 Vietnam has been locked down over two months of being stuck inside Citywide closure the city was dead There was very few motorbikes or traffic outside and on a typical night like this in Ho Chi Minh Especially on a Saturday the streets are buzzing. It was only 10 p.m. People are still driving around even getting coffee Nobody really wanted to go outside because of all the spread Let's step back a bit. So I arrived in Vietnam four months ago. I moved from Thailand Got the flight to Singapore and from Singapore Headed into quarantine Stuck out 14 days in quarantine Came out and it was heaven. Everything was open people were still living their normal day lives and it was great I spoke to a friend and I said in Thailand. It was so chill I could like work on my videos, but here I'm like running around a lot of people to see a lot of drinks a lot of food It's crazy, but it's fucking crazy I was doing lots of things design workshops meeting up with friends going drinking exploring eating Having a whale of a time, but then boom directive 15 only the necessities were open You're mostly stuck at home ordering takeout. So really it's about entertaining yourself at home What can you do when you're indoors? Maybe you might upgrade the setup if you haven't seen the video. Here's my setup It's pretty minimal pens notepad laptop speaker microphone Wireless charger nothing out of the ordinary and I'm still working from a laptop So I just ordered something which is gonna make the design and editing workflow much better I'm waiting for the delivery and the guy said it's gonna be 45 minutes. Whoo, but it's actually raining outside Hopefully if they deliver it on a bike, which they probably will it won't get so I'm just so excited for it Oh, come on. I've been reluctant to buy this since I've moved into the apartment just cuz it's quite expensive didn't really need it but Fuck it. It's my birthday Tomorrow this is basically an early birthday present to myself I know I'm unemployed but sometimes you just got to treat yourself plus I'm gonna write it off as a work expense, but I don't have a job How does that work? Where's this motherfucker? Hello, okay. He's here. Yes. Are you downstairs? Let's go. Okay, let's run and get it here. It is Let's unbox this bad boy. Shall we? So here's everything it comes with base plate Then you have a bunch of power cables hdmi usb-c the power brick, of course the stand Then the screws Why do you need this? Oh my who has a CD drive these days for a manual? So turns out that this gap is pretty wide which means that I need to move These up to here so we can have a smaller table gap. I didn't think I had any tools However, I have a skate tool that comes with a screwy head All right skate tools for life We've been through this before. What do you do when you're at home? Maybe you might revisit the podcast that you were doing This is my podcast setup. I haven't done a podcast or even a video in a long time A series of five different episodes on the same topic and hopefully bang it out tonight in three hours Some crazy live shit happened. I'm gonna get some drinks. I need a bit of lubrication for this one Because some mad shit went down and then boom Directive 16 the highest alert Ho Chi Minh has been because of the spread of cases closures of Almost everything everybody suggested to work from home, but I was lucky had a distraction It's 7 30 and I've had three hours sleep ahead of me is a two-day workshop The official name is advisory learning series CIW level 300. So what does that mean? It's Amazon's effort to train facilitators to help them with their partner businesses We're gonna be trained in their customer innovation techniques I have the agenda, but I still don't really know what to expect in terms of how they're gonna run it Some things are familiar. Some things are not. Oh, I think I need some coffee Before any long day in front of the computer, especially in a workshop setting you want to get ready So you need to prepare your table and there's a few things that I like to prepare Of course, we have our coffee some form of other drink here I've opted for some tea and some water I have my note pad because you're gonna be taking a lots of notes It's better to actually do physical notes rather than digital you need your phone there just in case also to Have some sweets on the table just for that sugar boost and you need your microphone for that crispy crispy audio some more snacks I have here Oreos and some other bickies all designers love poster notes and I am The same you got to have your headphones and of course the main event Which is the two screens you definitely need a webcam. That's the man This is the digital whiteboard if you're familiar with workshops. This is a must-have for remote workshops We're using mural here. So let's get started with the day Today we spoke about customer validation overall went well started at eight and finished about half three We have Seven teams that we broke out. Of course the slide design Could be better, but you know and I can see me actually not only being one of the facilitators for Amazon when they Scale this to bigger teams of customers that they have but also using this in Some sort of context for my own side projects. So day one completed. Let's get ready for day two. All right 730 and today we're starting day two. So lots to get through today covering the Experiment part of the workshop. How do you validate who your customers are? No, yes My first one is you input problems into this magical machine and then some AI thing Does this computation and it basically tells you what the solution is, right? So input problems output solution all done Finish the two-day workshop. Just need to give the feedback on the survey overall I would recommend it to anybody looking to get into the field of Innovation so working backwards is sort of like design thinking but in different orders It's a lot of different naming conventions But people who have done design thinking before will understand the working backwards framework from Amazon Definitely, I'll use some of the tools and he retained like 30% of the information probably less but putting it to practice will be the real test. All right day two done Boom you advised only go out for grocery shopping like for someone like me who hasn't cooked in such a long time It was a bit hard one of the benefits of living in Asia is actually you never need to cook It's cheap enough for you to actually get takeaway pretty much every night unless You're in a pandemic and the government decides directive 16. It's all locked out. That means I Have to get back into the kitchen Not very happy about this another thing they added to prevent people going outside and doing that stuff They're doing fines that I mean, they're so strict. Anyway, fuck that shit Let's make some food have to show my skills as a house husband Shit Uncle's a soup ABC and a bit of accident This is why don't cook but guess what? Spam yes, how do people not like spam? This is me for champions This is gonna say more law watch this shit go absolutely wild when I put the spam Oh, God, I'm popping shit is hot. Hey Fuck you got me rather neck. It's sticking like a mother probably not a good idea But at this point it's getting quite golden brown only took me a few hours to make this shit That's why people don't cook. It's long Little bit Looks Crispy mummy. Let me know if you want me talking shit and cooking a bit more only wants to see this shit Me talking like a cockney bastard. God. I'm hungry. It's fucking nine o'clock. It's way too much oil But fuck it in it Pandemic that was a poor break. Let's see. We can do it one-handed Nope. Okay. Okay latch Whoo Spamages watch out my cool it look at that soup. It's proper bubs I want to burn myself on time. It's like nothing. It's like water. So tomorrow making Japanese curry. I think I'm ready to eat man The spam the sad ass asparagus I cooked in the rice cooker. It's so over cooked It's terrible and it's got bits of rice all over it. Yum. We have the rice The staple I think I put too much water in it. It's a little bit fluffy. Anyway, this is how glamorous it gets in the fucking lockdown Man. Yep. So welcome to Cockney Chris that cook in chepion. That's it I'm gonna draw a meal and you guys can I haven't had a haircut in so long. Look at this. Terrible It's I've got like an afro So my landlord just text me and he was like hey Do you want a haircut because I'm getting one layer during lockdown? Directive 16 straight to the lock down. We've had I just got a bar. What's come to my place probably need to clean this up a little bit but Fast forward to today. We're day eight in the directive 16 lockdown So we have been indoors I would say maybe 95% of the time about two months and during those two months It has been up and down in terms of creativity and motivation. I've still been working on my own projects But I don't know what it is. I think it's the psychological effects of being locked down And the whole world has been through this other countries have done six to nine months lockdown And that must be really really hard for you to go in and out of lockdown I think that's much more disruptive because you think everything is okay, and then not and then okay New variants coming out booster vaccines are under experimentation There's just a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment So I think that's how it really affected me in terms of not knowing what's happening You know getting through it like everybody else So this is another way to keep me busy during literally don't go out. Otherwise, you'll die period of my life Yeah, so making something like this is a good distraction From just all the craziness that's out there and in here And this is probably one of the easiest videos you can make where you just talk into a camera and you're just taking random shots anywhere It's the vlog. There's not much point apart from stay strong and See you on the next one What you doing? What you doing? Where you at? Where you at? Oh, you got plans. You got plans Don't say that. I'm sleeping one. Sheep sheep in a row. Drip it. I look too good. I look too good To be a long oh my house cream house cream my pool warm pool warm just shame smooth like a newborn We should be dancing Romaging in the east wing and the west wing over this nation. What's happening? I am playing no games and now what did I say come straight from the heart So if you try not a in this arms I'm a rib that Open I'm a rib that open I'm a rib that Open girl, I'm a rib that open open That you feel that I feel and you want me like I want you tonight, baby Tell me that you coming through