so they could be selling 24/7 and I'm like that's again a very interesting kind of.

McDonald's or whatever and basically if they were low down on a certain product that just slowly up the price and recently I went to Aldi and I'm pretty sure they've changed instead of now having paper how much the price is the mini screens and I was like it's so fascinating because it's basically food might become its own mini stock market of right we got loads of bread this week so it's 50p oh end of the week there's hardly any left right it's five an now.

That it's out of stock but there is no like stock numbers anywhere however if you do essentially like deliveroo so recently I tried deliveroo from a supermarket market and they have these things called like hop or something which is an individual like Warehouse where you have stuff food on the shelves and they just uh like uh stack it all into a bag give it to the driver and the driver drives off so I'm like what if that was just like a robot Warehouse.

Drop your eggs on the I think that is a great like I I think using robotics in kind of like warehouse and stock management stuff to give you live streams of like if it's in stock or not because what sometimes happens is like you go to Morrison's it's not there so for example like one of those things is like lactose milk right lactose free milk I go to Morrison's it's not there you go to this place it's not there you.

There's an app that you can purchase like late night food or like you know hotels will have a breakfast and then after the breakfast they've got a bunch of food that they kind of like need to get rid of so you can pay for like a package of food that's like random all sorts from this like hotel that was the breakfast stuff and I'm like that's very clever cuz that's like that stuff is g to get thrown out so you might as well.

Implement into stock management and stuff and try and get more money on your um on the things you're selling yeah CU I do find it hard with food waste because I find that we're we're quite good at eating our stuff and I think not in all areas but I know particularly in North Wales you have to um put your food in a food bin to sort of recycle it if you're not using it but I find it hard when.

Really interesting that if you can get the shops to manage food waste well but then also the individuals it'll definitely help Society um once you could figure that sort of calculation out through apps or systems so you're lucky enough to have food waste bins we down here in London don't have food waste bins so that's one thing that should be implemented that the second thing is like you know those boxes like food boxes you order and it's a.

Way to eliminate food waste in like having preset meals so for example the stuff that I eat is like it's all in one box you either shove it in the oven or shove it in the microwave there is no waste unless I I don't eat the portion right if I eat less of the portion size so whether or not that is a good way of doing it so like with measured this this is amount the this is the right.

Cuz the customer thinking about the money rather than just the saving is going actually are any need for so then you get to sell those extra two rather than two of them going to the bin just because you're like well I've sold all six so it doesn't bother me it would be a very interesting Dynamic to see how yeah how people would engage or disengage with that and go oh I prefer to buy Six just in case at a cheaper rate cuz I might.

Like that means people are buying less which then means that these Farmers have like it's so difficult because we build it in a particular kind of kind of like capitalistic is kind of way and with the marketing all Blended in with like I remember once saying you know when it's like Kit Kats and it's like here's two for free it's actually like they're not for free it's actually the same price as buying like two packs but they've just.

What your dream is I probably mentioned to that guy before um and recently he found two guys that run a cleaning company and their tagline is we'll clean we clean where no one else cleans and I thought that was a clever thing so one they're selling their Ser they're selling their cleaning services which is cool and standard but another clever thing which is done in the grass cutting world as well is they'll do videos cleaning stuff now they might be paid.

It for free and I'm like oh I didn't notice that people were adding in subscriptions so for example you could subscribe to their patreon or Twitter I don't know exactly what um mechanism they have in play or even Tik Tok not sure if Tik Tok has subscriptions yet um to see more of these videos of them cleaning and you don't even hire them to clean however in like month's time when you need to clean and you need like a.

Like calming stuff similar with people when they like restock have you seen people on Tik Tok like restock with me so they stock the fridges with like drinks and sweets and stuff and I'm like this is so like American because everything is like here's five Coke canons and here's like a bunch of sweets and all they do their kids meals and whatever I find it very very fascinating so I was like very clever tagline will clean stuff that no one else will clean.

It doesn't need to be a third video it could be just a a third output so that makes sense you just squeezed it in I thought you started your Twitch I feel like you've run ahead of me as in like wanted to do a second video CU I'm trying to do them as videos rather than just output okay but yeah I have been streaming and like enjoying doing just something different jump over to my channel to hear more about.

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