It's wonderful to be talking with Kunal here today. Kunal is, of course, India's first generation e-commerce entrepreneur and has done some wonderful things at Snapdeal. But also probably little known is that he's also a very big venture capitalist with Titan Capital. They've made several investments in very promising startups and that's where we're going to talk to today about Kunal, about what he thinks about the Indian startup ecosystem. I mean Kunal, you started probably at a time when you were building the first startup ecosystem in India, the first level of startup ecosystem in India, where thinking of becoming a billion dollar organization or a large organization was a dream that was wanting to be achieved. But today, it's something that every startup looks forward to, plus a lot more. So becoming a unicorn will become almost like an easy thing now versus what it used to be back in 2010 or 2011. So how do you think this, particularly in the last six or seven years, how do you think the startup ecosystem has changed in the country? And what kind of startups are you betting high on? Yeah, thanks, Ritu and thanks to the IIT Bombay team for having me. You're absolutely right that we seem to be seeing a lot more unicorns being coming out of India now. But I must say that I have a slightly different view in terms of whether it's become an easy thing. It is not. I asked Kunal's who hit that milestone and you will hear of many, many stories of blood sweat and tears and asked the many entrepreneurs who want to get there and they have their own stories of blood sweat and tears. So it's not easy getting there. But I think entrepreneurship is obviously much more than just getting to a $1 million valuation. It's about creating impact. It's about creating jobs. It's about creating a better world and creating products and services that touch the lives of millions of people. Over the last, maybe I would say 10 years or so that India's not only e-commerce, but overall startup ecosystem has gone through a tectonic phase. I remember when we started over 10 years ago, startup word was not part of the dictionary. You essentially had a good job or you were a struggler and I think generally folks who were doing startups as we call them now were considered to be people who didn't have the ability to get a good job. And so there was a bit of an adverse election attached to doing a startup 10 years ago. Lot has changed now obviously, thanks to the government, thanks to the bureaucracy, thanks to industrial groups in the country, thanks to the VC ecosystem, thanks to the domestic investor ecosystem in India and obviously, thanks to the thousands and thousands of entrepreneurs who have decided to give up jobs and or not take up jobs after college and start companies. As a result now, I don't think there is any get-together social gathering party anywhere in the country where someone's not talking about startups. How much our country has transformed over the last decade when it comes to startups. Startups are now seen as the solution to building a great country. They're no longer seen as these few 20-somethings or 30-somethings year olds are going and building something on the side that nobody else understands. The solutions that startups are coming up with in India are touching lives of many of us every day and I think that is the true power of India's startup ecosystem. So I'm obviously passionate participant and proponent of the startup ecosystem and I think I'm so optimistic about the next decade was for it. Sure and since we're talking to the IIT students here in Mumbai for the E-Summit 21, today of course a lot of them would be looking to do startups but also some of them would be looking to join jobs and to get professional careers. So what are the new age skills do you think every IIT graduate should have other than what of course they are being taught in college which is like almost like compulsory it's a must to have today and that could of course take them far and probably you know have them sort of have some career set in the next 10 years because things are changing so dynamically around us as it is. Yeah I think I feel that the skills that are needed to do a job well will get picked up either in college or will get picked up through tribal knowledge of talking to friends or reading stuff up or even while being at a job. I feel that the skills that really do matter however if you want to build a large high impact company from scratch are people's skills. That is what is probably the single biggest skill that is often not taught in colleges particularly technical colleges oftentimes but those are the skills that are usually the most important. The ability to invigorate, the ability to inspire a team of one to a team of maybe 10,000 one day to you know define a vision for them and have them believe in that vision to be able to stand in front of hundreds and hundreds of people of your colleagues of your employees and inspire them to achieve great things especially if things are not going to well. I think those are the skills that if you would have asked me what are the new eight skills I would say those are the most important skills when one needs to lead a startup into a large company. The subject matter expertise can be learned can be taught can be hired also but what really makes a big difference is the ability to lead people, the ability to lead people higher and lead people who are going to be oftentimes smarter than you are and that's probably the single biggest skill that is needed to build successful company. Sure people skills that is so for all the students out there who are listening to this one you know E-commerce has changed so much particularly during this pandemic you know I see new streams of e-commerce and social commerce and this hyperlocal e-commerce and so many WhatsApp e-commerce which was recently being talked about so how do you think e-commerce has changed but particularly what has the pandemic done for it I mean you know has it given it the spurt which otherwise probably would have taken a few more years to happen? Yeah I think there has been a spurt but I feel the underpinnings of the e-commerce taking off in India have been underway for for a while. It started with companies like ourselves almost educating both the demand side and the supply side consumers and sellers online about the virtues of e-commerce it was a hard problem many years ago both neither side trusted that there was there was a possibility that you could go to a website buy things and give them money and then that that product will actually get delivered however crazy it sounds maybe eight ten years ago large majority of Indian consumers did not believe that would actually happen and large number of sellers also did not believe that that would actually happen that they could supply their products online but looking at the success of some of the companies that were early in the ecosystem we've now seen a vast number of companies open across various verticals of the economy both on the B2B side B2C side folks who are doing wholesaling of clothes folks who are doing retailing of agricultural inputs there is an explosion of digitization of commerce that is happening in our country as we speak I have the good fortune of meeting so many incredible entrepreneurs who are just starting off their journey and it is absolutely mindblowing the creativity of the problem-solving skills that they have using technology that are connecting the dots between demand and supply across different parts of our economy and in some ways either enabling the intermediaries or in some where the intermediaries actually add value or in some cases you know skipping the intermediaries where the intermediaries were primarily adding cost and not any value and both are happening and both are necessary so I but specifically in answer to your question Ritu I would say agriculture health and creation of new brands these are the three relatively new areas in e-commerce specifically that we are seeing tremendous amount of activity entrepreneurial activity and and and really high impact businesses will will get built in these three areas in the next next few years and do you think I'm in within B2B and B2C where do you see bigger scope of things to happen I think it's like picking between two children it's it's very hard to say I think both play an important role there is a consumption economy and there is a business economy and both require the enablement of technology to bring more efficiency so they are two different types of problem statements in two different parts of the economy obviously with some interlinkages however both are very critical B2C is often criticized from the perspective that it takes a lot of capital to shape consumer behavior to acquire customers B2B from that perspective is is a little more capital efficient to business model but look oftentimes it's also a personal preference of the entrepreneur as to what opportunity they are finding more exciting and passion and are passionate about many many entrepreneurs are very passionate about building B2B businesses versus others who are passionate about building end consumer brands or B2C businesses so I don't think there's a right or wrong answer or large or small I feel there is tremendous amount of asymmetry of information in the economy in any economy including us and and what market places whether they are B2B or B2C can do is reduce that asymmetry of information. Sure and I mean you know you've been particularly with your fund which is Titan Capital you've been investing in so many companies which come in both these spheres both B2B as well as B2C so you know where are you seeing bigger opportunities when it comes to investing for new startups. Yeah I think you know I'm I generally have a space agnostic view on on on the opportunities of the business model etc there are three attributes I would look for one is which may not be very different from other investors but maybe we just we're very focused on just these three attributes one is just the quality of the team right we need to we understand that there is almost no information at the early stages when we when we would invest in a company however the quality of the team the some amount of demonstration of success in their past life whether it could be professional academic somewhere they should have done something that created impact because you know that tells us whether they have that file within them to to keep going and to actually have the passion and the hustle to deliver results so I think the team is a very critical role also we we like backing dreamers we want we want entrepreneurs who can make us dream with them who can help us gaze into the crystal ball with them as to what can this business eventually become the second would be just the size of the opportunity so I the space is not as important as the size we obviously want to dedicate our resources time energy network to support entrepreneurs who are looking to build large businesses I'm not saying building a small businesses is is not a great thing it is it probably just doesn't need our participation then as much so large businesses is very pursuing large business opportunities is very important to us as it is to most entrepreneurs that we meet and and the third is the ability to generate economics we we we like businesses that at least have a viewpoint on how they will make money because that's the only way to sustain and build a lasting enduring enterprise long time in the long term because you can you can keep raising money up to a certain time but beyond that point you will have to self sustain and hence having a point of view on how will you self sustain and grow your business thereafter it's important to know from the get go so I would say those are three things but more specifically I would say you know market places whether they are b2b, b2c, fintech, computer vision you know online brands or direct to consumer brands you know some also like software companies like various SaaS companies I think we've looked at everything we've invested in everything so we are not our our philosophies we are never dismissive about the business model or the business idea we tend to spend more time on the three things I mentioned the team the size of opportunity and the ability to generate economics sure and I mean particularly the markets have been going they've been rocking in during these last few months you know we touched the 50,000 mark which is pretty historic for our stock markets do you think a lot of startups should now start looking at IPOs as a route to raise capital and also to give exit to investors I think by the time they are ready to go public or IPO I don't think we should be calling them startups but I do feel that irrespective of whether the stock markets are going up or down in the near term we've all seen that these are phases none of these you know troughs or bubbles in the stock markets last forever over a period of time if you zoom out the trend line is obviously upwards always it just as economies become more efficient and more you know more innovation than productivity increases are happening that said I do feel irrespective of the market cycles or the stock market cycles the future of any ecosystem rests in the hands of the the few companies that actually go public most large startup ecosystems around the world the enduring startup ecosystems like Silicon Valley, China have have endured and have become larger over time because they have gotten created around a few really really good high quality companies tech companies that went public already because that always gives a sense of confidence to investors as well as entrepreneurs as well as employees of the startups that there is a there is an exit here in due course they can point to something and say look this is what we will become eventually this is our outcome five years out 10 years out in the absence of that the only exit is selling to some company and oftentimes that company ends up being some overseas foreign company because they have far more resources than another local startup there and that never inspires confidence into into investors coming into a business or employees wanting to come on come into the startup ecosystem and this is the difference between the US startup ecosystem and the European startup ecosystem and not many companies out of Europe traditionally have gone public last couple of years things have changed a little bit but for the longest time that didn't happen as a result we never hear as much about you know global companies or global significance come out of the European startup ecosystem but we hear about that every few months out of the US startup ecosystem and in my view the big difference is a number of public companies coming out of their respective countries startup ecosystems and India will need dozens and dozens of technology companies going public and be being successful public companies and we will see a significant exploration even more than we see right now in the Indian startup ecosystem and entrepreneurial system sure you know India took its startup India initiative about five years back do you think the Indian government should now also allow Indian startups to list on international courses you know that that might just open up more avenues and also make it easy especially for Indian startups to be serving international markets yeah absolutely and look my view is that you know if we are building world-class companies we should be open to world-class capital and there is great capital available in India but there are pools of capital available overseas who would probably just out of their own internal restrictions not come to India specifically to invest in one company we do allow you know private foreign private equity players to come invest in Indian companies so why can't we allow other companies other investors who are purely many public market investors on global stock exchanges to invest in our companies it's great because that capital that we get raised outside India will make its way to India eventually right it's not going to stay there because if it's an Indian company that has Indian operations Indian customers Indian suppliers Indian technology built in India even if we do even if they end up raising capital on overseas stock exchanges they will bring that capital to India to to actually grow their businesses so in the end India wins and more importantly you know just the soft power that India gets out of having large successful technology companies listed overseas there's a lot of soft power attached to that for our country as well where like same way emphasis being listed abroad gives India a lot of soft power there's a lot of respect attached to Indian businesses and Indian business in general when they see such successful you know companies out of India listed on foreign exchanges with great governance great track records it raises the profile of the entire country and gives us more reasons to be proud about our country so I absolutely feel that our that we should you know we should allow the government should allow Indian startups to or Indian companies in general to list abroad if they want to and list in India if they want to whatever they feel is right for their business to raise capital company should be allowed to do that and I mean you know since you're investing so much in the Indian startups are you also keen to invest in startups which are not in India European or American startups and particularly for you know ideas like cryptocurrencies which probably in India are not legal but you know outside in the world they are almost like a legal currency so yeah I think we've been investing in both Southeast Asia as well as US startups more from more than just looking at them as a means of return but more from the perspective of learning the US market sometimes in some spaces some sub sectors of the startup ecosystem tends to be a little head of the Indian startup ecosystem at least in some areas and by being entrenched in that ecosystem as an investor as well allows us to look into the crystal ball as to what are the trends that may be coming through to India soon Southeast Asia and very similar to India oftentimes we have Indian entrepreneurs running businesses in Southeast Asia so there's a lot of you know it's almost like an extension for all practical purposes of the Indian startup ecosystem but I think particularly the US startup ecosystem we've backed many companies there investor in many companies there at the earliest stages some of them have become unicorns and have become quite large it has really helped us get into and into the into get a lens into the various trends that will likely hit the Indian shores in the coming years as well sure and you know well we're almost at the end of our time let me ask you this that you know digitization is something that sort of really emerged as the as the king during this time and I mean you know and that of course requires a very big B2B ecosystem to develop to be able to service this digitization right but honestly I mean for a lot of SMEs manufacturing businesses family businesses to change in India what would be your advice to them to really to be able to adopt digitization and to make the most of it the idea is not just to become a digital and start selling online but really to make it as a fundamental value system of your business what what needs to change for them I think having an open mind probably you know everything every every technology every many things around us that we take for granted at one point were termed as something new or what we call oh this is technology right at some point electricity was that at some point cars were that you know so at one point even computers were that not too not too long yeah but what I've seen is that there is a natural selection there obviously there is a there is a responsibility industry has governments have to create awareness amongst those who may not have access to all the information but assuming that there is wide-scale awareness about the virtues of technology there are trainings available with YouTube I mean YouTube is the world's university in some ways like if someone wants to learn something they are no longer going and searching on Google and reading something they're going on YouTube and watching something and learning right it it may not give the in-depth view on how to do something but it will give you a fairly good overview in a in a simple in a very simplified manner that anyone would understand and women would understand that said assuming that let's assume that there is a lot of availability of information and evangelizing has been done around the virtues of digitization and more will be done but I think a lot has been done from the Prime Minister down and across the industry after that I feel it follows a process of natural selection companies large or small that adopt technology tend to grow thrive tend to expand into new avenues become more efficient hire great people and companies that don't because they just don't want to recognize the the shift that is happening in the world in the world around them in their industry even they get left behind the same things happened over and over again across sectors across decades maybe even across across centuries and this is no different I feel as as industry leaders folks like us have a responsibility to evangelize to the broader nation obviously the government plays a big role there has been playing a big role with digital India and startup India but beyond the point you can't go to someone's house and tell them that look if you don't use this your business will have face an existential risk then that recognition has to come from the business itself once all the efforts have been put to create the requisite events sure and you know finally I'm in today as a lot of IIT students who look to do a lot of startups and build their own organizations what would be your final advice to them you know how to have more guarded optimism you know it's it's a great time to do a startup and you know there is a lot of capital also available to back up some innovative ideas but it's still important to be more guarded rather than being overly optimistic about building your business no I I will probably again not I have a different view I feel that there is absolutely no reason that everyone shouldn't be trying their hand at either starting a company or joining a stock if if you are a student at IIT Bombay your risk is already so low because of you know you have one of the best degrees that anyone would get in the whole world you have one of the best access to one of the best peer groups that anyone could have in the whole world you have access to one of the best alumni networks that anyone could have in the whole world not just in India your risk is already limited now you may not have a great idea right now and so don't just go head first into the first idea that comes to your mind just because you know you want to do a starter go join a startup in the meanwhile keep working on whatever idea you have or ideas you may have on the side and when you feel you will you are ready and you will know when you are ready the voice from within you will tell you that you will not be able to think of anything else from the morning when you wake up when you're in the shower all day long when you're at work you'll be only able to think about that one idea that's when you know you are ready to go and you should go start your own company but I don't see any reason that anyone who's graduating from IIT Bombay this year should be pursuing anything else but either joining a startup or starting a startup and and I can tell you that the many many hundreds of entrepreneurs I've had the good fortune of supporting and backing or investing behind they either all started very early or they all tell me or if they were older when they started they they tell me that they wish they had started early I started our company one year out of college and and you know I don't think there is beyond a point there is diminishing returns to probably just being in the workforce if what your true calling is going is going and starting a company. Sure well thanks for that Kanan that certainly gives the hopes up to all the students out there listening to this and to all people who want to do their startup you know that the time is now and of course if you have the right idea just go after it and go out and do your own business well that's it for us for me and Kunal on this chat any final words as we close this Kunal. No thank you thank you Ritu thanks so much for having me you know I'm so so optimistic and excited about the startup ecosystem in India and you know I've had the good fortune of backing dozens of really great entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay we have some colleagues who are from IIT Bombay in our company as well and and and I and I hope one day to meet some of you and and talk with you and and brainstorm with you about the businesses you're going to build and of course we will be happy to write about them here at Entrepreneur and share your ideas and innovative businesses that you're building and and hopefully next time we meet Kunal it should not be on the confines of a screen but in person as we are almost there out of the pandemic and literally looking to go ahead racing and building big organizations in big India as we go ahead thank you for this talk


All right. Wow, that's me. Hello, everybody. I am Indeed Zach. I am the co-founder of Coordinape. And I'm going to share with you a little bit about what it is, how it works, and why it's useful for on-chain online communities to collaborate. So a little bit about my background. I spent 10 years as the co-founder of Converge. And Converge is a consultancy that helped to launch social and environmental impact networks all over the world. So I spent the last 10 years really steeped in both theory and especially practice of networks and network leadership. And how does collaboration actually work among multistakeholders? And when I discovered a couple of years ago, I discovered DAO's, and it was like, wow. OK, here's some infrastructure and technology that allows global peer-to-peer collaboration. And so I got obsessed, and I was all in on that. And that's really what led me to start Coordinape. And the three things I want to share are the factors that we saw across all these different global networks, all different contexts of people trying to work together. There were three things. And the three things are appreciation, really appreciating what people are doing, information flow, understanding what we're working on, and then finally reward. And so how are we rewarding people and being reciprocal for what the value they've put in and the value that they get out? So Coordinape started inside of year in finance, which is a decentralized finance DAO. And they were trying to solve this problem of lots of collaborators and lots of contributors coming and doing great stuff. And how do we allocate and reward them and appreciate them for what they're doing in a decentralized way, so we don't have a grant committee trying to decide who should get what. As we developed Coordinape inside year, and other DAOs started to get interested and also wanted to use it, and it eventually spun out. These are some of the DAOs that use us. We now have about 1,000 organizations and 40,000 registered users. And recently, also exciting that companies totally outside of the Web 3 crypto space. There's a company called iFood. They do food delivery in Brazil, billion dollars in revenue, and 6,000 employees. And they're using Coordinape as a sort of core pillar of their employee engagement platform. So how does Coordinape work? It's organized by circles. And essentially, you have one circle that's the big organization, and then smaller circles for projects or teams that are populated from members of the large organization. So you could have a one-off project, like putting on a conference, or you could have ongoing projects like you're building a platform or a protocol. And there's different ways to be added to these circles. You can either be added by an admin. You can also be vouched in by other members. Or you can gait these with only people who have a certain POAP or token or NFT. So you could start an organization and say only people who have the network state NFT that we got earlier this morning are allowed to join. Right, so there are three things, information and appreciation and reward. This is information. So this is the activity feed. And basically, users come in and they input and share what they've been working on so that other people that are working on that same project can see, can have context on what are you doing? What's happening? How can we might collaborate? And then there's the give circle. So by default, each person has 100 give in the circle that they can allocate to other people according to the value that they've seen them add to a project. So as I'm working with people, and I see the awesome work that they're doing, and I wanna appreciate them for it, I can allocate give. I can go and review and see all the different contributions they've made. I can react to them and I can leave a note, right? And this is really important. I can tell them, hey, here's why I appreciate what you're doing. Here's why it's great. So overall, we've had over 41 million give allocated so far across the system. And appreciation, right? This is so critical. So these are just a few treats that illustrate how important this appreciation part is. And this is especially true when we're collaborating online and collaborating asynchronously and remotely. It can feel isolating and transactional. So really taking that time to appreciate and acknowledge the contributions that people have made go a really long, a long way into making people feel connected to a project. We've designed, coordinate entirely around this principle of appreciation and acknowledgement. Because of these three things, it's the one that oftentimes gets overlooked or gets forgotten. There've been over 62,000 notes sent across since we started. And that's by far my favorite metric because it really shows the kind of good vibes that have been flowing. So reward, right? Compensation. So when used for compensation, coordinate essentially distributes a budget according to the number of give that people have received. Right, so if I get 20% of the total give, I get 20% of the total budget. And you can use this on-chain. So for example, you can have a budget of some token in the circle and when it's complete, it gets distributed and people can come claim it from our vaults. Or you can use any number of methods to distribute compensation and payment off-chain as well. So the other kind of reward that we saw increasingly people get interested in is not just compensation for money but reputation, right? They wanna be able to show the projects they've been a part of and have a record of their work. So we created this which is called COSOLE. And this takes your give on-chain. So you actually have a verifiable record of the projects you've been working on and the value that you've added to them. So it's one thing to say, oh yeah, I was a contributor at XYZ project. It's a much different thing to be able to say I was a contributor and here's the value that I added as a test to do by my peers that I worked with. So a big part of our roadmap is actually expanding this COSOLE to incorporate all sorts of different kind of data and have really an on-chain reputational metric that will, we hope evolve into sort of like a Web3 LinkedIn where you can find and vet projects and collaborators. We've had 28,000 of these minted so far and encourage you all to mint your own as well. So this is a map that shows the flow of give between a network so that you have transparency and you can understand who's giving to who and then you can click in and start to understand what are these people working on? What are they doing? And we're also planning to add lots of different data to this as well so that you really have a robust map and can understand your entire project and what people are working on and how they're collaborating together. So what does this mean for a network state? Well, if you're starting a network state and or any kind of online project you're going to be attracting people who are really excited about your idea and you're also going to be attracting all sorts of the kind of people that live out there online like trolls and scammers and people like this. And so through Coordinate you can actually grant access to your project according to the people who the community says are adding value, right? So you can progressively grant voting rights or different kinds of powers and privileges in your project according to the voice of the community and who they're saying, hey, that person is doing something awesome. We should put more resources there, right? It's really a way to keep your borders of your project open and without a gatekeeper but also be able to quickly filter out a lot of the noise that comes from any online project, right? And so the idea is that really you can create hierarchies of leadership that are based on contribution and recognition from the community and not just a sort of a rigid pyramid structure, right? We see, we say in an ideal network we used to say the leader is the one who knows what to do next. And so this is really a way to tap into that collective intelligence and let the community show who's adding value and who can rise to the different challenges that you face as your project evolves. So whatever you're working on, whatever you're collaborating on, remember that the people you're working with want to have information, now I'll get it, they want information, appreciation and reward, right? And of these things, appreciation is often the most important and most overlooked. So whatever you're working on, make sure you show a lot of love and thanks to the people that you're collaborating with.


A lot of Windows users are really excited about the upcoming release of Windows 11 because it has a more modern look and feel to it, right? It's got a better aesthetic to it. It really makes Windows a more attractive operating system compared to some of the competition because when you look at what macOS is doing, Chrome OS, and what of course the various GNU slash Linux distributions are doing, Windows is kind of lagging behind. It was starting to look a little old and dated. And now Windows 11 brings this fresh modern look. The problem is though it's a little late to the party because honestly the Windows 11 aesthetic that they revealed in their previews, Linux has been doing this for going on a decade. Now you've been able to pretty much get all of the effects and everything that Windows 11 is touting in Linux for many years. And one of the most popular Linux desktop environments is called KDE Plasma. It's a very customizable desktop environment. It has a lot of flexibility to it where you can make your desktop environment look and feel however it is you want it to look and feel like. So if you want it to mimic Windows 7, you can make it do that. If you want it to mimic Windows 11, you can make it do that. Of course you can have it mimic things like macOS or even Chrome OS. I don't know why you'd want to do that, but you have that option with KDE Plasma. And today I wanted to show you how you can make KDE Plasma mimic Windows 11. So this is the KDE Plasma desktop environment and it's a very beautiful desktop environment. A gorgeous wallpaper, it has a gorgeous theme, it has a very nice icon set. It is probably one of the most attractive, if not the most attractive desktop environments we have available on Linux. Now you can install KDE Plasma on any Linux distribution. It doesn't matter what Linux operating system you happen to be running, you could be running Ubuntu or Linux Mint or Arch Linux, Manjaro, Fedora, it doesn't matter. You can install KDE Plasma on any of them. For purposes of this video, this is a virtual machine that I had of Debian Unstable. So I installed KDE Plasma on top of Debian for this video. So let me go ahead and transform KDE Plasma into Windows 11. We're going to get that Windows 11 look and feel and the most important thing of course is going to be the wallpaper because when you don't have any programs open, all you see is a wallpaper. It takes up pretty much 100% of the screen. So let me go ahead and open up Firefox, which is the default browser in Debian and in most Linux distributions. And I'm going to go ahead and do a search for Windows 11 wallpaper download. And it should default to doing a Google search here in Firefox. And I'm going to go to the images tab here in Google. And the very first image here, I'm going to click on that. That is from wccftech.com. I guess they had the full sized dark image there. And that's the one I want because a lot of people choose the lighter image, you know, with the nearly white background. I want a darker wallpaper because honestly, I think Windows 11 did it wrong because Windows 11 has a very light panel and menu system and then they did that light wallpaper. That's too much light. You need some contrast. So I'm going to go ahead and grab the dark version of their wallpaper. I'm going to click on it and I'm going to save image as and I'm going to save it to my pictures directory here. I'm going to click save. And now that I've got that, I'm going to close out Firefox. It's going to warn me that I've got multiple tabs open. I'm going to tick that off so it never warns me about that again. And now what I want to do is I want to right click on the desktop and I want to configure desktop and wallpaper. And then what I want to do is I want to add an image and I want to go to my pictures directory and add that image. And now somewhere in this list of pictures, I should see the wallpaper. Yeah. And then I'm going to click apply. And just like that, we're already most of the way there, but just by changing a wallpaper. And you can see that by having the dark wallpaper against the light panel, that really is a nice contrast. That actually stands out. I don't know why the Microsoft guys chose the light wallpaper with the light panel. That aesthetically, that doesn't make as much sense. Now that we've got that squared away. I think we need to go and get an icon set. Now I love the icon set here in KDE Plasma. These blue icons, I actually think they're much more attractive than anything that you're going to get on Windows. But for purposes of this video, of course, we're going to go grab the Windows 11 icon set. So I'm going to do Windows 11 icon set Linux. And the very first link is the Windows 11 icon theme from the KDE Store, which is great because we're running the KDE Plasma desktop environment. And this icon set, that looks okay. I'm going to go ahead and click this download link here and click one of the TAR archives here and download. And that should download that into our downloads directory if we click save file here. And that should just take a second to download. And once the download is complete, I'm going to close Firefox again, and I'm going to open up our file browser here. This is the Dolphin file manager. And then I'm going to click into downloads, and there is that TAR. And I'm going to click on it, and it will open it. What I'm going to do is I'm going to extract it. And I'm just going to extract it right here in the directory it's already in. So there is the Windows 11 folder now. It's got two different icon sets, the standard Windows 11 and the Windows 11 dark icon set. The dark icon set, of course, would be used against a dark panel. That's why that's there. Now to use these two icon sets that are in this folder, the Windows 11 and the Windows 11 dash dark icon sets, we need to move them to a different directory. We need to move them to a directory at slash USR slash share slash icons. And you need sudo privileges to move them into that directory. So this would actually be easier to do in the terminal rather than in the file manager. So I'm going to open the menu system. And I'm going to start typing console with a K. That is KDE's terminal. And let's open that. I'm going to zoom in here so you guys can see the commands I type. The first thing you want to do is CD into the downloads directory. So just CD space and start typing downloads and then hit tab complete to fill out the whole path and hit enter. And then do a LS to list the contents of that directory. And you see the Win 11 directory. Let's CD into that directory as well. And I could do a LS into that directory. And you see that directory includes the two icon sets. Win 11 and Win 11 dash dark. So with sudo privileges do sudo space mv for move space and then Win 11 space. And then we want to move the Win 11 directory to slash user slash share slash icons slash then give it your sudo password. And we just move the Windows 11 icon set into that directory. I'm going to up arrow to run the same command except this time I want to move Win 11 dash dark into user share icons and hit enter. You don't have to enter the sudo password the second time since you had just entered it before. It remembers it for a few minutes. And now that we've moved those directories I'm going to close that out. You can see the directories were actually moved in the file manager as well. Close all of that out. Now let's open up the KDE Plasma System Settings. And I have an icon for it. If you wanted to you could search for it in the menu system with system and system settings. And this is your control panel. So think of it kind of like as the Windows control panel. And the very first selections of things you have to choose from are the appearance settings including a icons sub tab here. And you can see we now have a Windows 11 and a Windows 11 dark icon set to choose from these top three. Add way to breeze and breeze dark or defaults here in the KDE Plasma desktop. So I'm going to choose the Windows 11 and then I'm going to do apply. And now you see our icon set has changed. If I did the file manager once again, you can see instead of the big blue icon set that we had had before, we've got some different colors. These yellowish kinds of folders that are common in Windows. So those have changed. These were all blue icons before. So we've got the icon set. Now the next thing I want to do is I want to change this panel because one of the big things about the Windows 11 panel is that we're going to have a centered task bar and a centered start menu. So what I want to do is I want to right click on the panel and choose edit panel.  I'm going to click add spacer and you see it added a spacer to the end of the panel which is fine. And then I want to add a second spacer because I want to add a spacer at the beginning of the panel as well. And then that pretty much effectively centers everything.  Now it's locked in place. I think a nice touch would be to change the start menu icon, the KDE logo here. If we could change that to a Microsoft Windows logo, that would be cool. So once again, I'm going to open up Firefox here. And in Firefox, I'm going to do a search for Windows 11 icon. Now let's just find a nice icon that we can use for this. So I'm going to once again click on the images tab. And let's see, here is a nice logo. It's got a transparent background and it's the right size, 256 by 256. That's a good icon size. I'm going to open image in new tab. Now that I've opened it in this new tab just to get a good look at it. Yeah, I like that. So I'm going to right click on it. I'm going to save image as, and I'm going to download that into the downloads directory, click save. And then I can close out Firefox now. And then what I want to do is want to right click on this. And then I want to configure the application launcher. And then you see a preview of the icon that it's using here, which is the standard KDE logo. I'm going to click on it. And then I want to choose a different icon. We have the system icons here, but I'm going to choose other icons. And I'm going to go search for something on the system. Of course, I want to search for the Windows 11 ping that we downloaded. And then I choose that, I click apply. And now we have a Windows logo where the KDE logo used to be. I don't know why people want to do that, but occasionally some people do. So there's how you do that. And I do think the panel actually is a little too big here. So what I would probably do is I would make this a little smaller. Once again, I'll click edit panel. And let's make that instead of 46 pixels tall. Let me do 44, 42, about 40. I think 40 is pretty good there. I think that's the right size for a panel. One of the things that is kind of new to Windows is virtual desktops. Virtual desktops, though, have been around on Linux for decades. Not even kidding, we've had virtual desktops for a long time. So I'm going to get back into the system settings. And let's configure a little bit of the virtual desktop. So you had the appearance settings here. Underneath it, you have workspace settings. And you have workspace behavior. And you could click on that. And then it's got some animation speed stuff. You can also choose whether you want to do single click to open files or double click. I'm a double click guy, so I actually would change that. But single click could be interesting for some people. But most Windows users are probably used to double clicking things. So that's probably a good thing to know where that setting is, because you may want to change it. Then I'm going to go into desktop effects. It's asking me, do I want to apply these settings before I leave this page? I actually do. And then let's get into desktop effects. Actually, let's get into virtual desktops. That's the one we want. By default, we only have desktop one. Let's add some desktops. I'm going to add four is a good number for virtual desktops, especially for full desktop environment. So I'm going to create desktop two. And then I'm going to edit and create desktop three. It doesn't really matter what you name these. You never really see the names of the desktops. I'm going to click apply. And now in our panel here, we have this desktop switcher that has four squares. And if you hover above it, it will give you the name desktop one, two, three. And if you have something open on that workspace, for example, I have this here opened, obviously, on desktop one. You can see desktop one has a window open on it. It shows you a little representation of a window being opened. If I open the Dolphin file manager once again, it will show you a representation of these two windows being open, kind of where they're at on the screen. So that's very cool. If I had something open on workspaces two, three, or four, you would see those. And you could very quickly switch to those workspaces. You can actually just use the mouse to switch. You can also use the keyboard to change virtual workspaces. So if you do Control and then F1 through 4, in my case, I can switch between the four different desktops. So if I did Control F4, I switched to desktop four. If I do Control F1, I switch back to the very first desktop. Some other cool things that you can do in Linux with virtual desktops is let me go back here. And in workspace behavior, I want to do desktop effects. And I'm gonna scroll down to workspace management. By default, you do have a desktop grid effect that's turned on. And if I do configure, let's look for the key binding, Control F8. What this does, it gives you a desktop grid view of all of your virtual desktops. So if I did Control F8, you see a four-paint grid here. And it will show you all the windows that are currently opened on these desktops. If I do Control F8 again, that goes away. Another effect that you can turn on is you can turn on the desktop cube. Let me click that on and hit Apply. And let me find the key binding for the cube. I believe it is Control F11, yeah. So now what happens if I do Control F11 instead of a grid, I get this cube. It's basically got four walls to it because I have four desktops and I can just spin it around. And when I find a desktop I want to be on, such as desktop four, I can double click it or I could hit Escape on the keyboard. Either one works and I'm on workspace four. I wanted to, I could Control F11 again and spin back around to desktop one and then just click on it and I'm back on desktop one. Another cool window management effect is the present windows effect. That's ticked on by default. If I click on the configure button to get the key bindings, there's three key bindings. Control F10, Control F9 and Control F7, they do different things. So Control F10 shows you all the windows that are available on all the desktops. So I'm gonna switch to a second workspace and let's open up the file manager. So I've got three different windows open on two different workspaces. If I did Control F10, it presents all of those windows right here in front of me so I could quickly navigate between them and choose one. Let's go back to the first workspace. You see Control F9 presents windows only on the current desktop. So Control F9 only shows me the two system settings windows. It doesn't show me the file manager open over on workspace two. Now Control F7 only shows you windows of the same window class. So right now I have two system settings windows open here. Let me open up a file manager as well on desktop one. And now what I wanna do is I'm gonna highlight one of the system settings windows here and I'm gonna do Control F7. It's only going to show me the two system settings windows. It didn't show me the file manager window. Now I could do Control F7 here on the file manager window and watch what happens. We get a present windows effect but it shows me just the two file manager windows and these are open on two different desktops. This is the one open on desktop one. This is the one open over on desktop two. So I could quickly switch over to the file manager that was opened on desktop two. I'm gonna go ahead and close that out and move back to desktop one. I'm gonna go ahead and close all of this out. One of the neat things people like to do on their windows desktop is to add cool little widgets such as date and time widgets and weather widgets and things like that to their desktop. You can do that here in KDE Plasma as well. I could right click on the desktop and I could use Add Widgets and you get a widget selection tool and there is a ton of built in KDE Plasma widgets that you could add. I'm gonna search for clock and the clock I wanna add I wanna add the digital clock. So I'm just gonna drag that over here and I'm gonna put this over on the right side of the screen and let me get out of that and let me enter edit mode and now I can drag this. What I could do is I could also resize it make it as big as I want it to be. I could add a background to it as well. I probably would wanna add a background to make that stand out. I wonder can I edit the font here? Let me configure digital clock. Let me see what kind of settings I have here. You have font style. What I'm gonna do is instead of using one of the standard system fonts, let's see. How about URW Gothic L? I don't know what that is, but yeah, that's a more modern sleek looking font. I would go with that I think. I'm gonna click OK. Now what I wanna do is I wanna add another widget. So instead of right clicking on the desktop since I'm still in edit mode here, I'm just gonna click the Add Widget button and now let me go ahead and add a weather widget because those are always fun and I'm just gonna drag this over here and click the Configure button because obviously we're not gonna get anything displayed until we tell it actually where we're at. Let's see, choose a location. Here we go. I'm gonna choose the NOAA. That's the National Weather Service here in the US. Location, I'm in Louisiana, but for purposes of this video, let's give Chicago as a location. It's gonna do a search. Let's choose this first one. I'm gonna select that. We'll tell it to update the weather every 30 minutes and click Apply and then go to Appearance. What do we want? Display, temperature, wind, pressure, humidity. Sure, why not? Units, let's make sure that that is in Fahrenheit. It is, since we're in the US, I guess it's smartly. Figured we wanted Fahrenheit temperatures. I'm gonna click OK on that and then what I'd like to do is actually get this sized similar to the clock. I think that would make a lot of sense. You can only make it so small though because it's displaying a ton of information. So let's resize the clock then to be about the same size and then we can get these into position where they're rather close and close out the widget selection tool. Yeah, I really like that. That is a very clean looking desktop, right? I think any Windows user, I think would be shocked at how amazingly gorgeous that KDE Plasma, this particular desktop environment can be on Linux. By the way, the blurring effect that the Windows 11 team was touting, blurred menus and backgrounds and things like that. You have the blurring of your menus and things in KDE Plasma as well. That's kind of a default setting these days in KDE. So I think it's really great that Windows 11 has adopted some of these really incredible features that have been available in Linux for years. But honestly, I don't know why you would want Windows 11 because it still lags behind. It's still light years behind what Linux is able to do. And to be honest, if you are thinking about upgrading to Windows 11 from Windows 10, you have to make sure that your machine can even run Windows 11 because Windows 11 is gonna have some very high system requirements that for Linux, Linux, even these very sleek, modern looking desktop environments that we have on Linux, most of these can run on machines that are five, six, eight years old. Even you don't need the latest and greatest hardware to run Linux. We're very conscious about this, right? We don't want people to have to buy new hardware to run Linux. That's not what we do in our community. We're very environmentally friendly in a lot of ways because we like to have these machines last years and years, sometimes more than a decade. We don't like people being forced into planned obsolescence where they buy a laptop. And three years later, they have to buy a new one because they can't even upgrade to the latest version of that operating system. That's not the way it works here. So if you guys are on Windows 10 or maybe some of you guys are still running Windows 7 even, I strongly urge you to consider trying out Linux. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode. And of course, I'm talking about Absi Gabe James, Mitchell Paul, Wes, Akami Allen, Chuck Kurt, David, Dylan, Gregory, Haiko, Erion, Alexander, Pease, Archon, Fedora, Polytech, Raver, Rit, Prophet, Scott, Steven and Willie, these guys. They're my highest tier patrons over on Patreon without these guys. This episode you just watched would not have been possible. The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen. There's ever growing list of names on the screen you're seeing. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors. I'm sponsored by you guys, the community. If you guys appreciate my work and want to consider supporting me, check out DistroTube over on Patreon. All right guys, peace. KDE is better at Windows 11 than Windows 11.


I want to start by saying I genuinely welcome the excellent work the UK data service has been doing to promote and enable more and better, and those are two different things, use of data for public benefit and it's that public benefit use that I want to speak about. But I should also note that this does rest on, as Jane says, a lot of excellent work and a lot of money that the ESRC has given over a number of years to strengthen and make coherent a data infrastructure for social science and public policy. It's been a major investment in funding coordination and support, and it not only includes support for the major longitudinal studies, growth cohorts, understanding society, but the more recent initiative to support the use of administrative data from central government departments and local government and commercial data under the big data rubric. So we have a more robust and coherent data infrastructure, though it's still very early days. But I do want to note too that this has meant a real cultural change on the part of those providing the support for that data infrastructure. So just as we've heard from the previous speakers, this means the data service, which used to be accurately called a data archive, does a lot more than archiving data, although that's important. It actually helps provide a much more proactive sense about training for data use, about tabulation services for certain studies where that can be done online, and to actually enable people to use the more restrictive data that many, not just in the academic community, but the private and the commercial sector want to do. So all of that I'm going to include under a discussion of a public benefit regime. But what I really want to do, I think, is follow on very nicely from some of the comments previously and turn the tables a bit on you. You're interested enough to come on an early December evening and say, what are we missing in the wider community to take forward some of these things and appreciate not just the technical difficulties, but the kinds of public arguments we need to be making. And I speak as someone who until recently oversaw major funding programs to use data for public benefit as funded by an endowed charitable trust. And so these data or the analyses we funded weren't simply for academic purposes, although we welcomed that, but it was to look at the effective policies in various areas to see that they got objective scrutiny, and that wasn't just left to a political party or, dare I say it, a particular government or a local borough or a particular hospital, to say how can we understand some of the basic science and what implications those have for policy. So for instance, we used to fund a lot of work on using longitudinal data to capture the links between early childhood circumstances and social and educational prospects long term. And we did that not just because it's good social science, but because it is part of being in a democratically accountable world. And one of the advantages of a truly data-rich society is that some of those data need to be used for public benefit and public debate. So I start from that public benefit perspective. I think in fact all of us have had that from one way or another. And I want to talk about some of the challenges that we face as a community. I'll just start up here in ensuring that wider use. First I think we've got to recognize we're still a long way from the human capital capacity or capability to do this work. We simply have too few analysts, either as individuals or working in teams, who bring together substantive understanding of the areas we work in, real understanding of data collection and the challenges of data collection which in many ways have only grown in a big data area where you can think about some big data as thin but relatively universal and the thicker richer data as being harder to get than it was when I was a child and started out doing survey research. So the concept of getting robust representative data isn't just the number of data points. And to link both the substantive knowledge and the analytic skills for data collection with the skills for data analysis is rarer still. And those don't all need to be in the same person but they need to be working in closer operation together. Now while I was at the Nuffield Foundation I was lucky enough to spearhead and work with a number of others on the Q-Step initiative which the ESRC and Hefke were great supporters of and not just in funding and which continues still and it's nice to see some people hear from that. And the point of that is to reorientate some undergraduate teaching in social sciences not just to do numbers but to bring together that substantive analysis, data collection, data analysis. Give people more of an understanding of those challenges. But that is just the tiniest drop in the ocean and it was 20 million pounds. That's the tiniest drop in the ocean of what we need. I think as a community we're not strong and vocal enough outside of the STEM context in saying that we need to be proselytizing in schools. We need to be concerned about secondary school curriculum in particular and how to widen the over-specialization which divorces numbers, statistics, research design from various substantive questions and issues. And I think further efforts are going to be needed at undergraduate level at work placements with paid internships with that kind of outreach. So I think as a community those of us that really feel passionately about data being used for public benefit need to recognize we've got a human skills shortage and it is going to take concerted action and pressure on the part of governments of all strikes who hesitate to dislocate the current A-level curriculum. So that's a number one. Secondly, I think it's clear we don't have the right public policies yet. And I say that as someone who also feels passionately and I think as all of us do understands this use of data protection, confidentiality, anonymity and misuse of data which is wider than those. If I may say so, I think much of the social science community has long had a more nuanced and genuinely robust regime for considering and adjudicating these issues. We've long had ethical review bodies, bodies that review the data conditionality for under what circumstances can you merge, is it genuinely in the public benefit, how will you protect confidentiality and so on. And although these arrangements have been deepened and strengthened, the actual architecture of those goes back decades. But I do think all of us should be more aware of the way the UK Data Service has recently crystallized these in their five SAFES principles. Which is an attempt to get beyond talking about anonymization and pseudo-anonymization and firewalls and all sorts of things that are just really important but very complicated if we're trying to have an argument, a discussion, as Titmus did about blood transfusions, about public benefit and why we give things. It's not simply a question of monetizing data, it's saying why do we permit certain uses of our data, knowing it brings public benefit and that our confidentiality is protected. And to my mind, thinking about these five SAFES is really important. But first, I mean I'll just briefly recapitulate them, although it's an articulation, I think a clever one that as I said tries to take on board things we've all been worrying about for ages. SAFES projects, projects genuinely for the public good, with publication of results being an important indicator that it is public. In some form, I'm not saying publishing the individual data, I'm saying publishing results so that people can query it with some sort of proportionate and independent review of the project plan before it starts. This means you can allow general consent rather than specific consent and I'll talk about that in a second, but for those of you who don't know, a truly specific consent regime would mean every time an analyst wanted to do an analysis that wasn't, that you hadn't signed a form for, it couldn't be allowed unless they went back to you and got your consent. And I'm one of the geekiest people I know about this and I know that kind of mail would go or email would just go into the bin box. So you end up with very low response rates, non-representative data. So we really do need a model for public benefit research which safeguards confidentiality but takes that public benefit argument seriously. I think the ESRC is administrative. Data network is a model of this sorts, but as I said there have been such mechanisms in place for long. Secondly is a question of safe people and that is really complicated, but it does mean, as we've all talked about, there's some data you can make openly available at a general statistical level, at a regional level, but a lot of individual data you couldn't make open because it would give rise to confidentiality concerns. So you do need to have programs for training researchers, undertakings, legal protections, institutions who take responsibility for anonymity and safe data handling. We've talked about safe settings and again all of you will know about the variety of those and safe outputs so that you think in advance about what level you can publish data. But in a sense to my mind the fifth safe, safe data, actually in a way follows from those. It's not quite the same thing. I think we're all aware that in this day and age virtually all data or many combinations of data can present challenges to confidentiality and those are not an inherent feature of the data themselves and certainly not a datum itself. It is to do with the way they're released in conjunction with what else. And the excellent work that the ESRC supported in conjunction with ONS that was carried out by Mori on public attitudes towards use of administrative data showed that if people can be persuaded to invest enough time and talk to you over a bit of time about this, they understand these safeguards and as been previously said they're actually concerned that you aren't doing things for public benefit. That there is a sense that as long as they feel that data aren't being transmitted in ways that will not only breach confidentiality but will snitch on them or be used by big business or big government to monitor them if it's being used for strategic understanding to bring about a public benefit there's actually an incredulity that we're not doing more of it than we are now. So I think controversially the reports show that the public does have an altruistic streak about wanting to ensure wider use of and better engagement with evidence. And I say that also as someone who does take as I said the confidentiality seriously enough to surmise that big business is doing this anyway. We sign without looking at it the conditions on you can use my cookies you can do this I'm six pages the last time I booked an airline ticket online 65 different emails following that chased me up on that even though I said no third party emails big business is going to do this because they can say it's within an organisation. And actually when government really wants to it can do this too. I mean it did do it with the results of the 2011 riots where it brought together various home office data and Department for Justice data and different people have different views whether bringing together those individual data were or were not sure should not have been protected in terms of confidentiality I'm sure that they went to great lengths to ensure there was no individual follow up it was to understand characteristics. But I do think we've missed a trick if we haven't been able to say that having public benefit research to provide public services to scrutinise government and the effect of government policies and to actually give a counterweight to those who would have access to bits of data and would make arguments means we are missing a chance to say research can be for the public benefit. Now let's so end my challenges with a couple of three concrete observations about things that all of us I think as a community ought to be considering. First we all need to be engaging and it's only just in time with continuing concerns over the EU data protection regulation the proposed protection and I won't go through all the complications it's very complicated how it's got to where it's got to but as it stands now there is still a danger that it will require individual specific consent for reanalysis. So meaning that all those hundreds of thousands of people that have taken part in the cohort studies who have given consent to their data being linked to their child's educational record or their benefit data on the grounds that it's anonymous, it's protected it's got data safeguards they've gone through a very clear consent procedure but they don't have to vet each individual analysis. They can't say well I like Professor X and the study of poverty but I don't like Professor Y in the study of healthcare usage. That is a risk of the current legislation and for those of you who don't know the Wellcome Trust has been doing excellent work to try to get people to sign up to having a public benefit research exemption from specific consent. It is not an exemption from consent. It is not an exemption from anonymity and pseudo-anonymization or confidentiality. Those safeguards are if anything strengthened by having the notion that they have to go through an independent process. It's not just a researcher who has to say so. But I do think this is a danger and it will cut asymmetrically on public benefit research and commercial research. That's an empirical statement rather than a philosophical one. Secondly, while in the UK we've had general government support and dare I say it increasing general, rhetorical government support about secondary usage, about data linkage about depositing data with the archive still like a concrete and coherent framework that views public benefit research as a positive public good. And in the absence of such a framework various central government departments often delay depositing data or deposit it with seriously ratcheted up restrictions about when it can be used. Even when this poses no threat to data security. And I don't blame colleagues in government or the different health authorities who each take a different line on this. It's the chilling effect of always being worried that you've not quite got your guidelines right in a very complicated field. Which means it's just easier to say no or delay. And that's a particular issue where you want data for timely use. So I think it would be helpful this is an unbalanced judgment on my part happy to talk about it to have a very clear pathway for public benefit research subject to the safeguards we've talked about which would require I think a positive and concrete need, i.e. legislation or regulations for government. The Cabinet Office in 2013 and 2014 did some useful discussions on this. To my mind I think they were very nervous about trying to say it's public benefit and I appreciate the difficulty of defining that. I don't mean by that simply academic work and I don't think that would need that sort of definition but I do think it needs to be made separate from data linkage for government's own purposes to uncover fraud and so on. All of which we might agree are helpful but all of which we might also worry about in a different way about who guards the guardian who's going to say this is really to check fraud and what's going on here. So I think that's something that after the EU data protection regulation is clearer and we need to be active as a social policy social science community to say we need a framework which is both protective of individuals but enabling of the collectivity. Finally we really need a clearer appeals procedure in the case of government departments or local authorities or local health authorities that are dragging their feet and their legislative need to do so and I'm not underestimating the difficulty of that but I do think if we're really to make use of some of this data we need to break some log jams and certainly in the realm of central government public policy data of the sort I'm most familiar with I would say the UK statistics authority is well placed to play this role but it would mean them having an explicit aim of promoting public benefit use of data not just publication of data they collect and probably require some change in their standing vis-a-vis other central government departments and I don't underestimate the difficulty of that both small people politics and in terms of the legal basis of the different departments but I know the ESRC is considering this sort of strategic issue and the role of what used to be the UK data forum and it's like in helping to promote those discussions so while I want to end on a really positive note and say we're in a world that even 10 years ago I don't think we thought we would have seen with the stable infrastructure for the big central cohorts with a much greater appreciation of the role of data linkage, admin data linking with commercial data and so on I do think we as a community need to tackle those challenges because if we don't address the human capability and the public framework we won't be able to reap the benefits that I would argue are generally for the public good


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brenton today. In episode 112 There was a one-on-one death walkthrough last episode if you haven't checked it out already We were in drum jungle and we freed Coco and Yeah, man. We did things So just did the most hardest quest or mob fight in fact ever You see this experience 129 Now I don't know if you know how the experience system works for battles, but for every pip you use or like three pips zero pipspell you um You use three you get three experience so if you use just a blade you get three if you use a blade and a Let's say No dark pixie or dark sprite, whatever it's called. What is it called? Dark sprite you would get six Got 129 took forever. I worked out. I've used probably about 43 pips Yeah, that's very long battle for a mob fight.  So yeah, that wasn't cool. Okay, come online and offline is cool Coco you got it back a wonderful thing Yeah, I live a lot. We are now level 70 Whoo, that's pretty impressive. Okay, Coco continue speaking with my wand I now have the power to make the medicine, but I need a few more things I need a few of the hats that the gorilla spider, which is where and some yellow Cassania petals from the jungle bring them back Okay, what does I think this is Tartarus young wizard come and see me when you are interested in a Real challenge. Yeah Tartarus not probably not gonna do Tartarus just because I've actually never done it in my life Is it Tartarus or no, it's not Tartarus. It's the Atlanta, yeah, I think it's not Tartarus Tartarus is level 90 Yeah, it's the other one. It's the other one. I've never done either of them.  It was crazy. Trust me But yeah, we did it It actually literally took me like 15 minutes. I was oh cool. Yeah, if quick right off the bat, geez Didn't see that one coming straight off the bed. I completely forgot that they're myth as well. So that's awkward Okay Not too bad.   Who knows? Who knows? No, okay to play they've got um, how much of I Mean either way, I don't have enough purpose. I'm just gonna do this might as well waste one I mean at this point, they can't earthquake me. She can next round and that's kind of worrying Because she probably will unless she gets a new perp which is very likely If I don't get a new perp, that'd be fantastic. Thank you. She did not get a new perp Rip blades no pass. Okay, that's cool pure yowls Here we go We go 3000 nice. Oh, yeah, this guy's burst. I always forget them the first Kind of weird that both life and the first, but they were not gonna complain One of three hats. Oh, okay. I'll be back once. I've got the other two hats Okay, I am back. We got the hats and now we are collecting the flowers Yep Cat tails as well because why not why not man and Flower and there's one more there. We will get the one on the side probably Yeah, this is one here. Yes, sir. It's cool.  How are you? Hello? Very good materials Coco shreds the hats and the flower petals and weaves them into a simple shroud. Then she waves her wand and chants. Ooh, yee, ooh, ah, ah, ding, dang, walla, walla, bing, bang! Go through the pincer gate to the quarry and find the princess trail. Watch for other allies. Okay, let us head on over to the pincer gate once more. And this time head on into it, which is cool. Finally able to go into the pincer gate. Thank you. Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom buh- buh- buh- buh- buh. Slightly awkward there, oh god. Okay, we are just going to flee. I'll be back in a sec. Okay, I am back and I'm at the pincer gate. magic gets you through the pincers gate on the other side you spot a flamingo maybe the professor flamingo uh-huh all my shrimp and algae i'm doomed doomed doomed oh dare i say hello you look like a wizard from wizard city am i dreaming you i'm not frab just day i can't talk more or the black back soldiers would punish me they don't seem to scare you do day do you think you could rough a few of them up give me a chance to collect my thoughts nothing punitive you understand since we've already defeated these in another episode i'm just going to um skip until after i've done that so be back in just a sec okay i am back just finished off that life is a misery but watching you do that gave me a small thrill the gorillas are stealing magic from my kin can you go to the treetop village and free the flamingos from their cages okay let us do that we're just gonna mark here because it's pain to get back oh god because there's mobs literally everywhere trying to pull me um so let us hit on back up is number one here is number two and number three is just over here whoop whoop whoop that was close number three number four is over this side top bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop number four and amelior amelior however you say it perhaps we aren't doomed after all prince taziri is lost i bet the overseer knows he stole our eternal flame and uses it to power his spells of compulsion the overseer lurks in that gloomy tower over there go inside also if you see a large ball of eternal flame our ancestors would thank yours for retrieving it okay let us hit on onto the overseas tower and see what we have to do you have to defeat someone probably just kind of unfortunate but it's fine it doesn't shake so it's fine shut up light i'll smoke your heart and crack your bones um he has quite a bit of health though so we will put in a couple of feints let's put to a view and do that it should be fine here is long dream of shaman you can in fact earthquake which is slightly annoying but that's fine this guy also earthquakes so that's fun uh not earthquakes i'm efritz the boss efritz so that's okay yikes efritz straight after that no cool meteor that's fine flip really oh death the spell thanks man thanks bro much appreciated i don't know what's annoying that or earthquake who knows not me probably both together are really annoying and they are blade blade here we go two blades let's we'll get another blade then fire shark okay that's bad this is gonna do a bit yep that's it like the lower end which is good or i just have so much resistance and he has like literally no damage but if he earthquake next i would be so angry thank you for doing it you might go for all instead much better okay faint and then we're not in a hurry so i can probably do a blade and then i hurt in fact we're gonna have to okay the boss can efrit he's probably gonna efrit critical uh oh yikes this is gonna hurt yes he's gonna do a lot this could do a thousand yep i'm lucky unlucky fizzle there boy yay he's dead cool easy peasy full health again as well nice there we go amazing princess been dragged beyond the mammoth gates to the elephant graveyard this is bad yeah that's worse okay let's just click the eternal flame game because it's probably good to do that oh well it doesn't really look like a flame but okay a big rolling ball of magical multicolored flame dances before you hokey dokey then let's go talk to umlilo again and i think we'll probably end off the episode there so yeah let's talk to me lio i'm lilo whatever his name is i can't quite reach the flame through this barrier could you use the flame to dispel it do you feel the flame beating do you understand this burning is our eternal flame yay the overseer said the elephant prince was taken to the graveyard i've heard rumors of the mystical elephant graveyard but i don't know how to find it there is a shadow touched elephant barge at the docks filled with these evil black bricks from the quarry the barge captain axel black trunk likely knows the way to wrap his trunk also take a shot of the eternal flame use it to put the barge out of commission keep those bricks away from stonetown okay um so yeah i'm going to end off the episode here thank you for watching um next episode we will go and we'll go to the barge and possibly finish off um so yeah thank you for watching remember to leave a like and subscribe and if you're very subscribed press the little bell so you know exactly when i post another video and remember craft outside the box


Speaking of up in the air, Matt Ariza punted a ball. I mean, that thing was 72 yards from the line of scrimmage in air, then rolls into the end zone for an 82 yard punt.   Wild. That ball was absolutely slaughtered. Now, some people might say there was a wind behind him. That's what there's a lot of people making excuses for why that wasn't a good punt.  Well, he did a little rollout with a jump punt, kind of like Ozzy rules punt almost. So he's going to try to change the game a little bit. Not sure if he's going to be able to do that in December in Buffalo. Doesn't matter because there's not a lot of motherfuckers doing what he did ever. So I think he should be excited. The punt god said hello to the NFL in beautiful fashion while some other punters and kickers did the complete opposite. But Buffalo's got a team up there.


If Nash, moments ago, our Michael Grady caught up with Jeff Green. All right, Jeff Green, crazy come-from-behind victory. How good does this one feel? Well, it feels great. The way we stuck in it, the way we stayed together, where we just kept chipping in the way. And we got it done on the defensive side, and we got out in transition. We played with pace. And we shared the ball. That was most important. What was the spark that led to this comeback? You guys were down by as many as 24 points. What was the catalyst that turned things around? Tyler came in. He started the game. He played great. That third quarter, beginning of the fourth, he made some key shots that kept us in it. Defensive side, TLC, Bruce, Sam, Joe, they did a great job on CP Devon. So I think it started with the defensive end. As a collective unit, we just stayed together on the defensive side, got in transition. We made some big shots. Jeff, this is the second half of a back-to-back. Your fourth straight win as a team, snapping a six-game winning streak for the Suns to come from behind like this on a night like this. What does it say about this team? Just a group of guys that's hungry. They're going to keep battling, no matter who's out on the floor. You know, we was down on the end of the night, and you know, it was next man up. TJ, like I said, he came in, played some great minutes. Bruce, TLC, we're resilient. We're going to keep battling, and we're going to keep fighting, and that's what we're going to take to continue the win. Jeff, enjoy the win. Thanks so much. We'll see you in LA. Thank you. I appreciate it.