Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to add a macOS look to your Windows 11 and how to change the appearance of your operating system with the help of special themes and configuration tools. Windows users always liked to customize this operating system to suit their particular needs and took a special interest in changing various elements of its interface in all series of ways. Especially popular are desktop themes which can turn your Windows into Linux, macOS or another operating system and do that with a single click. In today's video, I'll show you how to change Windows 11 appearance and make it look like macOS by using a few utilities and a set of desktop themes. All the things I'm going to use are freely available on the Internet, and you can find all the links in the description below this video. Before you start changing the appearance of your operating system, you need to create a restore point. This will enable you to roll everything back if something goes wrong or you don't like the final look of your Windows. Select the system drive and click Configure. In the window that opens, turn on System Protection and allocate disk space for a restore point. Apply. Okay. Going back to the previous window, click Create, choose a name, create, wait until the process is over, and now the restore point is created. After that, hide desktop icons, right-click on the desktop, view, and uncheck the option Show Desktop Icons. After that, download a utility called SecureUXTheme. You can find its source code on GitHub. SecureUXTheme is a software that removes signature verification of styles from Windows. Follow the link to download this file, themeTool.exe, find its location, and copy the file to the root folder of your system disk. After that, run it as administrator and agree to the license conditions. In the installer window, check the following options, hook system settings, hook log on UI, and click Install. Then hit Yes to reboot. After that, download macOS themes for Windows by following the link. You can find themes by visiting the website called Deviant, and you'll need to register to be able to download files. Hit your Downloads folder and extract files from the archive. Right-click on the archive, show advanced settings, 7zip, extract here. Open a new window for the system disk and follow this path. After that, copy the downloaded themes to this folder. Then go to Disk C and run the themeTool utility as administrator. After that, you'll need to patch the themes you have just added. In the window that opens, select them and click Patch. When you're finished, try to apply one of the styles by clicking on the Apply button. For example, to start using a style called Light or BBDM. As you can see, now the Windows buttons look exactly like the same buttons in macOS. Hello friends! If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browser history. Hetman Software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you'll be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. Let's continue with customization and download another zip file by following this link. This zip archive contains a collection of utilities and graphics components for further configuration. They all come in one package to save you the trouble of having to look for each of them. I'll leave direct links to the web resources under the video if it's necessary for you. Extract the archive contents into the same folder. For starters, let's add macOS icons. To do that, open the first folder and run this file – 7-step GUI as administrator. First of all, let's install icons for the light theme. Click Add a custom pack here and give the path to this file. After that, choose Start patching and hit Yes. Wait for the end of installation and agree to reboot. When the operating system boots again, you'll see enough notifications saying that the system has been patched and click OK. Opening the File Explorer, you will notice that all the icons have changed. You can want to download a utility called Start All Back. It brings the classic Windows 7 style menu for the Start button in your Windows 11. Download and install the utility. At this stage, select Install for me. In the window that opens, choose these settings. Select the first option, then jump to the Explorer tab and choose Win 7 command bar. Uncheck the boxes for Mika Effect on top and Classic Search box. Then open the Advanced tab and Adjust transparency. Then close the utility. Now, you need to move the taskbar to the top of the screen. Unlock it and drag it upwards while holding down the left mouse button. Right-click on the taskbar and open its properties. Then change the icon size to S. Another utility to be installed is Left Sider. It is a simple tool created to move the Window Control buttons to the left side of the window. Go to your Downloads folder and open the folder you have previously extracted from the archive. Select this folder containing the utility your system drives root directory. Open the folder and send the program's shortcut to the desktop. Right-click on the Start menu and select Run. Then type the following command Shell startup and click OK. Move the shortcut from the desktop to the folder that opens and disable Display Desktop icons. Go to the folder containing the program and launch the application. Now the Window Control buttons will be displayed on the left. After setting, it deals with changing the cursor appearance. We are going to install Mac OS style cursors. Open the directory containing files from the ZebraCive and open the folder with the cursors. Right-click the file with the name install.inf and select Install. Then right-click on the desktop, open Personalize, Themes, MouseCursor. From this drop-down list, select the latest installed version. Click Apply, then Yes and OK. Now that you have changed the cursor, let's move on to the next folder containing icons with the name Big Sur. Copy the folder Big Sur Dog icons to the root folder of the system drive. After that, you'll need to download another tool called My Dog Finder. This is a comprehensive solution by Chinese software engineers that disguises most Windows desktop elements and adds the missing modules from Mac OS. The program source code is available on GitHub. Extract and copy it to the root directory of Drive C. Then go to My Dog directory and copy it to the root folder of the system drive. Go to this folder which is located on the system drive and run the file MyDog.exe. If you encounter an error, you need to install Microsoft Visual C++ from this folder and then run MyDog again. Let's add a light theme. Click on the taskbar and select Preferences and choose Light from the list. After that, go to Advanced Settings, scroll down to find Mac Dog and click OK twice. Open the settings again and check the box for Autostunt. Open Advanced, turn on Windows Borders to Prevent Blocking Windows. In the Monitor tab, you can add system indicators to the menu. That is, the CPU load, memory use, GPU temperature and hard disk space will be displayed. Also, there are many other settings that you can adjust to suit your needs. After you reboot, your Windows desktop will look as if you are using a computer with macOS. One of the downsides of using Launchpad is that you have to add icons manually. To add an icon in Launchpad, right-click on the icon, choose Add icon, drag the icon to this window and click OK. To remove it, right-click on the icon and click Delete this icon. You can move folders and program shortcuts to the taskbar. To change your system appearance even more, let's add a clock widget on the main screen. You can do it with the RainMeter widget and a clock skin for it. Download and install RainMeter widget and blueish A Clock Skin for this widget from the DeviArt website. In the widget installer, uncheck the box next to Apply included layout and then click Install. Drag the folder onto the shortcut to copy it with the right pass. Alternatively, use this pass to copy the directory there. Start RainMeter, open the Layouts tab, click Refresh All, select macOS and click Load. After that, the clock will appear on the screen. You can move the widget around the screen and change its size by using the mouse wheel. The folder extracted from the archive also contains some macOS wallpapers. You can set them as a desktop background by right-clicking on one of them and choosing Set as Desktop Background. Here is another setting that lets you use Apple and Windows menus at the same time. When you left-click or right-click here, you can open the Apple menu or the Windows menu. Left-click for Apple and right-click for Windows. If you want to cancel the new appearing settings, just go back to the latest restore point. To do that, open Start Settings, System, About, System Protection, System Restore. Then click Next, choose a restore point from the list, Next, Finish and then Yes to start the system restore process. Files and settings will be prepared for restore operations and after the reboot your computer will be back to its original state. If some settings haven't changed yet, remove all the folders that have been copied in the process of configuration and all the additional programs. To change the icons, open the folder from the extracted archive and launch 7-step GUI. Click Restore, OK and Yes. When this process is over, the icons will change. To cancel the changes in the system's appearance without using System Restore feature, do the following. Right-click on the taskbar, Preferences, uncheck the box for Auto Start at Boot, and then close MyDoc by clicking on End the program. Resize the taskbar and drag it back to the bottom of the screen. Then go on to Uninstall Applications. Find Start all back on the list and delete it. And do the same to ReignMeter. Now let's change folder icons. Open 7-step, in the window that appears click Restore, OK and restart the operating system. After that, delete left-sided. Open the Run window, use the command Shell startup and remove the program's shortcut. Now open ThemeTool, check Hook System Settings and Hook Log on UI and click Uninstall. Delete the program from the disk.  Remove the corresponding folder from downloads. Then follow this path. See Windows, Resources, Themes and delete macOS themes from this folder. As you could see, the system appearance after all configuration steps looks exactly like macOS. If you work with macOS most of the time and you seldom have to use Windows, feel free to install MyDoc Finder and other tools to find your way in another operating system more effectively. And that is all for now. Hopefully, this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching. Good luck. While you're watching this video, civilians in Ukraine are dying from attacks in bombardments on the Russian Federation. Putin's insane regime has attacked a peaceful country in the very heart of Europe. 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A new program for community colleges across the state will help students who are looking to transfer after graduation. Central Lakes College is excited to start their new psychology pathways program. Sarah Winkelman has the details. For students who attend two years at a community college with hopes to transfer to a four-year university, life just became a lot simpler. The people of Minnesota have wanted seamless transfer from community colleges to four-year universities for a very long time ever since the Minnesota State College and University System was formed in the 1990s. After spending two years in the classrooms here at CLC, any students from the program are guaranteed admission to any Minnesota State University with junior standing given that their GPA qualifies. Really change the game and instead of just asking students they're going to pursue their liberal arts or general education courses, now we can ask them what major are you planning to do in college and they can start taking classes to get there right from the beginning. In order to come up with the final agreement, groups of faculty, advisors and deans from community colleges and universities gathered to discuss the most important piece, the students. Really exciting work to be able to talk with colleagues across the state about what students really need at the two-year level and what the four years are really looking for in the students that come from the two-year schools. The first step in this process is to implement the Psychology Pathways program starting this fall. Well we have a lot of students that are coming to us and they have a dream in mind they have a goal that they want to achieve and what this allows us them to do really is start at the beginning. For some students looking to stay close to home at first, this program will help them begin their journey in higher education. It's a great opportunity for students to start here and get those first two years with some really good instructors. I'm really proud of the degree that we've constructed and the faculty that we have teaching and I think it's a great way for students to start their degrees. Psychology is just the beginning to many new pathway programs to be added. Reporting in Brainerd, Sarah Winckelman, Lakeland News. Some other potential areas of study for the program could be biology, chemistry or economics. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Ever tell you about this sorcery I knew? Couldn't stop talking about how useful they are as creatures. Because you can brew potions from their blood. No. Because by eating rotting corpses they prevent epidemics. Hm. Did he know they eat the living as well? No. Really upset him too. His theory collapsed. More is not exactly going our way. We have a side. The northern realms. We're out of its realms, don't you mean? Tameria and Eddon are no more. We're out of its pledge to restore the old borders as soon as he wins the war. Believe that? Gotta believe something. That's what keeps us going. I tell you about this sorcery I knew? Couldn't stop talking about how useful they are as creatures. Because you can brew potions from their blood. No. Because by eating rotting corpses they prevent epidemics. Hm. Did he know they eat the living as well? No. Really upset him too. His theory collapsed. More is not exactly going our way. We have a side. The northern realms. We're out of its realms, don't you mean? Tameria and Eddon are no more. We're out of its pledge to restore the old borders as soon as he wins the war. Believe that? Gotta believe something. That's what keeps us going. Slow now. Whoa.


The first impression that I get is a place where you really have to put in a lot of effort. I mean hard work, it eventually pays in the end. But more importantly, not just the hard work, but it's also the fun, how we effectively manage our time to combine both your work and your extracurricular activities to end up with a sort of a great curriculum which really develops a personality on the whole. The Indian Institute of Management goes way beyond personality development, rated as one of the toughest management programs in the world to get into. It trains students to achieve socially responsive professional management skills. The formative years witnessed a collaboration with the Harvard Business School. Largely as a consequence of this collaboration, the case method of teaching forms the backbone of training at the Institute. The Indian Institute of Management has made a difference in the management of various vital sectors of the economy. The Institute trains its students to have a more pragmatic, plausible and positive approach to their work. In the early years of India's independence, Charles Eames and his wife Ray were invited to India to initiate a training for design as an aid for small-scale industries. In the process they discovered an advanced ancient tradition in design, used for centuries with great skill. The National Institute of Design was created to breathe new life in the process of renewal and discovery. The professional courses of the Institute are divided into three main academic divisions. One is the Industrial Design Division, which has product design and furniture design. Graphic design, video programming and animation design are areas of specialization in the Communication Design Division. One division is dedicated to textile design and apparel design. Here, from the warp and the weft to the final garment, the student has taught all aspects of textile design. The Institute is also involved in many design projects in various areas. These include health, education and environmental conservation. As a professional, architecture was still in its infancy in India at the time of independence. The building of the new capital exposed the acute shortage of architects in the land. Walter George, a British architect and his contemporaries, made efforts to establish what is today known as the School of Planning and Architecture. The education of the school deals with the design and construction of buildings in their sociological, technical and environmental context. The school undertakes research in transport planning, urban design, landscape architecture and building engineering and management. The planning and management of human settlement is becoming increasingly complex in the present age. Good architecture never dies. It has the capacity to inspire people for thousands of years and at the School of Planning and Architecture students are trained to achieve the highest artistic standards.


This is the History of Salt. Until the Industrial Revolution, salt financed just about every major war in Europe. At times, salt accounted for as much as 70% of a nation's income. Yeah, think about that. And because of this, war and conflict are uniquely entwined with salt. One of the earliest battles ever fought near the city of assault on the river Jordan was likely fought over the supply of salt. This, my friends, is the History of Salt. Salt even led to the development of major cities. For instance, one of the oldest known cities in Europe has a name that literally means Salt Works. Solnatsata in today's Bulgaria. And it's not just in the name, as their main source of income used to come from salt. At its peak in 5000 BC, they even put up walls to prevent invaders from taking their salt. The Roman Salt Era. The Romans were luckily much more relaxed in their taxation of salt compared to many other places. But that's not to say they didn't use it to their advantage whenever a war or some other financial need popped up. During the Punic Wars, there are distinct records of how the Romans manipulated salt prices in order to raise funds for the war. And Marcus Livius, who devised the system of taxation for the Romans, became known as the Salonator. I'll be back. And Salonator was later used as the official title for the person responsible for changing salt prices. The Romans are also responsible for several well-known phrases or words involving salt. While there is no evidence that actually shows that Roman soldiers got paid in salt, they did in fact receive a Solarium, which is a stipend or money allowance which has its origins in the word Solarius, meaning pertaining to salt. Though this did in fact eventually lead to the English word salary. And this even led to the creation of the word soldier as the Latin root of salt, Sal, became the French word sold, meaning pay, which eventually led to soldier. The Romans even salted their greens, which is the origin of the word salad. As the Romans built tons of saltworks across their empire to help build their economy, they needed roads to connect them all together. So naturally, one of their first major roads was the Via Solaria. In fact, over 60 major saltworks have been identified across the former Roman Empire. The Romans were also one of the first countries to use salt at the table. They probably got lucky because the ancient Chinese didn't really use salt at the dinner table. Salt even symbolized the binding of an agreement. So if salt wasn't available on your banquet table, this was considered a very unfriendly or suspicious act. Venice and salt. Almost every major city in Italy is built near some kind of salt deposit. And this is especially true for Venice. Starting in 600 AD, Venice was looking to become a major player in salt. Unfortunately, their attempt to create multiple pools for salt didn't quite work out as well as they hoped. Their primary salt port was in Sciogia, but they had major competition from nearby Ravenna. And after a series of floods in the 13th century, they had to import lots of salt just to make do. But it was also around this time that Venice made a very important discovery. Making salt is just too much hard work, and they realized they could actually make more money by just buying or selling salt and earning the subsidy of any exports from the city. It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! This also enabled Venice to help subsidize the grain industry if harvest fails. Venetian merchants could also thus afford to extend their range and go to the eastern Mediterranean for rare spices and sell them at better prices than the rest of Europe. Salt was such big business that between the 14th and 16th centuries, salt accounted for almost 50% of all Venetian imports. And the wealth that flowed into Venice is responsible for much of the beautiful architecture that we see today. But all this beauty was not without a dark side. Venice wanted to manipulate the salt market and dominate salt prices at all times. And when this wasn't working, they do things like destroy all the saltworks in Crete. Yeah, that happened. And after they did this, they banned Crete for producing any more salt. Sheesh, big meanies. The Venetian Navy was unscrupulous and would patrol the Adriatic Sea, boarding ships, inspecting cargo, and demanding licensing documents to make sure that all salt and salted goods were under their control. And when Genoa, owner of a mountain in Cardona, made entirely of salt, was giving them too much competition, another war over salt ensued. The relatively short war of Chiyoga ended in a decisive Venetian victory. Unfortunately, this victory was short-lived as their domination of the salt trade was to come crashing down. Oh, but this doesn't mean that the salt tax stopped. Some form of salt tax remained in place until 1975. The Shifting of the Salt Trade In a strange twist of fate, it was a Genoese sailor named Giovanni Cabotto who helped open up Atlantic sea routes for trading salt, along with other explorers like Columbus and Vasco de Gamma. The opening of trade from India to North America is what stripped Venice of much of its power. But this doesn't mean that the salt fights were done. Oh, far from it. Salt supposedly caused the bankruptcy of Philip II of Spain who went broke after the Dutch blockaded his Iberian saltworks. And in the North, they weren't just fighting over salt, but over the mighty fish, the herring. What, this little guy? Yes, the trade of salted herring in Atlantic was huge. And it was set around the 14th and 15th centuries to control the herring and salt industry was to control the northern economies. And so Denmark went to war with the Hanseatic Germans over salt and herring. And lost. The Hanseatic fleet then committed one of the single most atrocious acts of the salt wars. In 1406, they caught 96 British fishermen off Bergen, tied them up, and then threw them overboard. Oh, that's nice. No! No, it's not! And this must have led a serious fire under the British, because it wasn't very long before the power in the North shifted to the English, along with the Dutch, both of whom fought for centuries to control the majesty of salt. And they fought everywhere, from way up in the North, all the way down to the Caribbean islands. And finally in 1653, the British destroyed the last of the Dutch herring fleet. And then the two countries decided but this by no means means that things were chill elsewhere. But you'll have to find out about France in the next video. If that's not out yet, watch this video to learn more about salt.  Blood Dutch. Why am I not getting that right? Finally in 1653, the Dutch destroyed the last of the British. Haha. Oh, come on, man.


Hello everybody. Nice to see you this morning. Thanks for getting up. So I want to start with a quick show of hands. How many of you in your work care about retention or struggle with retention? Raise your hand. Okay, me too. And as we get further and further into our worldwide digital transformation, retention only becomes more and more important. Why? Why do we care so much? Well, it takes time and money to acquire customers, right? If they don't stick around, all of that is set on fire. It goes to waste. Nobody in the world sets out and says, I'm going to build a leaky bucket. That's what I'm going to do. But it happens a lot.  Right? We don't want that to happen. Why does it keep happening? That's what I'm going to talk about today. And I'm going to show you a few counter-intuitive tricks to help you not only fix the problem when it happens, but avoid it in the first place. First, a little about me so you know where this info is coming from. I have an eclectic background as do many people in the gaming industry. I worked at Sun Microsystems helping basically bring the Internet to life. Then I worked for Paramount and Viacom, the media conglomerates working with brands like MTV, Nickelodeon, Star Trek to bring them onto the worldwide web. I then launched my own company doing social game design and online community design. And I had a number of amazing clients where I was on the original design team. There's a game called Ultimate Online. It's pre-world of Warcraft and I helped bring that to life. Anybody heard of eBay? Worked on eBay's early systems including the reputation system. Anybody heard of The Sims? Not as many, interesting. It's the biggest selling PC franchise of all time. Netflix? Anybody heard of Netflix? I helped Netflix solve a wicked hard retention problem that all their metrics couldn't fix. Happify, digital mental health app, covet fashion, breakthrough hit, mobile fashion game, Tonal, which is like Peloton for weight lifting. It's an intelligent home gym. Replica, an AI mental health chat bot that's recently been in the news. Not for great reasons. Also did a VC-backed startup with my partner. And wrote a couple of books, the latest of which game thinking I'll be sharing some principles from you today. But that's my background and I've worked with a lot of products and games that drove long lasting retention. But I've also worked with so many startups and game studios and big corporate innovators who struggled with retention, who couldn't crack it. Why? Why is it so hard? Well, it's one of the hardest things in tech. Very few people actually do it. Very few products. So we really want to study the ones that do. At first, it seems like it's not that hard. It seems like, yeah, I can just track and reward behavior, do some gamification like these approaches, which I'll talk to you about in a moment. Shouldn't be that hard. That should work. But it turns out that those mechanics backfire over time for psychological reasons that you're going to understand by the end of this talk. Now, Replica, the AI chatbot that's now quite popular but struggled at first, they found this out the hard way. They imagined an always on AI friend. You could talk to any time. This is five, six years ago before the current AI boom. They raise a lot of money from top tier VC's. They had a huge launch with millions of downloads. Seven months later, they were really struggling with low retention. They built a leaky bucket, even when they tried not to. So they thought, oh, well, we have an engagement issue. Let's add points and badges. That seems good. So they tried that. But not only did it not help their long term retention, it gave them an initial boost, but then their monthly actives went down. Has anyone ever had that happen with gamification? You see an initial boost of your stats, but long term retention goes down? Anybody? Yeah, I have too.  It doesn't work. So why? What are the top three mistakes that brilliant entrepreneurs and product leaders make that you can learn about and avoid? Number one, misunderstanding customer motivation. So let me break this down. Motivation is the driving force that explains human behavior. What explains our observable behavior? Well, it's complex, but motivation is a big part of it. And there's a key question in psychology, which is nature or nurture. Are we shaped by innately who we are inside? Or are we just a product of our environment? So brief tour of the history of the psychology of motivation. It actually goes all the way back to Aristotle, but Skinner in 1938, B. F. Skinner created operant conditioning which is the nature which says that behavior is shaped by your environment and you can control almost anybody by the stimulus and the way it's delivered in the environment. That's behaviorism. Then later on we had Maslow's pyramid of needs. Anybody heard of Maslow's pyramid of needs? Awesome. Right, so that's a few years later and the human insight here is that you can't fulfill the higher order needs like self-actualization. When you're hungry and don't have shelter, your country's being bombed. The lower order needs will take precedence and that was the insight in Maslow focusing psychology back on internal needs and drives away from the external behaviorists. Then self-determination theory. Anybody heard of self-determination theory? So a few less people, but now this is later, 1985, and this is really what shaped a lot of UX practice and product design is the idea that humans have three internal drives that we need to fulfill to be happy to function optimally. The first is autonomy or choice and this is the desire to be self-directed to feel like we're in control of our own destiny. For example, there is a study where managers who offered autonomy support, helping employees make progress on what they cared about, had better job satisfaction and overall better performance. The second of the triad of self-determination theory is mastery or competence which is the urge to get better at something we care about. For example, there was a study with hospital janitors and some of them weren't so happy but some of them were always seeking and finding areas of personal mastery and they were engaged and happy at work. And then there's purpose or relatedness which is the desire to be part of something larger than ourselves. And you hear this in gaming a lot. I'm sure some of you have experienced this yourselves. People say, you know, I came for the game but I stayed for the people, for the relationships that I formed in the game. Anybody ever had that experience with a game? Yeah, me too. Big time. So motivation is not one or the other. Motivation is a result of internal state plus environmental conditions. Now I want you to ground yourself in that and keep that in mind when we talk about how to drive retention. The other insight, and it took me a long time to understand this which is why I'm sharing it with you, is that motivation is not one size fits all. Self-determination theory says there's three drives. That's true. But that doesn't mean that every one of those drives applies to every situation. There's a model that comes actually out of marketing analytics called VALS, Values in Lifestyle, Stanford Research Institute. And this model says that there are three main motivational paths that people tend to follow and be lumped into. And these three motivational paths, once you know them, you can't unsee it and you will be able to debug so many product retention issues. Let me show you how it works. So case study. Recently I had a client who had a political fundraising app and this was to help, in this particular case, Democratic politicians in the U.S. raise funds for their campaigns.  The founding team was, this was a year and a half ago, so the founding team was bullish on NFTs. They all were excited about NFTs. They had their NFTs in their profile pictures, remember that. And the whole app had an underpinning of NFTs. So the platform idea was we're going to raise more money and help politicians raise more money by letting their grassroots donors collect and display NFTs, a.k.a. digital collectibles. And people are going to love that. It will help them raise more money. So the target audience, we tested this idea. They didn't care. They didn't care about NFTs. They didn't want to show off their NFTs. And so there was a huge mismatch between what this person had already built this team and what their target audience cared about. And they were quite puzzled until we dove into VALS. The VALS model explains this. In the VALS model there are three different drivers. People are driven by ideals, by achievement and status or by self-expression. Believers, that's one way to call them, are people that are driven by primarily by ideals and principles. Strivers are driven by achievement and status. And makers are driven by self-expression and the joy of creating. Think about the people you work with. Can you start to kind of divide them into these categories? Right? There's a test you can take to see which one you are. I'll reveal which one I am at the end of the talk. Okay, so what's going on here? Well, people that like to collect NFTs, like my client and his investors, are generally achievers. They're status and achievement oriented. They're very motivated by say a leaderboard or by showing or a Rolex, that kind of thing. But the grassroots donors, they're idealists. They're believers. They're motivated by principle and purpose. And that's why they didn't care about showing off their NFTs. So, this helped the team pivot to targeting the NFTs at the politicians, but hiding them from the donors and just hiding that they were digital collectibles. So, they pivoted their whole sort of UX layer. So, what's the lesson here? When it comes to motivation, don't assume validate. And once we did that, the company was able to stop the leaky bucket and fix their attention problems. Mistake two, even brilliant entrepreneurs make, they build a flat re-engagement loop. So, I'll show you what I mean by re-engagement loop and by flat. Has anybody read this book, The Power of Habit? Yeah, it's a really good book. Talks about keystone habits, habit stacking, which I'm going to talk about in a moment. But he also introduces this chart. This is operant conditioning. This is literally a definition of how operant conditioning Scinarian that I told you about recently, how it works. There's some routine and you reward the routine in order to shape behavior. Okay, so we'll come back to that. Now, anybody read this book, B.J. Fogg's Tiny Habits? Yeah, also really good book. So, there's a lot of smart thinking here. Talks about, you know, again this is pretty basic getting things done territory. To tackle something big, break it down into smaller pieces. And he has this habit card, tiny habit card. Now, I want to take a look at this. There's an anchor moment. We'll come back to that. That's good. Then there's some tiny behavior. And then there's a celebration which is a reward to get you to do the behavior more. That's, if you do that over and over again, that's a habit loop. But it's also a flat habit loop. Meaning, it doesn't change over time. Behavior reward, behavior reward, behavior reward. That's literally the definition of a flat habit loop. So, let's talk about the downside of rewards. In particular, external rewards like this model. Why not just use them? Replica said, I'm going to just do external rewards. But it didn't work. Why not? Well, this guy, Alfie Cohn, wrote a book about parenting called Punished by Rewards. That's got a lot of clues and also a lot of coverage of research that shows you why rewards can be backfired psychologically. And this is really it. They take away from being in the moment and enjoying whatever you're doing. They focus you elsewhere. For instance, there is a very well known study, and this has been replicated. They took kids who loved to read on their own and also didn't. And they paid them to read per page. And after a month, the study stopped. And all the kids who had loved reading on their own didn't do it anymore. Because they had learned that this isn't something you do for pleasure. It's something you do for a reward. Anybody read this book? Drive? Everybody should read this. This is such a good book. He really covers the modern research of why external rewards backfire. And this is one of the insights. Goals people set for themselves are usually healthy. But if they're set by someone else, they're not. Can anybody remember back to what I said about those three self-determination theory drives? Does it remind you of one of them? Autonomy. It's about autonomy. And in this book, Dan Pink details seven problems with rewards. They extinguish your internal motivation like those kids reading. They can diminish performance on certain tasks. They crush creativity. They get you very focused on the achievement. They can crowd out good behavior particularly in online games. Oh boy, have I ever seen that. They can encourage cheating. That's called gaming the system. The bigger the reward the more people are going to game the system because they're human. They can become addictive, hello gambling, especially when you use variable reinforcement rewards, which is a certain reinforcement schedule. And they can foster short-term thinking. Now I'm not saying you never use external rewards. I'm a game designer for goodness' sake. It's the way you use them. That's the key. How do you avoid these problems? If I take away your rewards, what do you have left? Skill building feedback. So I want you to think feedback versus rewards when you're building products and see what happens. What's skill building feedback? Well let's break it down. How does it work? So to introduce skill building feedback, start with the idea of a mastery path. Which is just all that means is that your product experience gets better as your customer becomes more skilled. Okay? Let's talk about Slack. How many people are familiar with Slack? Okay, a lot of people. Or any other similar tool. Microsoft Teams, Discord, etc. So you start with Discovery, which is how you find out about it. Discovery often happens socially with Slack. Your friends are using it. Your teammates are using it. Then you move on to learning, onboarding. That's where you learn the ropes. And Slack helps you learn with a friendly bot who teaches you the basics.  Habit building is different than onboarding. Habit building, think day 21, day 30. What's a session like? Well, pretty much you're reading and responding to messages. That's what you do in a session, right? But it gets better and better because you can customize Slack more and more as you learn to use it. And then mastery, which is more of a vector than a destination, keeps going with Slack. Once you've gotten used to Slack and customized it, you can launch your own channel, you can program up a bot, you can iterate your app into the ecosystem, you can keep going toward mastery. But what about skill building feedback? It doesn't have to be complicated. That's why Slack's a really good example. So you zoom in on this middle stage habit building in the mastery path and you say, okay, what's going on there? And what is Slack doing that makes it work so well? Well, this is what a habit loop that has skill building feedback and it looks like versus a habit loop that's like a skinner box that's just behaviorist. There's a trigger which is the beginning of BJ Fogg's model and every model. There's some trigger that gets you, that reminds you to use the app, right? We'll talk about Slack's trigger in a minute. And often it's FOMO, like what am I team doing? If you live in Slack, you need to get in there to see what's happening. And then there's an activity that you repeat over and over again. In Slack, like with most social media, it's read and respond to updates or messages. But then after you've read and respond to messages there's some feedback. Slack does something really interesting. When all your updates are read, you get one of many different whimsical notes with a little signature and acute saying and that's Slack's trademark, that kind of copy. But think about it for a minute. Slack put art and copy editing resources into making a bunch of different responses to the simple piece of feedback you've read all your updates. Why do you think that is? Think about it. It's because it's the most important thing if you're using Slack to know if you've read all your updates. Right? It's the bit of information you need and you see it over and over again and they did this so it wouldn't get boring. But did they gamify it? Is their points and badges? No. It's game like in a sense but it supports the main reason that you're there. That's the key. And then for deepening your investment and making progress, you customize your channel and build other things. Again, there's no visible gamification. There's just the product getting better and better the more you use it. So if you want to fix your leaky bucket, think feedback, not rewards. Think about how you can deliver skill building feedback to the main reason people are there to help them get better at something they care about. Now, mistake three, failing to habit stack. Okay, what is habit stacking? First of all, what's a habit? A habit is a behavior or an activity that someone does repeatedly in their life. Could be daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, occasional. But that's what a habit is. So an anchor habit is something you do regularly that's existing. And you'll see the term anchor habit throughout the habit building literature. Habit stacking is attaching a new behavior to this existing habit. Right? So the anchor habit is get your coffee, sit down to work at the beginning of the day, log in. Okay? How many people have that anchor habit? Or your tea or your chai? Right? Okay, slack. Log in the slack, see what my team's doing. That's habit stacking. Anybody have a dog? Anybody have a dog they walk? Yeah. So you walk the dog, right? It's something you have to do regularly. Well, what do you do? I felt like I didn't have time to listen to podcasts. Boom. Habit stacking. What about commuting to work if you have a commute? A lot of people do Duolingo or something else while they're doing that. It's Friday night. What am I going to do with my teammates? Rock Band, which is a multiplayer game I worked on years ago. It's exactly the perfect thing to do with your teammates. So habit stacking is attaching a new habit or a new behavior to an existing habit. James Clear, who wrote, I think, the absolutely best book on habit building called Atomic Habits, reminds us about the internal motivation. We see behavior. We see how people behave. But what people are not really after is they're not after the habit. You're not after reading and responding to messages that lack. You're after the good feeling where your body relaxes and you know you're on top of your team. You know you're on top of your work. That's what you're after. And when you keep that in mind with your customers, it's going to help you drive retention. So think about it. Which challenge would you rather take on as a software developer? Do you want to try to get the customer to build a brand new habit? Or do you want to try and help them improve an existing habit? The latter is much, much, much easier.  But they ended up succeeding by focusing in on solving anchor habits. And they also ended up focusing on young adults struggling with mental health because they had too broad an audience. Once they focused on these young adults struggling with mental health, here's one habit that we learned about in research. It's 1 a.m., my mind's spinning, I can't sleep.  It really works right in that habit. Here's another one. I'm feeling blue but I have a meaning coming up. I need to change my state, I need to change my mood. Replica, habit stacking. And it was when we were able to do this that the numbers started going up into the right. So, quick recap. If you want to drive fast, you need to do the fasting retention. Here's the mistake and then what to do instead. Instead of assuming you know your customer motivation, assuming they're like you, validated up front, figure out that they might not be like you or they might, but test it. You will save yourself time and money. Instead of building a flat habit loop and just using rewards and micro behaviors, introduce skill feedback, think about what does my customer want to get better at. How can I provide feedback that helps their skills get better and helps them accomplish what they're here to accomplish. Instead of asking your customers to build a brand new habit, see if you can study their existing habits and habit stack what you're doing on top of an anchor habit they already have. That is probably the single smartest and most effective retention tactic you could ever have. So, I want to give you a quick bonus tip to help you understand as software developers why this is important and how to do it. Because a lot of times we're like great, I get it. How do I do it? So, I introduced this idea of discovery through mastery. This mastery path and your customer goes on that journey when they're using your product. But we ourselves, we're builders. We build products. So where do we start? We start somehow with an MVP, an alpha, a pilot, whatever it is. And that's where you want to start not in onboarding where most people do, but with the learning loop. The skill building habit loop. And have just enough onboarding that you can test that. Then as you get toward beta and you're developing and getting closer to launch, you want to refine your onboarding and continue refining that loop. When you get close to launch, that's when you ramp up discovery. How people find out about it. The language, the copy, the visuals. You don't need to refine it that much earlier. And it's when you're into expansion that you really get into adding more mastery. Which is a mistake that a lot of people that are new to games make. They think, oh, I'll design all these levels and all this mastery. And in fact, our game designers do that stuff later. They really focus early on on getting that habit right. Why am I showing you this? Because I'm answering the question of why so many people struggle with retention. They don't do this. They don't focus on what is it someone's going to do over and over and over and over again. And how can I make that experience great? And if you don't make that mistake and you focus like that, you will win. So if you like this and you would like some more resources that are practical and will help you apply these ideas. We have an innovators quiz. You'll get a free cheat sheet and tips to help you be a better product developer. And you can also find out more about everything we do. Get on our mailing list and explore our training programs where we help people like you implement these tactics in their product teams. So thank you very much. And I hope you have lots of questions because that's my favorite part. It's hearing from you. Very good session, Mary. Sorry, Amy. Thank you so much. If you could go back to your previous slide. Okay. I'm having a little trouble hearing. Can you hear me now? This one? Yeah, no. Yeah. Could you please explain this with an example of how do we start with a habit building and then onboard a person or people to this and then launch the product. So usually we start with an idea of a product and then onboard person and then think about how he does the work or how he uses it. But this looks a little different. So could you please explain it? Very different. Yeah. Thank you. That's a great question. So I'll give you a couple of different examples. I'll give you an example of how to do it from the ground up. And I'll give you an example of how to do it when you're fixing an existing product. So a really good example of doing it from the ground up is rock band. And the core activity in rock band that you do over and over and over again is you play a song with your friends. It's a multiplayer music game. So when we were building rock band, we spent at least six months just working on getting that song to feel correct because it was hard. And tuning the multiplayer experience, tuning the feedback. What I said to my boss at the time because I was much less sophisticated than I am now, I said I want to design the avatars. I want to design the mastery systems. Like we had all these ideas about that. I wanted to work on the tutorial, the onboarding. And my boss said, no, you are not going to work on that. And I said, why? And I stamped my foot. No, I didn't really, but metaphorically. And he said, because if we don't get this loop right, none of that stuff matters and we're not going to put money and invest in that. Because it won't, it doesn't matter. And that was the big lesson is, and I'm sure you all have seen this in your own work. If that habit loop isn't working, if there isn't something that pulls people back and gets them to use it again and again and gets better over time, nothing else really matters. You're just going to have a leaky bucket. So that was an example of how to do that from the ground up. And there were a lot, I help clients do that now, right? So now here's a really interesting example, Netflix. Because you guys are familiar with Netflix, I think. So Netflix had a two month big drop off at one point where they just had like a cliff of retention at two months. And nobody could figure out why. They had the best data instrumentation in the world every page. They had like all the data you could want about what was happening. But they couldn't figure out why they were dropping off. So what we did was recruited people and then studied their use.  Things weren't clear to them. There were some trust issues going on with the feedback they were getting. This was years ago. Netflix looked very different. And they had a big problem with feeling like there was sort of a big brotherish aspect to it which is like, okay, you're recommending these movies but I don't know why. And it makes me feel like, are you data mining me? What are you doing? So we stepped back and created a model for a re-engagement loop. The day 21 experience. And this was a two month, so like a 60 day model. Okay, you're 21 days in. What are you doing? What is your experience there? What pulls you back? And we had a breakthrough when we analyzed and modeled it that way. And the breakthrough was, oh, well people are coming back to Netflix and obviously they want to watch something. You know, they want to watch something. But they watched something before. Like they had watched something a few days ago or whatever. And we had learned that people had a trust issue knowing where the recommendations were coming from. So we created a re-engage just on like sketches, like storyboards. This was an idea for a re-engagement trigger where you come back to Netflix and one trigger was come back to Netflix and rate the stuff you just saw. Like you just watched X, Y, Z movie. This is before Netflix had enough data in their algorithms to do more AI rating. So it says, come back. Okay, you've come back and rate this movie. So come back and rate the movie. And then we unlocked the next recommendation. When you rated it, oh, you rated that. Because you rated that four stars, we think you'd like this. So we associated the recommendation directly with an action they took so that it would explain to them why they got the recommendation. And that was one of several things we introduced and it solved their retention problem. I know that was a long explanation. I don't know if you followed that. But my point is even if you've got a product already out there and you're struggling with retention you can pull back and model what's the habit loop. What is it people are doing and put it in a context where you know about what the people are struggling with and solve your problem better than thousands of data points. Did that answer your question? Okay. Who else has a question? I do. I mean you have a PhD in behavioral neuroscience. I'm sorry, I can't. You have a PhD in behavioral neuroscience. Yes. What would be your advice for what would be your advice for novices like us if we want to explore that science. Or if you want to learn about behavioral product management, what kind of... What advice do I have about learning about behavioral neuroscience? Yeah. Applying behavioral science in data activity. I'll tell you literally the best piece of advice I have from that. Really understand the scientific method. So as, what's your name? As he mentioned, I have a PhD in behavioral neuroscience and an undergraduate in experimental psychology. So I shared a lot of psychology with you today. Behavioral neuroscience is the connection between what's going on in your brain with serotonin and dopamine and all that stuff you hear about and behavior.  Oh, gamification and dopamine.  It really is. It's such a complex. What's going on with our neurotransmitters in our brain are so much more complex than it's dopamine. So one thing I can share with you is take a skeptical eye when you see pop neuroscience. Now some of it is also very solid. Like for instance there's a lot of neuroscience literature and I've looked at it to make sure the studies make sense.  It literally changes your brain structure if you do it over many years. So that's real science. That's good. But what I mean about the scientific method is I think the thing that probably distinguishes me from a lot of other product leaders game designers, coaches is that I really understand the scientific method which is running controlled experiments to find out if you're right or wrong versus running experiments to prove your ideas right. And how many of us run gradual sprints or experiments or whatever to prove an idea is right versus being open to being wrong. A lot of us. So I think the most useful thing I can communicate to you about behavioral neuroscience is to approach what you're doing in product development with the rigor of the scientific method. Does that make sense? And I think that that has been what has turned around a number of products that I've worked with and in order to do that you have to be willing to be wrong. And so that's a whole another thing because that means you have to be in an organization that lets you be wrong. And I bet a number of you maybe don't feel so comfortable with that being wrong loudly and publicly in your organization but it turns out that figuring out how to be wrong on the way to being right is the secret of applying the scientific method. Thank you. Can't hear you. Hi. Thanks for the perspective on quite a few of these things and it was enlightening in many ways. Thanks for that. In my role I get to talk to a lot of product leaders including the business which is driving the entire product. So I'm having a lot of trouble understanding you. I'm sorry. Maybe you could say it and somebody else could help me but I want to answer your question. Yeah. So maybe I'll try again. In my role I get to talk simultaneously one way or the other to product leaders and product management on one side. The business which sells the product and the team which develops the products right. And one of the things that they struggle continuously with is something called as alignment. You know everybody talks about alignment. And we have these fancy frameworks OKRs, North Star Metrics, all of those. And for a couple of slides you also spoke about you know driving product teams through something which is being pushed top down. Right. And which is the most easiest thing to do. OKR is just trickling down. What is your perspective on how to bring about alignment when usually such is the idea around in the organization. So this gets into building faster and better versus building the right thing. Right. Because very often in organizations with OKRs they're about execution versus so outputs versus outcomes. I think that language has been used a lot. In terms of getting well in terms of getting alignment there's a lot of issues there that I didn't touch on today. Right. That I'm not going to address but what I talked about today everything we're talking about here is about how you figure out the right thing to build versus the way you build it. It's about building the right thing. Which it doesn't matter how fast or how smart you are or how agile you are if you're building if you're not building the right thing. And very often in an organization they don't do it this way right. Your orgs probably don't do it this way. So they may not be building the right thing they may just be as you said things come down from the top it's like do this and how do you deal with that. So realistically I'll tell you what I see working in organizations like that well first I'll tell you what doesn't work. What doesn't work is to try and transform the whole org with this new approach all at once. Like I don't know if any of you ever did like the scrum thing where it was like okay everybody scrum there's a training everybody in the company come now we're all doing scrum right I've had that in several companies. It doesn't really work and this doesn't work either top down coming in top down. What works is you find one project and you get permission to apply this to one project and you get a stakeholder who's an executive or an influential person in the company to be your sponsor. So all you need so here's the recipe for transformation that works if you heard what I said today and you're like I want to try that I think that might work that's a different way I really want to see if we can get good results with it all about results if there's not real results it doesn't matter so if you want to try it you pick a project to apply it to that's as likely as possible to work don't pick a project that's unlikely pick low hanging fruit one project and get a sponsor someone who maybe wants this kind of transformation to have someone who's been saying hey guys we need to try something different that's your sponsor and then you keep them in the loop and you get results on the one project and once this is what I've seen in companies once there's a project that got good results everybody wants to know how they did it and then you get the pull of more people adopting it for example this happened recently at General Motors. General Motors is a large US based auto manufacturer and a mid level manager from their product innovation department took our training program which is called the game thinking master class you guys can read about it on my site and he took it with another team member but he was the lead and he was like oh my god this is transformative and he told everybody and they're like yeah yeah yeah that sounds great so he picked a project worked on it with his colleague got it through and then got it green lit based on the strength of their results got more funding for the project internally now he's spreading game thinking throughout their entire innovation org but it's a year later but it's because they got results on a project and he had a sponsor he had one sponsor at a higher level who carved out enough time for him to do the project so did that answer your question and have you seen that same sort of dynamic happen yeah hi wonderful talk I think there was so many takeaways as transformation consultants and coaches sitting here in this room one question I had was from the valves model which you were talking about one is which you were going to answer towards the end which of those are you one of the question and the other question is that a lot of us are working where there's a lot of change management which is happening and not only at the product side the valves model I felt when I was looking at it would help but also to know about people because transformations are 90% people and 10% work so can you give some insights on how we could use some of what we see here even in our mini in change management if that's a great question so I'm happy to answer which valves type and I but before I do do you have a guess I just want to yeah I was thinking makers bingo yeah I'm a total maker I'm and I know that because when I'm not building my hands kind of get itchy like I want to build something I want to make something I'm a musician on the side I'm just that kind of person right and we all know people like that how many of you identify as makers how and how many of you identify as achievers strivers how many of you identify as idealists driven by principles interesting distribution right there's no one right one but once you it's really interesting to understand this and then just bring it to your everyday life when you're dealing with your colleagues at the next family gathering you know so yeah I'm a maker and once I understood that I could design for somebody other than myself a big part of the power of knowing this about yourself is then you can go oh not everybody's like me okay not going to assume everybody's driven like I am so some ideas about how to apply these to transformation I think that almost all of these ideas you could apply to I'm really talking about product development here right because that's my expertise but you're talking about people development right transformation is as much people development so when you're developing people a good rule of thumb which is woven throughout this is understand their existing habits understand what motivates them like when you're if you're dealing with digital transformation there's a lot of different people you're dealing with but there's definitely going to be stakeholders right that you have to deal with and then also team members so take the time to interview them enough that you could understand oh I think I understand what this person is driven by and if you here's another technique that works really really well it has to do with applying the scientific method to your assumption so a lot of times there's a problem and you know we identify the problem with metrics and we say okay we need to solve the problem here it is here's how the metrics are not where they should be we need to move them but sometimes the problem isn't what you thought it was and that happens a lot and so one of the things that you can use a technique you can use from all of this is what I call the day in the life interview which is pretty you know this goes back to basic user centered design for the last 30 years which is really understand somebody's existing context and how they're navigating that context so when you're trying to understand team members that you're helping do transformation do some day in the life interviews where you get them to tell you in detail about how they solve specific problems in their day and be really aware of the assumptions you have going into the conversation and treat it like an assumption meaning go into the conversation with clarity of I think this but I'm not sure so I'm about to go get data that could tell me if I'm right or wrong and then be really open to being wrong I'll give you an example so I was told by a colleague of mine who works at AWS Amazon's back end services and they had a hospital they were deploying AWS at and there was a problem with the way that they were reporting what was going on on the floor the way nurses were reporting what was going on on the floor and so they asked Pavel my friend and his team to design and implement a new interface to make it easier for the nurses to enter the information because the information wasn't getting in but then he went and interviewed the nurses about their day and it turned out the reason the information wasn't getting in had nothing to do with accessibility it had to do with the way their schedules were and the way they were deployed on the floor and they literally couldn't get to the thing in time and so writing a new interface would have zero impact and he didn't know that until he dug into these day in the life interviews where he really understood not just that one moment that was impacting the metrics but all the things leading up to it. Did that make sense? Yes. So understanding that is incredibly powerful and keep an eye out for anchor habits you can improve. If you want digital transformation to happen and people to adopt it see if you can get them to make an existing habit better rather than trying to build a brand new habit Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Actually more of an observation or the realization continuing from what Parul said that I see a lot of how this can be used in transformation and two things I'm realizing from what you said one is it's important to understand the pain maybe in discovery what is the pain that people are feeling and that's one important piece to address here and the example you gave about Netflix because I watch Netflix and I've experienced this that when it shows these recommendations you watch this before so we recommend similar things so that is the question of addressing the open questions that people have in their minds so I mean thank you for this because I'm having an entirely new realization of how to go about a transformation make sure it addresses all these things. Thank you. I'm so glad I see the little light bulb above your head burning there Thank you for the lovely audience and thank you Amy for the such a thought-provoking thoughts with us and with that we are winding up this video. 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Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to recover data from RAID1 and RAID0 based on QNAP TS2 19P Plus network attached storage, how to recover accidental or remote files from the trash bin, what to do if this option is inactive, and how to put things right if there is no access to the disks in this array, because either the NAS is broken or the RAID is degraded. This QNAP NAS model is designed to use two hard disks. To improve resilience and data safety, such devices enable you to create RAID systems of various times. However, even the most reliable storage systems may encounter emergencies like accidental and deletional files, formatting or damaging the hard disk, system errors, controller failures and other hardware issues, which may result in loss of important data. This specific model supports two RAID times – RAID1 and RAID0, as well as JBOT, which is sometimes referred to as linear RAID. Technically, it isn't RAID at all. In the end, redundancy in this NAS is only achieved by using a mirrored RAID. But if one of the disks fails in either RAID0 or JBOT, a part of the information is bound to be lost. In today's video, we will explore a situation when the NAS is broken. All the files are still on the disks, but it's impossible to retrieve them unless you use a specialized software tool. The matter is that a NAS storage device uses its own operating system which builds the RAID in a certain way and then writes data to its disks. Even when the hard disks are connected to another storage device or computer, the condition cannot be restored. For example, when the disks are connected to a Windows computer, you will see some partitions with an unrecognized file system. Another possible case is that the operating system will suggest initializing them in the Disk Management app, which is going to erase all the data, still remaining on the disks. In the end, you are going to lose access to the files or even lose them forever. In a Linux operating system, the disk partitions will be displayed as Linux RAID, and the option to mount is unavailable. You need to remember that if you choose to initialize the hard disks in Windows or modify the volume in Linux, this action can erase all the information, and it will make recovery very difficult. So never take any steps involving the hard disks unless you really know what you're doing, because there is a risk of losing your data permanently. To retrieve the information from the hard disks, you will need a special tool to rebuild a RAID system and restore access to the files which are stored inside the Disk RAID. For better understanding of how a Disk RAID is built, let's explore the process of creating a RAID system on this specific device. When you perform initial configuration, at stage 5, you will be suggested to configure the way your data is stored. The hard disks to be included into the array are already selected, so you should look down and select one of the RAID types RAID 1, RAID 0 or J-Bot. Select the necessary RAID type and click Next. If you want to change the existing RAID, you'll have to remove the previously created volumes first. To do it, open the menu, Storage Manager, now select all volumes and click Remove. As a result, you will see a warning window saying that all data will be removed. Click OK to confirm it. Now create a RAID with the hard disks. Click on the Create button above. Select the array type and click Next. Choose the disks and click Create. Now the system will display a warning that all hard disks will be erased. Click OK to confirm it. After that, the process of building and initializing the array begins. In the end, a new volume appears. If you have accidentally removed important files from the NAS, the first thing you should do is to check if the Network Recycle Bin option is enabled. 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Hello everybody, welcome to the somewhat late Saturday live stream so welcome We're gonna talk about some interesting things that are going on in the market Which I think we all know about but it looks like there's a little bit of a a pullback or a dump or whatever You want to call it but it is interesting right now because you know as we get into these these bull markets and seem like there's There's so much natural exuberance which happens with The markets when we get into enter into the bull stage everybody's so Enthusiastic and they think like okay this time is looking pretty good and we've even talked about it I like this time is a little bit different But it's always the same thing repeating over and over again There's always gonna be people who want to take profits is always going to be ups and downs is always gonna be pullbacks and dumps And there's always gonna be corrections and essentially at some point is gonna be crashes. So just Be aware that that was what's going to happen. So today Had another quite a bit of a of a pullback dump what I want to call it. So bitcoins at 66 to and It's interesting because like once we hit the Bitcoin all-time high It seems like we cannot stay above it in the last 24 hours down 3% a theorem is down tether The stable coin is down, but I mean tether whatever VMB is up a like pretty well actually 23% for the week Solana's doing pretty good for the week But not for the I guess if you want to be technical not for the last hour It's down point 1% boohoo and everything else is kind of down avalanche's looking pretty good ton coin for the week But a lot of red a lot of red a lot of red and a little bit of rallying but I've been watching this for the whole day and it seems like this everybody gets like a little bit excited like Ah, look, you know hadera is up 0.9% for the hour But that doesn't last too long and then people start dumping and then over the last 24 hours that's why everything and red starts to go up and up and up and There's a lot of these different mean coins are actually getting slaughtered. So just remember that's just how it is But what I want to talk about today is Because there's there's many reasons why this could actually be happening Some people will say well the options expiration just is coming up And of course there's gonna be manipulation and it's just normal progress of what's actually happening Also, there's a little bit of a slowdown of inflows for the ETFs and of course we can make the case for all these things, right? But as in the end of the day really what it really comes down to is number isn't going up and the math ain't mathen That's what it comes down to so there is one Kind of concern I had and we actually talked about this coincidentally almost a month ago and we took a look at What the all-time high was the previous cycle to the next having and I gave three examples We took a look at 2013 all-time high to the next having which would have been 2016 Then we took a look at the all-time high in 2017 the all-time high We're just 20 20 and then we took a look at the all-time high in 2021 To at that point where we were at in the cycle as far as to the all-time or to the Next having which would be roughly April 20th 2024 and we took a look at it and it was interesting because like on 2013 the high was $1,000 one and three two dollars and to the having of the next cycle It dropped 42% and of course then that was the next cycle of of July 2016 July 9th, and of course it went from six hundred three dollars all the way up to almost twenty thousand nineteen thousand seven hundred the next cycle we saw it go from 2017 high nineteen thousand seven hundred dollars and Then to the next having it dropped 56% was quite a bit and then what we did if we took a look at we said, okay well How are we looking at this point again? This was a month ago. This is February 18th, and I said you know we are and I talked we talked about this I said we are way over over schedule We were way over schedule because we're only we're only at a 23% drop and then actually I updated it To March 2nd we did another video and I said hey, we're only 8% away, and of course we all know what happened after that March 5th or 6th or somewhere on there We hit an all-time high right which was very odd because that's never happened So again, 43% 56 23% that's interesting I found it like okay We're way ahead this might be a good time to and we've even talked about Doing lump sums and a dollar cost averaging which was a little bit risky for me I might admit because I don't really talk about lump sum But it seemed like a right choice and I mean so far it's working out, but but but but There's something that's that's odd right now and like I said in the in the intro It's very it's like we just can't seem to hold on To our all-time high and Of course what I want to show you is that once we hit our all-time highs For the cycle we don't go back until we have the monster Drop the monster dip which should be usually a year afterwards. So again in November 2020 we were rallying and everybody's excited I remember this time was so great because we had just gone through like COVID and We had seen we had seen like a Bitcoin price of around $3,000 we had seen a theorem like $100 or $200 somewhere around there We had seen Ada at three cents. Oh, it was a it was a it was one of those days where you just you were like man I don't know if it's gonna keep going down or not But I'm gonna keep buying because you know I have a hunch and you know the hunch work usually worked out Well worked out at that point But once once we get to this all-time high from the last cycle and we crossed it December 16th Because we had 19,400 December 15th and the 16th we rocketed past at 21,000 Oh, that was a great day. I remember that and this was around the time I think when Tesla came out and said they're going to start accepting Bitcoin For payment for their vehicles somewhere around there, correct me in the comments section I that could be wrong, but once we go above that all-time high from the last cycle. We don't stop. I Mean we have little pullbacks here, but a pullback that went to 38 the whole my god 40,000 down to 30,000 like okay. That's a that's a that's sizable. He got me on that one, but We didn't go down to 19,700 and we would not go down to that and we went all the way 2021 All the way through here even this nonsense when people were talking about Extended cycles and super cycles and stuff that I could kind of see their rationale but that didn't really work out and It just nothing happened and then of course here we go to November and And we hit a high of 67,000. Let's just say 67,700 remember that number 67,700 that's what we're gonna go with and then of course we dropped off And we came up here and we dropped off and we dropped off some more and we didn't go below the previous All-time high from the last cycle until June of 2022 it was a long time so we had our whole rally. We had a whole what is this a whole year? Actually a year and A year and a half and we didn't we didn't touch it again. We were just off the race. It was great Everybody's happy now check this out. I think you know where I'm going with this in the last week Well, I can't say that we came up to 67,700 dollars was it March 5th? Yeah Well, no, I was wrong 66,700 March 4th So we passed our all-time higher on March 4th. Everybody's happy right grid times had by all everybody's ecstatic great And then what happens? Well, of course people take profits And we went down that's one And we're like no big deal you're gonna take profits. Let's just it'll go back up again and it did And of course we go over the all-time high again, and then what it do dropped again. That's two went to 60,000 I had no big deal it'll as Jim Cramer says Kept find its footing and of course it did and I almost hit it again, but it didn't come over here now we go above the all-time high and We keep it and we keep it now Go over here Drops again come over here, and there's three We go above it There's there's four and then we're doing this again, and then of course today where are we at where it's 66,700 or two That's five. So we've lost the footing five times Five times. We've done that and of course people will say like that's not a big deal It's just that's just how it is it is but it's just kind of it's just an odd thing because we never never been here now Does that mean that this is the end and of course? Crypto market is doomed to fail. No, it's not It's just an interesting fact to take a look at About what's going on in the background. However, having said all that and taking a look at these nice things It's not just Bitcoin the altar getting crushed And I put this tweet out and I said hey, good morning The L2s are crushing it today. Of course. I was just kidding, but I said hey, what happened this Deng Kun upgrade I guess it's a sell the news event and this was in the morning I don't know how far down polygon is right now, but you can see That if you just take a look at the L2s, well, I just take a look at the L2s. Why don't we? Yeah, come on do my let's go to Categories twos And if you don't know how to if you ever go to coin gecko go to categories you can Instantly sort this stuff. It's very handy dandy to have this stuff that your fingertips So, yeah, I mean polygon really wasn't affected by the Deng Kun upgrade It's a it is a side chain and it does have zk roll ups So those those dynamics of L2 but for zk roll ups as I understand it correct in the comment section It's the Deng Kun upgrade wouldn't really help that but for L2 that's supposed to help them In some way shape or form I'm not a developer anyhow, but in 24 hours you can see that. Hey, what happened to subcrate? Well down six percent optimism six and a half mantel six point four Arbitrum one of my favorites great team good guys 7% 6% Manta I guess hey Metis so on and so forth see I mean you get where I'm coming from right it's just interesting like you know These things happen now could be a buy the rumor sell the news type of thing and that's fine That's what it is, but that leads me to my next point which is I'm gonna steal Ben's information. There's a great part in his website Talking about does it bleed because sometimes we we get too focused on what's happening the day-to-day Because it's fun. It's interesting to talk about But I think it's important to really zoom out and just see where we're at and the grand scheme of things So there's this point on his website if you just check it out for honor under the crypto section Just type in bleed as a bleed and you can pick the standard of what you're comparing things to I'm gonna compare this to Bitcoin So if you do Bitcoin to Ethereum Over a max amount of time it'll tell you over here like if it's bleeding well in the one day Yes in the one week. Yes, it's down six percent one month. Yes negative one in three months No, it's actually if you would have been buying for three months You would have been up if you would chose an Ethereum over Bitcoin But you can see that for quite amount of a good amount of time even up to two years You're actually not doing a great job picking Ethereum. I think we all know this right But if you had done three years four years five years, I mean if you got in if you got an eight years ago You're up 78% congratulations But yeah, that's that's a theorem and not that I'm not gonna do I have a theorem I own a theorem I own optimism my own arbitra mine all of stuff all of it. I don't wait too much actually Let's take a look at some other stuff. I was like doing this. How about BNB? I Don't really care so much about this part here, but I'm one of them. What I'd like to see is this beauty over here More green dots you have The more that you were actually up if you just would have gone to BNB look at this one week You're up 23% one month 30% again against Bitcoin. You can compare this against anything else You want to three months six months one year and two years. Yeah, you got me on that one But three four five and six you're actually up 700% But hey if you were doing that good do congratulations. Let's take Solana. I Think you know where this is going and yeah, you know, I'm pretty good Actually, you're beating the pants off of Bitcoin. So congratulations for the Solana holders. I have some How about XRP? Yeah, you know where this was going So pretty much you're in the red except for the oh, you're up a 1% on the day.  That's not so good. Let's see what else we got Cardano hey Another one of my one of my faves This one didn't do so hot either so you can see here cardano against Bitcoin itself The only way you're up is six months at 6.6% But that's only if you did the six-month thing one day to three months No, one year four years you have 100% but five and six you're not doing so hot so sorry about that and Let's finish this up with I Guess dogecoin that'd be interesting because it's a dogecoin is a fork of Well, why coins a fork of no dogecoin is a form of like one? Yes, which is a fork of Bitcoin. All right got to confuse for a second actually not too bad And of course one day in one week one month you're 41% six months not so much But three year four year five or six years in I guess just depends if you got an early enough so Yes, there are gains to be had just depending on what you want to get into so to take to extrapolate even further because Right now if we take a look at the market itself I mean you might have noticed that hey Solana's doing pretty good, right? But don't chase pumps and it's up 31% for the week BMB is up 23% It's kind of works like this usually in these markets Everybody gets excited about one project, right? And there's one laggard is one that just doesn't do anything like why doesn't this do anything and Then just at some point starts a rip that's what happened with Cardano the last time, but you know, it's anybody's guess quite honestly That's why I diversify. That's why I got everything else but It was interesting though because I took a look at What's because everybody's talking about Solana mean coins and how well they're doing well not so fast Dog with hats I can't believe I'm actually talking about this, but no, I'm just kidding I have nothing against mean coins. I actually I used to own dog with that I still own bonk and I still have some my row But look at look at how far we're down. Yeah 24 hours were down 23% But for seven days we're up 20 as a bet bonk were down my row were down pop cat. No idea what that is But you're down 40% today Samoid coin oh my god punk not bonk Harambee it's a lot of red. It's a lot a lot a lot of but there's one in here that I don't see Actually, we'll get to this Which was Book of meme now this one This one is up 34,000 335 percent Crazy look at that a second But I just wanted to know that sometimes when you're taking a look at some of these tokens and you're excited about it It's not so much just to go into the L1 which is that's fine, you know, that's that's good I can't give you financial advice But sometimes you want to take a look at the ecosystem itself sometimes and things are doing pretty well Solana is still up 22% right for the week But some of these first of all chain links down in Solana, I don't know why it's in here I mean it uses it's a companion to To Solana it is an Oracle it pulls outside data I get that but to me chain links kind of like a layer zero.  But it's just how it is our weave I own some our weave on cryptid.com and Damn, it's down 26.  But look at this jupiter In this crappy day, that's up 9% almost 67% for the week pith Which is essentially the oracle on Solana Up 42% and then this crazy nonsense book of meme helium's down.  But there's a Lesson there's a story here Which is this one we talked about yesterday and I want to remind everybody that uh, this is going to happen It's not going to happen to everybody, but you're going to feel this I need you guys to understand What's going on So we talked about this yesterday this trader Apparently they bought the book of meme. That's what it's called The book of meme the boom coin And it talked about on march 14th Uh on-chain analytics firm look on chain flagged and price betrayed Solana holder invested 50 Solana Into a new Solana meme coin dub book of meme Trader bought around 170 million tokens and sold them for 131,000. Essentially it was like I want to say 7500 somewhere around there that he put into it 50 Yeah Somewhere around there right 7500 somewhere around there And he like a day later two days later. He sold it Or one day later. It's for 131,000. That's great Here's where it gets crazy So the that was on The 14th, but the same but the next day It client it went from 0.00005 to 005 so it dropped a couple zeros and that 131,000 would be now worth a million That was the story yesterday Now check this out see this price right here 0.005. You know watch the book of meme now is worth At its peak it was worth Two and a half cents Let me show you that again. This is a half a penny This is two and a half cents So essentially that million dollars Was that three four million somewhere around there? Imagine that you put in seven hundred bucks If you just would have rode all the way top you would have got it, but here's the thing and why I would like to Press this with everybody That's going to happen to you I'm not saying you're going to get to four million or whatever. It's maybe you will but What'll happen is that you will have a trade and Like we always talk about you will take profits Hopefully and you will take profits too early.  I only made x x x x x amount and I could have made x x x x x x x x amount So in these situations First the first thing I can say is Don't watch don't watch it if you sold everything because if you watch the The ticker and you watch everything go up. You're just going to get more depressed And the second thing I will like to remind everybody is I'm never me personally. I'm never selling all my crypto I don't see a point for that. I will never be out of of investing into assets I will never stop investing into land and real estate and precious metals gold and silver and getting into other businesses And also with crypto and digital assets and maybe a little play around with equities here and there I will never get out of that ever So why would I sell all of my crypto all at once because no one knows what's going to happen? I think If that person and who knows if he did this or not if they would have said, okay I'm going to sell I just made a hundred thousand dollars in 24 hours.  Some will call it a moon bag For me, it's the same thing. I will be selling my crypto bitcoin included and my alts definitely And I'll just have my moon bag and if it goes crazy and parabolic. I'm like, who did it pretty good Now I'll never I still won't hit the top unless I get super lucky. I almost did that with cardano almost But I failed and That's just how it is. So just something to think about just started to throw that in there But that's it for today. So look like today's video. Give it a thumbs up consider subscribing. Let me talk about his time-sensitive