We will discuss how to make self-to-applications more carbon aware. So thank you, Simon, feel free to talk. Thank you. Thanks for the introduction and thanks to all the folks that are still here around. I know it's the last day of a very eventful week, so I appreciate you being here. I hope you enjoyed the conference so far and are ready for the second to last, I think, talk of the conference. For me it definitely was very fun. So I'll be presenting on the concepts of the green software. Some folks here might already be aware of them, of those who aren't. I'll be going through the basics as well. And this normally, because the tooling I'll be explaining later on, the carbon-aware SDK, normally sits higher up in the stack. This is not directly on embedded. This is going for workloads in the cloud. But the green software obviously targets everything from hardware, from the silicon, all the way to big applications. So I'm really hoping to get some input from you as well. And while I'm explaining these concepts, just give it a thought. And I'll give you some time throughout the talk to answer any questions or jump in with your thoughts and ideas. So I'll sort of maybe with who I am. Some of you may know me, some of you may not. My name is Srimon. I'm an open technology engineer at Avanad. And I'm also co-chairing the carbon-aware SDK project, which I will be mentioning later on in the talk. It's a project that is developed and maintained by the green software foundation. So make sure to check it out after the talk. Recently, for those of you who've seen my Tuesday talk with Jakub, I've talked about I've been getting more into the embedded space more. It's been a thing I really enjoyed doing in my spare time and at, well, earlier stages in my academic history. So it's good to be going back to it from the open source side of it. I'm currently a final year student at the master's program from computer science at University College London, but I'm not putting the logo because I didn't ask for permission in time. But imagine it's there. And yeah, as mentioned on the slide, I double in the areas of game development and embedded systems, IoT, cloud engineering, and I'm pretty crazy about wind surfing. So if there are any surfing folks in here, I can chat to you about that afterwards. So the talk I already kind of gave a brief introduction, but we'll start off with an intro to the green software foundation, what it is. What are the core principles of green software, which we should be thinking about, with a slightly deeper dive in the carbon awareness and also in the hardware efficiency part of it. And finally, if you have the time for it, we'll do an intro and a demo of the carbon awareness decay. So the project I've been co-chairing and a lot of folks developing. So if I can just do a hands check, so raise your hands, who has heard about the greens of the foundation in general. So we have three folks on the audience. Okay, so we need to increase our external visibility, but that's good that we have some knowledge and I'll introduce that in a second. But first of all, just a quick stat, because people love stats. And software-related CO2 emissions in general are actually, they account for roughly 4% of the current world emissions, right? So this is more than the air rail and shipping industry combined, right? So it's only 4%, so it doesn't sound like a lot, but like, you know, it's bigger than this. So we make an impact and there's surely a lot of work for us to be done in that area. So what is the green software foundation? It's a foundation under the umbrella of Linux Foundation and it's a non-profit and it aims to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards and tooling and best practices for green software. So for building more energy-efficient software and, well, hopefully, for building more energy-efficient hardware that software will be running on. If you want to learn more, please visit greensoftware.foundation and you can learn about the manifesto, the mission and the vision of the entire foundation. So what we do at the GSF, as we abbreviated it to, is we have discussions that cover basically the full stack of software going from cloud applications all the way to hardware. But we are missing the expertise of embedded folks and a lot of the people involved in it are not experts in the field, they're not embedded systems designers and engineers. So although we try to encapsulate that as well, because this is a very important part of where the emissions come from, where the energy consumption comes from, we need your input in it. And if you are members of Linux Foundation and a lot of people here I think are, you very much welcome you to join this and share your expertise with us on the topic. We are already collaborating with CNCF, so the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, on implementing some of the tooling and on extending the standardization around green software. But again, we would love more input from people working closer to the hardware. Here's just an example issue that Chris linked to me of some of the collaboration that's been happening in this space between GSF and CNCF. So either feel free to jump on those threads or just join the GSF GitHub and see what's happening there. And why should we care about it? Why should embedded engineers also care about it? Well, basically some of you might be aware of the greenhouse gas protocol, which defines the scopes of emissions of software, and it's split into three scopes. There are the direct emissions, so things like company software, company facilities and management. So if you actually have some, for example, forklifts running around in your company, right? Or the scope too, which are indirect emissions from electricity purchased, steam, heating and cooling. So this is stuff you import from other providers, mainly electricity, to sustain your business, sustain your whatever you might be doing, even at your house, right? And then finally there are the scope-free indirect emissions from downstream and upstream activities. These are generally the hardest for everyone to calculate, because these come from things we do not, well, directly buy, but are somewhere upstream or downstream in our actions. So obviously if we produce open source software, it's very hard to know who is using the open source software, right? And where it's actually running, so it's hard to find the footprint of it. And green software actually touches on... Oh, it goes through every single scope in here, right? So from the direct emissions from some of the chips, the software might be running on all the way to downstream stuff. So green software principles is a set of core ideas. By the way, maybe before I go further, are there any questions about this part of the presentation? If not, I'll just jump on. If you have anything, just feel free to shoot your hands up. We don't have a lot of people, so we have plenty of time to answer questions. Green software principles are some of the core ideas behind building greener and more sustainable software. And the GSF tried to encapsulate them in a few, and the next few slides will cover them in some detail. I'll also link out to a training portal where you can learn more about it and even get a LF cert if you want to increase your knowledge in the space. So there are three main ways how we can improve and reduce the carbon footprint of our software. The first one, and most obvious one, is energy efficiency. So consuming the least amount of electricity is possible. This might be by improving the efficiency of our software running on our PCs or chips or through other means. And the second way of how we can do that, which is a bit harder to target, but still just as important, is through hardware efficiency. So one of them is using least amount of embodied carbon. I'll introduce that topic in the next slides. And well, for just building more efficient hardware. So yeah, when I get to it, I'll give some more examples. And then carbon awareness. So the last one, which is the least obvious normally, people don't really think about it as much, is in principle doing more when electricity is clean and doing less when it's dirty. Well, we wouldn't want to do it the other way. Or unless you want the whole planet to burn down, I guess. But we don't want that. So starting off with carbon and energy efficiency. So those are the first two principles. And they are very closely interlinked. That's why I put them in a single slide. So the first one, so carbon efficiency is simply the idea of emitting the least amount of carbon possible. And energy efficiency is using the least amount of energy possible. Why it's important is because when we produce electricity, obviously we burn coal, we burn gas. Some of it comes from nuclear, some of it comes from solar, but in the end all of these actions emit some gases into the atmosphere. Not always carbon, but different kinds of gases. So by limiting the energy usage, we limit the carbon emissions and hence we'll save our pliers a little bit. And to not think about all of these different gases, different emissions, different pollutants, and to kind of bring it down to make it easier for us also software engineers to think about them, to kind of group it together, we normally look at greenhouse gases in the carbon dioxide equivalent, right? So we bring all of the different gases, methane and so on, and we recalculate how much methane in the atmosphere, for example, is equal to some amount of carbon dioxide. And this gives us a leverage point to build more standardized tooling, sorry, and to look at less of those gases, so we don't have to spread ourselves so thin and narrow the gap a little bit. An example, how you can recalculate is that, well, methane, as I already mentioned, is a gas that's actually 40 times more warming than CO2, so obviously we cannot just do a one-to-one mapping. We say that one ton of methane would be 40 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. Energy efficiency, so the second thing I mentioned here, I should have actually jumped to these slides when I was talking about it, so you have some visualization, again, just to resurfacing this, energy comes from different sources of gas. These emit CO2 equivalent, and this gets powered when we run software, so that's why when we do more software, we use up more of those guys on the right emit more CO2 equivalent. Also, another thing here worth mentioning is minimizing energy usage by maximizing utilization. I think this is a rather a strong idea in the embedded space is to use as much of the silicon as we can by compressing our software as much as possible and doing as many things on the limited silicon as we can. Basically, instead of, in cloud terms, instead of doing five servers at 20% utilization, we try to do one server at 100% or maybe to break it down to, so it's not fully throttled, but try to downscale the amount of hardware that's running, but upscale the usage of it, the percentage of what we use. Here comes, I guess, the most interesting part for you guys, the most impactful from the embedded space is the hardware efficiency. And it starts with embodied carbon. Embodied carbon is the idea that every piece of silicon we produce requires some carbon to be emitted, carbon equivalent, I'll be just saying carbon, because carbon equivalent is a bit too long, to be emitted in the atmosphere. So it's important to think about it in the long term and to try and use the hardware as much as we can with the embedded carbon making a small of an impact on the environment. And the one thing, one way how we can look at this is called amortization. It's basically the idea of, well, amortizing, embodied carbon is the idea of spreading the embodied carbon over the expected lifespan of a device. So if we look at the graph here, and we have our embodied carbon stacked up as 400 kilograms, and if we look at, for example, four years of usage, so if you use the device for four years, this equates to roughly 1,000 kilograms of CO2 emissions per year. And one very basic way and I'd say almost obvious way of limiting this, of decreasing this emission is by increasing the lifespan of our hardware. So trying to promote more of renewable markets, of reusing components that are already there, some things that some companies are starting to do is, well, for example, I'm going to bring up Apple, although they have some, well, yeah. Apple, for example, does recycling of iPhones. You can bring in an iPhone. Obviously you don't get a lot of money for it, but at least there's a chance they'll reuse some of the components. And some other companies do that too, it just doesn't count my mind at the moment. And that way, just by increasing the lifespan, for example, of a device by a year, we are already reducing carbon emissions per year by 200 kilograms. So quite substantial. These are obviously examples on big server stacks, like these values would never be the same for a single microchip and iPhone or a microcontroller. But when you think embedded, we need to think about IoT in this space and wearables. And phones. So this directly translates here as well to scale. So rather than each device having a big impact by itself, it's the number of devices that each have a small impact, right? But if we reuse MCUs or increase the lifespan of a lot of IoT devices, MCUs, this brings down the overall embodied carbon for the whole system quite substantially. So it's not just a single device, it's a lot of devices. Any questions or thoughts on that space, on the hardware efficiency, or are we all good to continue? Okay, so you are talking about extending the lifespan of the hardware, and that sounds noble, but I thought about one case, because for example, if I buy a laptop right now and use it for, let's say, five years, and then changes to another one, then of course the old laptop will go to waste and there are a lot of problems with that. But if I force myself to use it for ten years, then of course I don't have the problem of wasting the hardware for just a small amount of time. But it will be very inefficient in five years, and I'll be wasting a lot of power, a lot of time, and a lot of battery life and stuff. I might even waste money on replacement batteries and things like that, which will contribute to the overall effect. And have you done maybe some calculations, maybe do you have some ideas about what are the best strategies to offset those conflicting goals? Right, yeah, it's a very great question. I think the best thing to jump to when you're thinking about this is where is the actual trade-off point? At which time does the embodied carbon, increasing the life expectancy no longer matter for me to grab a new device that is more efficient, uses less energy? And because, well, this is a very fresh space, GSF was founded two years ago, I'm not aware of a project that is up and running and doing these calculations, but there is a project called CarbonQL which is looking at calculating the efficiency full stack of a device, but it's not doing the exact calculation you mentioned, right? So this is something that there is still an open space to look at. But going back to your question of when it's worth it, well, yeah, it boils down to doing the calculation. If you know that your device is, if new device's efficiency, you can calculate how much, for example, something I'll introduce in a second, it's software carbon intensity rating for running some application. A laptop is a hard thing because it's an OS and it runs all kinds of applications, but if it's an MCU, for example, that's running a single application, this is easier to calculate. If you change to a new MCU, we could possibly calculate its exact software carbon intensity, so how much carbon it's producing on that hardware. And then you could also compare it directly to your current MCU, and if then you compare, well, the embodied carbon difference versus that, this will give you exactly what you want to know, like when is the cut of point where do I switch one to the other. It's just that this calculation is difficult. We are standardizing this, if I jump to the next slide. We have defined and released a standard called software carbon intensity, which talks about three things, embodied carbon, so what we just mentioned, software efficiency and carbon intensity. And this gives an idea of some kind of score which allows you for measurement in time between devices for specific applications. This will not give you a comparison that can be compared across all devices, across all applications, but for those applications, it can. So yeah, and just finishing off, again, yes, we are working on it, but your input would be greatly appreciated in this space. Yes, so just a couple of thoughts. I don't want to take too long. So first of all, why there isn't a, I mean, it's a loose idea, like someone should come up with a solution like the calculator that I got, this and this equipment, for example, I'm a end-game gamer and I need to, I don't want to update my RTX to the newest one or I have this and that fleet of MCUs and should I keep on running them or would it be better in terms of power consumption and total cost to replace them with newer ones or more, let's say, more green, right? So that's like, I know it's a very difficult problem to solve, but having such a platform would be definitely beneficial to both big players in the field and people who produce tons of, and just implement tons of them, of the devices in the field that we're speaking embedded here and like regular end-user like me who's considering just changing my laptop because it's, well, yeah. What do you explain just a moment ago? Yeah, exactly. And exactly this is a perfect formula that would go under the umbrella of Green Slaughter Foundation. This is one of the things that we want to target, because getting there is first finding the standardization of how you calculate it. This is something we have already, well, defined, right? There's total government intensity. If you Google that, you'll be able to find the spec of what you should be looking at. The issue is where do you get the data and how can you then compare it against other things? So on a gaming example, you could, for example, define exactly, hey, I'm running on an RTX something. I'm running on an Intel Core on this specific hardware. This is the game I am running, and then you can define the software carbon intensity rating for that game on that hardware. And then, yep. So say you swap out your graphics card or use your laptop for longer. How does that actually affect the static power of the device? Does it use more energy over time? If you swap it out. Well, it depends on the device. Or using the laptop for longer as well. Yeah, I mean, heavily depends on your device. Obviously, if you have a battery, it will decrease in capacity and there's more decrease in efficiency. So I do not exactly remember how it goes, but I believe the efficiency will be worsening, right? Again, it's a trade-off. What is the cut-off point where you should switch, where you should upgrade, when you should replace the part? Yeah, I mean, all of these things are really nice, but again, the issue, as you can see in the graph as well, is that the manufacturing is actually the most polluting part of it. So as much as efficiency is great, we're talking about the difference on, I know, 150 watts to 130 watts, while the actual manufacturing, which includes purifying the silicon, PCBs, bunch of components, all of these together with the shipping, is really just making all of these looks really, really, really insignificant. So, yeah. So, go for it. That's kind of what I wanted here. I wanted the open discussion. I agree with you, but... Yeah, but just to respond to what you said before, if Apple making a device or HP making it, you don't have any control over that, even if that's 80% of the emissions. Whereas if you treat all of it as out of our control, then we'll never make any improvements. As software engineers, we can still reduce this. Just a small question. Did you heard of cold carbon? Cold carbon. Oh, carbon code. I read about it a few days ago. It's not really an embedded area, but it's more like running on the AVS things. As far as I know, it's a Python script or something like that, that measures the impact of your instance and knows about which server cluster uses which combination of solar energy, cold, whatever, and tells you if you migrate your whatever container from this to this, you save that amount of carbon. It's just like, I don't know if someone heard about it. Like a month or a few weeks ago. I haven't heard about it either, so if you can, link to that afterwards would be very cool. But yeah, it's definitely one of the important things. I have actually a few slides on carbon awareness which talk about the shifting of stuff around in the world as well. But yeah, I'm mindful you still have some conversation going on and I'm more keen to have that as well. But if everyone's happy at the moment, like yeah, we can have some work here afterwards. I know we only have like six minutes left or three. How many minutes? 13. Okay, so my clock is very much off. Yeah, and so measurement, again, please do check out software carbon intensity. It will give you an idea of what are the ways to start looking at it. We just need the software also to calculate that. And that is what we can do as software engineers, right? So we've had it. And the last principle mentioned here, the climate commitments is what are actually the methods for reducing the emissions like outside of software, inside of software, but generally how do we reduce emissions. And I know it's a very small graph, so you can find it on learn.greensoftware.foundation in the course material. But basically the two main ways to do that are either via offsets. So offsetting your carbon footprint or by abatement or elimination, so not emitting the carbon in the first place. And obviously the second option is preferable, because you just never emit that at all. But still offsetting is very important and it's a very important idea. It's just much, much complex and in the energy space it's a very complex discussion about how you should do it properly, how you should do matching of your energy, do 24-7 matching, whether it should be hourly, daily, weekly. So just worth noting. And then the last one, last principle that I am more no more of, I guess, and I work closely with is carbon awareness. And I really like this sentence which is doing more when electricity is cleaner and doing less when it's dirty. It's as simple as that, but there are a few ways how you can smartly improve it. It relies on the idea of carbon intensity. Carbon intensity in electricity terms is the amount of CO2 equivalent released per each kilowatt hour spent of energy. And this, for example, is a map from carbon intensity data provider called WattTime. And we can see here from the green leaf to the dark co-icon this is how much carbon intensity, what's the carbon intensity level in a different region. And for example, graph here on the top of it shows us that this directly is related to what sources are, what energy sources are being used in the space at the time. So let's say we have 120 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour and that means there's a lot of wind there's a lot of solar and let's say later in the day sun stops shining as intensely, wind stops blowing as fiercely and we have to rank up more on burning fuel, burning gas, burning coal and this increases our CO2, right? So we will be emitting more carbon for the same amount of electricity we're using. I hope that everyone gets that, right? Cool. This is I guess not directly carbon awareness but also how the mechanism works when we have a energy consumption on the grid and we the demand is, so this is going for work of how energy consumption might happen on the market. So let's say we had demand going down and there is still some wind, some solar in the system, so we decide to burn less of the fuels non-renewable fuels and later on let's say the wind starts blowing, the sun starts shining and then there is this curtailed energy that appears above our graph. What this means is energy that we're not actually using but we could be using because it's available, right? So it gets thrown away, no one's using it we cannot use that energy. So with carbon awareness the idea is you identify those times when there is more energy there is more energy in the system and you increase the demand. So you shift your workloads, you shift your operations to operate at the times when this curtailed energy is being wasted and instead we can shrink down the usage of carbon, of other carbon producing sources. Just be mindful that this can never go to zero as long as we have non-renewable, well not non-renewable, but carbon producing power plants in the world because they always need to be running at some level you cannot shut them down, it takes too much energy and it's time to restart them. No worries. When coal power plants are run they need to be run at 70% capacity because otherwise they aren't cost effective and cost efficient. So when they go down below that's why they are closing down coal power plants and they cannot be run as power plants. When you run them as peaker plants they have to be started well in advance when you use virtual power plants from batteries and such you can go in with moment's notice but when you are running coal and oil they have to be run in advance and run at least the capacity of 70%. So that is a little bit cool. Thanks for adding that. Yeah, that's actually a number I didn't know so it's cool to learn new stuff from the audience and yeah, a really important point, that's one of the points we cannot shut them off or get them too low. Jumping on to the first idea in carbon awareness of how you can apply it as time shifting so if you look at this graph the blue line is the carbon intensity that varies throughout the day. We have it between 400 and down to 0 is a bit optimistic but let's say that's actually like 200 or something like that, that's more realistic. That's the carbon intensity on the grid and then the green bar is our job. It's a one hour long job that is originally running at 1am to 2am and let's say we are looking at the actual carbon intensity with tools like the carbon hour SDK and we realize that actually we can move the job one hour forward in time, so plan ahead and this will then run at a time that has lower carbon intensity predicted and we can possibly save some carbon being emitted by doing it later. So this is time shifting. Location shifting, it's a bit more radical and it's not always as easy to apply, it really depends on your specific use case but this means totally moving your workload to a different location. This is in the cloud it's more easy to apply than the systems, we cannot just ship our systems to run in a different country and that probably would kill the entire idea but actually maybe this is actually a cool analogy because an important thing when moving your workload is also the shipping cost of it. You have to ship data to a different location and communicate with it. So you have a trade-off of you're moving it to a location that's much better, let's say Spain there is a lot of sun of your data, of your embedded systems or data, yes to a different location and that shipping also requires some energy spent. So it's another thing you have to keep in mind. Yeah, that's a cool analogy. I like it. And the last thing is the combination of two a little bit I guess or brightly more advanced version of time shifting. It's demand shaping. So the blue line is again intensity, the green bar is the intensity of your job how much you're doing on your hardware, so how much let's say how many processes you're running and it's the idea that if you have something, let's say a system that is processing some data and this can be shrunk down. So let's say you don't have to process all of the data at a specific point in time but you can accumulate and then do it later then you can wait for a time where the current density actually goes lower and expand let's say the number of either turn on more devices that will be processing the data or just spawn more jobs that will be processing it. So increasing electricity usage by increasing the efficiency or using more computers to do it and really utilizing that green time. And I know I only have three minutes left so this is a very, very brief introduction to the carbon narrow SDK so the tooling we actually already developed in the green software foundation had a first release and are soon to get a 1.1 release or 1.2 it's getting pretty big but in principle it's a tooling that answers some of these issues please feel free to review the slides afterwards for more info on them the biggest issues are the open source issues so there's a lot of disparate approaches in different companies trying to address it, trying to build carbon narrow tooling and this gives you an open source tool to solve that there's the issue of integrity of approaches so how do we actually know we're not greenwashing, how do we know you use real data for it and another interesting point is the need for a unified approach so we want everyone to be able to collaborate to know the standard for doing this where it sits is it will sit between your application and somewhere and the data sources so if it's a cloud application it will be as a deployed API or a CLI and it consumes the intensity data and gives you a unified interface for all of them because believe me there are so many data sources for carbon intensity data already so having a single interface for all of them is pretty useful just saying hey give me the forecast for carbon intensity data in a unified unit I know I'm jumping through a little bit I normally have a demo of using this and the demo is a Jupiter notebook which you can find on the GitHub it basically just shows I know I'm clicking through it but it basically just shows how you can affect your carbon intensity by doing time time shifting on a 55 day example so let's say we're moving from a certain time to a different time the red line, the blue line are carbon intensity values in different locations visually you can see there is a difference so it normally shows you some examples of how you do it I also have open source not yet upstream the demo of the SDK in a Kubernetes environment which for the cloud folks here is you should be aware of what it is at least roughly and the wrap up carbon aware software is central to the carbonization it's one of the key points of decreasing it so please look at it at least we already have a lot of folks being involved in it last time we took the screen shot we had 200 stars, now we have 325 or 15 so it would be cool to have you there if not there is a plenty of projects in the green sort of foundation which we'd be happy to have embedded engineers involved in and we don't have time for Q&A I wish you all a safe journey back from the conference finally I'll just leave the QR code and then we can look at it and sorry for going over time all right thanks it's very interesting so we had a couple of questions I think we can have some the next session is in 10 minutes so thanks again Siobhan have you got any questions I know it's quite a complicated topic so go ahead one question you showed a graph of the carbon levels do you have time data or can you get some kind of a forecast so you can plan ahead that's a great question that's a great question I normally answer during the presentation you can get both historical data and forecasted data so what time as a one provider it gives you roughly a day advanced data electricity maps gives you much more they have prediction models looking at it there is a very cool study in Microsoft of them doing it to build their software more carbon so if you just google UBS Microsoft carbon awareness you can probably find it where they actually show the differences they noted between forecasted and actual data when they got to the future point what thanks another question all right so I think we have a last presentation 8 minutes


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And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. This back rim is in excellent condition as well. And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody back here is in excellent shape, and it's like that all the way underneath. Cab corners, lower rockers all look good, and it does come with factory chrome step bars. You do get the chrome tipped exhaust, and coming around to the back of the vehicle, the rear bumper is in nice shape, does have the backup parking sensors, full towing package which includes the receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate is in very nice condition as well, and it comes with a gator, fold up tonneau cover, has a very nice line X, spray and bed liner, and the bed is in very nice shape as well. I wanted to show you that garden metallic, it's got a lot of metal flake to it, kind of get a good idea for the color right here. The only thing I really noticed on this truck, there's two little chips in the tail light there, but it's not cracked or anything, so it doesn't affect the performance of them. Just wanted to point it out. And driver side box is in excellent condition as well, no dents or dings on that, and the last rim is in perfect condition too. It does have the capless fuel fill, which is a really nice feature, never get gas on your hands again, and going down the driver side here, no dents or dings on the doors, it does have the driver side door code entry, we do have the code for this truck, and if you ever wanted to figure out what your code is for your 2015 to 22 F115, the upper right hand part of the screen, I've got a video showing you how to do that. Heated mirrors, built in directional signals, it does have blind spot mirrors as well. Inside the XLT package gives you the gray cloth interior, you get the 40, 20, 40 split bench seating, no rips or tears on the seats, it does have the power driver seat, factory all weather formats, auto headlamps, power pedals, tilt telescopic steering wheel, power windows power locks and power mirrors, get the kind of grayish silver trim there. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior, get the built forward tough animation there, you can see that this one has 45,829 miles, you do get a digital speedometer, compass display, and the instrument cluster is in excellent condition. Comes with the leather wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth and audio controls on the right, cruise controls and information center controls on the left, now this one's going to come with, I'm not sure if it's the 6 speed or the 10 speed on this one, you have to start it up and check that, anyways this one comes with the sync 8 inch radio, AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities, it does have a CD player as well, and then you have your different apps here including Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, where you can project your cell phone to the screen, so while this one doesn't have a navigation system on it, you can project your cell phone with Waze or Google Maps or whatever navigation system you have onto the screen and then use it through the screen and it's pretty cool, then it's just like you have Nav on there, it does have the stability control, start stop capabilities, turned off 4 wheel drive factory brake controller, heated seat buttons, CD player, sync to connect to your cell phone, two USBs and a 12 volt power point, you get another 12 volt power point right there, passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition, no rips or tears on there and the headliner is in very nice clean condition, smells very clean inside this truck, I don't think it's ever been smoked in and you do get map lights up there, we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up, take a look under the hood, back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here, it does have the latch, child safety system, fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost and those seats are in excellent shape, factory all-weather floor mat back here that keeps your carpeting looking like new, side curtain airbags and these seats do fold back down like so, child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors all look really good, we'll start it up and take a look under the hood, starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that, did want to show you, you get your backup camera right there and is it going to tell me how many gears did I get? No, it's not going to tell me, I think it's the 6 speed but check the description below to verify the speed of how many gears this one has, I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you'll have been able to verify the quality and condition of this truck all the way around inside, now under the hood we have the 2.7 liter V6 EcoBoost turbocharged engine, engine bay is very clean, one's very smooth, once again this truck has been fully safety then inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this one is 100% ready to go, there is your mission sticker, let's see the wash of fluid has been topped off there, I would highly recommend this 2018 Ford F-150 crew cab short box from a quality and condition standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftons, sweet quarter tons, one tons, you name it we got to go to that website right there at www.SummitAuto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at SummitAuto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to www.youtube.com slash www.SummitAuto.com remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there, click the bell notifications you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at SummitAuto, in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on the upper left, a link to more F-150 videos like this one the upper right, link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right, click those check us out and we're super excited to help you with this ultra clean 2018 Ford F-150 crew cab short box XLT and guard green metallic thanks again for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share


Well, another year has come and gone. This is the end of 2023. And what a, what a year, what a year. It really was a big year. Happy new year, by the way. Um, there was so much that happened this year that I like kind of forgot about, if I'm honest, if you're relatively new to the channel. Uh, usually I do like a year and just like sit down, like vlog kind of thing like this, uh, and currently I didn't even address this. Uh, I'm in the house that I grew up in. This is where I used to make, uh, all of my videos back when I still lived here in Maine at home. Uh, now it has been converted into a guest bedroom, if you will. But this door still has, uh, all the foam and stuff on it. My dad and I built this wall for my 17th birthday, I think, to make a little room down here in the basement where I can make videos. Um, and so there was a bunch of foam on all of the walls and then the ceiling is like insulated and stuff. Uh, and that was his, his gift to me for my 17th birthday. It was like building out this room so I could have like a little recording studio. But it's very different now. Uh, it's a, it's a whole different room. Um, and I'm a whole different person, I feel like. But yeah, I just kind of wanted to talk about this year and I wanted to talk about, um, this next year coming up. There was a lot that happened this year. I feel like a lot of this year, um, was kind of like a weird fog for me, uh, because, and not necessarily in a bad way, but Creator Clash was this year, which I think was my biggest achievement of this year was, was training for fighting in and then eventually winning my fight in Creator Clash. Um, I trained for about nine months, uh, for Creator Clash. Um, and it was some of the hardest training I've ever had to do. Um, and learning the sport of boxing while like obviously I'm still like extremely amateur at it, um, gaining the skill and like doing the training. Um, was really, really, really amazing. Um, and it's something that I'm super, super glad that I did. Um, will I do Creator Clash ever again? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Who knows? Um, but Creator Clash definitely took up a very large portion of my year, even though the fight was only in April. Um, it was still like half of the year and a bit of, of last year as well. Um, because I was training six days a week. Um, at least once a day, uh, sometimes twice a day. Um, and then I have to like account rest in there as well, because I was just training so much and I would get home and I would be like, God, I just, I have to like sleep. Like I'm so tired. Um, but Creator Clash, Creator Clash doesn't even feel like this year, which is wild that that happened in 2023. Um, it feels like forever ago. Um, and then after Creator Clash, the documentary came out. Uh, and a lot of the documentary was worked on, most of the documentary was worked on this year and that came out. Um, and we did a little LA premiere. Um, and yeah, I, that'll be coming out for real, hopefully sometime soon. I'm not really sure, uh, when, but I'll, I'll keep you guys updated on that. Um, and now I'm just trying to like get back to it. I think for 2024, I don't really have any big projects in the works. Um, and to be honest, I kind of want to keep it that way. Um, um, oh, and Brain League launched this year too.  I did a whole rebrand. I, I like kind of forget what's happened this year. Um, well, I feel like I'm missing stuff now. Um, but yeah, this, this next year, I kind of want to keep it a little bit more chill on my end. I feel like I've put my channel on the back burner for like years at this point. Um, and I kind of just want to get back to making videos and streaming and being good at my job again. Um, I'm, I'm very thankful for a lot of the things that I got to do this year. Um, and it was a very, very big year. Um, but with that, like I've, I've, I felt like kind of lost recently. Um, and I feel like I don't really know what I'm doing and I don't really know what I'm headed towards. Um, and I just kind of want to like find myself again in 2024. It sounds very cheesy. Um, but I, I don't know. I had this kind of like realization the other day, um, in therapy, which if you can go to therapy, highly recommend, um, where it's like I've done all this stuff and I've this year in particular, like I've had all these achievements, like, like doing Creator Clash and making a new podcast and doing the rebrand and doing the documentary and blah, blah, blah. Um, but I still like don't feel happy in a way. Um, like I feel like I, for some reason in my mind, I like feel like I didn't do anything this year. Um, and I'm not really sure why. Um, I think a bit of it is just me kind of like me and the world, I guess. I think a lot of people have this now where it's like, okay, one thing gets done and then it's immediately onto the next thing and you don't really get to relish like the things that you've, that you've done. And I definitely do that where I, I finished something and then I'll celebrate for a day and then it's onto the next thing. Um, and so I think that that's kind of contributed a little bit to that feeling of like I did all this on paper. I did all this stuff, but why do I feel like I, I didn't really do anything this year. Um, or why do I like feel this like fog and stuff like that? Um, and yeah, I don't, I don't really know why. I think there was just a lot that happened this year and a lot of change. Um, that happened for me and like a lot of change personally and like on the channel, like trying to do this, this rebrand and sort of now realizing that like not everybody's going to like that and not everybody's going to like the new videos, but trying to do something new for my own sake. Um, and yeah, I don't know, just trying to feel that one out, I guess. Um, but I think that there was so much change. Um, and there was so much happening this year. Um, and I don't, I hope this doesn't sound like I'm like bragging. Like I did so many things this year that it was just so overwhelming, but it was just, I don't know. I, I did so much stuff that I didn't really have time to like stop and be like, oh yeah, I did this cool thing. Um, because it was always like, yep, did that thing. Okay, but I have to do this thing now. Um, and I feel like with all that stuff again, and I know that I'm rambling a lot, um, I feel like with all of that stuff going on, I just kind of neglected the channel. Um, sometimes because I had to, because like with training, it was just like I didn't have energy to make videos. Um, but I really hope that I can get back on track with the channel, um, in the new year and make videos more consistently and stream more consistently and, you know, have less empty promises.  And I have a hard time following through. Um, and so I'd, I'd like to try and follow through more this year and be like, okay, I want to have this kind of schedule for myself. Like I already have this thing in my mind where it's like, I want to record on these certain days and I want to stream on these certain days and I would like to try and like actually keep that. Um, and I think, I think a lot of it is due to me being in this like weird funk right now, which I know a lot of you guys probably, this probably is coming off weird maybe and like, wait, what? But I've been feeling very weird for a bit, um, and very like kind of lost, um, and not like particularly happy with myself, I guess. Um, and so I just want, I think I want to find a way to make myself happier this year. Um, and whether it's healthy or not, I think the happiest that I've been is when I've been really making stuff that I like and making a lot of it and keeping myself occupied, um, and keeping myself feeling productive in that way, um, day to day. And I don't know, I guess I'll, I'll figure it out, but, um, I just really want to get back on board with the channel this year, um, because I feel like it's been neglected for a long time. Um, and I really appreciate everybody being like so patient and so open to specifically like the rebrand this year, because I know that that's a weird change to go through. Um, and I know that it's not for everyone, which is also why I think a lot of people I've not watched as much because it's different, um, which I understand and I can't fault anybody for not sticking around for somebody who doesn't make stuff that they like, who doesn't make. Yeah, because if you subscribe for gaming and it's like, okay, well, I don't really do a lot of that anymore. Um, which I do want to do more on Twitch. That's kind of like where I want to keep the gaming stuff alive is doing stuff on Twitch. And I want to do some series over on Twitch. And then if you can be there for the streams, great. If you can't, um, everything's just going to be posted to the VOD channel that I have. Um, so that's kind of where I want to keep the gaming stuff alive, because it's, it's really fun for me to like not only streaming and gaming with friends and stuff like that is a blast, but playing a game and actually having you guys to interact with live is really, really, really fun for me. It's a lot more fun than just recording it and having nobody there. Um, so yeah, I don't, I don't really know what this video is. I hope that this doesn't come across like too sad. But I just kind of wanted to fill you guys in on where I'm at right now. And I'm just in like kind of a weird place and I have to figure out how to get out of that. Um, I just kind of feel like I'm, like I'm floating around right now, um, if that makes sense. I kind of feel like I'm treading water a little bit and I'm just kind of a little lost and that's okay because that happens to everybody I suppose. Um, but we'll see what 2024 brings. I'm, I'm very hopeful. I am very excited. There's a lot of fun videos that I want to do. There's a lot of cool ideas that I have. And yeah, I just want to do more stuff on the channel this year and figure out what makes me happy and what makes me feel fulfilled. And I think that that's kind of a hard thing to find sometimes is what makes you feel fulfilled and productive and like content, I guess. Um, and I guess that's where I've been recently is not feeling a super fulfilled but not feeling super content, just kind of feeling anxious and stressed and thinking like freaking out and being like, oh, people don't like me anymore and whatever and it's kind of dumb, I guess. But, you know, it's something that you think about when you make videos on the internet, especially for a living. It's like, oh man, I feel like people are like mad at me or something or I feel like people don't like me anymore and whether or not that's true sometimes I just get anxious and I've convinced myself that I don't know, that I've blown it or that people don't like me anymore or something, I don't know. And I'm not trying to fish for compliments right now. I don't care and if I'm honest, I don't really read the comments all that much anymore anyway because they make me anxious and so that's kind of, I don't know, a new newish thing where I'm just like I just don't really read the comments because it makes me anxious because I don't want to read something that is bad and then I think about that all the time and blah blah blah. But, yeah, I also want to take a second to just thank everybody that has helped me out this year. You know, from my trainers, my coaches, for Creator Clash to my family and friends and then obviously the people that I work with every day, like Justin and Jocelyn and my manager Parker, I wouldn't be able to do any of the things that I get to do without those people, especially like Justin through Creator Clash just keeping the channel alive because I was like okay I have to record, you know, X, Y, Z thing and then a lot of times he would just post it and do the thumbnail and do everything because I was like, I'm training but a video has to go out today, like can you do this, here's what I want the title to be or whatever.  I like kind of pitched the original idea to them and then they just like took that and rolled with it and did such a good job and you know obviously like Jocelyn helps me out so much every day behind the scenes and she's been she's been amazing at like setting videos up, you know, because I've been trying to, I've been wanting to make videos where I know a little bit less so then it's more surprising to me and so most of the time she just kind of like sets up the videos and she's filming most of the videos and I'm just very very grateful to have her and to have Justin and to have Parker my manager and I'm very grateful for the people that I have in my life and I'm very grateful to you guys as well for sticking around and for being here through all the all the bumps and all the curves in the road. Yeah, I don't know, I'm very very thankful that I still am able to do this because I do love doing it and I want to be better at it and I want you guys to know that I'm very very grateful for all of you and I wouldn't be able to do this without you guys, obviously, and I feel like I haven't done a great job of expressing that gratitude and I hope that it I hope that it doesn't come off as me thinking that it's a given that I have this audience or anything like that or that I'm owed anything from you guys or anything like that or that I take you for granted, but I don't think that I've done a great job of expressing that gratitude and so I just want to say genuinely thank you for being here. So yeah, anyway, this video has been a little bit more sad than I envisioned it being, but I just kind of wanted to sit down and talk openly and I don't even think I'm going to edit this honestly because it's just like I don't know why not just let myself talk for a little bit and not alter it and you just see how my brain works, see how I'm feeling. So yeah anyway thank you for being here hope everybody had a wonderful holiday and happy new year everybody here's to 2024


This is bad mag, security level, omega, password, deltacharly-27-5-1939. Enable new protocol, title Agamemno Contingency. Should any of the core members of the Reacttastic 4 turn rogue, we need to have plans in place to handle each and every one of us should we become a threat. The members of the Big 4 are my teammates. But we need to be prepared for the worst. Always. Agamemno Contingency, file code name, red dreads. Akassan, the black man from Japan, is the heart and soul of the Big 4. He brought us all together. It was his idea for Reactomania. It's because of his innovation that the Reactor community has come together and it's the same innovation that could make him a powerful adversary if he were to turn against us. Like Samson of the Bible, his dreadlocks seem to enable him to channel his power, cut them, and he'll be powerless. Agamemno Contingency, file code name, reject. Second of subscriber power only to Tyrone Magnus himself, Ryan Wright would be a very dangerous opponent worried to turn. His homoerotic jokes, size, strength, scraggly beard, and amazing resemblance to Rusev would make him an almost unbeatable opponent in battle. But like most strong men, his weak spot would most likely be his woman. Taking her hostage would surely emotionally distract him and neutralize him for good, along with his gay jokes. Agamemno Contingency, file code name, crocodile. Gator Martin was the first reactor I took notice of before discovering the rest. He has a strong subscriber base and a worthy sidekick known as Cooley. Their friendship seems to be strong, so taking Cooley as a hostage would cripple him emotionally. Also, because a reactor's main power comes from being able to see what they are doing, destroying Gator's glasses should neutralize him from reacting for a short while. A well time to blow to Gator's faceplate should do the trick. Footnote, Agamemno Contingency, file code name, carbonation. While not a member of the Big Four, speaking in his own words, jinx is a good reactor, which is just one reason it would be difficult to face him in combat should he turn against the Big Four. It's not the thought that I relish, but if it must be done, the following strategy could be useful. Because of his competitiveness, if he could be convinced that he is fighting an equal, he could then theoretically be trapped in an unending cycle of combat against a phantom opponent. Must investigate feasibility of neural virtual reality technology. Also, a secondary form of neutralizing jinx is to cut off his grape soda supply, which fuels most of his reactions. If these contingency plans are discovered in the wake of my being incapacitated, please understand, this had to be done for each of us, which brings us to Agamemno Contingency, file code name, immortal. While Batmag, aka Thor's Mortars counterpart, aka the Black Viking, aka the Black Kryptonian, aka the Black Tiger, aka the God that wields the Dark Milner, aka the Jim Savage, aka Mr. Reactastic, is a god-level reactor and combatant, he is still half-human. The best way to disable his reacting abilities would be to sexually distract him. His harem of ten percenters, or as he affectionately calls them, his magnetositis, are an excellent blind spot.  With him sustaining a blow to his male ego in this way, he'll become withdrawn and unsure of himself, neutralized by his inability to perform. He could then be captured. Think carefully before you do this.


Some of the ideas are epic where it's the idea that somehow it's a moisturizer foundation puts itself on takes itself off I mean who doesn't want these things? I would buy that genius. Yeah, we all would Hi, I'm Stephanie Patrick executive editor of ad week And I am here in the Google headquarters in New York today at our CMO move summit and I'm here today with Emily Culp She's the CEO of cover FX, but I'm so glad that you're with us today. Well. Thank you for having me I'm thrilled to be here. So what is a thing that you are most excited about with your business right now? You know what warms my heart and what I love the most about this transformation with this really special brand is We are rolling out a whole new positioning, which is called your formula for beauty So you'll be seeing that globally across all our omni-channel touch points You can get a sneak peek right now on our website so different colors different tone Different imagery and a lot of new types of products How do you decide, you know, what colors to release? It's part of your thought process there I think one of the most important things in product development people always talk about innovation and usually people think new colors new formulas Something else all of that is hugely important But innovation can also be in a different technique or a mechanism that the formula comes out like a different Innovation there whether it's a pump or what have you but one of the key ingredients around all this is our consumer She slash he is very very bright very enthusiastic So we actually asked them a lot of questions one of my favorites recently was on Instagram We posed, you know, you had a makeup genie. What would that person have? You know, we had thousands of comments and a matter of minutes So that's a great feed into our product innovation pipeline and how we evaluate different options I love that so you're listening to your social channels for absolute development. Yeah I mean, these are the most passionate people Some of the ideas are epic where it's the idea that somehow it's a moisturizer foundation puts itself on takes itself off I mean who doesn't want these things. I would buy that genie. Yeah, we all would it's also really interesting people give you great Ideas on formulas or different shades that they wish we had and we listen to them What is something coming down the pike that you think is really gonna change your business or beauty in general? One is on the technology side one is more ethereal the ethereal one is I'm so Excited when clean beauty actually gets defined because right now the analogy I would make is remember organic food like 20 years ago. Everybody all of a sudden was like it's organic But did you really know none of us really knew what organic men and if somebody labeled it is this truly organic? That's what's happening in clean beauty right now So I think there's a huge white space there in terms of technology within the beauty area I can't wait for color matching technology I've been looking at this for 15 years at different companies when it's really truly there So somebody can shade match you based on a photograph and also say not only are you a p20? Which is what I am and have dry skin and figuring out what type of skin type But all of that is accurate and we're not quite there yet. I love that I remember when it felt revolutionary when you could go to a cosmetic store and actually try it on you know 100% you know where they have samples out and you can test it But imagine if you never had to leave your home exactly What is a problem that you're trying to solve right now? It's making sure that I have the best talent in place who's feeling challenged Respected and motivated to contribute because at the end of the day that all comes through to the consumer And you can't have a great product experience or product without amazing people behind it How do you set the tone for your company and for your culture? I think one of the most important things is humility Everyone in my company could tell you I have some great skills one of the areas for growth for the rest of my life I can't spell this is a negative, but it's just who I am. I've tried everything at no demand But beyond humility also as you can tell I think humor is key when you really take a step back and think about what we're Doing it's an amazing beautiful innovative complexion product But I think it's also very important to think through you know What can you control? What can you not in how to keep perspective and then finally I try and instill in everyone a sense of curiosity I'm super passionate about what I do and I think it's really important if you're super curious as a person Then you'll think through different challenges or situations in a different way because you're looking at different industries or getting different sources of information Yeah, and that curiosity can be contagious too, and I like to hope so. Yeah, it's okay to ask questions 100% so what is a piece of career advice that you have either given or received that you think is worth passing on? That's a really good question. Can I give two? Yeah, I'm gonna give you two Okay, so two one is and I mentioned this earlier today Always stay close to a P&L and be a revenue source not overhead So I got that advice early on when I was going into marketing and as a result have always had a P&L Associated with me and I really am so grateful because the financial acumen along the way has made a massive difference taking that leap from Marketing into a different type of leadership role the second one. I would say is I purposely I'm drawn to business challenges I'm actually industry agnostic, so I've been in beauty footwear ready to wear back into beauty CPG done I think where that's important is it makes you very agile. It also makes you very humble Many times I've been in the room and don't know all the lingo somebody is using who may report to me or maybe appear So it makes you agile and able to learn and continue to iterate. I love that. Well, Emily Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Yeah, and thank you all for tuning in to top of mind


Welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all good today. So about six months ago maybe? I don't even know when I made this video. I made a video called the 21 books I have to read before I turn 21. Here's the thing. I turned 21 this week. This video is actually supposed to be going up on my birthday but I haven't read enough books to upload my vlog this week so this is going up in its place and then the vlog will be going up on Thursday instead. I'm not gonna be reading any books in the next four days that will be on this list anyway so it doesn't matter but I don't think I've done that well at this at all. Why bring it up now? Why bring it up? I don't have any hope. I don't have any hope. Part of it is I want to do this video because like I have no hope that I have read these. I think what I did when I made this video is I put books on the list to challenge myself. Great idea. Like I put books that I thought I would struggle to get to and so I put them on the list to motivate myself but of course I made the video and then I forgot about it. Like I just you know out of my head. So I don't even know if I'm hoping for half on this because I think it's gonna be like classics I'm like literary fiction to try and motivate myself but I don't think I don't think that's gonna have happened before we get into it make sure you subscribe if you haven't already we are super duper oh my god my brain can't remember on this so if you haven't subscribed yet I'd be really appreciative if you did. Today we are going to be talking about the 21 books I want to read before I turn 21. I still don't think I'm 20. I'm in my 20s. I want to make this video and I want it to be something I hold myself to account on that I tried to make sure that I read all these books but I'm 21 because in my head these are all the books that I'm like I'm gonna read you soon. First book that I definitely want to read before I'm 21. His Wild Beauty by Anna Marie Macklemore. Kayla from Books and Lala aka. Haven't read it yet. It's gonna be so bad. Okay. If I mood read like if I just read what I wanted I would have read this by now. Like I want to read this book so bad but it just hasn't fit into any video I've done like any themed reading vlog and I don't currently have it planned in anything reading vlog. I mean I have some reading vlogs planned that like I can't plan the books for in advance however it's got like a one in a hundred chance of being picked in them. Haven't read it. We're not off to a good start. Next on my list is Six of Crows and Crooked King.   I've had these for months and I haven't gotten around to it. No. I'm fed up already. I'm I don't think I'm gonna read any. Oh dear that's not good. I feel the need to say the f word now. Obviously haven't read them yet. So I've always wanted to do a dedicated themed reading vlog for these and it's been planned like in my schedule since like June probably but because you know sometimes I don't stick to schedule it's just been pushed back and pushed back and pushed back so I think at the moment it's in March yeah and I've said here's the thing this time I can't push it back because I've already told you I'm reading it in the first week of March because a few of you want to read it along with it with me like read the series along with me so I've already said first week of March so I can't go back on it so I am gonna read it but I haven't read it yet and I'm like honestly I'm so ashamed I'm so ashamed because everyone tells me this is gonna be like favorite favorite favorite cuz I loved 9th house like everyone is out here telling me I'm gonna love it so I need to read it but no oh my god I thought the YA section would be easy we're about to go into classics they ask you how you are you just have to say that you're fine you're not really fine you just can't I just I just want to cry I just want to cry that's all the YA I have on the list because like I said YA is something that I get around to fairly quick the other stuff on this list is like me trying to force myself to read these because I know that these could sit on my shelves for many I feel like we should get into classics because those are the ones that have everything I'm really gonna put off so first I have two of the penguin cough I know so first is little women by Louise and my Alcott women I bought this straight after watching the film many years ago many months ago I loved the film so so much I hate myself I haven't read it it's wrapped up somewhere so it could be in a wrapped up video at some point this year I love the film I've seen the film like four or five times now and I don't watch films that often so like I love the film I love the film so much and I want to read the story but like classics I might have to do a video is like getting over my fear of classics a vlog let me know if you'd enjoy that because I just put off classics like I enjoy them when I read them but getting around to them like it's not I don't do that very often but I love them when I read them so let me know if you'd like that to be a theme reading vlog the next is another profound addition I love Sherlock I've seen some discourse I have not read Sherlock haven't read it is missing me off somewhat I don't want to speak about it oh my god I have not read a single book is this the fifth one we're called to the way down I haven't read a single book I wish I were dead listen I've got my Sherlock fix recently through the Athena Cup series the strange case of the Alchemist daughter series so I've read stuff with Sherlock in have I read that Sherlock book no again it's a classic I don't think I've ever any of these classics I don't know how many I'm gonna put on this list it's not gonna go well I tell you what I'm gonna have to do that classics video because it has to happen it has to happen because there is a lot that I want to read but I just put them off next is Miss Petra grueless for the day by Ruth and Watson my most viewed video on my channel is the one where I go and visit a lot of independent bookstores and in that I visit Persephone books which is a book store which publishes out-of-print women's fiction no I want to cry haven't read it so I bought this Christmas 2019 that's how long I've had this glad boy in that bookshop video it's only like 200 pages so like it shouldn't take me that long to read it oh god I just hate myself I can't even speak oh my goodness I'm so embarrassed something bears they love you this one is about this woman who lives a very mundane day-to-day life and then one day she gets like taken in by this wild woman and they have like this crazy day together you know it intrigues me I want to read it but do I ever get around to it no no I don't I'm so sorry and then the last classic I want to make sure I get to is I was gonna say Daphne by Rebecca de Morrie it's Rebecca by Daphne de Morrie I want to cry I want to cry I want to cry started making it had a breakdown what a petite yeah I haven't read Rebecca um what do I have to say for myself nothing I was supposed to read this in a reading vlog I think it was like reading the spookiest books on my tbr that I did why did I not read it I think I just didn't have the time that's the thing we're like doing third year uni at the moment there's quite often books I aim to read in the video and then I have to swap them out because I just don't have the time still really want to read this still think I'm gonna love it oh my god I haven't read a single book I haven't read a single how many I haven't even I have anywhere on that I've lost count but I haven't read a single book so sorry for that myself so next let's talk about nonfiction okay I have whole nonfiction books here first is not that bad by Roxanne Gay oh my god oh my god I thought we would have I thought we would have good luck here haven't read it again it's not that I don't want to read it like world beauty if I read if I mood read that would probably be one of the first books that I would read however I have to fit books into themed reading vlogs and I just like struggle with nonfiction to fit them into that oh my god this is so sad I love Roxanne Gay bad feminist was my favorite nonfiction of last year this is a collection of essays by lots of different women edited by Roxanne Gay talking about rape and sexual assault and rape culture and I've heard this very very heavy hitting I would love to read this I would read this right now no problem but I haven't been able to fit it into a video so we could all cry together the next is forgotten women the leaders by Jing Sheng oh my god so I'm actually I'm actually I could scream I could scream I could cry I could actually cry success I have read forgotten women the leaders I loved it I gave it five stars I do have another one in this series now I have forgotten women the writers there's four of these in total you just have the stories of women who history has forgotten and it just tells their story in like a few pages and it has these gorgeous illustrations in them and I loved forgotten women the leaders I'm so glad I read it I just love reading about women who history is forgotten but who who had such impactful lives and who we should be remembering so I loved this I gave it five stars I can't believe I've read one next is I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle Mackie Moran I've read it again another one if I made red would have read it already this is the recurring problem is that obviously I mean obviously there's a load of books I want to read and I do read books that I want to read when I do the videos I do however like I would have read this by now I generally think I would have read this by now if I didn't do themed reading vlogs delusion convince yourself but like I I really love doing themed reading vlogs I wouldn't stop it for the world I don't mind that it takes me a little bit longer to get around to certain books and then lastly is The Five by Halle Rubenhold so this is about the five women who were killed by Jack the Ripper again do I even need to say it like I this is video is so boring I haven't read it I'm gonna I'm gonna cry are you not ashamed of yourself are you not embarrassed this is really embarrassing I'm sorry I can't there's no real word that I can tell you how embarrassed I am like embarrassed doesn't cover it I have a fake booktuber oh my god I'm so sad again this is telling the story of women who history is forgotten and kind of erased and we only ever hear about their killer um so I'd love to read it I would love to read it part of me always wants to do a non-fiction vlog but I always put it off because I don't think anyone will care and watch it and like I know that's not important and I should probably just do it but I'm always like I can fit the non-fiction books in somehow in a more interesting way and then I never do first this is an important one this is really important is the night circus by Erin Morgenstern so if you know me you know how much I adored the star of sea I'm really happy today yeah this is for all of us I love the night circus I gave it five stars I'm pretty sure I loved it Erin Morgenstern can do no wrong she's like one of my favorite authors I love her writing style so much the night circus was magical and whimsical and like complex I love books that are so heavily based on atmosphere like atmosphere is very important to me and concept next is the poppy war by RF Kwang so this is a fantasy and I honestly don't know too much about the plot at all however the poppy war by RF Kwang I love the poppy war also give it five stars it is this brilliant fantasy full of like political intrigue war following Rin who is this dark skin peasant who lives a really hard life and to try and improve her life she goes to this military academy where she discovers that she has all these powers that she never knew she has she discovers the magic of the gods and it's definitely a story that balances between right and wrong and like morally gray characters oh my god wait we've read three next is no exit by Taylor Adams so this is a I've read no exit oh my god apparently the adult ones are like it apparently I read loads of my adult ones oh my god I'm so happy it's about time no exit another one I gave five stars so here's the thing obviously the books I'm putting on this list are books I'm gonna love because I think all of the books I have read from this list I gave five stars and so we all gag nation on this oh my god all the ones I've read I gave five stars this just shows that this list is stuff I need to read from no exit is like the most suspenseful thriller I've ever read I felt sick while reading it I had heart palpitations I've never been more stressed reading a book if you want to be stressed read this book it's horrible it's about this girl who stops at like the service station and in the snow and she's trapped there overnight and she finds out that in one of the other vans a girl is in a cage locked up and it's her trying to save this girl but she's stuck there the whole night and you know pretty early on like who the bad person is and so it's just trying to like escape and like outwit them oh my god I'm so proud of myself then next are half of the yellow sun and americana by chouamanda gozi adichi I own these for the longest okay so I have read one of these so we're up to five I've read americana I haven't read half of the yellow sun I really liked americana it wasn't five stars it was like a four star it was very intimidating but I'm glad I read it so I've read like a quarter so far that's not that bad that's not that bad like that's not that bad okay next is one that I put on the list to really challenge myself and I'm honestly terrified but it is will pull by Hillary man no it doesn't even need to hear it so this is like some kind of Tudor core history book it's like 700 pages long I don't know when I'm ever going to read this I don't see it for me but okay maybe that's like a future Megan problem like a couple years down the line I don't think it's for me now if we were villains by ML Rio but this I think is themed or thought were heavily inspired by the secret history which is one of my favorite books ever well it didn't go very well I have read that that takes us up to six okay this is going a little bit better now I read if we were villains I read it in my dark academia vlog where I read any dark academia for a week I didn't love it I think I gave it like two or three stars maybe it was like a 2.5 I just found the character so annoying and not in a good way like you don't I don't have to like characters I can hate characters but they just have to have some flavor like they've actually got to have some like characterization and I didn't feel like these did where's the flavor where's the flavor in this I didn't feel like it was very well written I was bored I wasn't a fan and uh I'm sorry but yeah wasn't a fan so that has gone away with the with the theory that all of these books are ones I loved but we still we still have a good ratio here so the last three books are all books that I really want to read on a trip the first book is black girl unlimited by echo brown so this was a rated author which I read it oh my gosh okay this audiobook was incredible gave it five stars so this is the story of echo brown's life told in kind of this like magical realism way where her and her family and like her mother are wizards it's so heart-hitting like it's very emotional there's a lot of trigger warnings for this I can't remember them all off the top of my head but definitely like sexual assault is one of them I will try and find a list of them all down below I would say it's like a necessary read I would really recommend gang for this if you haven't already the audiobook is incredible echo brown puts so much emotion into everything that she's saying and I just think it was it was such a good book so very glad I have read that I also really want to get to this time will be different by Misa Seguria so I literally just read this I can't believe that I actually can't believe that I haven't even spoken about this on my channel yet because I I just listened to the audiobook I didn't vlog it or anything so I'll be given like my full thoughts on it in my wrap up at the end of the month but I really really enjoyed this this is a story of a character who works at her family flower shop and her mom wants to sell the flower shop back to the white family that bought it off of her grandfather years ago for like a very small cut and then her grandfather bought it back for like way way more like years later so it's the story of like racism and anti-asian history in america but it's also like a romance and like a cute YA contemporary and I think it balances those two really well so I have literally only just read this this is like scraped by on the list I am back what it do baby the last audiobook the last book I want to read by M21 is the hate you give by Angie Thompson so it's shocking that I've never read the hate you give it was shocking at the time that I hadn't read it but I have read it now I have read the hate you give and I've read on the come up by Angie Thomas and I do have concrete rose which is Angie Thomas's new release that just came out which follows maverick who is star from the hate you give dad I love the hate you give this is I'm sure everyone knows what this is about but this is the story of star who witnesses her friend getting murdered by the police and he's unarmed and it's the story of her trying to like figure out what she should do it's such an impactful book beautifully written again like I think this is very widely read like everyone's at this by now but I am glad that I read it this year so I read a total of hang on one two I think I read eight that is not correct which is better than I thought it was gonna be I thought it was gonna be much much worse some of those like the poppy war no exit night circles they pulled us through I was not expecting them to be on here now when I make videos like this like when I make books I have to read this year when I made that video for example I'm much more realistic and trying to pick books I actually think I'm going gonna get around to rather than books that I want to challenge myself with because I don't think it's stupid like it's never gonna happen I'm happy with eight I feel like that's a successful number that's a lot better than I thought it was gonna be so thank you for watching this video and suffering through this with me I hope you enjoyed it if you've gotten to the end comment the shocked face emoji like that one comment that down below if you've gotten to the end and I will see you very soon in another video bye