Coming up on D T N S Intel wants to make chips for Apple and anybody else. Slack wants to be your messaging client of choice at least to work and Qualcomm wants to make a Nintendo Switch competitor. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane in the sunny Salt Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson. And I'm the show's producer Roger Chang. I'm glad to hear it's sunny in Salt Lake City because my to vol of meals often ship from there. And last week they were late because it was definitely not sunny. Those roads. It's you never know yesterday was not sunny and windy and rainy. So today very grateful for sun. We were just talking a lot about plumbing and water heaters on good day internet as well as snakes become a member at patreon.com slash D T N S and find out what all of that is about. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Mozilla released Firefox 87, which now includes smart block, which uses stand in scripts for embedded third party trackers so that pages still load an intended page rendering sequence without sending data. The browser also includes improved refer trimming, which removes query data usually sent back to site operators when requesting content. At a meeting of the improving web advertising business group, this sounds like it comes from 1912. Google engineer Michael Kleber said the company currently is not testing its third party cookie replacement federated learning of cohorts or flock in the European Union because they worry it might violate GDPR and the privacy directive as it is implemented. The issue is that publishers will not be providing users with clear notice of being part of a flock. And you don't have any choice about how your data will be used to create cohorts. Incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy informed employees that the company hired Tableau CEO Adam Salipsky to replace Jassy, a CEO of AWS. Salipsky worked at Amazon from 2005 to 2016, most recently serving as vice president for AWS sales, marketing and support. So he probably knows the business pretty well. The Verizon Media Group plans to rebrand most of its media franchises as Yahoo Services with plans to offer subscription versions of those services under the name Yahoo Plus because everything's Plus. Although don't worry, niche brands like TechCrunch, AutoBlog and Gadget will not become Yahoo Crunch, Auto Yahoo or Yahoo Gadget. They're gonna keep their names as is. Verizon currently has 3 million subscribers to Yahoo Services. That includes Yahoo Fantasy, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Mail. Tesla now allows consumers or potential customers really to buy vehicles with Bitcoin in the US and coming to other countries later this year. Bitcoin used to purchase a vehicle must come from a single wallet. It could take up to six hours to process but still pretty snappy. And if you return the car, Tesla says you can choose to get your refund and US dollars or Bitcoin. Oh, no, no, no. If you return the car, Tesla can choose to refund you. You don't get a choice. Tesla decides whatever one is a very good distinction for them. You know, and when I read the story earlier, I was like, Well, that's nice of them. Uh huh. Yeah, by the way, you could you could buy a Tesla with one Bitcoin right now, a full $50,000. So yeah. Yeah, it's Bitcoin.  Just flip a coin at them. That's amazing. Whether or not you want one, just do it. Just do that and see how they react. Alright, let's talk about this Intel thing. Intel will not go the route of AMD and spin out manufacturing separate from design. AMD did that a few years ago. Intel will not do that yet. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced it will elevate the small foundry business. It started back in 2013 to become a standalone business within Intel called Intel Foundry Services. That will be led by Rondir Thakur. And unlike previous efforts, IFS will offer systems on a chips not only with x86, but also arm and risk v cores. It will also use industry standard design tools this time, making it easier to work for third parties. That was one of the problems with the previous version is Intel had all these proprietary services and sometimes third parties were like, we don't know how to make our stuff work on your equipment. So that's going away to help with capacity of chip making in the world because that's a problem everybody's having right now. Intel also announced it will invest $20 billion to add two new chip fabs to existing facilities it has in Chandler, Arizona. Those are set to go online in 2024. So they're not going to ease the current chip shortage anytime soon, but they will be there. Arizona has actually become a booming hotbed for manufacturing. TSMC is planning to build something in the Phoenix area. Samsung is considering building in Arizona, also considering Austin, so it may go one way or the other. And Intel wants to go head to head with them on building chips. TSMC and Samsung get a lot of business from Apple and Qualcomm and others. And Gelsinger said in his announcement, he would love to build chips for Apple, he would love to build the M1 chip for Apple. Yes, the same Apple that Intel is running ad slamming. Gelsinger said this is clearly a co-op petition story. And keep in mind Intel Foundry Services is a standalone company. Samsung does this all the time where the electronic side is slamming somebody that they actually build parts for in the other part of Samsung that makes chips. So Intel could just be like that. While Intel wants to build for others, it will also continue to take advantage of letting others build its chips where that makes sense. Everybody thought that's the route they were going to go, that they were going to become fabulous. TSMC gets more than $7 billion of business from Intel a year. And that will continue with especially high performance chips like the supercomputer oriented 7nm Ponte Vecchio. They will continue where it makes sense to be like, yeah, we'll outsource some stuff, but we're also going to beef up our fabrication capacity. Gelsinger is new to Intel, sort of. He led the architecting of the 486 chip back in the day and was CTO when he left Intel in 2009 after 30 years there. He went on to become COO at EMC and CEO of VMware in the intervening years and he returned to Intel as CEO February 15th this year and seems to have generated a lot of enthusiasm within the company. Also, in case you're wondering, they did announce something about 7nm, 7nm consumer chip production, that's Meteor Lake is on schedule to start in volume in 2023. But the big news here is Intel making a turn away from like maybe becoming a fabulous company to saying, no, no, no, the money is in making chips for everybody else. Instead of trying to compete with Apple and hire Justin Long and try to sell more Intel chips, let's make the M1 chip. That way we could sell Intel chips to Windows PC makers and get some money out of making chips for Apple, Qualcomm, whoever else wants it. Well, and also doesn't it just sort of signal the not the change with the the general shift towards ARM as the viable architecture of the future. It already was for mobile and everything else. But maybe, maybe desktops and maybe instead of trying to fight the rise of ARM, start building ARM chips. Yeah. And also the thing just a tiny note, the thing about when a company advertises and kind of pokes at their competition like they're doing right now against Apple and the M1 because they pulled their chips out. That's that comes and you know, and also still doing work for Apple on this side in other ways, just like Samsung. I hate that because we're the suckers. It's not the company's problem. It's our problem. We buy into that and we're affected by it and that's lame. So next time you see a commercial like that, take it for the grain of salt that it is because chances are they are holding hands in lots of ways. You just don't know about it. And that's all I wanted to make sure to insert about that. I will say this is an incredibly shrewd move on Gelsinger's part because he understands the landscape of chip fabbing right now. All the world, only Samsung and TSMC can actually are doing the bleeding edge process stuff. All the other fabs, even the Global Foundries are stuck on the larger 14 nanometer or larger size process because no one can get it down to the necessary 7, 5 nanometer that everyone's looking for. And Intel understands that there's a choke point. There's only these two companies. One's in Taiwan, the other ones in South Korea. A lot of people are very worried about relying just on those two companies to have everything made. So if Intel can work it out and they are, they pivoted away from trying to do their in-house dye string process and they're moving to extreme ultraviolet light, which is what Samsung and TSMC did, to get their process down to seven nanometers, they could be sitting on the gold mine. Plus, I mean, there's the whole political aspect of it. Bringing jobs to the US is, you know, just jobs, but chip security, right? The chip's made in the US to ensure a steady supply of weapons. So they could possibly beg federal government for money. Oh yeah, they're going to get some government contracts out of this for sure. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't hurt to jail. Also, side note, ASML, very excited about this because they make the equipment that people buy to build their fabs. So now they have a brand new customer.  That's the future. Yep, sounds like they're also excited because it's like the band getting back together with a 46 guy coming back to kind of take things over. Yeah, there definitely is. He's a really cool guy. I like him. I hope he does well. Well, let's talk about Facebook for a second. Written testimony from Facebook and Google and Twitter CEOs has been submitted ahead of a US House hearing on Thursday. That's tomorrow regarding misinformation online. A big issue these many past years. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg included suggestions for reforming Section 230, a hot topic here on the show. Quite often the US safe harbor law that prevents platforms from being liable for most things posted by its users. Zuckerberg suggests a platform should have to demonstrate an adequate system for identifying unlawful content and removing it in order to qualify for Section 230. If illegal content evaded the system, Section 230 protection would kick in. He suggested the system would be proportional to platform size. Your blog's comments would not need to meet the standards of all of Facebook. That's easy for Facebook to say, isn't it? Because they're huge and have already done this and it's already in place and they're sort of talking about one size fits all. Arguably, arguably an adequate system. But yeah, I mean, it's sort of what Zuckerberg is saying to me sounds like, well, the platform should have to prove that it's it's trying hard not to have this kind of content on the on the platform. But if stuff comes through, don't don't come running to us. We did our best. I mean, Facebook is a great example of the company that perhaps has the most issues with this specific thing and saying, well, go ahead. No, no, go ahead. Finish finish your thought. No, please. I think the key to remember is Section 230 isn't about Facebook should get rid of all the bad stuff. Section 230 is about they shouldn't be liable for what you posted that was bad. I think those issues get confused sometimes. That's all. No, I mean, I think we're all aware of that. What I'm saying is that Facebook has had perhaps, I mean, I don't know, maybe Twitter, but the most experience with this kind of issue of like, hmm, when does the platform need to step in here? And when is it something that is just out of the control of the platform? Because there are simply too many users and you can't possibly know what someone's going to post before they post it. And I think that Zuckerberg saying a platform should be better at demonstrating how they're going to stop this sort of thing from happening before it starts is great. Sounds admirable. I would be interested to see how that works. Yeah. Right now, Section 230 says you don't even have to have a system in place, right? So what he's saying is let's make it so that you have a system in place. If you have a system in place, then you get the Section 230. But if you don't have a system at all, you don't get it. And that goes back to what Scott was saying is that's great for Facebook who has a system and they're probably going to define an adequate system as the one we have. It does add a burden to anyone starting up. Facebook didn't have that burden starting up. They didn't have to have any kind of system when they were a small company because Section 230 doesn't require you right now to have a system. So it's easy for Facebook to say that and any other startup would now under this, if this proposed rule became law, would now have the burden of like, well, I guess we have to prove we have an adequate system, even if it's proportionate to the platform size. Tencent founder PonyMah is the latest tech executive to get called in to discuss antitrust compliance with Chinese officials. Tencent operates WeChat, a small app you've probably never heard of. I'm just kidding, it's the most popular messaging super app in China. Big one. It also operates a lot of other technology businesses from gaming to popular streaming TV, for example, the romance of Tiger and Rose. Reuters sources say that the state administration of market regulation is looking into whether WeChat engages in unfair competition squeezing out smaller rivals. Tencent and PonyMah are much less controversial than Alibaba and Jack Ma. No relation. Alibaba was forced to cancel an IPO of its ant group earlier this year. Fintech business, rather, earlier this year or last year, in fact, late last year by the government. So yes, it looks like the eyes are now on Tencent. Yeah, if you remember when we talked about Alibaba, that had come after Jack Ma had given sort of a salty talk about regulation in China. And then he was called on the Corp carpet and had to pull the Ant Group IPO. Jack Ma is that kind of tech executive. And so it's not really surprising to see him called on the carpet. PonyMah, on the other hand, of course, is the other huge company. Alibaba and Tencent are the two biggest companies in the Chinese tech landscape. And PonyMah, he plays by the rules. He attends the party conferences. Like he's the, I don't know if you could say the Tim Cook, but he's the one who doesn't court controversy.  So to see him called in and, of course, Tencent saying, like, oh, no, no, we asked to be called in. And this was all very, you know, day we're goer. It's still China's like saying, you know what, we're going to crack down on antitrust. We're going to crack down on what kinds of acquisitions you guys are. Even you guys may be getting too big. Yeah, and this is all, by the way, in light of some pretty massive earnings for them today that we found out like a lot of money. Nine point something billion. We don't have to get into the details of it, but just needless to say when you are succeeding that wildly in that market, even when you are the one considered the rule player, the one that comes to the table and is fully transparent with their rules, you're still going to have a spotlight on you. And sometimes that spotlight burns. So enjoy the burn. Enjoy the burn, Tencent. Enjoy the burn. Folks, we promise that we will do our best to keep you from burning in our discord. There's a good conversations going on in there. Join on in by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com slash DTMS. Slack rolled out connected DMs, direct messages that lets anyone with a paid Slack plan, direct message anyone else with a slack plan of any kind, even if they're outside an organization. Just a few short hours ago, the story was that descend messages users needed to send an email invitation. Once accepted, the DMs appear in the Slack sidebar. The thing about the email invitation is it included a message Slack now says in response to concerns that that part of the feature could be used to send abusive messages or harassment. It's disabling the option to include a message in the invite. So now when you invite someone to a connected DM, it'll just say, this person is asking you if you want a DM on Slack, no message included. That way, if somebody knows your email address, they can't spam your Slack inbox with messages from Slack. That was like, well, if they don't know your email address, they can already spam you. Yes, but you can filter their email address. You might not want to filter everything coming from Slack. So that has been fixed. Organizations also retain control of their users' messages in these conversations.  You'll need super admin privileges in order to read someone else's messages, but the messages stay on company servers and can be deleted by company admins at any time. Also, an organization can choose not to turn this feature on. Everything is opt-in in this entire situation. And if they do turn it on, they can limit it to only work with verified organizations as a way to cut down on any kind of other spammy behavior there. Were you surprised at how fast this exploded in their face? I mean, I'm not surprised that they reacted as quickly as they did to the explosion itself, but I guess I was a little surprised about how quickly people called foul. I don't know if that's just Slack not understanding, you know, they're looking at this from a business perspective.  And maybe they're just in that mindset, but man, that blew up in their face fast.  I was like, how many people are inviting somebody into a Slack DM conversation and then in that original email saying something horrific that's going to be very abusive and and and affect the end user that, you know, the person on the other line. Well, I don't know, hopefully not that many, but certainly it's been proven to be something that you could do. And that's unwanted, because again, that Slack email that the message is coming from is something that you're not you haven't filtered out yet. So yeah, if you're the recipient of something bad, that's a that's a bad look. It seems like Slack said, oh, yeah, you know what? Very good point. Let's fix this real quick, because this whole thing is less than 24 hours old. But just as far as DMs in general, I, you know, I saw a lot of people this morning and kind of go, oh, look at Slack. It's almost like the old days of AIM, you know, or or trillion or, you know, messengers.  And yes, Slack, I mean, we're an organization on DTNS. I have organizations of, you know, two friends of mine and I, and we're not even really working together kind of thing. It can be a messaging app, but it's generally used as a work productivity app. So most of the people that you would be conversing with that aren't maybe in your organization are going to be in another organization. It seems like this will be pretty well. Well, I don't know if it's going to be well policed, but it seems like it should be pretty well policed. Yeah, I think there's some overreaction to the significance of this on the messaging landscape. I don't think people are going to be abandoning signal and WhatsApp to use Slack suddenly because there are so many limitations. And to start a conversation, I do have to email you. Like I you have to check an email from me and go, oh, Sarah wants to invite me to talk with her on Slack. Great. OK, I'll do that. And that works best in a business situation where I'm on a Zoom meeting with you. And I say, you know what? If we're going to keep working on this project together, us two people at two different companies, let's connect on Slack. I'll send you an invite and then you're expecting it, right? So this isn't a messaging platform. This is just a very interesting and flexible way to do work with other people, which is I think the mindset Slack was in when they didn't have anybody on their project team, apparently, who'd ever been harassed and didn't see like, oh, that messaging part of that in the email is not a good idea. Yeah, definitely the part that jumped out at me. All right, let's move on to some Android business. Android police sources say Qualcomm is developing a 5G capable Android 12 powered mobile game console. They say similar to a Nintendo Switch of all kinds of issues of that statement, but we'll get to it. The device would have a detachable side controller set and SD card slot and could connect to a TV and come with a 6000 milliamp battery. That all sounds actually kind of nice. The screen might be around six to seven inches or so with a 1080p resolution. Current launch target is reportedly quarter one of 2022 with a price of somewhere around $300 is what they expect. XDA developers have similar information from sources through editor-in-chief Mazeal Rashman about the risk who says his source called it a reference design, not a consumer device. So that makes it sort of interesting. But basically they're talking about making it an Android, a handheld Android game machine, a machine that's a little more adept to adding analog controls, buttons and so on to Android gaming sort of experience, which is a little rough and tumble Roger and I were talking before the show about how touch screens, you know, they don't there's not always great parity between those that support controllers and those that support touch and never the twain shall meet. Some do. Apple Arcade requires it. They make you ever those developers have all three control systems, mouse and keyboard, phone and touchscreen. And then, of course, controller, but this isn't a closed system like that. We're talking about a big open platform that would presumably play all sorts of Android games. And also this isn't Nintendo and there aren't Nintendo games on it, which is the big huge part of this would make us product like to succeed. So without first party software design and without all that, I don't know how this thing does, but I'm kind of curious to see it. I I think editor-in-chief Michelle Robbins going to end up being right. This sounds like a reference design that Qualcomm would say like, Hey, company, you want to make this by our parts and you can make this. Look at look at this thing. I I don't think this is Qualcomm trying to compete with Nintendo. That wouldn't make any sense at all. Maybe I'm wrong. Well, we'll we'll see. But I really do think this is Hey, Samsung, Huawei ZTE one plus anybody out there. Maybe you want to create a gaming community. I don't know.  I think this is just Qualcomm saying like, here's the thing you can do with 5G, our chips and a few other parts. Let's give you a reference design and let your imagination run wild. Yeah, and I'm like say totally cool with the idea of pushing that stuff as best you can. It's such a weird golden egg that no one seems to be able to grasp in trying to marry mobile and true sort of Nintendo level portable gaming. Maybe they'll figure out a way and others will build around it. But I don't know. I feel like this stuff has got a real weird road to go down before I can. Well, the UK's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is now also chief impact officer at BetterUp. If you haven't heard of it, it's a San Francisco based startup focused on coaching and mental health. BetterUp was founded back in 2013. It has about 270 employees, not that little anymore. Harry will also be a commissioner for the Aspen Institute's new Commission on Information Disorder co-chaired by journalist Katie Kirk former CISA director Chris Krebs and color of change president Rashad Robinson. It is my impulse and I'm sure a lot of others to poke fun at, you know, a royal becoming chief impact officer at a startup. But this sounds like good stuff that he's doing, you know. And if you're somebody like the Duke who is born into this situation, you can do worse things with your time.  And I don't know. I don't I guess I'm not surprised by a situation like this. And they seem like they're an OK company and they seem like they'll benefit from having his name on there. And maybe he just wants to every day put in a nice day of work for someone who's actually a Duke, which is kind of rare. So I don't know. Let's see how he does. Yeah, I listen. It's it's could be a terrible match. Could be a great one. Well, well, we will see. I did chuckle a tiny bit at Chief Impact Officer, where I was like, OK, in another company, what would that be called? What's that? What is that job? Evangelist, right? Yeah. Operator. I don't know what marketing director looking. Yeah, what are you looking at?  Most most of us are kind of up to speed on on that whole story. So this kind of tracks. But at the same time, it can be. It seems like both of these these well in the case of Better Up and also the Aspen Institute doing good work. And that is that is a good thing. I mean, you can't deny that he has a name that gets attention, right? So it's a matter of what he does with that power, with great power comes great responsibility. There you go. Prince Harry, Spider-Man. All right. Surprise. Let's check out the mailbag. This one comes from Rick. And this is off of our conversation yesterday about the rumor that discord might sell itself to Microsoft. But will it? It might just want to go public. Who knows? Rick says, just want to chip on chip in on potential buyers for discord thought recently that Valve would make sense as a fit to number one, embrace the gaming background of the service. Number two, expand their community efforts. And number three, potentially expand further beyond their current niche. That being said, I have no clue if Valve has the kind of money that would be required. Yeah, I have a thought about this. That's where my head was with this email. Rick was like, yeah, man, it makes sense for Val. I don't know if they could afford it or not. Yeah, they might have the money. They do have a lot of money and they kind of print their own money and they're not beholden to shareholders and things like that. They've got kind of their own thing going. But the problem I would see is their bread and butter is steam and everything else sort of takes a backseat to that. So this would need to enhance steam in some way. And steam already has its own complete system of forums and messaging and friending and groups and scheduling events and all that stuff is all in steam already. It's all part of the client. To have that outside of the client seems redundant to me. And people are gonna already keep using Discord for what they use it for. They'll keep using Steam with what they use it for and those two things aren't gonna meet in the middle very often. So I don't think it would benefit them as much. And in a way, if they can't afford it especially, they already benefit from Discord's benefits. They already get that benefit. People are using Discord to play their games. So I don't know what they would actually gain in buying it other than they could say, well, we now own Discord. It's still not gonna be a thing that it could make a ton of money from. It needs to remain free. Like I just don't see this being the kind of fit. It has more of a gamer fit. 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Article 370 is one of those things which is leaving populations confused, not knowing where they belong. Democracy does not mean you have the right to dismantle a nation. When justice will take ten years, fifteen years, you're only punishing the already one who has been abused by somebody. Speech is a valuable privilege that a human being has. It's very, very important that we use our speech as human beings should. Anybody who talks about that should not exist in this country or they can be in state hospitals. Their agenda is not even for the well-being of the nation.


Welcome to the 19th session of our course, Yog and Positive Psychology for Managing Career and Life. In today's session, we are going to discuss yogic interventions for managing emotions. You perhaps can recall that in last few sessions, we are looking at yogic processes or yoga based practices as interventions at different layers of self. So, Mekos, Mano Mekos, Vijnana Mekos, there are different interventions we can draw from the yogic tradition and yoga based practices. For today's session, we are going to look at yogic interventions for Mano Mekos and that aspect of self which is related to our emotions. Emotions we all know is the juiciest part of life, that is what makes life interesting and how to manage emotions is a very important factor in terms of our managing self and managing career. So, we are going to look at yogic interventions to manage emotions or to be precisely called in the Indian tradition Mano Mekos. This is the time for little bit of revision. In the initial sessions, we talked about two sets of competencies, one set which are required to be in any profession and another set which are required for anyone to grow well in any profession. These two sets of competencies were well identified in the first session of this course. If you remember, the set of competencies which are required to grow in any profession are about cognitive competencies and along with that are the emotional intelligence related competencies and social intelligence related competencies. When we connect that with managing life, we get the similar picture. Managing life is also about managing our emotions, our thoughts and managing career is also about managing our emotions in the day to day interactions, building our network, managing our relationships at work because that is the foundation for motivating ourselves and others, leading ourselves and others, building team, leading teams, understanding organizations and leading organizations. So, self management skills and career building skills, they are pretty overlapping to each other and there are some discipline specific skills and there are some generic specific skills and those generic skills, we are looking at emotional intelligence and social intelligence. Let us take a short quiz. Markets are driven by and you to think answer to this question. What is the answer to the question? Markets are driven by investors' mood. Leadership is based on and the answer is trust. Uptake of any technologies is linked to the customer. Some technologies can be very good, but customers may not pick it up, customers may not adopt those. What makes people, customers to adopt some technology and that is engagement and pleasure involved in the technology. Regulations are driven by what kind of laws are passed, what kind of regulations are formed, they are driven by which factor, they are driven by activism. There can be hundreds of things on which regulations can be passed, laws can be made, but priorities naturally flow towards those regulations and those laws which are promoted by activism, activism by government of the day or activism by the social groups. Pivot of service experience or service and experience in any customer provider and client interaction and that is understanding and connecting. Elections are won by conviction and sentiments not only driven by hard data, but election results are majorly influenced by the flow and direction of sentiments. Communication performance is driven by motivation. Relationships are formed by human needs, love and respect and answers to all these questions ranging from mood, trust, motivation, human needs, love, respect, etcetera. What is commonality in all these answers? The commonality is that all these are emotions. Life is majorly driven by emotions, it makes life juicy, makes life interesting, it also makes life complicated, but scientifically speaking emotions are data, emotions, what is the functionality of emotions? The functionality of emotion is that organism get a feedback and feedback result into some physiological activity. Feedback received from environment that feedback can be about the threat that can be about some pleasurable experience all those feedback result into some physiological activities that stimulate some activity that is primarily emotion. Emotions that is why can be traced back to some or other part of the body actually all the emotions are connected to some biomarkers, some neurotransmitters, some physiological indicators. So emotion perform motivational communicative regulatory function within and between individuals. The origin of behavior lie in personal biological and social heritage. When reading emotions like data, we can say that emotions are data, emotions are the information about what that organism is making or concluding about the environment, when you see what others are feeling that is information, what their motivations are, what they are leading to, what is occupying a lot of their energy and at the same time if you do not show any emotion that is a signal that you lack passion, you know and you are incapable of really connecting to the challenges of the moment. So emotions have very important role in the evolutionary process in relationships and managing ourselves. Emotional intelligence is becoming very popular term these days. Emotional intelligence is valued, it is recognized as a very important factor in success in being successful at job, in career, in relationships and all walks of life. What is the simplest and elegant definition of emotional intelligence? Emotional intelligence is defined by Brackett and his colleagues as the combination of two factors, combination of energy and pleasantness. According to the energy and pleasantness, we can at some or other quadrant of this 2 by 2 matrix. So let us stay with this matrix for some time and think about who are the public figures, who are the leaders, who have natural tendency to be in some or other quadrant of this energy pleasantness matrix. We can think about some personalities and I am not going to tell about those, you need to think about and look at the examples around yourself or pick up the people whom you are familiar to or you are following. Many of them have tendency to remain at high energy and low pleasantness block. Many of them have a natural tendency to be in the low energy and low pleasantness block. Many of them are very highly pleasant, but not very energetic and some of them are high on both on energy as well as pleasantness. Let us look at this block of high energy, high pleasantness and reflect what kind of leaders, teachers, managers, bosses we admire most. We invariably admire people who are high on both, who are high on energy and high on pleasantness.  I am recording this lecture in Mumbai and in Mumbai there is a term Bindasth that is invariably used in the general conversation and that actually conveys the idea about a person who is high on pleasantness, who is not very anxious, he is actually fun loving, high energy and still pleasant person. So please think about some word in your mother tongue for example in Bangla Utsahi or Sanskrit word is also Utsahi they represent high energy, high pleasantness.  The question is since we want our leaders, teachers, managers to be at high energy, high pleasantness matrix, where do we, where am I located in this matrix and if I am not located in the high energy and high matrix what is my strategy to be there. You can take this assessment, you can identify the number based on your judgment, based on your reading about yourself and think about how I can move towards plus 5, plus 5 in this matrix. So what is this strategy? Strategy is first to recognize what is your general emotional disposition that is why the first term is recognition or recognize emotion. In general what is my emotional disposition? In general what is the emotional state I live and in particular at a particular situation I am feeling that has to be recognized that is the first step. After recognition we can understand the emotions clearly. When we understand it we can label that emotion. From recognition to labeling our awareness cycle gets over until I am aware of the emotion I cannot manage it. So the first three step ensure that I am aware of the emotion. When I am aware of the emotion I can strategize how to express emotion. For example anger if I experience it instead of just suppressing it instead of just ignoring it it is important to convey what is for example we look at ourselves and recognize that I am feeling angry. If I am feeling angry about something about in in in certain situation I need not to act out of anger but I need to understand and label the emotion or if I am feeling disgust or if I am feeling guilt or if I am feeling affectionate. In all these emotions we need to first understand and label this then we can express it appropriately. If it is anger it is not to be acted upon it has to be expressed. It is one thing to start shouting in the anger it is another thing to tell the person that you have done this this and that makes me upset please let me know if I am missing out something or if my anger is unjustifiable. In the second case we are expressing emotion but we are not acting upon emotion when we express it we give time to ourselves to regulate the our action regulate our words about that emotion. So, the acronym ruler R U L E R that is for these five steps and that is advocated by that is explained beautifully by Brackett and his colleagues.


Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE, covering Dotnext Conference, brought to you by Nutanix. Welcome back to Dotnext in D.C., everybody. My name is Dave Vellante, and I'm with my co-host, Stuart Miniman. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. We're here at Dotnext Nutanix's customer event, two days of wall-to-wall coverage. Julia Palmer is here. She's a research director at Gartner, my new best friend. Great to see you again. We had a great dinner last night. I really enjoyed the conversation. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Oh, my pleasure. So, it's a good little event here. A lot of excitement, but what's your take? You're a former practitioner, now an analyst. You were in the heart of technology at GoDaddy. You really know the market, the products. What do you make of what's going on here at Dotnext? You know, when Hyperconverged's first emerged, it was all about saving money. It was all about going from infrastructure that was maybe too complex and too expensive to something that maybe based on commodity will bring lower acquisition costs. But this is not a story today at all. That's what I think my IT leaders are telling me. They're not going after acquisition costs. They're not looking at things just comparing by the capex. They're looking at a bigger picture and how will this technology will help them to enable business? So that's, I think, the biggest difference now. Going from something as simple as is it going to be more expensive, less expensive too? How will it move the needle to my enterprise, to my organization? So that's certainly the messaging that you're hearing from Nutanix. As a practitioner, do you buy that? Do you believe that they're more than just an infrastructure company, that they are a transformative force in the industry? Yeah, I hear a lot.  I'm here to save lives. I'm not here to reinvent my own Hyperconverged infrastructure. So he wants to focus on what's important for his end users. And he wants to stop, manage componentry. That's just not a focus. And I hear it over and over again from different types of customers. Now you were not a Nutanix customer previously, correct? But you did see a lot of different infrastructure products. As a practitioner, what bothered you about what the vendor community did? What were your likes and dislikes? Everything, everything bothered me. I was part of a pretty large organization. When you have a big footprint, you have big problems. And one of them, for example, was that we would have an outage and we would reach out to the vendor and they would tell us, you know, you hit a bug and we have a fix and we will give you the fix and you will be good to go tomorrow. Never mind the outage that you had and impacted end users. So now a lot of vendors using predictive analytics, cloud-based analytics to see if there's anything in your existing environment that's susceptible to existing bugs and proactively reach out to you to provide a fix. So I was just thinking, looking back, how many outages I could have prevented if this technology was available when I was running it? Yeah, Julia, I mean, we know that companies for so long, you know, infrastructure, they spent so much of their time, you know, running around, patching it, fixing it, worrying about that. Hyperconverge now is trying to talk about, you know, where it fits into the whole cloud picture, which is mostly about an operational model. Where do you see along those trends? Do you believe that Hyperconverge really fits into a cloud strategy or is it cloud washing from a bunch of infrastructure people? Yeah. I think it has a potential. I don't think it's there today, but I think it has a great potential because when I talk to Gartner end users about like why Hyperconverged, and I actually did some total cost of ownership research, what they all told me that looking back, they realized how much optics it saved them. And they said, it was very difficult. We kind of had to take our chance on it because upfront, you can't predict the outcome. Is it really going to be more simple? What does it simple mean? What's key performance indicator and simple you can put? So, but looking back, the guys that implemented, they all told me that 60% of optics they saved, meaning they dealing less with infrastructure componentry. How do they do this? They stop manage components, they start manage VMs. So next step is stop manage VMs, start managing applications. And that's what cloud management is all about. Getting out of infrastructure management altogether and deliver business what they want. And usually they want support for their applications. So my understanding is that Gardner has analysts that service the vendor community, the executive community, and the practitioner community.  Yes, people with IT leaders. Okay, you're peeps. I think you mentioned to me last night that you've had hundreds of conversations and you've only been at Gardner, what, six months? Two years. Oh, two years, sorry, apologize for that. Okay, so in the two years, hundreds of conversations. Is that fair? What kinds of conversations are you having with clients around infrastructure? What are the challenges that they're having? And what are you advising them? I know there are many, many, but maybe you could summarize the top ones. That's a very good question. I actually wanted to write research about it. Top five questions about hyperconverse people asking. So I've been thinking about it for a while. So different types of customers, new customers are asking questions about, is it ready? Should I go for it? Why would I go for it? Why can't I keep my street tier infrastructure design? What should I look for as a new key performance indicator? So it's not the same way how would you judge street tier? Then existing hyperconverse customers are looking for what's next step in hyperconversion. Is it ready for prime time? Is it ready for mission critical applications? Because they're looking at the boxes and they look at the commodity hardware and they still feel uncertain. Can it really run something that they're a proprietary hardware used to run? So we explore the advantages of software defined storage. While using the software, being backed up by software defined storage, my favorite subject, is obstructing and distributing data that you don't worry about this anymore. So scale out storage replacing proprietary architecture can provide you same level of uptime and performance, especially with new flash options. So that's a popular question. Number three is just, you know, we leave it in the age of compressed differentiation, I believe my colleague Dave Russell calls it. And there's a small differences between vendors and end users are not aware of this. They can be critical for particular use case. So they always ask strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats on each and every one of them. Because we have a lot of solutions on hyperconverse now. A lot of vendors, prominent vendors now join the market.  How do I navigate through this ocean of different hyperconverse solutions? Yeah, so Julia, Nutanix helped really drive a lot of this awareness for the hyperconverse market. Now, every company, you know, all the big players have at least one, if not multiple solutions out there. How do you see Nutanix? Are they differentiating themselves? Are they, I know they're trying to move beyond kind of the hyperconverge label. You know, what are they doing good? What would you like to see them do more? Yeah, Nutanix is, you know, was one of the leaders from the very beginning and you know, remains the leader. They obviously succeeded in releasing a lot of features and very fast release cycle of new features. It's easy when you have one focus. You know, other companies have so many different areas they need to focus or protect and Nutanix doesn't have this problem. And also being able to mix different hardware, I think it's an advantage. You know, being able, the customer needs to make a choice. You know, I think infrastructure of the future is going to be all about choice.  I want to pick my hypervisor, I want to pick my hardware and move on. One of the things, I think Nutanix does best when they're not positioning themselves as a storage solution because the storage market is tremendously competitive and there's always, you know, there's the next technology, the next wave, there's so many competitors out there.  You know, what are some of the big threats to, you know, their current position? Well, actually, I just wrote a research about how NVMe and NVMe over Fabric is going to disrupt and improve integrated and hyperconverse systems. I think those technologies, and it's like NVMe without NVMe over Fabric, it's like, I call it, it's like barbecue without barbecue sauce, right? So the NVMe and NVMe over Fabric has potential to boost performance of hyperconverse systems on par with what solid state arrays today do. So I think, and it's commodity hardware, right? We're not talking about anything proprietary. So when we're going to move towards this territory when NVMe and NVMe over Fabric become mainstream, maybe two years from now, three maybe years from now, I think everybody can enjoy shared distributed storage performance. And, but honestly, your question about storage, like, do you need to position yourself as a storage company or not? The major difference about different hyperconverse products, in my opinion, is how they do storage. Other than this, it's the same flavors of hypervisor, it's the same commodity hardware. So what do we have different? The ways you did data services, the ways you position your storage, you deliver the storage services. I'm curious, when I read Wall Street stuff about Nutanix, they seem to overreact to every bit of news.  Oh wait, the Google announcement seems to be a great tailwind, you know, the big bump in the stock today. Do you see those partnerships as critically important or is it the vision and execution of Nutanix and what they're doing with their customers? I think so. I think we live in the age when ecosystem support is everything, you know? People not necessarily today go to the public cloud to save money. They go for ecosystem support to expand their services and their capabilities. That's why, you know, embracing the cloud and not trying to position yourself against is the right way to go. I think we all need to embrace cloud and find a way that will benefit the end users. So, you were sharing with, you spend a fair amount of time, all Gartner analysts who do these things do on magic quadrants. They, you put a lot of effort into it. A lot of people criticize magic quadrants. I think they're unfairly criticized. I know how much work goes into it. Thank you. And they're fact-based opinion if I could categorize them like that, right? Is that fair? So, do you do one on hyper-converged infrastructure or converged? Do you separate converge from hyper-converged? How do you look at the market? So, last year magic quadrant was integrated systems which is converged and hyper-converged. But what Gartner does is actually every year we look at the market and we adjust our inclusion criteria. We adjust market definition. So, I don't think it's a big secret that hyper-conversion is leading this market right now. And honestly, in converged infrastructure, if you look at converged infrastructure, it's very similar. The only difference in converged infrastructure is how you do storage, which storage array you're using. So, it becomes less strategic to even analyze converged infrastructure. So, you will see this year, I cannot break all of the news here, but much more emphasis on software-driven, hyper-converged infrastructure, not services, not the appliances, but more software ads. I'd love to hear that, because at Wikibon, we call the category server sand. So, like VMware, major player, both as a partner in Nutanix, competitor in Nutanix, you know, I know what they're like, they don't show up on the Gartner Magic Quadrant because they don't fit into that environment. Also, the lines between converged, hyper-converged and software-defined storage seem to be blurring a lot. I mean, in some ways, they're just different ways of packaging. Some of the others, hyper-converged is a delivery option for what they're doing. So, where do you see it going? It's obviously beyond the appliance, but say there's the Google announcement today, where do you see a company like Nutanix fitting into this hybrid or multi-cloud world? Differentiating on software, this is the name of the game, right? So, if you can have a portable software, you can run on any hardware, you obviously can continue and run on any cloud as well. And this is an idea. You said it absolutely right, like software-defined storage, it's not a technology, it's a delivery option. So, customer needs to be in charge of their options. Do I want to deploy it on premises? Do I want to go on cloud? Do I want to have an appliance? Do I want to buy software, bring your own hardware? All of those choices need to be given to the end user. They need to decide which way they want to go. So, we're going to have Chad Sackich on tomorrow, and it's obviously interesting. We see Nutanix selling through Dell. We were there two years ago when that announcement was made. Great business, terrific. But as you were saying, converged and hyper-converged and software-defined, they're all coming together now. What do you expect is going to happen with EMC and Nutanix? Do you have any, I don't want to use the word prediction, but any scenarios that you can see developing there? I think, you know, I hate to speculate, but I think both of those companies are extremely user-oriented. So, if there will be demand for Nutanix, Dell will continue to support Nutanix because they will do it right by the customers. And same with Nutanix. You know, they never want to turn someone down and saying it's not our problem. They will both support them in parallel as long as demand is there. So, let me ask a question differently, because I agree with you. EMC, customer-centric. Michael Dell, nobody more customer-centric on the planet, clearly Nutanix customer-focused. Having said that, if the three of us were advising Dell EMC on what to do, we would say keep doing what the customers want. Great, check. But from a product roadmap standpoint, I don't know about you, Stu, but I know I would push them to look at doing more of a hyper-converged software to find like roadmap, as opposed to kind of bolted on V-blocks, which got it all started. Would you agree with that, or do you think that's a waste of R&D? Just outsource it, or OEM it? So far, defined storage is hard to do. It's hard to do it from the ground up, you know? Products need to mature, you know, VMware, V-Send. It's a mature product. It's a good foundation for software-defined storage and for hyper-converged. Building something from the ground up, just to be separated from VMware, it will be very difficult. Okay, well, okay, right. Well, then double down on VMware, maybe, is the advice there. Or maybe they're not really acquisitive right now because they have the debt service, but over time, maybe bring in startups to innovate there, or maybe not because when you look at the Dell EMC deal from previous generations, it was a very successful deal. One of the most, probably the most successful storage deal in the history of storage, the partnership. Before Dell bought Compellent, then remember, Dell buys Compellent, I would look back on that and say, Dell probably would have been better off just staying with the EMC, reselling EMC. I mean, you were there during those days, I don't know. It was Compellent and Equalogic. Were those successful acquisitions in your view? In retrospect? In retrospect, they did pretty well, but you're right, Dave, the EMC partnership was way more money. I think by the time Dell bought EMC, the internal Dell storage revenue had grown to almost, or order of magnitude, the same size of EMC, and they had to put a lot more emphasis into it. So better margins, if they could see your partner. Maybe it's better for Dell to continue to partner, it's kind of your point. Absolutely. Okay. Very diplomatic. Would you expect anything else? Julia, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. It's a pleasure having you. Oh, thank you guys, it was my pleasure. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. All right, keep it right there, buddy. We'll be back to wrap right after this short break. This is theCUBE, we're live from DC at Nutanix.next. Right back.


Hey everyone, welcome back to another XoZeroes episode, so today we will be discussing what does the future really hold for XoZeroes but before that, if you want an updated XoZeroes content, please hit the subscribe button down below. Okay guys, before we dive into the future of XoZeroes, let us discuss what is currently happening with XoZeroes. So as you can see here, here are some of the shots that I got from sensortower.com in terms of revenue garnered by XoZeroes for the past month. So as you can see, this data is as of July 2021 and this is a worldwide data both for Apple and for Android users. So let's take a look at your Apple users or iOS users. They have 10,000 K downloads and the revenue coming from these users are 300 K dollars, which is actually good. Their grade is actually A minus which is pretty much still up there because it's an A and their sensor score is at 87. If you take a look at Android, there's actually a majority of users or players using Android. So downloads are at 7 to K which is time 7 of your Apple user, iOS users and revenue is also high at 7 to K which brings XoZeroes a total of 1 million dollars revenue for the month of July 2021. So what does this tell us guys? But before that, their grade here is an A, so sensor score of 92. So what does it tell you guys? They are still doing good currently. They are doing good month to month. Users have been coming into the game, have been spending to the game and with this I am just gonna do some deduction here. They are still viable right now. They are still good in terms of the market and players are still choosing XoZeroes because they are number one in terms of the design, the graphic again, they're still very good. Most of the new players are spending which is good and some of the old players are still there and are still spending. So this is what the current or the present for XoZeroes is. Let's discuss more on the other details of the game in terms of what is currently out or recently out and again we'll drive our topic towards the future of the game. Okay so in terms of what is due to the game recently they added the Mystic or the Mythic Class which they have there Misty. So again this is one of the things that you should look forward to the game not the scout list but in the journal so you have here your Misty, she belongs to the first of the Mythic Class. So again they're elevating their game there. They're not going towards gear anymore. They're going to more higher classes in terms of characters or heroes. So the gear R1 is just a simple upgrade which is actually very good because you're not really required to destroy your existing gear for you to have your R2 gear. Okay next we're going to talk about Arcverse. So Arcverse normally I can't see it here but again the game for Arcverse real time PvP it kind of came a bit late and right now the system is still as glitches it's really sometimes difficult to come in. Not a lot of thrill because most of the rewards here are similar to Zivenstunia but again this is a good addition hopefully they could still further fix this in terms of entry or game entry to this because for the past two weeks I've had a difficulty in playing Arcverse. So again this will kind of make or break their PvP because with Zivenstunia you can't really go further anymore so that is where Arcverse sits at it's still a something that they should still improve in terms of gameplay in terms of their servers. Okay so for your Memorial Saga this is actually again another game mode that similar to it's actually a PvE game mode which is more or less similar to your chapters accomplishing a lot within the story so this is story based as well as you can see here Heowon is going to tell you a tale. More or less again this is this is good content but it's more it's more for if I may say more for the beginners out there for the more advanced players this is going just to you know if you're trying to eat a snack this is I would compare it as this snack would not be as filling or you won't be full with this so that is my take on on Memorial Saga. So again at least they have content out but again they have still have to put out more content to satisfy especially the old or the older players out there in terms of they started first especially when the game came out. Okay so as we discussed Signature Link so it's here in your Signature Force so for those who don't know where it is so it's for the two nations Pedas and Shadowbane so it's similar to your Signature Force but this actually is being paired with an existing Signature Force nation so this one I'm also reserving my judgement for now it's still the same mechanic you still have to acquire copies of the general for that specific nation so you can link and it actually consumes generals like for example here for Luna if you don't have copies of her copy copy that has been transcended you can't actually do this so again kind of okay with the system it's similar to Signature Force in a way the what do you call this the the currency that is being sacrificed is the same so more or less this is just a pretty much a watered-down Signature Force but again you know I don't know what are your thoughts guys on Signature Link is it really a watered-down Signature Force so next would be your future content for the game just my thoughts guys I'm not sure as of this moment what are their plans for future content the last plan that they discussed was about it was about Memorial Saga but again it has been a while and I've not been happy with the changes so far I'm still playing the game daily of course it's more of right now a just a daily grind it's kind of lowering my interest for the game but again I'm I really love the game I still want to play that is why I'm playing it every day okay but anyway guys as far as the game is concerned there is still a market for this game more or less your game your the average player or the most of the players actually value autoplay terrific autoplay various sources of zest of course for summoning especially at this stage I'm currently not spending anymore in terms of for zest because I'm at a point where I can farm that much before the gold banner the next gold banner hits so I don't spend that much anymore on zest so again this game is self-sustaining eventually which is very good for for you know for for older players and most I think most of the spending goes to the newer players right now and because of the character design 3D design costume design nation design this game really appeals to those who are into this type of game in terms of the graphics to design the story of course very very good very interesting story and there is really a market for XO zeros you can't deny it it's a very good you know leave it at your desk game just click autoplay then while you're doing your work or you're doing something else the game plays itself and once you actually are interested in playing it manually then you can do it manually as well okay the next topic is everyone has been asking where's dorka I don't know where dorka is but if I do find her I'll tell you guys where she is I am actually waiting for her as well so I'm not interested in in the fcs that are coming out I actually waiting for dorka because I have been building brun for quite a while and I need fc dorka for to you know to modify some of our teams um what else content for this for the game guys again would be probably the way of XO's heroes it won't differ that much so again I'm not expecting much for content for them it would I would be happier if they would put out very interesting and nice content up to the level of the the older players who have joined the game since launch and again for the newer players the game is still going to be magical it's going to be magical the way that the game has been built I think it's it's still going to you know be of interest to new players and I'm happy that new players and old players are currently supporting the game in terms of spending for the game I'm actually happy because if we all have free to play players the game won't last long so that's it for me guys so XO's heroes now is still um good very good down the line again I'm looking at six months I'm not sure where they're going to end up but we'll see I'm actually optimistic that they can still turn this game around hopefully soon and I'm still looking forward and very excited to what XO's heroes will come up in the future again guys I will continue to cover XO's heroes I will not leave this game I will support all you guys and always put out the content that all of you deserve okay guys thank you for for you know for sticking this far in this video um please subscribe if you find this very informative also click the bell icon and also put a like to this video if you find this video entertaining and guys stay safe take care this is The Warden and I'm out of here


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So one of the reasons why I like dive really deep into powerlifting is I feel like it's like the most basic, most relatable, easy to get into way to build strength, not just like literally in the body, but in your mind and in life, right? I think like when you train your body and you're able to improve incrementally, ride the ups and downs and build a strong body, what you're really building is a strong mind. And when you can build a strong mind, you can then ride the ups and downs of life and be successful in life. And that's why I like, I love powerlifting because it's literally has so many parallels, there's injuries, setbacks, the equipment, the circumstances, sometimes none of those things are ideal at all. But do you just show up and go nah, I'm not going to lift today? No. I just go through it just like the way life is. So to me, that's why powerlifting is so freaking amazing.  You know, like you can set PRs, there's never too young to start, never too old, doesn't matter your gender, your size, everyone needs to build strength and that's why I love powerlifting. Ooh, why do I have too high a level? It's the one sport where as much as I put in, I get out. So the more work I put in myself, the more I can see progress and especially like, I'm a scientist so I love the nitty gritty, like little details and the mechanics things. So the more I learn about it, the better my technique became, the better my numbers became. So that's what attracted me to it, of course there's a lot of other sports like it, but I feel like that's one where you can kind of choose to be your individual person working towards the goal or you can be on a team to push each other. So I love it. It's good for every aspect of life for me. Out of all the sports, why pick powerlifting? I think when I was a kid, my favorite thing was community and I couldn't play football, I couldn't do wrestling, I got injured in both and my grades, but mainly because of injury and we had a weight room like right next to all the football players played and I would be in there all day literally every single day after school until they got out of practice. More people started having fun with that. I just remember even when I was in football during the summer, the funnest part about training was the weight room, the camaraderie, the hype and it was all very direct. You saw results right away, you saw the results and the weights moving up and it was just a fun place to hang out and as I got older, I only found that in the gym. It's like a community of people from all walks of life get together and have the same common goal of wanting to get better in the gym and also try to improve your own life. So that's why I really fell in love with powerlifting and lifting weights. Why did I pick to coach in powerlifting? It's an opportunity to work with human beings in my community, teach them the things that I believe are very important through sport and through the sport of powerlifting. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn a lot about how to fail and that it's okay to fail and you have to troubleshoot and problem solve and find a way to overcome. And if you have goals, you have to work for those goals relentlessly in a smart way as well in a structured way and create the best plan possible in order to find a way how to make those goals come true. And I come from a background of football. I come from many backgrounds of martial arts. Growing up was like my first sports and those things taught mental toughness. And I believe mental toughness is something that is extremely important for a human being's character and development, but also for someone to live life and understand that there's always going to be something going on. But what are you going to do to overcome that? And how are you going to maintain the highest quality of life? So powerlifting to me and why I am in powerlifting, it's greater than just lifting weights. It's greater than just calling numbers and having the fulfillment of achieving a personal record or all time best, right? So that's why I would say I joined the sport. Yeah, that's why I say I lift and that's why I coach. Why did I choose powerlifting? So it's kind of tracks back all the way to high school. I had surgery when I was growing up and my small intestine. Like I legitimately had to tear through my abdomen and I was like really weak for like a week. So like I couldn't walk, I couldn't do anything on my own. I was like really insecure about my strength, my looks and I want to get stronger and bigger. And I literally, I was like that type of kid to like look up bodybuilding.com workouts, how to get strong, how to get bigger. And it told me to squat, bench and deadlift. So basically like from then on, I fell in love with the movements itself, I stopped caring about how I looked and legitimately I just wanted to get stronger and stronger and stronger. And then I found out that powerlifting was a sport. And when I stepped on the plow for the first time, legitimately I fell in love with the sport. Like I wanted to do more, it was like an addiction. And every time I trained, I got a fire, I had a burning desire to get better and better and better. So I think we put this opportunity to like be able to give the people that are competing for the first time like this meet, like seeing new lifts like your brother for example, like the best example I could think of like he's having a great time so far. Like he has his entire community behind him. But yeah, that's kind of what I got in powerlifting. Talking about powerlifting. You know, I think the step into it or the door opening for me was for athletics. You start to research anything. I want to be a strength and conditioning coach. I first wanted to play basketball again.  I'm only five, nine, five, 10. Difficult to play at the division one level or professional amateur level, which I played out of it.   When I decided not to go back to school and found real powerlifting, I was thrown into the flames. You know, I dropped into the strongest gym on the planet at the time. And what kept me around wasn't necessarily the pursuit of strength, although I think that is what gets a lot of people addicted to the sport, constantly improving, seeing the PRs, the rep PRs, the volume PRs, the strength and muscle over time. For me, it was kind of the community. And obviously that roots into why we built Third Street. I think that when you enjoy the process with like-minded individuals, your level of success and the rate of success and your chances to exceed what you thought is capable goes through the roof. So the community itself, we can bicker all day long about federations and deadlift bar, no deadlift bar and maybe some executives and business and politics in the sport. But when you dive into the root of the community, the people of powerlifting, it's a very, very special niche. Ladies and gentlemen, just a little insight why powerlifting, why it's in our veins, why we promote it, why we give back to the sport, whether it's energy, running meets, money, building the communities ourselves best we can. That's it. 3sb.co, grab your tea right now. Confious, most durable tea in the game. We over me, be a part of something bigger yourself, man. Community and culture always. Salam, Mike. I'm out.


You can build your own Adabot with Adafruit's RP2040 PropMaker Feather. This is a fully 3D printed toy robot that features a server-controlled head, sound effects, and NeoPixel LEDs. The startup sound lets you know when it's on, and the button on the back lets you play random audio files. The mouth lights up while the audio is playing, and the NeoPixels are animated when it's idle. The head also randomly moves back and forth. To stop the servo, just lay Adabot on its back to go into sleep mode. This uses an accelerometer to detect its orientation. The mouth also slowly fades in and out, kind of like it's taking a nap. Powered by the RP2040 chip, this feather has everything you need to make simple robots, toys, and cosplay props. It's got all the features you know and love about the feather, plus an ITWIS amplifier, accelerometer, NeoPixel driver, StemQT, and USB-C. We think it's the best all-in-one dev board for making these type of projects. Libraries for CircuitPython enable you to develop projects with NeoPixels, servos, and audio output. The code is easy to modify so you can customize the LED animations or add new features. You can check it out on GitHub, links are in the description. We think CircuitPython is the best way to get started with DIY electronics. Download and 3D print the parts in your favorite filament. They print without any support material, and most of them snap fit together. The electronics are secured to the various parts and they're easily accessible. It's a modular design so you can swap out the parts or customize the design. To learn how to build your own, head over to the guide at learn.adafruit.com. We took Adaba on a trip to Star Wars Galaxies Edge at Disney World and went to the DROID Depot to hang out with other robots. We had a lot of fun taking it out and even more so making robot friends. We hope this inspires you to check out the feather RP2040 prop maker for your next project.


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Hello friends, welcome to my channel, I am Arpita Kaurva and in this video I am going to tell you how toppers prepare notes when they are preparing for UGC net English examination. You might have covered the entire syllabus and you are 1000% confident about acing this competitive exam, but just 5-10 days before the exam when your mind has absorbed so much information, you find that things are starting getting merged. If you are a literature student then you might find that words like Elizabeth, John, Jane are getting jumbled together since you have read so many writers and so many characters sharing the same name. And this is the point when you start questioning your preparation.  How? By teaching you a power packed strategy about making notes. Notes friends help you with retention. Research says that when you write something with your hands it tends to stay in your mind for a longer period of time. In fact not just that, notes are also going to help you with revision. Imagine the time and effort that effective notes can help you save. So friends the first thing that comes to our mind while making notes is whether we should use computer based notes or handwritten notes. I will give you a clear picture about both these options. So basically handwritten notes are better for retention but if you have fear that you might lose the notes then you can use apps like Microsoft One Note, EverNote or other notes making apps available online. They get synced on your laptop, phones and tablets plus they give you multiple notebook options. So you can make multiple pages in each notebook. For example each notebook could be for one writer and then you can add different pages talking about different works of those writers. On the other hand if you are using handwritten notes you have to use it in a proper fashion. How to do that? So you can make separate notebooks for different ages or different topics and that is how you are going to segregate different topics that you are studying for this exam. The next tip is to make exam relevant notes. Friends have seen students who make notes that are buried in emotions. I have a friend who loves Francis Bacon a literary writer those of you who are not from UGC Net and are watching this video. So this writer Francis Bacon is not a very very important writer of UGC Net exam but my friend because she loved Francis Bacon so much she filled 75 pages just by writing information about Francis Bacon. This will harm you in two ways. Number one it will kill a lot of your time and number two this exercises futile because such questions never come in the exam and because it won't be exam relevant there is no point putting in so much time and energy to make such huge notes. Also from the exam's perspective almost thousand writers are important. Imagine if you start giving so much time and effort to each writer then you will never be able to complete your notes. In fact exam se pehle poora syllabus complete hi nahi ho pahega you will never get time to even revise. So I would suggest you that you have to opt for exam relevant notes for that you can check out arpathakarva.com where in we have uploaded list of all the writers and that list mind you is for free so you can go and check out the list of writers and you can start preparing exam relevant notes for each of them and if you are looking for somebody or someone who can give you exam relevant notes then you can join our UGC Net online course where in we provide detailed information about each writer from UGC Net exam perspective. The third important tip is to use pointers and not paragraphs while making notes. So always ensure that you are writing notes in pointers. Again I just told you how your brain remembers pointers in mind maps in not long paragraphs plus paragraphs are very difficult to revise and you will realize it yourself that pointers are very easy to grasp. You just have to glance at them and you are good to go. Also remember that your notes have to be very short. You don't have to write full sentences write a sentence fragment for example rather than writing that this writer was born in this year. You can just write born 1923 that's it two words and you're good to go. Save your time and save your space kahaniya nahi likhne hai this is what you have to understand a lot of students copy and paste stories from spark notes and other short summary websites and they keep on writing whatever is written on screen that isn't making notes that's just being a photocopy machine.  Now a lot of people ask me Arpita how do we use colors in order to make our notes because colors have a very very different impact on the brain. Now using color is a purely personal choice. There can be some people who use it and there can be people who just use one colored pen. Some people don't even need it. Most of my friends use black and blue pens and they score amazing marks. But I when I was preparing for net used colors because colors help me retain information better. For example you can use different colors while writing about different sections of a particular writer. If you are talking about the biography you can write it from one color. You can talk about literary contribution of the writer and you can use it another color. You can talk about a significant work of a writer and use a third color. You can keep the color coding uniform across all the writers so that whenever you see a paragraph written in a particular color your brain automatically gets a message that you are talking about a particular topic like biography ke liye blue color. So all the writers biography will be written in blue. So whenever you see something in blue it automatically gets reflected in your brain that you are talking about biography of a writer. So color coding is very very important. Now similar to color coding is highlighting. Some people use highlighters when they are making notes. Before I talk about how you can use highlighting as a tool to get marks I want to plead you that please don't highlight everything when you are reading books. So when you are reading books and jotting down points some people have this habit of highlighting the entire page. A lot of people would find I would find that they highlight the entire notes. Try to highlight only important facts or point that you know that you always forget or that are very important from exam point of view. Let's say you are done with making notes and now you are revising for the first time. So now what you can do is you can use a highlighter and highlight the sections which you cannot recall at all. Alternatively you can use symbols like stars or hash to show a point which you always forget. Now when you will be doing this again and again why at the time you reach the final revision state you will see that there are a list of pointers that you have to keep on revising to ensure that they stick to your brain. So that is how highlighting and color coding helps. Now moving on to the next tip that is using mnemonics. For example when you are making notes for a play like Hamlet then rather than writing the entire story in paragraph you can either make a diagram of it and when you make a diagrammatic representation of Hamlet the story gets into your brain much easier. I have done so many videos on YouTube talking about how you can use mind math to get these information in your brain. Please check out my video on Jane Iyer wherein I have used mind map and shown you how you can use it to remember complex novels and stories and how these mind maps will help you to remember stuff better. So our memory is photogenic friends you have to understand this. So whenever you use mind maps or mnemonics then those things get stored much quicker. Let's say some writer's date and month matches your or your friend's birthday. Make sure that you use it as a point so that you don't remember those important dates. That is how mnemonics and other mind mapping tools help you to retain information. Friends coming on to the next trick use sticky notes all around your room. Repetition is the key to remember things. Do you notice how you remember the lyrics of the song you hear on Instagram Reels? Not because you have memorized the lyrics but because you have heard them so many times. When you keep scrolling Instagram that is how you remember it. So repetition is the key. Similarly as much as you see these sticky notes these pointers on your wall these pointers are going to stay in your brain. While I was studying I used to paste sticky notes on my room's wall and I used to reach them. And I swear you won't even realize how you will automatically start remembering these pointers which you are writing on the sticky notes provided you are reading these sticky notes again and again. Laga ke bool jaoge toh how will you remember? Understand. Along with these six tips I have got two bonus tips for you. Number one when you are revising your notes keep a separate notebook with you and keep adding points to that notebook which you keep on forgetting every time you revise. So if you are revising a page and you found that out of that particular page there are two points that you are forgetting every time you are trying to revise. And write down these two points in another separate notebook. This will make an exhaustive list of points that you always forget and you can spend two three hours right before the exam revising these tricky points so that you remember them on the day of the exam. You must understand that it is highly impossible to go through each page of your notes right before the exam and therefore it is super important to have concise notes in your hands. The second bonus tip is that the more you read your notes the better you will remember and therefore you should make it a habit that you remember and revise your notes everyday. You know when I was preparing for UGC net exam every day before reading any new topic I would spend at least 30 minutes revising my previous notes and the same habit you should develop wherein you keep revising your previous notes before you pick up anything new. If you don't revise you will keep forgetting what you have already done and all your efforts will be wasted. And with this we have reached to the end of this lecture. I would love it if you guys can comment down below what note making strategy do you use when preparing for UGC net exam. So with that note I would like to take your leave if you have any questions any doubt don't forget to put that in the comment section below. Also you can WhatsApp us on the number given in the description box and we will be more than happy to help you. So with that note I would like to take your leave that's it from my side for this video lecture. We will meet soon in the next video lecture till the time we meet next happy learning keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpitakarwa.com


So, I just learned something new about Android out of all these years I did not know existed. You know, I'm in the middle of doing this series for you guys and I'm looking up different things about Android, learning as much as I can, and a few forums people mentioned going into Safe Mode. I did not realize that Android had a Safe Mode. So, if you're ever having problems with your phone and you're not sure what's causing it, what you can do is you can reboot into Safe Mode, which basically will disable all installed, all third-party apps. So basically, it's just going to go back to, it doesn't uninstall anything, but it just starts it up and doesn't allow any third-party apps to run. And if that fixes your problem, you know it's one of the applications you have installed. The way you get into Safe Mode is very easy.   Sometimes you have a screenshot button there too. And you just hold for a second or two the power off button and you get this. Reboot to Safe Mode. You click OK and it will restart. And when you get here, back in all your installed stuff, well the icons will be there, but they'll be grayed out because they're disabled. So again, to do that, to get into Safe Mode on Android, you hold down the power button like you're going to shut it down. Then you hold down the power off button for a few seconds and then you would click OK. And when you do it, it will reboot and just disable. And then when you restart again, it goes back into normal mode. The only thing I noticed when I was doing this was, you know, I have a custom, I have Launcher, Launcher installed on my phone. And when I redid it, like it, since that's an installed app, it went back to the default Motorola launcher, which I had disabled and it had re-enabled that. So I just had to switch my launcher back once I booted back into regular mode. Other than that, you know, everything worked fine. So that's just a thought. If you ever have issues with your phone, you're not sure what's causing it. You can always boot into Safe Mode, see if that fixes the problem. If so, you know it's one of the apps you have installed and you can start uninstalling stuff until you figure out which one it is. Anyway, thanks for watching. Please visit FilmsByChris.com. That's Chris at the K. There's a link in the description. Hold your power button for a few seconds. Hold the power off button for a few seconds and click OK. Have a great day.