So thank you so much to the organizers for having you here today and to this incredible community that I've gotten to know a bit more over the past couple of days. This is my first WordCamp. It's really exciting to see all the amazing work that's being built with WordPress as well as the creativity going into extending WordPress's capabilities. And when we talk about WordPress, we often talk about it as a tool for publishing. And today I want to take a bit of a deep dive into the act of digital publishing and how it's evolved over the lifespan of WordPress as a product. And as we do so, I want to specifically look at how those changes have had an impact on who the WordPress user is over time. So who is it that wants to create their own destination on the Internet in the world of 2018 and beyond? And what are their motivations for doing so? So hopefully we can start to understand the present moment in context and then be able to anticipate the future of publishing in order to keep pace with both our user's needs and also emerging technologies. But before we do that, hi. That was an awesome intro. I just wanted to give you a really quick background about me and why I'm standing here talking about any of this. So as you've heard, I'm currently the head of design innovation at Automatic. I joined about five months ago, so I'm still pretty new. But prior to that, where I come from is that I've spent a lot of years working on the design of media experiences and publishing systems. So over the past decade or so, I've done that primarily in the context of news and media. Most recently, heading up Design at Axios, which is a news startup. So that was a lot of like building reader-facing products and also our own custom CMS. And then also, before that, at the New York Times R&D Lab, we were doing much more kind of experimental future-facing prototyping. So a lot of my work has been focused on tracking the kinds of changes I'm going to talk about today. Understanding how technological shifts change the constraints and possibilities for publishing and then how we work with those new opportunities so that we can create great experiences for people to create and distribute and consume information. So that's what I hope to do today. Take a little trip through the lifespan of WordPress and how changes in both technology and kind of the way people behave have impacted the trajectory of digital publishing during that time and to understand what that means in terms of who the WordPress users are and then talk a little bit about where we might be headed next. So first let's take a trip back to 2003, about the beginning of the WordPress timeline. And back then, if you think about digital publishing, publishing and making a website were one and the same thing. There was no other way to say something on the Internet. Blogging was like the big innovation of the moment because it had introduced a slightly different mode of publishing, one which was more dynamic, more conversational, and less static than web publishing had been up to that point. And it was kind of such a big deal that it prompted all kinds of think pieces. Blogs were going to kill everything from marketing to the art of writing itself. We weren't sure if bloggers were journalists or if blogs were now newspapers. It was all very confusing, it was all very fraught. And it's kind of funny to look back at because as we know from our vantage point right now, this was just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what was to come and the upheavals that were to come for digital publishing in the years after this. Because right now, at this point, whether you had a blog or a traditional site, the mechanism and the platform were the same. You still needed to build a website to publish anything online. So as a designer, one of my first questions is always who is it for? Who's our user? And in this case, back in 2003, if you're designing publishing systems like WordPress, your user is basically everyone who wants to say something on the internet. Because making a website is the only way to do that at the time, which is great in a way because, hey, you have a huge potential audience. But one of the first things that I learned in user experience design is that if everyone is the answer to who is it for, it's a really challenging proposition. Because you have to meet so many different needs and try to be all things to all people. And the digital publishing ecosystem really began to evolve in response to that challenge as companies recognize that they could, instead of this singular thing, create better, more focused products for different kinds of users, different kinds of contexts, and different kinds of needs, especially as new technologies and affordances emerged. So first, early on we saw platforms that were created to serve people who wanted to share particular kinds of media, specifically photos and videos. So Flickr and YouTube were launched in 2004 or 2005 respectively. And they were kind of the poster children for what everyone took to calling Web 2.0. Raise your hand if you remember that term. Of course, there were some people who were skeptical. This is a quote from Tim Berners-Lee.  But those platforms specifically evolved in response to some new realities that had been emerging. So for example, in the few years prior, digital cameras had become widely accessible and photography and video creation, which was once really the province of specialists, became radically democratized. We were suddenly creating all of this visual content at alarming rates and didn't know what to do with it. So Flickr and YouTube not only offered a way to share photos with others in a way that leveraged the network of all the users that were on the platform. But since the content formats were so standardized, they leveraged that standardization to make the publishing process radically simpler. So to put your content online, there's all the stuff you no longer had to do. You didn't have to think about web pages or layout or code or design. You just uploaded your pictures and they were displayed on a standardized template that you didn't have to code or maintain. And that was kind of the first seed of the power of platforms in publishing. So a platform could do both of these things really well. It could connect people with each other, and it could also reduce the amount of work needed to publish. And those two affordances combined to massive impact in the subsequent rise of social platforms. So in 2003, we were here. And now in 2006-ish, making websites isn't the only thing. Now you have these media platforms like Flickr and YouTube, which were good for specific kinds of publishing. So the use case for making a website is a little bit smaller, but it's still pretty dominant. But that changed pretty dramatically with the explosion of social media platforms. So there had been experiments before this like Friendster and MySpace, but a really, really big shift happened with the nearly simultaneous launch of Twitter and the opening of public access to Facebook in 2007. Now part of that is because of the power of platforms to connect people that we had just talked about. So suddenly, a subset of people who had been building websites to share information with the world suddenly had a much easier way to share information, and they could choose whether it was something that they really wanted to broadcast to everybody and share with the world or to share more privately with the people that they knew. Part of their success was also about the greater efficiency of publishing. So this is a wired piece from 2008, saying, thinking about launching your own blog, don't, and if you've already got one, pull the plug, and social multimedia sites like YouTube, Flickr and Facebook have since made publishing picks and video as easy as typing text. So there is this ease, this efficiency of publishing, plus the network effect was created a really, really big change. And on top of all of this, around the same time, as social media was becoming ascendant, the teeny, tiny little iPhone 1 in Steve Jobs' hand launched. And we all know about the impact that that had on just about everything. So in the years that followed with the rise of mobile app ecosystems in concert with the kinds of platforms we were just talking about, collectively, what happened is that publishing, this thing that we talk about as publishing, started to take on a really different character. So instead of this more formal and labor-intensive process where I'm going to sit down and I'm going to write something and I'm going to construct this thing and I'm going to put it out there, and this kind of big intentional act, publishing became ever more casual and personal and easy. And it was no longer a dedicated activity for people, but an interstitial act that happened opportunistically between other moments in your life. It was a random thought shared between meetings or a snapshot taken on the street. And we started to see products that doubled down on that sort of constrained and casual and interstitial nature. So experiences like Snapchat and Instagram and Facebook stories brought the concept of ephemerality to the act of publishing, catering to those who didn't want to make a statement forever but who simply wanted to communicate in the moment. And the more publishing became casual and conversational, in some cases it literally became a conversation. So as users spent more and more time in chat-based interfaces like Facebook Messenger and Slack and WeChat and others, those platforms began creating tools for publishers and business owners to publish into these kind of chat spaces. So over the past few years we've seen tools for creating chat bots and finding ways to shift some aspects of publishing into more of a conversational paradigm. I don't necessarily think that's always a good idea, but I'll talk more about that in a minute. So what we've seen is that the world of the earlier web, where creating a website was the only way to share information, digital publishing started out as more of this long form, serious, dedicated act. And all the platforms and tools that we've discussed so far have mostly capitalized on the ways that people might want to communicate in ways that are more casual and brief and interstitial. But if you wanted to do some serious, like long form writing, you still basically had two choices. You could either go get it published by a traditional media or news organization, which very few people have the inclination or knowledge or connections to do, or you could make a website. Which is where a platform like Medium is really interesting. So Medium comes along and takes that simplicity and that ease of use that social platforms afforded and applies it to that longer form writing. So they successfully decoupled, like I wanna say something serious on the internet from I have to build and maintain a website, which is a really big deal for platforms like WordPress. Okay, so we once had the single format of publishing. We had a webpage that contained text and media and these like page layouts and it was consumed on one kind of device on a desktop or laptop computer. And now we're in this world where we have a massive variety of formats that can be published through lots of different platforms and then consumed on lots of different devices and lots of different contexts. And it leads to just a lot of complexity. So in my years working with publishers and brands, people who are trying to like navigate this complex world and figure out what they needed would often ask me the question like, what's gonna win? Like tell me secretly, what's gonna win? And there was this idea that you had print and print was the stable thing for news and media forever. And then the web won over print, but then mobile came along and mobile won over the web and so on and so on. And so the goal in asking that kind of question for a media company at least was to be able to kind of make a bet and double down on creating a business model that would work in whatever that winning ecosystem or platform was gonna be. So they're like, can we just like do everything on Facebook now? Is that what we should be doing? Is it VR? Everyone is trying to figure that out. And so my answer to that was always everything wins. There's no, nothing goes away. None of this disappears. The future is a creative. And each of these formats and platforms is just another piece in this increasingly complex puzzle that is digital publishing. And for a long time in those conversations, my advice was that you kind of have to play everywhere, that you have to have this kind of fluid experience of your company or your brand or your news or whatever it is that you're creating where people can experience it in all kinds of different contexts, at different moments in different formats. But a few years ago, we got to a point where like that clearly wasn't a sustainable answer anymore because it's just so big and so complex. And playing in all of these places well is nearly impossible without an enormous budget and staff. Like each one of these takes dedicated effort. It's not just like a right ones publish everywhere that like the format and the thought that goes into an Instagram story is different from something that's long form that you publish on the site, which is different from your Facebook page, et cetera, et cetera. So even working at places like The Times which do have enormous budgets and staff, it's still really hard for them to think about playing everywhere. So what I do now is I tell people to really like take a close look at their business or their brand and understand two things. What are your core values? Who's your audience? So then you need to be selective and you need to choose the kinds of publishing or the kinds of platforms that allow you to best express those values and reach the audiences that are important to you because not everyone's hanging out everywhere. And so that secret sauce, that particular combination is gonna look a little different for different people and companies. So coming back to this question. Now that publishing looks really different than it did when we were talking about 2003. Now that making a website is no longer the default option but it's simply one choice amongst many. Let's ask this question again. Who is WordPress for now? As we can see, the audience for a product like WordPress is no longer everybody who wants to say something on the internet but it's rather a subset of those people. And the great news about that is that we can start to get a more specific picture of who our users are which means that we can build tools with greater focus that more effectively serve their needs. Okay, so I'm gonna take a little detour here for a minute. We're gonna take a pause and do a bit of a guided meditation. This is an exercise that my colleague Rick Bannister made and gave me permission to adapt for this talk because when he went through it, it really helped me to visualize like what the WordPress community is, who our users are. So I thought I would share it with you. So first, if you're comfortable doing so, close your eyes. Take a moment to notice the sensations of your body. Straighten your back. Take a deep breath, relax your arms. Feel your breath moving in and out. Now imagine that you are standing in a field. The grass around you is green. There's a light breeze. The air is warm. Now with each breath in, imagine that you're getting lighter and lighter. Eventually, you get so light that you start to lift off the ground a little bit. With a little help from the breeze, you begin to float upwards. You fly around a bit, you get the hang of it and then you take off for the clouds. As you rise higher and higher, going faster and faster, you see something down below you. You start to drift down and as you get closer, the air gets smoggier and you realize it's a vast metropolis. It's surrounded by foreboding concrete walls that are high and topped with barbed wire. It doesn't look very inviting from the outside. Inside it's bustling. There's lots of honking traffic. There are people everywhere. The sound is deafening. You see people arguing in bars and fighting on street corners. There are billboards and advertisements everywhere touting every kind of good and service. It's noisy and dense and hard to navigate. The inhabitants don't seem particularly happy but they can't leave. This is Facebook. You fly over the city out of the smog and into clear air. As you fly, you encounter a sprawling suburbia. It has walls and hedges too, but they're shinier and newer. The residents are still bustling and chatting but there's less fighting, less noise. Everyone's kind of focused on appearances. The streets and houses are more pleasant. The people pay a lot of attention to how they dress. But all the houses kind of look the same and they're all square and boxy and identical. And they're all on identical streets in a perfect grid. Even though the residents have done a lot of work to paint them different colors and give them personality. When you look closer at some of the houses you realize they're actually just billboards made to look like someone lives there. This is Instagram. You float back up and wanna see what else is out there in the world. As the suburbs fade into the distance the rest of the world comes into focus on the horizon. 32% of it anyway. You see farmsteads in remote corners of the countryside. You see riverside factories. You see backpackers on mountain sides. You see small settlements and emerging new cities. You see apartment buildings and straw huts, sprawling homesteads and local churches. You even see a few people attempting to climb over the walls of the big city from before. This diverse group of people value their freedom but they dream of some of the comforts of city and suburban life. Utilities and services, same day mail, cable TV, corner stores with all the amenities. They want ways to make their houses bigger and stronger. They want tools to make their businesses more valuable for customers and roads to connect them to other people. This is WordPress. Eventually you fly past the last settlement and you find yourself back in an open field and as your breathing slows each exhale you get heavier and heavier until eventually you settle back down to earth.  Thanks for coming on that little journey with me. So in 2018 in a world where I can start writing or sharing information about my business in minutes on one of the multitudes of platforms I just discussed, in this context why would I build my own website or blog? Why would I put in the effort that it takes to design and build and maintain my own destination on the internet? Because no matter how elegant we make the product, doing that is always gonna require more effort and money and dedication than the alternatives. And also, a thing to understand is that a lot of people who are owning and making websites, they don't care about making a website, they care about what it helps them achieve or the problems it can help them solve. It's a means to an end. So let's talk about what a website might afford for a user that the alternatives can't. The first thing that seems clear is that creating your own website affords an exponentially higher degree of control than participating in a platform. So while Facebook offers features for businesses they might not be the right feature for your business. While Medium offers tools for writers they might not be the ones, the right ones for how you wanna write. So the freedom to control what tools and features you use to achieve your goals is a huge advantage that may very well be worth dedicating that extra time and effort to.  You want the storefront. You don't want real estate and someone else's strip mall. And again, this comes back to control. You get to control the context in which your readers or customers encounter you. Secondly, we're currently in a moment of a lot of disillusionment with the massive monopoly on our content and personal data that is in the hands of a few platforms. And those platforms are almost universally run on advertising driven models where your data primarily exists to serve the needs of those advertisers rather than you. So I can't predict how much that skepticism will grow or how big a backlash there'll be or what the impact of that is. But I would argue that there's increasingly a value of freedom in owning your data and owning your content and not being subject to the business decisions of massive platforms that may or may not have your best interests at heart. And finally, while I just said that a lot of users don't care about the website, they only care what it gets for them, I don't want to forget the segment of people who still view the web itself as a medium for expression and creativity. So what I hope that we can retain and revive from the days of the early web is that Cambrian explosion of creativity that used the tools of the medium itself. So the older web was more rudimentary, but it was clay. It was the thing we worked with. It was material for creating.  We all remember geosities, but it was craft. It was our own creation. It wasn't some shiny cookie cutter assemblage that we made from a kit. So while we can appreciate the elegance and the gloss and the ease of use of the tools and platforms that we have available to us today, they still feel kind of prescriptive and limiting and kind of dull. So why not have the ability to reclaim the tools of our digital space and put our hands in that clay and see what we can make? And so there's this element of unique personal expression and craft that's only possible when you make your own thing. So control, freedom and craft. This isn't an exhaustive list, I'm sure, but these are the kind of values that I keep coming back to that are reasons that drive WordPress users when they come to WordPress to make their own thing rather than spinning up yet another Facebook page. So how do we design for that? I'm gonna talk a little bit about what's happening now that I think ties into these needs and then pose some ideas about how we might further innovate looking a bit into the future. So one of the reasons that I'm excited about Gutenberg is because I think it does speak to these values and needs. The core design principle of Gutenberg is that of direct control. So rather than kind of handling your content in one place and then having to manage how it's presented indirectly and navigate a bunch of menus, it brings those actions together to allow you to directly manipulate the content and presentation of your site in place and see those changes as we make them. And so what direct manipulation does is it gives the user better control and more flexibility to determine how they want their site to work. They control the layout and features of a page directly by adding and customizing blocks rather than having to rely on the complexity of widgets and short codes and embeds and things that feel pretty arcane to a lot of people who are just starting out especially. And while Gutenberg is in its infancy now, I imagine a fully grown-up version being something that really makes the open web fully editable in a direct way in a way that really allows for that deep kind of craft and virtuosity. But I wanna think beyond what we can do right now. So how do we not just catch up with current practices but move forward and leapfrog them? So at the R&D lab at the times, we often talked about working in the realm of the newly possible. So tools or technologies that had recently emerged but hadn't kind of reached full utilization or their full expression yet. So what kinds of newly possible technologies might change the way that we think about publishing? So I'm gonna do a really quick run-through of just some of the most immediate possibilities that come to mind. These are more questions I'm posing and not full product concepts, but hopefully they will get conversations started. So one of the things that, and Gary mentioned a bunch of these in his talk yesterday too, so let's think about voice-wise. So this is something that has obviously come to a lot more maturity and viability over the past few years. So we've seen not only technology that's embedded in existing devices like Siri and Google Assistant on our phones, but also new devices that extend voice control to our homes and our physical spaces. So are there ways in which WordPress users might be served by the integration of voice technology into the publishing process? In what circumstances might voice inputs be a better option than text inputs? Maybe there are particular kinds of content that you might wanna publish via voice. Or perhaps there are actions like getting your daily site statistics or fulfilling an incoming e-commerce order that you might be able to easily automate via voice commands. And maybe this kind of interaction provides new affordances for specific groups of users and gives us the opportunity to make WordPress more inclusive and more accessible. Or we can look at things like augmented reality, especially when we see things like iOS 12 integrating AR into the browser with AR QuickLook. So what does an AR website afford? You can imagine ways that technology, that might be a technology that users like e-commerce site owners might wanna take advantage of. So what does the authoring experience in WordPress look like for an AR website? How do you make that easy? How do you make that accessible? There are all these really meaty interesting questions there. Or we can think about AI and machine learning, which is a really big topic. But the way I like to approach this is that when people talk about AI, they think about how you can replace human labor with computation. But I really like to think about AI more like this exoskeleton here. So something that can collaborate with people rather than replace them. A way of creating superpowers for ourselves. And so when we think about that, we have to think about like, well, what are the things that machines can do that humans can't do really well? So they can do things like, they can process information really quickly. They can do complex calculations. They can remember things perfectly and store that information at scale. So how do we use those affordances to do something that I can't rather than mimic something that I already can? So how does machine intelligence give WordPress users superpowers? How does it augment their abilities or allow them to do something that's currently really lemur intensive for them? If we look at something like Gmail's new smart compose feature, which I know people probably have very mixed feelings about. But you can imagine machine learning and predictive text being able to assist users in creating content. And we know that content creation stuff can be really intimidating for people, especially if you're not a writer by trade if this is something new to you. So are there ways that machines can help provide assistance there? Or we can apply machine learning to extrapolate patterns from traffic and engagement data to give site owners kind of a more meaningful narrative and understanding about how people are engaging with their website and how what they do impacts that. But as we think about all of these new technologies, it's really important in my mind not just to use them because we can, like, hey, a new toy we can play with, but again to think about this idea of affordances. So what does this particular technology do especially well? And then how does that intersect with the goals and needs of our users? So an example of how that can go poorly is if we look at chatbots and conversational UI in the past couple of years. People started making everything a chatbot for not necessarily particularly good reasons. And the fact is that people weren't designing with a critical eye to what the key affordances of chatbots are and that led to a lot of bad experiences. So you had bots that felt like a regular UI was shoved awkwardly into a conversational interface or bots that tried to inject these really fake chatty personalities when the user is just trying to get something done or just plain old failed interactions like this one. Yeah, that's not good. So that brings us back to this. Humans are really good at conversations. We understand sarcasm. We can read between the lines, hopefully, and we're constantly leveraging contextual information in order to interpret what's happening in the conversation. So computers aren't great at that. So let's not make them try to do that. Chatbots aren't interesting for their own sake. It's not that we love to talk to computers and we're all dying to have a conversation with a bot. They're compelling when they can create efficiency for a user, when they can better integrate into the context that you're in, or they can reduce the number of steps that you need to take to achieve a goal. So as we look at all of these emerging technologies, whether it's voice or AI or AI or anything else that comes down the path, it's not just a question of what can they do, but what can they do uniquely well? And more importantly, what can they do that speak to these values? So as I think about innovation in the context of WordPress, it's with these values and these user needs in mind. And it's this opportunity we have to really make a product that serves a focused set of needs rather than trying to be all things to all people, because publishing isn't just one thing anymore. We can't be everything to everyone. Some of those people are just gonna want an Instagram account and that's okay. But how do we serve the people who do want that website, who want a home for their ideas or their business? How can we provide tools that enable not just productivity, but virtuosity? How do we provide compelling tools for making and for craft in a world of platforms that push standardization and convenience? And how do we leverage the new contexts and technologies of 2018 and in the future to create the best expression of WordPress? And as we explore these possible answers, innovation should mean doubling down those values of craft, control, and freedom, and really letting them shine at the heart of the WordPress experience. Thank you very much, and take some questions, okay? See right here. Before she goes, I wanna make a little presentation as a first-time speaker, right? At work, yeah. At work. Give her a great round of applause, please. Thank you. Very good. Now, just briefly, in my family, what we do is when we meet first-time speakers, we welcome them, but we also get them a wapoo to remember their experience and encourage them to continue to speak, so congratulations. Thank you very much. All right, you're welcome. Two years is time for human error, too. You wanna do it? Okay, we have some time for a couple of questions. You know, not a dissertation or anything, but just some brief questions. Thank you. Okay. Was interested in how you see the Gutenberg editor specifically playing into major publishers. I know like the New York Post, for example, like what is their take on where Gutenberg is headed and do you see this as a serious publishing editor? Absolutely, I think it can be. I mean, like I said, this is the beginning of Gutenberg and I think it's only gonna get richer and more expansive, especially even just the kinds of block libraries we're already starting to see emerge and I think we'll see more and more specialized ones that will allow for this really powerful experience, not just for an individual publisher, but for someone who's operating at a scale like the New York Post or The Times or Washington Post or any of them. Hello, I'm from Knoxville, actually from Knox Makers, so we're Makerspace, five of us in three nonprofit. So you're speaking right to the heart of some stuff that I've been really, really thinking about and passionate about. We're looking at like 3D modeling for 3D printing, Arduino, Raspberry Pi's, a lot of this stuff, laser cutting, even fabric arts, things like that. And I'm talking about crafters and makers trying to get their name out there, but without compromising the integrity of, I don't wanna look like every other website, like how do we do that? Are you all looking at tapping into the resources of the maker movement, Makerspaces, Hackerspaces and trying to see how we can bridge the gap between that and WordPress? I haven't explicitly, but I think that's a fantastic idea, yeah. Thank you very much for this. All right, well I will be around if anybody wants to grab me and ask any further questions. Thank you so much and I hope you have a great rest of the day.


Okay, so welcome to this new vlog. I decided to start the vlog because this is a fun Adventure that I'm having with my one of my classmates. This is Kyra And we're gonna go to like a happy hour because you know some girls needs to decompress After school, so we're both surgical tech students. Do you want to say hi to the vlog? She did have a YouTube channel, but then you stopped, right? Oh man, all right Anyway our Change came in clutch with these because I didn't want to have to use a card So we're gonna go to world of beer for their happy hour and just hang out And this is my friend jamie. All right, so we got this giant press teeny her first one Jamie got this cool. Um drink. It's like a liquor. It has like vodka and juice, right? That's a juice. Yeah, cute much needed cycle bar. Where else it is saturday. I always like going to um 9 15 rides But I always have to remember like go to bed at like at least 10 30 So I get like adequate sleep because I can sleep in until 8 because I can leave at 8 30. So Anyway, I know that was like a long tangent about going to cycle bar and the reason why Well, number one. I love Ethan's class.  So I can leave at 8 30 and then be there for the 9 45 class Whereas if I wanted to go downtown, it's just really unpredictable. So I always leave like at 8 15 or 8 When I go there or when I go to the Melbourne classic, obviously I have to leave like a solid like hour and 15 Uh, but I barely go to that one Only like when my friend has like special things going on or if the ride is free So I have been slacking so hardcore on the vlog in game. So I'm sorry about that It's been so bad. I love uploading three times a week and I was uploading like every day So I need to get back on my grind. Um, I've just honestly I have no excuse. I just haven't Vlogged a lot. So Yeah, um, I've been a little bit more active on instagram like stories and stuff But like still it's not where I want to be that's like my goal for today I want to film edit and upload a video today So I have something out there and then I don't know when you're going to be watching that Maybe like Wednesday or Thursday. I don't know But I want to get this video. I want to vlog today. I want to vlog tomorrow so I can like Get caught back up because basically all my videos were like once I edited them and posted them like I had nothing Else to edit. So I know that was a long rant for like Not a lot of information, but I'm going to do my darndest and you guys know like I'm pretty good about Um, getting uploads up There will be at least two uploads and then a third will be like a bonus because I remember when I was doing Um, three uploads. I would always have like a themed sit-down video. So Yeah, I don't know because there's not a lot of products like I can talk about yet. Anyway I'm gonna I'm gonna cut the clip now because I haven't talked for way too long. Okay.  I don't know. It's just one of those things that like Normally, I always forget but so far knock on wood. I haven't forgotten to use them Just got out of the shower as you can see and I totally forgot I ordered a book. So this is called the social climber and it is fiction, which you guys know I'm uh, I don't know. I don't want to say I'm not a big fan of nonfiction, but like it's not my First choice, but I wanted to read it But they talked about it on gals on the go podcast. So I kind of wanted to read it It sounds like interesting like she basically gets her way into like the one percent She's gonna like marry someone and then she has like a dark past. I don't know but Yeah, that's probably why no video is coming today. Let's just be real. I don't even know why I said that I don't know guys, but it's like a cloudy rainy day and I'm just gonna sit here read this book and yeah Oh, also guys, can you believe Karen's pregnant? Oh, I think it's a boy like I don't know. I just have this like gut feeling But I think their little girl if they had a girl would be like so cute Anyway, if you don't know what I'm talking about, it's fine. But it's um kk and baby j here on youtube anyway I am not going to Finish the laundry and start reading this


Hi everyone, this is an abstract talk for our paper lobster around if they're actually their leader election. So, this is me and this is a long, we need to decide who will go present the paper at crypto conference. Since we're in different city we decide to do bombs coin toss protocol on the blockchain. If the output is zero them a long ways and he will go. Otherwise, I will go present the paper. So, we each choose a random bit and post the commitments of the random bit on the blockchain. If you're not familiar with blockchain you can just think of it as a public bulletin board. So, after we post the commitments everyone can see it. After we post the commitments, we each open our random bit and post the opening from blockchain. Let's say my bid is zero in a long speed is one, then the output would be the extra of these two bits, which is one so I went and here I am. However, a long really wants to go to the beach in Santa Barbara. So after I post my beat on the blockchain he knows he's going to lose the game if he opens his bit. What if he refused to open his commitments. In this case, I just automatically wins an output is still one. So this is the famous bombs coin toss protocol. And it guarantees that a strategic player like even cannot bias the output towards his preference. Only in a coin toss protocol, we want to toss a uniformly random coin. The fairness notion considered in traditional crypto literature is called strong fairness or unbiased ability which requires that a strategic player cannot bias the output was either direction. Fortunately, this is trying to be impossible against more than half size collision by cleave in 1986. But we just saw that bombs coin toss protocol achieves some fairness, which is more of a game theory favor. It guarantees that a strategic player cannot benefit itself by deviating from the protocol nor can it harm an honest individual. A natural question to ask is what if we generalize to money party. As you might have seen our paper has four co authors. So when it comes to multiple parties, we have a leader election problem that elected leader from and players. The winner gains utility one and it takes all the other just in utility zero. So some of the players say Eileen and you know, they may form a coalition and they want to bias the output towards their favor. In leader election still we also care about the game theoretic fairness, we want to guarantee that no coalition can increase it's expected utility, and no coalition can harm any honest individual. One thing is why do we care about this, because strong fairness is impossible against half size coalition. However, in many decentralized applications, for example, voting on blockchain, many pseudonyms may be controlled by the same entity, and these pseudonyms will coordinate together and they may deviate from the protocol to gain benefit. I think it's very likely that these pseudonyms form a majority sized coalition. So we do need some meaningful fairness notion that it's achievable against a module, but majority size coalition, and game theoretic fairness is exactly such a notion that is likely we've heard that strong fairness yet still meaningful and super for decentralized applications. Actually, the attack I just mentioned with a lot of pseudonyms is a real world attack that just happens a few days ago. So previous work have shown that if we're willing to use login rounds, we can achieve perfect game theoretic fairness against arbitrary sized coalition. And if we're willing to sacrifice a little bit fairness but just requiring approximate fairness which says okay a coalition cannot increase their utility by too much. Then we can tolerate a one mind small one and sized coalition. But what if we want to achieve smaller run complexity. Can we do smaller than lock lock and rounds can we still achieve meaningful fairness within small or lock lock and runs. In this work we give an affirmative answer.   Thank you.


Don't take it like too seriously. Very pricey shampoo. I'm gonna go outside and enjoy the beautiful sun. Hey guys, what is up?  I was just wearing this puffer mask because it is like sunny, like it's a beautiful day, but it's like cold right now because it's morning.  I need to drive an hour away for a COVID test for the film industry. And then I gotta drive an hour back.  So I'm like, this is the perfect day to film a productive vlog. You know what I mean? Day in my life type of deal. So that's what we're doing, freezing. I was literally wearing this super puff mask because it's so warm. I gotta get guys first thing. And I'm debating if I want to get like Starbucks because I'm hungry, I haven't eaten anything. Yeah, I don't know if I want to go to Starbucks or not. We'll see. Hey guys, so I just got to my COVID testing. I haven't got in yet because I'm just gonna wait for my time slot, which is in approximately 10 minutes. Such a long fricking drive. Like I know it was like an hour drive, but it felt so much longer. Like I feel like I've literally been driving for the whole day. Like I'm honestly like already getting exhausted from driving. That was just so far. I need my coffee.  Do you already know how fast coffee runs through us?  So that really scared me. Maybe I'll pick one up on the way home or maybe I'll just wait until I get home and make one then.  Okay, I'm gonna just wait a bit in the car and then go get tested and then I just can't wait to get home. Thank God it's not during traffic time though. That would literally take me two hours to get home. So thank God. That's my case. So I just made myself a coffee and I did buy some high quality shampoo. It was so expensive, but it's an investment in my hair. I'll show you guys the what shampoo I bought. Like I'll go more into depth with it later just because like I need to finish a video right now and submit it because it's sponsored just to get it approved so I can post it by the end of the week. And I just got the news that I'm gonna be on set tomorrow instead of the day after.   Just also had to take pictures for and sponsored Instagram posts that's going up.  Like I don't know how it got to that point, which it happens all the time, but anyways. So we're gonna work right now, clean my room, but let's do it. So I was just working and then my laptop started buffering and I think the coffee's hitting me at the same time and that this was happening and I just wanna go on a rant right now, a motivational type of rant. Having the camera to talk about things to you is honestly the best thing ever.  I realized that like you have to romanticize and fall in love with your life. If you're going to the grocery store, be present in that moment and be happy that you're getting food. Romanticize it. Look around you, just appreciate the drive there. Put on some music, like romanticize.  I'm just thinking about how important it is to literally be in love with your life because that's what's gonna ultimately make you happy. It's loving what you do and loving your life. I had an hour drive today as you guys know and I was driving and I was just kind of like zoned out. Then I'm like, wait, like this is so, like I was looking at the beautiful fall trees around me, like how the season changed and like the beliefs were just beautiful, the mountains.  Like I was romanticizing it in that moment. I was listening to podcasts and I was just like vibing. Like life is beautiful. Like every, we take so many things for granted every day that we see so often that we don't appreciate them anymore. So we're just so used to them. Everything that we do in our daily routines we're used to, so we don't really notice anymore. But try and like wake up and pretend like, you know nothing, like wake up, like you're waking up in your life for the first time. And try to experience it that way cause it's gonna help you like appreciate and romanticize everything so much more. And yeah, I was just sitting here and realizing like I'm so lucky with what I do. Like I absolutely love what I do for work. Love doing this YouTube channel. I just love the position that I'm in right now and I'm just so fortunate. Sometimes you just gotta sit back and realize how far you've come because it's so easy to just not give yourself credit for how far you've come because you don't realize it because it's all happening kind of so fast but you think it's happening slow. But then once you really look back on where you were a couple months ago or even a year ago and you look where you are now it's like look where you are. Like appreciate everything that led you to this point because at the end of the day we're here to enjoy this life and fall in love with your own life. Anyways, that was my little spiel. My laptop finally stopped buffering. It's not even my laptop that buffers it's like the hard drive that I edit off of. It's slow sometimes cause my laptop is like really good. Just had to get that off.  So I'm gonna take him on a walk for the last sunny day so that he can at least get a enjoyable walk in for himself once I get home then we're gonna clean my room.  So we're on track, we're good and I need to get some movement in any way today cause I really have been just sitting driving today and sitting on my house doing work. So I'm gonna go outside and enjoy the beautiful sun. Let's go. Oh yeah, you literally heat as hard as. Come here. Okay, I'm putting it down, I'm not using it. Finally clean up time, this is quite embarrassing. One thing just left him another. We're just gonna clean it. Wish me luck. Poo that I got today. It was a very pricey shampoo, budge, it's by a really good brand. So it's a Vita. It's the same one that I got. The color's so cute, it's like a dark green. A strengthening plant-powered damaged pear shampoo and she said that this is like the best of the best. It smells so good. So basically a Vita is like cruelty-free. They like are sustainable. They use the best ingredients. It's organic, like everything about them is just good. So that's why I was a very hefty price point but I know that like investing in real good quality shampoo is gonna be good for your hair in the long term especially because I don't really like spend money on my hair that often. Like before getting this keratin treatment and getting my hair cut, the last time I saw a hairdresser was literally like a year ago. So I don't really spend money on my hair so I decided that like might as well put the money in so getting like good quality products, shampoo and conditioner from now on so that it's gonna sustain like my keratin treatment and just be better for my hair overall and like the long run. So yeah, once I use it I'll let you guys know how it is but the packaging is just super cool and the brand is just overall amazing. So I know like the bottle looks small but you said it should last a long time. And you only need like a tiny bit like a little bit goes a long way. So let's hope she's right. This was expensive. Anyways, so yeah, that's the shampoos that I got.  I think you can probably buy it online but the hairdresser that I went to had like a whole bunch of Evita products. You can maybe even look in a salon near you but it's only gonna be sold in like a salon or maybe online. We're not gonna be able to find it at like a drug store. Even though the other shampoo that I used was sulfate free it was still Pantene and their price point was about like $10 a bottle. That just means that if it's sold at the drug store they're probably not using the best ingredients even though it's sulfate free they're using other bad ingredients I've heard. It's like just like shitty bad quality ingredients as opposed to more expensive shampoos that they're using like really good quality ingredients. So you definitely get what you pay for. But yeah, that's my shampoo. Hopefully it does a good job. I mean, I'm sure it will. It was literally $100 for those two. They already have deep price point but you know what? It's okay, we're investing in my lashes locks, okay? Okay guys, so I just wanted to end off this vlog by giving you guys a shampoo update. So this made my hair so soft, so smelling good. I just washed it last night and it smells so good. I mean, it's so soft. Overall shampoo is 10 out of 10. Great for my hair. Good for the environment. Cue packaging, clean my hair very well, so. Okay, so to just tie into what I was saying earlier I don't take like too seriously. I feel like in the society we take things very seriously which is normal, I guess. You know, we take work seriously, we take our everyday lives seriously and we hold ourselves under a lot of pressure all the time for sometimes no reason. And at the end of the day, it's like we're all here for a short amount of time. We're going to die and like life isn't that serious. It's obviously good to do good at what you do and everything but at the same time you have to realize that like we're here to enjoy and you don't need to put so much pressure on yourself all the time. You don't need to be so serious. Literally at the end of the day, nothing matters. Society is a manly thing that when we die it really has like nothing to do with the afterlife. Yeah, so just don't take things so seriously. Do what you love. At the end of the day, put your happiness first. Put yourself first. Love your life. Do things you love and don't stress out. Like whenever I think that I'm about to stress out or when I was in school and I had like a test and I'd be stressing out, I would honestly just like think about like the grand aspect of everything and just like to zoom myself out.  And it's like, damn, we're really nothing here. So at the end of the day, who cares?  Do what you want. Do what you love. Don't stress because it's not worth it. You go through things for a reason. It's obviously sometimes inevitable to stress but it shouldn't be something that like is literally overtaking your life. Literally when I'm about to stress out that's what I do.  Romanticize it, fall in love with your life. Okay guys, thank you so much for watching this video. I will see you in my next one. Please leave any like video recommendations that you guys have down below. I love you guys so much. Bye.


Around, I think I went through hermitage experiences where I went off and lived in the woods with the course book. I went through one of those around 1987, 1988, in the woods of Kentucky, where I was catching rainwater with those big tarpaulins and experimenting with different things. I thought I would really go after the ego and I would just have a very simple diet of bread and water until I experimented with Henry David Thoreau with different kinds of bread to make and Pancake one. Pancake was the easiest to make, but the ego revolted big time. It's like, oh no, you think you're just going to pull away from me, put a simple little diet of bread and water? It's like, the ego's like, oh I'm more formidable than that. There are mistakes and saints that have come at me for centuries and try to make it dense, but the ego's like brevity.  So I had a hermitage experience there and then later on I think around 1995, I had a hermitage experience. The first time I really couldn't get very deep into meditation. The ego was laughing at me with my meditation practices because I was very much like a beginner at many things and the ego was like, oh you aren't going to escape me. You think I've got chatter going now? I'll crank it up a few notches for you. You're not even going to get down to that stillness. But I just listened to Jesus and Jesus said, let's find, you need to be in service. I will direct you how to be in service. And as you follow my directions, I will wash away your resistance to love, your resistance to the light. In a very natural way. You don't have to fight the ego and do battle with it. Just listen and follow. Just show your intuitive. Listen and follow. And so that began the process of me beginning to visit Course America's groups starting around the late 1980s and 1991 when I began my travels. Just where I was invited or where Jesus guided me. So like that last 10 minutes of that Course group was Jesus doing like, you need to go there. David would not have gone there walking in the last 10 minutes of the Course America's group. That would have been, you know, out of bounds. But I was simply to listen and follow. And then I went through, was guided into some relationships which really flushed up a lot of thoughts. You know, those relationships are such a strong form of mirror. And then I had another vintage experience around 1995. And that, I was able to sink into the silence because it wasn't David trying to be silent. The personality self is part of the problem. It's not our divine self. So when our personality self has its wants and desires and we try to do the spiritual journey as a personality self, the ego is like sitting back like a little spider in the web. So I'm very good. Keep up with that practice. A few more decades or centuries and you might make a dent in me. And I was like, no, that's not, I need to let go of some of the spiritual practices even. And the ego that is desiring to do the practices has to be let go of as well. But by the mid-1990s, I was, it's more like the silence found me. Instead of me trying to find the silence, I just prepared myself to open up. And so, growing forward a bit just to give you a little background around, I had people showing up wanting to be my students in more of a traditional way. Teacher-student things and gurus and that, which I worked with then very intimately in the 1990s. And then in 2003, I had been working with a woman who was working with the Course since early on, around 1987, I think, when she started. But she was very stagnant with the Course and she wasn't reaching any experiences or depth with it. And her friend said, why don't you go see David? And she would come to my kitchen table and listen to quite a few hours of the talks and ganderings that I've done with Willows. But nowadays, they put them on MP3 players and go off to a retreat. And those days, she was using the set tapes, which we had recorded some of the ganderings with. And she would listen for hours and then she would come visit me with the question of the day. And then we would join together in presence. And her question of the day would be answered. And then she would get a song from the Angels.  They were really beautiful songs. Welcome. Come on in. The gang's all here. Yeah. Who it is? I think she was just basking in the love and the peace right in the center of the circle. So anyway, she would come and she would have us joining with me and she would receive like a download almost like a whole song, kind of like Mozart would get his piece of the music back in the direct download, the whole piece. And she would get the whole song that she would record it into a little dictathon. And if there were harmonies, she would sing the harmonies in and then she would go back. And eventually she was getting those songs so fast that it wasn't like several songs that kept coming like getting biscuits out of the oven or cookies. After a period of weeks, she would have a mask enough to put together a CD. I have a typical CD with 12 or 15 songs, 20 songs. And then that was the first CD, then the second, then the third, then the fourth. It was just like huge. It was a whole pathway to God. Just came through our joining. And this woman was using all these songs from the angels. But from the test to some of these songs, they're quite beautiful. It's like a whole pathway to God.  And the woman from Argentina wrote and said, I would love to have some of these songs, but I live in a faraway country. I'm down in Buenos Aires. And I think you can afford to just send me these things, but if you could afford it, I wouldn't like to have a CD. So I told Resta, and by that time she had recorded maybe four or five whole CDs, probably like over 100 songs. And so she wrote to the woman and said, yes, we gladly will send you the whole set. Just give us your postal address. And someday we may make it to other countries. We may make it to Argentina. And then at one point she basically, I was walking through the little peace house where I live. And Resta showed me the email. And the email said from the woman, thank you for sending me this CD. And so happy to hear that you are coming to Argentina. And I said, Resta, what did you write in the email? What did you tell her? And she said, well, I just put that someday we might be willing to go to other countries. And she wrote, so happy to hear you're coming to Argentina. So Resta and I started off on a trip, a six-week trip, shortly thereafter. And I met a man on the first stop named David, and I was taking a walk in the woods, and I was telling him the whole different things about my life. And he said, have you ever thought about going to other countries? And I said, no, I really have not given up that much. I'm in the US and the United States and Canada. He said, I think you're supposed to take this show on the road. And I think you're supposed to go to other countries with this joy and this love and this message. I said, well, if it's in the plan, I'm sure it will make it so fabulous. He said, we did have this lady who just wrote to us and said, so happy to hear that you're coming to Argentina. He said, Argentina. Oh, I love Argentina. I go all around the world. That's one of my favorite places, Buenos Aires and this and that. And he said, actually, I can see that happening. I said, oh, really? And he said, I'm a business man, and I travel for pleasure in business, but I rack up all these frequent flyer miles. When I entered this contest with the South American Airlines, the grand prize was one million frequent flyer miles.


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All praise is due to Allah who guided us to this and we would not be able to bear it if we did not bear it by Allah. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon our Master, Beloved, our Master Muhammed, and our people and my companions. May the Lord marry my brother and send my mother to him and accept him together in his company. Respected brothers and sisters, we begin by praising Allah swt. God Almighty, as He is most worthy and deserving of our praise. And we ask Allah and we ask Allah alone to guide us, to prevent us from being misguided and from misguiding others. We ask Allah to keep us safe and healthy and our community safe and healthy, our families, our loved ones and the society at large.  I mean, Allah Ta'ala, God Almighty in the Quran exposes to us and tells us and informs us of conversations that will occur in the life hereafter, in the Akhira. And in the Quran, there are many of these conversations that we are informed of. There are conversations between Ashab-u-Nar, wa Ashab-u-Jannah, between those who dwell, the dwellers of Paradise and the dwellers of the Hellfire. We are also informed by Allah about conversations that occur or that will occur between Allah, God Almighty and the inhabitants of the Hellfire, those who will find themselves in the afterlife in damnation and punishment for the life that they live. And one such conversation that I want us to reflect on today, brothers and sisters, is one that is found in Surat al-Mu'minoon which is the 23rd chapter of the Quran in which Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says, Qala qam labithum fil ardi adid an sinin. He will say, God will say, how long did you dwell in this earth? How long do you think that you dwell, that you lived in this world, in this life? And he's asking and he's talking to those who find themselves in punishment and in Akhira in the Hellfire. And they will say, Qalu labathna yawman or ba'ada yawman fa'salu ad-da'in, al-a'a-deen. Allah the response that Allah receives from these inhabitants of the Hellfire is that perhaps we dwelled on the earth a day or maybe a portion of a day, ask those who keep account of these things. They don't know for sure but what they do know is that it felt like a day or perhaps a portion of a day. And the conversation continues and Allah affirms that, that you were here, that you lived this life for fleeting moments of time. But I want us to pause and reflect on that exchange that we mentioned here from Surat Al-Mu'minun, that conversation that occurred or that will occur, that the people, the dwellers of the inhabitants of the Hellfire and frankly Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala asking anyone, potentially any one of us, how long did you live this world, in this world? How long was your existence, your life as you knew it? And we will all potentially respond by saying, perhaps a day or maybe a portion of a day. Because that is how we as human beings assess and interpret time. The last time that I was here for khutbah, I just so happened to be talking about in a different context this idea of time. And there we mentioned that or we discussed that in our tradition there are multiple words that are employed for time. In the Qur'an, time as a concept is referred to by many different words or expressions. And in the Arabic language when there are multiplicity of words for one thing, it underscores the importance of that idea, that concept, waqt, dahr, asr, zaman. These are all words that employ or refer to time and they're employed in the Qur'an and in the prophetic teachings of the Prophet ﷺ. Time is of importance because we as human beings, brothers and sisters, are temporal beings, that idea of a temporal existence, which means that we live a life that is defined and that is in time, that is defined by time and is in time. And the very notion of temporal makes us think of what? Temporary, because this world is ephemeral, is temporary, that is the essence, that is the nature of Hayat al-Dunya, of the life of this world, is that the life of this world is temporal. The akhira is everlasting, the afterlife is everlasting, but yet this temporal existence, this temporary existence has consequences for the life hereafter, for all of eternity. But those who study time, they talk about time or how we analyze time in one of two ways. There is what is known as prospective time and there is what is known as retrospective time. Prospective time is time that you live right now. If I ask you, if I put you in a room that has no clock, that has no window, and I ask you to tell me when a minute has expired, most of us would probably do a pretty good job, a pretty accurate job of telling us when a minute has transpired. But if I put you in that same room and ask you to tell me when 10 years has expired, you would have a more difficult time. This is that idea of prospective time and retrospective time. Another example of prospective versus retrospective time is imagine most of us who are over 40 years old can think of their last decade that they lived as seeming to have transpired so quickly. Where did the last 10 years of my life go? Where did my 40s go if you're in your 50s? Where did my 50s go? Some of us who are younger probably will have a little bit more of a difficult time. And that's not because time is being measured differently or is passing differently.  But what is different is how we retrospectively look at time. My 20s felt like a decade. My 30s and now my 40s seem to pass far more quickly. Because of how, of the events that have transpired, how much I have changed in a decade versus how much I changed as a teenager or as a 20-something year old. And that's again how we look and analyze and conceptualize time. And I want us all, brothers and sisters, as an exercise, and I'm going to conclude with this, is to, I imagine that all of us unfortunately have lost someone that we care very dearly about, whether it's a parent, grandparent, a sibling, child perhaps, tragically. But regardless, all of us have experienced loss. I can reflect on the loss of my father, someone that I spent 40 years almost of my life with until he passed away. He lived to the age of 62 years old. I spent, as I said, 40 years of my life with my father. You think of someone that you have lost, someone that you spent time with. And if I were to ask all of us to take inventory to journal all of the memories that you have of that person, all of the life experiences that you experienced with that person, the advice that they gave you, the experiences that you shared, how they ate their food, how they spoke their voice even. If I think about my father, I would be hard-pressed. I would find it difficult if I were asked to writing that journal to maybe come up with a month of time as we know it, right? 30 days, 24 hours each day. I would be difficult to try and journal 40 years of my life with this person that I lived. And I can't even come up with a month in terms of the advice, the life experiences, the memories that I have of that person. And that, brothers and sisters, right there is the nature of this world, is the nature of this life. It is that conversation that we spoke of in Surat al-Mu'minu. How long do you think you lived? A day? Maybe a portion of a day? Because that's how time passes us. You think about a loved one. How long did you spend with that person? A day? Maybe a portion of a day. And so we can't do anything, brothers and sisters, about retroactive time, time that has already passed, time that has already transpired, those that we have lost. What we can do and that we must do, because it has bearing of our, for our afterlife, for the life of eternity, for a life that is not temporal, for a life that is unending, is that we have to take account and be mindful of prospective time, time right now moving forward. How do you live your day to day life right now? The relationships that you have, the time that you spend with loved ones, right? It should haunt us that the task that we had of thinking of a loved one and the memories that we have, those, that task, maybe something that your children will have to do. My father is no longer with me, right? They'll think 20 years from now, 30 years from now, tomorrow, who knows? And they'll think of the life that you've left behind, the legacy that you left behind, the experiences, the wisdom, the advice you gave them.  A day? Maybe a portion of a day? And so each and every one of us can only make use of prospective time, time moving forward, and how we choose to live our day to day life, the moments that Allah has blessed us with right now. What is the legacy that we leave behind? What are those experiences? What are those relationships? What is the advice that we have instilled in others? What is the legacy that you will leave behind? What bearing will that have on your life in the hereafter? What bearing will that have in that conversation with our Lord? How long did you live in this world? What did you do in this world? That was a consequence. That was a meaning that left a true legacy to those that are left behind. So I pray and I hope that we all reflect on and cherish the moments that we have each and every moment with our loved ones, with our community, with the opportunities that we have to make the most of each and every existence, to turn to Allah and to foster that relationship, that is the most meaningful relationship with our Lord and our Creator. I pray that Allah SWT gives us topique, keeps us safe, healthy as a community and as individuals. Ya ayyua ladina aman attaqullah haqqa tuqatihi wa la tamutunna illa wa anta muslimun. Ya ayyua nasi taqurabbakum al-lady khalaqakum min nafsin wahida wa khalaqa min hazzawjahat wa batha minhum a rijalan kathirun wanisa'a wa attaqullah ladida sa'aluna bihi wa la rham. Inna Allaha kana aalaykum rakiba. Ya ayyua ladina aman attaqullah wa inna anta maulana kansurun aalil qawmin kathirin. Ya muqalibu l-kulub fadid kuluban aaladinik. Allahumma inna nas'aluka ridakabu l-jannah. Wan'audu bikka min saqibida wannaf. Subhana rabbika rabbil izzati ama yusifoon. Wa salamun aalil mursaleen. Wa alhamdulillahi rabbil aalineen wa aqeemu al-salah.


What would Bitcoin Core version 1 look like? I believe the Satoshi first ran Bitcoin D version 0.1. With all of the years of development so far, any ideas what Bitcoin Core version 1.0 could possibly look like? Right now we are at 0.17. I don't know of any plans to move from the subversion numbering to a 1.0 version anytime soon. If you think about it, this could be a 140-year currency, or a 130-year currency. Therefore, we have an issuance horizon that is extremely long. This is still something that is being modified heavily all the time. I think that, as we see in one of the comments from Colin, releasing a 1.0 could and would be interpreted wrongly by many. I agree with that. I don't think there is any point in doing that. I don't see any speculation as to what a version 1.0 would look like, or when anyone would be confident enough to say, we are past the experimental phase, this is in full-blown global production, and is ready for the world. That is a very audacious thing to say when you are building the next generation money. Briz asks, catastrophe, what would happen if all the Bitcoin developers and project maintainers disappeared? Say every Bitcoin developer and project maintainer that has commit access was on the same cruise ship, and it blew up and sank with everyone in it. What would happen to Core? Would Bitcoin just march on without any new developers? Would it turn into an epic battle of the forks? A gruesome thought, but just curious if something happened catastrophic to key individuals, how would Bitcoin survive? First of all, if all the Bitcoin developers and project maintainers were on the same cruise ship, the more likely thing would be some kind of gastrointestinal disease, which would take them all out rather than the ship sinking. Also, I would be very strongly questioning their taste and choices, because cruise ships suck. They are floating hotels that make you seasick and give you food poisoning, and you can't leave. Did I mention I hate cruise ships? Never mind. Let's go back to the theoretical catastrophe. Let's say something happens to a big number of Bitcoin developers. You can also turn this around and say, why wouldn't an interstate actor attack Bitcoin developers, imprison them, force them, coerce them into not contributing any more or worse? Once you understand how open-source communities work, first of all, Bitcoin Core is not the only client out there. There are multiple implementations of the Bitcoin Core protocol that are interchangeable and compatible. C++ implementation called Libitcoin, for example, which was a project started by Emeritaki, and continued by a number of very talented developers today. Bitcoin, which is a JavaScript node implementation of the Bitcoin protocol. Full node, which is multi-threaded, compartmentalized, modular, and highly performant, created by JJ and a bunch of other developers who started out at purse.io. There is BTCD, which is a Go implementation in the Go language. In fact, most likely, rather than a battle of the forks, you would see other clients becoming more prominent, if Bitcoin was no longer developed in the core package, was no longer maintained and developed. Other implementations of the node software, which did implement new features, would become more prominent. Also, we are talking about a very large number of developers. There are probably 300 or 400 people who contribute to Bitcoin at least once a year in various projects. Although there are a dozen or so who are very prominent and do a lot of the work, that doesn't mean that other people couldn't step up. This would create a vacuum, and the vacuum would be filled by other people stepping up and taking a more prominent role. People who have been learning gradually in these various projects. Essentially, nothing would happen. The project would continue. There are enough interests, enough trained developers, enough people who could learn very quickly, and who would be very interested in taking a greater role in a project like that. Quite honestly, you would see an opportunity to contribute more strongly.  Mine certainly have been laughed at, and that's okay. But the bottom line is, there are many talented people who lurk in the shadows, and are not necessarily contributing at the moment, but would step up quite easily. Nothing would happen to the project, which is also why there is absolutely no point in coercing or imprisoning or worse, any of the developers, because there is no center. There is no irreplaceable individual. There is no central point of failure. This is a recipe, and there are many cooks who can cook this recipe, and who can continue to enhance and improve this recipe. You can't stop a recipe by taking out some of the cooks.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I'm going to be reviewing the brand new Huda Beauty Naughty Nudes Eyeshadow Palette. So if you want to hear my thoughts on this, see my tutorial and then also get some swatch comparisons and just keep watching. Hi guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a up heretic knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all of the new makeup on the market and sharing my thoughts with you guys. And of course, one of the newest, hottest releases was the Huda Beauty Naughty Nudes Eyeshadow Palette. She usually only comes out with one big eyeshadow palette a year. She often comes out with little small 9 p.m. palettes. It's only once a year that we've been getting our big Made in Italy palettes from her. Quick facts about this guy. It is $67 and it is currently available on the Sephora website and the Huda Beauty website as well. I would recommend if you are interested in picking up this palette to pick it up now. If you are a beauty insider at Sephora because discount does apply to this palette. So I got this baby for 20% off, which is amazing. On 9, this is described as a versatile palette with 18 shades and 5 ultra wearable textures to create dramatic smoky eyes as well as a variety of natural looks. They also say that this is a reimagination of the best selling new nude palette, which I totally agree with that. This guy is Made in Italy and if you aren't aware, her 9 pans are Made in China. So I do notice a difference in the formula between her Made in China palettes and her Made in Italy palettes. And it does have a 24 month shelf life. So let's get into it. We'll start off with the packaging. I don't really like this packaging. I feel like it looks a little bit cheap now. It's not cardboard like it was a couple of years ago. It now is a plastic packaging just like the Mercury retrograde that came out last year. The front of this is what I think makes it look a little bit cheap. I don't like this handwritten naughty and just kind of plain because I feel like all of her other ones are just so much cuter. Look at Mercury retrograde. How much cooler does Mercury retrograde look compared to this? You know, I feel like she stuck it down with the packaging and I know that is a minor detail. But for me, I really love packaging. So kind of sad about that when you open it up. Of course, you do have a mirror and then you have your 18 shades. Like I said, there are five different textures in here. So we have some new textures in here as well. So she now has this marbled tie dye kind of formula, which is brand new. I don't think I've really ever seen it before, maybe in some indie palettes here and there. But she is the first person I would say in the mainstream makeup market to bring tie dye shadows to us, which is what she tends to do. I think Koto was one of the first to do textured shadows. She's one of the first to include really like press glitters and really play with textures. So that is what I love about her palettes in the palettes that she carries. She really tries to mix it up. So you do have these tie dye shades just kind of mixed together to be a normal shade. Honestly, there's nothing really that special about them. You have some mats, you have her foiled finish, which honestly, it's a little bit too flaky for me. And you'll see that in the tutorial. So her foiled formula, which is going to be like these three are more flaky. I don't really like that. You have a regular kind of metallic formula. And then the last one besides the mats, of course, trigger warning. If you have trypophobia, don't watch this. But then you have this gel texture that why that's all I've been posting on my social media is why. There's a lot of things that this looks like to me, but let me just say this. I used to be a middle school health teacher last year. It looks like something taught in one of my units. Anyways, it makes my skin crawl a little bit. So here are the swatches of the shadows. I thought for the most part the shadows swatched really nice. I could definitely tell that flaky formula was going to be a little bit flaky, but I was impressed with the tie dye formula. Like I said, it's not anything unique, but I did like how the colors blended together. And I loved her metallic formula, which is going to be please me and desire. Those are absolutely stunning. I did not swatch slippery, which is this weird, holy shade. If you've seen, they've tried to advertise it where you pop the pearls inside. I'm not about to do that. I really just feel like she came out with a shadow, one to make the people talk, which we did. So that got her name out there. Two, because she is so focused on also being a little bit more innovative because that's what her palettes have been in the past. Nobody asked for this. Nobody wants this. I have not seen a single person go, wow, that's really cool. So it's a gel shade with popping pearls that are supposed to give you pigmentation. I'm not allowed to pop these pearls. I will touch it. I didn't swatch it yet. I haven't touched it yet. We're going to do it live. I don't even know if it's showing. That's what it looks like. So it's literally just a glossy shade with little to no pigmentation. I mean, I am extremely underwhelmed with this shade. Like, that's all that it does. It's not very pigmented and it just adds a gloss to the eye. I'm not remotely interested in using it ever or doing anything with it. She would have been better off putting in a pressed glitter or something. I don't know. I'm not about it. So nobody asked for it, you know? So we are going to get into applications. I'm going to start off with the tutorial on how I got this look. BK Beauty 201, I'm taking Filthy. I am going to run Filthy along the inner half of my crease to open up the purple tones in this look. Also running that along the inner half of my lower lash line. I mean, actually, I'm just going to take it all around but really build up the color right here. Next, I'm going in with Hard. I'm using a BK Beauty 202. Now, I didn't really need to use this color for this look but I was really curious about the quality of this because it's that tie-dye shade but in a matte finish. So she has a couple other tie-dye shades in here but they're all in a shimmer finish. So this is a true matte shade and I'm very impressed. There's no fallout from it. You don't get any kickback in the pan and it blends out really easily. So the quality is very nice. I actually think it's good in this matte formula. I was worried but it's blending very easy. Time to start bringing in the purpley tones. So I'm going in with Untamed. I'm using up my beloved refer number 14 brush because it's perfect for small eyes and I'm going to kind of cover the brown basically. Like I said, I was more so using the brown just to check for quality and you know how sometimes plums can be difficult to work with. As you can see, this is pretty much blending out for me. I'm doing very little work. I forgot how good Huda's Italian palettes were because I've been using their little 9 p.m. palettes and those are okay quality. Like they're pretty good and workable. I forgot how good their Italian formula was. Next, we're going into the deepest shade which is spicy. Just using the same brush and this is really going to add the depth. As you can see, I'm going to take the tip of my brush, run it along my lower lash line, really build that up, work it out with the other brushes. And I do want to lay a little bit of spicy on the outer half of my lid because I want it to layer underneath the next shade I'm going to use. Now, this is the most unique shade in the palette. You aren't going to find this color in her regular line. I mean, besides this one over here, but you're not going to find a color like this in her line because there are a lot of dupes. This one is a really cool lid topper. I love the blue duo chrome that it has and it looks beautiful on top of the plum shade. So that's why I did that layering technique. But I really, really love it. It's not too metallic of a finish either. It's just kind of this subtle, not super shiny color. I'm taking a bit more of the matte shade and I'm putting a little bit over top in the outer corner just for some dimension. Next, we are going to take shameless. Now, this is a formula that I want to show you first that it is a bit flaky, a little bit on the chunky side. As you can see, it's not applying really smooth. It's not sticking to the lid as good as it could. Now you have a few of this kind of formula in the palette. One, two, three shades that are going to run a little bit more flaky. My suggestion would be, of course, glitter glue and you can use a finger like I'm doing. You're just going to have to really work on pressing and working the shade into the skin so that it doesn't get really flaky. So don't apply it with a brush. I just wanted to show you that. But use your finger to really work it in. Finally, I'm taking some of Tantra and this is another flaky shade. So again, I'm really working on pressing it into the skin so that it doesn't get really flaky. And that's the look. So obviously with liner and lashes here is how everything is looking. I absolutely love this look. I think it is so stunning as far as the quality of this palette. I mean, I think it's a really good quality palette. Like I've been saying, her Italian formula is just so much better than her Made in China. And her Made in China isn't even bad. I like it. I think it's workable. But this did remind me how good and how much more blendable these mattes are. I just think there really is a noticeable difference. So if you really want a good Huda experience, I would recommend going more towards the Italian formula, though I do love these little guys. I love the curation. Obviously, slippery is a no go for me. That's going to be a doubt of the palette for me. And the really the only formula that you have to be conscious of are her flaky formula. That's the only way I can use to describe it. Just make sure you work it into the skin or use a glitter glue. If you use a brush, it's going to be a hot mess. For such a pricey palette, you might not want to purchase this palette if you expect every single shade to be amazing. I think that her flaky shades are really pretty. They're multi-dimensional. So I think it is worth putting in that little extra five seconds of effort because that is what's giving my eyes the dimension here. Whereas the marbled shades, they're just more of like a pretty shimmery shade as opposed to these swaggy shades, which are going to give you that glitter. But seriously, it is a very good quality palette. All of the mattes blended beautifully. They layered over each other beautifully. It gave me a great opacity. I mean, I think the tutorial should speak for itself as to how easy it was to use them. Everything else just seriously did work great. Now let's get into the color story of this palette. And I have to admit, I wasn't very excited about this palette, especially when I first saw the initial release of it because it is very clearly not something new in the hood of line. This looks like everyone for palettes that I feel like she's been releasing in the last couple of years and which is very disappointing because last year with Mercury Retrograde, I was so excited about this palette. I was so inspired by this palette. I feel like she took a step outside of the box with this one. This was something that was not like any of the other palettes that she had in her collection before. So I was really excited to see what she would come out with for her big palette this year because she was so different with this Mercury Retrograde palette. And then when I saw the release pictures, I was like extremely underwhelmed. I probably would not have purchased this palette if it weren't for my YouTube channel. The only things that was unique about this palette, one was the really gross slippery shade, two, the marbled shade. So she really did foreshock factor because at the end of the day besides slippery, which is useless shade, the marbled shades, they just blend out really to be a regular shimmer. Just a quick comparison. I do like the color story. I like these tones. I think they're pretty. It's just really repetitive to what she already has in her line. So this was kind of a second take on the original new nude palette. And I would say these are different. I do think if you have this new nude, it is still worth getting the naughty palette. There are going to be a few shades that are very, very similar, but they are going to play really well together. So I don't think if you already have this that you should stay away from this. In fact, I really feel like this is almost a new nude version for deeper complexions. So if the new nude you thought was a bit too light for you, medium to deep complexions, I think this is going to be stunning, especially on the deeper complexions. So that might be your reason to purchase this palette. Now the palettes that I thought were the closest to the naughty palette was nude rich. So the nude rich palette is a nine pan palette and very good quality, but again, not the Italian formula, but these I think are extremely close similar vibe here. And then also the nude medium as well, definitely has some very similar tones. And then I did also pull the sandhaze obsessions that just came out. Again, super duper similar. There are other palettes definitely in her line that I could probably get very similar colors to in here as well. But these were the four palettes that I thought were the most similar to the naughty palette. So what I ended up doing was laying these four palettes out and trying to find the most similar colors to the naughty palette as I could. So you'll see on my arm right now that the naughty palette is swatch on top and the bottom palette is a mixture of these four palettes of the colors that I thought were really close. Well, I will say the majority of the shadows weren't exact dupes. They were very, very close. So my conclusion to this is kind of if you have especially these little palettes, you already have the whole entire vibe of this collection. Maybe not every single shade, but pretty close. So this is most definitely not a necessity in your collection if you have a hood of collection. It's just not necessary. But number one, if you don't mind having similar shades, I'm usually in the boat of I really don't care for me. It's about the palette. Then you know what? It's a good palette. I really like the colors. I really like the looks that I think I can get out of this and I don't think you're going to be disappointed with this palette. But if you're trying to be smart, I don't think that you need this. The thing that I did want to add in is if you don't have a lot of hood of palettes, this is a really good one. I really like it. It's just you don't need all of the hood of palettes, you know? Alrighty guys, so that is all I have for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed it and we know if you have any questions below. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would absolutely love it if you would consider taking the time to do so and I'll see you guys in the next one. I guess have a good one.