Alright, so I want to talk about why you should think like an editor, but I also think it's a fair question to say why should you think like an editor. It feels a little bit like if you're asking someone to think like an editor, it's like asking someone to think like a dinosaur because there were very few people who used to publish. It was a very restricted class of professionals who did things in a very certain way. And generally speaking it's great that it's been democratized and you have more voices, more diversity, more access. But the trouble I have as someone who is trained sort of classically as a journalist is that there's really not enough yelling. And by that I mean there's not enough yelling, no one is saying who cares, right? And that is one of those things that they really hammer into you. And I'd say like okay the yelling part is a little iffy, but I went to journalism school, I worked as a journalist in the United States and in Italy, in English and Italian. I've worked with editors probably a good dozen nationalities, they're different ages, they're different genders, they're completely different backgrounds, but their mentality is pretty much all the same. And there are really two basic components to it. This is J Jonah Jamison who is also my favorite Spider-Man character, has been since childhood which I think says a lot about me. But they're a lot like this. They ask very direct questions and they're very skeptical. So I like to think of it as kind of like the J Jonah Jamison OS, triple J OS if you want to shorten it, because they all basically think the same way. They're asking you the same questions, they want to know the same stuff, and they're not messing around. So while as an editorial director now, I don't advocate for yelling, I promise, I don't even like all caps type people, which I will say we think is yelling but it's not yelling. It's not throwing a stapler, it's not overturning a desk which are things that I have actually seen. I do have a few sharp angles on these things but it is nothing like what it used to be, which is all good. But I think what we're missing is that grounding in upfront questions and skepticism. So why does this matter here? Why am I talking about this here? Well I have worked in open source for a long time and I'm also a volunteer.  You cannot almost, you almost cannot over communicate. If you're doing it wrong, it means you're either talking not to the right people or you're not talking about it in the right way, you're not hitting the interest. So I also think that the open source community has a huge advantage compared to other sectors which is that we do have a bent and an interest in sharing useful information, which is great but it's not enough. So there are two key components to this triple J OS and they are a lot of skepticism and very blunt questions and they start you on this early.  So this is how deep you have to go.  So some of the best stories I ever wrote as a freelancer in Italy were about questioning certain assumptions and one of them that just came up in the news again was about these baby boxes that they're now having in the US where you can drop off a baby and they first were reborn in Italy, this is over 10 years ago, but people think Italians love family and they think that they have big families and neither of those things are true and you know that if you've been in the country for more than five minutes. The other thing that people tend not to know or remember is that Italy has a centuries old tradition of this. So in Florence they're still a founding wheel, you can see it, it's called the hospital of the innocence and the other interesting thing about it is all the babies who were left there took that name. So it's innocent, innocenti, nocentini, some version of that, right? So you could look at a phone book if anyone actually had a phone book to look at. You can still find people who bear those names, right? So the idea was they were reviving this for a whole host of reasons, but it just wasn't the kind of thing that you would think when you think of Italy, you think of terrible ragu commercials or whatever. You don't think of this and that was really the crux of the story, questioning sort of the base assumptions that people have about Italy for an American audience. So, all right, get to the questions, okay? These are the 5Ws and you do not go to your editor, like JJJ, does not want to hear it if you cannot answer these. And they are who, what, when, where, and why, okay? The interesting thing to me was that I learned these as they called it the 5Ws, but actually they tacked on how. So obviously we're writers because the math does not check out. I'm including it here because when you talk about tech, it's incredibly important. The how is a lot of times everything. Did anybody follow the Theranos scandal? Do you remember how that story broke? I do have it in my back pocket, yes. But yeah, so, so, so, exactly, exactly. So what happened with the Theranos scandal is you've got a Stanford dropout with a Steve Jobs turtleneck, huge amount of venture funding, and everybody thinks this thing is great, right? It takes an old school journalist from the Wall Street Journal, right? To go, wait a minute, how does this actually work? How do you get a machine that can fit in a pharmacy that can take a drop of blood and accurately diagnose everything? That just doesn't pass the if your mother says she loves you, check it out bar at all. And he wasn't an expert, but what we're good at is asking questions and trying to figure stuff out. So he was like, they gave him the gobbledygook. They're patent, they're like, well, well, well, the protective money I pay. And he was like, yeah, that just doesn't make any sense. I can't take that to anybody and ask somebody who really knows this stuff, whether this thing would actually work. And so then he put on his gum shoe and started talking to people behind the scenes, and that's how it came out. So anytime you're talking about tech, I think how has got to be part of it. So just don't worry too much about the math, I guess is what I'm saying. So let's say you've passed the 5W question, your editor's like, okay, do something with this, you've answered the basics. Now you have another consideration and that's the difference between news and a story, right? So news is anything that happens and they can be things that are big and things that are small, like someone's cat dies. Someone loses their phone, someone wins the lottery. But the story is what you make of it, right? So if you're so bereft that your cat, Dubert dies that you start this day that's still happening, that's a story. We've all lost our phones, but how many of us have had them returned by a scuba diver? And the interesting part about this is it was in a waterproof case, so it actually worked, I know, I love this. I'm not really a huge fan of the secret and whatever, but this guy won a significant amount of money because he was house hunting and the address on one of the houses matched his friends and he played the numbers. So, interesting story there. And what used to happen in the kind of newsroom that J. Jonah Jameson ran was there was the wire, the news wire, right? And that thing, it was a machine that sat there in the newsroom and also the editors room and it cranked out stories all day long. It made this terrible grating noise and it was really, really distracting. But the whole point of it was you would be trying to work on something so that your editor would not stomp across the newsroom with a sheet of paper ripped off and say, hey kid, storify this. Because that's when you get the thing about somebody winning the lottery or someone's cat died and there's just the bare bones and you have to try to figure out how to turn it into something. And usually you do that by talking to people, listening to people also works. The bare bones of that is just kind of paying attention, right? And so that sort of leads into what I'm thinking about this week, right? So I think one of the better things about journalism is it's a really practical profession. So I'd like to talk about if someone at home, at work is expecting to come out with something from this event, how you might try to go about it, right? And we've all been here all week, right? There were 13 microconferences. What sessions stood out? What keynotes were there? How do you figure out what to turn around quickly? So a skeptical editor also does not want to see your post about this a month from now. So trying to figure out what you're gonna say about what happened this week soon is actually pretty critical. So there really are different ways that you can do this. And to me, the gold standard is there's actually a story like capital N news that comes out of something and you lead with that. This is not a middle school book report, right? Or a field trip thing. Skeptical editor does not want to see something that starts with like, I went to Dublin and blah, blah, blah. So in this example, this is from Defconn of last year. And if you check out the URL, I don't think the reporter was actually there. I have the suspicion that the YouTube video is like five days older than this that maybe some intern, this is the reading the wire of today, was checking out these things and this came out of it. Now, they actually did make the phone calls and follow up with people and do the emails and stuff. So they fleshed out the story. But the event itself, there's nothing about, it doesn't say I went to Defconn and it happened five days ago and it was in this town and blah, blah, blah. Like this is, you've taken this out of it and you could do something with it. The other thing I would think if you're on a small team, you should get at least three posts from an event like this, like minimum. Because you should tell people you're coming, why are you here, right? Again, we're getting back to what's the point? Like you came here, someone sent you here, you had to get travel approval, why? Like what are you looking forward to? What are you going to participate in? Are you speaking? Do you have a booth? Are you on a special interest group? Like what? Okay, so you should tell people that so they know and look for you. Then there should be a couple of posts that come out of something. This is obviously the big thing. But if you sat through keynotes and you don't have a post, you were not paying attention. I'm not saying, this is the thing when you're talking about what of this is that you don't have to cover the whole thing, right? No one went to the 13 microconferences, no one cares about that. They set you here for a reason, focus on that, okay? So again, I think that what of this can also be a little bit way more focused actually and the keynotes like honestly, you have to come up with something. So is this anyone's first OSS? Cool, that's awesome. I wasn't expecting so many newcomers, okay? So when you saw this on the schedule, you were like, what is this, right? If it's not your first OSS, you know that there's going to be something there, right? You probably even if it's your first OSS, you have an inkling, right? Because of who's involved that there's going to be something coming out of it. But if you've been to more than one of these, the whole point is you know something, you just don't know what, because they haven't told you. So this is like one of these things that you have to kind of know to look for. But there was a 25 minute conversation between these two. I think I tweeted at least three or four things. You could easily, like who's here for security? Anybody, like working on the kernel, anybody doing, what brings you here? Okay, okay, cool. Okay, anybody else? Interesting, so you were on all the OSPO stuff, right? Very interesting, yeah, okay. Yeah, well, I think a lot of us always feel like we're sort of newbies, but so that's cool. Anybody else? Awesome, okay. So from those examples, there's nothing from this keynote that I would particularly pull out, but it was, yeah, it was a 25 minute session. He talked about boring software, and this stood out to me because I think it was three or four years ago, Kelsey Hightower, who if any of you ever get the chance to hear him, like he is the master of keynotes. He gave a whole thing in a container conference that was about how it's great because the technology is now boring. And because he's so good, it's stuck in my head. So to hear this, I was like, here it is again. I could probably find the Kelsey quote. I could probably see if anybody else has just been me that I haven't been going to these conferences and people are talking about it because virtual conferences are terrible, or is this actually a thing? But you could use something like this to peg a whole story. Like again, you don't have to cover everything. But if you want to, this was something that we typically did at the Open Stack Foundation, and this was our event. It lasted five days. We had thousands of people, and we would do these massive, massive recaps. And this is a group effort. So if you're here with other people on your team, you get a collaborative doc, and you figure out what the points you're going to highlight. But what I would like you to notice is that it's focused on the reader. It's not saying, we did this, we were there, blah, blah, blah. No. It's what you need to know, right? The other interesting thing is we kept the intro super short, but there's still a detail about the Melbourne Cup, which is Australia's premier horse race. So it's like Ascot or a Kentucky Derby, depending on your geographical reference. So there was a moment, and there was photos in this that were fantastic, because you had this highfalutin horse crowd with people with hoodies, and we're all in the same place. It's hilarious, right? The whole point also about the when of these stories is this is never going to happen again. This is it. You're never going to be at a place where there's this horse race and 5,000 tech people for Open Stack Foundation. This is it. So you've got to get it, right? The other thing I want you to notice is that there are four sections to this that we devised, thinking about what kind of readers. There's not one reader. There are four different kinds of readers. And actually, the most annoying thing about this whole project is the formatting, and the editing of this is a nightmare, because people throw in different bits and bobs and everybody has a different style, and it's up to the editor to make sure that it's all coherent. The anchor links, I always hated them. They're terrible. But the point is, no one's expecting you to slog through the whole thing, right? So let's say you've answered the 5Ws. You figured out what you're going to talk about. The next thing the editor is going to say in terms of the next, so what? Because there's this endless series of like, yeah, and, and, and, and. They're going to ask you for the details, like what makes this fun? What made this? Was it the Melbourne Cup? What was it, right? And that is color. They're always going to ask you to add some color. So this week, let's see. What have I got? A Guinness glass. I'm hopefully not taking COVID home with me.  There's always something, you know? There was one conference where we got snowed in, and there was like the hashtag, a snowpocalypse. They're like, there's always something, right? And so you once you've sort of figured out who your reader is and why they should be there, you really do want to give them a sense of like why you came. Because that's, again, it not only promotes your work, but it just gives people a reason of why you're there. One thing that I skipped over and I'm going to go back to is the who of the 5Ws. And that can cover who you're talking to or who the subject of the story is. But it's also who, who's your reader? Like, are you writing this for your, for your company, for your clients, for your friends, your frenemies, your future employer? Like what, who is this for, right? And if you keep that in mind, it tends to get a lot more focused. I was really struggling to find some good examples of posts that people had written on their own personal blogs after these events. And again, I see it over and over. It's like, you know, this is my summer vacation essay. No, no one wants to see that. No one wants to read that. It's not interesting, right? And I think there's just a lot of stuff that ends up getting sort of left on the floor because people don't focus it, right? So again, the quickest way to get one of those five takeaways posts is to think about literally what you're taking away, right? And again, let's hope it's not something bad.  So like, did it feel like business as usual? Was this the last blowout before everybody sort of hunkers down for the winner when we try again? And then the technical things, like what technical challenges were people talking about? You know, people were excited about what? And so I am in favor of shortcuts and any editor will tell you to take shortcuts, like smart shortcuts. And Twitter is great for this.  Like it's easy just to review it and be like, what did I tweet? What did I retweet? What do I want to go back and look at? And if you're not a Twitter person, meaning you don't tweet, you have no excuse, you need to use something like TweetDuck and set up the hashtag for the summit and set up hashtags for our topics that you're interested in in the columns and just let it rip. Because it serves as sort of a reminder of all the things you've seen. And it's like the best news wire ever. You know, like Reuters doesn't have a patch on Twitter for this kind of stuff. You could really go granular and get a lot of great content. The other thing is, again, it's about you and your perspective, but it's not all about you because you can easily embed stuff from other people. And it's kind of like you're quoting them. You get the great bits from other people and you can say what you thought about them. That's a really valid way to slap together something quickly that's also focused. So an example of this, an editor will also always tell you, show, don't tell. Now, we're not pretending that this is like a bit of scientific research here folks. So, like I said, you can be personal. You're not on trial. This isn't a wire service. But one thing that I noticed because I have not been in person in an event since February 2020, which was the Geneva UN partnerships, humanitarian partnerships program, so completely different vibe. And there were no masks. There was like these big hand sanitizer stations. We were sort of spaced out to get into the event, but Europeans, lots of cheek kissing, lots of hands shaking. You weren't supposed to do it, but people just weren't in that mindset. We still really had no idea what it was gonna mean. So here we are, are now, masked, doing it. And I have not seen this kind of thing at a lot of conferences where the idea is that you dictate how much physical contact and what kind you want, which honestly, we should have done this 20 years ago. I would hugely welcome this. I had a lot of, again, my Texas colleagues were big huggers, not my thing. And if you kind of put a badge without having to have some long embarrassing conversation about it, much better. Yesterday, I walked by and I noticed, again, not scientific, but I'm showing you, not telling you, that there were a lot of greens gone. The yellows were also mostly gone, but there were way more reds, and there weren't even any green buttons left, folks. And that tells me, again, I'm not, you know, that people were more in the mood for more contact and they were feeling relaxed and okay about it. People abided by the mask rules, people were cool about it. But this is not something that you saw previously, right? So this is, again, another detail that you could use about this, to tell part of the story, at least, in a way that adds some detail. So I think, unless someone wanted to buy, so I do believe in editing, I do believe in writing, I do believe in content. I also love digital, because we all make mistakes. So I don't know if anyone actually managed to spot the typo in my bio, because I have a special prize for you before we get to the questions, if you want. Nobody? It's pretty bad, because I do like deadlines, and I work well to deadlines, but calls for papers are just the worst.  So yeah, there's a huge typo. And there's also open source with the hyphen, which I'm profoundly conflicted about, but we can talk about that. But yeah, I spotted that a couple of days ago, and I just thought, ugh, and it didn't seem like enough to try to make them go back and fix. So I did have a special prize, if someone wanted to point it out. What questions do you have for me? What challenges are you facing with marketing? Okay, so the comment is, I believe in content, I want to create good content, but you're unclear about the channels and how to get it out, right? Yes, yeah, I think there's definitely, so the comment is, again, how do you get to be an influencer? Like why is no one caring about my content? Which is huge, but I do think there is value in being consistent, in having an editorial calendar, in figuring out where you are in the world, what time to post things. Like it is amazing to me that I'm based in San Francisco, we think we're the center of the world, but we're actually at the end of it, and people will post things at three o'clock in the afternoon. Like in Asia, they're in the future already, it's already tomorrow, like what are you thinking? So I do believe there's a value in setting up a structure for things, and then, and being consistent, being consistent, you're, you know, like the, I wouldn't sweat the traffic so much as I would really try to have good content. So who are the people who might be interested in your project? Like what do you, are you trying to get financing or adopters or what? Adopters, adoptions, adoptions. Okay. I would rather spend all the money on building off the published channel. That's a really interesting point, because if you actually have the channels working but your content is terrible, it doesn't matter. And I really do think on, there's so much stuff like, you know, Twitter advertising, a lot of it just doesn't work. So my suggestion about that would be to figure out where your people go to read stuff. So that, that story from DEF CON, like that was hacker news stuff. So if you can get something that goes on hacker news, like you're good. What are your people reading hacker noon, hacker news? Like you're better off spending time trying to get the people where they are, then establish the channels.  I'm sorry, I lost you. Say that again? Correct. I'm talking about spending extra money on building the, like say, look, we have a network of Twitter influencers so that you can spread the news faster and broader. Right, so does anybody think that DEFs are really, open source DEFs are really on Twitter? You do? Or yeah, I'm kind of skeptical. Go figure. See, so we're getting back to the who, what, and when or this, it depends on the community. So what I see at Intel is known on Twitter, like our guys don't use Twitter, they don't care about it. People do like LinkedIn, because again, I think LinkedIn is, in my mind, it depends on the project, what you're trying to do, but I think it's undervalued. The value in LinkedIn is you get a lot of people who sort of, that's where you show off and make yourself look good to your coworkers or your future employer. And people put up some great content on there for that reason. And I remember at the OpenStack Foundation, we got actually quite a bit of traction because if your company's investing, OpenStack was not like this thing that you took out of the box. So if they're investing in it, and it's a huge project and they've got people on it, your update as the head of this project or the head of engineering or whatever is valuable because you're telling the company what you're actually doing.  Look at what we're doing. Like this thing is, look at the number of cores we got. Like this thing is actually on. Like it's actually working. And LinkedIn works great for that. For adoption, I think your channels, but I mean, I'm interested to hear what other people have to say. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. This is kind of from Google putting an event. And so all of our engineering team are like, yeah, we need to be presenting this event. How do we get to present it? How do we get travel approval? Yeah. But then when we're kind of talking to the VPs and the people who actually sign the checks, they're like, what is this chit chat on Twitter? We're not interested. Until some VP of Google wrote something on LinkedIn that we could point to. Right, so it's been a both. Yeah. Like from my perspective, it's not one or the other.  So the comment is sort of this top-down, bottom-up thing about the different channels and how they work. Because again, all of your people who actually are involved in this project could be on Twitter. But the people who approve you to go to a conference where you speak and you're showing it off and you're driving adoption are like, man, what is this thing? There's a bunch of guys in the corner on Twitter, right? Like, we're VPs, we're not on it and we don't care. So again, it wasn't until somebody saw it on LinkedIn that they said, oh yeah, let's send these folks. So I definitely think there's value in that. I mean, to drive adoption, developer adoption for an open source project, yeah. Thank you, subreddit, yes. Yeah, yeah. So the comment is about how you actually find these people and the comment was super spot on because the idea is we all want to be in wired and that's great. But before you get into wired, you've got to get enough people interested and involved in your project. And the way you do that is through, again, old school things like mailing lists. It's probably, you probably, there are probably some that you're already on already, right? That you don't even think like, hey, we could get featured in this. That matters infinitely more than spending what we were saying like $10 million is some crazy thing to get featured by, who's the influence? Like, I don't know, again, like if Kelsey Hightower is like, yeah, this is great. Like, okay, you're good, but that's unlikely. We don't have, he's not that kind of influencer, right? And I think in open source, we don't have people who shill that have any credibility. It's not the Kardashian thing where you're gonna move lipstick or underwear or something like you're trying to get people to get involved in this project. And so that comment is absolutely spot on because you're getting adoption from the places where people hang out. And again, I do think it's worth spending time on Reddit. I do think it's worth spending time on Stack Overflow. If you have any adopters, is anybody answering questions? Like that's content too, yeah. Have things they need to say so Delta can work with a writer? So the question is if you've got technical folks who don't produce content and you're an editorial person who needs to produce that comment, how do you do that? I feel in a lot of places, people just don't know that they're writers and also people willing to listen to them. I think I have actually, I got a couple of really great stories from people mailing this threads. Gosh, IRC when that was actually still hopping, I would see stuff, people would say stuff and I'd be like, well, what? You did what? And if you go and say, like, tell me about this thing, people will. I also feel like there has to be in this, much of this depends on the company, like how much legal, how much infrastructure you need, like the legal approval and all this stuff, you need to be able to sort of usher people through that process, but nine times out of 10, they need to know there's someone there and someone who's gonna listen to them and that actually people are interested because I feel like I can't tell you how many times I've come across somebody doing something really cool and they're just kind of keeping it to themselves because they don't get that it's a story, like this could, again, it's the open source thing, it just could actually be useful for someone and you go, wait a minute, you did, you made what? You did what? What? And they're like, oh yeah, no, no, no. The thing I said most often at the OpenStack Foundation was that's a post. I would go, we would sit on these team meetings and a largeish team and invariably, like that's a thing, we need to do that and they go, really? And I go, yeah, we're not only do we need to do that but we're doing it. And you get pretty good results but I think that it's, a lot of it depends on the company, if you've got the structure, do people know, do you have competent technical editors? Because I think that it's, I am fascinated by learning to write professionally in a second language and publishing in a second language but the road is long, my friends, it is hard. So I've worked with writers from all over the world, probably the heaviest lift was this thing called the Denim Bible. It's like 800 pages long and it's all about genes. So never again. But you work with people who are using English as a second language from all over the world, you've also got to bake that in. I think there's a lot of people, it's great that we have a global community but you really have to also tell people that you're gonna make them look good, right? That you're not gonna, and you've got technical editors also have to be up to speed because I will tell you that as an editor who's technical enough, there have been times when I'm like, is that preposition right? Because I don't know exactly should it be of this thing or by this thing or for this thing? And you need really good editors, technical editors, probably with a technical background to be able to distinguish that. So I think there's also that, like nobody wants to take something that they've made in the world and look foolish, right? So you've got to assure people that your main job is to make them look good.  And I think there's a lot of fear around that in the technical community really more than you would think. Yeah. People like trying to promote our stuff. Yeah. And there's a lot of content here that you just... Yeah, for sure.  Right, right. ...producing is more like focusing on one good piece of content and getting it out to many channels. No, I'm sure there are folks in this room who have different opinions, but I believe in consistency. If you do something, you need to publish something about it. But I also wanted to leave you, I hope you guys will write some cool stuff about this event and you can get in touch with me. The buddy edit is your friend. So you don't have professional editors but another set of eyes of people in your company what you really need to do in that situation is like assign somebody a buddy and take turns editing stuff because nine times out of 10, something cheap and cheerful or free even like grammarly, especially if you're not writing in English as a first language, that and another pair of eyes from your own company will fix it. Like it'll be good enough. I mean, it doesn't have to be perfect. This is not the New York Times. You just have to get your point across and be succinct about it. So that would be my recommendation. I don't know if anybody else has some thoughts on that. The Hemingway app. Oh, the Hemingway app if you like that. I'm not such a huge fan, but Hemingway, Grammarly. Yeah, Hemingway, yeah. I'm not, so there are the point of this. Hemingway is another one, but Grammarly is good, solid, simple. I would recommend you try some of these apps, especially if you're writing in English as a second language and a buddy, another person from your company who knows the material to edit. And consistency. Consistency, so. Getting something out like regularly. Yeah, and don't publish at weird times and don't publish on a Monday and don't publish on a Friday and like all that sort of comes in stuff, yeah. Yeah, so I took this left. Yes, ooh. We're on deadline, folks. Right, yeah. So I have a question that you would just like. Okay, so, okay. So I will tell you I, so the question is how do you track this stuff? How do you know what you're doing works, right? And do you use OKRs or KPIs?  I think being too analytics driven really misses the point. You will be able to tell with the driver adoption, with getting your talks accepted, with people showing up, which is not something, frankly, I was expecting today, but thanks, everyone. That's how you will know. I think a lot of this stuff, if you're too data driven on this, you're missing the point. And part of it is in the beginning, you have to feel your way into understanding what content people want from you. I've been at Intel since May and I run the Twitter account and I'm just like trying stuff out. I have no idea. And until they tell me to do it differently, I'm going to keep trying stuff. Yeah. Last question. Yeah. I saw you nodding. You're like, yeah, testify. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. So the question is, you have VP's and they want to say everything's the greatest and a lot of people, it seems like sometimes, the higher you go, like the crunkier the writing is. And that's not all the time, but it happens a lot of the time. So I think what I do, if I think it's going to be contentious, this is really a simple solution. I also do this when I'm editing people who are English as a second language. I'll put the content in a column. So I will completely rewrite the whole thing, hit it with the simple stick. What, you're not? I will, because they see. Because they see and if they give you, they see the difference. They see the difference in the way it looks and if they still hate it, I have pushed back to try to let me try this because they honestly, they don't know and I should know. That's why I'm there. That's why you hired me. So if you let me try this and see what happens, then they see because it's hard to be simple and talk about tech, but the simpler you are, the more direct you are. I also think for an open source, we're a relatively new team now back at Intel and we're defining this and I'm pushing to be simple and direct and minus the gobbledygook and all the marketing speak because it does not work in any of these communities. People hate it, it's immediately off-putting and we're a legacy company. People are expecting us to be like all gobbledygook and boring and so the whole thing is to try to be straightforward and simple. So I think it's part, you have to get the mandate and you part have to show them what it actually looks like and then make sure that they're reading stuff that's good. Show them your, if you find competitors of stuff that you like and be like, look, they're doing it like this, like find somebody good and that would be where I would stop with that. So thank you everybody.


Favorite quarterback growing up was Drew Brees. What, really? I thought you were going to say a cowboy. I love Romo, but Drew Brees. My modeling inspiration for that hot living cover shoot was? Honestly, I don't know. They had a stylist do it, so he kind of helped me. But I really wasn't going for anything. The player I look up to most in the league today is? God, it's a good one. It was Tom Brady. That's tough.  I thought he was a heck of a player. So I'm excited to see what he does this year. I think they'll get back on track. You didn't say Rogers. I thought you might say Rogers. Russell Wilson. The thing I want most people to know most about me is what? Just how much I love this game and just how much this means to me and how excited I am for this opportunity. And they're going to get everything I got.


My name is Judy Versus and I'm the Executive Vice President of the Research, Publishing, and Platforms business for Wiley. I am really excited to have the opportunity to speak at Enago's inaugural web conference called See the Future. I think we all know the current global pandemic is just one of the many things making the future of the research ecosystem hugely unpredictable. So when we get together we're going to talk about that unpredictability, what's behind it, some of the other trends going on in the market, but most importantly we're going to focus on how we can navigate through it together. I really hope you can join us. So if you haven't already booked your free place at the conference, make sure you go to the Enago See the Future website where you can register and also look for the hashtag See the Future for updates on the conference. I personally look forward to seeing you there on November 17th and 18th.


Hey, what's up guys? As you can see my wrist is in a thing. Those of you who don't know I have arthritis, I have issues with my joints. My hand is locked into place a lot and currently my wrist is in a lot of pain. I've had my pain meds and I'm gonna have to wear this today because the pain is too much for me. I'm vlogging because I want to show that I can still manage. And this is one of the things that actually gets me really, really down at times. I'm 20 and I have issues with my joints and it scares me because I'm only 20. What's going to happen in the future? But you know you have to pull through, you have to manage and kind of why I'm vlogging this because I think it's such an important thing. So yeah, get the mail shall we? This vlog is about my physical health issues which you can see I have this on my hand today. I don't talk about my physical health very often. I talk more about mental health than that and how it impacts me. Today I wanted to show you that I do have physical health stuff and it impacts my mental health. My anxiety is so bad because when I have this on I get scared that people are judging me and thinking she's too young to have these health conditions. I don't know, it just really impacts me in a very negative way and the negativity of it just pisses me off. I very often won't wear this because I get so afraid of judgment. Recently I've actually started to get more confidence with myself and started wearing it because when I wear this it saves a lot of pain. I have a lot of pain in my hands. The pain I have in my hands is unbearable and I have a lot of pain medication. I don't talk about my physical health enough and I want to start and this vlog is kind of me introducing the subject. So yeah, I'm waiting for my train as well and I'm vlogging in public on my own and proud of myself. I know why it's so nice not being in pain and I might have to start wearing it. I'm going to do the next one. I've only had one person comment so far on it. There was some random person in the street that said, oh it's your hand. I was like, yeah, it's fine. Just out of the right, you should know. Living life. And he said, oh you're quite young. I was like, yeah, I know. It's pretty sudden in his life. It's a bit, isn't it? Yep. So pretty helpful. Don't want this one. How on the next one? Not the next one. The one after. Oh god. How many minutes were you? I don't want to use my hands. Door 3. Doors opening.  Welcome back to my channel.  Today I'm talking about my arthritis and I spoke briefly about this previously. I've never done a dedicated video on this subject because I've always been so afraid of judgment because I get a lot of comments from both people I know, people I've been with and just people who are part of my class say, hey you're too young to have arthritis. And it's a hard thing. Imagine having this condition that is known for affecting older people and being 20. I was 17 when I was diagnosed with arthritis. I'm 20 now and being 20 and knowing that I've been diagnosed with this condition for three years, it doesn't bother me anymore. The pain, it hurts. I have pain medication. I have been to physiotherapy. I have exercises I have to do. I have a wrist splint. I can't do things that other people can do. I couldn't go rock climbing if I wanted to. I couldn't go bowling if I wanted to. I find it very hard to do handwritten stuff after a bit because my arm just hurts. The pain in my joints is so unreal. So I have to use a laptop a lot at the time. And being the only person in a class of around 10 people that uses a laptop, it's a bit hard. What has been, I found at uni, it's been harder than it was at college. And the reason being is everyone uses notebooks. Everyone just writes it down.   And I don't want to talk too much about how it's affecting my studies because I am getting used to it again. I try my best with what I do. And another thing is, is when I'm filming, because of my degree, I do film production, I can't hold the cameras. I can't set up the tripods we have. And that's what is really hard about it.   And it's so hard.  And when I was first diagnosed with it, that was when my mental health really declined. That year was the same year I stopped eating. It was the same year myself. Harm got really bad. It was the same year I moved out of my mom's. The same year I got kicked out of my mom's. It was the same year that I tried to kill myself. It was the first ever serious suicide attempt I made. I was 17. And it was after I had that diagnosed because I got convinced that it was going to be all my life. And it had stopped me doing a lot of things.  It causes a lot of issues to me. I don't wear the wrist splint as much as I should because I get very, I don't know if it's very weird, but I get very ashamed of it. I get very self-conscious. I get feeling that people are judging me. And because I automatically assume the worst in every situation, I get very, very anxious about it. It has really, really impacted my mental health. And people don't understand how much it affects me. Being only 20 and getting told that, hey, you've got this incurable thing with your joints that's only going to get worse with time, it's hard. It really is because I can't do a lot of the things that people my age can do. I can't and I can't do anything to change that. And accepting that is so hard. I can't even stand here and say that I'm over it, that I'm used to it. Because I'm not, like, to a point, like, pain. I can do it, but I'm so used to it now. Because I've had pains in, like, my wrists since I was about 12, so that's gone on for a long time. But no, it's just knowing that I've got this issue that I will never be able to get over, it affects me. And it scares me because in my mind I'm like, well, things are this bad now. How are they going to be in 10 years, in 20 years?  And it's like, it's all right for you to joke and I'll have a lung, but it's fucking, it's hard. And I haven't sworn this much in a video in a long time. Yesterday was the first day since I moved to London that I've worn the wrist splint out. And that sounded like such a small achievement, but for the last month that I've lived in London, I haven't worn it at all. I've been too afraid to go out wearing it because I've been too afraid of judgment. And then yesterday I was in so much pain, I was like, I can't keep doing this to myself. And I just wore it. And the people who commented on it was very nice about it. The people who were hanging around were very unique. They was amazing and supportive. And they actually helped me a lot because I was in a lot of pain yesterday, as I mentioned. I was in a lot of pain when I was taking notes and they ended up just taking a photo of it then and sending it to me in the group chat and saying, don't worry, I'm in pain, just tell us what to write. And it sounds bad, but just having someone offered to be able to felt amazing because throughout my education, I've always had people around me being like, oh, you can just do it like this, you can do it in a way. And it's all well and good saying, I'll just use a laptop or just voice recording. But having something that makes you act differently in a class is very hard. It's not the same as, but it's very similar to if you have an interpreter because you're deaf or if you're blind, so you have a guide. It's very similar when you have people judging you because you can't physically write something. It's not the same judgment, but it feels very directed because you are in the minority of the group because I am only 20 and my class is younger than me. I'm one of the oldest people in my class and it's just hard because I do have this health condition and it is only going to get worse with time and I'm currently filming a horror show and I can't hold the camera equipment and I feel kind of useless. And while I know I'm not and I know I'm doing a lot of the other stuff and they're happy with me doing that, I just feel like I'm not contributing enough and it just really gets me down and it really does. It's probably one of the only things in my health that affects me. The dissociation is a big issue. Anxiety is a big issue. Food is a big issue and arthritis is a huge issue. Depression is an issue, but it's nothing. I'm not used. I can deal with that. PTSD, I can deal with that. What I can't deal with is the arthritis because it is physical.  I get so afraid of judgment. It makes my anxiety worse. When I can't physically do it, I'm in pain just writing. I get so frustrated with myself.  And it's one of the things that really, I need to have my medication. I keep shaking. Oh my God. It really, really does affect me and people don't understand how bad things can be. When you have issues with your physical health and you have people around you joking about it, you laugh along, you pretend that you're fine with it and then when you're alone you just get so upset and it makes you feel horrible. I had one person who was very close to me make a joke. Well, you see he could be 70. And I know I keep saying that. That's one comment that really irritates me because it does affect a lot of people and it's not just older people that affect. I guess younger people are the minority with the condition, but I don't like it. When that was said to me, I remember going home after a weekend and I just cried. I was like, I can never go back to how I was before. I can never go back to writing pages and pages and pages of where. I can never go back to just drawing for fun when I want to. I have to do it. I can draw still, but I can do it a bit at a time. I can't do it all in one go. And just being in this position is horrible. It is horrible. It's the worst thing ever.  I do think that when that was diagnosed it made my health a lot worse.  Because yes, I had an answer as to why I was in so much pain, but I was also told that I could never get better from it. I could do things to improve it, but it would eventually get worse. And I don't know. I'm 20. I don't know. I really don't. If anyone else is struggling with something like this, just know you're not alone. If anyone's struggling with anything, you're not alone. Throw out people out there and you can get through it. I'm not going to say that it gets easier. It definitely gets a bit easier with time, but it's hard.  I'm going to do a bit of self-promoing now, so love me. If you're new here, hit the subscribe button. I do a lot of mental health content. This is kind of the exception. Physical health, this is. But mental health is my main content type. I started the second channel. I'm starting a second channel Wednesday this week. And yeah. I wrote a book this year. It's linked in the description. There'll be a new book coming out this year, which I'm excited for. It should be out at the end of this month. If not, start next month. I also have a Twitter and Instagram and Facebook if you don't want to follow me on that. It's linked in the description. Leave a comment down below if any video requests or questions you may have, and I will answer them in my next video or in a future video if they're a question. Or if it's a video request, I'll make that. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. Right. I'm going to get back into my pajamas and take off the top from yesterday because I wanted this video to be consistent. So I like put on yesterday's top. Now I'm going to get back into bed because I'm tired. Okay. I'm so tired.  I think I should do the hand thing because I did a hand thing. Okay.


Wait remind me when do I shift to first as soon as the lights drop that's usually when I do it just because we had cars stacked up the next car is white three wide you're in the middle tires got cold that last lap was at 134.46 well done andrew nice movement three minutes remaining 15 minutes to go great driving keep it up matching race pace b3 car in front lap time is at 126.54 faster slap for taylor 126.13 the gap to white ahead is increasing it's now 1.8 seconds away Charles so far the only place I find I can pick up ground on you is a place that I cannot pass you you're getting a nice little footprint here yeah time was 125.3 behind is pitting okay andrew you're rigging white in the gap is <IP_ADDRESS> I'm not paying attention to you andrew my crew chief said it she'll go away if I ignore you I think I almost went away right there 4.4 that lap was at 125.92 that's weird I could not figure out how to make that car go fast oh I did it again left side what do you like oh I thought you were there so I didn't come over left side clear left that's all right all right clear right did your tires get cold the gap to taylor ahead is increasing it's now oh yeah you're good probably one of the most I've ever been in the zone right now not now chief I'm in the fucking zone all right I'm waiting up I'm waiting up for the boys for the boys all right I'm going okay andrew yeah I've got to run here oh I did it again I keep going wide on that turn five minutes to go I just did it there yellow flag keep me waiting about you mate on your left player left the car is like moving all over the track right now it like it's like randomly changing locations but like in a very close range it seems to have stopped though I think that is the spot that you want to clear right make sure you get a good run on place I forgot I really like this track just a snap call that trying to carry there keep it coming I was starting to see taylor and was getting excited oh I was not watching the track again oh man I actually don't know I don't know what I was doing right there I was just like I don't know thinking about something else this car is so adjustable on throttle I mean it's just the nose starts to push wide you lift off a little bit like I mean it's just oh the are you driving the mclaren yeah yeah yeah it's it's the best car in here I think well as far as handling the way you want it to handle or handling like a meata I guess I should say yeah you're doing good man I could not figure out how to make that car go fast so we did it when the clock runs out it's two laps yeah this will be your last lap the cap to taylor the head is increasing it's now 6.8 yeah this was a really fast lap let's see what I can get 124 ah damn it 125 for it so you fastest lap for white 124.88 that lap time was 125.48 yeah your car does not like that area of the track for some reason I am am bitches yeah it's behind us now 1.0 I've done a great great drive left side clear left


In this video, we're going to see another application, another typical application of the tuple data type. So previously, I told you that tuples are like immutable lists, so whenever you use a list, but you don't need immutability, I suggested that you would use a tuple instead, because this forces you to write code that doesn't change the value of a tuple. But there's a second view of how we want to use tuples, and that is that of a so-called record of data. So let me give you an example, and then you will easily understand that. So tuples as records is what we call the file. So suppose the following. You have two values, two independent values that have to be modeled together all the time to constitute some meaning. So for example, think of a Cartesian plane, so an x and y coordinate. So a point in a Cartesian plane usually is known by its coordinates like an x and y coordinate, right? So given only one of them, you don't know what the point is, so it doesn't make sense to view a point as only one number. It has to be two numbers. So let's say a point in the Cartesian plane, how can you model that? Well, obviously we call it x and y in math, but how could you model that in Python with what you have learned so far? Well, one way would be to use, for example, a list. So let's say if I want to model a point, let's say as an example, the point 1, 2. That is the point you want to model as a Python product, as a Python object. We could write that as a list object with 1, 2 in it, for example. That could be a point. However, I told you that it's not such a good idea to use something that can be mutated if you don't plan on mutating it. So if a point is, let's say, a position 1, 2, and you know for sure that you don't want to change the coordinates because every point has unique coordinates that don't change throughout its lifetime, then probably it's a better way to use a tuple. So let's say 1, 2 would also be a nice model of this point, and also it looks kind of like a tuple because in math notation, when you write a tuple, we usually use parentheses. So why not make Python code look like math? Well, that's a false friend. You should not model something a certain way just because it looks nice. There should be some other reasoning behind that. So let's assume the following. We know that this view of a data point as a collection of fields, this is what we call a record. So maybe let's summarize that here. It's like an important idea. So a collection of so-called, let's call it fields is a record. Now, where do these fields and records appear most often? So how can you think of them in real life? So another example would be, let's say, think of an Excel file that I have for my course and in the Excel file every row is a student. And I may have a column, let's say, for your first name. And then I have another column for the student's last names. And I have another column for the student's age and so on and the grades and whatever. So in this Excel file or CSV file, every row is a record, a record of a student. That is another example of what a record is. So let's first take the example of the Cartesian plane here and then also make a second example of modeling students in a class. So we agree that a record is a collection of independent, otherwise independent fields that only together make sense. And let's assume we don't want to change them. If we later on want to also change the values of a record throughout its lifetime, then you have to wait until chapter 11 classes because that is a good application of object orientation. But for now, let's simply assume we want to model records that we don't want to change after we created them. So we're going to use tuples, but tuples do not tell a story. So there is a better way to do that. And the better way is to use something from the standard library. There is a module in the standard library called the collections module. And it has something in it called named tuple. So a named tuple already sounds like it is related to a tuple and it is. So maybe let's go ahead and let's also maybe before we do that, give the point a name up here because we are going to compare it to what we are about to build. So how can we use a named tuple? So what the named tuple function here does is it is a function that creates for you something that we would refer to as a class in chapter 11. But for now, we can also refer to that as a constructor. So remember in chapter two, we said callables are built-in functions, constructors and user-defined functions. So constructors are simply things we can call. And constructors are used to create objects of a new data of this data type. And similarly, we are now going to create our own constructor. That is how you can think of it. And more formally, this would be known as a class. So let's do that. Let's create a class or a constructor that is called point as a point in a plane, for example, in the XY plane. So a point is defined as a tuple. So as a named tuple that has a name. So the name is usually also the variable. So usually the variable could be anything, but usually the variable that we store the constructor in and also the name of the constructor usually is the same. So if you don't know what to put here, simply put the same thing here as a string. So to indicate that this is the name of the constructor. And then we are going to give it a list. It can be any attribute, but we give it a list. And in the list, we are going to define as string objects the fields.  So let's do it like that. X and Y. And now I'm going to run the cell. And the result of that is that I now have a point class, a point constructor. So what can I do with that? Well, quite easy. I'm calling it a constructor because we can use it to construct new objects. So let's do that. Let's construct a point in the same way as we would construct, for example, in the same way as we would use any other built-in constructor, we would call it. So it's callable. And so it's another example of a callable. And let's go ahead and give it the two values one and two, because we want to model the point one, two. And we get back a representation that is a bit nicer than simply the tuple notation up here. So if I ask Python what is P, then P is one comma two, which looks kind of nice. Looks like in math, but it's really a tuple notation. And here we see that one comma two is a point. So it tells more of a story. And it says one comma two has a meaning. It has the meaning of X and Y. So let's go ahead and store that in a variable. Let's call it point in lower case. And now let's compare the two. Let's compare P and point. So what can we do with it? So I will do that with by reviewing the four properties every sequence has because tuples are sequences and named tuples are also sequences. So what are the four properties? Well, the four properties are at first the container property. So let's check that. This is the in operator. So let's check if the number zero or the number one is in P. And it is. Let's check if the number one is in point in lower case point, right? And it is. So in other words, named tuple behaves like a tuple when we use the in operator. Second, let's use the second property, the size property. And the size property basically means the object supports being passed to the length function as an argument. So let's ask what is the length of P. And the answer is two because there are two coordinates in a point. Let's ask what is the length of point lower case point. It's also two. Okay. So it works. Let's look at a couple of more properties. Let's see if we can loop over them. So if I say for coordinate in P print coordinate, this works. I can loop over it. Let's see if I can loop over it in reverse and let's see if I can loop over point as well. And it also works. Okay. And now let's quickly do that. Also the fourth property, I wanted to refute the four properties, which I call reversible. And we can simply check that by using the reverse built in and we can pass P to it and we don't get an error message. There's no type error. It works. And we could also say we could also reverse point lower case also works. So what do we learn from that? So the consequences named tuples behaves just like normal tuples. That's the big consequence that we are over at the big conclusion. And also all the other things that you can do with tuples, you can do with named tuples as well. However, named tuples also model the semantics. So what is the semantics of the problem here? The semantics are really here that a coordinate is really an x and a y. So how can we use that? Well, we could ask the point, what is its x coordinate? And I get back one. I could also ask the point, what is its y coordinate? And I get back two. Okay. So by defining up here when I defined the point constructor, by defining x, y or x and y Python remembers that. So the point object, the lower point object now also has an x and a y attribute on it. And just to compare that, if I try to access x on p, on the p object, I of course get an attribute error because the normal tuple does not know what x is, right? It does not know about the semantics of the problem. So that is how we can design tuples and give it some semantic meaning. And usually what we do is we model some record of data with it. And the record, again, is a collection of otherwise independent fields. So that is what we can do with the example of a point. But now let's also do a second example. And the second example is the one that I told you, the one of a student. So maybe let's go ahead and say other example, students in a course. And let's say I want to create a student constructor. And this also going to be a named tuple for now. And the student, well, the student constructor has a name. First of all, it is going to be called student. And now let's define the fields of data. So first, a student may have a name. Second, a student may have an age. Third, a student may have a GPA. Next, a student may have, maybe let's put that in the third position here, a hometown. So let's say city where the student lives. So these are the fields that the student object should have. So now we have a student. So let's say we have a student A. And student A is going to be a guy named Achim. And the person is 20 years old. And let's 20 be an integer. So there is no typing here. So we can use an object of any type for each field. So this could be enforced by later on learning about classes. So classes are really the next natural step to take after named tuples. So named tuples are really like a short version of going into object orientation. So Achim is 20 years old. And maybe he lives in Berlin. And maybe he has a GPA of let's use a German style GPAs. Let's say he's a good student. So let's say he has a GPA of 1.0. For non-German students, 1.0 is usually the best grade you can get at the German university. And depending on the scale, either 5.0 or 6.0 is the worst grade you can get. So let's define student A. And let's also define a student B. And student B may be a woman. Let's call her better German name. She may be 21 years old. And she lives maybe in Frankfurt. And let's also give her a GPA of 1.0. And now if I ask Python, hey, what is A and B? It tells me, well, it's a student by the name of with this age and so on. And now we can say what is the name of A by saying A dot name. And it simply tells me Achim. I can also say B dot, let's say GPA in all uppercase. And that would be 1.0. So probably if you read in chapter one about coding conventions and in Python, usually variables should be lowercase or lowercase. So maybe a good practice would be to lowercase everything, but I will leave GPA uppercase for now. This is good enough. So the main learning from this video is that whenever you have to model records of data, so records as a field of otherwise unrelated data points, you want to always have these data points together. An actual way to do that in the Python world would be to use a tuple. Okay, so that would be probably the best way because it's immutable and it puts together many, many unrelated, otherwise unrelated objects together in one. And yeah, and if you want to go that route, then probably a better way is to simply go ahead and use a named tuple right away, because then you can have everything a tuple can do. So all the functionalities of the tuple are still there, but you can teach your program, so to say, some semantics of a problem that you are defining or a problem that you are solving. So if you're writing software, for example, that captures the crates or that manages the crates of students in my course, then probably there is going to be some student constructor somewhere because students always have the same fields, right? And also note how when we talked about lists in the beginning, in the very first example where I showed you a big nested list, I said, I told you that in lists we can have heterogeneous data, and the reason why is because the data are not in the list really, the list only holds references to the then heterogeneous object, but it's not a good idea. So if you use a list, you should usually have homogenous data because you want to process all the elements in a list with the same operation and in order to make sure that this works, usually the data type of all the elements in the list should be the same, should be a homogenous list. Same holds through usually for a tuple if you use a tuple as an immutable list. However, what we see here now is with the student example, what you see here is that some of the seals are strings like the name and the city, but some so the age for example would be an integer because assuming we are simply modeling whole years, then it can only be an integer and the grade has to be a floating point number because grades in between the full grades have to be possible. So now here we have a tuple with heterogeneous data and whenever you use a tuple to model a record of data, then modeling heterogeneous data is quite normal. So when you use a tuple as an immutable list, then usually you should have homogenous data, but when you use a tuple or a name tuple to model a record of data, then using or having heterogeneous data is absolutely okay. Of course in the long run there will be more sophisticated ways to teach your code semantics. This again will be talked about in chapter 11 when we talk about object orientation in detail. But for now this is the first step where you basically define a so-called, let's call it a blueprint. So the student class or the student constructor is really a blueprint of what a student is, of what feels a student has, and then you can instantiate a concrete student here. So a lot of that stuff will make more sense in the long run once you understand object orientation, but for now simply know that whenever you want to model a record of data in your program, you can use a tuple or a name tuple to give it some names. So that is the last video here covering chapter 7. And in the next couple of videos covering chapter 8, we will talk about another very interesting concept. We will talk about data that we work on, lots of data that is not explicitly in the memory. So we will talk about how to really run your programs in a memory efficient way. It's a topic of iterators and generators and so on. So I will see you in the next videos.


You will endure sleepless nights 24-hour shifts seven days a week sound good so far But wait, there's more for this grueling job You will not receive a salary in fact you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to do it when you put it like that I don't want that job. I don't know about you But I've been noticing more and more people talk about the problem of Population decline the fact that people aren't at least in Western culture having as many kids as they used to figures Like Elon Musk have been sounding the alarm taking it upon himself to have as many kids as they possibly can in Contrast there's been a growing trend that I've been seeing on TikTok of people called dinks That stands for dual income no kids These folks have been set on the fact that they're not gonna have kids at all And in fact they go to the extent some of them do go to the extent of trying to encourage other people to Not have kids as well calling them a burner and calling them a waste of money and all this kind of thing So today we're gonna respond to some of those videos and I'm gonna get into the biblical understanding of children and and how you know, is it a good thing to have kids? Is it okay to not have kids? How do we understand this apologies on the mustache today? We had a 70s themed birthday party on the weekend So that is the carryover it will be gone by the end of the week now under the video We're dinks go to cute coffee shops and Trader Joe's on the weekend.  Let's let's carry on I used to be on the fence about having kids until I came across a book that pushed me over the edge from being a Fence sitter to child free. This is page 6 of the baby decision Do you want this child? Which I'm about to offer you if you accept it you will have to do it for 20 years Before you commit you are not allowed to try it out or even meet your boss or co-worker Consequently, you may have no idea if you will like the job or the person Nor will you know until you start it if you love it or hate it during the three months of your apprenticeship You will endure sleepless nights 24-hour shifts seven days a week sound good so far But wait, there's more for the scrolling job You will not receive a salary in fact you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to do it Oh, and there's also no cause for quitting at least for not the first 18 years Well, when you put it like that, I don't want that job And I'm not sure who in the right mind would would you want a job that you have to sign up for for a long time that you Don't really get any you know benefit from it just seems like a lot of work And you have to wake up early and expend all these resources time energy money it wears on your body So why would you want kids now? I don't want to downplay the fact that having kids And I don't have kids personally, but you know, I've I have a lot of friends that have kids and It's a hard thing right. It is a hard thing. It's work Absolutely, but I also want to show some attention to the reality that people often Overstate how difficult raising a child is okay. That's true. They can understate how how difficult is yeah For sure if you think it's just gonna be a walk in the park I've heard that that is not the case, but I've also had friends that say hey like it's challenging There's challenges to it and there's difficulties to it. Absolutely, but for me. I kind of equate it similarly to when me and my wife were getting married and We were engaged and we would go out with people couples too and they would say oh, you know marriage is so hard and You got to get ready for year two or year three because that's when it really gets bad Or you know, that's when you really got to work through some stuff and sure marriage is challenging in some ways. Absolutely But it's just giving you a false perspective of what it's what it is What we felt when we were getting married and maybe we'll make a video I'll make a video about this as well But we were like hey everyone is just poopooing this this marriage in general saying how hard it is and difficult It is and they're never highlighting the good parts They're never saying how fun it is to get to wake up next to the person that you love and your best friends with and they're never saying oh, you know what it's actually awesome to be able to Collaborate on different projects and things and have somebody that you can share your whole life with and and every intimate part of you Like that really wasn't what the focus was and similarly I think for having kids so many people focus on oh, it's so challenging It's so difficult. There's so much sacrifices and I'm sure that is true But they don't highlight the joy and the meaning and the purpose and the building of legacy and discipling your kid And how beautiful that is now these videos that we're seeing here coming from a non-christian perspective people that don't have a Focus on long-term discipleship of their children and seeing them as a blessing which we'll see later So I understand that outlook, but let's dig in more into why these folks really don't want kids Hey guys I want to pop in here real quick to let you know that I'm doing a live hangout with my patrons tomorrow That is Tuesday February 6th at 7 p.m Central time now if you want to join us join on any tier paid tier on Patreon and you can access to that stream We do these occasionally and they are a lot of fun You get access to bonus videos as well if you join on patreon as well as our discord looking forward to seeing you at the hangout and Back to the video. I am 34 years old and I have been married for nine years And my husband and I decided not to have kids because one of our core values is freedom Let me explain when my husband and I started dating We both fell in love with how independent we were and how Dedicated we were to our careers and our ambition and our purpose and our devotion to our own Individual happiness as time went on we saw a lot of our friends having kids and my siblings having kids and it Reinforced the decision of not having kids for us because we saw just how much it changes your lifestyle and My husband and I have an amazing life like we do whatever we want. We're seeing a pretty consistent theme here I don't want to have my freedom taken away from me. I don't want to have my resources taken away from me I don't want to be drained of these things. So if I can keep them for myself, then I'll be happier I'll be healthier of a better life in general. So why would I want kids? I think about marriage because that's kind of my connection point and how even in marriage You need to make sacrifices you need to if you want to get married like it's not just I'm going to get all this benefit and da da da da of course marriage is is so Life-giving and there's so many extra pluses to it and benefits of it But you are you need to make sacrifices. That's part of it. All of a sudden It's not just about what you want to do at any given moment or I want to take this job here I want to do this here. I want to spend my money this way or I want to live this kind of lifestyle It says okay I'm gonna take this other person into not only take them into account, but live literally every day out of Sacrifice for them and that's what we're called to in the Bible. Okay, and similarly having kids. Yeah, that's a sacrifice Absolutely, but we're no strangers to sacrifice. We sacrifice for the things that we find valuable What are we valuing in this moment and so many people value their own personal comfort and happiness over greater meaning? Press and ultimately following God and what he wants us to do now. I'm not saying everybody's gonna have kids That's not true Some people are infertile and in those situations. It's like, okay Hey, how are you gonna invest in the next generation in different ways? But ultimately if you don't have your life transformed by God, you're not gonna be looking to invest in the next generation You're going to look to how can I hoard what I have out of self-protection? That's I think the fear that so many people have these days if I have a child if I Give up what I have then I will be sad. I will be poor I will not have what I need that's giving me fulfillment and satisfaction because I'm looking to these things to give me fulfillment and satisfaction But for the Christian, how do we look at it? Okay? Well, we can go to a couple verses here. Let's go. Let's go Proverbs 17 6 says grandchildren are the crown of the aged and the glory of children is their fathers It is a crown to have grandchildren. It's a blessing. It's a good thing we go to Psalm 127 children are a heritage from the Lord the fruit of the womb is a reward like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the Children of one's youth Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them I heard it said that children are not just purely blessings without condition, right? There are conditions to the fact that they are going to become blessings and that is the discipleship of them Are you training them in the way? They should go that when they're old they will not depart from it Are you instilling in them the truth of who God is and what the gospel is and what he desires and requires of us? Are those the things that you're pouring into your kids now a lot of people in the similar camp that I grew up in the homeschool conservative Camp and tradition a lot of those folks are obsessed with how many kids can I possibly have right or you know I'm gonna have tons and tons of kids and that's all gonna be a blessing The condition is are you actually raising those kids and discipling those kids that when they're old? They will be a blessing to you or are you raising them and just having kids because you think they're a blessing But you're not really pouring into their life now. So there's the two ditches. We're seeing here There's the ditch of saying I'm not gonna have any kids because I want to keep everything for myself And then there's another ditch of saying I'm gonna have tons of kids But yet you're really not doing the the raising of them justice You're not instilling in them what needs to be instilled and you're just seeing it as an opportunity Let me just have a lot of kids because that seems like a good thing according to the Bible. Well, let's hold on for a second The Bible doesn't give us any Any kind of realm or figure to play with in terms of how many kids we need to have okay? So that's not there. We know they're a blessing if you raise them according to God, right? Okay, that's good But yeah, we're seeing so many so many people that aren't Christians. They hate their burden They're waste of time. They really don't provide as much meaning and and and life satisfaction as we think that is They should compared to what we're pouring into them and some Christians we can say okay I kind of see the same thing. Maybe I'm not super interested in giving up my resources or or maybe I didn't have any good experience with kids growing up or I don't don't really feel like the nurturing type So what am I supposed to do? This is just my honest opinion. Like I'm not a pastor I'm just some guy on YouTube that tries to encourage people to follow God Here's the deal like I see kids as such a great opportunity to pour into them a love for God To raise disciples and evangelists and people that are going to share his gospel And also just building family legacy. That is so important to me You see so many broken families so many families that have been built on addiction and sin and Just generational sins that have persisted and persisted and persisted Having children and raising them in a way that is godly and is God glorifying as best that we can we can do that And reversing Some of those generational sins that have been consistent throughout your family. I think that is so beautiful That is so cool to me if you didn't have good parents. You can say hey these children. I'm gonna raise them differently I'm gonna raise them according to God. Maybe your parents were hypocrites I mean most of us are hypocrites, but maybe they were real big hypocrites You can say I'm actually gonna live out my faith for my kids I think of the the parable of the talents a guy with four talents or the most talents anyway He he doubles them and the guy with second most talents. He doubles them too and the guy with the least talents This is this money and he just buries in the ground He doesn't do anything with it because he's scared of losing it to me God has given you so much right and maybe you feel like man I couldn't I couldn't even afford having a kid or I'm not in the space to look I get I get that There's a place for responsibility and wisdom and discernment. All that is true But there's also a place of saying I'm going to invest what I have and Part of that is investing in the next generation. So hey, maybe you can't have kids or you're not able to have a kid right now How can you invest in the next generation? How can you pass on this godly legacy to maybe? It's not your immediate children blood children, but that next generation that is a part of the Christian walk That's an essential part of the Christian walk Look, I couldn't care less if I don't have 10 vacations in a year Or I don't get to go to you know a coffee shop on a Saturday morning for the rest of my life because I'm tending to my kids Like that is a huge blessing to me That's so exciting to be able to invest in them and do something of Eternal value Eternal having a kind of an eternal legacy in a way by investing into those lives I'd love to hear thoughts about this in the comments down below and be sure to subscribe if you haven't already Tune in tomorrow for another video and until next time. God bless