much stiffer front end um because there isn't a break inside there using up space and um it also helped us achieve our adjustable front end that I'll show in a bit um we're also the the frame is designed um or optimized for electronic shifting um
And I passed out. I looked up adjustable phone holders.
it got lost at the wedding, but it was found for me by a faithful son. And this is a version of the adjustable cap of which Julius Carlson, between 1921 and 1929, took out four patents. Some of them look rather like this, not exactly, and others are very different, but Julius spent almost the whole of his 91 year life fighting for the funds that came from those
The last 5% gives you the fine direction for that situation. So the middle 90% is completely adjustable , based on whatever the situation may be. But if you start your processes, you start your job, you start whatever your project is, you think about the first 5% of your project
It was Michael Lewis's book, "The Big Short." OK. It really talked about the negatively amortized adjustable rate subprime mortgage, and it also talked about it in the book. He was talking to the lady in the club, right?
on a body and seeing how they would drape on a woman's body. So a lot of our clothes are very adjustable around the waist.
bike um couple people so a lot of times again adjustability and and pack go hand inand um when when the bike is not very easily adjustable it's likely not very easy to pack um another couple features
OK, let's say bubbles burst. There was a thing called a negatively amortized adjustable rate subprime mortgage. And what that was was a mortgage that when you start out at a very, very low rate.
These are my favorite ones. They're great, adjustable . You can run them through a dishwasher. They're not as expensive and they work perfectly.
To this day this is my study at home. This is a Morris chair with a very nifty adjustable , reclining back. You see you just move the pole, and you can lean back.
uh the market runs out of buyers and uh one of the things that that's been talked about in this ongoing now in the bubble burst is the arm resets these adjustable rate mortgages were were given out in droves during the
on a body and seeing how they would drape on a woman's body. And that's a closure of Velcro because I love the idea of things being adjustable and not being about a specific size.
And it's almost clear when you have them aligned. So what you've made, because it's adjustable , is a very finely-controllable valve. And again, this may sound a little arcane, but it has a billion applications, even more so back in those analog days.
uh the market runs out of buyers and uh one of the things that that's been talked about in this ongoing are they wouldn't a some prime but it was because their AR their adjustable
It's not just about helping other people get better, although it's about all of those things. It's also building an organization that's much more adaptable, adjustable , and agile. Let me say one last part-- and I'm skipping over a few things so we can get to that afterwards.
And then I see this new article, the cover of "BusinessWeek." They had all the sophisticated reasons why the market was going to stay down for the next few years. Well, it's just like have a mortgage, adjustable rate mortgage.
When you look at these hunter gatherer skulls-- and I've gotten to examine some of them-- 80,000 years ago, beautiful set of teeth. They've reduced those. And we get massages, and adjustable tables and gyms and that sort of stuff.
There's temperature controls up and down, fan speed up and down at my fingertips. You can also put the wing up or down at the back of the car and there's a lift height because there is, of course, an adjustable air suspension. Up at the top there's a pair of air-cooled 50 watt wireless chargers because you know if you got a Xiaomi car
And so what that looks like is we went back to Deuter, the company that we built the backpack with, and we said, hey, what if we tweak this to be more adjustable for more needs and more people? And so they've been working with us on that.
Free-flyers for SPHERES got started, like I said, in the late '90s, originally with this first project called the PSA, an adjustable autonomy
So the only way that those people that got all those loans could even survive was with the market accelerating at a crazy, crazy space. And if my balloon payment came in, it was OK, because I just refinanced out of it and got another adjustable rate mortgage. Those days are gone.
I mean, it's a pretty amazing thing that you can do. And, in fact, you create an organization that, I think, will be much more adaptable and adjustable and agile, if you want to use that word, than a lot of other organizations and a lot of other teams.
I think actually what we want in teams and in organizations is to be built to change. I think built to change is much more powerful because that's going to allow you-- or at least increase the odds of you being adaptable, adjustable , flexible, agile, dealing with the famous disruptions that are going on everywhere, and being ahead of the curve in that.
And then I see this new article, the cover of "BusinessWeek." They had all the sophisticated reasons why the market was going to stay down for the next few years. Now just to show you what the position of a government is in, they basically have an adjustable rate mortgage.
"It was at this glass-covered table, my legs dangling from the seat of a claw-foot chair, that I first took note of design and invention, when my grandfather Julius Carlson announced to me, in his high-pitched monotone, that he had invented the adjustable cap." So, I found this in a park in Berkeley about a month ago, and I kept it, of course. And
I don't know if is anyone here um does anyone have any horror stories for packing their bike um couple people so a lot of times again adjustability and and pack go hand inand um when when the bike is not very easily adjustable it's likely not very easy to pack um another couple features