of footage of big wave surfing ever. And he put it in his film Billabong Odyssey. I tried to count up all the iterations that this video has been watched on YouTube from the film Billabong Odyssey. And one version of it called "Struck in Tsunami" has s been viewed 37 million times and it's probably in 60 or so other iterations across YouTube. Therefore I would easily say this is the most downloaded surf film on the Internet. And you're -- oops, let me back it up so you can see why. Who's not seen this -- raise your hands. OK, you're
And that means that we are always in these situations in which-- just like by one incredibly stupid example Nobody loves billable hours, right?
And that means that we are always in these situations in which-- just like by one incredibly stupid example you don't have as many billable hours.
And that means that we are always in these situations in which-- just like by one incredibly stupid example Because now it's not about billable hours that everybody hates.
because my value outside the office is more valuable, there's more value there, than inside the office. I don't worry about my billable hours, which is how most of us as lawyers make money for the firm. I don't worry about my billable hourly bonus, because I get paid a percentage of the deals that I get for the firm.
I don't worry about my billable hours, which is how most of us as lawyers make money for the firm. I don't worry about my billable hourly bonus, because I get paid a percentage of the deals that I get for the firm. And I was like, well, can anybody do that?
At the end of every day, I had to somehow find eight hours that were worth writing down at $300 an hour that were worthy of being billable, and it was just excruciating. My premise is, you can find a job or do what you're passionate about and tie it to your work.
sort of fixated along with two other guys that he worked with at Surfing Magazine. Bill Sharp, who is right here. And Bill, as these guys know, is the sometimes contentious, always entertaining, director of the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards. Bill and Sam George, who was director of the film Riding Giants some of you guys may have seen. Bill and Sam and Flame eyeballed this spot off the California coast -- way off the California coast. You can see this is southern California right here. San Clemente. Catalina, San Nicholas.
you know, a philosophy that many conservatives would find very appealing. is going to go along with my Bond Billan's attitudes.
I would say that, don't give up. doing nutritional therapy, which are all billable services we're now offering to our community.
--and its distinction. So when you say that deep play activities are still things that engage a lot of your reserves of energy, For example, if it's billable hours, or if it's other things that incentivize managers and contributors to work longer hours, and to get compensated for that, that
OK, so he helped us hire these 15 buddies of his. And I don't think it was even a day that he was non-billable. So in two days he's building at multiples of the quarter million that I'm paying him.
Certainly by '95, '96, '97 they were talking about the hours they were putting in. Overtime if they were hourly workers, billable hours if they were professionals. Everybody was working, in fact the data showed the typical American worker in those years putting in more hours than the typical hugely industrious Japanese worker.
And increasingly, at least I find this, our office visits to the doctor are mostly spent with you watching as the doctor stares at the laptop and enters data in response to the questions that you get asked. Lawyers pursue billable hours and seldom ask whether what we think we need and want is what we should need and want and of course, the bankers.
And when you have that, you can kind of circumvent. He goes, one of the biggest problems with 23andMe is generate non-billable questions.
We develop DNA dates that will go and hybridize with the parts of the genome where the cancer mutations are most likely to be found. And so our plan is to try to do this as a what we call a research non billable test, try to sequence everyone, and then use this information
Filming this was -- this was being filmed for this contest -- the Tow In the World Cup as Bill Sharp told me when he actually saw the footage, he realized it was the best piece of footage of big wave surfing ever. And he put it in his film Billabong Odyssey. I tried to count up all the iterations that this video has been watched on YouTube from the film Billabong Odyssey. And one version of it called "Struck in Tsunami" has s been viewed 37 million times and it's probably in 60 or so other iterations across YouTube. Therefore I would
your breath for 6 months and you're like, "Please just go through." And then if it goes down to this for like a week or two and they're like, "Hey, why are the billables down?" You're like, "No, it's a it's a momentary blip. It was expected. It was actually in our Did I not send you the update before It's a whole thing." Um and I'll do it with the drawings cuz
And that means that we are always in these situations in which-- just like by one incredibly stupid example And he said the problem, and this is the reason everyone's freaking out, is because the business model is built around billable hours.
And that means that we are always in these situations in which-- just like by one incredibly stupid example So if we go back to that, well, law firms who are like, people hate billable hours-- what if there's a totally different way that we can
There was white supremacy involved in one way or another and very possibly directly motivating the shooter. So from my client's office, and by the way, this client is still a good friend and aware that I was doing this on billable time, but I recorded a video response to the shooting, and really, just first of all, said how devastated.
I would point out, you know, these guys are surfing over the hull of the Jalisco. So that ship provides a hazard kind of unlike most other surf spots I've ever seen anywhere. so, Shane actually thought to the idea when you go on an airplane and you see the life jackets you pull the thing and it hits the CO 2 cartridge. He had the guys at Billabong
sort of just builds. I'm gonna go over here to the five percent in this bubble. AIGA, which is the American Institute for Graphic Arts, so it's the trade association of graphic artists, they've set a goal now that all graphic designers and graphic design firms should give five percent of their billable time to pro bono service. So you're seeing this starting to actually get adopted by the professions who are at large, like in a really fundamental way. I mean five percent is a lot of, a lot of time, especially for a services business.