Hi, I'm George Kau. I'm happy to be here with Steph Lagana. First of all, let me say hi to you Steph. Thanks for being here. So excited to be here. Thank you. Yeah, so I'm excited to have this conversation with you because we are kindred spirits for sure We both serve our clients in terms of both the kind of business side of things and also to bring us more spiritual element into it So I'm really excited to kind of have this discussion with you Hear more about what kind of work you do with your clients. How what are some of the ideas that have been really Transformational for them and anyway everyone watching this. I think you'll you'll find this be an uplifting conversation. So Steph before we go on I'm going to share your bio with everybody and so people know some context for where you're coming from so Steph is a former national security staffer turned business strategist and spiritual teacher now That's already very interesting. You can just stop there. No, she helps energy sensitive entrepreneurs Which I know a lot of you are watching this create businesses. They love Her clients have watched all the webinars, you know that are out there But they're worried that they aren't cut out to be an entrepreneur and Steph helps them to finally get their message out into the world and build their business in the way that feels connected to their soul and Steph's got a great website. It's called mythical enterprises calm And let me actually just start there if it's okay Tell me about the story behind mythical enterprises calm like why mythical enterprises? It is the most random thing. So I was really hyped about this idea of being a digital nomad I don't know if you remember that like in the late 2000s. There was so much conversation Right at any time before the pandemic. It was big That's fair. It's been like a little sine wave, you know, just and 2011 I bought that domain and I was thinking that I would be sharing like poetry and stories of legendary adventures So it was mythical in the sense of legendary and I had no idea what I was going to do with it It was just something that felt really bright deep in my bones And so I bought it on January 11th 2011 and I look back at that and I go that was it There was a curve That I served in my path as a part of that. That's so cool I it's general. I I've always the one one ones have followed me for many years It's so strange there. There are periods of my life where they will pop up in Groups and actually it just had just happened a few days It stopped a few stopped maybe two days ago, but it was like suddenly for three four days It would just be in being in group and then it would stop and then it would come back again And it's it's the weirdest thing, but I love the science and synchronicities. Yeah, totally totally Okay, so there's so much to talk about I want to ask You know, you bring spirituality into business and I'd love to know how you mean by that There are a couple things I'll ask you particularly, but I'll kind of let you start to share What what do you what is why is it important to bring our spirituality into our work and our business? So the people that I serve are definitely steering by an internal compass. Yeah, and so when money becomes the point all Navigation systems go astray Everything gets wonky and I think it's really important to acknowledge that different things serve different people And I'm here to give people options. I'm here to create space for people that aren't served by the very dominant very aggressive hustle and grind culture The people that I serve are the people that are totally lit up when they think about serving other people and when they think about like the positive powerful impact that they can make in the world and so when they set up Goals that are only linked to money. Everything shuts down. It's like this amazing lighthouse and all of the bulbs blink out and things don't work. I Love that. Yeah, so So you have you have a couple of sort of specific things you work on with clients and I want you to talk about that a little bit one is Energetic allies and another one is kind of the spiritual disciplines You could start either place, but I just think it's fascinating and and so yeah I think it's a really kind of interesting way to bring the practice of spirituality into into business Yeah, it's fascinating and I feel like so juiced that I get to do it It's like all of the books that I read about like fantasy or science fiction have come to life I was an adult is I I didn't have any sort of religious upbringing as a child So I introduce people to the soul of their business Yeah, an energetic ally called the divine program manager To their spiritual board of directors and all of these things if you were to take 30 60 90 seconds and just sit in a place that felt supportive to you whether it's at home or outside You too could connect to these things I have specific guided visualizations that I take people on but I very much believe that the energies are out there and that You can work with these allies and they can support you as you move forward So for instance, I offer an invitation for people to do this work I have a free challenge on my website to meet the soul of your business, but you can also just tune in and connect And also talk with it, you know, like work with the energy of the soul of your business Maybe it has no Specific concern about the current project that you're working on and helps you see that you're not actually that interested in it And you were doing it because you thought you were supposed to So there's all sorts of like juicy space. There's like this richness that happens using these Energetic allies, I find that mindset work is really useful And there's all sorts of ways that we can move forward but guided visualizations seem to surpass a lot of the shenanigans that happen in our brains and So the guide of visualizations is something you do one-to-one with clients or have you recorded these or how does that work? I do I have a whole series of recorded visualizations Most of them are in this business building program I have an incubator that's nine and a half months because it really I feel like it does take a period of time To to give birth to your business your solar business and become the next level version of yourself But yeah, I do visualizations all the time and for me It really is about connecting people with energy in a significant way So I have a lot of strange But effective intuitive abilities and one of them is Bringing in energy that's very supportive for people that they aren't connected with yet So the energetic allies and the ones that I have Established like connecting people with the soul of your business or the divine program manager And you can just have a sheet of paper on your desk every day where you ask for help from her Normally, it's her for the people that come into my world, but certainly doesn't have to be But then I'll also do other visualizations. There's something about my ability It's almost like we're all together in this really beautiful house, and I'm really good at opening up the windows And this fresh energy comes in that's really clarifying for people and Helps them connect in a really deep way to what they want, but there's like some fog You know that's surrounding them, and it's just the noise of everyday life. Yes Fascinating and divine program manager Tell us about that.  It's like very Now that's maybe I'll just go on a tangent a little bit here. Did you reveal these abilities or these This philosophy when you were in that role or no My gosh, it was like I was commuting every day between two different planets Yeah, yeah, it was it was very strange And actually this is my second business my first one Completely collapsed, you know in flames of glory and was only about connecting with the spiritual world And so I left the government in 2016 and there wasn't a home for me that fit all of me in my business But now that I sit at the intersection of business and spirituality So for me, it's very much the bridge between left brain and right brain. All of me has a home Yeah, so it's very it's very different from the worlds that I used to walk in but the divine program manager is amazing so I have this guided visualization and The way that I do guided visualizations is very different From the ones that I've been exposed to through the course of my life because I don't tell people what to see 90% of the time I ask them what they see Which connects with just this creative part even if you don't believe in energy even if you don't believe in Allies and the unseen there's this way that when our creativity is engaged we're able to dial really deeply into our intuition because our our Chattery left brain calms down It has to in order for our intuition and our creativity to engage and so there's this way that this really strong information shows up And it's just really fun anytime. I think that you can give people space not to have to do all of the things And and be on track for that burnout culture. I just think it's incredible treasure Wow, yeah, that's beautiful. I like that you are tapping into the client's own Creative imagery, you know, that's really cool. So you also help clients develop a spiritual discipline It's helps their work. I'm sure it helps your life, too But tell us about that. What is what is a spiritual discipline that you recommend or how does that work? Yeah, and so it's kind of related to the visualizations in that I'm helping people tap into What's inside of them and what wants to happen, but it's also about Whatever I can do to help my clients and my audience reclaim their sovereignty in a world that tells them Everybody else has a better opinion not talking about systems or medical expertise But like sovereignty over your own life, you know, like what's the best decision for you in any particular specific situation? The spiritual discipline is this vibrational anchor. It's something that is practical, but it's also energetic So it's a maximum of 10 minutes a day So it's somewhere between five to ten minutes and I get people that show up that might have a whole bunch of practices Like they're doing some sort of, you know 90 minutes of movement and then they're meditating and so some people just need to sit down or be in nature and not ask anything else of themselves and you know be in that space of Simplicity and clarity and then I get other people who are very rebellious, which I absolutely identify with and They need a selection of things that they can choose from as opposed to doing one thing over and over again the same thing over and over again because that doesn't It doesn't light them up. It doesn't energize them. So it can look like so many different things. And I love that because it shows just like the vibrant spectrum of humanity. Like I have people that have colored in coloring books And I also have people that have done journaling automatic writing. They've they've done meditation. I've had people that have done dance parties.  There's so much noise in our world and There's a lot of chaos. So being able to plumb our own depths and get really still and clear and connect back to our core essence. Frames the world that we walk in and creates this This really beautiful path. So it's a lot less cluttered. It's a lot more joyful things make a lot more sense when you anchor into yourself first and then navigate your day. That's beautiful. Yeah, that's, that's great. I love that. And Yeah, I'm really I love that you allow the clients to come up with some practice that really works for them. And again, you kind of help them to discover that or rediscover that And so I'm curious how this now, you know, let's say the client has done the spiritual discipline is connecting to Well, the so the divine program manager is is as a connection that happens in the beginning of the day. What happens during the day itself. So, so And I'm connecting this also to the way that mainstream work usually happens, you know, hustle and grind that kind of stuff. Right. So just thinking through a particular day for a client or say a sample day. When they get to work when they are doing their business and they feel some resistance or they feel like, oh my gosh, I have all these things to do. What, how do you advise them or what's the, what should they do at that point. And they meet resistance. Well, sometimes resistance is an obscured no. It's a no that we are body knows and that our heart knows our soul knows that social conditioning is telling us should be a yes, and so there's this tension between, I know what I'm supposed to be doing. And I know, I know what I feel like. And so then it becomes this impasse. So I think that's really important for us to be able to know what I feel like. And so then it becomes this impasse. So I think that's really interesting because sometimes we talk about resistance and we don't recognize there's this translation that we're not doing, you know, there's another layer of interpretation. But if you're up for it, I feel like it would help to kind of zoom out on the process that I use. Would that be okay. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So I believe that social conditioning covers up a lot of strengths and a lot of preferences. And in particular, whatever people soul genius is. And so people will come to me and they'll have an idea of a niche, or they'll just have some sort of training and they'll know that they want to be deeply of service. You know, it's in their heart. They absolutely want to positively profoundly be of service in the world. But what does that look like. And so the start of my process is helping people to understand that there's a new energy paradigm for people that are sensitive for people that feel resonant with it that sometime around 2011 things started to shift and people were propelled towards whatever path they're on today. And that there are energetic allies that they can tap into the unseen but in particular they can take a look at their life path and see how the background and their voice and who they are as a person informs who they can serve. And so the tradition that I was trained in there was a lot of emphasis on just reaching backwards. You know, like who's the version of you five years ago that needs help. What can you do to support them and just reach a hand back. But I find that people that come into my world needs that support to understand what their their genius is what what their magic is and it doesn't have to be in a way that's like super pressurizing like oh I got to find my magic. Where's my you know like look under the rock. Let me find my magic, but just like in a joyful way. What does it look like to recognize what I'm good at. And a part of that is brushing away that social conditioning that says oh it's no big deal like I mean everybody can do that. No they can't everybody has different skills and talents. And so then as they get to that point so they're understanding hey there's this new paradigm there's the unseen that they can work with. They have this soul genius they need to claim it and then they start to see how there's preferences that they have like maybe they really would rather only work two days a week or they are in a space where they do their best work at night and everyone has told them that they should work five days a week and that they should do their best work in the morning. And so there's this way that claiming your genius and claiming your strengths supercharges everything else that you that you do and it's like this cascade effect at least that's what I see in my clients in my audience. There's this way that there's this kind of like stampede of good things that happen when you start to claim who you are and the way that you work. And so then there's this kind of like squishy phase where I help people dial into the place where their particular genius wants to be expressed like how does it want to happen at the world. So some people want to write books and some people want to have YouTube channels and some folks really enjoy one on one coaching and they love networking like they love connecting with people and just having really joyful conversations. So finding that place where they feel really nudged and they feel really expressed and energized and then understanding the way that they work and how that transforms into a business model. I know this may sound bananas but I really do think that for every single person there is a business model that can fit them and it's just a matter of what does it look like on a really deep level to understand the way that they operate and what gives them joy. That's that's brilliant. Yeah, it's amazing. I love that you are kind of helping them work through these big questions in a kind of more of a lighthearted, gentle way. Instead of instead of the stressful like you must find the right answer now otherwise, you know, and so it's great that you are helping them to see both the sort of the things that the strengths that they just discount. Oh yeah, everyone can do that. But no, you recognize that in them, and then you help them to connect that to a business model that really works for them and kind of a productivity model I guess the time system maybe or that that works for them.    No, I was just going to say like I love the diversity and like the variety of expression that humans have like we're just we're all so different. I've, I've had so I went through coach training in 2013 so I've worked with a lot of different folks over that course of time and there have been some people where I've just thought like the things that they enjoy. You couldn't pay me enough money to do those things. And yet they seem to be telling the truth and I just I find it fascinating how we can all operate so differently, including, you know, there are some people that thrive on one to one conversations. I love supporting people in, you know, real time coaching conversations. And I also know some people that don't want anything to do with that like they don't even want to shake a stick towards it like when they work with people, it's completely asynchronous. And I just, yeah, I get super jazzed by all the different ways that people come to whatever their goal looks like. Yeah, and the diversity is wonderful because, you know, the clients and the students and the customers need diversity there's also diversity people like working as well with with providers. So stuff as we wrap up this conversation that just how how can people work with you so those who are watching or listening right now they're wanting to take the next step with you what's what should they do next. I have a free Facebook group for folks that are on the book of face, and it's called your sacred craft. And so there's a lot of really juicy conversations and a really gentle and supportive community and that's developing there. We're under 1000 people so it's still at the point where things feel like, you know, grounded and anchored and I do some interesting I just want to say today, today's number in your group is exactly 777. What I mean I swear, like I said, I maybe it's still following me because over the past week it's like I've seen the I've seen the repeated numbers over and over and here it is again so here we are 777 perfect. For me it feels like this really warm a hug when I see repeating numbers or feel those kinds of synchronicities that it just makes me feel like the team is there, and they're here to help and that's right to do it alone. That's brilliant. Well, but you're open to more people joining and breaking that that number will get to 999 has that 888. Yeah, yeah, my goal is to keep it like a really tight knit community something that feels good. But yeah, the Facebook group your sacred craft is the best place to join us and I also have a newsletter list over at mythical enterprises calm. But if you join the Facebook group I'll tell you all different sorts of juicy things and there's some really good trainings in there, including like how to discern your niche and how to connect to solve your business. So I'm happy to I'm happy to help support people. It lights me up. Yeah, awesome. Awesome. Well, I'll be sharing the link to that as well as your website. So, yeah, I guess besides that you work with people one to one on on service as a service provider, a coach to them. And you also have like the recorded guided visualization as well. Yeah, most of the guided visualizations are bound up in this nine and a half month incubator programs that I have. But you can get a particular start date or it's actually rolling admissions, which is super cool. Join. Yeah, yeah, and anytime and it's really neat to because I find that based on the work that I'm doing that people just show up and they don't know how they found me, or they don't know why they got there. No, and it just feels really, it feels like another affirmation that I'm where I'm supposed to be. Awesome. Well, I hope those who are watching, if you resonated with Steph's energy, reach out, join the Facebook group, your sacred craft magical tools for the action ready entrepreneur. I love that. And the website is mythical enterprises.com. So with that stuff. Thank you so much for the work that you do the way that you do it. And yeah, just looking forward to seeing your, your presence. Bless so many more people. Thanks so much for this connection George I appreciate it.


A, ja. OK, so, ja. The next speaker is Ivan, the Telitci, and is talking about generalized range of mind equation, thermodynamics, and applications. So, thank you. Now. Does it work? Can you hear me? OK. Oh, god. Not a good start at all. OK. Let's suppose there is a K here. And... Hello, everyone. OK. So, I'm Ivan, the Telitci. I currently am a postdoc at Max Planck. We see at the institute for the physics of complex systems in Dresden. And first of all, I would thank the organizers for letting me talk about this work, which I have been... I hope not. About this work, which I carried out during my... I can't believe it. I mean... OK. Let's hope for the best. OK. Which I carried out during my time as a PhD student in Padova under the supervision of professor Marco Baghesi. And my work is about the generalized range of equations, and mostly about its thermodynamic properties. So, everybody here knows about the range of equations, which have been introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by Langeven to describe the stochastic motion of a Brownian particle. And furthermore, everybody knows that, associated to this stochastic process, there is a set of partial differential equations for the probability density function of this process, which are called the Fokker Planck. We see this time. OK. Which come in the form of a continuity equation. In the particular, we also know that we have some stationary solutions associated to this equation. And in particular, we have equilibrium solutions, which correspond to zero currents, while some stationary solutions, which are associated to a current, which has zero divergence. In particular, for force, which comes from conservative potential and diffusive matrix, which is constant, we know that the equilibrium probability density function takes the form of a Boltzmann distribution. And here are some experimental examples of a realization of this equilibrium distribution. But because we don't like Markovian dynamics in this conference, we consider the generalized Langeven equation, where there appear some memory kernel. This memory kernel is linked to the correlation of these colored noise. And in this case, non-equilibrium is achieved by considering a force, which may be either non-conservative or explicitly time-dependent. This is the case that we are going to consider. But the problem with these equations is that we have no associated Fokker-Planck equations. And here is an example of memory kernel, which we have already seen a lot. And there should be a minus. But we have no associated Fokker-Planck equations to these generalized Langeven equations. And in order to circumnavigate this issue, we came up with a modification of the Laplace transform, which is defined as follows. It is nothing too fancy. It's just a very deeply linked to the property of frequency shifting of the Laplace transform. And we apply this, in first instance, to the linear generalized Langeven equation, which is defined as follows. So I know that linear equations are not very spicy, but we are also applying this technique to a nonlinear setting. Maybe I will talk about it at the next conference next year. But for the moment, we stick to the linear equation. And what we have done is to solve these equations by using this new technique. And one thing that I forgot to mention is that in the equation, we keep these initial time unfixed. And by applying this modified Laplace transform to this equation, we are indeed able to keep track explicitly of these parameters, which may be afterwards sent to minus infinity to consider, for example, stationary states. In particular explicitly, we find the solution of the generalized Langeven equation as follows. The solution is given in terms of these susceptibilities. This is something that has already been done at the beginning of the 70s by Fox. And the nice thing of this equation is that, again, this parameter tm is explicitly present in the solution. And furthermore, because the susceptibilities have well-defined limits for large times, regardless the form of the memory kernel, we are indeed able to consider many kind of initial conditions. And among all of those, we consider initial conditions, which are in equilibrium corresponding to tm equal to zero. And initial position and velocity may be distributed as a Gaussian. This may also be obtained from the study of this solution, but it's actually trivial, so I won't go deeper in it. And the second situation that we are going to consider, which is more new, maybe, is tm that goes to minus infinity. So as you can see, when tm goes to minus infinity, the argument of these susceptibilities goes to plus infinity. The limits are well-defined. We see that, for example, these terms here go away, so we lose memory of the initial conditions. We like to consider this as a generalized steady state, where, indeed, memory of initial conditions is lost. By using the Gaussian properties of the noise, furthermore, we are also able to infer that the distribution of position and velocity at time t is also Gaussian. So, just to recap everything, we have, more or less, shown that the probability distribution associated to these initial conditions as a form of a Gaussian with these covariance matrix, in particular for these initial conditions, the covariance matrix has this form. And this form of the covariance matrix cannot be changed by any deterministic protocol, which may be the center of the trap, which is moving, or some external field, which may be, for example, an electrical field. So, in this case, no need for Fokker-Plank equations. But the most important part that I would like to talk to you about are the thermodynamic properties of these generalized Langeven equation, and in the linear case always. And to do so, we first consider the first theorem of thermodynamic in the context of stochastic thermodynamics by starting from the heat. And to do so, we use Sekimoto's definition of heat, which is this stochastic integral of involving the forces that the particle is exerting on the bath times the velocity of the particle. These forces can be easily be obtained from the original generalized Langeven equation. Then we can consider also the variation of energy, which in this case is just the sum of a kinetic and the potential energy, and it takes this simple form. But most notably, the work, which is the sum of these two quantities, has the same form as for Markovian dynamics, which means an integral of this protocol, which is changing the center of the trap times the force, which is exerted on the particle itself. So this is something that already five minutes. So the thermodynamic work has this form here. And because we have the solution of the position for the position of the particle, it is easy to calculate quantities. One thing that we find is that the variance and average work are proportional and have this simple form here. It is just dependence on the particular properties of the system. And because we have this proportionality and because the work is Gaussian, we have that an integral fluctuation theorem holds. Furthermore, for initial conditions in the infinite past, we find that the variance of the work has the same form as from starting from equilibrium. Finally, what we find is that average work in the stationary state corresponding to a dragging, which is constant, this form of lambda, and tm going to minus infinity, we find this simple form, which is equal to the structure that we find in form Markovian dynamics, but instead of the usual coefficient, we have this integral of the memory kernel. Here we could talk about the fact. While studying these issues, there are some arguments saying that these integral should be finite, otherwise there are some problems associated with it. And in this case, this is maybe another clue that indeed this quantity here should be finite, otherwise we would have some thermodynamic inconsistencies. Here is an example, but I don't have time. It wouldn't be a discussion about stochastic thermodynamics without entropy production, of course, which can be split into contribution and environmental contribution proportional to the heat, a systems contribution proportional to the Shannon entropy and for stochastic thermodynamics the second law holds on average. What we find in this linear case is that the rate of entropy production, which is easier to calculate, takes the following form. These two terms are usually equal to zero in the initial conditions that we are interested in and we don't care about it. The most important part is this one, where we introduce this new dynamical quantity which is called retarded velocity which involves a convolution between the average velocity and the memory kernel. Again, we identify a steady state for a constant dragging and tm that goes to minus infinity where we see that the average rate has the same structure as for Markovian dynamics with the substitution of gamma zero that becomes gamma, the stoch's coefficient that becomes this integral from zero to infinity of the memory kernel. Again, this may be a clue that indeed the limit of this integral should be finite. How much time do I have? Nothing, basically. We have some result. We consider an exponential memory kernel to show what is the effect of memory on the quantities that we have studied in our paper. Starting from equilibrium, you see that as memory becomes stronger and stronger there appear some oscillations in the averages and in the variances of all these quantities. This is a more or less typical property of systems with memory and also inertia. In the case of the steady state, instead, we have that all the averages do not depend on the strength of this memory while the variances are affected by it. To conclude, we have introduced a modification of the Laplace transform which is particularly useful to address the issue of steady states. We explicitly solved the linear-Langeven equation with time-dependent driving and by doing so we are able to calculate variances, averages of many relevant quantities such as the thermodynamic work. We also provide an explicit formula for the average rate of entropy production by introducing this new dynamical quantity called retarded velocity and finally we show that variances of memory are the variances of integrated quantities. To conclude, I would like to thank my former PhD supervisor Marco Baghesi, professor Felix Ritor, which helped in the writing of this paper, my new group at the Max Planck Institute and of course you for your attention. Thank you. Thank you very much for the interesting talk. We have time for a couple of questions. Priority given to students first. There is one question. Are you a student? Hi. I'm not sure how dub this question can be, but it's just because I'm not familiarized with the technique of that modified Laplace transform. Why does the usual one doesn't work? Because I imagine that it doesn't work. Why do you need this modification? Because... So the... I asked myself the same question when I started studying these issues. The fact is that most of the times to study the generalized LaJava equations, people take these initial time to be arbitrary and then they set it to zero. But we know that steady states most of the times correspond to initial time that a system that is going for an infinite time then it equilibrated some kind of steady state and then you see indeed a steady state. In this case, because we don't have Fokker-Plank equations, there is no at least from my point of view intuitive way of letting these initial conditions going to minus infinity. And furthermore, the Laplace transforms are very useful and easy to use. So my idea was indeed to introduce this generalization of the Laplace transform where you can just track explicitly of these initial conditions in the past and then you just send it to minus infinity avoiding let's say singularities or anything else. So I hope I addressed your question. Just a comment. I can provide you an example which this gamma hat so the integral is finite but you can make it arbitrarily large. Actually it becomes infinite critical point. You have an example. Of course, if you pay, I can give it to you. Please tell me. I also have a question about this generalized Laplace transform.  It just caught my attention. So you're taking tm to minus infinity but this must very severely constrain the functions g of t, you can do that. Because then what you have is for negative times an exponential explosion by the exponential factor. I agree with you. So need to have even functions that are of exponential order in both directions or this must constrain just for the mathematical existence. Of course, of course. Let's say that most of the times you apply this Laplace transform to functions which are kausion for example, susceptibilities or the memory kernel. So this issue doesn't come. And furthermore I honestly tried to avoid these issues by just explicitly solving the equation hoping that everything went well. So in this case, for example, you can see that the only dependence on this initial time is in the susceptibilities. Because typically if you have a function that has support on an entire real line you take a Fourier transform. And that is also analytically nicely defined. So I guess that also doesn't work here for some reason which I just couldn't get. Fourier transform doesn't take track of the initial conditions. So if you take the Fourier transform of the equation you have the convolution theorem and everything, but you don't have explicitly the initial conditions here. Which is the thing which I tried to have here because at the beginning of my PHD I wasn't so... Is it still a linear transform? Does it have all the mathematical properties in the Laplace transform? Yeah, of course. But in this case I think it's more easy to see the dependence on initial conditions and it's more straightforward to consider steady states. So it's like a sum of two Laplace transforms when you flip the time? Well, actually again you can see it as consequence of the property of frequency shifting because if you do change of variable you just obtain e to the minus tn... Yeah, this I understand, but then you also have a delta function there. If you do that you are not supposed to consider times where this gets negative as far as I understand. So this is really a mathematical question. I understand it works because you got the result, I just cannot understand how. We can discuss after that. Thank you. Since you mentioned several times that there is no Fokker-Plank equation so I'm wondering can you make a Markovian embedding for the memory kernel that you suggest by just adding one auxiliary variable and then you do have a Fokker-Plank equation. In the simple case of an exponential memory kernel you can do Markovian embedding and everything works fine. But all the results that I present are also valid for example if you don't have any straightforward or trivial way of doing a Markovian embedding. Here, to be totally honest I used exponential memory kernel because where do I have it here maybe? Ok. In order to find the solution you basically have to calculate these susceptibilities which are defined in the Laplace space. So here you have the Laplace transform of the memory kernel. If you put something too much complicated basically Mathematica cannot compute these susceptibilities. So in order to make everything analytical and to get these all the plots that I showed you at the end I take it to be to be exponential. But for example as the case of entropy production at the end where you have this integral to infinity of it doesn't work anymore at least it's at the end that it doesn't work anymore. So the rate of entropy production has this quantity here that is the integrated from zero to infinity of the memory kernel. In that case you can think of some polynomial function with exponential dumping which is absolutely not trivial to calculate the dynamics with arbitrary initial conditions but still you are able to figure out the rate of entropy production in the steady state and without any particular assumption on the memory kernel. So I hope I addressed your question. Ok, I see that there is a lot of there was a lot of interest. You can postpone the discussion to the next coffee break. And I think we should move on in the interest of time to the next talk. Be careful. I hope so. I hope I can.


Dear students, I have to talk about the individual differences among children. These are many types and many kinds. These may be physical differences. These may be emotional differences. These may be language differences. I have to talk with you about the language development, individual differences with reference to language development. These are the characteristics that are different in students and children. These are the consequences of development and adjustments. The unique characteristics and traits that are found in students and children when they pass from one stage to another stage, when they are shifted from one stage to another stage, they are found in them and we get to know about these characteristics. The development rate in them is also different. In all children, the language development or the individual differences rate is different. For example, if we talk about the language, some children learn to speak fast, they learn the words quickly. In a family, there may be individual differences in the children of the family and the children of the house. In the language understanding, they can be different in terms of speaking, their sound, their speech, their words. The reason is that some children who have fast speech, they are fast in the language development and their speech is faster than others and some are slow. And learning is most effective during the individual differences and social and cultural factors are also affected. The relationship between you is with the environment, i.e. in-nate facilities, in-nate capacity, the culture, the language, the influence of the things of parents and family is also affected by their individual differences. Because in-nate capacities have to be polished, they have to be modified for individual differences and then the nurture or environment is a very important role. And environment modifies a certain extent the effects of ferrity. As I just told you, your environment modifies your in-nate facilities, extends them, adds them, makes them better, refines them. And environment provides a direction of the growth and development. Growth and development also provides a direction. And this individually, I told you that individually they have a difference and in some children it is better, it is faster and in some it is less. We are talking about the language and what we inherit from the parents, the children inherit, it definitely has a role, but with the environment and their growth and development, it will have a role and it will be better. And this inheritance provides a potential for individual differences and their growth and development also gives a potential and direction.  And we have already talked about the language and in the language, in some children the acquisition of language is fast and in some it is less. So individual differences, language, development and growth are a very important role in their acquisition.


Hi! Welcome to our Kube County, Utah. We didn't start the fire. My name is Ian Coldwater. And my name is Kat Cosgrove. This talk is a talk about communication breakdowns, a brief history of the way some of them have gone in the Kubernetes project, and how we can prevent them and do better in the future. Once upon a time, way back when you could count the cards on the landscape, the Kubernetes project was smaller and newer, and communication wasn't really a thing that we had to think about as much. A lot of people knew each other. People were more likely to come from similar backgrounds, and assumptions about shared context between maintainers and users were more likely to hold true. Kubernetes is a much bigger community now, though. Many of us don't share the same context anymore, or even the same concerns. Our backgrounds and our background knowledge can vary pretty widely. We don't all have the same understandings anymore, and we can't make the same assumptions about each other. For a long time, the Kubernetes project resisted instituting breaking changes at all to promote growth and backwards compatibility. The first breaking change that was released in Kubernetes was in version 1.16, with the V1, beta 1 API deprecations. At that point, we ran into an issue, one that has affected the project since. At first, for a long time, we didn't really have to think about how to communicate breaking changes to end users, because, frankly, we didn't have any. By the time we did have to think about it, we were a lot bigger than we were when we started out. The population of end users looked different than it had been before, but we hadn't actually adjusted our assumptions to match. We've kept learning this lesson, or at least we've kept needing to. Communicating changes to users without understanding each other's needs and concerns has had a series of unexpected results. We've kept making assumptions, and in turn, messages keep being received in ways we might not have thought they would. This is a talk about mistakes, a talk about community and about growth. We're going to talk about where we've gone wrong, but we're also going to talk about the good that's come of that. Let's go through a brief history together and see what we can learn from communication breakdowns that have happened over time. We can take those lessons into the future with us and do better for each other together. We begin this history with v1, beta 1. We don't hear about v1, beta 1 much anymore, but we do still feel the effects of this today. So, Ian, why don't you tell us what happened? So, it was announced a couple of versions before this would happen that in Kubernetes 1.16, for the first time, there would be breaking changes for users. Some deprecated APIs were going to be removed. Endpoints that had ended in v1, beta 1, some of them were going to be changing to v1, and ones that might have started with extensions before were now going to be starting with things like policy v1 or apps v1. This was going to cause breaking changes for users, especially ones who hard coded these endpoints into their code bases. We've all seen spaghetti code, we've all been there. For some users, this was going to be a big deal. But we didn't really realize that entirely at first. We started by communicating those details, the way that we communicated details about any other change in Kubernetes, in the change logs, and the release notes. We also knew that because this was going to affect users more than your average change, we would put it out in other community resources. There was a TGIK episode made about it in advance of the change. If you've never heard of TGIK, it's great. Highly recommended TGIK.io. And also there was a blog post that was released on the Kubernetes blog to let users know about the deprecations and the changes that were coming up so that they would be able to plan for them. All of this was good. We put it out in a range of community resources to let users know. But not all users got the memo. Some users didn't hear about the change until right before it happened. Or worse, some users started finding out about it after their APIs started breaking. Although we had put out announcements on this range of community resources, not all users were that connected to the community. Or were even aware of the existence of these resources. They didn't really know where to look. Core maintainers had made two assumptions here. First, that these changes wouldn't be a big deal for most users. And second, that most users knew where to find detailed information about upcoming releases. Maintainers were used to thinking of things in a much smaller context. For a lot of Kubernetes history up until this point, we were our own users. So we really did know what most of the users were doing and what they wanted and what they knew. When Kubernetes started seeing widespread adoption, nobody stopped to ask, hey, who are our users now? And as it turned out, the population of end users by then looked different than it used to. The newer population was larger. They had more varied backgrounds and more varied levels of background knowledge. And often they were more disconnected. They weren't plugged into the community, maybe didn't know where to find those community resources. We don't all know each other anymore. And with greater, more rapid adoption, that becomes more and more the case. And for that matter, our users may not all know us anymore. If we had talked to end users more to understand their use cases and concerns, we might have anticipated better in advance how these changes might have been received. As it turns out, more users had been hard coding their endpoints than I think a lot of maintainers had originally realized. And a lot of users got kind of freaked out by this. A lot of users didn't want to update in order to avoid these breaking changes. And the fact that a lot of users were really hesitant to update for breaking changes caused ripple effects on the project that continue today. Officially, Kubernetes has never had a long-term stable version. But functionally, in some ways, by now, it's kind of played out that way. People are still running 1.15 in the wild, which is way out of patch cycle for us. We support n-3. This not only has security considerations, an issue near and dear to my heart as Kubernetes 6 security co-chair, it has had effects on the decisions made by public clouds and managed Kubernetes distributions. In turn, this affects our decisions as an upstream project. So, okay. This wasn't really big and flashy and dramatic. You probably didn't hear about it much, but it does continue to affect us. That was the first breaking change and maybe the first communication breakdown involving communicating a breaking change. We've had others since. One you may have heard about is Dockershim. So, an announcement was made that in version 1.20, a deprecation warning would be in place for Dockershim and that in version 1.22, support for it would be removed entirely. This deprecation had been discussed within the Kubernetes project for quite some time, but that news hadn't really made it out to end users so much. And while this change wouldn't affect all users, it would affect some cluster administrators pretty heavily. So, having learned lessons from what happened with communication around 1.0.1, we wanted to make sure that the change that could affect users would be known to those users early so they could have enough lead time to plan around it. And we wanted to make sure that it would happen where users could see it. Now, if you aren't aware of what the Dockershim is, which would not be surprising considering the way this story plays out, here's a little bit of context for you. When you're using Kubernetes, you need to specify a container runtime. In a lot of cases, people just go with Docker as the runtime because it's familiar and that's what they use in development. On the surface, that seems fine, but Docker isn't actually just one thing. It's a whole tech stack. And inside of the Docker stack is a container runtime called containerD. That's what Kubernetes needs to get at when you select the entirety of Docker as your runtime. But unfortunately, Kubernetes can't just do that. It requires a software shim because Docker itself, the whole stack, isn't compliant with Kubernetes container runtime interface. This is an entirely separate thing that people have to maintain and it's been a pain point for quite a while. So it was decided that support for the Docker shim would be deprecated, forcing people to use containerD or cryo or another compatible runtime directly instead. This change is ultimately good for the community and some people thought it wouldn't be a big deal. It did, in fact, turn out to be a pretty big deal, though. One thing that a lot of us really misunderstood as core maintainers around this was the level of understanding of a lot of end users. If all of the things that Kat just said sounds like deep technical arcana to you, that's understandable. It sounds like that to a lot of people. A lot of people don't actually know the difference between a Docker shim and a Docker file or, for that matter, between Docker and Kubernetes. There's a lot of confusion around this stuff. And I think a lot of us might have kind of overestimated how much understanding there would be of these finer details. And what happened there when we announced this to end users, without understanding, their levels of understanding in a lot of cases, was there was a lot of panic. End users were confused and end users were scared. That was not quite what we were going for. So, okay, but let's go back a little bit. What happened here? The person who originally put in the deprecation PR for Docker shim announced on Twitter one morning that that was going to happen. And he tweeted out that Docker was going to be deprecated in Kubernetes. He did not mention Docker shim by name. Probably I would guess assuming that people would know what he meant. He asked for that tweet to be amplified. And first thing in the morning before coffee, I got bright ideas and I thought I would come help. Somebody with a platform on Twitter, I could amplify it. I would get attention on it. Users would see it and they could make a plan. So Ralph Wiggum style, I helping. I went and tweeted this with a kind of intentionally click baby headline, which said this isn't going to affect all users, but it is going to affect some. Pay attention to this. If it does affect you, all caps, it will break your clusters. And I meant well. I wanted to get eyes on it. I wanted users to see it. It was asked to be amplified. I amplified it. I did mean well. But it maybe didn't quite go the way that I thought it would. I did this well intentionally and then I had to go to work because I had started a new job a couple of days before and I needed to go on board. But before I went to work, I had started getting questions from end users who were pretty confused about what was going on here. Some of them maybe sounded kind of scared. And I knew that I wasn't going to be able to answer their questions immediately because I had to go. And so I went onto the CNCF ambassadors channel to ask if some ambassadors could come help feel these questions from end users since I had to go for a while. I left for work hoping for the best. And then things got weird. So Ian's at work. And a few people are clearly confused. I've got some free time. It's early in the morning for me. It's like 6 a.m. Why not step in and answer some questions on Twitter for a bit while I drink my coffee, right? Well, after a little while, I noticed that people are generally asking the same questions. So I think to myself, aha, I will write a Twitter thread. It will be helpful and people will love it and I will save myself time. Problem solved. Chef's kiss. Literally none of that would turn out to be true. I thumbed out like a 13 tweet thread explaining in extremely simplified terms what the Docker shim is, why it was being deprecated and what that meant for users. And at first it was helpful and it was saving me time. But then it got retweeted again and again and again until suddenly it's huge. And there are questions from developers who know that their company uses Kubernetes, but they don't touch it themselves. And these people are in a panic. Answering questions and reassuring developers becomes my full-time job for the next 36 hours while I simultaneously write a blog post at FAQ with a few other maintainers explaining the situation more detailed to try to quell everyone's fears. I got off work a few hours later and then realized the extent of the disaster I had wrought. And users were confused and they were scared and they were panicking. Docker was being deprecated. Does that mean they couldn't develop with Docker files anymore? What was going on here? They were freaking out. Everybody was having to scramble to deal with this. And I felt terrible. I meant, well, I wanted to be helpful. I figured I would, you know, try to amplify this to get attention on it so that end users could see it and plan around it. But I wasn't really very thoughtful about the way that I put that. It certainly did get attention in the way that it would if I had shouted fire in a crowded theater. But as these situations do, that got pretty out of control and that wasn't what I meant to do at all. I felt so bad. I felt terrible for scaring end users. I felt terrible for putting work on my friends. I apologized to everybody and everybody was really nice about it. But I felt awful. I felt like it was my fault. It wasn't all my fault. But I really messed up and I messed things up for other people. I didn't want to do that to anyone. I don't think any of us did. Ian and I definitely both made mistakes communicating here. I wanted to answer a few people's questions and I wanted to save myself some time while doing it. But I forgot that most developers actually don't touch Kubernetes. They just know that they use Docker in development and Kubernetes is used somewhere else at their company. So the tweets made them think that Docker was dead and needed to be replaced as a whole. Ian didn't expect their tweet to set the house on fire like that. And then they couldn't deal with it while they were at work. Neither of us expected our tweets to get anywhere near as much attention as they did. Those failures caused people to panic unnecessarily. The intent of the Docker shindeprecation announcement, as it originally occurred, was good. We wanted to avoid the problems from V1, by giving users lots of notice that a change was occurring. So they could plan around it. And we wanted to make sure they would see it. We did achieve that. But we missed the mark in some other key ways. And from there, we learned that we actually have to have a better understanding of what other people's understandings are. We have to talk to others. We have to understand. Because we don't actually know what other people know. And for that matter, we don't know what we don't know. But before we wrap up Docker shim, we should mention the cold watering. It's fun, I promise. A couple of weeks before the Docker shim deprecation took over, I had cosplayed as Ian for a panel at KubeCon North America. It was very funny at the time, but it didn't really go anywhere. However, for some reason, the two of us being involved in Twitter drama together, we ignited that. And the result was several days of people cosplaying me cosplaying Ian. There were wigs on everything from carps to Pokemon. You name it. Like literally hundreds of accounts changed their avatars to match. It was surreal. But it was a welcome distraction from the huge amount of stress we'd experienced while we were putting out the Docker shim fires. I really appreciated that moment of wholesome silliness. I feel like the Internet needs more of that. And that moment of levity was nice. But we as a project still had a lot of work to do coming out of that. So collectively, we thought about how we could improve, again, how could we avoid a situation like this happening next time? We didn't need to just give a lot of lead time and shout things from the rooftops. We needed to think about what we were shouting from the rooftops and how those messages would be received. We needed to put more thought into our communications when we were communicating breaking changes to avoid causing panic for end users. So, inspired by some of the lessons learned out of the Docker shim deprecation, as well as previous incidents surrounding communicating changes to end users, going maybe not quite the way that we had originally expected, the community got together to figure out what we could do better in the future. And from there, we got the contributor comms committee. The contributor comms committee was a committee that was going to get together to try to figure out how to craft messaging to users around changes and deprecations so that users could get the information that they needed without causing panic or trouble for anybody. This was a great idea and an important effort. And maybe not an entirely perfect one. It plays a part in the next communication breakdown we're going to talk about, which is, let's talk about the pod security policy deprecation and how some of the communication around that has gone. You might not have heard about this entirely and you might not have heard about some of it because actually it ended up going well. So, pod security policies. What's up with this? What happened there? Pod security policies are a very old feature in Kubernetes. They've been around for a long time. They're really important. They allow users to set security controls on their pods and while they're important, they've also had problems for years. They have usability problems. Users have found them confusing. And they've had problems from a maintainer perspective. As we've found out more about what isn't working for users in them, we've also found out that we can't actually make meaningful changes to fix those problems without breaking the API. This is problematic and we've known it was problematic. This has been a matter of discussion and debate within security corners of the project for years. We all knew that PSPs had to go, but we couldn't really agree on what to replace them with. And so there was a lot of debate, but not a lot of progress made on it for a long time. In the meantime, because PSPs had been around for so long and were so problematic, it was decided that they were going to have to be deprecated. They couldn't stay forever. However, people started talking about that before there was actually a plan.  But for a while, there was kind of a question mark. They were going to go. We didn't know what we were going to replace them with. What would this mean for users? Contributor comms got together and figured that this was a recipe for a scenario that might cause confusion and panic for end users. And fair enough, something that was really important to them that affected the security of their clusters that affected a lot of users was going to be deprecated. And we didn't have a plan to replace it. Oh, no. So contributor comms figured that they would get together and get in front of the narrative before people started talking about this more publicly and causing panic for users. And in order to get in front of the narrative, contributor comms figured that they were going to get together and write a blog post. They talked amongst themselves, they figured out what was going to be in it, and they wrote a draft post talking about the fact that this was going to be happening in an effort to try to get information out to users so that they would know what was going on. Now, this was well-intentioned, but it fell down a little bit because contributor comms were talking amongst themselves about what was going on. They wanted to get that out quickly in the interest of speed. And in the interest of speed, they decided to do that themselves. But they didn't actually talk to people who were closer to the process. And so the information that they were going to bring to users was outdated. And actually, I would argue a little bit scarier than what was actually going on. Because on our end, SIGS off in security, we actually didn't know that that was happening over by contributor comms. But what we were doing was actually coming to a lot of progress and pretty good conclusions about what was going to come next to replace pod security policy. We were feeling really optimistic about this. And that was going great on our end. We had no idea that was going on over there. And they didn't actually really know what was going on on our end because they didn't ask us. So the post that was going to go out had outdated information about how they're not really being a replacement plan yet. While on our end, we were making one. Eventually, we heard that this was happening. And we scrambled amongst ourselves to try to figure out what to do. We knew it was important to get communications about this out to users. But we were about to come to a conclusion that we thought was pretty good. So we put a hold on the blog post, talked amongst ourselves, looked at the blog post draft. It needed some work. It had outdated info in it that we thought might actually freak users out more. And in talking amongst ourselves, we actually ended up making the same mistake that contributor comms did. We figured we would rewrite the blog post to better reflect current events. But we didn't talk contributor comms that we were doing that. And so contributor comms, very fairly, were like, what is happening here? This was supposed to be out weeks ago. What are you doing? On our end, we could have communicated better with them too. So what we learned from this, we can learn that it's really important for people to talk to the people who are closer to the process, whether it's closer to the process of making that change or whether it's closer to the process of communicating out to users about that changed. As it turns out, this actually turned out pretty well. Eventually, we did rewrite a new post to better reflect current events. And we got it out to contributor comms who liked it. It was maybe a little slower than we thought it would have been. But it turned out well. Information that we ended up putting out to users was clearer and more actionable and did actually better empower them to be able to make plans in the future, as PSPs did get advocated. So what we can learn, everybody needs to talk to each other more. Because everybody messed this up a little bit. But also, everyone learned. We're all still friends. It all turned out okay. And I think the change, ultimately, although a little slower, ended up being communicated better. Speed isn't really the only factor at play. So Dr. Shim taught us that we needed to talk to our community. But this showed us that we forgot to talk to one another. Remember, we're used to maintainers being a really small community. And it just is not true anymore. Kubernetes is big now. A lot of maintainers don't know each other, much less know what each other is thinking. Some of us have been here since the beginning, but some of us are pretty new. Like me. Hi. A whole lot of us are new. This incident reminded us of that fact. And hopefully this time we won't forget it. Because we're well beyond the point of being able to assume that everyone has the same context. And we narrowly avoided disaster here. If we had talked to the relevant SIGs before getting to work, we might have saved ourselves a lot of time in grief. We did avoid it, though, and that's important. Because we learned from the last two disasters. We saw the problem and we course corrected before the ship hit the iceberg. Instead, we just kind of clipped it. There was some damage, but it's just scratched paint. And if we learn from this one too, we get closer to being able to just sail. And we learn a little more every time. I want to point that out and keep pointing it out, because it's true. In the interest of continuous improvement in the grand DevOps tradition of learning from incidents and failures so we can do better next time, we're doing that. We're doing it right now. And that's awesome. We're doing it together. We've gone through a brief history here of some communication breakdowns between maintainers and users, maintainers and maintainers, about how to communicate changes. And we're hoping that we can take these lessons and learn how to do that better in the future. So how can we do that? How can we take the lessons that we've learned from this to improve going forward? We have some ideas. One, we need to talk to each other. And then we say each other, we mean all of us. Fellow maintainers need to talk to each other. People need to talk and work together across six. We need to talk to our end users. We need to talk to developers if we're administrators or maybe the other way around. Really, the whole community needs to be understanding each other's perspectives and talking together. This is especially the case for understanding the perspectives of the people who are most affected, which could be any number of people, depending on what we're talking about. But it's especially important to hear from and understand where they're coming from. We need to be careful of what assumptions we make. Other people know things that we don't know. And we have no way of knowing what that is unless we ask them. And we don't always know what we don't know. Other people won't always share our context, our understanding, our knowledge, or our concerns.  Know that we're going to screw this up again, but that that's okay. This is unavoidable because we're not mind readers. These kinds of mistakes, they're normal. None of the things we've talked about today are a single person's fault or even really all that unexpected. This is a totally natural result of a community growing very quickly, and nobody should leave this talk feeling bad. Ultimately, we all want the same thing. We want to build better tools for our community and minimize negative impact. So let's learn to recognize communication breakdowns earlier before they become disastrous. We're demonstrably getting better at this, actually. The series of events from V1, beta one to Docker shim to PSP show us that we're learning and we're growing, and you all deserve high fives for doing that. If we look around at the Kubernetes community, at least metaphorically in this virtual setting, we can see how amazing this community is. We have built amazing things together. We have built this amazing community together, and that's not always going to go entirely smoothly. Mistakes do happen, but we can make them less likely to occur and less destructive when they do occur. It just takes sometimes taking a moment to think about where other people are coming from and to think about how we're communicating to people in relation to that. We have built so many amazing things together. We're going to continue to, and we believe that if we work better together, we can do better together and we can build a stronger community and a better platform. I believe in us. We're already doing better at this. We've made mistakes and we're learning from them. We'll make more. We'll continue to learn. I believe that we'll be able to continue to do better as a community. It feels really important to us to talk about these mistakes so that we can learn from them going forward, but I think we can. I think we already have, and I think we will. We got this. I believe in us. Thank you so much for coming. I'm Kat Cosgrove, and I'm Ian Coldwater, and thank you for coming to our KubeCon Talk. Bye.


and I could have sold these individually but when I looked on the packaging it said to do a king size it required seven packs I had seven packs so I'm like I'm going to put seven packs together and put king in the title and these sold really quickly for hey fellow buddies thanks for watching dollars for online little pony amazing right all right let's get started hey fellow buddies thanks for watching all right in this video I'm going to talk to you about 22 Bolo items items to be on the lookout for items that I bought low and sold for big money I'm going to tell you where I got it what I paid for it and what it sold for now I also have a whole series that I do on my bread and butter Bolo's I like those too but these are my big money so let's get started all right so the first item I sold is this vintage mopkins full body puppet pink fur sunglasses hat this guy is fantastic picked him up at a garage sale for five dollars and sold him for a best offer of 48 dollars and 88 cents plus shipping I will say that I source cheap so as you're going to see throughout this video I pick items up really really cheap so let me know in the comments how do you source do you spend a lot of money on your items or do you feel like you source cheap all right the next item I sold is a huge lot of boys mini and action figures vehicles cars accessories and toys I just call this a toy box these are items that I was listing and I kind of got lazy I love parting stuff out like this I did not look up every single item I just threw these in a bundle now could this be a reseller lot quite possibly am I selling it as a reseller lot no I'm just selling it as a toy box so a parent may want to grab one of these for their kids just be like here you go and then their kid opens it and they just have fun for what a day two days three days who knows how long they might not like anything they might love something who knows but it's just kind of like when we buy mystery boxes it's super fun so it's like a mystery box for a child now could a reseller buy it and potentially make some money absolutely it depends you have to look at the pictures and see if there's anything like use google lens look things up I don't know I just sometimes I get to the point where I'm like I just can't do it and I'll create a toy box so this one's over a best offer of $50 and the buyer paid shipping on this this here is a fisher price puff a lump plush pony zebra from 1991 I have sold this before so I have been lucky enough to find this item two times since I have started reselling super excited about it and I got this at a garage sale for $1 took a best offer of $75 plus shipping puff a lump if you see a fisher price puff a lump this is the tag you can't even tell what it is I know that it's a puff a lump because I've sold it before but the tag is toast on this because it's just been it's been played with it's a pre-owned item so definitely be on the lookout for any puff a lump items this zebra horse whatever it is goes for a little more money so definitely look for that one all right I don't know if you guys remember I did a video where I was at the Goodwill Benz outlet and I picked up all of these and it's hard to see how big these are but these are actually four inches each so they're pretty big and I was at the Goodwill Benz and I was just throwing them in my cart all of them and I went up to the manager and I said hey look I can't buy these by weight it's gonna be way too much money there were 134 pieces and she gave me one price for all of them I think I cannot remember I think it's in the video how much it was but it was a really good deal this what I do it again I don't know because it took a little while to sell and it was kind of a pain to package and when I was listing them I was outside and it actually started raining so I had to wipe them down and it just ended up being more work than I expected but I did make a great profit I ended up selling these for 81 dollars and 25 cents plus shipping and again I believe this was in a video that a challenge video that I did with Dad Planet so look for that it was like maybe a scavenger hunt or something like that this one here is a Barbie Snow White in the Seven Doors it's a signature collection item I picked this up in a mystery box from Auctions for You it was a toy box and I can't remember if it was $100 box or $150 box but I do have the unboxing on this channel that will give you all of that information and show you all of the items that I got in that box Auctions for You is a YouTube channel that sells inventory to resellers definitely check her out Donna Telebotolino is also a YouTube channel that I buy from you guys if you've been here a while you hear me talk about them all the time because I buy from them and you hear about them in my what solds so definitely a great place to source I will link them down below I ended up selling this for $39 plus shipping this here this here this came from an estate buyout let me explain it a little better it was a garage sale and I went to the garage sale and I was looking in the garage and I was making piles because it was amazing oh my goodness and all of these items are going to be coming to whatnot almost all of them there's a few things that I pulled out to make my money back and make a little extra and then I just want to blow out all the other craft items on what not there is some incredible items but I did pull out this brooch because it was signed but this brooch was stuck to a journal and I looked at it and I'm like well that looks really special but you can see right here it is chipped up here on the corner so I did not get as much as I would have had the item been perfect I did end up selling this for a best offer of $50 and I sold it they were all in with tax and shipping for $59.83 so anyway I'm at this garage sale estate sale whatever it is and I'm making a pile and they've got all of these black trash bags in the middle of the garage floor and I'm like what's going on with those and they're like oh that stuff's going to the trash and I'm like is it trash or is it what you think is trash and they're like well there's probably some good stuff in there but it's just stuff that we we can't we just want to get rid of it and I'm like can I buy the bags so I bought all the bags I think I paid a dollar each for them and I found some amazing stuff I have no idea why they thought that it was throw away I think a lot of times people when they're cleaning out estates they just don't know the value of things and they just want it gone so the next thing that happened after that was they it was either before or after that I don't know which but they're like do you want to go to the basement and I'm like do I want to go to the basement yes take me to the basement and there's going to be a full video on everything that I purchased from this sale I'm going to release it before I do the what not show for you guys to just see all the incredible amazing items I got to part it out and put it all on eBay and McCurry and Poshmark it would take me years it is so much stuff so I'm going to do bundles probably and small lots over on what not if you guys are not following me on what not there is a link down below it is a referral link you will get $15 to shop if you join with that link if you don't join with that link if you're already joined you can still click on it and it will take you over to Bolo buddies and you can follow me or you can just look me up on what not with Bolo buddies if you want to sell on what not I will tell you I have done five six shows now and I absolutely love it the one thing that caught me off guard is how much time it takes from start to finish to complete the task it's a lot of shipping and it's a lot of prep and then you're on four or five times you know when you're live but oh my goodness it is so fun and the time just flies while you're live it is super super fun so if you want to sell on what not I have another referral link down below if you click on that link it will give you a form to fill out to become a seller and it will say that I referred you and from what I understand you do are I shouldn't say you do you are more likely to get accepted quicker I used a referral link and I got accepted very quickly but I also have a social media following so I don't know if I had anything to do with that or not but I know I've had two or three people use my link and they were accepted right away and they do not have a social media following so definitely keep that in mind those links are down below but look at this broach even broken right here's the chip here's a close-up and it's still a beautiful piece but it did have a chip I was so disappointed when I saw that okay so let me tell you a funny story about this so I bought these pencils at um in a state I think I had about a dollar in them um I wasn't sure if they were going to be big money or not I looked them up now somebody bought them from me and then they messaged me and wanted to cancel the order because they found them on amazon cheaper and I'm like can you show me a photo will they send me a photo of a different item I'm like that's not the same item um you cannot compare price to price these are new old stock that there's just no comparison so anyway no problem I canceled the order I relisted it and I took a best offer of a hundred and nineteen dollars on these and the buyer paid shipping so when somebody says they found it on another website cheaper it doesn't necessarily mean that they're correct so make sure you do your homework but I just told them that's fine I'll cancel the order no big deal the right buyer will come along this also came from an estate clean out they are Lancaster stamped quilt blocks and I could have sold these individually but when I looked on the packaging it said to do a king size it required seven packs I had seven packs so I'm like I'm going to put seven packs together and put king in the title and these sold really quickly for a hundred and fifteen dollars plus shipping the next item it came from that same estate at this estate I got tons and tons of crafters items basically I loaded my car I paid them one price for everything so the breakdown I don't know exactly what I paid per item but it wasn't much this is a different estate sale from the crafters estate sale so this is a Bucilla jiffy cross stitch quilt Yorktown double size I don't know what it is but look how old it is and it is super super cool I ended up selling this for a best offer of seventy dollars plus shipping the next item is this souvenir cheese head and this is for the Green Bay Packers it's from 1996 and I sold this for forty dollars I did do local pickup on this somebody reached out to me and said that they needed it for like the next day or whatever so I met them at a public place and they bought this and I paid fifty cents for this at a garage sale these right here are so cute and I had no idea that they were going to do so well when I picked them up I got them at a garage sale for fifty cents they were twenty five cents each they say inky dinkies and they are so cute they're eastern I'm sorry North American bear company and they're great for Easter and I called them twins which is a tip that I got from Donna Telebotolino she said put twins in the title so that's what I did so fifty cents investment sold these for fifty dollars plus shipping and let me tell you they are just they're itty bitty they're teeny and I can't believe I don't have a tape measure but you can see them in my hand right here they are tiny here's another puff a lump this one's from 1993 it's a lion I got this at a garage sale for one dollar took a best offer of fifty dollars plus shipping here is the tag you can see this one a little better it says Fisher price um puff a lump right there it is written on the tag so these are just an incredible bow low I think it says it um right here on this tag also so fifty dollars on that one buyer paid shipping this next item was actually a pickup from my husband I had told him that I was doing well with folk art Santas and he brought this guy home I can't remember if he already had it and I told him and he brought it in and showed me or if I told him and then he found it but either way pretty exciting that he found this item it was marked on the bottom like this and he sold this for sixty five dollars plus shipping I'm not sure what he paid for it he goes to a lot of estate sales and flea markets so um but I'm guessing he didn't pay much maybe five bucks mighty beans slammer time racetrack two exclusive beans inside and it is an open box so it is new open box uh I believe oh I can't remember where I got this and I didn't write it down I don't know if it was a garage sale or if it was a thrift store or even a mystery box not sure sold it for forty eight dollars plus shipping and this thing flew out of my store this is a heli handsome sweater men's xxl this one was long tail but this is a good brand at least it was when I was searching comps but that was like probably over a year ago so um sold this one for thirty eight dollars and ninety nine cents plus shipping this is a vintage Tasmanian devil taz mug from nineteen eighty nine and it was featured in the national lampoon christmas vacation movie okay you guys ready for this story uh this was sitting in my money pile so I know you guys know I showed a before and after picture of my money pile and I put everything into totes and I organized that I have a video on it but I found this item when I was organizing and I remembered doing a video on it and I'm like oh my goodness this is just sitting in here with no padding no bubble wrap I had picked it up at a garage sale had no idea at the time that it was a big money bolo and I knew when I saw it that it was so I listed it right away I want to say I paid like a buck for it at a garage sale sold it for a hundred and fifteen dollars plus shipping the next item are these two two hundred and sixty go go crazy bones plastic figures by magic box toys I got these at a garage sale for five bucks they are incredible they're these little toys I used google lens to figure out what they were and uh yeah I I did a video and I actually put the full oh I thought I linked it down below I did not link it um over on my reseller testing bolo products I did do a video and I showed each item individually I think I was going to put it in the description and I must have forgotten but this is what they have on the back so definitely be on the lookout for these I sold these for 200 dollars the buyer was all in for 224 56 and that was with tax and shipping these are vintage mcdonald's happy meal toys transformers changeables food lot of nine I got these at the goodwill bins I actually have a video it's a goodwill bins video that says like fighting over these definitely go check that out dad planet was there at the same time we were both at the same bin he was looking for mcdonald's toys and I was looking for mcdonald's toys I grabbed these he grabbed something else so go check out that video to see what bolo he found and let me know if you have ever found these out in the wild I sold these for 40 and 30 cents plus shipping definitely go sub up dad planet he has an awesome youtube reseller channel this one right here is a vintage antique mink head girls muff and headband hat ties see details these are a little different um I saw it at a garage sale I picked it up for 10 bucks I just thought it was different I know that people have different feelings about these types of things which is understandable it is a little bit different um but I sold this for 50 dollars and the buyer paid shipping so I don't know kind of weird I not my thing but it was sitting at a garage sale so I picked it up the next item is awesome this is in another language and I'm like can I sell this and I got this for one dollar at a garage sale and I sold it for 74 dollars and 40 cents plus shipping it is a labor labor nith at lab y r i n t h it's from 1991 it's in german how cool is that and I sold it for full asking price plus shipping this next item is a vintage nativity set hong kong plastic it's s s and then it's crusage k r e s g e company in the original box how cool is this I did take it out to show you guys it is incredible I got this out of a thrift store mystery box and I sold this for 46 dollars and 50 cents plus shipping and the buyer was all in for 59 16 the next item is this mcdonald's ornament which also came out of a thrift store mystery box a lot of times I get a lot of junk in those thrift store mystery boxes but sometimes there are some home runs but if you want to see more of those videos they are over on my sourcing with bolo buddies channel and then I've also done some reseller vlogs where I'm trying to incorporate them into maybe a reseller vlog style and what sold together so I recently did one of those over here also so there was this mcdonald's ornament in this big mac ornament and I sold the two of them to the same person for a hundred dollars the buyer was all in for a hundred and twenty seven dollars and seventy six cents all right you guys there were some big money bolos I think 22 of them thank you for being here thank you for watching if you're new for let's try that again if you're new here tell me how you found the channel and if you haven't subscribed hit that subscribe button thanks so much and thanks for watching


Nothing's better, nothing, than homemade. I guarantee you, if you try it, you will love it. Welcome to Colored Valley Cooks, and today I am making a homemade banana pudding. And I do banana pudding shortcut method in the microwave. It makes a beautiful pudding. It's still homemade, the same ingredients, and you don't have to worry about scorching on the stove. We're going to start with our eggs first.  These are at room temperature, so they're a little harder to deal with. And four egg yellows. Our yolks are in our bowl. Okay, we're going to put in two cups of milk, a cup of sugar, a cup of self-rising flour. Simple as that. I'll add the butter and vanilla later. This is just a simple recipe. I'm not making a real big batch. Sometimes I double it if I'm making something for a lot of people. We're going to put this in the microwave. We're going to microwave it three minutes, and then we're going to take it out and whisk it really well. While that's microwaving, we're going to start our meringue. This is the good part about using the microwave. You get to do your meringue at the same time. You're going to put your egg whites in the mixer. You're going to turn it on high. It's going to be loud, so I'm going to scrape it down. Make sure you beat this for a while so that your sugar melts good. The problem with your meringue weeping is because your sugar is not melting well, or it's too granulated. What you should do if you want to make a beautiful meringue, if you're not going to eat it immediately, use powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar, and you will have a much better stand-up meringue that will not weep. Our flour pop off the counter. Make our beautiful meringue all in the three minutes that it took. We're putting for the first three minutes. Now we may have to fluff that up again in a minute. We're going to mix it really well with a whisk. Make sure you use a whisk. Make sure you get to the bottom. If you don't, your pudding is going to be lumpy. But sometimes it only takes five. What we're going to do while we're waiting on that is we're going to slice our bananas real quick. Slice them down in your pudding if you want to. You can't just go ahead and peel them. It's easier to slice them into the pudding. We're just going to cut out the bad places. Because I've got some really ripe bananas. So don't use the bad brown parts. I've got a whole bag of them for $1.19 at Engels. I've already made banana muffins. Now I'm making banana pudding. I really ought to do a banana cake layer. My banana cake layer recipe is so good. You can freeze it. Since we've already had all this banana stuff. Or you can make banana bread and freeze it. We've got those ready. We've opened up a whole bag of vanilla wafers. I do use the vanilla wafer brand. I like it. Now what we're going to do is whisk it well. Five minutes in the microwave total. Now we're going to add some butter. Add some vanilla teaspoon. Or two. This is really thick. And it's really too thick. Because when you make banana pudding. If you get it too thick. It's immediately tonight right after supper. So it's still going to be kind of warm when we eat it. You want it to be about like this. So that when you pick it up. It just kind of flows into the thing. Now we're going to put a little bit of the pudding in the bottom. Of our dish. We're going to slice up these bananas really really thin. And you're just going to keep moving around the pan as you go. So that they get dropped in there evenly. And the thinner you slice them. The better your pudding is going to taste. Slice this in half and just show y'all. This is an option. For those of y'all that just get grossed out by bananas. You can take, this is a Good Lord Zester type thing. I don't even know what it's called. It's a peppered chef. But it's got teeth on it. And it's a circle. And it's the perfect size to take a banana. And pull out the seeds. Okay. If you get grossed out by bananas. My Granny Benefield did. My colored valley. Granny Benefield wanted me to do this. Because she couldn't stand for the bananas to turn brown. So you can actually pull out the bottom like that. If you want to. If you run into a bad spot. Just don't use it. Cut it off into the trash. Now I like to get a pretty good layer of banana. And then once I've got a pretty good layer of banana all over the pudding.  And to those who want to know if you can use Splenda. Make this recipe. Don't use the baking kind. But remember. That it's still going to be really high. On the calorie level. Diabetic because of the vanilla wafers.  Etc. Etc. Now we're going to take the rest of our pudding. And pour it over the top. Gonna take a spatula. Spread it around good. Now when you make meringue. You got to make sure and cook it at least 20 minutes. Because it is raw eggs. So spread your meringue on the top. Make sure you get it on the edge. It's good. If you want higher meringue. If you want it to be real fancy and pretty. Just use more egg whites. Now I'm going to show you how to decorate it up. With a little spatula. Just use one of these tiny spatulas. I'll put a link on there. And just kind of curl it. Y'all can do this. Right here if you want to. Whatever you want to do it. I kind of like to curl it. Now I take the rest of my cookies. And put around the edges. Now you can't let them stick way up. If you do they'll burn on the top. So put them down in there pretty good. Put them in my bag. In my vanilla wafer bag. And there's always some crumbles. And I take them. And I sprinkle them on the top just to make it pretty. I bake this at 350 for 20 minutes until it's golden brown. That said. 50 degrees. 20 minutes. Do not under cook it because of the raw eggs. Now we're going to dip into this. Get a bite. So you want this to be soft. And juicy. You don't want it to be all dry. And it'll get dry if you don't put it up a little bit. Nothing's better. Than homemade banana pudding. If you make it in the microwave it's fast. Never scorches. Never burns. Always beautiful. Always glossy. Creamy. Gorgeous. Just put that butter in there afterwards. Gives it even more of a shine. And don't forget the dash of salt because it adds a lot to it. And thanks for watching Colored Valley Cooks Where We Cook Like Mama did.


I'm not trying to say anything, but y'all need to pinpoint this all on females because males are the exact same way. We don't need to pinpoint this all on females. We don't need to pinpoint this all on females. Oh, you want the perfect measurements, how this stuff like that. But a bucket hat. But I feel like just because those are the females we like on Instagram, isn't that what we want? We don't need to pinpoint this all on females. Thank you very much.