Alright, this morning I have some interesting news to talk to you guys about. It's another rumor that, well my next video after this actually isn't a rumor, but this video is about a rumor we got bad about rumor videos because there's something happening that I really want to happen and maybe it even supports the fact that the last rumor was about how Nintendo's got more games to announce even if they're not for this year. They have more announcements coming in 2020. I have on good authority. If good authority is some random person on Twitter I've never heard of. But we'll get into this in a moment. I got a reminder of our giveaways. I know good authority. You're like, good authority or what? Well, you see the title of the video, right? You don't want to talk about it. We're giving away three copies of Super Mario 3D All Stars. Go down in the description and click the Gleam.io link to enter. Also you can join our Patreon at patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime for as little as one dollar a month. We're also giving away a Switch Lite and then two second place winners win a Nintendo Switch game of choice. There's a laundry list of ways down in the description to enter. Subscribe to the channel. Hit the bell icon. Those are two of the big ones. All that jazz. There's a whole bunch of stuff you can do. So go check that out. Alright. So according to atSherido742 on Twitter, we are getting a new Super Mario RPG game. So I've received information about this game and I'll suppose Square Enix is working on a sequel for Switch. That's how the tweet starts. Bam. Here it is on screen. So Jeff Grubb, you guys all know about Jeff Grubb, right? We've talked about him for a long time. He is someone who works for a media outlet. He's got inside sources. He's been very correct on a lot of Nintendo things this year. He's just randomly tweeted out of nowhere, Super Mario RPG. Just randomly tweeted it. This happened on September 3rd. He just threw it out there. He said, Super Mario RPG. It wasn't in reply to anyone. It wasn't anything specific. It just started to kind of like, why the hell is he just throwing out Super Mario RPG? It's such a random thing to just tweet about and it started this whole speculation of, are we getting Super Mario RPG ported to Switch? After all, we have a whole bunch of other Mario games coming to Switch. So why not Super Mario RPG? We haven't seen that game in so long. Well according to Sharon, there's going to be a sequel to that game and it's actually being made by Square Enix. Now this is pretty exciting because Nintendo doesn't dabble on RPGs themselves anymore internally. So having Square Enix, who makes RPGs pretty much for a living, make it would be actually a really good positive exciting thing. It also says the info that this was releasing on Switch online by the time they're ready to announce the sequel. So what they're saying is, Super Mario RPG is going to come to Nintendo Switch's online service, which it can come. We can come to the SNES. So they can release the original on the SNES online service and then at the same time they announce that or release that, they're going to announce the sequel. So that's exciting. You might be wondering who the heck is this Sharon person? I have no idea. Like normally, you know, you can go on their Twitter profile and it shows that there's something, but all it shows is some 33 year old that loves geek stuff. I have no idea how much you can believe them.  You know, like, okay, I'm going to totally believe you random person on the internet with no history of leaking anything in the past. And she goes, thanks. Where did you hear this? I can't tell you that. Blah, blah, blah. So like, she's just a person on Twitter. I don't know what to believe with them, but I'll say this.  You can't gain a reputation without first having your very first thing. So for Sharon, this is for at Cerrito 742, their very first thing. So I guess we'll find out if this person is to ever be trusted again. That's kind of the thing here.  Nope, this is the first thing they've ever put out there. And you might just say anyone can put anything out there and you're right. You are 1000% correct. Anybody can throw something out there. It can be their first thing. And then if it doesn't happen, just don't believe them. But the reason I wanted to talk about it isn't just because of Cerrito 742. It's also because of Jeff Grubb, because Jeff Grubb, who is known, who is a leaker, who is a video game journalist and does have inside sources, proven inside sources, said Super Mario RPG, which, you know, he didn't give us any additional details, but that sounds like, hey, Nintendo's going to do something with the original Super Mario RPG anyways. Or maybe he himself was hinting at a Super Mario RPG sequel. That's the thing. We don't know what Jeff Grubb was hinting at. But that's why I felt like talking about this, because Jeff Grubb is someone who can be trusted. He's someone who is known. He's someone that we can look to. And Cerrito 742 is not, but Cerrito 742 could be right. And if Cerrito 742 is right, now, bam, she pops up on the radar of leakers.   But I'd like to think, a lot of the stuff I've reported on this year, if it wasn't a random 4chan post, which we've thrown a couple of those up, but we don't cover the random 4chan stuff too much, unless it's really got something in it, I'm really excited for it and I just haven't thought about it for a long time. We generally don't cover a lot of the 4chan ones. But a lot of these Twitter people I've been covering, especially here in 2020, have actually been right. Now some of that's because I've ignored people in the past that have gotten things wrong. There's been some, some quote unquote leakers out there that people trust that I feel like they've gotten so much wrong that I don't know why people still trust them. I don't know.  But you know, here we go. There's hope. At least I'm gonna have hope because I really want Super Mario RPG, the original game to come back. Half Grub is giving me major hope for that. And a sequel developed by Square Enix?  Nintendo already works directly with Square Enix for Bravely Default. We got Bravely Default 2 coming later this year. And we know that they make Octobet Traveler as well and we have a sequel to that coming too. So you know what? Is it any crazier to believe this than it is to believe pretty much anything else? You know?  Is it any crazier to think that we might get a Super Mario RPG? I don't think so. But you guys will have to determine that because this is just, I don't know. I don't know. That's all I can say is just, I don't know. You guys let me know what you think about it down in the comments below. I am Nathan Rebel Janss from Nintendo Prime, be sure to enter all of our giveaways. You guys are awesome. It's been a ton of fun. The channel is just popping off lately. I don't know how many people like to pay attention to this stuff.  Crazy stuff. We haven't had a video go viral like that in a long time, but it's not just that. The whole channel is popping off. All the videos are getting a lot of views. Thank you guys so much for showing up big here in the month of September. This has been the best month I think of the channel of all time. So thank you guys so much and I'll catch you in the next video.


We're live at the Under 21 Convention in Orlando, Florida, and with the main man, Sok. Sok, first of all, my name's Mike. Mike, we met last night. We met last night. Crazy. Good to meet you. Thank you. So yeah, you've just given your talk here at the convention. Unfortunately for myself, I didn't get to see a lot of it because I'm doing all the live streaming and stuff. So I'm curious to learn a bit more about what it is that you spoke about. Okay. Talked about relationships, and I wanted to ground several concepts into the idea. And the most important, I think to me, was the fact that relationships and long-term, stogic relationships, loving, faithful, committed relationships, are the actual normal for mammals. And it's abnormal when we don't have those. And so I want to kind of put a lot of that in context. And so I wanted to initially talk about the, just the incredible odds of existence that we have when we're alive, you know, that what it took to actually get there and put that in context with the length and span of humanity over, you know, 14 million years of just hominid development, you know, and it's a remarkable thing. And when you look in comparison to the lives that that occurred to have that take place, you know, you're talking about more than a half million generations of continuous operation of continuous transfer of existence and creation of life and raising and developing to get to a world we're at today. And I think that's terribly significant. And then I talked about at length human evolution and how we've been adapted for social relationships, specifically because of social relationships. And kind of showed the biomechanical elements of some of those things and kind of the philosophical elements of why those are important. And, you know, for example, I talked that a lot of people talk about tool development and technology, but the reality, the biggest invention or the greatest invention that impacted humanity is social constructs of relationships and those sort of large scale complex elements. And the most basic of which is the human family and going from there. Obviously, then I talked about the things that would put that in jeopardy. What limits our ability to have these naturally current relationships? And some of them were natural things that were built in the cake because we've evolved differently because of binary sex, men and women evolved differently.  And that's natural. And so those are some biological natural elements. And then they're a cultural and kind of took a big whack at some of those. One of the most important, I think, that we can handle as an individual is a lack of social skills. You know, we're just not taught culturally those sort of skills. The other is far more imposing and far more threatening. And that is the rise in acceptance of feminism and mainstream of it. And I wanted to be very, very critical.  And I thoroughly believe that that's because of the rise of social skills, you know, of relationship skills, long term parenting and raising of children that have made us tremendously successful. And we have a cultural construct, putting that in jeopardy. And I, you know, raised whether it's poverty, whether it's violence to women and children, you know, any number of the social disorders we talk about, you know, and what are the ramifications and in all fairness is very, very lightly about some of these things, you know, just incursory, but to sit down and say, is it fair to evaluate this? If you want to destroy something, what are you destroying? You know, and especially destroying something that we know that works. And while I understand the rise and the human nature to change real needs, you know, the sheer vulnerability of women and resources and those sorts of things, I understand that, but we don't measure it objectively and say, Hey, we try this, but it hasn't worked. Let's take a step back and rework this. We don't have that introspection culturally to do that. And in many instances, we're forbidden to even do it. And I showed examples, particularly with third wave feminism, censoring that, not allowing that sort of discussion to even take place and obscuring language to the point that we can't call things by the proper name and note that, you know, the beginning of wisdom originates with calling things by the proper names. And if you can't call things by proper names, you can't have the truth. And if you can't have the truth, you're sure as hell not going to have justice. And if you can't have justice, you're not going to have equality. These are all things feminism spouses say they do, but in reality, they don't. They're currently very much opposed to that. I would be very, very interested in seeing what a fourth wave of feminism looks like that would be reconstituting and relooking at some of this stuff, you know, whether it's the factual feminists, whether it's the honey badgers defending men and culture and, and, you know, loving families and those sort of things. I'm really kind of interested in some of that stuff, you know, objective, you know, rational analysis on very real world situations. And one of the things that I was rather proud about was that I say proud I brought up in the talk was that I evaluated the these needs going back to and I typecast Neanderthals and had images of reconstructed Neanderthals. Those same needs are still yet unaddressed and unresolved today. And we literally had an election, you know, this year, there's currently going on, that still having that up as part of the discussion. And yet we're not still objectively measuring the results of that. What I want to ask is, like, why is it that no one seems to be talking about this? Like, you seem to be almost at the forefront of this. There's there's an in within this group I am. I am by far and away the leading. I'm very much, I don't want to say Johnny come lately. It's something I've been interested in. There's better speakers about some of the stuff. People are absolutely more versed in it that this is their kind of bread and butter and a lot of what they do. This is, I don't say hobby. It's a passion of mine. Something I wanted to work on to improve my own life. And I started sharing with men and that's how I got involved. But there's several other speakers talking about it. But to answer your question is why we're not we're threatened. And I don't mean that facetiously. I'm currently on an FBI watch list because of things I've spoke about. And not because I've made threats, not because I'm threatening, but I've spoke about men's rights. I can't do that in the society in a feminist society. And quite literally, the Southern Poverty Law Center actually puts anybody who talks about the manager, men's rights, men's issues under hate speech. And they take that they used to have a relationship with the FBI. And they would follow and track all these, you know, individuals that would, you know, talk about hate speech or domestic terrorism or anything and pass that information in the FBI. Well, the problem is the FBI was taking that unfettered. And they took this and my name was attached to it because I spoke openly about feminism. I spoke about, hey, look, you can't have justice, these sort of things, and calling attention to it, not in violence. I wasn't promoting violence. I have no intentions of violence, but we're not allowed to even talk about it. And so I got settled with that. And it came to my attention as I'm an architect. And one of my specializations in building types are airports. You know, I design airports, and particularly for a period of time security systems, I'm going for a security review at an airport. And all of a sudden, I'm being questioned on stuff. And they wanted to know things I hadn't divulged. And you sit down and say, okay, we've crossed the threshold. You know, we're now officially having a conversation that I'm concerned about my civil rights. Can you please identify yourself in writing? I'd be like your business card and would like to exchange information. And at this point in time, I want to acknowledge that we're having this conversation in this vein. And I have some very real concerns regarding it. The problem is, is that you can't sue or go after it until damage is done. And so this happened probably a better part of five or six years ago. And so, you know, at that time, you kind of get your ducks in order start contacting different groups and legal groups to get prepared to because this is affecting my potential to provide for my family, myself, everything else for nothing more than using my first amendment rights in a manner which is appropriate and civil, you know, and in particularly civil manner, you know, I'm not being outrageous. I'm not calling for violence.  I'm trying to be rational and trying to understand what's going on and be willing to talk about it. And I was censored for doing so. I've dealt with, for example, a local university here, we had worked on some transgender issues associated with privacy concerns with restaurants. And I don't have a problem with providing essential basic services, you know, that people, everybody has a civil right to be able to use restaurants and everything else. And the issue was privacy. How do you make a single occupancy use private appropriate, in particular at a university in which we're dealing with recreation centers? So you're dealing with locker room situations. The notion of public disrobing and nudity and sexuality, you know, whereas the convergence of all these things, how do you handle it appropriately? So I was highly involved in some of this. And these things got resolved amicably, very, you know, very efficiently. And, you know, I'm particularly proud of that. In conjunction, I thought was really interesting was this is during early parts of the current war on terrorism.  And so they're coming back on the university campus to get an education user or GI Bill and they're still going to these rec centers. And they didn't want to shock and disrobe in front of people because they were, even though they themselves were comfortable with their injuries, they weren't comfortable with putting that upon other people. They didn't want to impose that visual shock and make people feel bad. So they were looking for heightened privacy. Interestingly enough, so were the individuals who are transgendered.  So they're very small percentage of people. But when your client group is in the tens of thousands, you're talking a lot of number of people. But even if it was still one, what were we doing to accommodate one individual? And that's kind of a Western civilization value that we really do value the individual. And how do we accommodate these needs? And then what they're finding is that they didn't have essential services of just access to restaurants and how that was affecting campus life and that. So you actually had transgendered students and military veterans coming together working together resolve this issue. I found that fascinating. We also had different cultural groups. We had, interestingly enough, a number of sororities that had concerns about body image issues. We had faculty members that had concerns about disrobing in front of students. We had security concerns about people cell phones being able to record and immediately upload to the internet. And these are real world concerns about standard functions that have evolved. And how are we responding that as a profession architectural? And so I was involved in some of that. And so it was interesting being involved in that. I was invited to a gender studies program, interestingly enough, not just a gender studies. The school actually had a masculine studies class.  And not knowing a whole lot about it, they had kind of a public meeting and it happened to be at a local Panera spread. They had that kind of conference room and they wanted a discussion. It was invite, but it was open to the public. And so I was invited, one by the director because of my involvement architecturally. And he generally very lightly knew I was involved with young men and developing better men. And he thought that was not really kind of knowing the extent what a lot of it was pickup or some of these other things. And kind of keep some of that on the QT and having to do that underground, that's still when that was taking place. And I'm reading the syllabus and you start looking at it. And there wasn't a single male issue involved. It was the entire course was gender studies of how do you take people, females going to male and what is the cultural implications of being gay, lesbian, transgender, not a single male issue. And I made the mistake in an open public form of just calling attention to this. How can you say this is a masculine studies program when you have absolutely nothing involved in genetic male interest? Not one. And they immediately started yelling, screaming, they reacted horribly. The one comment was name one issue. And my response was take any feminist issue and what's the male counterpart, female circumcision. If it's okay for male, why not for for women? Biomatically, there are more reasons. You know, if you're going to sit down and say for sanitation, hygiene, cleanliness, disease, women are vastly better served by being circumcised. I think it's kind of an abhorrent position, both male and female, but it wasn't even room for discussion. We talk about rape.  But we're not even allowed to discuss it. We talk about suicides.  And remarkably, I mean, it goes up to a factor of 20 to 25 depending on when you look at it. Can I ask you a question about the male suicide rates? Yeah. For me personally, like I've suffered with thoughts of depression in my life. Okay. Not as severe as, you know, maybe, you know, other people, but I've definitely, definitely felt it. And it's definitely caused a lot of misery, pain and happiness in my life. And the root of that for me personally, I honestly believe was not being able to pursue the thing I wanted to do, because the advice I got as a young man was, follow your passion, and you'll never have to work another day in your life. Like, I think that's the way out. That's a feminist response, by the way. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Well, because a male response is self-sacrifice. Do what's required. Overproduce. And that's your role as a man, is to overproduce. You can't provide for others if you're underproduced. So I think that is my almost, I'm sorry, word, inability to find my passion. It's difficult. I lost my train of thought there. I wanted to do work I loved. I knew that, and that was lacking in my life. And that's what I was searching and seeking for. And, you know, finally, I'm at a point, luckily, where I've kind of started to figure it out and I'm on a much better path than I was, thanks to the 21 convention. And the past month has been the happiest of my life. And I think it's because I've truly found maybe my one purpose in life. And from my selfish perspective, I've got in my head that one of the leading causes of male depression is that a lack of purpose. What I wanted to ask you, is that leading? Or is it something to do with what you've been talking about today? To be honest, I don't know what the true leading cause is because I haven't studied the nature of society. You know, I see the stats and just absolutely alarm. And you sit down and say, as a men's issue, as a men's health issue, why aren't we paying attention to it? Why don't we have the research?  You know, and so I don't have the answer.  There's absolutely no doubt about it. You know, and that's called human thriving and we're meant to thrive. We're supposed to thrive. Unfortunately, thriving and profitability aren't always linked. Yeah. And that's where I was a little bit of disagreement saying, hey, look, just because you follow your passions and a family seat, you're going to find happiness and riches. You'll probably find happiness. Okay. But you're, and you're probably just going to be better for you than the riches.  But yeah, if you have your purpose and you're pursuing it, I think a lot of cases your fear drops away. Your anxiety drops away. Depression. And I've always been kind of fascinated. I've always looked at depression being retroactively. You're looking at the past as anxiety is always future projection. Yeah. And you know, and I'm leaning heavily on others here. But the key is to kind of live in the moment in the now, you know, and that's human thriving. It doesn't mean that we're not looking forward and planning accordingly, but we're not anxious about it. You know, we're willing to accept changes and evolution and know that we're going to be prepared. On that point, getting into the now, what is the fastest, best, easiest way to get into the now in your opinion? Stop resisting. When you resist either the past or the future, you're not in the now you're struggling. And this is Eckhart Tolle. I'm absolutely from him. And that's something I got to, you know, because how do you get into that moment and stay there? And you stop resisting.  And you know, I hate to say it, learn rocks. And this is one area where, you know, literally my body is because I can't relax. I don't allow myself to relax. And it's stress induced apps. You know, it's not, I talk about sugar and carbon calorie intake, but it's, it's stress induced.  And I get focused in on and develop tremendous anxiety, you know, about that, you know, did hardly slept at all. But you prepare, you do the things you have to do. You don't beat yourself up on the past. And so for example, that room, there were some issues with me in that room, my first speech, I did a horrible job with it. I developed fears, I started focusing in, you know, I got into limbic thinking or no longer creative, that hind mind mentality. And I started using one word as a crutch. And that word was aspect. And I use that word, I think somebody counted it 53 times in an hour and 20 minutes.  So to come back up on stage at the scene of this crime, I had anxiety is about, you know, about, you know, kind of, you know, I don't say depression, but I had anxiety is going forward with it. And you sit down and say, when you get on the stage, you have to take a breath, just deep breath and stop resisting and say, just be in the moment, feel it. And if you're feeling the anxiety, you're feeling the fear kind of kind of, it's normal. I embrace it. And I hate to say it, kind of enjoy it. And you sit down and say, okay, take them out. And so I kind of had my speech prepared where I was going to come out with a personal confession. And I really wasn't ready for it.  And I said, Joe, you're in a moment, you're having a little bit of anxiety. It's affecting your performance. Relax. Enjoy this moment. Okay. You know, you're absolutely alive right now. You know, and that's kind of what got me going. One thing I just wanted to say about you, sock, you're like the one guy I really wanted to meet. I was at the Melbourne event a few years back, and I really wanted to meet you. And one of the things like you, I've read your blog and not going to lie, I don't understand everything. No, that's okay. I just know as I'm getting older and going into relationships, you're going to be my go-to guy in terms of blog. And it's manning up smart. Manning up smart.com. Yeah. And one thing I want to say now that I've met you last night, we'll show it briefly. You were stressed and excited. And I could feel that from you.  Yeah.   And that was something else.  And so you sit down and say, okay, don't resist that. Work with it. Because I can't resist it. I resist it. I'm going to check. And that's a natural reaction.   Yeah, cool. It's a really nice environment. I like the hotel. You know, it had a really good time. And it wasn't until I walked in that goddamn room, it was a scene of a crime.  I still cringe.   But that's part of it. And what I find particularly proud about is that if you watch the videos in sequence, I've gotten better over time. And even though I'm an architect, I present, I don't present like this. I don't have to give stories and that sort of things. You know, it's fairly small segmented, very controlled, fairly simple. You know, this is a whole different realm. And this isn't something I do professionally. You know, so that makes an added challenge. And it does matter to me. It really matters to everyone else. You know, the curve on the human evolution, we have an ability to tremendously impact them. You talk the improvements in awareness just in psychology and child development. In the last 100 years, that's nothing over the course of evolution of what we could actually achieve as a species or people to improve the quality of our lives, the quality of our environments and our society, and how to project that going forward. I think I think there's a tremendous amount of resource available. And this is kind of ground center for being able to talk and discuss and have a platform with the guys to have that conversation. Awesome. Thanks so much. Pleasure. Awesome stuff.


3 Key Strategies for Teaching Young Learners As the world becomes increasingly globalized, EFL programs are nearing ubiquity. A substantial portion of EFL participants are young learners. Although there is a lot of crossover between techniques used for young learners and those used older children or adults, there are certainly strategies that can be employed to get the most out of a classroom of young learners. Use the first lesson to get to know your students. A teacher's initial lesson will help set the tone for the semester and should be warm and fun. Teachers should avoid teaching from the book and instead focus on making connections between teacher and students, as well as peer-to-peer. Icebreakers and simple games are a good way to engage children and illicit participation. The quest for a fun first class should not overshadow the importance of the class structure and clearly define expectations. Taking the time to go over a simplified version of class rules is imperative. Teachers should use very simple and clear language, emphasized by gestures. Establishing expectations early on is beneficial to the teacher as it may prevent behavior issues from arising but is also helpful for the children as it helps them settle in and know what's expected of them. A first class is about more than just setting expectations and creating routine. It is also an opportunity for the teacher to gauge the levels of the young learners. It's possible some students may have exposure to English through their primary schooling and may be more comfortable going first in activities or helping demonstrate things. This will also help maintain the engagement of more advanced learners. Use your students' names wisely. Taking a room of young learners can take some practice and teachers will need to employ a host of techniques specific to this demographic. A simple but effective way to keep children's attention is to place children's names at the end of your questions, rather than at the beginning. This will keep learners listening to see to whom the question is directed. Adaptability is vital to managing a class of any age group, but with young learners, learners must be fast to adjust. With dealing with short attention spans, change activities often end in games on a high note, instead of letting the kids get worn out and risking behavior outbreaks. Plan alternative activities in the event that something doesn't go according to plan, but don't rush to get through everything. Although young learners may tire of doing the same exercise for more than 10 minutes, they may also need more repetition of vocabulary and grammatical structures. For many, the EFL class may be their first exposure to English and it may feel radically unfamiliar to them. Build repetition throughout the lesson by incorporating the same language into new games during the activate portion of lessons. Never put a student on the spot. A foreign language classroom can be an intimidating place to a young learner. It is crucial for teachers to avoid putting a child on the spot. Give children a solid understanding of what's expected of them and activity by coupling an explanation of instructions in clear and simple language with a demonstration of the activity. This will help eliminate confusion for the children and can instead build their eagerness to participate. Good behavior in the classroom should be rewarded, but praise, like discipline needs to be done consistently. Young learners lack many of the inhibitions experienced by older children and adults, and their willingness to take risks with their language learning is among their greatest assets. For the teacher, this can be a dynamic and stimulating experience. With a strong investment to the initial lesson and maintaining sound classroom management throughout the year, teachers and students will benefit from this positive EFL environment. Are you ready to take a TEFL course? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


I just came back from a week in Mexico where I was thinking maybe I do a little bit of work, but ended up doing pretty much no work because we were scouting for places that we might move to and just enjoying meeting locals and expats, etc. So now is the Monday where I'm getting back into a full schedule and I just want to talk about, well, the very real experience because I know a lot of you watching this do have that on a regular basis where you take some time off and you're coming back and you say, well, how do I get back into the groove? So I'm speaking from first-hand experience right now at 8.30 a.m. on a Monday. So the key is, and I know this about myself now and I hope this is something helpful for you, the key is to be gentle with yourself as you ease back in because productivity stamina is a real thing. You can't expect yourself to be off for one week in Mexico and then suddenly come back and have the same level of energy and clarity and focus as you do when you've been working regularly for a few weeks. So I understand that I have to be more gentle myself, but what that means for me is maybe a little different than what most people would mean. Most people would maybe have a lighter schedule, which I think makes sense to have a lighter schedule when you come back. So fewer meetings because especially if you're an introvert, fewer meetings, if you possibly can swing that. But for me, because I'm kind of like I've been practicing productivity for years. So I maybe this is a bit of a more advanced level tip, but basically I have quite a full schedule still because I've been able to create the breaks during the day that allow me to refresh myself. And so what I'm coming back to and how I'm, how I'm being more gentle on myself is two things how I'm being more aware of my stamina, which is lower now than it was before I left for vacation. Two things. One is I have to be more gentle on myself in terms of being more strict about my rest and my breaks. And that's how I may be more gentle myself, because I have to be particularly attentive to, okay, it's time to stop doing something, even though it's not complete, even though it's not perfect.  So that's what I'm reminding myself of, okay, boundaries with myself, take the breaks that I've already scheduled throughout the day. I do, I do four naps a day. For those of you who haven't heard, it's true. I've done that for years now four naps a day. 15 minutes to 20 minutes naps, four times a day. I don't always fall asleep. You can watch my other videos about naps, but, but at least laying down is really helpful. And number two is to be less perfectionistic about even less perfection. I'm already, you know, a recovering perfectionist for years now. But to be even more open to making mistakes and to letting things be put out there in a messy way. Because, because otherwise, it's, I'm being too hard on myself, and then coming back with lower stamina means things will look messier. So, and I'm okay with that and practicing being okay with that is really important. And that's being gentle on myself. Yeah, I'll have a whole other segment about how to be okay with things being messy in one's business, putting things out there in a messy way. And for now, I just that's all I'm going to say for now, keeping stamina keeping boundaries with myself that coming back means actually to be more strict about my schedule is the way to be gentle with myself because my schedule includes lots of breaks. And that's how I can and putting things out there in a messy way. So that's what I'm practicing today. And this week, and I hope. Comment below how do you come back after a break to get back into the swing of things. Comment below if you like, and I hope this is helpful.


So what this requires is, you know, a lot of conversations between commanders and their subordinates to make sure they understand what the full intent is, how you would respond or how one should react. Right? We're never going to be able to cover every contingency. You have to delegate to that commander and expect them to do the right thing.


Are there any necessary truths? I'm not aware of any necessary truth. Okay, two plus two equals four. I would have thought so until a mathematician came to me and said, you know what? Two plus two actually can't equal five depending on higher values of five. Right, it's not a necessary truth then. Exactly, so it's not a necessary truth that Jonah couldn't swallow the well. This conversation devolves into well. Jonah then, I mean, if two plus two equals five, then Jonah could swallow the well.  Why not? Maybe I'm ignorant, maybe I'm a buffooner. I think two plus two equals four, but that's where I've been taught all my life and nobody told me otherwise. Two plus two is therefore God.


Frogs are amphibians, humans are mammals and we both reside under the giant umbrella of this animal kingdom. But we are so different. Well, really? Are we that different? I mean, we have so much in common. It's a little difficult to believe, right? But you will agree with me by the end of this video. Trust me. Because in this video, I'll compare your digestive system with the digestive system of frogs. How about that? Let's begin. So how do you put food into your mouth? With the help of your hands, obviously. But frogs, they do it with the help of their tongue.  I wish it was that easy for us to get food. Now that they have food inside, what do you think they do? They will chew the food, right? Wrong. It is us humans who chew food. We have different kind of teeth that chew food, mix it with saliva and puts it down through the esophagus into our stomach. But when it comes to frog, they do have teeth on both their jaw and sometimes on their palate as well. All same shape, very small, very tiny, but they don't use them to chew their food. Instead, their teeth is to grasp and hold food until it is swallowed. And you know what's amazing about frog teeth? They can get it replaced as many times as they want. If it gets lost or broken and endured, they will get it replaced. But for us, we poor humans only get it twice in our lifetime. Well, now if you're wondering, hey, we didn't find any similarity yet. The process of ingestion is different. The process of chewing food is different. And you are talking about similarity between these two organisms? How are we even similar? Wait a second. The similarity will start from now on. The moment they gut their food, it goes into the esophagus. Everything from the esophagus is all the same. With a little exception here and there, it's all exactly the same. Now before we move ahead and compare other parts of the digestive system, let's quickly brush through our own digestive system, which we are all familiar with, right? So our digestive system starts with our mouth, the buckle cavity. Then we have a pipe that through which the food moves down to our stomach. And this pipe is called esophagus. The food then moves down to our stomach. This is the stomach. The stomach opens into this duodenum, which is a part of the small intestine. Okay, let's just write small intestine here. The stomach opens into the small intestine. From the small intestine, the undigested food material moves to this large intestine. And finally, the waste products are defecated out through the anus, right? This is our digestive system. Now this elementary canal is just a pathway for the food to enter and get out of the body, right? The actual breakdown or digestion of the food is done by various enzymes and digestive juices secreted by different glands and organs of the body. For example, the stomach secretes an acid called HCl. And it also secretes various other digestive juices. Then we have the liver. The liver secretes bile. And this bile is stored in this green pouch that you see in the picture called the gallbladder, okay? And then we also have the pancreas, which is on the other side, not shown in this picture. And that secretes its own digestive juices and they are all sent out to the first part of the small intestine. Just after the food leaves the stomach, it meets those digestive juices from the liver and the pancreas, okay? And they are both sent out through the common bile duct. It is called the common bile duct because both bile and the digestive juices from the pancreas comes out through the same root, okay? Now the major chunk of digestion and absorption of food takes place in the small intestine, okay? Now I assume that you already know about the lining of the small intestine. It is very folded to increase the surface area of the lining so that more food can be absorbed. These folds are called villi. And these villi's have small, small folds on top of them, okay? They don't look as smooth as this. They look like these. This villi's also has projections on them. And these are called micro-villi because they are very tiny, okay? And again, they are nothing but the intestinal lining extremely folded just to increase the surface area for more efficient absorption, okay? So this is a very basic oversimplified version of the human digestive system. Now let's move on to the digestive system of frogs. Yes, I know. It nowhere looks like the human digestive system. But trust me, whatever we just discussed holds true for the frog as well. So let me quickly introduce you to this alien-looking structure which is nothing but the digestive system of frog. So it starts with the buckle cavity just like us, which is not shown in the picture. But just imagine that they have their mouth somewhere here. And the food from the mouth moves into this pipe-like thing which is nothing but the esophagus, okay? So this is the esophagus. The food runs down through the esophagus into the stomach. Now as you can see, they don't have very clear-cut distinction between the stomach and the esophagus just like we humans have. But this bulging out portion that you see is the stomach. Then the semi-digested food from the stomach moves into the intestine. This is the small intestine and the later part of this tube is the large intestine. So let us just write intestine here. This is the intestine. And this part here is the end part of the large intestine which we have not labeled here but it is called rectum even in humans, okay? So this is the rectum. Now apart from these similarity in the elementary canal, all other glands and digestive juices are also similar. Here this brown colored flaps on both sides are nothing but the liver of the frog. This is how it looks. And this green pouch here is the gallbladder. The pancreas is not shown here in the picture but again the gallbladder and the pancreas release their secretions exactly the same way as in humans through a common bile duct and it is released onto the semi-digested food that comes down from the stomach. So that was a lot of similarities. What do you think? I told you right, we have so much in common. The digestive juices are similar. The elementary canal is almost the same but again they are amphibians. We are much advanced human beings, mammals, right? So we will have a lot of differences for sure. And the major difference lies here at the end of the elementary canal. As you can see I have not labeled the n's here because it is not an n's. It is called the cloacal aperture. The opening is called the cloacal aperture and the end part of the rectum is called the cloaca. Cloaca comes from the Latin word which means drain or the sewer and it is called so because the cloaca or the cloacal aperture is the exit point for multiple bodily systems. Not just the feces as in case of innocent humans, the cloacal aperture is for the release of eggs and sperms and also for the solid and liquid waste. But in case of humans, particularly human female have different openings for urine, for defecation and for childbirth, right? But in case of frog, everything is sent out of the body through just one opening called the cloacal aperture and this yellow thing that you see on both sides of the rectum is nothing but the urinary bladder and as you can see it is opening into the rectum letting all the urine come out through the cloacal aperture. So this brings us to the end of the digestive system of frogs. But when we discuss about frogs or amphibians, we cannot forget that they have a larval stage as well. Thankfully, we humans don't have a larval stage. We are born like human babies. So right from when we are born, this is how our elementary canal look like, right? But in frog larvae, which we call the tadpole, which are exclusively equitic and they are strict herbivores. Now the plant-based diet of herbivores contains cellulose, which is a very complex carb and it is very difficult to break that down due to the rigid cell walls, right? So that is why the digestive tract or elementary canal is longer in herbivores than in carnivores. So the larval stage, the tadpole stage has longer digestive tract compared to the carnivorous adult frog. And what are we? We are omnivores, right? So this brings us to the end of the digestive system of frogs. So as I end the video, you can take your time to sink in all the similarities that you just learned between a frog and your digestive system.


Let's sit down my friends. We could be here for a long time YouTube team keep it clean What's going on saying Raven here with another video and in this video? I'm here to share my post game thoughts From the game that we all watch between the Ravens and the Steelers This game just to jump straight into it. It seems like Lamar Jackson is broken right now It seems as if there's something that's just off way off With Lamar Jackson now I know I've seen some people say well Maybe it's because the offensive line because all this season the offensive line has been really bad And he just has not had the time. He hasn't had the time and that's true He hasn't but there even there have been cases where he's had the time and he's made bad decisions And one of the things with Lamar Right now is that he has really been forcing it. He's really been Forcing the issue Lamar does not like to throw the ball away. It's either boom or bust with Lamar Because it's either he's going for the big play big strike Or it's a bust because it's a fumble or a sack Or just or interception So it's just he has been just off in this game against the Steelers and in the game against the Browns He has just been off So it's like he's been going backwards and I feel like he's had sometimes he's had trouble like reading the field And it's like it's crazy because from his rookie year This is something that he did so well He's always done a good job of reading the field And making good decisions So I'm not sure what it is right now with Lamar Jackson But something is broken in the Ravens. They have to get it fixed asap They have to The defense held the Steelers to three points through three quarters Three points through three quarters. That's an average of one point per quarter through three quarters There is absolutely no reason That the Ravens should not have been up 17 3 20 and shout out to Steelers defense now But there's there's no reason there's no excuse. There's no nothing The Ravens they they tj white And and Chris Wormley They ate they feasted on this offensive line. They feasted on Lamar all game long It's like just when you thought tj white when he was done making plays. Oh, no, no, no, no, let me make another one No, you know what? Let me make another one And it was like what? Greg Roman in this game He fooled me he fooled me because early on on that first drive where And I've never seen this play all season Lamar. He faked like they brought Duvenay in motion He faked the ball to Duvenay didn't give it to him, but then gave the ball to davante freeman And davante got a nice little run and I was like, oh, I said, okay This this these are the plays that giro is talking about are in his vault. I was like, all right, let's go Then after that, no Now in this game, I said, I don't think giro called a bad game I don't think he called a bad game Because they were consistently giving the ball to davante freeman Uh, they were not doing a bunch of force feeding with um latavius murray Or even nape McCray nape McCray got some carries early. He got a couple carries in the game But I think he only got like two But he he wasn't being force fed like that either but davante freeman was clearly the lead back And they were trying to get different guys involved, but my big question Now I feel like giro overall he called a good game, but I'm I'm still confused on Where and why is rashaab bateman? on offense What is up with rashaab bateman on offense? I'm not understanding this I'm not understanding why why he's m.i.a. All the time Like last week he was in there in the first half doing this thing look but the second half gone This week it felt like he was even before the second half What is going on with that? I don't get it And if there's something that I'm missing about rashaab bateman, please y'all feel free to let me know Because I would love to see it But it just this offense continues to do the same thing over and over and over and over and over It was only a matter of time a matter of time before even though this game should not have ended the way that it ended But the offense continues to let these teams hang around over and over and over and over again And it's sad because in this game That wasn't even what bit him in the butt It was their own stubbornness and in their cockiness And let's just talk about that two-point conversion play because I know there's been a lot of back and forth Back and forth about the two-point conversion play. Was it a good play? Oh, it was a great call by john harbour on them Somebody said oh, no, it's a bad call by john harbour on it. So you always know you got to play the win terrible call terrible call And john harbaugh's excuse was because malin humphrey's out because malin humphrey By the time you see this video, it probably will have already been Confirmed that malin humphrey is out for the season, but we'll see Um, but with malin humphrey, he's expected to be out for the season on distiller's last touchdown When he tried to knock that ball out. He kind of fell awkwardly. They saying either it's a torn peck Or whatever it may be malin humphrey is going to be gone though but um John harbaugh's excuse for the reason why he decided to go for two Instead of just kicking the extra point was because he didn't feel comfortable Going into overtime without malin humphrey. Wow. That's that's that's crazy That's crazy because I thought don't then don't you have an offense that just went down the field and scored a touchdown don't don't you have that And like malin humphrey phenomenal player great player. He's having a down season been having a down season but don't you have several other guys that have started before And could come in and play some corner for you. I feel like you do But let me know if i'm wrong So I just I did not buy that excuse from john harbaugh.  Oh great and y'all know me I like I said before If they would have got it great. I still wouldn't have liked the call I I did not like the call from jump didn't like it at all And I was really hoping that when mike talan and them when the stealers call time out I was hoping like oh, okay. Maybe okay. Ravens just needed to really think about that. All right, bring out jesson tucker.  So y'all have shown that y'all can do it You've shown it But still then then that takes me to this Yeah, so many different issues with these ravens, but there are issues that we've been talking about for the longest Even when the ravens win So because I know that they've always been a lot of people. Well, look look at the ravens record man What are you guys complaining about look at the ravens record? No the ravens They are what their record is because they had won eight games and they lost three games at the time before this game But they had these serious issues and the offense yet again Offense will be sluggish the entire game. They'll be slow the entire game for three and a half quarters This offense will be dead. Then all of a sudden two minute one it hits. Oh, we got a minute and a half left. Okay. Let's do this Look, let's loosen up. Let's get live man And it's like why do you have to wait until the very end of literally the very end of the game in order to do something? Why for what? Why do you choose to do that? Every single game. Why do you choose to wait till the very end of the game to be like? All right. Well, you know it's time now That's terrible Terrible and it's not gonna be good enough You can't keep doing that You can't But anyway back to the two-point conversion You went in overtime if you would have played for overtime I know some people. Oh, man. Well the still is offense. They got hot Well, rave is offense. They literally just scored a touchdown. So I would say they were hot too But you literally You have an opportunity you got a 50-50 shot You can either Your team will either receive the ball Or they'll go on defense And just because your team receives the ball, it's not a guarantee that you'll get a touchdown But also on the other hand just because your team kicks the ball. It's not a guarantee that you'll give up a touchdown But the ravens were like, no, you know what? Forget that. Let's just Let's let's let's just go for two now Hated it hated it hated it hated it hated it And even with that So then um the play call play call was a great call It was a great call Loved it loved didn't love the call that they went for two, but the actual play call was a great call tj white He was like, I I know what this is going He came in I think he was untouched because it seemed like he was in the backfield like Like like he was a raven or something. He was back there. He was right back there with Lamar But Lamar for for that the pressure that he was literally with tj white like right there Snap the ball Catch it tj white ski already. It's like he came over with the ball. It's like he delivered the ball to Lamar some But Lamar made a good throw Mark andrew slowed up He slowed up He slowed up And then he tried to catch up to it at the end. He slowed up Now could the throw have been better? Oh, yeah Oh, yeah He could have put it right on mark andrew's right a minute right in the chest But guess what he had somebody right in his chest tj white The the throw was good, especially given us given a situation And when you look at the context of the throw Look at who was right here Lamar's face. Look at mark andrew's was and mark andrew's Dropped it But again, they shouldn't have even been in that position in the first place Because they should have just kicked the field goal Should just kick the field goal Um mark andrew's this game He started the game off terribly because we forget. I know I have forgotten initially Because that whole ending sequence of the game was just so much But mark andrew's had two Terrible drops one of them. I could kind of give him a pass for A little bit not too much, but he could have caught it because we've seen to make those catches plenty times before But the second the second drop that he had Easy catch good throw. He just straight up dropped it He straight up dropped it dropped it And it was like what wow Now I said during the game that I knew mark andrew was gonna make up for it I knew he was and he made some good plays throughout. He certainly did But he started he finished the game how he started it Just bad play man Bad play and again Lamar He he had a bad game against the stealers He had a bad game He missed some throws. He was holding on to the ball forever on some time He he would not throw the ball away bad game. Like I said right now Lamar is broken He's broken They got to get him fixed And it's like it's almost like they got to go back to the basics They got to go back to basics because Lamar is again boom or bust Now some improvement from Lamar. We noticed that he was taking some check downs To davante freeman to letavious murray and I was so impressed with that. I love that that he was actually taking those sometimes But again, it was more plays where he was holding on to that ball He just wouldn't come off of that ball. He's just like man. I gotta make a big play happen And it was like, oh man There was actually a pick and it's it's like I don't remember the last time this this has happened But there was a pick that number 25 from the stealers actually dropped Lamar should have had another pick But they dropped it I was like, oh boy Couldn't believe it, but Lamar this game bad bad game I just wish this offense would have the the same urgency That when it's a minute and a half left on the clock when it's a minute left on the clock I wish they would have that same urgency when it's 15 minutes left in the first quarter When it's 10 minutes left in the second quarter, I wish they would pick up the pace early on It is so frustrating watching this offense every single week And you like man, they got one of the best players in the league. They got Lamar Jackson They got sami walkers. They got hollywood. They got rashaul bateman Like you got mark angels one of the best titans in the league.  I know that I know that know what I know it All right g-road this offensive line is bad Let's let's change some stuff up We we cannot run the same offense as if we have the same offensive line You can't do that That's a recipe for disaster. It's a recipe for failure for failure man On that ravens that 99 yard touchdown drive Even well wasn't 97 maybe no it was 99 but it was 99 even though it was really um 84 Because they got helped by the refs that 15-yard penalty For taunting by tj white weak penalty and I know I there were some people that like oh They've been calling that all year engraving. What are you talking about? It doesn't make it a good call. It doesn't make it a good penalty. It's still a terrible call terrible call tj white literally looked at davante freeman He stood over him looked at him. Oh 15 yards Ravens got saved They got saved even on the ray ray mcclough where he lost marlin humphrey And they are hardball challenging. I thought that was a terrible challenge. I was like what What kind of challenge is that? What are we doing? Because we've seen so many times Where the rule is if the even if the ball moves if they got their hand under it There's a catch That's a catch If they got their hand under the ball even if the ball Hits the ground a little bit and moves a little bit as long as they got their hand under it and they got control. It's a catch That should have been a catch But ravens got saved Ravens got saved a couple times and there was a there was a one more called to There was one more. I forgot what it was though But Even with the help from the refs. They still didn't close the deal Still didn't close the deal um Davante free win in this game He looked better. He looked good. I mean and he's been Excuse me. He's been again more and more comfortable. That's Excuse me as the season goes on. He's more and more comfortable, which is a beautiful thing. Love it. Love it Because we need it He's not jk. He's not Gus We don't expect him to be But he's he's been decent for these ravens, man And again more and more comfortable Um, I wish the ravens would bring those RPOs back I missed them. We missed them Ravens missed them Um, and I wish they would just kill those option place. Oh, I hate them.  This offense is is terrible And that they are so consistent at being terrible through three and a half quarters There's no urgency whatsoever zero urgency They I mean we keep saying the same thing every week. They got to fix that. They got to fix it But we keep seeing the same results every week So what do we say now? Who knows um, the hollywood in this game He didn't get so active, but he had some nice catches Again, god got some yak sammy walkins. He got his first touchdown catch of the season It's crazy. I didn't even realize that I didn't realize that he didn't have a touchdown this season I didn't think that he necessarily did but I didn't really realize that he didn't But it came at came at a great time nice um Rashaah Bateman again, we talked about him. He I mean You gotta use the first round pick And it's just been the weirdest thing how I've just flip flops This dude is injured He gets back healthy and you play him so much his first game But then it's like his playtime has been decreasing Over the weeks and it's I don't understand it um So that that was the offense special teams devon duvenay. He got a nice kick return Like oh, is he about to drop it? It looks like he's about to drop the ball, but he didn't um Justin Tucker, you already know He kicked touchbacks kicked field goals did his thing What's new? uh defense Again kudos to the defense now. I don't think we sacked been wrothless burger not one time I don't think we did And you know what's crazy that that the statistic that they showed about um the ravens like Lamar Jackson being the second most Sat quarterback in the league That's terrible That's terrible But anyway back to our defense they they didn't sack lamar. I mean they didn't sack big ben not one time They almost picked him off a couple of times, but almost obviously didn't count And it's like the one pick that bounced right into their arms and they actually caught it It was a pass interference on anthony avid No anthony avid he um he struggled a bit this game Uh, he certainly did malin Humphrey. He had his struggles in this game as well Uh secondary just struggled taevan young was in early on in the game. Then he got out. I guess he's hurt malin Humphrey, uh, he He had been having a down season for sure um And now he's out. So it's like man like jeez Even our best cornerback who was having a down year. He wasn't having the worst year But he was having a down year especially for his Standards and for raven standards. Now he's gone. So wink is his job got that much tougher He got that much tougher Um, I didn't think that wink caught a bad game tonight. Uh, I just was confused like a lot of times I mean same stuff. I don't think I overall didn't think he caught a bad game Especially again, you hold the stealers to three points to three quarters. Yeah um but I just Sometimes I just get confused And I did say that I would love to see the statistic when it comes to chuck cluck And how much times he's blitzing versus how much times he's dropped back in coverage and I feel like I feel like the numbers would be so close. I feel like they would be so close But I don't know, man um Nobody was usually we see somebody running wide open every game We didn't see that today. Uh, only time we saw was when anthony avid and marlon humphrey, they ran into each other It's the only time we saw it And then it was it was sad when they showed the replay when When they did that they collided and it was anthony avid's man That was open. Uh, they showed this angle where they showed marlon humphrey Looking at avid anthony avid looking back at marlon humphrey marlon humphrey looking at him And marlon humphrey just went And you know that he was saying oh, man, I miss marcus peters I miss mp So it was just It was sad to see the ravens defense. And you know, I couldn't even be mad at the ravens defense I could what would be mad at them for these dudes held the stealers to three points through three quarters And then in the fourth quarter, they just started coming apart What would be mad at them for they've been holding it down for three quarters and ravens offense was doing nothing with it What'll be mad wouldn't maybe be mad at the defense for what? No, man No defense had been doing it and and this has been something that's been happening a lot through this year What it didn't we say this all the time the defense they show up and offense sluggish sluggish Again, I've seen a lot of people uh, say oh man. Well marlins out for the year seasons over Was it really promising even with marlon humphrey still playing With how this team is playing With how this offense is playing Now again, it's any given sunday Is anything could happen and You you got to get in and you got to get in the playoffs to have a shot That's where it starts by getting in first so they got to take care of that Once they're in anything could happen but realistically speaking This team is they don't they do not look like a contender. They don't They don't they're certainly battle tested But they don't look like a contender Even if they would have won this game tonight It just they they continued the same habits same habits And you you're playing like Steelers have been down this year browns have been down this year You play browns again this weekend the browns looking at this game like oh Yeah, and we at the crib next week. Oh, and we ain't got to go against marlin humphrey. Oh boy They're looking at this game like oh, yeah, come on ravens. Let's get it. We going past heavy That's how they're looking at it But again, even with those teams you play this you playing the Steelers again You playing the brown and then but then you played up bingles again, too And the packers and the rams You know Marlin Humphrey against Aaron Rodgers Matthew Stafford Even Baker Mayfield and Big Ben and Joe borough No Marlin Humphrey against Jamar Chase T Higgins Tyler Boyd and look look what they did with Marlin Humphrey there imagine what they're gonna do without Oh Just imagine Devonte Adams, who's covering Devonte Adams? Huh? Who's covering chase clay pool next time Deontay time like who's covering these guys like it's Ravens got a lot on their plate. It's coaching staff got a lot on their plate. These players got a lot on their plate a whole lot And because everything gets that much tougher So this is just a this is a very frustrating game and but again the the saddest part was that Most of all for more most of my frustrations I can't speak for everybody but most of my frustrations they come from the same exact place that they've been coming from for the longest But my biggest frustration today Um, it was just that that ending Didn't like it at all Didn't like it So anyway Ravens are eight and four Uh with a tough test next week coming off a rested Browns team Uh So we'll see how this thing goes. You know, it's crazy.  I said no She was like, oh really?  I said no I just I didn't see it happening My god jt, um, I had text him Maybe about like an hour before the game started. Maybe a couple hours before the game. Yeah a couple hours before the game started I told him I just I just don't see it today, man I just don't see it because the Ravens I was like, man, I I don't feel like they're gonna take advantage of their opportunity Because again the the bingles lost So it's like you could you could have gotten an even firmer hold in the afc north. It'll still be close But and then with a win too, you will still remain in first place in the afc That I was like, I just I just don't see the Ravens taking advantage of that. I don't Now I didn't last week either I just felt like the game against the Browns last week because Ravens whenever they're giving an opportunity to Handle that handle business and be like, all right. Hey Ravens. It's all on you. Do your thing. They usually squandered That's all that last game had me shook to against them Browns But with Steelers, I just I did not feel like they were gonna win. I feel like they could win And they they they should have but you know these Ravens, man So the season despite what a lot of people may say the season is not over It's far from over. They got five games left A lot of improvement to make Will it be too little too late? It's not it's not too late Because you're eight and four But do they have enough reinforcements to make those improvements? That's the bigger question So we'll see how they adjust or how they don't adjust So Team keeping clean appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Thank you all for watching the stream Thank you all for watching the game with us and also watching the recap as well Um, thank you for just supporting the channel This has been a crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy year But it's been fun. It's all fun. We enjoy whether the ravens win whether the ravens lose We enjoy it. We love watching this team. They uh They keep it entertaining And That's what they're supposed to do. I love y'all y'all be safe y'all be good to each other We out


Let's start with the next speaker. Please welcome our next speaker, Redslaw, who is joining us from Poland. He is an experienced Python developer and works mostly with Django. We'll be talking about the joy of deleting code. Let's start with the talk. Over to you, Red. Hello, I'm Radek and I will tell you about the joy of deleting code. In this presentation, in this talk, I will first talk about some different thoughts I have about deleting code. I will tell a bit about my story and then I will focus on the concrete methods that I used or that I recommend. So let's start. So why do you want to delete code? The code that lives in our repositories, either it is legacy or just developed code, it might contain in some places the code that is not used. We don't want this code to bloat our software, our repo. We just want to get rid of it. So you may ask yourself, why? Why do we want to delete code? Because less code is less bugs. It's as simple as that, hard to oppose. However, also, when you delete code, you also can introduce more bugs and when you, for example, have multiple places when the same code is used and you make a function out of it, I miss some things, some differences, minor differences that will introduce bugs. So we need to be extra careful. And also, especially in Python, that will bite us many times, many places. Sometimes our code is used in, it's referenced. Only it is referenced in YAML files like defining classes in open API definition or code that is used by another module, which we doesn't see that it is used. And also the code that is used only in particular environment. For example, our code coverage will show us that it is not used, but it is really used, but somewhere else. And also, it is very easy to fall into this intimidating mindset that real programmers delete code. We don't want, this is additional code and needed code is not something that we want to have. And we should, part of our professional professionalities so that we detect and delete what we don't need. However, this statement is as true as any other statement we can coin. It only makes us a bit sad, a bit guilty, but it doesn't change anything. Every case is different. And for example, there are, if we have the same code in different layers of the program, we might need to keep it because they have different purposes. If they look the same, maybe they will evolve into something other. Also, there is a wet principle that opposes the dry principle, which say write everything twice. Also, it is also commonly said in other words that duplicates start from three. That if you have to duplicate, it's okay. If it's three, okay, let's get it out. But also, yeah, there are many, there are many problems, but also sometimes you just need to speak up because there are projects, especially with legacy code that you won't understand what the code does. You won't understand how the code is used. The number of WTFs per hour will be very high. The rotten code, the code where dragon lives, maybe it would be good to delete it instead of spending months on getting how it really works. So sometimes you just need to do it. Just get rid of the unneeded code. And whatever happens, happens. Of course, it's very careless. But for example, if you have a legacy project, no CI, no test coverage, no things that could help you with detecting the possible unused places. You just can sometimes remove something, but check, test it on a test instance, not production, of course. Sometimes it's the only way to see what happens. Also, many people don't like deleting code. They say, oh, we are going to need it, or we are going to need it again, which is the worst because this code was used some time ago, maybe we will use it in future. It's a trap, don't go for it. There's a principle, you ain't going to need it. So now I'm going to need it. Maybe in future you will, but maybe you will need it in different form. Or maybe if you're adding a code that will be used in future, you are just bloating your work. You will not be able to finish the task in sprint because you added something that you think would be useful. On the other hand, if something is really going to be needed, and you really know about this, maybe it would be worse to extract it to a separate library or module so that you will see that. Okay, here are some stuff we are going to need it, but it lies on the side, so we know that it won't break our test coverage or something like this. It just lies here and waits for its turn, but I don't recommend this. Maybe another package or something like this, or I don't know. Sometimes the situation that you have divine force is you have a revelation how to solve something you don't need to solve now. Maybe just put it in gist or a file in your file system, not exactly in the repo. Yes, I said a couple of times about the legacy code. The legacy code is very difficult case, because if you would like to comment legacy code, it means you need to delete it. In most modern projects, we use something that is called Git or other version control system, so nothing is really lost. The code is somewhere there, if we'll need it, we'll get back. Problem is, commented code rots a lot more than the usual codes that are surrounded. So in the end of all these random thoughts about the code, you need to just do it, but don't do it carelessly and don't fear too much. That's about the outcomes. In modern projects, we use continuous integration, linters, other tools, and they could help you spotting the possible problems, possible bugs as soon as possible. So you just are going to do it and see how good it feels to delete something and to get your program a bit lighter and a bit more understandable. So a second about my story. So I'm a developer. I worked with Python for 10 years, and I changed my job and projects quite often. Also, it's counting along with some side projects. Half of all my projects contained legacy code, and by legacy code, I mean not something written a month ago, but a year ago, or five years ago. Half of the half of projects was in so bad shape. It deserved to be rewritten, but we didn't have time to do this, or we didn't have courage to do this. And that led us to constant refactoring and getting the code better. There was a project when we refactored it for a year, and then even our manager. So guys, it's leading to nowhere. Let's rewrite it all and do the smooth, smooth pass from the old code to the new. So sometimes even people, all the people around you see that you should give up and to rewrite it, but you don't see so it's good to have a perspective. But suppose we are given a legacy project and we can, we need to refactor it. It is working. It needs to be working. We don't have time. So that leads us. The first thing you are thinking of doing in such case is, at least I am thinking is deleting code because less code is lesser factoring. What's, what's the, what's the purpose of writing unit tests for legacy code if you know that some part of it will be deleted. Of course, it is extremely dangerous because you don't know the code. Part of course used looks unused, but if you have any way of finding it out of checking it in a, in a development environment. It might be good to just drop the code that looks dead and see what happens. A friend of mine once told me that he was give he was in his project there was a thousand line function where there were big chunks of code with under if statements with contradicting with contradicting expressions. So there were, it was just unreachable code. When he cut out of the unreachable code he the result was a hundred line function, not a thousand hundred light function is function is still big, but it's it's better than thousand. Okay, so how do we prevent having to use the code or how do we find it. So let's grab the first and the easiest way. So unused imports. It is basically a full auto approach. There are tools that can help you I sort I said will not find the unused imports, but it will get rid of the obligated in imports and sort everything gently and pyflex or piling will show the unused imports. So this is not not a big deal, not a big gain, but it will make your code more clear. And it will be useful for next state steps. So next step is unused packages. So here we, we use the previous step because here we will, we will take advantage of it. We, for example, there's a simple, maybe, or maybe not so simple bash command that extracts all imports from your project. And you can compare it with your requirements file or setup file, setup file dependencies. Of course, some of the imports will be imports from the standard library so you need to take into know it, but if you want to want to be able to find your requirements in one of the imports, it might mean that it is unused. Of course, there are some packages like the development tools, which are not imported like piling or Python, Python is imported, which aren't or genie corn, which are not important in your code but still they are used so you need to have some knowledge, have some, know what you, what you have in your, in your code base, but it will help you to get the, get the obvious, obvious candidates. Okay, so unused modules.  So it is good. It is easy to, to track them. And we do, we do with this just like with packages, we see what's imported. We can do the same graph as here but just find only things imported from our, our project. So also you can see code coverage, but not only test coverage, because coverage model can also track, for example, stuff used when you use the site you can run, if you have a web app you can run your server with coverage. And you do some things and you see what code was, was actually run. So it's good if you have, if you don't have tests, you can use coverage this way. But also here, as I said, in the beginning, modules can be imported in an untrackable way, especially in Django, when you have middleware, which are strings, strings with the module path, or installed apps. So, yeah, you need to think about it. Okay, so let's, let's talk about level advanced. There's a tool called Vulture that is, that is finding unused code, but it is giving us lots of false positives. As you can see, as you can see here, variable field sets is used by Django admin, not explicitly in the code. This is used automatically found at news by Django or imported in the settings. So there are many problems with it. But for some things like for classes or functions, it is the findings of Vulture can be, can be helpful. You always need to think that the Vulture doesn't know everything, it just sees at the code. And also it is, it is good if you run Vulture on your code to exclude the, of course, tests, because even if your code is unused, it might still have tests that imports it. Finding and removing that code is, is, is complicated. It's better to just get your code clean. For example, with classes, Clean Architecture or Hexagonal Architecture can help you or using Mixins, because Mixins won't be used in config files. If you see unused Mixin, it's probably, it's probably really unused. Or if you have registered classes or just group classes somehow, it is easier to spot the unused ones. About methods, it's pretty much the same. So if you have for methods, it's good to keep the interfaces or protocols for functions, you can separate them as small, as much as you can. So that you will see the missing, the missing, the functions are unused on the coverage. And, but here you can, here and with the attributes, there is dynamic access from, get out from Python, which can prevent us from finding out this. And about attributes, class attributes, it's good to group them into data classes or named tuples. So that it will help us to, if we, if we have to remove something, we have to remove it in one place. And about variables, piling is pretty good with finding out which variables are used and which not. So to sum up, PyFlakes finds unused imports, MyPy keeps class interfaces piling finds lots of unused stuff. And you can code coverage, clean architecture and good practices to help you here. Okay, quick one about duplicated code. As you can, as I said previously, there's dry and there's wet, so write everything twice. And sometimes the duplicate, it's good to assume that duplicates start from three, because you don't need to always go for the same, always track the duplicates. And about tools, there are no modern tools that could help you. There is old clone digger, which is pretty awesome with finding duplicate code. Piling also find duplicated code, but piling findings are exact matches. Clone digger analyzed syntax tree and didn't find, for example, duplicated code with different variable names. We are pretty much left alone on this road, we need to write a good code, keep the good practices in mind, so that we won't find out after some time that we have lots of duplicated code. Yes, so we just need to find out which is used where and do a lot of code review and good practices so that it will help us detect any problems. Also, the ID is I pretty have many extensions that could track the duplicates or unused code. So just check if your ID has anything like that. And that's all from me. Thank you. I had to speed up in the end, but I think I made it. Thank you. And do you have any questions? Yeah, it's time for questions now. Thanks a lot for your talk. Wow, that was really good. So we have one question. Is Vulture a software? Yes, Vulture is a Python package, but also it's a CLI tool. You can install it with PEEP or with their OS package. All right. Right. Any other questions? You can pop in the questions in the QA window. Let's see. Where's the QA window? All right. We'll wait for a couple of minutes. And if no one has any questions, you can follow with Rad in the Microsoft talk breakout channel. I'm posting the link to the same in the Microsoft track channel. Okay, thank you. Yep. Thanks a lot, Rad. It was really nice session. Yeah, it doesn't seem like there was any question coming. Okay, I now see the QA questions. Okay, I'm seeing. Okay, so that says yes. Thank you for keeping the room. Yeah, so there's a question. Do you have a process to detect dead code? Process. I usually start with Vulture. And as I said, I start with looking for classes and functions in the Vulture log because it's most probable that Vulture will detect unused class or function. And also, if the project has some tests, I run the test coverage to see if the parts with missing coverage are really used. Because sometimes it's easy to spot, especially if you have, if you are measuring the branch coverage, if you have branch coverage enabled in the coverage RC file. You can see, if you can see a big branch, which is uncovered, which means that means that either the tests never touched it or maybe it is really unused until you can find it. So, in most cases, it is just finding possible places where there is unused code and checking it manually. Later, verifying it by a human. Thanks for answering that question. I think that was really good explanation. Okay. So, if no one has any questions, maybe we can conclude this session and you can follow up with the red in the breakout channel named talk decoding joy of deleting code. I posted the same in the Microsoft channel. You can follow on that. Thanks right for joining.


people tell me that I am not a dog person and I'm not a cat person I'm just a pig and to these vicious critics I have only one thing to say that is better to be a super intelligent seductively handsome pig than a sheep okay and today we're going to discuss a study yes the researcher thing a study of whether cats you know felines are psychopaths I've been suspecting this a long time now have you been exposed to cats and their claws and other parts of their anatomy I developed the conviction however speculative and ill-founded I must admit I developed the conviction that cats are psychopaths regrettably most cats I've met have met refused to take the gone standard of diagnosing psychopathy Robert Harris PCLR and in this sense cats are much more intelligent the humans because this test is rubbish in my view as I've expressed as I've analyzed in various videos so cats won't take the test because they won't take the test I wasn't able to diagnose a single one of them officially with anti-social personality disorder which is the clinical entity corresponding to mild psychopathy but academe to the rescue here comes a study of cats which establish beyond reasonable doubt that all cats are psychopaths but before we go to cats and psychopaths let's discuss a clinical entity a diagnosis which comprises both cats and psychopaths and that is borderline personality disorder I've been asked by as particularly vigilant viewer of my videos I've been asked do you know of research that deals with transitioning a personality disorder into borderline in order to make him or her react to dbt and schema therapy is the successful treatment for borderline personality disorder dependent on not having comorbidities these are actually two questions the first question is I keep saying that people transition between or cycle between or circulate between personality disorders but there's no such thing as different as different personality disorders that all personality disorders are one single clinical entity with different manifestations at different times throughout the lifespan so narcissists who for example experiences modification is likely to present as as someone with a borderline personality disorder so the viewer is asking intelligently whether in such a situation where the narcissist clinically becomes borderline will the narcissist be amenable to treatment as a borderline is because we know their dialectical behavior therapy schema therapy they're very effective with borderline personality disorder so why not the narcissist has lost his primary diagnosis for whatever reason and now he is open to intervention it's a window of opportunity and right you are dear viewer it is a window of opportunity I kept saying in my videos dedicated to modification that it's an opportunity for healing with appropriate intervention the narcissist can get in touch with his emotions several very beneficial dynamics can happen and he is likely to become a lot more human a lot less obnoxious abrasive antisocial and in your face exploitative and disembathic actually cold therapy is based on this insight what my new treatment modality cold therapy does it traumatizes the narcissists to the point that the narcissist decompensates loses his defenses and once he or she had lost the defenses this narcissist is open to attack open to therapeutic intervention so this is the essence of cold therapy retraumatize the patient in order to remove the defenses destroy the false self and open the patient up to help to help via a treatment modality as to the second question is a successful treatment for borderline personality disorder dependent on not having comorbidities nor it does not depend on this even people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and other disorders mood disorders anxiety disorders depressive illnesses or other personality disorders even such people can be treated successfully and are treated successfully with treatment modalities such as dbt and the reason is that the borderlines emotional dysregulation affect instability take over the manifestations and expressions and symptoms of the other disorders in other words whenever there is a comorbidity with borderline personality disorder the borderline side dominates while the other disorders are recessive so there's always a dominant disorder and recessive disorders there are there's a dominant self state and recessive submissive background self states and so treatment of someone with borderline regardless of comorbidities ought to be equally successful given all other things given okay let's talk about cats you've been waiting with baited breath looking at your cat suspiciously developing the secretary delusions paranoia staying away and distancing yourself from your feline companion does your cat ever give you the creeps does he enjoy staring contests with you does he have what is called frenetic random activity periods f rapes i repeat frenetic random activity periods they're also known as zoomies does your cat have late night zoomies does he ramble all over the apartment destroying things like carpets and other very precious commodities is he defiant is he conchumacious does he reject your authority contemptuously does he spit on you literally sometimes does he always scratch you even without any provocation does this little bundle of fur this little fur of happiness this little ball of fur this little fur baby whatever you want to call him does your cat randomly attacks you climbing on top a high shelf and jumping all over you to maximize impact and damage yes your cat definitely loves you or rather the food that you hand out to it so what do we professors of psychology have to say about your cat i mean having finished dissecting and and discombobulating and dissembling and analyzing everyone in the environment we are left with no human subjects so we are moving on we are developing the field of psychiatry and psychiatry and psychology to include cats dogs and giraffes yes giraffes in one of my next episodes it seems that most cat owners just accommodate themselves they just accept that the cat their pet doesn't really love them that their pet is indifferent and apathetic to them that he couldn't care less if they were to die tomorrow most cat owners a small minority of cat owners would deny this and they would say that cats are as loving as capable of attachment as loyal as dogs but that's a small minority and we have them now in treatment with medication because they are bloody wrong a recent study by researchers at the university of Liverpool what's happening in Liverpool Grandon is from Liverpool this study is from Liverpool something very odd is happening in Liverpool it has a university called John Morris can you believe this anyhow scholars in the University of John at the University of John John Morris made a study and their subjects were cats and the study claims that the activities I have mentioned before zooming jumping scratching clawing destroying property juvenile feline delinquency these activities may mean that you are living with a psychopath a psychopath clad in fur a purring psychopath you know the sound that's the most dangerous type of psychopath charm turned on to the maximum indifference tantalizing and provoking the kind of psychopath you just can't resist the kind of psychopath psychopath who sneaks into your bed at night and does unspeakable things to you and this team of united kingdom based researchers where else this team devised a survey it's a survey for cat owners they couldn't interview the cats have been told the cats were reluctant to collaborate then they didn't regard the scientists verbal skills to be sufficient so the scientists have been reduced to interviewing the cat owners in order to determine whether the cats might might actually have cat psychopathy so that would be antisocial cat personality disorder or antisocial cat disorder they interviewed 549 own unlucky owners of cats they asked them to complete a survey at first they measured what we call the triarchic traits triarchic traits these traits are common in psychopathy and they include boldness meanness and disinhibition we measure these traits in the lesser species humans in order to determine psychopathy but cats being a much more evolved form of life would require more so to start with they measured the triarchic traits but in the case of cats they added two factors human unfriendliness and pet unfriendliness all in all the survey was comprised of 46 questions and they named they christened the test the cat triarchic plus test or the cat tri plus test sounds very high cat uh sorry high tech high tech a high tech test for a high strong cat so 46 questions about your cat's behavior and these behaviors were very common among beloved felines does your cat mu excessively does he zoom in zoomies not using zoom software etc etc and then they published a study they asked owners of pets questions such as my cat vocalizes loudly muse yowls for no apparent reason my cat runs around the house for no apparent reason and my cat does not appear to act guilty after misbehaving to be honest i would i would heard i would shepherd all 404 549 respondents to the nearest mental asylum if they bothered to answer these kind of questions but they did they did luckily for science and luckily for us it's the greatest development after relativity theory which was well over a hundred years ago Freud would he would have been jealous he's turning in his grave how come he didn't think of interviewing cat owners it could have revolutionized psychology a hundred years ago the study settled on the conclusion that all cats are psychopathic to some degree most questions actually described average cat behavior and the study found that all cats have some level of psychopathy and the reason is simple evolution the journal of research in personality says in an ancestral environment that demanded self-sufficiency wild cats that had higher levels of psychopathic traits may have been more successful in acquiring resources such as food territory and mating opportunities and if you think that this is a fair description of donald trump you are right you are right for babies it is so cats come exactly like donald trump from a long line of psychopaths the cats we have as pets today come from a very long lineage and pedigree of felines with psychopathic traits it was the only way to survive in the jungle and because our civilization resembles a jungle more and more it's not surprising there is an exponential proliferation in cat ownership around the world cats have priorities not unlike certain politicians so the cat might be a psychopath but he doesn't want to eat you he wants to eat what you have to offer yes he doesn't want to eat you it may come as a surprise we're shocked to you and it may fly in the face of all the evidence that you have accumulated over decades of relationships with cats but it's been established once and for all the cat has no culinary aspirations or dreams or wishes or fantasies when it comes to its owner the fairy friend you have aka cat cares only about running the house eating your food and being a desirable mate this one of the researchers was aptly named rebecca rebecca evans and she had developed the study she spoke to motherboard motherboard is a publication by vise uh run by vise and they asked her why did you choose to study the unusual subject of cat psychopathology and she answered our cats and the differences in their personalities inspired us to start this research indeed cats are capable of transmitting viruses which affect the brain now i have no doubt of this evans continued personally i'm also interested in how owner perceptions of psychopathy in their cat can affect the cat owner relationship my cat gumbo scores relatively highly on the disinhibition scale which means it can be quite vocal proximity seeking and excitable sounds like a leaf out of the dating scene anyhow motherboard the publication by vise also spoke to another author of the study probably because they were shocked by dame evans the other author was even more aptly named minna minna liles she said that after studying psychopathy in humans rodents and primates the authors who all love cats i wonder what it says about the authors loving psychopaths okay the authors who all love cats she said decided to join our forces it sounds like the invasion of britain decided to join our forces and see if psychopathy is something that is relevant in our feline friends too so here's the takeaway bold cats may well be psychopaths lion said that her cat axel who partook in the study shows some signs of being a feline psychopath probably to her dismay i'm not sure because she doesn't say what she does say is this axel is totally bold bold like daring yep and known to go into neighbors houses cars and garages to search for food i know many homeless who do this and they are not cats last time i checked so the conclusion is that more research is needed and presumably more funding it should be stated that they the authors conclude it should be stated that more research is needed to really prove that cats are psychopaths the questions asked in the study are pretty generic such as my cat demands attention or my cat disobeys rules or behaviors that are pretty standard for the species so we need to study behaviors which are non-standard presumably cats who read books or watch netflix or have an instagram account these would be truly psychopathic cats dogs and people don't forget may also be considered psychopaths using the very same standards of the study if we were to apply the same questions to our pet dogs or even to ourselves by the study's own standards we may all be psychopaths haven't i been saying this like forever we are all becoming narcissists and psychopaths it's my world babies it's my world for babies it's my world welcome to it 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