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Greg Ward

Greg Ward

Saxophonist

Aug 27, 2026

19:10
What's the value of sprinkling in those folks into your leadership groups?
19:17
Yeah, so I think I'll start with that, with chiefs or leaders from fire emergency services organizations that aren't from your immediate area.
19:28
So like you said, a chief from Florida or on the East Coast for us.
19:34
I think that's important because it just brings that added perspective.
19:39
And in some ways, that perspective is... oh, we're not that much different.
19:45
We have the same issues, we have the same problems.
19:47
They may look a little bit different, but I think sometimes that's reassuring in some ways that, oh, across the country, they're having the same issue as we are.

6 MINS LATER

25:40
One, how do people get involved with groups like this? And then second, what would you suggest to anybody that wanted to start their own group?
16:27
And so what I'm curious to hear your thoughts on is at what point is that experience engaging versus distracting in your own opinion?
16:36
Yeah, I think it comes down to the fine details.
16:38
When it comes to motion, I'm in there at every tenth of the second.
16:42
I'm changing all the speed graphs so stuff has, you know, a nice pleasant start and beginning to it and stuff's very minor.
16:49
So I think to that point too, it shouldn't be a distraction.
16:53
It's kind of like good design.
16:54
Like you don't notice good design until you see bad design, especially like typesetting is always a big one for me.
20:53
So I'm just curious, this is a little different, but with this topic of distraction that we're talking about, I'm curious if you've heard about or thought about frictional design at all, or if that's a part of your process.

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