All right. So let's go in. I'm just going to sort this by, I'll sort it first by date and then I'm going to sort by the, well, let's sort by the detail first. I'll sort by the detail and then I'm going to sort by the amount so I can get my deposits basically on top and that'll categorize it. So I can see the deposits on top and then I can see the groupings that are kind of like the secondary sorting in order. So if I wanted to add multiple things at one time, then I'm more likely to be able to do so. Now I'm going to go down here to the Amazon items and this is just an example. We'll try to dig more into these when we get into rules a little bit later. But you might get like one customer that pays you multiple different kinds of income. And if that's the case, then we might want to differentiate then the income accounts that they're going to be going to, which can be a little bit tricky because if you only have one customer, then how are you going to set up a rule to differentiate the type of income? The same thing could happen on the vendor side of things on cash outflows. So oftentimes if it's an electronic transfer, even though like this one and this one are still from Amazon, I'm not even sure what they're for here, but I'm just going to make up what they're for, right? Even though they're both from Amazon, I can say, well, maybe I want this one to be differentiated, go into another income account. And so we can do that oftentimes even though it's actually the same vendor because the detail in the bank feeds will have differentiation. If not in the name, sometimes in the number and this kind of jargon over here, you got to be careful because maybe it might be just a numbering thing for the number of the transaction. But sometimes in this bank feed jargon, there's something that you can use to differentiate that might be useful for you to categorize your items possibly to a different location. For example, if you're tracking by location or department or something like that, if it was being mailed to a different location, but it was like the same kind of income or something and you want to track by location, you might be able to set a rule that would distinguish it based on this bank feed detail. That's why you want the detail rather than just the description that QuickBooks will kind of extract from it. All right, so let's take a look at one on two twenty nine. Let's just take a look at I'll use this one for an example. So it's going to be a category and then now we've got a customer. Now the question is if I'm going to distinguish different Amazon items, what should I be including as the customer name? I might want to differentiate if I'm going to have a different customer like this one down here or one of these up top that have a bit different of a name. I might want to distinguish those by having different vendors, even though they're basically coming from the same vendor because that will allow us to search at the detail. This is a customer, not a vendor. They'll have that allows to go into the customer detail possibly and sort the information by a different customer or you could just keep the same customer as just generically Amazon and still be able to distinguish the transactions based on the bank feed memo. So you have a couple different options. I'm going to make like a different vendor for each one. So this one I'm going to call.  I'm going to say that's going to be a new customer. I'm sorry if I keep saying vendor switching to the customer side because it's a deposit and I'm going to save it. And then the category, I'm going to add a new category to it as we go. And it's going to be an income type of accounts. So I'm going to say it's going to be an income account and say it's a standard income. I'm just going to call it other primary income and I'm just going to call it Amazon. Let's say this came from Amazon Prime like they're giving us money for videos or something that we uploaded to Amazon movies. We uploaded or something. So I'm just making that up. So we're going to say there it is and let's save it. And then we could of course make a rule based on that trying to distinguish the Amazon dot com from the other Amazon type of things in the rule if that's the way we want to do it. Or we can make it more of a general rule if we wanted it to include all the other Amazon items. So if I want to make it generic to include everything, I can I can do that by just calling it Amazon or I can use to one of these distinguishing factors to make a more specific rule. So I can differentiate between them. So let's make the rule down below just like we did before. And I'm going to try to distinguish the rule by saying that I want to go to the memo possibly and pick up part of the item that's going to be differentiating it. So I'm going to name the rule that and then I'm going to say it's a money in rule, of course. And I can say all or any transaction I like going to the bank text, which might be necessary if we need to pull in some of that that added detail. Like in the memo area, instead of just like the description where YouTube where I mean where the QuickBooks might truncate it. And then I'm going to say contains and then this is where I can make it more general or more broad. So I want to make sure to add the dot com in in it because that dot com is going to be a distinguishing factor from some of the other Amazon items. So I'm just going to say, OK, it's going to include the Amazon dot com or maybe I should go down to the I'm going to add this whole thing in the bank memo, this whole thing right there. And and so now so now that happened to be in the text to have a distinguishing factor. But if there was a distinguishing factor in the number, then of course I can go on to the number to try to distinguish it from other items from the same customer. Or if I was dealing with a vendor, same kind of items, then of course I can add another rule if I wanted to apply another rule to it. We can test the rule here and it says that five are currently are are in are in there. So this rule will apply to five of the items. That's good. So deposit that looks good. That looks good. I'm not going to apply it automatically. So I'm going to save it and then something is not quite right. So I'm going to get rid of a comma in the rule name and that should do it. All right, so then I can scroll up and I can sort now by the ones that are recognized so I can recognize 11 of them and the Amazon items have been picked up. So here we have them. Now notice it just picked up the ones with Amazon dot com. We had some other Amazon ones. I'm just going to try to add all of them. So I'm going to put my cursor in this first one. I'm holding down control and I'm going to go down to this one and then let's accept all of those pulling those over into our financial. So I'm going to accept those, go to my balance sheet, see what happened to it. I'm going to run it and then if I go into my checking account, now I should have more deposits. So it might be useful to me to go up top and customize this, possibly filtering now by transaction type, which is quite common. I'm going to filter by the deposits. If I can find them. Donde esta running it. Okay. So there we have our deposits. There's our Amazon deposits that have been made there. So that looks good. If I go into it, it takes us into, of course, a deposits type of form that looks good.  So it doesn't take us to the bank fees. It takes us to the deposit form to the income statement. And now if I refresh it, running it to refresh it, then now we have this Amazon prime. We named it by the customer because I don't have the luxury of the sub ledger to break out the customer because I've entered these as revenue with a deposit form instead of a sales receipt or other a sales receipt or invoice form. So there it is. There's the deposit form. The income statement is being created. Now we've added the income line or customer. So I can go back over here and right click and duplicate this tab. I'm going to pull it to the right and then I could go down and find my customers, which are in the sales area in the sales tab on the left. And there's my customer information. So we've got the customer in place, but there's not going to be a lot of detail in it because we're not using the normal forms used, which would usually be an invoice sales receipt and receive payment type of form. But at least we've got a little bit more information that we're listing the customer in the transactions, which we can see when we see the transactions go into the actual transactions and the detail of those transactions in here in the name. And that could give us a little bit more sorting detail to sort our data. So it's not we lose a little bit of the data by not using the full service accounting system with those sub reports. But again, it's probably worth our time to do so because it's faster, way faster to do it this way, of course. So now I'm going to.


Hello everyone and thank you for joining us today on this CNCF webinar. My name is Gal and I work at Armo as a product manager. I want to tell you a little bit about Armo. Armo was founded in 2019 with the purpose of building an open-source Kubernetes security product made for developers. We're based instead of Eve and we hold 30 team members at this point and lately we successfully summed around a funding for $30 million by Tiger Global, HyperWise and Pitango first. And about a year ago, we launched Cubescape as an open-source tool and it is now one of the fastest growing Kubernetes security open-source projects on GitHub. With around 6,000 stars, tens of thousands of users and over 10,000 Kubernetes clusters already scanned and we're still counting. Now Cubescape accompanies the software development lifecycle from dev to production and help you overcome the complexity of Kubernetes security. Cubescape offers not only the CI CD face-scanning but also continuously scans your environment so if anything changes, you'll be aware of that. And Cubescape is a multi-dimensional Kubernetes single pane of glass for everything related to misconfiguration scanning, security analysis and compliance, risk scoring, image vulnerabilities and the Armo Visualizer. The single pane of glass is actually taking the things that could go wrong and collecting them together to enable you to enforce and define your environment based on the best practices and pre-built frameworks that we provide. It enables you to detect and prevent drifts continuously and of course we also suggest the remediation needed. So we are talking about the different configurations of Kubernetes and the cluster itself, the configuration of your workloads, the actual user activity, the vulnerability assessment, the different RBAC role-based access controls that exist in your cluster. And finally we're taking all of that against the compliance benchmark to assess the complete posture of your environment. Now Cubescape is an open source project, therefore you can access the GitHub repo page, everything you need and want to know about Cubescape is right there. Everything is transparent and I welcome you to head over after this webinar and check it out. Now let's see Cubescape in action. The deployment is very easy. You head over to our GitHub and start by running this line of code. This will install download and install Cubescape. It's running this install script and it's running the latest version of Cubescape. You can run it and two minutes later you get results with this command line. This is the Cubescapes can command and you can see that in two minutes you get this table right here. You can see the severity of the controls that failed or were passed, the name of the control with a little bit of description, how many resources failed on this control and the overall risk score. Now you can continue to operate Cubescape using the CLI. It's flexible. You can run various tests and scans and you can read the documentation to get even more information on how to use it. But there's another option of using the Cloud UI version which is a much more visual way to operate and work with Cubescape to bring you more value when talking about configuration drifts, history, etc. So after your first scan you head over to this page, to the Cubescape page and you can see this information regarding your environment. What we see here is first of all the dashboard. This is where we aggregate all the important information regarding your environment that you should be aware of. You can see the different clusters that might have the highest severity scores. You can see the history, drifts and trends and you can see the top five failed controls and the top five CVEs that we found in your clusters, in your environment. Going into configuration scanning, let's head over there. This is where you can choose which cluster you want to focus on. You can see it's a multi-cluster environment. So you can choose your cluster and you can see right here the different types of frameworks that we use. You can also build your own framework right here and customize it according to your needs and you can pick and choose which controls you want to use and which you don't. That way you get the most relevant framework to your environment. But you can also use the suggested frameworks that we have right here. When you scroll down you can see the list of controls that we are running as part of this framework that I chose to scan. And I can see which controls failed, which are not relevant and excluded controls. Another important thing is we see here drifts. You can see how many resources failed and if we had a previous scan we could also see the previous scan. And let's head over to this control right here. This is a failed control on two resources and if I click on it I can see which resources exactly failed on this control. I can also set an exception if I want them to control and I can see the previously failed resources in case I have a second scan. Now I want to fix it so I can just click right here and I get to the siano file and I can see exactly where it failed. So for instance this yellow file failed on this host port and it says that avoid usage of host port unless it's absolutely necessary. So you see a lot of tools out there right now telling you listen your situation is bad. They'll show you lots of red and lots of alerts but Cubescape does even more. We show you why, where and how, why it failed, where it failed and of course how to fix it. So I understand why this specific control failed on this file. What you are seeing now is requiring me to run a cluster. I need to have a running cluster. I will show you in about a few minutes how you can use Cubescape and there's a lot more without running a single cluster. So I can integrate Cubescape into my CICD process. I can configure thresholds. I can define gates for my CICD process. I can tell Cubescape to failed controls can trigger conditions and so on and I can also integrate with GKE, AKS, EKS and also OpenShift. Let's head over back to our Cloud UI and I want to show you right now the next thing is image scanning. This is where we scan and detect different types of open source vulnerabilities and I can filter and sort depending on certain parameters for instance critically only the ones that have fixes and only RCE remote code execution. Let's talk about the RCE. This means that attackers could possibly take advantage of the remote code execution vulnerability which is in some images. This is very important because one of the chances that an attacker will have direct access to the Kubernetes cluster but having this RCE enabled might make the attacker's life even easier and this is something we want to point out so you can fix it quickly. Now let's focus on this for a second. Your YAML files are using different images and might even use different image registries which some are public and you have no control of. Now Cubescape detects which registries you are using from your YAML files and Cubescape allows you to add those registries to an allow list so this will be okay to use this registry. So this registry won't fail in some controls tests. You decide how you want to manage it. Let's talk about the RBAC visualizer. This is the last thing I want to show you before we head over to our new features, the latest features. So the RBAC visualizer is a very powerful tool. It simplifies the way you manage RBAC in your environment which we know is a complex domain in Kubernetes. So in this case I will choose my cluster right here from my list and what I will see is a visualized way of all the RBAC in my environment. I will see roles, I will see services, entities, role bindings and of course it's interactive so I can play and move around so I can see the relationships even better. Now this is nice but actually the RBAC visualizer does even more. One of the things is querying and investigating my RBAC configuration. For instance, let's see the services or entities that are cluster admin which we know this is a sensitive role right. So these are the entities in my environment that has the cluster admin. Let's say I can also want to ask who can delete pods for instance and I can see exactly who can do that in my environment and I can also ask more questions about my users. So after seeing these capabilities of Cubescape, let's head over to our latest features. Let's start with the code repository scan. Cubescape is designed to help you detect misconfiguration scanning at any stage of the software development lifecycle and Cubescape is also, we also talked about it can be integrated with various DevOps tools. So up until this point you had to start a cluster and trigger or schedule scans in order to see the manifest file scan results in the cloud you are. Or you could scan repositories and see the results in the CLI only but today we're happy to announce that Cubescape shifts left even more. Now Cubescape can scan your Kubernetes manifest file at the repository level meaning no need for an active cluster. It means Cubescape is able to inform you with the misconfigurations and potential vulnerabilities even before the code is deployed once. Using the code repository scan capabilities you can see history, you can see trends, you can see fixed suggestions with the system remediation so you can fix issues in a heartbeat without deploying a single workload. You can see right here in this list I have the repositories name, I have the owner of the repositories, the branch of course and the number of files scanned in those repositories. I just want to make sure you see here the frameworks, you can see the number of the names of the frameworks that I ran and of course the failed controls with by severity the critical failed controls, the high failed controls, the medium and of course the low. So the best thing is you can choose between scanning a remote repository or scanning your own local folders. If I drill down into this repository I can see the files that failed, I can see the type of the files, for now it's YAML, I can see the frameworks that scanned this file and I can see how many controls failed on this file. So I can go right here and I see the exact file and where it failed and which controls failed on it and of course the remediation stage. You can see right here that I'm using some image from named Perl and I didn't limit my registry from where I pulled this image. Speaking of images, let's talk about the new feature, the new and exciting feature for image registry scans. Right now you don't need to have a running cluster anymore to scan images for vulnerabilities with the new image registry scan. Cubescape can scan your private and public registries like Docker IO and Kui IO registries even before the images are deployed on a running cluster. So you know the process, you take an image, you add your own dependencies and code, you tag it, and you ship it to your image registry. So right now you don't have to deploy workload or even write a single line of VML file in order to get a list of potential vulnerabilities within your images. This way you'll be able to detect vulnerabilities even earlier in the development process and you can assess a potential use risk when using public images and preventing the vulnerabilities from reaching your deployments and production environment. So you can see right here the list of the image registries that I scanned. You can see the scan time, the registry that was scanned and the repository I can even get granulate with the repository of images inside a registry. And I can see the image tag. Also, of course, I can see the failed controls, how many critical, high, medium, low, and of course the neglectable. So if I click right here, I can see which controls exactly failed on this image. And in this case, I have critical and high. Let's take the critical, for instance, you can see all the critical controls that failed on this image. And of course, you can see the fix available. If there is a fix for it, I will tell you, CubeScape will tell you in which version it was fixed so you can upgrade your version of the image. And remember the RCE from before? We also tell you right here if it's RCE enabled or not. And of course, the description about this specific control. So that's about it. I want to thank you very much for listening. And we would love to keep you in touch. And I welcome you to star us on GitHub, join our Discord, visit our website and learn more about CubeScape and our roadmap ahead. Thank you very, very much.


As for Harrison Bader, back in the starting lineup today after most of a day off yesterday, he was 0 for 3 with a strikeout. His average of the last 41 games, 2-30 with zero home runs and in the third inning had a little problem tracking a ball off the bat of Josh Lowe. Let's hear from Bader. Aaron had just mentioned that you had told him you kind of lost that ball in the third and you just kind of take us through what you're seeing on that play and what had happened. Yeah, I mean, I know he clipped it pretty good. I hit the very top of the wall. It would have been a really, really good catch. I wish I could have reeled that one in. But yeah, I mean, on the way down, I just lost it. You know, it's a tough roof and you do your best to create reps in batting practice. And just the way he hit it, he just clipped it really good. And as it was coming down, you can kind of tell I just overran a little bit unfortunately. So it's part of it. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Offensively, you guys weren't really able to mount much against Glasner. Boone said that maybe he wasn't his dominant self, but obviously still good stuff. What were you seeing in the batter's box? What made him tough? He's just got really good stuff. You know, just that, you know, he's got really good stuff that looks like a strike for a long time and then breaks out of the zone. And when you do that consistently and you kind of repeat it, you know, you might find yourself having good success. You know, again, it's been frustrating. You try to create momentum best you can day to day. But yeah, you know, you got to tape your cap. They pitch well today and just regroup and come back tomorrow. Personally, what do you think is going on at the plate right now for you? Yeah, it's been rough. No doubt about it. You know, I think every day you just have to continue to trust your process. And when the game starts, you just remain confident and go up there and put together winning at bats with a winning mentality. And just what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to keep everything really simple. Obviously, from a result standpoint, it's not what I want, not what I want to be for this team to help us put runs on the board. But, you know, again, the work never stops and you approach each other bad and try to win each pitch, not only on, you know, on all sides of the ball, but mainly offensively. And just go from there. But, you know, always having confidence that you're always one swing away from not necessarily even just catching fire, just doing something good for your team, which is my only focus every time I step in the box. When you're stomping it, you get it, goes back and looks at bats and when you're going well, do you try to tinker with the way you hit or what do you do to try to get out of it? You just keep things simple.   But, you know, once the game starts, just keep it simple. You're kind of in a bit of a skid or in a rut. You know, it's, I think the best course of action again is just to keep it simple and put the bat on the ball hard. Don't try to do too much. And yeah, go from there. But I always remain in confidence that you're one swing away. Soft talk is really important. That's a feel there. Is this a place that you kind of dread playing at? I don't know if it's dread.   Roof is a little tough. But again, repetition with regards to that is, repetition is king with that.  And you get acclimated pretty quickly. It's my, you know, third or fourth time here. So at this point, it's fine. But again, you just got to take that extra step just to be really aware of your surroundings, especially because, you know, the warning track is the same material. Just little things just to remind yourself. So yeah, hopefully I get another chance to run one down tomorrow.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and happy Thursday. Yes, it is Thursday. You will see this video on Saturday and I am at the grocery store because we are heading out of town today. We rented a cabin and we are so excited to head up to the lake for the weekend. So I'm here to not only do my shopping for camping, but also to do my shopping for next week. So you'll see my grocery haul. You'll be seeing this on Saturday, but it is Thursday and it is just before 7 a.m. So I just got some gas in my car. I'm heading into the grocery store and then we're heading home to get ready to go camping. I cannot wait. So I will be filming my grocery haul when I get home. I am currently at Fred Meyer. After I leave here, I'll be stopping at Walmart to do a grocery pickup there as well. I decided to order from both places. There were some things that I needed from Walmart. So I thought that I would do some grocery shopping here at Fred Meyer and then grab the rest of it at the Walmart grocery pickup. So if you want to see what I have planned for camping and for all of my meals for next week and my meal plan, all you have to do is stay tuned. So here is my grocery haul for this week. I had both Walmart grocery pickup and I went to Fred Meyer, which is a Kroger store. So let's get into this week's grocery haul and then I'll be sharing with you my meal plan. So first I grabbed two of the Talking Ring sparkling water, zero calorie, zero sweetener. So there's zero points. I had to buy one, get one free coupon. So that made them 75 cents for both. So I got a peach nectarine and a lemon lime. Also at Walmart, I found these. This is a new find. These are scrambled egg patties made from real eggs. They are fully cooked. Here is the nutritional information and here is the ingredients. So there is milk powder and oil in them. So I would have to count them but it looks like there'll be one point but I'll put them here on the screen. But I thought how easy and convenient for a super quick breakfast sandwich and they are perfectly shaped. So there's nine of them. You just heat them up and serve them. So I thought that was kind of an interesting find at Walmart. I also grabbed Alexia, sweet potato fries. I love these and they are seasoned with sea salt and black pepper. Love these in the air fryer. Hamburger buns or I'm sorry, hot dog buns. This is to take camping with us. I looked all over the store and these were the lowest point I could find and these were three smart points. All of the other hamburger buns were four. So three points it is and I will be having either a one or two point hot dog. So really not bad for a hot dog. So those are for camping. I also picked up two dozen eggs. One dozen is for me for breakfast throughout the week and also to take with us camping. And then the other dozen is for egg salad sandwiches for my husband for the upcoming week. So two dozen eggs. Also for those egg salad sandwiches I grabbed some dill relish and then I also decided to pick up some sweet relish as well. Sometimes I like to mix the two together in egg salad sandwiches. I think it makes a nice combination. So dill and sweet relish.  I just throw these into the freezer, pull them out as needed. Best price at Walmart. Lowest points for fat free.  I've never bought the Fairlife milk but I went ahead and picked it up because it is way less points than regular milk and one of my dinner recipes calls for this milk. So I thought that I would try it. I am not a milk fan. I do not drink milk. I only cook with it or, and I very rarely put it in my coffee. I usually have milk alternatives but for the smart point savings I decided to grab it for a recipe. Speaking of milk I picked up another container of the unsweetened silk almond coconut milk. Love this and pretty much everything. I put this in my coffee every day as well. I love it. And the silk is actually a really good thick brand which I was delighted to see last week. I also grabbed some tzatziki dip and this is for some euros that I'm gonna be making this upcoming week. I know you can make your own but for a time's sake I decided just to pick it up and the smart points were not bad at all. So again this is for some euros. Also, fat-free sour cream. This is for some upcoming recipes as well. I can't really tell much difference between the fat-free and the light sour cream. So I generally will grab the fat-free just for the point savings. I know you can use non-fat Greek yogurt but honestly I prefer sour cream. Also, jiff whips. I haven't had this in a while and I love this. So this is for an upcoming protein ball recipe. So really excited to try that recipe out. You'll see that in meal prep. Also I grabbed some lemon juice. We were completely out of lemon juice and I do just like to have it on hand for quick recipes. My very, very favorite bacon in the world is the Private Selection Center Cut Bacon. Two slices of this bacon is only one smart point. So this is a staple in my house. I wish they sold that low of point bacon at Costco because this is pretty pricey. It's $5 for this package but it can't be two slices of bacon for one point. I got a lot of meat as you can see they were having a really good sale. So I picked up this huge pack of bone-in pork chops. They were buy one, get one free. And I do have a couple of recipes coming up that I'll be using pork in. So big pack of pork chops. I also picked up a pack of stew meat. This is for an upcoming recipe as well. Not a bad price for this big package of lean meat. The other freebie from the buy one, get one free pork is pork tenderloin. And I need this for an upcoming recipe this next week. So basically I paid $11 for both this huge pack of pork tenderloin and the pack of pork chops. So you can't beat that when it's buy one, get one free meat also buy one, get one free which I was super excited to see is my favorite chicken breast. This is the boneless skinless chicken, the organic. This does not have any rib meat. So it is a true zero point chicken. So it was buy one, get one free. It was 12.76 per package. So I paid 12.76 for both packages. Not bad for organic chicken breast. Also Canadian bacon. This is for an upcoming recipe as well.  You know I love, love, love this chicken sausage. It is so low point. I was going to buy ground lamb for my euros but holy moly is lamb high in fat. So I decided that I was going to use this to make my euros instead. Save a ton of smart points. By the time you add all the goodness you're not even gonna notice any difference. So that's what this mild chicken sausage is for. So that's all the meat that I picked up for the week quite a bit here. Moving into canned goods. I grabbed a can of black beans. I am making a burrito bowl for my lunches so I need a black beans for that. Also for a recipe I needed beef con su me. Now I have never seen this before. I don't even know what the difference is between beef broth and beef con su me. If you know leave it down in the comments but it's specifically called for this. And for that same recipe it's specifically called for a golden mushroom Campbell's Condensed Soup. Never heard of this either. So again, don't know what the difference is but these two things are what the recipe called for. So that's what that's for. A can of veggie broth. This is also for an upcoming dinner recipe. A huge 28 ounce can of crushed tomatoes. You know hunts is my very favorite. Also for a recipe. And then the usual weekly buy of cut green beans for my dogs. I give these to them instead of table scraps and they love it. Don't even know the difference. Also for a recipe I needed cooking wine or a dry wed red wine.  So I thought that this would be better and I could have this on hand for future recipes as well. Also picked up creme brulee because I've seen this on both Amanda Lewis at RIP Fat Girls channel and Amanda Cybert's channel. They love this coffee and I need ground coffee for camping because I have to use a traditional coffee pot versus my Nespresso espresso machine. So I thought that I would try this and have it for camping. I also picked up a big pack of rits. I like these because they are the individual pre-packaged stacks so that you don't have to have them go bad or get stale. You can just open up one small pack at a time and this is for camping. We are going to have meat, cheese and crackers for lunch on Friday, the day that I use my weeklies.  And also fat free half and half. I don't put this in my coffee very often but mainly I needed the fat free half and half for a dinner recipe. Also from Walmart, since I did a pickup I grabbed Belveda Shreds. I do really like this cheese and it is one smart point less than traditional light shredded cheese. This is two smart points versus three. So I like to have this on hand for when I'm needing some light shredded cheese. And then I picked up quite a few frozen veggies. I have the sweet peas. We really like these bird's eye steam fresh sweet peas. Also I grabbed the bird's eye steam fresh broccoli carrot sugar snap pea and water chestnuts. And lastly just some mixed vegetables. So I do buy a lot of frozen veggies. I like to have those on hand for dinners throughout the week. And the rest of what I have to show you is produce. So I have an orange that is for an upcoming dinner recipe. Also some mushrooms and these were a great deal. So these are the organic mushrooms. Two zucchinis for dinner, two limes, a big huge pack of celery, both for a recipe and also for snacking. My favorite little carrot snack packs. I love these. These are pre-portioned, super easy, not wasting a Ziploc bag, packs of carrots for me to take with me to work. Also three peppers and this is for my burrito bowl. So I have orange, yellow and red. So just a variety of colors. A big stock of green onions and a lot of fruit. So I picked up two huge packs of blueberries. This 18 ounce pack was only 250 at Fred Meyer on sale. And then I also grabbed this huge pack at Walmart. Our plan is to make a blueberry strawberry fruit mix to take with us camping. So grab some strawberries for that. This is a two pound package. And then lastly, I grabbed some grapes at Fred Meyer. And this along with blueberries are my fruits for the upcoming week. So let me show you what drinks I grabbed and then we'll move into the meal plan. So for drinks, I picked up the beer that I absolutely love, that I talked about in my weigh-in video. This is the Leaning Kegel Summer Shandy. So I grabbed three of the lemon and also since I kind of made my own six pack, I also grabbed three of the grapefruit shandy as well. So again, I usually only have one or two beers but this will last me for quite a while. Also two huge 24 packs of Diet Coke. These were on sale at Walmart for $6. So I had to buy two. As you know, my husband drinks a ton of Diet Coke, a ton. Also grabbed a big pack of water for camping and for the upcoming week. And then lastly, I grabbed some bubbly out of coupon. So I got the blackberry and the grapefruit. I like to take those to work to have some sparkling water with lunch. So those are the drinks that I picked up for the week and now let's move into the meal plan. So let's get into the meal plan. Here is my Keriel meal planner. As you know, I absolutely positively love my meal planner. I use it every single week for several different things. I love all of the tabs. It is so nice. It's very comprehensive. And of course it's absolutely gorgeous. So we have our resources, our inventory, our meal plan, our gatherings. If you have a special event coming over, you can plan your gathering and our notes tab. So we are gonna go into the meal plan tab. You can plan your meals by the week, which I always, always do. There is the detachable grocery list as well per week. So I do use that each week. So you can plan it by the week and then also by the month. And this helps me at a glance see exactly what I need to pull out of my freezer the night before to be prepared for dinner. So let's get into this week's meal plan. And I'm gonna show you my monthly too. I've been kind of working on the month of June as well. But here is this week's meal plan. You can see that I did use the weekly plan as well as the detachable grocery list. It is a missing. So my week will run from Saturday through Friday. So starting today through, oh, I'm sorry, starting, yeah, starting today through next Friday. So on Saturday, I'm going to be making instant pot bullionnets with some vegetables. I am using my weeklies on Thursday. So I will be on, or I'm sorry, on Friday when we're camping. So I will be on track on Saturday. So I'll be making a Weight Watcher friendly dinner. Also on Sunday, I'm going to be making euros with tzatziki sauce and vegetables, which sounds so good. Monday is instant pot carnitas with refried beans and vegetables. Again, delicious. Two fantastic instant pot recipes coming your way. Tuesday, I'll be making a Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. Again, I cannot wait to share this recipe with you and pairing that with some vegetables. Wednesday is lightened up beef stroganoff, which again sounds so good. Again, with some veggies. And then my husband's route has changed and he now has Thursday Fridays off. So the days that he's off, we typically just have leftovers. It's easier for me to film, to be honest, when he's not here, especially when I'm preparing a dinner. So Thursday and Friday, we'll be eating our leftovers from the week. A lot of you ask me, what do you deal with all of your food since you make a new dinner every night? We eat the leftovers at least two nights per week. So it's gone for sure. My husband eats it for breakfast. We never ever have to throw away food, which is fabulous. On the back of my weekly planner is where I will plan out my meal prep. So what you're going to see in meal prep Monday for breakfast this week, I'm going to be making egg casserole with mushrooms and Canadian bacon. This recipe sounds so good. I cannot wait to share it with you guys. And then I'm just gonna have some fruit with that for breakfast. Easy, but delicious breakfast. For lunch, I'm going to be making copycat Cudoba chicken burrito bowls. Again, cannot wait for this. Sounds so good. I love the chicken at Cudoba. And I've always wondered, how did I get it to taste so good? Well, I'm gonna show you my friends because I found a recipe. So we're gonna be making Cudoba chicken burrito bowls for lunches. And then I'm going to be making protein bites. I cannot wait to make these. These are peanut butter, chocolate chip, low point, delicious, satisfying protein bites. So you will be seeing all of this in meal prep this upcoming Monday. So that is my plan for the week. This is my Keriel meal planner. If you're interested in this planner, I do have a link down below. Click the link, enter the discount code here on the screen and you will save 10%. You can pick yourself up any planner you choose. They have meal planners daily, monthly, yearly, vision boards, you name it, they have it. So check out the Keriel website. So thank you for joining me on this week's WW Weekly Grocery Hall. I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the great groceries that I picked up to stay on track for the upcoming week. I'm really excited about some of the new food finds, those egg patties, just some of the different delicious food finds for this week. Of course, I'm loving that guy right there, my Keriel meal planner. So make sure you guys check that out down in the description box below. So if you're new to my channel, I'd like to extend a huge, warm welcome.  You don't wanna miss a single video. Give this one a thumbs up, comment down below. Let me know what's on your meal plan for the week and what of the recipes that I shared with you are you most excited to see. And I'll see you guys all in my next video. Bye guys.


Oh hey, I just thought I'd show our friends in the U.S. and the U.K. how Canada brings it. Your Majesty, Prince Harry, President and Mrs. Obama, BOOM! Orlando, Invictus Games, Canada's ready.


Today I'm going to Walmart to search for the new mystery power cube. I'm here at Walmart to find the new mystery power cubes that came out. According to this tweet, which somebody sent me on Twitter. So thank you for that. Letting me know that the new mystery cubes are out. So this is the Walmart that's had a ton of stuff. So I'm hoping that there's still a lot of stuff for us to get. And hopefully the newer stuff is the cubes. What are the, oh, they have them. The power cube. Every cube contains one booster back, one mystery item. Three duals packs, three bonus foreign packs, five record, 20 comments. All right, we got them. Let's see what else they have over here. OK, we obviously have to get some of these because we got a, by the way. Yeah, killer. That's cyber storm. Well, Dragon Ball Super. Oh, they have the old power cubes. They're actually by these two. Is it time to revisit the Lugia Chase? I think it is. All right. Just finished buying all the cubes and we ran into a fan of the channel. First time ever during a Walmart blog. So you want to introduce yourself or anything? Yeah, whenever he's firing, I've just got a minute over there. I'm waiting a minute over there. I'm just happy to see him. He was checking out some stuff right now. So, hey, how's it going? I'll let your channel over time. Yeah, he said, why is he buying the cubes? And I was like, yeah, I mean, I'm the only one that buys these things. So I figured I'd clear him out so nobody buys them because they suck. So that was pretty cool. There was a fan at Walmart. That's the first time that's ever happened. But there's a lot of, we got a lot of stuff. So we got the mystery power cube. This is the old one. I figured we'd buy this compared to the newer one at some point. That one's terrible, by the way. Then we got two of these, the new one, to see if these are any better. 10K dragons, are they going to be in there? No, I got two of these older ones as well, these mystery power boxes. You can never have too many mystery power boxes. You can also get these really cool pins in there, not 10s pins. And of course, we got seven of the most expensive blisters of all time, the Battles of Legend Monsters Revenge. There is going to be a Gaia slash Dark Magician. I'm just going to call him Gaia because now he just looks like a Gaia, OK? And finally, we're going to continue that silver, Tempest Lugia Chase. So let's see if we can get it out of here. That's all we got. Those 175 bucks. So that was not cheap. Let's go home and open it. But before we get into it, I do have a giveaway. I've been giving away one of these mystery boxes that we just picked up. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications. Let me know down below. What is your favorite item we grabbed from Walmart? Or what is your favorite pull? And make sure to let me know what you think about the cubes. All right, I went ahead and pulled these out because there's just a lot of junk in those ETVs. I mean, it's cool stuff, but nothing we need to see here. There is a code card right there. Let's just go ahead and get into the opening mystery power cube. You will be coming up in the middle of our blisters. But first, we got to get to monstrous revenge. See if we can pull that dark magician that I love to call the Gaia. OK, battle is a legend. Monstrous revenge. It was really cool to actually meet a fan there. I was just scanning my stuff, like getting ready to leave. I was recording myself and everything.  I was wondering why someone was buying those cubes. Those are terrible.  We'll find out maybe these are better. Who knows? But normally they're really terrible. Oh, a nightmare, Corruptor Ebay, Secret Bear. So it's two from the back. I couldn't remember because we've been opening so many other packs recently. We're going to open a couple of these because I really want that all at our Lugia. I told you guys in the other video, it's my favorite Pokemon. So we're going to do a little search for it. Keep it up. This is like the set that I care about because it has the Lugia potential. So hopefully we can get lucky. You're back on it. We have the whole bat. We have Stonejourner. It's a miracle. Litten, Petlil, Chincha, Ferris Seed. A lot of nice Pokemon in here. We have a Radiant Alakazam. That's pretty cool. Alakazam's awesome. And a Talonflame. So we did get something out of there. Let's go back to here. I think I needed to buy a couple more to make it an even eight. I think I only bought like six or seven of these. So we might have an extra Pokemon pack or something, but that's OK. We have Battles of Legend, Monsters of Revenge. Look, there he is. The first two blisters have had the card that we want on the cover art. Can we get it? Come on and we need some luck. If we pull one out of here, that would be insane. We have a Lamia. We have a I know a Punks of Yemen final cross. We have duality, secret rare. All right, that's a pretty good one. At least it was when it came out. Who knows what the price is now?  All right, let's keep going. The mystery cube is staring at me with that 10 K. I mean, the 10 K dragon, it's like, yeah, you're going to pull me out of here. It's definitely going to happen. I mean, I keep saying that, but I just don't believe it. There's no way. Mystery cube. There's no way. They're always so bad. But maybe this is a turnaround with Candice. Be hey, I don't know that Pokemon. We have fungus, sandy gas, rellincant. We have the halucha. Oh, Ruxen special. We have rufflet. We have sandy gas. Even if you go to different TCGs, they're so Ruxen specials and Keldeo. OK, there is one extra Pokemon back. So I'm going to open this real quick and then we'll get back to monsters revenge. Probably going to, when are we going to open the power cube? I don't know. Haven't decided yet. Maybe at the end, maybe in the middle. Who knows? Who knows when we'll do it? We have the code card for you guys. I wish Yu-Gi-Oh do code cards for Master Duel. How cool would that be? If you could get a code card for Master Duel, let me know in the comments. I mean, that's a good idea, right?  People have said that before, but that is something they should do. They have a regenerative energy and a dragon bolt. Dragon bolt, super rare.  Super. It's a super rare. Let's be honest. I mean, everything should revolve around Yu-Gi-Oh rarities right now. I was kidding. Oh, we just opened that pack. OK, very interesting. I think people were like, yeah, you open these really weird. No, yeah, I can't help it. I just it just rips right across. You know, you get right into it. I open the pack at the same time. So honestly, that's just more efficient, in my opinion. I mean, I'm just killing it here. Bestial ball drink. And I'm going to pull the really miscut one. That was pretty cool. Puppet Rook, the Performa Power Classic Rebuild. Very awesome. We have the punk rising carp and a photon jumper. Secret rip. We're still searching, still searching for the cards we're looking for. There's two separate cards that we need. We've done several videos on both of these cards and have not had any luck. Let's see if we can turn that around right here. We have a fighting energy, fighting Crockerock, Anarith, Miastik, Beldum, Croagunk. We have Solosis, Zubat, Elgin. We have a Fristowed Girl. I don't know what that means and a Incineroar. All right. So starting it off and continuing it with badness. Don't worry, we're going to open up some epicness out of Battles of Legend, Monsters Revenge. I mean, I heard recently how they're doing the 25th Anniversary's. They're still going to be like tons of like 25 in each one. So it's going to be hard to pull whatever we want these days. Like I'm going to have to get a lot of cases, which is pretty rough. Foxy tune. Very expensive, I should say. Because obviously it did not work for us last time with the Dark Magician and the Magical Night of Dragon or whatever it's called. I don't know what it's called. It's just called the Dark Magician Gaia, is what we should call it. One, two, three, four. Come on. We have had nothing out of here so far. Fire energy. This has not been a fire opening. Just saying. Fletchlinder, it's been pretty low. Amolga, Metatite, Kevin Durant. We got Ralts, Fletchling, Croagunk. And we finally got a V, which is the low end V. So it's not that crazy. But hey, it's a V. We'll take it. All right. I think it's time. Let's crack in the Mystery Power Cube. I know. I'm throwing you guys off. I'm not doing it at the end. I'm doing it right now. Can we pull something awesome? So we took the wrapping off, one booster pack, one mystery item, three duelist packs, three bonus four end packs, whatever that means. Five card cards and 20 common cards. Here's what we're going to get. We're definitely getting these, right? 100% Starlight Lighting Storm. That's killing us in our investment from 2022. By the way, we have a magical hero. It's pretty cool. Flamie's Trash is pretty cool. Star pack, no. And then a duelist pack, Kaiba would be pretty cool. I'm trying not to spoil it too hard. I'm going to try to open it by going like this. Let's pull out a pack. There's actually a lot of packs in here, more than there used to be. Blazing Vortex. OK, that's a pack. That is a Starlight Rare pack. Potentially. Let's see if we can pull one. Can we get that pot of prosperity? There we go. We have Syncra. What if there was hit in mid? That'd be the best Mystery Power Cube of all time. Fabled. Springons. We got the Digama. We have the Dragon Blitz and a Super Rare. So no, it will not be in there. Let's do one more Battles of Legend before we go to the next pack in the Mystery Power Cube. Let's see if we can get the card on the cover art. There's five different cover arts, I think. We keep pulling the same one.  You will never pull this card. Puppet Pawn. We have Black Mamba, RIP Kobe. We have the Danelle. We have a Teller Knight, Tomeyes. OK, still a lot of packs to be open in this video. The cube actually has what? One, three, seven packs in it. You usually don't have nearly that many. In one Mystery Item, whatever the Mystery Item is, I see something a little shiny here. Wait, one, two, three, four. Will it be the shiny that we want? The Lugia. Come on, we have the Alternark, by the way. We have Psychic. Nice. Mealistic. Gem Trainer. Give us something good. We got Clang. Where's Clang Clang? Fletching. Chimeco. We have the Phoebus. We have Fennekin. Spinnerac. Fungus. And Regidrago V-Star. Hey, it's something. I mean, we'll take it. Regidrago V-Star. No idea if this is a good guard. I don't really know a lot about Regidrago, but I do know it is shiny. It's a V-Star, so it's probably not a bad pull. I'll take it. I'm not mad about that. Let's see if I can grab something next. Let's not ruin it here. I'm probably ruining it. Oh, we have a Starpack. Oh, this is two of them. Starpack Vrains and Starpack. That's a, those are foreign packs. Wait, is this one not foreign? Maybe it is. So the foreign packs are Starpacks. So Starpack, one of the worst packs you can open up in general, even in English, is now in foreign edition. So, yeah, this is great. This is awesome. Yeah, just what we want. Oh, yeah. Awesome. Yeah, this is, oh yeah. Now you gotta buy these. What a deal. Foreign Starpack. Woo. Man, wow. This is sick. Mr. Power Key really killing it right now. Really excited. We've got the Fusion Pellis. I'm not, if I try to say that, I'm gonna say something like completely wrong. We have a chimera and a opera la diva melodiosa. The melodious diva. What language is this, by the way? Spanish? Yeah, I'm a Spanish king. Okay, guys, I know everything about, no, I'm just kidding. I did take Spanish, but unfortunately, I didn't learn anything in that class. So I don't know, I don't know anything about Spanish. We have Lincoln Trante. Okay, yeah, that was cool. I'm glad that we bought those for the foreign packs. Those are incredible. Okay, dude, it's rubbing it in. Another dark magician cover art. This is insane. The cover art is insane right now. It's literally rubbing it in. Okay, don't spoil it. We got Kobe, RIP, Bento, Protection, Sage of Inevolence and, ooh, an amazing dragon, Secret Rare. It's amazing. Couple packs left. We got a V-Star, so now we're probably gonna get nothing the rest of the way. Or will we get hot right here and pull something crazy? I don't know. It could happen, maybe. One, two, three, four, here we go. We have a metal. Venomoth, Wallace, Jinx, Drowsy, Growlithe, Mistravis, Whalmer, Murkrow. We have a Talon Flame and we have a Kling Klang. There he is, the Kling Klang I was looking for earlier. Couple packs left. What can we get out of here? No spoilers, no spoilers. Not looking, not looking. You guys better not be looking. I'm trying not to look, but I kinda have to look. Okay, oh, sacred storm. Okay, yeah, not the best set. We can get the Baron, which has been reprinted.  Speed lift, Necroflour. We have Miriamne. We have High Speed Roid Clear Wing Rider. That's an Ultra. Hey, that is an Ultra. We will take it. Super's aren't even guaranteed, so this is actually a pretty nice pull. Couple packs left before we get into the rest of the Mystery Cube. Here we go. Okay, it finally didn't give us the Dark Magician. Maybe that's a sign that we'll actually pull it here. Maybe it's a sign. Blisters from Walmart always have done so well for me. Just kidding. I don't think I've ever pulled anything good. We have a Ghost Sleeper and a Shadow's Light. Also, I think a pretty decent card. Last Silver Tempest, we at least got a cool card. We did not get the card we were looking for. We got a cool card. All right, here we go. Cool stuff there. One, two, three, four. Let it be an epic alternate art. We have Water, Brickson, Sigilif.  We have Golbat, Swablu, Brotom, Baneeri, Drippy, Fampy, Altaria. There we go. Look at the sinning on this thing. It's so wide on the right side. It's so skinny right there. Interesting. And a Dragonite. Very cool Pokemon. So not a bad last one to end on, but also not what we're looking for. Don't worry. We still have the Mystery Cube. I'm gonna pull out more packs. It looks like we got a couple legendary duo. They're at least first dead. That's good. Let's get the magicians sold. I like how they put these in these cubes and completely crush the packs. They barely fit in there. All right, Aqua Dolphin. We have magicians rod. Good common card. There's all these are freaking light edition. There's only three of them. Boo. They don't even give you a real one.  Three. I mean, you don't even get rares guaranteed in this. I don't think. Oh my gosh. These cubes are terrible. Which, I mean, what did we expect? We kind of expected that. Is that all the packs? Might be all the packs. Oh, there's our random item. This might be cool. We have a metal dog tag. Okay, we gotta open this. Metal dog tags. Let's see what it is. Will we get the blue eyes or dark magician? Oh, you know I'm gonna be wearing this. What is it? Oh, it's not, it's not a blue eyes. Yummy Yugi. Okay. All right, you know I'm about to be wearing this to the next YCS. It doesn't fit over my head. Head's too big. We can wear like this. Like a bandana thing or something. All right, you know we'd be rocking Yami Yugi. All right, now we got this on. Let's do this. Let's see. What do we have? I thought we got blue eyes for a second when I saw this. Okay, cool little thing, I guess. Okay, you can get Yami and get Settokai by Joey Wheeler, Millennium Puzzle, Blazor Dragon, Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Red Eyes, Black Dragon, Obelisk, Winged Dragon, or else like, dude, we could have gotten so many monsters when we got freaking Yami Yugi. I mean, I guess Yugi's cool, but is this our Millennium Puzzle? Do I now have the ability to speak with a pharaoh? That's the question. All right, give us some luck, Yami Yugi. I think we're all down to the cards now, which we all know are complete junk. This is like, this is the reason they do these cubes is just so they can scam you into buying their bulk. Let's flip this around. So here are rares that are literally just rares, okay?  So we need to look for like banger commons potentially. There's common area attack, just got like 50 reprints though. Not seeing much in there. So as expected, this mystery power cube is yet again.  The cards are terrible. You should never buy these. I think they were like 20 bucks or something like that. So I just want to remind you guys, don't buy them, but hopefully you enjoyed the video. Just confirmed this was 20 bucks. So yeah, not great value for your money, but hey, if you want to have a little fun, maybe go for those, but usually the boxes are a little bit better.  That really was pretty terrible stuff. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more content like this. Shout out to Tomfoshow, Daxer, JT Cho, Puffins of Doom, Ernesto Dina, Missycle, America Doidster, Supreme Sage 21, and under-tie show Ian Musa, Junior Barting and Mimic Echo. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


Being able to identify that the limited resources of water for Nijie, Chad, Cameroon, it has brought insecurity, it has brought banditry, it has brought increased terrorism with the use of technology. They'll be able to ensure that that area, the lake Chad, is safe for not just one person, that is Nigeria, but it's safe for the environment, the whole space. Since I've identified that the climate actually has a factor or imputes into all these insecurity issues arising, and if the vocal point for mistries the climate change and environmental issues, then I feel my work which is looking at the implication of digital technology could actually help in the sense that I'm going to bring out the impute of the lake Chad basin region on insecurity. And using my own findings, I believe they could work more in the aspects of ensuring that security is maintained there. And when we are looking at a long-term process, we don't look at just what is happening but we look at what benefits for future reference. So if my work is able to establish that climate change, which is a linking region of the lake Chad, as an impute in the IT and insecurity within this border, then I feel the mistrage of policies will actually help me to put my point well, create a good template and workable solutions. So I'm not just looking at creating a solution. I'm looking out to meeting with other researchers who have been grounded in the field of climate change, who are more renowned and who have a better experience. Research is focused on Peru because I come from Peru and my PhD research is concentrated on the northern coast, a wide territory characterized by the presence of global trends of privatization, land grabbing and water scarcity. On the other hand, medium-sized farmers and another kind of population experiencing detrimental effects caused by these changes in the contemporary trends of transformation in food security and food sovereignty. In order to create better public policies and social programs, my research could contribute to think better how rural areas and vulnerable communities are affronting changes, global changes related to water scarcity and supply chain in food, especially considering how supply chain on foods are changing the trends of consumption. Research shows in a better light how different international actors and interests are creating severe risks in different local communities and populations. I like to generate an impact in my own country and in academia in the global south. I think my goal here will be not just to learn what to contribute as a researcher to the vision of the research school.


From New America and Slate, I'm Bridget Schulte, and this is Better Life Lab. First, the good news. This guy is an actual CEO. As long as you're doing great work, I don't mind if you're fat and happy. You know, why is that a bad thing? If you work for Jason Freed at Basecamp, you get a four-day summer work week. You get to work remotely. Not only do you get paid vacation, the company pays you an extra $5,000 so you can fly off to enjoy the best holiday you can imagine. And your corporate bosses are two guys who recently co-wrote a book called, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work. Now the bad news. Jason Freed is not hiring. He likes Basecamp just the size it is, about 54 people. And that's the secret, he says, to running a profitable, but calm company. It's the total opposite of the place he worked when he was starting out at the height of the dot-com boom. In the late 90s, I worked for a company called... Nobody will hear of it, because it's gone, because it burned out. But at the time, it was the biggest thing in the world. It was in the valley, and they were unstoppable.  They brought me in as a consultant and paid me way too much. I was like the 70th employee. I worked there for a few months and by the time I left, there was hundreds and hundreds of employees. We were all stacked together on card tables with folding chairs, packed in sardines, and the money was flowing. Everyone was excited. Of course, they made no money. They were just burning tons of it. It was actually a flat-out obscene.  They were putting them up in a hotel, which was ridiculous.  Never a discussion about profit, never a discussion about reasonable work hours, never any of these discussions. It was just go as hard as you possibly can for as long as you possibly can.  Where did you get the idea that you wanted to have a calm company, not get too big, not get sucked into this? Because we live in a culture where it's all about being number one. You talk about dominating or conquering market. I don't know where it came from initially, other than I don't want to spend all my time working. I want to work and then do other things. And you can't do that if you're working 80-hour weeks or 90-hour weeks. You can't do that if your weekends are packed with other things. But also, I've always felt like you should build the kind of company that you want to work at. As far as feeling like you need to be number one, I don't really care about that. There's not a lot of control I have over being number one at anything truly. I mean, there's always someone else who could be number one. And then if you're number two, are you supposed to be upset? I don't understand why you'd ever be upset about being number two at something. As long as you're good at it and happy with it and satisfied by it, that should be what you're measuring yourself against, not against what someone else is doing. I remember, I've always been into track. I ran track in high school and college. And after college was over, I started running like 5Ks and 3.5 miles sort of thing. And I remember trying to run a 6-minute mile. That sounds good. And I ended up like running a 6-minute, 7-second mile, right? I should be upset by that because I didn't achieve my goal. I didn't beat some number that I made up. And I felt like that for a while. But then I finally realized like, what's wrong with running a 6-7 mile? Like, there was a great run. I feel great. That should be fine. That was the best I could do that given day. And I just realized that goals and numbers and these milestones that you put out there are really artificial and unnecessary most of the times. I played competitive sports when I was growing up and I was good at it. But those events are like, that's what the game is. The game is actually winning. I just don't think business is that same game. I think people combine business and sports all the time for unnecessary reasons. I don't think you have to win at anything in business. I think you just have to provide a good product to customers who are willing to pay for it. Keep your costs in check so you make more money than you spend. And then you can do that forever, basically. As long as you're profitable, you can keep going. So what I'm really curious about is how you actually do it. You know, how do you have this company? Here's what Basecamp is. Basecamp is basically a project management tool for small businesses. So if you were an architect, for example, and you were designing a new building and you needed a place to keep all your blueprints and all your discussions and all the approvals and all the decisions and all the communications all in one place, so you can get to it and your client can get to it, you would use Basecamp to manage that whole process. So we have 54 people now, which is the biggest we want to get, by the way. We actually have a hiring freeze in place, even though last year was our best year ever as a business. So we don't want to hire any more people. We want to stay this size. But when we were smaller, we had four or five people, we had different things that we were doing and different rules and different ideas about this. But when we built Basecamp, the first version back in 2004, David, my co-founder, he only had 10 hours a week to spend on it because he was a student still in business school. So we built this product on 10 hours a week of his time over a number of months, I think it was four or five months. And we found out that, hey, you know what, that was actually a benefit because we realized that we had to figure out exactly what we needed to do because we didn't have much time to spend. So we couldn't do everything we wanted. We couldn't dream up everything and do it all. We had 10 hours. What was important? We had to prioritize ruthlessly.  And we found out that that turned into a better product. And so that was a great example early on of seeing that, you know, less work and less time is actually a benefit. Smaller teams benefit. Fewer opportunities is actually a benefit. Saying no to more things is a benefit. These things are good for companies. These are good for teams. These are good for people. But a lot of companies are very static. They have like a way of working when they're founded, and that's how they always work. I just don't feel like that's a great way to work. I feel like you need to be paying attention to your company in different sizes at different times with different pressures and constantly tweak the way you work. And we're constantly trying to find calmer and calmer ways to be.  That's so interesting that, you know, you're trying to get calmer as the world is getting crazier. In the opening pages of your book, just read this one paragraph you say, you know, describing sort of the modern work world and how crazy it is. The promises keep coming. More time management hacks. More ways to communicate. And new demands keep piling up. To pay attention to more conversations in more places. To respond within minutes faster and faster. For what? If it's constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you.  And two more. Enough already. So I guess what I would ask is like, so somebody reads your book, whether they're a CEO or they're working for a company or they've got a member of their family who's working like crazy. What do they do? Yeah, I think it depends on where you sit. If you're a CEO, you certainly have the power to begin to change things at a mass scale inside your company. But let's say you're a team lead of four or five people. You have a small team. And you're used to just interrupting each other all the time. Back and forth, real-time chat, real-time instant messaging, emailing, whatever you do, tapping people on the shoulders, pulling people into meetings. That's just your way of work. And you want to try some of these ideas. My first suggestion would be one day a month, have basically what we call No Talk Thursday. Just nobody in your team can talk to each other through any technology, not verbally, not written, nothing.  And what's going to happen is that you're going to find that people are going to go, I want another one of those days. I like that day. That day was great. I got a lot of work done that day. That was amazing. And so I think that's all you have to do. That's what we'll build on its own naturally.  So it really depends on, you got to figure out, you know, this is a very sort of stoic idea here, which is like, what's in your control and what's out of your control? Things that are out of your control, you can't do much about. So don't worry too much about them. They're just going to drive you crazy, basically. But things that are in your control, what are they and what can you do to try? And I would say whatever's in your control start as small as you can. Starting as small as you can is easy. It doesn't take a lot of permission granting to be able to try some of these things. You can try it sort of subversively. You can go rogue and try some of these things. And you'll find out that I think some of them are going to work and then you have more latitude to try more and more and more and see where you end up balancing out. You know, you talk about like the whole idea about winning, that that's such a big part of business and what drives work and a lot of that overwork. Well, you know, that starts early. You know, my daughter's in high school and she just got her ranking. The college just want to know what rank she is. And I just think that's so horrible. But we do that. You know, we start early with our kids doing that as if there's some sort of like, I don't know, celestial line that we're all in. I mean, I'm just thinking about all these very Americana sort of slogans, be all that you could be, be the best that you could be. How can you not be sort of brainwashed or shaped by that kind of achievement culture? First of all, it's all ego-based, which is the big problem, right? And especially in business, it's a lot of people flashing their egos and showing off their egos. And in our industry, which is the tech industry or software industry, most companies in this industry are actually the ones that are working the worst, I think, in terms of our principles. They're working long, long hours and they're bragging about it. They're getting very little sleep and they're bragging about it. They're stuck in meetings all day. They're paying attention to a dozen real-time conversations all at once, all day long. So the kind of work we do across the industry, software, most people would say, you can't do it the way we do it. But we've decided to do it the way we do it, which is 40-hour weeks, 8-hour days. Nothing has to happen at night. Nothing has to happen on the weekends. We don't work on the weekends. We don't pull all-nighters. We don't do any of that. And that's by choice. We just don't feel like that's necessary. And in fact, we don't feel like that ends up in actually producing great work. Also, I don't want the pressure, frankly, of having to maintain a lead. That's a hard thing to do, especially forever. And then you wrap up your whole self-worth in leading and having to maintain that lead. And then when you fall back into second, because everyone does at some point, for the most part, then you're supposed to be upset that you weren't who you were before. I just don't see how that's a good outcome for anything. It's ego. It's the expectation of eternal growth. It's always trying to be number one. It's a handful of these things. And this is why people keep pushing. And they keep pushing and pushing and pushing. And then they always think, like, I'm doing this so later on, I'll have time not to do this. I'll work crazy hours in my 20s and 30s. So in my 40s and 50s, I don't have to. I don't see a lot of examples of that, though. What I see is people forming terrible habits that they continue. Because the things you do over and over and over just become the things you keep doing. You can't not be that way. That's just the human condition, right? Of course, you know, it's hard to be 20 and hear that from someone in their 40s. I get that. I totally get that. But habits are really important because you form them whether you like it or not. And it's very hard to break them. And again, I've seen so many people who are extremely wealthy, more money than they'll ever know to do with. And they still work insane hours. They're still burning themselves out. They're still exhausted. They're taking on more and more burdens. And they're more and more unhappy every day and miserable. It's sad. I think it's really sad and tragic. So let me play devil's advocate just a little bit. I hear what you're saying, but there are others who would argue that restlessness, that pushing, that always striving for the next thing is a very American characteristic. So what do we lose if we give that up? Well, what do we lose? What do we gain? Take Germany is a good example. Great country right now. They've got a lot of companies that make amazing products. You've got Porsche. You've got BMW. You've got Audi. You've got Mercedes. You've got a variety of others. Those are just car companies because I'm into cars. But there's great, great companies there. And they have 40 hour work weeks. And they take that very seriously. And some people go, well, America's bigger and better and stronger because of this. And that might be true. But again, at what cost? What does it take to maintain that level forever? There's a lot of shrapnel, basically. People are tired. People are unhappy. People have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Everyone has to have a side hustle these days. All these things are going on to maintain our position as what? For what? What reason? Like what why? I think asking the question why a few times in a row is really valuable here. There should be, and there always will be, certain people who are extremely driven and are huge inventors that push society and humankind forward. And some of those people are going to work a lot of hours. But there's one or two of those a generation. Most people are not that person. There is one Elon Musk right now. There is one Jeff Bezos right now. There's one Steve Jobs. These people are rare. And there's questions about whether or not it's actually a pleasant place to be one of those people as well. Elon Musk had a very public breakdown and was weeping and didn't see his kids and was feeling burned out. And then when I think Ariana Huffington sent him a tweet telling him to go home and get to rest and he sent a tweet like somebody's got to do the work and it was 2.30 in the morning, it was still at the factory. Yeah, I saw that. And by the way, I admire him for what he's built. There's no question about it and perhaps he couldn't have built what he built my way. I'm pretty sure he could not have. So I get that. My point again is just playing the odds and the probability. Basically, zero people attain that level.  Most people are not going to be that. So why not just try and find a place where you can satisfy yourself, take good care of your employees, build a profitable business that you can control. You don't have to answer to anybody other than you and your customers and contribute something great to the world that way. I think that that is more valuable and more tangible and more realistic than just about any other business model there is. Yeah, but you're talking about people's dreams. You could have dreams. It's funny. It's like you're saying this and I'm hearing this but at the same time I'm feeling like, well, maybe I could be Elon Musk. You don't know. I don't know. What's to say you wouldn't be great. And how do you decide, well, I guess I won't ever be Elon Musk. I'll just go over here and be mediocre. See, that's the dichotomy. I think there's lots and lots and lots and lots of levels of greatness. I believe in dreams. Why not dream big? Sure. But does that mean you have to work endless hours? I don't believe so. I built a wonderful business. I should say not just I. Our whole team, our whole company has built a wonderful business. My business partner built something called Rubion Rails which changed the technology world. A lot of the apps and products that a lot of people use every single day are based on this thing called Rubion Rails, which was a side project of his in a few hours extra a week. You don't need to put in excessive amounts of hours to fulfill a dream. Realistically, you have to think about sustainability in terms of your own personal life. You're going to burn yourself out. You're going to drive yourself crazy. You're going to break a lot of things in your personal life if you do nothing other than work. It's just unhealthy. It doesn't lead to great work. It doesn't lead to creative work. Most people don't have their best idea after they've worked 13 hours straight. They have their best idea. And the morning in the shower, they took a nap and went to sleep. Right? Your mind has to take a break to work on things. I don't think you need to work yourself to death in order to achieve some sort of dream. You know, you talked about one of the things that has always driven you or helped you kind of figure out how to shape your life and your work is that you had things that you like to do outside of work. I see that your co-author drives race cars. So what is it that you like to do? Yeah, he does. He's very good at it. Yeah, I do a lot of things. I mean, I have a young family. He does too, by the way. So a lot of my time over the last four years has been dedicated to family life. I really big into architecture. I like to study architecture. I like to garden. I'm really big into that. I've been restoring a bunch of land up in Wisconsin and a farm up there. So I love that process of really slowly returning the land back to the way it was a hundred years ago. I collect vintage watches, so I'm deep into that weird esoteric world. Not quite race car driving, right? Not quite. I like cars, but I don't get behind a race car. So I'm into a lot of stuff, but the thing is that I just simply can't do a great job if all I'm doing is working. I need perspective. I need time away. I need my brain to be focused on other things. I need to sleep well. I need to have all those things if I want to do work well, which is so funny because you talked about earlier how some people just love to work. I love to work too, but I don't need to work all the time. And in fact, if I work all the time, I'm probably not going to love my work. That's what ends up happening to people who love their work, quote, love their work so much that they can't stop doing it. They burn out. I don't want to burn out. I want to have a hopefully a long career. I'm 44, so hopefully I get another 20 years in me.  I don't know. Jason Freed. He's the co-founder of Basecamp. We'll hear more from Jason in a few minutes, but first I want to get some perspective on this from Juliet Shor. Back in 1991, she wrote a prescient bestseller called The Overworked American, the Unexpected Decline of Leisure. And her latest book is on small-scale, high-satisfaction economy called True Wealth. So you just heard Jason. He's talking about this American notion that to be great, you've got to put in these, you know, incredibly long hours, or that that's the only way to achieve a dream. That's what I want to ask you, is it? Is that the only way to reach for your dreams? I don't think so. I mean, this idea of the kind of heroic entrepreneur who's doing something really valuable for society, that dream for many people, these long-working hours, which lead to a lack of balance in their lives, many of them are working for companies who are producing things that are not the stuff of dreams. The dream might be to make a lot of money so you can do something else or, you know, make a lot of money so you can retire. And I think this idea that everyone is someone like Elon Musk who does have a particular dream, whatever we may think of it, you know, he hopes to transform the world. Not so many of us are like that. I mean, building the next killer app or a program that's going to figure out how to sell stuff to people better. I mean, is that really the stuff of dreams? Not for most people. I mean, obviously there are people out there trying to build companies that they believe in and they want them to succeed. I mean, that gets us into the whole question of, do companies need to grow and do economies need to grow to be violent? And there's a lot of confusion out there on that question, I would say, and mostly people are thinking the wrong way about it. Well, I want to, I absolutely want to get into that in a little bit. I want to hear more about your take on growth. But first I want to listen together to the rest of the conversation that I had with Jason Freed. He has some interesting things to say about the nature of American capitalism and the era of Silicon Valley and venture capital. I was really struck by how you'd said earlier, you had the best year ever last year but you're not going to grow anymore and that having limited or no growth is a huge part of your strategy. And yet you look at every indicator that we have, GDP and what's this quarter's growth and the whole Wall Street, earnings expectations, it's all about growth. The capitalist system is all about growth. So in a way, are you really revolutionary? You know, maybe back in the Cold War you might have been called subversive even. You're sort of poking a stick in the eye of capitalism here. Well, we're definitely capitalists. We're a very profitable company that makes a lot of money and we pay extremely great salaries and we take really good care of our employees and we want to make money here. I mean, that's something we want to do. We want to make money in our industry who are held up as huge success stories are actually terrible businesses. I mean, they don't make any money. They lose money hand over fist for years and years and years. I think Uber is still losing billions of dollars and they're held up as a great company. No, they're not. We make money. We're profitable. We're actually what Wall Street would want out of a company but I have no interest in ever IPOing or ever being a public company. I'm glad we don't have those kind of pressures. I would never want to work quarter to quarter for growth's sake is not important to us. By the way, I'll tell you, as a small business, we have over 100,000 companies that pay us for base camp every month and we generate tens of millions of dollars in annual profits. We have a very serious business here with only 54 people and we've been doing it for 20 years an hour away. Some people who might hear this stuff will go, yeah, that's cute, you know, whatever but tens of millions in profits annually, especially for any business, especially one that's as small as ours technically, I think it's something that shows or that demonstrates that these ideas are not just theoretical, that these ideas can actually be quite helpful to build a business like ours. So is your model something that Wall Street and venture capital and Silicon Valley, you know, should they be paying more attention and is it scalable for other companies and other industries? Our model is incompatible with the traditional venture capital model because their model is about investing in a bunch of companies being wrong about almost all of them but being right about one or two of them that are huge successes. What is it that the unicorn company, right? The one in a, it's like 99% of all VC funded startups actually fail miserably. Yeah, and what's so sad about that is that there's probably a lot of companies in that cohort that technically failed, that wouldn't have been failures but they were failures according to the VC model but they might have been great $5 million businesses or $10 million businesses, they might have been able to support a dozen or two dozen or 100 great employees for many, many years but instead they're thrown away as failures because they didn't fit into a model which doesn't fit hardly anybody. It's just a broken system so I'm not a fan of traditional venture capital or anything like that. So as far as them adopting our model it's not going to happen and I would never expect it to but what I'm more interested in sharing is our story because I think a lot of companies that think there's only one way in our industry specifically which is going the VC route can discover that there's other ways. It's basically impossible to be one of those companies that makes it huge, becomes a multi-billion-dollar company but it's much easier to be someone like us or someone who's half as successful technically as us or even a third or an eighth and still be a great business and so I think a lot of entrepreneurs who want to get in business, I think if they're focused on just trying to be the biggest and the best they're just hurting themselves. In the summertime you guys work four days a week you have sabbaticals, you have no fakations and you actually pay for people to take vacation and you work remotely, you have office hours so people aren't interrupted all the time you really focus on concentrated work and there are a lot of people out there when they would read a list like that they would say, oh, you're spoiling your workers I remember writing a story about Patagonia and they really wanted people to have full lives outside of work they felt that that would make their work better and the headline came out, you know, company profits is at Pampers workers you know that that was something sort of almost soft headed so what kind of responses or reaction do you get from people and how do you respond? Well, by the way, Patagonia is a company that we really admire so I love that they do those things How do people respond? They ask for a job here and that says it all, right? They're like, are you hiring? And so I'm proud to use your word PAMPER I'm glad that we can PAMPER people here and we do that intentionally in that we don't get ahead of ourselves if we hired 400 people which we could afford to do then we probably couldn't do a lot of the things for the 54 that we want to do so we make these conscious decisions every business is a collection of conscious decisions and we've decided that this is the right size for us and by the way, I think right size is a really important notion a lot of companies never think about their right size their only right size is bigger I think we've hit our right size we're going to stick here as long as we feel like it's the right size we're going to continue to pick up more customers continue to grow the business but as far as the people we have enough and we can take great care of them and we didn't do all of these things upfront we couldn't afford to do a lot of these things the fact that we pay for people's vacations and send them to amazing cities around the world we couldn't have done that 15 years ago but now we can so we do so I'm not suggesting that everybody someone launches a business tomorrow and tries to do all these things because a lot of them aren't tenable early on but you can decide how you want to spend your money I've heard people say like, yeah, you're pampering or people are going to get lazy and fat and happy and the whole thing, I'm like, that's fine as long as you're doing great work, I don't mind if you're fat and happy you know, why is that a bad thing? why is it that we all have to be miserable and exhausted to great work? it doesn't make any sense wouldn't you rather have people who are smiling and feeling good about their work and feeling good about themselves in their day and the vacations coming up, wouldn't they probably do better work? I think so why do you think you're such an outlier then why do you think we think that the best workers have to be miserable and burned out? I don't know, because I don't think that way but you know, at the end of the day if I had to be like thoroughly, completely objective about it I think it's because most companies have investors that want to be paid back and they think it's wasteful to throw 5,000 bucks at an employee every year to send them on a vacation they go, why don't you throw that money back in the business and grow and hire another person or whatever like for example, for 55 people it costs us over a quarter million bucks to send people on vacations every year they'd say, why don't you take that money and invest it into hiring 5 more people or 3 more people or whatever more people and grow your business, that's what they would do so I would say, because we don't need to or want to and they would say, but why not? don't you want to get bigger and I would say, why? why do you want to get bigger and they don't have a good answer for it frankly because they're end goals to sell the business for a big huge number or they're end goals to be popular among their peers and go, I run a 500 person company and Ego plays a huge role here I think that's one of the reasons why people are so obsessed with growth is they want to seem like they're successful to the outside world and to do that they have to be big and powerful that sounds miserable, like we're a bunch of egomaniacs dancing all the way right into our graves of the unlived lives, you know? sounds pretty awful doesn't it seem like that's the way it is? I mean, unfortunately a lot of people who are so, quote, successful are actually really really miserable and what they long for I've talked to a lot of entrepreneurs who've done very well for themselves what they long for are the early days when they had a small business when they were a small team when they can move quickly when they can do the things they wanted to do without having to answer to a bunch of outside financial masters essentially they want to go back in time and so we're just saying like if those are the good old days why can't they be the good always days that was Jason Freed he and his business partner David Heinemeyer Hansen run the software company Basecamp so, Juliet, we had been talking about growth why are we stuck on growth and is that the wrong thing to be concerned about? well, you know, Jason talked about it when you have outsiders owning these companies they are interested in maximizing the return that they get and that's something that has really intensified since the 1980s in this country what's often referred to as financialization so that companies really increasingly were controlled by Wall Street if you control your own company then you can set the terms so Jason is maybe maximizing profits and satisfaction and I think this is really important and this has also been a switch in thinking I think from this idea that the way to make profits is through growing and really we have also conflated ideas about what needs to be done at the company level with the whole economy level and we often think that individual companies must grow and the economy as a whole must grow and those are actually two very different things as well how so, how are they different? well, for the economy as a whole there is really no imperative for a capitalist economy in the aggregate to grow and it's one of the great misconceptions about economic theory that economists think economies must grow economies when they have productivity growth have a choice to take that productivity growth in more goods or more leisure time so that's the basic standard general equilibrium model of mainstream economics so there's nothing that says that the economy should grow to the max so how did we get where we do seem to be on this path of taking the economy to the max we do seem to be on the path of stuff to the max and I think you even called it the work spend vicious cycle that we're in so the answer to sort of how we got there has to do with what happened after the second world war there was a lot of fear that the economy would fall back into depression and so there was a lot of growth promotion going on by the government, by economists you could say we then overdid it because that growth imperative got really deeply ingrained and then beginning in the 1970s you start to see the growth of inequality and inequality itself furthers this whole cycle you tend to get longer working hours and more unequal societies as people struggle to keep up and to deal with the fact that people are losing out you have the answer then being let's grow so you can increase your incomes the rising tight lifts all boats even if the boats are getting farther and farther apart you hear that from politicians all the time don't worry about the deficit we'll grow our way out of it well because so many worker benefits and taxes are paid by employers beginning most importantly with health insurance it means that employers want people who work long hours so they don't have to pay as many benefits and that was a kind of accidental thing that happened during the wage and price controls of the second world war firms began to try and find other ways to compensate workers more so that's where fringe benefits came in and so that put a kind of structural bias into our whole system for long hours of work huh so how do we get out of it where do we go kind of going back to the idea of the American dream if you will what kind of society have we been creating that we may not be aware of and how should we recalibrate that to have sort of a new American dream I think the biggest impact of these growth centric economies is that they are leading the planet down a path of ecocide we are in great red lights flashing danger zone high growth economies tend to be highly ecologically damaging economies with high carbon emissions and we can wish that away all we want and say technology and new energy sources will allow us to grow indefinitely without harming the planet economists have been saying that for decades and we're just not seeing any evidence of it so the sort of terrifying but increasingly unavoidable conclusion is that this kind of an economy is destroying the very basis of our lives and if that doesn't get our attention I mean you know what will Juliet sure she's an economist and professor of sociology at Boston College and the author of true wealth she also wrote a real classic a Bible for me and the rest of us here at the better life lab called the overworked American earlier we heard from Jason freed his books with his base camp co-founder David Johnson include rework and it doesn't have to be crazy at work for more resources on working smarter and healthier visit us at newamerica.org click on the link for better life lab better life lab is produced by new America in partnership with slate thanks so much for joining me in our podcast about the art and science of living a full and healthy life our project is a collaboration with ideas 42 supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation the producer of better life lab is David Shulman Hailey Swinson provides research assistance if you enjoy our show take a moment to review us on Apple podcasts it really helps us get the word out from new America's better life lab I'm Bridget Schulte