Now I've read a ton of books over the years and there are four that are extremely helpful when it comes to picking your dream career and figuring out what the heck to do with your life. And these four books not only helped me choose a career but it also helped me choose my life purpose in general. And not only will these books help you to figure out your life purpose but they're also gonna lead to more freedom in life, control over what you spend your time doing and better relationships as well. And at the end I'm also gonna give a bonus book recommendation that's gonna be tailored to your specific situation, right? The type of career you wanna go into or what you want to study. So without further ado, let's get right into it with number four on the list, which is what color is your parachute? Now by the way, I am gonna go from the least helpful to the most helpful but that doesn't mean that this one isn't helpful. It's still a great book. So this book is all about identifying what career you should go into and also how to land that career. And one thing that I really like about this book is it emphasizes the importance of creativity in the modern job market. This is especially important in the age of AI where repetitive tasks that don't require that much creativity are being automated. Now the thing that this book is really well known for is using what's known as the flower exercise. And basically each petal on the flower is going to be something important that you should keep in mind when it comes to choosing your career. And where all of the flowers intersect is going to be something that's probably going to be good for you. Now what I kinda don't like about this book is it's a little bit too woo-woo. Now don't get me wrong, there are some things that I like that are woo-woo. For instance, I believe in the law of attraction, that's pretty woo-woo. But for the most part, I like books that have actionable advice that are also practical. And that's why this one comes in as number four on the list. So where I think this one is really good is if you maybe come from like an upper middle class or kind of like an upper class background and you sort of don't have to worry about money in life and you're kind of more concerned with finding your life purpose and all of that sort of thing. Or maybe you're somebody who's kind of midway through their career.  Because the truth is some things in life are a little bit woo-woo and these types of books really do help with that. Now the next one on the list is probably gonna surprise you. Number three is going to be the four hour work week. And I of course have this on my Kindle. And you might be thinking the four hour work week by Tim Ferriss isn't that a book about starting a business? It's all about working four hours a week and making a full time income. Why the heck is this on the video? Are you about to try to pitch me some kind of business course? Because you know I don't have enough money for that and even if I did, I'd probably just spend it on my NFT girlfriend. Now with all joking aside, yes, most of the four hour work week is about starting a freedom business. And yes, I also realized that the title, the four hour work week is probably one of the biggest clickbait titles of all time. That doesn't change the fact that this is a phenomenal book and something that a lot of people overlook is in the first few chapters, Tim Ferriss actually recommends getting a remote job. The whole goal of getting a remote job is creating a location independent lifestyle. And Tim Ferriss basically says here, hey, starting a business is kind of hard and you can get a lot of the benefits of starting a business by simply getting a fully remote job where you have that location independence. And there is a ton of advantages to having a remote job. For one, you can move to a country that has very low cost of living.  And on top of that, it's much easier for you to network. So for instance, if a big business opportunity comes up from your friend who lives in New York or Austin, you're able to actually travel to them and take advantage of that. Whereas if you worked in a normal job where you had to stay in a specific location, you wouldn't be able to do that. So this is something that I think a lot of people gloss over in the book. And honestly, I think it's a great place to start even if you plan on starting a business down the line. Now I would personally also argue that you want to find a job where you get paid to learn in-demand skills. So yeah, overall great book, worth a read for anybody out there. This is one of the books where when you ask entrepreneurs that have been successful, especially in the last 10 to 20 years, over and over again, they will suggest the four hour work week. Now the next one on the list is also in my Kindle. And that is going to be IkaGuy. And yes, I know I am probably pronouncing that incorrectly. I'm sorry. I'm a caveman and I do not know how to pronounce Japanese words correctly. But IkaGuy basically means a reason for being. Now this probably sounds a little bit woo-woo as well. And there is a little bit of woo-woo in this book. I'm not going to lie. But I also think it's a lot more practical. And one thing that I really like about this book is it emphasizes the fact that you should try to help other people. You know, one thing that I really like about Eastern philosophy and that's a little bit different than Western philosophy is this sense of community. You know, the West really glorifies sort of being kind of self-centered, a little bit narcissistic and just kind of looking out for yourself. And there's a lot of great things that come from this. There's a lot of entrepreneurship and a lot of innovation that comes out of this way of thinking. But I also think that taking this too far can lead to a meaningless type of existence where you're basically just videos on TikTok to try to get a little bit of attention. And IkaGuy basically can be summarized with this infographic. And it's kind of a simplified version of the flower method that they talk about in what color is your parachute. And basically it's what you love, what you're good at, what you can be paid for and what the world needs. And the intersection of those four circles is your IkaGuy. Now, another thing that I really like about this book is it emphasizes finding harmony and meaning in day-to-day simple practices.  And you can also learn to be the best at what you do as well. And this is very common in Western countries where people absolutely hate their jobs. And there's a lot of reasons for this that I'm not gonna get into in the video. And I kind of agree with many of the reasons. But I think on a personal level, it's more productive to try to enjoy whatever you do, even if it's extremely repetitive and boring. And also try to be the best at what you do as well. Because studies have shown that being good at what you do actually leads to you being more passionate about it as well. So yeah, IkaGuy, great book, definitely worth a read. And coming in at number one on the list is the book So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport. Cal Newport is honestly one of the goats of the self-help industry. This guy has written so many amazing books. I remember the first book I read by Cal Newport was when I was in high school and I believe it was called How to Become a Straight A Student. And that's when I started taking my studies really seriously and I went from being a terrible student. I think I had like a 2.3 GPA or something like that to getting straight A's the rest of high school. So it was an incredible book. And then when I went to university, I read the book How to Win at College.  So for instance, in the book, he recommends just planning out your next day on a flash card, right? Literally just take it hour by hour and plan out your next day on a flash card. And that's something that I have literally been doing since my first year of college and I still do it to this day. And I learned that from Cal Newport's books. He's also written some really good books like Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, which I highly recommend as well.  And I swear Cal Newport basically like reads my brain because before I read this book, I thought a lot of the things that he says in this book but I couldn't quite put it into words. So for instance, I always knew that this whole follow your passion thing was a bunch of BS. I came up from a poor background and I knew that I had to make practical decisions in order to make money and get myself out of that situation. If I had just followed my passion, I never would have escaped. Now that doesn't mean you should totally ignore your passion by any means. That's something that you should keep in mind but there are other things that are even more important. And instead of following your passion, what Cal Newport recommends is developing what's known as a craftsman mindset. And this is basically where you focus on developing valuable skills. And by developing valuable skills, you get this thing that's known as career capital. And the more career capital you have, the more control you're going to have over how much money you make, what types of jobs you get and your overall freedom and autonomy. And he also goes into the fact that people actually report higher job satisfaction when they have more freedom and autonomy. And he goes over research in the book where it kind of shows that people who go for their passion, you know, follow their passion, a lot of the time will end up miserable with their job. And in many cases, you should be keeping your passions as either a hobby or something that you start a business with. And honestly, there's a lot more to this book and I'd have to make like an entire video or maybe even a video series on it because it's really a great book and I highly, highly recommend that you read it. If there's only one book on this list that you read, it's gotta be this one. Now, by the way, if you're extremely confused about what career path you are choosing, I'm actually going to be doing a live three day challenge this weekend. I believe it's gonna start tonight. And I will put that in the description as well as the pinned comment below. I will actually be presenting live over Zoom, helping you to find your dream career. And then at the end of the presentation, I will be taking questions. And this is going to be a three day event. So yeah, definitely go ahead, sign up for that below. I am charging for it, but I made sure that it's very affordable. Now, I did say that I'm gonna give you an extra book recommendation based on the specific career you're trying to go into. And basically what I recommend doing is look up the career you're trying to go into on Amazon. Right, look it up on the Amazon bookstore as well as Kindle. And then find the highest rated books on that subject. And then go ahead and maybe order the top one, two or three books that you see. And then you can read them and it'll probably give you a lot of insights. This is something I did when I started my pharmacy career. I ordered all the top books on pharmacy and it was extremely helpful. So yeah, I hope to see you at the three day challenge that will help you find your dream career. I'll put that down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. And also check this video out, which is the seven remote jobs that are always hiring by clicking right here.


Hello, everyone, a very warm welcome from my behalf. I'm really happy and honored and privileged to be here in front of all of you to talk about two digital technology interventions in Indian higher education that I've been a part of. I'll describe this to you the best of my ability, but you have to understand I'm an academic, I'm not much of a bureaucrat, so I'm going to use words and terms which maybe are okay, please put up with me. So let me get started by just introducing you to the landscape of higher education in the country. Every year in India, more than eight and a half million students get into undergraduate education. That's a huge number, however, this is at the GER of only 27%, only about one fourth of the children of that age are getting into higher education, into undergraduate higher education. Today we have a grand ambition of increasing this GER to 50%, maybe even 60%, 70%. That means this number could go to 16 million, no 20 million, who knows, that kind of numbers we are looking at in the near future. Now if you look a little closer at things like employability, one is a little bit, we need to be a little bit more careful because about one million out of this eight and a half million, one to one and a half million gets into engineering school. It's quite reasonable for education and employability, but then there's lots of studies that people do these days, which says even out of engineering school, maybe the graduates are not that skilled, maybe we need to focus on that. However, the bulk, a large bulk goes into degrees that we call BA, B-S-C-P, Com. Now you can see that's a huge fraction and people who come out of those degrees, employability is a huge challenge. Out of undergraduate getting jobs after those degrees is not very common and it's one of the big problems that this country faces today, particularly as we increase GER, that's going to stare at us in even bigger fashion. So this is one issue I want to bring your attention to in terms of the landscape, in terms of the large scale at which higher education happens in this country and how employability is something that one needs to focus on. If you look a little bit more close at the type of institutes we have, type of universities we have, type of colleges we have, into which this eight and a half million goes, where do they go every year? The top, the top most institutes in the country, the most premier institutes in the country, the most sought after dream institutions are no doubt the IITs. Every family has ambitions that their kid should be in an IIT. It's a matter of great prestige. These institutes are internationally well-known and for good reason. The teaching, learning practices, the peer group that you see in these institutions and the way in which you get set for life with a degree from these institutions is amazing. So they have a great value, but on the flip side, the competition to enter into these institutes is really, really almost in human level of competition. Kids prepare from class three sometimes to get into these institutions. It's very, very hard and it's also very costly. I'll talk a little bit more about the JEE, which admits students into these institutes. One important thing to notice, these top institutes, what we call as institutes of national importance, about 135 of them, including 23 IITs, account for just 0.5% of total UGA enrollment. So these are data a few years ago, but it's not changed dramatically from that point on. So these are the top institutes. Everybody wants to be here, but very, very few get to go there. Next come public universities and private universities. Quite a slightly larger number, you can see the enrollments. 10 times the enrollments of IITs are in public universities, private universities, hundreds of them across the country. Quite a few of them have solid quality, good brands. It does vary. It's not quite uniform, but then it's pretty good. A lot of people who get in here are quite happy with the education that they get. The brand is also pretty good. The private universities, particularly the deemed ones, end up being large in scale. They admit tens of thousands of people, but then they also end up being expensive because they take care of good campuses. It's quite expensive. The public universities are slightly cheaper. They're more affordable, but then there's competition to get in there as well. It's not very easy to get into the top public universities. I'm not talking about undergraduate education on campuses of public universities and private universities. That is these kind of numbers. The huge vast majority ends up in places that we call colleges. About 83 percent of undergraduate enrollment today is in colleges. These colleges are smaller institutions, affiliated sometimes to a public university, attached to public university. They may be autonomous, but then they're strictly regulated and come under the tight control of public universities. You can see 83 percent. It's huge. A large majority ends up in these colleges. Here, the quality varies very widely. Affordability varies. The government colleges, about 8,000 of them, are some of the cheapest in the country. They are there in the nooks and corners and if you get in, you pay really very little money for your undergraduate education. There are very good private colleges all across the country. There are a lot of religious institutions, some colleges, it's really varied. You should go out there and see some of our colleges. You'll see a wide variety and quality does vary as well. You're not assured of the same type of syllabus, same type of career opportunities coming out of colleges, and clearly colleges form the huge bulk of the numbers. There are also open universities, but I don't want to talk too much about that, because it's not still totally accepted in mainstream like in the other places. Now, let's talk about how students get into these institutions. This big hierarchy of institutions is spoke about most sought after, most aspirational, and then the colleges where everybody gets in. How do students get into it? How do you get admitted into it? That brings us into this huge problem of admission that we have in this country. Every year, you should just talk to parents and kids who are passing out of class 12. It's stressful situation in the family, everybody gets worked up, lots of things happen. Why is it that does, why does it happen? Why is it that this is a big problem? The first thing is, if you look a little bit closer at our school education, there's a lot of variety there. CBSE is a pretty popular board. It's a great board, it's got good reputation, but only a very small fraction of graduates out of class 12 come from this board. It's got very good reputation. CBSE schools, you can hardly go wrong with the kind of graduates come out of CBSE school. But then a huge majority of our school graduates come out of state schools, various different states, and the variety there again is very, very different. So different schools have different states, have different type of school systems, different syllabi, different emphasis, different exams. It's very, very hard to normalize across them, compare across them. And so what ends up happening is, pretty much any competitive public university, IIT, has to rely on entrance exam. Otherwise it's not legally okay to compare students and admit them using any other means. So we end up using entrance exams as our means. So is that the great thing?  JEE in particular, which admits students into IITs, is considered one of the most difficult exams in the world. About 1.2 million or so get into the JEE exam every year, less than 20,000 get into the IITs. So it's one of the most selective exams. You should see some of the questions that are asked in the JEE advanced exam. It's a very tough math and science problems at the level of 12 standard. So one can ask a lot of interesting questions. Are these students who are doing tough math and science problems the only type we're going to do well in life? These are all important questions to ask as well. Once the JEE culture has said, this has set the trend for every other entrance exam in the country. We rely on entrance exams so much more and this causes tremendous stress in the families. Now students prepare, they go to some towns, reside there away from their families and prepare for these entrance exams. There are documentaries made on this topic. You should go and watch some of these things. It's really, really hard to watch some of them. And just imagine, if you're not, if you're not in the top 20,000 out of 1.3 million, are you really a failure? I mean, if you end up being 50,000 out of the top 1.2 million, I think you're doing great. You should be celebrated as a great performer but then you declared a failure today in this country and then you go through disappointment cycles which are really, really tough to see. I do see some of these kids, they're really good students, very motivated, very capable, very skilled but then they end up starting their lives and career with the failure based on their foreheads. It's not really very nice. So what ends up happening is the last two points that I put up there. A lot of motivated, capable students, a lot of motivated, capable, good, solid, great students. If you're in the top 1,000,000 out of 1.5 million, you're a great student in my opinion but they end up in places where they're not happy either or there is no good fit. They feel like they've lost out on getting into IIT or they get into a college and they're not doing that great. So what is the solution? In a situation like this where maybe we cannot spend so much more of our GDP into education, we have our own limitations and expenditure, what do we do? How do we solve this problem? What is it that we can do positively to impact the lives of these students who end up in these various institutes and colleges maybe lower than their capability? They're more capable, they're not getting what they want. One solution is to provide access. Now, if you just think of higher education in general, just from a high level, if you want to describe what is the most desirable aspect of higher education, I would put it down to three things. The first is universal access. Anyone who wants higher education desperately should get it, particularly the aspirational folks in the country who really need higher education to get better in life, to get their families out of poverty. Universal access is absolutely important. Happy learners, while they are in college, they should enjoy learning. Learning is something that should be enjoyed and this is something that sits you for life. Once you start enjoying learning, that's a fantastic thing about education. The third thing is skilled graduates.  No point in getting a degree for the sake of having two letters at the end of your name. It should give you skills, it should give you jobs. You should be able to go out into the economy and contribute after that. So if you can do those things, you're doing fantastically well in higher education and today for a large majority of the people that we see, what we need to provide is access in this country at least to the top institutes. Access to top institutes for anyone who's motivated and willing to work hard is a fantastic way of approaching this problem. And both the interventions that I've been part of, the digital technology, online interventions, I want to say online with the personal connect. I'll talk about what that means. Two big projects that I've been part of. The first one is called NPTEL, the National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. The URL is out there for you. The second one is a much more recent one, less than three years old. It's IIT Madras BS degree. Today IIT Madras has opened its doors and it offers a BS degree to those who are motivated and who are willing to work hard. So these two programs, these two projects, provide access to IITs for individual course certificates, access to IITM for an entire degree that you can get today from IITM. And both of these are one awards recently, the QSRI Imagine Education Awards, the Gold for Lifelong Learning, and Silver for Best Online Program. Even before we graduated a single student, we've become a best online program. So that's the awards, the one, I'm really happy to describe both of these programs to you very briefly in the rest of this talk. A couple of things I want to point out, IITM today gives degrees without JEE, you get in, you show, you can perform well, you get a degree. In such a situation when you provide open access, how do you ensure rigor? How do you make sure that the brand is protected?  Those are difficult problems, isn't it? So this is what I'm going to try and focus on in the rest of this talk. So NPTEL is actually a very old project, more than two decades old. It started all the way back in 2003. It's funded completely by the Ministry of Education. I should thank the Ministry of Education for their support over the past two decades. It's a joint project of seven IITs and IASC. So at that time, when this project started, there were only seven IITs, there are 23 IITs today. Seven IITs and IASC, Bangalore participated in this project. For a long time, NPTEL was recording course content that happens in IITs and it put it up on the portal and people were watching. Around 2010, when MOOCs became a big buzzword, NPTEL started doing MOOCs in the Indian context. So in 2014, we started a certification effort and it still carries on. And if you look around the globe, there are various portals out there. NPTEL probably is not the most well known globally. We don't market our name that well. But then if in terms of content, we are really, really, really rich. There's more than 2,500 courses, 60,000 hours of video in engineering, technological, college course, curriculum based content, I can easily say, this is one of the leading portals in the world. You go to any grad school, you see serious graduate learners, they will be looking at NPTEL videos. And this includes countries like the US and Germany and France across the world. High quality learning happens on NPTEL. So let me describe what is this NPTEL's unique way of doing certification with MOOC courses. Like I said, NPTEL opens the doors and provides access to IITs for anyone who's motivated and wants to learn. Open access provided, if you are motivated, if you want to learn, how do we do it? We have a portal, swyam.gov.in, the National MOOCs portal of India, which is again supported by the ministry. So every semester we put up courses there. Anyone across the globe, not just in India, across the globe can simply log in, click on join, you are in the course. Any course you want to learn. In January 23, we have 665 courses upon this portal. Right now, you can go and log in and join any course that you want. Now this runs like a MOOC. There's weekly assignments, forum, live sessions, exciting content, 10 weeks, 12 weeks. It goes on even for a longer time. This runs like a MOOC. But then we don't stop there. After that, you can register for an exam. So there's a small fee for it. Up until now, everything is free. But then after that, you have to pay a small fee. It's just 1000 rupees, about $12, if you want me to convert. So you pay a small fee and then you can show up and write an exam. Now this exam is in centers across the country. Physical centers with proctoring, that's sort of a picture where the exam happens. And if you write that exam in a center and if you pass, you get a certificate. And this certificate comes with the stamp and seal of the IITs and IAC and the top institutes that are running this course. This over the past eight years has become hugely successful and become part of mainstream higher education in the country through important policy measures and a very, very important personal connect program that we have launched. This is an important part. We have been able over the past eight years to mainstream MOOCs in this country. I think very few countries have done this and India has done this successfully through two important measures. The first one is local chapters. Local chapters play a huge role. The colleges I spoke about have a representative who represents NPTEL in those colleges and becomes an ambassador for NPTEL in those colleges, provides that vital last minute personal touch and connect to the students. So local chapters play a huge role in the success of NPTEL and SWIME today. About 90% of exam registrations comes from local chapters. Okay, so that's one connect. It's very important. The next important piece is credit transfer. Today, more than 60, 70% of the learners do our MOOC courses on NPTEL, write the exam, get the certificate, and guess what? Credit gets into their on-campus program. So they don't have to do that course in the campus. They do it online. They get credit for it. So this credit transfer policy along with the local chapter program has been a boon and we've been able to mainstream MOOCs because of this kind of effort. Now a couple of things I want to point out here. The last point is very important. A lot of people talk about effectiveness of MOOCs, how the completion rates are not that high. Look at our completion rates. If you just divide plainly by enrollments, we are at 20%. But enrollment is really a very bad figure to divide by in the denominator because anybody can go click and join. If you just divide by a number of people who submit the first week's assignment, we are at 50% completion rate. So correct policy along with correct implementation with the personal connect can lead to really very impressive completion rates. Now all these numbers are one thing. Let me just show you a few more numbers just to show you the scale at which NPTEL operates. Just July 22, if you look at the disciplines and the number of people who enrolled and the number of people who wrote the exams and the number of people who got certified, it's really mind boggling. Across engineering, humanity, social sciences, management, we have tens of thousands of people, 100,000 people getting certificates every semester. This is the scale at which we're able to operate across the country today. And I have pictures of so many people from different backgrounds, from companies, from small colleges, from IITs, from University of Oklahoma. So people across the world are using this mechanism to better themselves in education. Let me just introduce you to a couple of learners. Two stories, there are so many hundreds of stories. I just had to pick two. The first is Pamir Roy, he's from Arunachal Pradesh, way out there in the northeast. He did a UG in mechanical engineering. During his undergraduate days, he did 15 NPTEL certifications in the domain of AI and data science. And then after that, he did an internship at IITM with a computer science professor. Today, he runs a startup in Bangalore. Look at that story. It's just amazing for someone to be able to do that. And below that is another story of Akhila, who's from a small college in Hyderabad. She did just two NPTEL courses, stopped both of them, got into an internship in IIT Kharagpur. Today, she's a PhD student at IIC Bangalore in computer science. Once again, a wonderful story. There's so many such uplifting stories.  There is an 83-year-old Sanskrit professor in IITM. She comes every semester to write exams and she's learning German now. So there are people who enjoy this program in so many different ways, whether or not it helps in their career or not. So that's NPTEL for you. Let me move on to the second intervention that I wanted to talk about. This is now IIT Madras. IIT Madras today, like I said, offers an undergraduate degree program in data science and applications. It's a large-scale open admissions, but then, of course, we funnel our output in. I'll show you how we do that. And given our experience, rich experience in NPTEL, we've been able to leverage that and go out and offer a degree program today. And really, this is early days. We're just three years into this program. We have not graduated a single person, but then the bus that this program has created is enormous. I just want to talk a little bit more about how that works. So let me just walk you through the program real quick. It's a bit of a dense slide, but it's important to understand. Out of 12th, we have two different pathways for admission. One is through JEE, of course, we'll never give up JEE, but then there's also an inbuilt qualifier exam. You don't have to go to coaching, you don't have to do anything. You can come in, study with us, show that you are motivated, show that you're willing to work hard, show that you can really do well, you can get in, you can qualify within the program. That's very important. And then we break up the program into three different levels. We just don't throw everything at them in the beginning. We have a foundation level which brings up the basics for everybody. Like I said, it's open admissions, but then we want to funnel slowly down so that only the really skilled graduates are going to go out with a degree program. You do foundations first. If you're happy with foundations, that's good enough for you. You can exit with a certificate. Nobody's going to stop you. There is an intermediate exit that's available. On the other hand, if you feel strong enough at the end of the foundation level, you can continue on to diploma. And diploma is where you really, really pick up the skills that are needed. So you can see how the education varies here. It's not like a typical undergraduate degree where you do your basics in the first and second year and then you start building up your skills later on. We give you the skills early. And data science is an area where you can do skills early. And then what this gives people is, if you are in financial need, you have to pick up the skills and quickly get a job, you can do that. Right after your diploma and programming, there are so many IT jobs that are available to you. Your diploma and data science, so many data science jobs that are available to you. So you build up the degree in a slightly different way and put skills before theory. A lot of interesting, exciting things becomes possible. So that's the diploma stage. At this point, you can exit with a diploma if you choose. On the other hand, if you choose to continue, if you do well enough, you choose to continue. There are two degree levels. You can earn a BSE degree. You can earn a four-year BS degree today from IIT in this mode. A lot of interesting features. First of all, these are Senate approved, valid legal degrees from IIT Madras. And at the end, you become an alum of IIT. So IIT is willing to put its name and brand behind this program. So this is not an easy program. Let me also say that. It's a tough program. We're not gonna make it easy for you. A lot of people think online equals easy. This is not easy. You should talk to some of our students. They'll tell you. But then, it is prestigious. We wanna make it prestigious. We wanna make sure that we give access and we add prestige to this degree as well. A lot of things that are important, unlimited seats. Nobody hears this in this country, I can tell you, unlimited seats. There's no seat limitation. You qualify, you get in, you're in. No problem. Look at the fee. The overall degree fee is less than $5,000. How is that possible? That's possible by online instruction. You can't avoid it.  You wanna have a fantastic place. Costs are going to go to $50,000, $100,000. And that's not really affordable. But $5,000, look at that. You can give a complete degree at that point. We don't leave the students alone. Online means that you leave the students alone. No, we invest in teaching faculty, instructors, mentors, who support these students extensively every week. Every class we teach, every term, there are eight hours of live sessions that happen every week. So that kind of involvement is there. Engagement is there. We make sure students stay connected. All exams are in person.  So the rigor is there. Engagement is there. High quality content is there. Prestige is there at the end of this degree. And this is without GE. Today, IITM offers this degree. How well are we doing? Here are numbers just to show you what has happened. I want to remind you, we just started in Jan 2021. We are yet to graduate at full degree holder. People are making their way through the program. Like I said, foundation, diploma, degrees, a lot of levels, they're making their way. Let me show you how the funneling is sort of working. So we have had so far about 100,000 applications, 93,000 applications. And the number of people who qualified is about 24,000, about 1 fourth. Already there is that funneling that's slowly happening. The qualification is 1 fourth. And then out of that, about 20,000 started. Out of that, 17,000 are active today. After nearly three years, look at the retention of an online program. This doesn't happen easily. And we've made it happen. We've made it happen through engagement, involvement with our students. And look at the diversity. We're quite happy about the diversity. Maybe the female part can be a little bit higher. But then overall, age wise, employment wise, area wise, diverse, not that international yet, but fairly international. I want to show you the CGPA distribution. GPA distribution is important. It pretty much looks like a non-campus program if you look at GPA distribution. It's not easy to get high grades in our program. And you have to really work hard to make sure that you stay on. And so many thousands of people are able to work hard and stay on. And here is a little bit of a snapshot how students are progressing and the map across the country to show you people across the country are interested in this program. In fact, Bihar, you look at the density in Bihar. That's a bit rare to get into Bihar with a degree like this. We don't shortchange students on student life. This is an undergraduate program. We take student life very seriously. We put them into houses, groups, competitions, lot of online events. There's also an on-campus cultural, social, sports event which we call Paradox. Students came up with this name Paradox. It's an online program, offline event. It's a Paradox. So you should call it Paradox. Every year, thousands of students come into our country. You see a big picture, not country, and then to our campus and have a big celebration of this program. You see that big picture with that director. I don't know if you can see our director there. There's lots of students surrounding him. They come here. We have a huge celebration in May in case you want to drop by. Please let me know. I'm happy to invite you. This is a fantastic event to be a part of and see our students. So we celebrate this program as much as possible. Couple of BS learners I want you to meet. One is Viraj Sharma. He's from Jaipur, Rajasthan. Very ordinary family. He supports himself through his own work. And he tried for JEE. He couldn't afford it after a while. He dropped it. And then he ended up doing BSE math in a local college there. Today he's in our program. He's finished. He's about to finish both diplomas. He has a CGPA of 9.9. Just look at the talent there, right? And look at how the JEE system and the way the entrance works is simply not going to find this. Okay, so we're able to find today. Here's another example, a completely different type of person. Sunita Nair, she was a mechanical engineer working for a long time. Then she took a career break for whatever family reason. And after five years, she comes out and sees the world is different today. She took up our program, studied in our program, came up to a diploma. Today she's employed as a value engineer in a pretty big company. Again, a fantastic success story. I can show you stories like this that you won't believe. People from rural parts of UP who couldn't even dream of writing JEE, preparing for JEE today in our program. And you should meet some of these students. One of the most inspiring stories you'll ever see are there in our students. Again, I can go on. This slide can go on and on forever. And this is a fantastic testament of how IITM is able to reach all these things. So let me conclude. First thing I want to say is huge thanks to our team. There's a big team across IITs and in IIT Madras, faculty and staff who support this program, support from MOE. After support, the Ministry of Education has been steadfast with us over the past two and a half decades, supporting us through every single one of our efforts. They have to thank them. Of course, I have to thank IIT Madras and its administration for fantastic support. Let me just conclude with some thoughts. I think if more top institutions, more top institutions across the world, across the country, join us in this initiative. We are happy to help. We're happy to tell you what is it that we have learned? What are the tools and techniques we use for engagement, learning, how to reach out? This can provide the three cardinal objectives of higher education. Universal access, happy learners, skilled graduates. Thank you very much for this opportunity.


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Hello, and welcome to the screencast on constructing a partial fraction decomposition. Today we're going to integrate this function. In fact, this function is a particular kind of function. It's a rational function. That is, it's a polynomial divided by another polynomial. This is the only kind of situation where we can use partial fractions. Before we do that, it's worth trying other possibilities. In particular, substitutions often work on fractions. Pause the video, take a moment, and try to integrate this using a substitution, and see what happens. Alright, we're back.  It's close, but not quite there. And that's really the only way we could have done a substitution. So we are left with partial fractions. Something else that's important to remember about partial fractions. It is not an integration technique, so much as it is an algebraic technique. It's a way of taking a fraction and splitting it apart into simpler pieces that we can hopefully integrate more easily. That means that to start partial fractions, I'm going to leave the integral sign off entirely and just recopy the inside here. And we're going to just rewrite that inside bit, hopefully as simpler fractions. The first step is to factor the denominator so that we know what those simpler fractions are going to look like. So 4x plus 2 won't change. We're only going to focus on the denominator. And it turns out that this denominator factors into an x plus 5 and an x minus 1. Make sure you know where that comes from. You can always reverse engineer by multiplying those factors back out and making sure that you get the right thing. And now we're going to write the prototype for the partial fractions decomposition. We're going to write what it will look like with a few unknowns in it. So our fractions are going to have each of these factors. We're going to have one fraction per factor. So there will be a fraction for an x plus 5. And there will be a fraction for an x minus 1. But we don't know what the numerators are. And so we're going to call them constants a and b. And our goal is to solve for a and b. If we do, we'll have split this fraction apart into these simpler pieces that we know how to integrate. Our goal is to solve for a and b. That's the purpose of everything else that we're going to be doing right now. Keep that in mind. So in order to do that, we're going to start by doing a bit of algebra to get rid of these extra fractions that we have sitting around. So I'm going to rewrite just the key parts of this. We have the fraction 4x plus 2. So the original fraction. And then leaving a bit of space for what's about to happen, I'm going to rewrite each of these on its own. And the reason that I'm leaving so much space and moving this one over a little bit is that we're going to clear the fraction by multiplying through by the denominator of the big fraction of the original one. We can multiply both sides by x plus 5 times x minus 1.  So this is really just an algebraic move. It's true that we can multiply through, and even better, a whole lot of things cancel on the left and a whole lot of things cancel on the right as well. Rewriting what we're left with, I have only a 4x plus 2 on this side, and I have only an a times x minus 1 here and only a b times x plus 5 there. We've successfully gotten rid of the entire set of fractions, and now we have just polynomials. Keep in mind, we're trying to solve for a and b. So now we're at a point where things are much simpler and we can start to actually find values for a and b. There's a number of different ways that we can do this, but the easiest thing to do is to try some convenient x values, which will make parts of this formula disappear. So notice we have three things we don't know, a, b, and x. We only want a and b. x is a variable and we can leave it there. And so I'm going to choose a value such as x equals 1, which causes both a and an x to disappear. So if I plug in x equals 1, I'll get a 6 on this side, and on the right hand side I get a times 0 plus b times 6, which turns into 6 equals 6b. And so I've managed to find that b equals 1. By choosing the right value for x here, I cleverly managed to make the a disappear and that let me solve for b. So take a moment, pause the video, and think, what would you do in order to solve for a? Alright, in order to solve for a, I want to make the b term disappear. So I'm going to choose x equals minus 5, which will turn that term into 0. When I plug in minus 5, the left hand side becomes minus 18, the a term gets a minus 6 coefficient, and the b term gets a 0. So I have minus 18 equals minus 6a, and so a is 3. Take a look back at that algebra and make sure you know why each of those steps happened. We're finally at the point where we can rewrite the original big fraction in terms of these smaller fractions because we found each of the unknown parts, a and b. So rewriting the original, the thing that we wanted to start with, this is equal to a over x plus 5. Well, now I know what a is. It's 3 over x plus 5, and now I have b over x minus 1, but I know what b is. 1 over x minus 1. And that has allowed me to break this fraction apart into simpler pieces. Now, everything that you see on the screen right now was just algebra to simplify the fraction. We haven't integrated yet. So on the next screen, we're actually going to do this integration. All right, I've rewritten what we found on the last screen. In order to do the integral, things are relatively quick now. We wanted the integral of this big fraction, but now I know how to rewrite that. That's the same as the integral of these two smaller fractions. And I know that I can break that integral apart into two pieces, each of which is a simple fraction that I can do by substitution. So now each of these really needs to be done by a substitution, but that substitution is very simple. So here I'm going to actually write out what the substitution is for the first one. If I set u to be x plus 5, then du is just dx. Simultaneously, I'm going to do a substitution for this right-hand integral. I'll call it w. And again, I choose the denominator so that dw is dx, a very simple value. So that means that when I actually rewrite these, I get the integral of 3 over u du plus the integral of 1 over w dw. And I can integrate those each pretty easily. So this is 3 times the natural log of the absolute value of u plus 1 times the natural log of the absolute value of w plus an unknown constant. And then finally, rewriting everything in terms of u and w, in terms of x now, I get 3 times the natural log of, and I know what u is. It's x plus 5. And I know what w is. It's x minus 1 plus an unknown constant. This was a lot of steps. This is the only place where we actually did calculus. We used the partial fractions decomposition in simpler fractions, which we could then integrate using a substitution. And you'll eventually get to the point where you can see those substitutions and do them right away. They each turned out to be logs, which almost always happens when you have a partial fractions decomposition. Take a look back through all of this. Make sure you know what's going on. And remember that in the end, this was really about algebra and about how to break apart fractions. The calculus was things that you already knew.


Truth is, rice krispies aren't that good. I don't want to break it to you. They're fine.  I'm not eating anything. You want the real secret? One, it's animal crackers. But not the dry brown ones.  And then two, the other secret. My mom used to make them. Dude, no high fructose corn syrup? This is a health food. The frosting, I think they skimped on the frosting. And margins, I understand, so the frosting got thinner. When I was a kid, these things were thick. And it was like one part cookie to half part frosting, half part frosting. And now it's one part cookie to like one eighth frosting, one eighth frosting. So it's definitely all. And even the sprinkles. If you guys can see, my guys got like blackheads. Those used to be sprinkle coated, like heavily. But again, I understand as a businessman that the margins of these sprinkles are probably astronomical. But back to what really matters. My mom. Looking back pretty good. But in the winter, she would make frosted flake rice crispies, and they make rice crispies taste like dirt. Bang. Welcome to the video, man. We're going to talk about diet today as we're eating animal cookies and chocolate.  Again, if you guys check Monday's video, it's deadlift time. I'm turning heel. We're going monster. I'm a beast. I'm a dog. I'm a motherfucking problem. It's time to deadlift a lifetime PR. And then I'm already lining it up with a top secret coach that I'm going to get diced up in January. But until then, we're eating muffins, animal cookies. Just kidding. I still have baby abs. I'm staying around 200 pounds. So I blowed it up. You know, a little bit of carbs. So probably three to five pounds of carbs. And then three to five pounds I gained weight from my shreddedness. But we're still keeping it pretty good. So I'm feeling pretty good. Eating a lot of whole foods still. Just adding a little bit more carbs. Like I'll have a tortilla with my chicken breasts and rice rather than before. We're just eating cauliflower rice. But everything's good.  Then we're going to dive into more strength stuff as we go. Stay tuned. Top secret. You're not allowed to see that. But that's coming real soon. I'm going to catch a pump. It's a deadlift day. And then I'll probably bench a little bit. Are we going to start doing more vlog style videos? I don't know. It seems like the people like it. We got mixed reviews on the 20 minutes. I understand. It's a long time. Some people are like I ain't got time for that. Some people are like I love that when I do cardio. But we'll probably try to start to mix in my days a little bit now that they're not as, I mean they're still boring. But I hear everybody say that and I always give them a thumbs down. Like I shouldn't vlog. Even somebody said that. No, but even just like your days aren't boring, you're not boring. I've seen other people say that all over Twitter like three people last week. And so I think, yeah, I'll bring the cam home and see what we're into.  So those will be vlogs for sure with some training. Monday vlog day for sure on the deadlift series and then Thursdays and maybe just a regular lifestyle vlog. And we'll see what happens. We'll see what the mix-up is. We're going to talk a little more clothing design as we come into things. We got some interest on that on Instagram. I'm trying to tell.  And some are the same, but they're not always. But there's obviously a lot more comments and interaction on Instagram just because YouTube videos go up less often than Instagram content. So it's hard to know what you all want. But comment below if you guys want to know kind of behind the scenes on the designs and the clothing or whether it goes into that or what's coming with 3SB and Good Company. But yeah, today we're going to tug kind of light because we've got a nice heavy day next week.  It depends on what you're doing and how much weight you got to lose. So when I was dropping like 70 pounds, which we overall ended up doing, I would sometimes take like a month or six weeks. Now, because I just have totally separate goals, it's going to be three months. If you just got to drop 20 pounds and maybe you're plateaued or you have a vacation or your mental break, you don't always need a break. But yeah, you can take a week or two. It doesn't have to be anything crazy. It could be three days kind of for a mental and physical reset. But this one's going to be about three months. So I go into a strength block. One is the holiday. So it just plans out right. So I don't want to track the pumpkin pie meeting with my mother on Thanksgiving. And then two, I dieted for like two years off and on. So I'm going to give my body a little bit more of a break and my mind. So I'm not going to track food. I'm going to focus on whole foods, veggies, whatever, all the same. But I ain't going to track it. Chipotle pops up, Chipotle's going down. So yeah, that's the kind of goal for me. But it is individual cases. But I think the truth is the refeeds and cheat days and diet breaks are probably not what you all need. Because the truth is it's not what's stopping your progress.  Not tracking correctly or consistently. Man, that's pretty good. Because a lot of folks go into the X's and O's. Like calorie deficit, water, sleep, and those all matter. But the truth is building habits, which lead to consistency. Probably tracking food to understand the calories you're eating. And then I would probably say, dude, this is a banger. I don't know if they can hear it. Red hot chili peppers are going to be going. Fit them in the bump. We can make time. Number three would probably be getting your veggies and fruits in so we focus on health. Not only that, but it also allows us to eat less calories with more voluminous food. So when we're trying to lose weight in terms of dieting, eating those stuff keeps us healthy, keeps us micronutrient, so vitamins, minerals, et cetera, but also keeps us full. So probably those three, if I had to say. Consistency, which is based on habits and routine. Tracking so we know exactly what's going on so we can be precise in our consistency and then focusing on whole foods, you know?  Meats, foods with very few ingredients are going to be the best bang for your buck, not only in terms of nutrition, keeping you full, but also hitting those consistencies with our tracking. What supplements do you take? Dude, there's so much supplement talk. I was actually thinking about this earlier that, I think it's because I posted our video. So I posted our video on Instagram, obviously. We're back in time to fast forward in time for this video. Just like me, with my shirt off or whatever. Every time you see a post like that on Instagram or social, TikTok, anything, people are selling you something, right? Like, oh, literally 99%. And I think someone made a comment that made me think that. Or even our full day of eating. Like every full day of eating and no hate, man, grind out, make your money, cut, but you look and every time's like, I woke up and I'm like, well, I don't eat. And then I'm not sponsored by the protein bar, but I think it tastes good.  Every single other one's like, I gotta drink these greens in this protein because this gets you jack. And then every time someone's shirtless and like looking jack, they're literally always gonna be selling you something. I got nothing to sell you, oh man.  Right now I'm on zero supplements. I'll take a glycerol when I'm bored to get a little pump. Glycerol is just like a supplement that draws some water into your muscles. If you've got some carbs and you're hydrated. So when you're catching a pump, it feels kinda good. Does it do a ton? Just a little muscle endurance-y things. It's not terrible. And then I just re-upped on creatine monohydrate, but I haven't taken some for like the last three months because I just didn't buy it.  I'm not sponsored by neither of those, but I like caffeine before I train and it helped me work. So I drink coffee while I work. You can call that a supplement, right?  And then otherwise I literally just eat. I tweeted about it too. I said, man, I don't know how y'all eat like so much protein powder. Like it's gross. And then people were complaining. The only response is I said, I would much rather eat chicken, fish, milk, anything. And the responses are like, money. It's so expensive.   And you must go dollar for dollar on the protein powder for convenience and price.   There's not a soul out there that would tell me that.   I like chicken rice and food.   It's a lie. What do you honestly enjoy?  I was gonna go for the wait for a vlog so I get a little more intimate. We probably will go into it. The kind of mental part of this whole thing and how difficult it is for most people, let alone, I think it's difficult for anybody, body image in the world we live in and the pressures we go through, the comparison game you get into social media, let alone some folks that do it for a living and are like absorbed by the industry. I'm not saying that we're under more pressure but in a way we are, but we chose this life, gets complicated, but emotionally I think it's really tough. At least for me, because the pressure to be shredded 24 seven and be one of the strongest dudes on the internet, I mean, in fact, the matter is I'm neither, I'm not shredded and I'm not one of the strongest dudes on the internet, but the pressure I feel to chase both of those down, to create the best content, to get the most engagement, to entertain the audience, to almost in a way be something I'm not, sits in the back of my head all the time. In terms of what I will vlog more on that another time maybe and I'll be able to express my thoughts a little better. What I enjoy? I think I probably enjoy just either. I obviously enjoy really good food and eating pizza and stuff, but I do feel good mentally and physically when I'm a little leaner. Like even right now I mentioned, I gained about three pounds from just like glycogen stores because my carbs were so low before and then probably another three pounds from just not tracking my calories. So we're up to like 200, 205 pounds where my lowest was like 193, 195 during the cut. So we're definitely gained weight and I'm not as shredded. My veins aren't, my stomach's not as cut, whatever. My mentally still that fucks with me, although like I'm very healthy and I'm in a very healthy range and to like the normal eye, I'm still like fit, you know, fit. I do like being lean. I like how it feels. And you guys know I wear two X shirts. I'm not walking around shirtless. If you guys don't know like what I am on the internet, it's the same as I am in person.   That's just how I like to wear but I do physically feel, you know, I think when you eat too much and this is like fact where like you get too full, you get tired, you get lethargic and so like dieting in a sense keeps me in check that way. And so I feel very energized mentally, physically. Yeah, I can't train as hard but feeling really strong feels good too, man. You know, when I was pulling 700 pounds and I could pull 500 any second, any day and make it look like an empty bar. That felt good too. But for some reason I've never like really wanted to be strong. And like we talked about the fulfillment of me in powerlifting like that's not always what's been in my mind. I never looked up to the Hulk and I never got inspired by Dragon Ball Z and Arnold Schwarzenegger I think is awesome and cool but he's never been my hero, you know. I looked up to Jordan and Kobe and Magic Johnson and Muhammad Ali and some of these guys. So comedians, I looked up to Jim Carrey and Robin Williams and how they spread cheer and entertainment through the world despite fighting their own demons. Like those are the people that I always tried to emulate in my life. My dad who was always so selfless and loyal to the world. Like happy birthday, it's my dad's birthday. Happy birthday to my dad.   I'm entertained by those movies but that's not what drives me. So I mean, neither is being shredded to be honest. So neither, both, I don't know man. Like I've said, like how you guys wake up and pour a bowl of cereal and take a morning dump and take a shower. That's training to me. I wake up and I train. I don't get excited for it. I don't dread it. It's just part of what I do daily. We are gonna try to make some strides on my strength this next block and I do have intention and goals with what I do but it's not what drives my day. It's not, I schedule it in my day at noon every day just like I schedule my team meetings every Wednesday. Like it's the same thing to me, man. And that's just how I built my life and I'm not saying it's right, wrong, better or worse. That's just kind of how I'm built. Hey Mikey, are you on keto? I'm not. That was the other thing when we were talking about diets, everyone just said like, oh, you must be doing carnivore or you must be doing keto or you must be, dude, if your diet has a name, they're making money off you. That's just hands down. If your diet strategy, training philosophy, any of these things have a name, it's simply because the person that you're giving money to is making money off. My training philosophy, my diet and nutrition strategies and philosophies don't got a name. I don't own them. I didn't invent them. It's just how things work and the most optimal way to help you. What was your caloric progression through this weight loss? So we talked about a little bit in the longer video, but my habits were so poor just because we were building this place construction wise. I was working 12 hour days, plus trying to keep up with everything else and then eating tons of fast food, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, bad sleep, et cetera, to drink alcohol, et cetera, et cetera. So I just tried to chip it away. So first time I would just try to go, all right, let's eat three square meals. Okay, let's try to get eight hours of sleep. So I'd build these habits over time. So I wasn't tracking at all.  So I tried to build these habits. And then when I started losing weight, obviously, from eating McDonald's to drinking Budweiser and bad sleep, now you go to anything. From there, once I would actually like plateau or I felt my progress not being where I wanted, then I started to track every ounce. And then I went to from just two basic calories. You don't have to like cut it every three days. I went 2000 calories for a while, about a gram of protein per pound of body weight. And then when I wanted to really turn it up, I ended up at 1500 calories. But again, that's for me, that's for my lifestyle. I sit at a desk, I sit at my laptop all day. I literally walk less than 99% of you. So that's for me, that's not for you.  I'm five, 10, 220 pounds at the time I was doing that. Plus I've lifted weights longer than most of you. Like everything's just so different. So you can just slowly start to take away calories, track for a while, find out what your maintenance is. It's not that complicated. You use the online calculator. Ladies and gentlemen, 3SB.co for all your clothing, new drops coming soon. Stay tuned, there are some availabilities. If you guys want some hoodies in the comfiest sweatshirt you ever wear, I promise you 3SB.co. We over me, Sal and Mike, I'm out of here. Be a part of something big in yourself. New videos every Monday, Thursday. Catch you in the next video.


The United States Navy is at risk, right now, this very minute. Wave after wave of unwanted intrusions, capable of striking anywhere on the planet, including right here at home. The probes are invisible, but they could potentially cripple our forces with as much devastation as any bomb or missile. This is all occurring in cyberspace. The worldwide domain where communications, intelligence gathering, kinetic operations, logistics and command and control can be threatened at network speed. But the U.S. Navy stands ready to repel this threat and to maintain superiority in this new operational domain. The cyber warriors of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and U.S. 10th Fleet help operate and assure the security of Navy networks around the world, providing powerful cyber capabilities necessary for warfighting superiority across the full spectrum of military operations. Any entity with access to the Internet can operate in cyberspace, including criminals, terrorists, hacktivists and nations large and small. As vast as the Internet has become, cyberspace is even larger, with virtually all commerce and communications passing through electronic networks. From GPS systems to wireless phones, credit card scanners to automatic climate control systems and the U.S. power grid, all are vulnerable to cyber attack. And so is our military. Each day, the Department of Defense alone receives 6 million probes. The traditional operational domains of maritime, land, air and space have definite boundaries that separate one from the other. But a fifth operational domain, cyberspace, crosses all domains. Cyberspace is where the battles of the future will be won or lost. 10th Fleet is no stranger to unconventional missions. In World War II, submarines were the new menace, changing the very conventions of naval combat. 10th Fleet was formed to counter that threat, unifying intelligence and operations in one command for the first time. Today's 10th Fleet continues that tradition. The Chief of Naval Operations established U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and recommissioned U.S. 10th Fleet as the Navy's central operational authority for cyber, electronic warfare, networks, cryptology, signals intelligence and information operations. This represents a landmark transition in the evolution of naval warfare, bringing information to the forefront of the Navy's 21st century arsenal. Almost every operation on board a naval vessel functions in cyberspace. It is the primary medium for Navy command and control, communications, computer, combat systems and intelligence capabilities. All these systems must function effectively, even in the face of degradation or outright attack. That's the job of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and U.S. 10th Fleet. To assure command and control, the Navy must maintain dynamic situational awareness. This is constant and total awareness in real time of the state of our networks and communications capabilities. I'm seeing a drop in capacity centered in the typhoon off Japan. We need to reroute our traffic until we can make sure it's reliable. An extension of dynamic situational awareness is dynamic network defense, the ability to proactively counter intrusions or hostile acts against our networks before they disrupt our operations and to seamlessly maintain continuity of command and control. I'm detecting a large amount of traffic flowing into the 5th Fleet Monk. Sir, our network sensor grid is indicating a malicious signature there as well. I believe they're probing our premise router and are getting ready to launch a denial of service attack. Walk an incoming source IP address and have Intel pass it to U.S. CyberCon J2. Yes, sir. Sir, we got him. Good work. Dynamic network defense and situational awareness are necessary to enable 10th Fleet's third responsibility, full spectrum cyberspace operations. This refers to a wide range of non-kinetic effects that can be used independently or to complement kinetic actions. Cyberspace operations can be as effective as a bomb or missile, but can be conducted from virtually anywhere on the planet in real time. The sailors of 10th Fleet are cyber warriors, conducting operations in a critical modern domain. They're a force multiplier for both kinetic and non-kinetic naval operations, delivering timely mission critical information and capabilities to our commanders and operating forces worldwide.