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[thundering drum intro]

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Good morning, everyone!

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This is the first day of what I hope will be a new chapter in the building of the Marble Machine X:

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I am going to learn how to work organized.

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[laughter]

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As a little symbolism of how things used to be

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this is my work bench that I wake up to.

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Not really super easy to do a lot of work here.

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Yesterday we launched a discord server and started the video submissions and that feels amazing.

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So cheers to a new chapter of the Marble Machine X building project.

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Let's get some serious organized work done.

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Priorities... so an example from Elon Musk.

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His to-do list looked like this: [br]build a house, go to Mars,

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transition to EV, digital brain interface, etc.

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I asked myself what would Elon Musk do?

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He stated in an interview that he would go OCD on the house design

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and decided to not build a house [br]and put "go to Mars" as a priority.

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Let's look at my old priorities.

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I think I've been very obsessed with youtube growth over the years.

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Maybe because of my impostor syndrome,

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seeing growth has validated me in front of myself.

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Making relevant content has maybe been on the backfoot even

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and these two are very often contradictory because the flawed human psychology.

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And then I made a lot of music demos and I thought a lot about MMX aesthetics.

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Then come functionality and the audio engineering

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and totally forgotten is the MMX project management.

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I'm gonna switch this list upside down and I'm going to shoulder the project manager role.

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This is a role that I wished I could have delegated but I think this project is so special,

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it's time for me to take this responsibility.

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The functionality is going to take all my focus from now on,

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aesthetics will be on the back foot and for youtube

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I'm gonna make relevant content like the content you are watching right now.

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This is relevant, but it might not lead to a lot of youtube growth.

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First task for the PM is to delegate

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and I have so many over-competent people who wants to help me with this project.

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During the spring, this part has been ignored. [br]I've been focused on building

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so instead of me doing one task [br]I can use my time to create maybe 10 tasks

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and there we have a 10x multiplier in efficiency already.

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So what I need to do is that I need to map out the state of the Marble Machine X completely,

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I need to write a long list, a searchable list,

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that shows me all the tasks that we have to do

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and I need to format in a way so the list will tell me what I can delegate and what I should delegate.

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I was like this, you know, like a little larvae here. Pretty happy going around.

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And now: PM butterfly!

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It has his mouth down here for some reason.[br][laughing]

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Enjoy that because that's the only entertainment we're gonna get in these videos from now on.

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[adventure music][br][♪ unreleased/The Maker Larvae ♪]

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The tale of the maker larvae who wanted to become a project manager.

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Chapter one: The maker larvae had just realized the importance of delegation

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and not only how important and powerful it could be to delegate a task to someone else

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but also the importance of how to delegate properly.

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The maker larvae was bursting with excitement and ran out of the house to try to delegate something

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and he didn't know where to start.

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He was overwhelmed and realized that he needed a plan.

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Chapter two: [br]Project management master plan.

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[music stops abruptly][br]This is my project management master plan.

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Number one: fully take on the role as project manager.

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Number two: define the goal posts for the MMX.

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So it's important that I define the goal posts so I don't keep on moving them when we reached a goal.

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Martin and the Marble Machine X [br]can play an entire song

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and record it live in one take without mishaps, repeatedly.

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Step three: perform a full scan of the MMX situation, [br]map out issues and tasks.

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These lists will help me delegate tasks to collaborators,

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so I'm gonna ask the team members to become sub-assembly project managers

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and be responsible for pushing a part or pushing a design project or pushing themselves,

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so I'm not bottle-necking up the process.

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If I'm delegating hundred tasks and [br]I get hundred questions back on each task

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then everything bottle-necks up at my table again, [br]which is normally what happened,

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because I didn't do the project management properly.

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The maker larvae now felt very pleased with having a project management master plan,

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but still felt that he needed counseling about how to implement it.

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So he journeyed to the distant land of discord. A land full of angle grinder emojis.

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He met a new friend called Andy.

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Andy was a Six Sigma master black belt engineer

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and the maker larvae had no clue what that meant, but it sounded very impressive.

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So the maker larvae followed Andy into the nearest voice chat to ask his new counselor for advice.

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What I wanted to ask you right now...

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Instead of posting a chat post saying [br]"Hey, I have this idea" loosely,

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I want to have one person from the team who takes on the role as sub-assembly PM

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for that part and I want to say to that person,

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"I want these parts... to France [br]and we need four of them"

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"and you can use the team as resources."

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"Reach out to the other members for whatever competence you need."

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Is that a good idea, to be clear in the delegation that people have an agency of their own

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and they don't have to come back to me, because I'm becoming a bottleneck very quick.

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Andy: - I'm going to say a "conditional yes", because I have a question.

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Do you feel comfortable doing this?

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Martin: - Yes, I... Yes, I would love to do this and it...

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Andy: - It means it may result that you may lose a bit of control over what's happening,

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and it may be a bit, you know...

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discomforting feeling that it's not in the end your, you know, son or creation,

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but lots of other people added their part

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and if you feel comfortable,[br]absolutely green light, go with it.

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Martin: - The machine is already 99% what it is...

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so I need to let go of [br]that last little percentage of control

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to be able to move this project forward.

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Andy: - Then that is very important, then you need to very openly and

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clearly communicate to these, let's call them sub-assembly owners.

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What are their roles and in what case you want to have an interaction with them? For example:

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Do you want to delegate the engineering decisions?

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Probably yes, because as you said the decision is already there, the solution is already there

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so they should not buzz you every time there's a question.

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They are free to solve that and that would help a lot in... in both ways and things like that.

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So these kind of roles and responsibilities discussion needs to be

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done with every single person you are going to delegate to,

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the sub-assemblies, and then they will feel free

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you know, to move an act and make

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even complex decisions without buzzing you every day.

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Martin: - I've been having my fingers in everything.

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This is a big shift in culture, in the project.

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I actually created this situation completely myself,

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because when things were going bad with the Marble Machine

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I was so happy to be disturbed by something else,

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I was happy to be presented with a smaller problem.

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"Should we go M3 or M4 on this bolt?"

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I love to get those questions because that took me out of my misery, so to speak.

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[both laughing]

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Andy: - I fully understand you, I fully understand.

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You know, you started with the first version. [br]You were there alone, probably,

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and then it was really like the child of your imagination

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and now this child is becoming a bit like a monstrosity but it's still under your control and your supervision.

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And as you said it's 99% still, you know,

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your imagination and your ideas and your thoughts,

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but some people just simply could help you to make it a final product.

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Otherwise it will never be done.

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[dramatic flute music]

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[voice echoing back][br]"Some people just simply could help you

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to make it a final product.[br]Otherwise...

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it will never be done.[br]It will never be done..."

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The counselor's last words were echoing in the head of the maker larvae when he was trying to go to sleep that night.

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He knew that the counselor had spoken the truth:

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If he couldn't get help from other people [br]the product would never be done.

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[happy music][br]Chapter 3:

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Populating the issues list.[br][music stops]

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Today I'm gonna start with the issues list,

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that I got help to format in the phone call with Andrew,

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which means that I'm going to go [br]to the Marble Machine X physically

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and I'm going to look at every single little spot like this.

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And I'm gonna write down all my issues, [br]except my personal ones.

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To get some kind of structure I will start from the bottom and work my way to the top.

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For example: [br]The electric motor is not mounted

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and we need a user interface and we need a better power supply.

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I can list 200 issues from my mind with the electric motor,

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but to keep this kind of workable at the moment, [br]I will just say "electric motor is not mounted".

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If Alex accepts being sub-project manager for the motor project,

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it will be on his task list to find out all these 200 issues within that project.

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Because otherwise this will explode for me

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into the unmanageable task [br]that is the Marble Machine X at the moment.

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I'm so overwhelmed, but I'm actually

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less overwhelmed... right now than before.

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[epic music][br]The maker larvae looked out

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over the desolate desert that is commonly known as the issues list.

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This was a vast desert full with issues of the Marble Machine X.

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The maker larvae assigned an issues number, [br]a name and a description of what was wrong,

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a severity score, a root cause,

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an occurrence frequency score [br]and a monitoring score

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and from that he could multiply the three scores and get a risk priority number.

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If this risk priority number was above 125, this issue needs to be taken care of.

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The maker lavae has put a link in the description

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to this issues list, if you want to read it closer.[br][laughing]

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It took the maker larvae 91 issues before he reached to the most important one.

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Number 92: "Kinetic fingers",[br]severity score 10,

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frequency score 10,

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monitoring score 10.

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This meant that the kinetic fingers was the only issue

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that had a maximum risk priority number of 1000.

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The maker larvae pondered over the gloriousness of the kinetic fingers for some time

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and noted down "dab on the haters" in the comment column. [br][music ends]

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I'm already ecstatic about the function of this issue list because I realized:

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One issue we have, a big issue,

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is that the CAD model of Marble Machine X isn't exact like the real model.

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I posted an idea in the Wintergatan discord server idea-vault, about

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maybe we can create the whole MMX CAD-model

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together in the large Wintergatan community?

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The CAD model of the MMX would be not only usable for us in this project,

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we would open-source it for all the makers out there to have fun with.

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You can create VR experience and stuff like that.

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It's a huge work to transform this into a CAD model and we got little stuck at the end,

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so if you want to help us with that, check out the idea vault on discord

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That's a project that I can delegate. We need a project manager for that project.

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If we have hundred volunteers doesn't matter if we don't have leadership.

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This already makes me happier. This feels like I'm becoming an octopus with thousand arms.

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You guys are the arms.

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[epic music][br]Chapter four: The thousand armed octopus and

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populating the task list.

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Yet again, the maker larvae was journeying the distant land of discord,

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where he met the thousand armed octopus.

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The thousand armed octopus looked back at the maker larvae

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and said "I can help you, but I need to know what to do".

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"I need you to populate the task list and then for each and every task

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I needed to do something very special:"

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"You need to write a project charter."

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"I am very hungry and the only thing I eat is project charters."

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The maker larvae went to work.

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Populating the task list was kind of easy,

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writing the project charts though, turned out to be a massive task.

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It's important for the octopus that the quality of the project charters are high.

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The maker larva wrestled for days

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with target specifications, defect definitions,

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deliverables and definitions of completion,

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and communication guidelines.

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The maker larvae then started to feed the octopus by sending out the project charters to the MMX engineers

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And it was exactly at this moment it happened.

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The maker larvae came out of his shell

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and out came a beautiful [br]project manager butterfly!

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The plan had worked out perfectly.

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Starting with the project management master plan,

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that led to the issues list, that led to the task list,

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that led to the project charters,

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that led to feeding the octopus,

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that led to the multiplier in efficiency of the Marble Machine X project.

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And as far as I know, the butterfly project manager is still writing project charters,

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as he has another hundred and four project charters to write.

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Now when I've set my priorities straight, there's something I have to do...

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User settings, edit,

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change avatar...

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Here we go!

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Apply, save!

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Zaop has said that "kinetic fingers has a risk priority number of 1000, I love this".

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"I believe in #92"!

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Laughing crying smiley Wilson emoji... [br]"A single wish is invisible and inevitable,"

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"like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe"

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"and with that single action creates a tornado half way across the world."

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[laughing and clapping]

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You're in the fun at the Wintergatan discord server. What can I say, what can I say?

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I take my discord avatars very seriously!

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[buzzing bass beat]

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[Martin singing][br]♪ Community corner! ♪

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World premiere edition. Here we go:

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- Hey Martin. I wanted to show you my progress on what I'm doing because of you and your inspiration.

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I started out playing a miniature drum set a long time ago

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And I wanted to build my own that actually had working bass drum pedals

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and working high hat system.

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I even had to make a big list of how to attack that word "procrastination".

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Woo, it's a big one! [br]But thanks to you and your inspiration,

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here is where I am so far:

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Custom-made cymbals, 3D-printed drum rims and my own made heads. So it's been going great!

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Thank you very much for inspiration. Have a great day.

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Martin: - What? I had no clue there was such a thing as miniature drums, and I noticed a detail...

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I saw a little stopwatch in the beginning of the video,

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which kind of tells me that you've been practicing the presentation to get it down under 30 seconds.

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Five Wilsons out of 5! That looks really cool. Please keep us updated when the pedals are working.

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We need really to see that!

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Frédéric: - I have a suggestion for recording the sound of the vibraphone

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by using a guitar pick-up under the bars.

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As you can see I have my my hand-pan...[br][strikes three tones]

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With a coil right above the nodes, which is connected to my computer.

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So if I record the signal and strum a note....

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[reverberating tone]

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I can actually play it back as you can see...[br][tone repeats]

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and it records without the... the noise.

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I had to put a magnet on the instrument itself because it is not ferromagnetic,

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but I think it would work on vibraphone bars.

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Martin: - Wow! Frédéric Druppel, thank you.

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I had no clue about this technique.

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I think it won't take the vibraphone vibrato.

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But really cool!

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Graham: - My idea for the Marble Machine X is related to the music.

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I think you should outsource...

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some of the creating of the music to the community,

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by making an MMX simulator...

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a website or app so

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musicians can create music for the Machine and then

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these ideas could be then, like, posted in some sort of forum

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and then voted on by the MMX community.

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Martin: - That's really really nice, Graham. It's a great idea.

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I would not outsource the Wintergatan sound but...

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to have, like, a lot of songs online,

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and, like, then we can choose some that

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I actually also perform on the Marble Machine X itself, would be amazing.

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I really love how you put the graphic layout as well. Thank you!

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Martin: - What is this? A marble machine? MMT, yeah!

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[rattling from cogs]

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[three tones on glockenspiel]

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[two cymbal gongs]

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Yeah!

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Awesome!

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[background music][br][♪ Wintergatan: Marble Machine ♪]

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Wow!

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"The machine is still under construction. It will take a while until it is finished."

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[laughing]

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Yeah, I think you have only five... five to ten years to go.

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I'm so happy that you're keeping the company down in this hole.

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"Can't play much more than these few notes yet, but I'm confident that it can play more soon."

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It will! It looks like you had everything that was needed.

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It's so cool that you're actually building a real marble machine.

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I heard from a lot of people who said that they were going to build a marble machine

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and then I never saw anything [br]and you are so good on your way.

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So please keep us updated about the MMT project. Love it! Well done.

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[harp & glockenspiel music][br][♪ Wintergatan: The Rocket ♪]