We invite Helen Tran, Chas Barton, and Kunal Patel to gather around a table and try to answer some really difficult questions with real honesty.

Stages of Group Development

The idea behind this was developed in 1965 by a man named Bruce Tuckman

He identified 4 stages at first. Fifth was added later.

• Forming
  • Represents a time, just coming together
  • Anxiety and uncertainty
  • want to be accepted
  • conflict
  • controversy
  • personal opinions are avoided
  • the point and focus for group members during this stage is to become familiar with each other and their purpose, not on work.
    • Understanding of the group’s purpose
    • determining how the team will be organized
    • discussion of major milestones
    • outlining general group rules
    • discovery of what resources will be available for the group
• Storming
  • conflict and competition are at its greatest
  • they start to feel confident
  • begin to address some of the more important issues surrounding the group
  • group’s tasks
  • individual roles and responsibilites
  • group members
  • the more dominant group members emerege
  • less-confrontational suppress feelings
  • all members have an increased need for clarification
    • not many groups are able to move forward
    • they need clarity
• Norming
  • Group becomes a cohesive unit, morale is high
  • sense of community is established
  • remain focus on groups purpose or goal
  • members are flexible, interdependent and trust each other.
  • Leadership is shared, and
  • members are willing to adapt to the needs of the group
  • information flows seamlessly and is inhabited due to the sense of security members feel in the norming stage
• Performing
  • This is the peak of the group
  • this is marked by high productivity
  • group members are unified, loyal and supportive.
  • competence in all members is seen, allowing for a high level of autonomy in decision making.
  • the overall objective of the group in this stage is to complete their mission and fulfill their purpose through goal achievement
• Adjourning
  • once goals and objectives have been achieved
  • at this point it’s important to achieve closure for the group on a positive note
  • important to recognize the group members for their accomplishments and celebrate the group’s overall success

If you could give your younger self one piece of advise, what would it be?

##Morqix: https://soundcloud.com/morqix
##Desperate Measures release date March 15, 2017 on PhutureCollective: https://soundcloud.com/phuturecollective/sets

Welcome to another Late Nights with Trav and Los, I’m your host Los Montoya.

The episode you are listening to is the second episode of our new segment called; Undiiscovered. A show dedicated to bringing you the raw sounds of new and emerging musicians.

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Matt McDonald who produces under the moniker of Morqix.

Born in Germany and raised in Northern Virginia, Morqix is an indie electronic producer living in Austin, TX. Starting in early 2016, Morqix is already making major headway in the electronic music scene, with his first few releases landing him upwards of 300k listeners and featured on blogs and channels like Suicide Sheep, Beautiful Buzzz, Run the Trap, High Clouds and Acid Stag, to name a few.

Morqix has an insatiable hunger to create upbeat feel good music while testing the bounds of his favorite genres. His love and knowledge of all things music has allowed him to create songs which unapologetically bridge genres, blending lush future bass sounds with trap, dubstep, hip-hop, jazz and funk vibes for good measure. The end result is a sound which refuses to be categorized, and finds a home with music lovers of all backgrounds.

We get the privilege of getting a pre-release exclusive and interview for his latest track Desperate Measures.

5 fears I have

1. Everyone will think I’m a fraud Impostor syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. A month before his death, he reportedly confided in a friend, saying “the exaggerated esteem in which my lifework is held makes me very ill at ease. I feel compelled to think of myself as an involuntary swindler.” Solution: Realize that Everyone else feels like that. Become okay with it. Psychological research done in the early 1980s estimated that two out of five successful people consider themselves frauds and other studies have found that 70 percent of all people feel like impostors at one time or another. So get over it.
2. I am a fraud, and everyone will find out soon This week I published a video in which I invited another developer to do a code review of my JS. So far 3K people have seen it. So now they know. Solution: Okay, now they know. So now I don’t have to worry that they will find out, because that already happened. What now? Keep moving.
3. I will run out of ideas This is kind of a new one for me. Now that I’ve been sharing ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for a while and sometimes I sit down to spit out a new piece of content and I feel like the well is dry. Solution: Sean McCabe of Seanwes suggests to “Don’t worry about repeating yourself. People need to hear things multiple times and there are always new people finding your show or blog.”
4. People will loose interest in what I’m doing I’ve always been afraid of getting old, But now I’m afraid of becoming irrelevant. My work relies on myself being able to have relevant ideas and being able to mold something meaningful from them. Solution: My value is not the work I did yesterday. My entire body of work speaks for itself. Solution: People only care about your work as long as it benefits themselves. I googled “people will loose interest in my work” and every result was about people struggling with their own work ethic. No one cares about you, relax. Then make something that helps someone.
5. It will never be this good again In economics and decision theory, loss aversion refers to people's tendency to strongly prefer avoiding losses to acquiring gains. Most studies suggest that losses are twice as powerful, psychologically, as gains. Living like this is like driving while looking solely in the rear view mirror. It’s impossible to make good decisions. Solution: Maybe you are right. YOLO!