So welcome everyone to sustaining open source software. Yay. Glad to have you here. Thank you for clapping for me. I appreciate it. So yeah, huge thanks to organizers for having me. It's such an honor to be here. I really wish I could be participating in more of this track. I've been stuck at the GitHub booth if you want to say hi at any other time during the conference. But hi, my name's Abby. I run open source maintainer programs at GitHub. So it's been great being here and just talking to so many of the maintainers I've been like slacking with or GitHub issuing with. There should be a verb for that. I'm seeing so many of you in person. I'm an organizer for Sustain OSS, which is a big reason why I'm talking about sustaining open source software today. Hi Justin, I see you here. And I'm on the board of the OpenJS Foundation, which has been a huge pleasure, just re-elected. So really happy to be here with all of you. So before we start, I just wanted to list all these contributors. So thanks to everyone. I tuted and tweeted back in February. I'm asking for examples of different ways that open source projects have become sustainable over time. And you all came through. So many people answered this. It gave me a lot to think about and really changed the direction of this talk. So thanks everyone for weighing in. I didn't have blue sky yet. So just tooting and tweeting. So here's what we're covering today. So first, I'm just going to introduce this idea of sustaining open source software as supporting maintainers and how that's really, I think it's really the key and a really helpful lens of thinking about sustainability. And then going through these three areas with community around succession planning, financial around paying maintainers and the technical side just making it easy to use and get started. And just quick plug, it is maintainer month. So please tweet about that. It's one of my metrics. Okay, so first sustaining open source. I did frame this talk around sustainability. I think there's a lot of conversation I wanted to tap into there. But especially after going through all those tweets and toots, I think what I'm really interested in is the resilience of a project over time. How do projects really survive all the troubles that open source goes through? So I do think that the biggest factor that affects software's ability to run longer term is maintenance. Just with tech changing so quickly, unmaintained software really becomes out of date super fast. So I do really like this quote from Toby Langelle. Many of you know him from the OpenJS cross-project council. But he said, in open source, the maintainers working on the source code are the scarce resource that needs to be protected and nurtured. He thought I was taking this out of context from his tweet. But I do think it is a nice way to think about just nurturing these open source maintainers to protect open source long term. We've seen this idea, like Nadia Egbal's book on working in public. She talks about maintainers' attention being that scarce resource. I do like this framing of the person being important and needing to really support them. And this really aligns with what I've been seeing in movement-building communities in theory, where people really invest in those leaders so that the movement can stay long term. So yeah, this whole talk, we're gonna be talking about how to help maintainers so that open source can thrive. So here are the three areas. And I will say not all of these areas are needed for a successful long term project. So often you just need one or two of them. For the three areas we're gonna dive into today, first there's community with succession planning, which I think it's just a nice way to prioritize who you work with in the community and who you're investing time with. Next one is on the financial side, how do you pay maintainers, big topic. And then third on the technical side, just make it easy to use and get started. So for example, if you are like a specialty library, oftentimes it is harder to get started, but that's just because it's like so technical, you need a very specialized knowledge there. So you can survive long term if you have that financial payment of maintainers and you have new contributors coming in and becoming maintainers, that's a nice way. And then the other side, the corporate open source, where it's between the financial and the technical. I think especially if you're a company, it's much easier just to hire new maintainers. You have the capacity to do that and onboard them. And then at the very bottom, I really like open source archetypes that the open tech strategies group put together. They have an archetype called single maintainer house plant, which I'm sure many of you have seen, those open source projects, or it's just someone's little hobby, they're just watering it every now and then. They're totally fine doing that. So they don't really need that financial aspect, but they do need a plan to what to do after when they're done watering their plant. And they do need some of that technical and easy to use and get started. Hey, so we're gonna go into all three of those. So first, succession planning. So in the corporate world, a lot of people think about this as part of their longer term strategies for the company. We have seen a lot of successful projects run as BDFLs, but tech is relatively new compared to many other things. So we are starting to see people who are retiring. We have seen maintainers who just wanna stop maintaining. And I think we're gonna see more and more of that as time goes by. So I think it will be really important to think about succession planning. And a fun example that was tutored at me, yeah, this one was tutored, yeah. It was about the FreeBSD project. So Deb Goodkin's the executive director there. There's a quote from Kirk McCusick, who has been a developer and committer for that project since 1993. So he says, a successful project has to be able to change the leadership, otherwise leadership becomes dead wood, which leaves the project rudderless. And yeah, it is a helpful view when you're thinking about, especially if your project has like so many people wanting to contribute, how do you decide who you wanna mentor? Who are you gonna invest in? And I'd recommend investing in people who you think could take over the project longer term. Let me get some water. So yeah, I put it on the slide. Be intentional when succession planning, about succession planning when selecting mentees. So especially if you have a demanding project where so many contributors are coming along, I like to apply some criteria just for selecting who you're gonna mentor. And just at the bare minimum, I like to recommend these three. I find if a project is especially technical or needs some extra skills, they'll add a fourth or a fifth one. But at minimum, first is just being mission aligned, that people are coming to your project because they're excited about what it's doing. A lot of times you'll find people coming for more extractive reasons, which is fine. And you can still help them and still work with them, but maybe don't invest as much time with them. So make sure they actually want that project to succeed for its mission. Next is that they're available. They actually have time to contribute. A lot of people are excited and wanna help, but then they just like, they're super busy. That's also fine. So just like prioritize people who actually have time to help you out. And then third, that they're willing to learn from myself or whoever's mentoring them. Often there's like a ton of knowledge exchange between the mentor and mentee. So making sure that they actually wanna listen to you just makes things a lot smoother. So I like to look at these three if you need like a specific technical skill, add that as another criteria if you don't wanna teach that. But doing that I think can really help you invest in the emerging leaders early on and just have a longer term vision for your project. So the case study at Mozilla Iran Open Leaders, which is a mentorship and training program on open source. And the vision for this project is really to strengthen open projects and communities around the world. So project leaders would apply for mentorship and we'd use selection criteria based on those three things I said before. Around that being mission aligned, that they actually have the time to spend. I put 10 hours a week on this and that they're willing to learn from their mentor. So this helped us have as high as 85% retention rate where people who went through the program would come back and mentor others. So you can see the orange ones are like the people who mentored new folks. So it really helped us scale the program because mentors were coming in. We were able to delegate a lot of that work. So it wasn't just me mentoring everyone. That was the first couple of rounds was just like me mentoring people. And then even after the program finished, so you'll see that last row it looks like no one came back as a mentor. That's cause we didn't run it another time afterwards. But this did decentralize into 10 community run mentorship programs. So there's open life science, open scapes, open hardware makers, peer review. But today they've mentored hundreds of more projects and they've raised over a million dollars from funders like CZI and NASA. So because we were selecting specifically for folks who wanted to continue this mission going forward, yeah they were able to continue it even after I stopped running this program and after Mozilla stopped that program. So yeah, just take away for succession planning. You can't mentor everyone. Your time is limited as a maintainer. But add that selection criteria, add some sort of selection step. And that will help you prioritize investing in the future maintainers and people who you can actually delegate to longer term. Well the second part is paying maintainers. So talking about some financial practices. There are a lot of options today. So I'm a big fan of GitHub sponsors. There's also Thanks Dev, Stackade, Open Source Collective, Tidelift. And Justin, here's your tweet. But Justin tweeted, if you told me 10 years ago you'd have multiple businesses building services to help sustain open source projects, I would have been skeptical. Can't imagine the next 10. And it is really exciting just to see more and more money going into this ecosystem. So with GitHub sponsors, just a quick plug, last month they launched GitHub sponsors for organizations. I know the team has done a lot of work making it easy for companies to give money to open source. And so we've seen a big increase. I don't have the numbers right now of people doing that. And bulk sponsorships is also available. So one of the first things I worked on when I joined GitHub was actually their maintainer month sponsorship last year. It's maintainer month again, in case you forgot. But we had half a million dollars and we just distributed equally across all our dependencies. So now that's built into GitHub sponsors. So if you go to your explore page, you can see all of your dependencies that have sponsors enabled and then you can do a bulk sponsorship across all of them. So we're really trying our best to make it as easy as possible for companies to give money to open source. So the funding landscape, it has changed dramatically over the past couple of years. There is a ton more money available. So with open source collective, they saw a 30% increase in payment directly to maintainers, which is huge. And there's a lot more focus on securing the supply chain. So we saw that executive order on improving the nation's cybersecurity. And there are things like this NSF grant for pathways of open source ecosystems. Also GitHub is currently running their first GitHub accelerator, where they're really thinking about this question, like how can we set up projects in a way that has ongoing support for maintainers? And I do think we need more business models that will work for maintainers. There's only a few right now. And I'll talk through what we have now. But I really am excited to see what happens with this first batch of accelerator graduates. So some models that can work today, and this is just super illustrative and generalized, not meant to be comprehensive. But I do see three main ways that projects are getting money to maintainers. So first is like that tips and donations piece. Second, getting hired at a company to work on an external open source project. And then third, the company builds and maintains an open source project. And the third one includes like the consulting services that we've started to see more too. Gonna go through each of those. So tips and donations, this can be to a foundation or to an individual. This works really well, I find for academics and nonprofits who are really used to getting grant funding, and they're happy with those one time large donations. I find a lot of people in industry, a lot of people like not in academia or don't find that stable at all. But for a lot of people that works really well. So Jupiter is a nice example coming out of academia with a Fernando Perez. Next is a membership model with like CNCF, OpenJS has us too. That works really well just having companies pay money to be a member. I do think sometimes that money doesn't always go to the maintainers, but it does give a lot of great ecosystem support that can be super helpful. This also works super well for a visible projects like Vue. So if you're like one of the top of the stack projects where developers are like consciously using your project, it's much easier to get donations compared to if you're super low down on the stack. Content creators, people like Caleb Porizio have done a great job just sort of monetizing their open source by creating content around that. And then another one I thought was interesting was maintainers in lower cost of living areas. So I interviewed COVID Goyal, he maintains caliber. And yeah, here's the slide for that. So at GitHub University, we had a panel on expanding GitHub sponsors globally and both COVID and Carlos, Becker on the panel. We also interviewed Yusuf, but he didn't mention this. But they both said that the strength of the US dollar really helped. There are like those donations go far. So COVID was actually able to go full-time open source after moving from the US to India, where in the US he had, he was just aiming for pizza money. He just wanted a little pizza party every now and then for his friends. But then moving to India, he was able to like make a living out of that and more people were donating. But yeah, caliber is a cool project. I don't know if you've used that for like the e-books. Okay, the next model I see is like getting hired at a company to work on external open source. So this is great for companies who wanna have that direct line to a project. So this is just one example. Keeley Hammond, she works at Slack to work on Microsoft, sorry, she works on Slack to work on Electron. But Electron also has maintainers that aren't Microsoft. That's what I meant to say. And there are many other examples. But I do think this is a nice way if you can convince a company to do that or to want that direct line with you. And then third one is like a company builds and maintains an open source software project. It works especially well when it's part of their core business models. You see that with Versailles, where they sell the hosted services for Next.js. We've also seen quite a few, I've seen more and more of this consulting services where projects are able to maintain themselves by just selling consulting services or adding features. I find this works well if you don't care about scaling, because again, you're selling a pretty finite resource. And I know some people are really interested in selling like just an hour to chat with me as a maintainer. That's also pretty, it's a nice way to bridge funding if you're looking to scale or a nice way to just sustain you and your family and not try to get like that VC funding. Okay, so those are my three super broad overviews of ways I've seen like funding get to maintainers. Again, not exhaustive, but I just wanted to kick off the conversation here. And then third, just an easy to use and get started, making sure that you're doing that for your project on the technical practices. So a few things here, there's documentation, making sure it's well documented, testing, CI CD, CI CD, yeah, and cloud developer environments. So all these things reduce that maintainer burden. It helps onboard new maintainers and ensures that the code could live on if suddenly left un-maintained. If you have this infrastructure there, it helps with some of that longevity. So just first up with documentation, another quote from Kirk and Cusick. When I asked him what did FreeBSD do really well early on that led to where it is today and he said emphasize documentation from the start. And we've seen this also with like Tailwind was talking about this too recently. Yeah, the next one for testing and CI CD. Here's a little demo of GitHub Actions where it's really nice just in the platform. But when I was mentoring that with the Unicef Venture Fund, we required over 80% code coverage for all of the projects there just to make sure that it is easy for others to contribute to and there is some stability for that project longer term. And then having a cloud developer environment, I think CodeSpaces has been great for this. And it's been fun working with a web pack to get this enabled. But now you can have up to 63 hours of CodeSpaces for all users every month. And it's a great way to onboard new contributors quickly which is a great beginning of that pathway to becoming a maintainer. And here's a picture of Craig. He's a PM for CodeSpaces. If you want to talk to him, there's a QR code. But he, yeah, he's really, he's really good at helping these open source projects sort of get started with CodeSpaces and get things going. So quick summary. These are the three areas that I talked about for the succession planning with the community, paying maintainers for the financial fees and then making sure it's easy to use and get started. If you're interested in these, we do have these sustained together conversations every other Friday. So next one is next week, but at noon Eastern or nine Pacific. But you can check that out at Discourse.SustainOSS.org. So it's a fun, we just talk about these things. It's pretty casual and it's just a nice, it's a nice way to see what's going on in the world around sustaining open source software. We also have a private maintainer community on GitHub, so maintainers.github.com. You can request an invitation there. And it's a great place just to talk to other maintainers and to see what they're doing. And I've been running a series of workshops with this group just to document best practices in open source that we can share that with the broader maintainer community. Just so people can be doing better open source overall. And did I tell you that it's maintainer month? I don't know if I mentioned that yet. But no, yeah. But we do have a booth in the sponsors hall. So please come. There's a wall there where you can thank maintainers. You can get your selfie taken. We also brought in the ChangeLog podcast and they're live recording maintainer stories. So if you have a cool story as a maintainer, we do wanna amplify what you're going through. We do wanna bring more visibility to what maintainers do. Yeah, chat with them. They're recording things. Say hi, they're cool folks. All right, so I did wanna leave a lot of time for questions and comments. This was meant to be more of like a discussion starter. But you can find me on the internet. I'm Abby Kebs in those places. I just got blue sky. I don't have invites. Please don't ask me for any. But that's where I am. So yeah, thanks everyone. Any questions? Yeah. Could you just, oh thank you. Could you just like probably share your thoughts on like what mechanisms might exist for projects that like actually be able to like pay contributors, not necessarily like on a full time basis, but you know, if projects will be able to like have like bounties or something for some of the issues, you know, people like me, especially living in a place where again the US currency is stronger, then I would just spend a whole day just going through different projects and seeing, you know, what I could help out with getting things done because you get some kind of financial benefit out of it as well. So could you just like share your thoughts on that? What exists? For paying contributors. There are a couple of projects that I think do this really well. Avenue with View, they have a great program where they like dole out money to contributors. Also Webpack is talking to them last week about it. They also have the measure, they actually look at the metrics of the project and surface the contributors who they wanna sort of give money back to and then they pay them out. But they wanted to do it in a way that's not gamified. So it would be a little harder in your case if you're like trying to find things to look at and contribute to. I know there's bug bounties are huge. So that might be a better way for if you wanna specifically invest your time in something that you can get money from. But yeah, I definitely think paying contributors is really important. And I know not all projects are at the space where they can actually do that yet. They still can't even pay their maintainers. But it's great to see, yeah, View and Webpack especially have been doing a great job there. Yeah, but I do like, I know the sponsors team has also been thinking about sponsored issues. That idea of like, oh, I'll fix this issue if you give me money, which is a little bit similar to that. But yeah, that's not implemented at all. It was working. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about how groups working on projects can organize starting to take funding. Because I've had a few conversations in some projects that I've worked with where there was at least one dissenting voice. And if there's any dissenting voice that it becomes very hard because then if that person doesn't want to take money, then like, but they're important in the project or doing the work, then other people do. It seems like quite unfair and maybe there's some mismatches. So I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how to best approach that topic. Yeah, no, I've definitely seen that also with projects. I think that's why governance is so important when you have a project. Just making sure you have a clear set of who makes the decisions, how decisions are made so that there's no questions. So if you have one dissenting voice, what will you do about this? Are you a consensus model? Are you like majority vote? Just have that documented so that you know how to handle it if that comes across. But yeah, it's really tricky. I've also heard like, if you have maintainers in different parts of the world, how do you do that? That's also very contentious. But I think that's why governance is so important. Do you know of any of the example projects which it has raised to the governance and had to be resolved? Probably. I will think about this. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But I think, no, it's definitely tricky with projects. It's also a danger if a project gets a sudden windfall and they weren't expecting it. What do you do with that? And it was interesting with view. They were on the sustained podcast a while ago and I think they were just sort of saving up money for a long time. They didn't really know what to do with it. And then they decided to, oh, let's pay the contributors. And that's how they started doing that. I think some other projects also start paying their dependencies. So just passing that money on forward, which is really nice. But I do think not even just raising it to governance, but knowing how you're making decisions as a project is really important before you get money. Yeah. Yeah, Michael. Thanks. Yeah, I just wonder, sometimes I hear the concern like, no, we shouldn't pay developers because that's going to like disincentivize other people. Do you know how to overcome that concern? Because that's like, you know, that's something where I think we should be paying or figuring that out, but that's a concern that's often raised to me. Yeah, I think someone to talk to who's thinking about this a lot, like last week I was just talking with Sean Larkin on the Webpack project. And they were really thinking intentionally about their metrics and keeping it hidden. So people aren't gaming the system, but rewarding the kind of actions that they want to see. So also taking an account like spam, but looking at like how much someone's done and is this sustained over time? Is this a flash in the pan? Is this hacktoberfest? Like looking at different things like that, I think they've done a good job of being thoughtful about it. But yeah, I'd talk to Sean. Thanks. Cool. Well, that's it. I'll be around. You can find me at the maintainer month booth if you want to say anything. But yeah, it was lovely being here. Thank you all so much.


Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of theaccesotrader.com. Nightly wrap up show. Hope everybody is doing well. If you are brand new to the channel, welcome aboard guys. Thank you very much for spending a couple of moments with us. Only thing we ask, take a moment, like the video, share, subscribe, all the good stuff. Come on this journey with us on a day to day based on our technical analysis, based on data. So, if you watched the video last night, you kind of knew where I was, you know, my thinking was, I thought we were going to have pretty much a res day today on a lot of mega cap technology names. If you looked at yesterday's clothes, it was a red clothes, inverted hammer, a little bit of a baby range, and basically just said, hey, stock just needed a day of breath. Take a day of breath, take a relaxation, had an incredible run. It doesn't mean the market's going to go down, it just means that sometimes you need a breath to go on further. And today played out pretty much like we talked about. Like I said in the last night's video, I didn't see a lot of value in the mega cap technology space today. I thought this was going to be kind of a distribution day. That's kind of exactly the way it turned out. If you look at the majority of names, you know, they're up a dollar, down a dollar, nothing, nothing, nothing crazy. And that was the whole point. No one uses good news, right? The last thing the bullish case wanted to see was an aggressive poll today. Take down two, three days worth of buying and, you know, let the smoke settle for tomorrow. That didn't happen. That's a good thing.  You know, let's talk about the latter first, which is Texas Instruments. So Texas Instruments in the semiconductor space, if you guys are old enough to remember, Texas Instruments used to make calculators, right? That's that was kind of their big deal. That was their big thing years and years ago. As you can see here, not a great quarter, right? Not a great quarter at all, light on a lot of areas. And you would think because of the huge run up on the semiconductor space, you would think these stocks after hours would be absolutely destroyed. Because if you look at Texas Instruments right now after hours, it's down about six and a half points, about four percent. And you would think NVIDIA, AMD, SMCI would all be getting killed. No, not at all. Absolutely not at all. If you look at, for example, NVIDIA, NVIDIA is pretty much flat. You know, it's pretty much flat on the close with down 20 cents, right? Down 20 cents, AMD after the close is what? Down 20 cents. So you can see here that the semiconductors are holding very, very strong despite the bad quarter on Texas Instruments. And that's a great sign of the strength of the demonstrating strength in the entire mega cab space. On the flip side, we talked about Netflix last night. And I really believed going into this quarter. Again, there wasn't a lot of excitement, right? There wasn't a lot of excitement. There wasn't a lot of hoopla going on in the stock. And when you have a really aggressive burn, barn burner type of market, any good news, literally any good news will light the flame in these stocks. And look at, you know, look at Netflix after the close. Netflix is up about seven percent. Yeah, about seven percent. It's up 35 bucks at the time I'm recording this video right now. It's about four thirty five on the eastern time. You guys should probably get the video around six thirty seven o'clock unless they they really bomb on the conference call. That's a big move here. I mean, really, really big move. The subscriber numbers was great. A lot of that was due to the part that the whole password sharing was kind of, you know, it was kind of a thing in the past. So good quarter on Netflix. Here's the craziest part about it is I thought everything would be ripping on the Netflix earnings and nothing really is. So it's a kind of hot opening going into tomorrow's session. Nothing's going down, which is bullish and nothing's really going up after hours, which is kind of peculiar considering the powerful move on Netflix. Have fast forward to tomorrow, right? Number one, we're getting a lot of really good setups going into tomorrow. You have names in the in the cloud space like snow breaking out. I actually broke out today. I'll show you guys the pivots, only a couple of pivots today, right? Snow is ready to break out. It's a big, big, broad channel. Today, this is the highest close in this whole formation. It got above the December highs, and this is the highest close above the Bollinger Band, right? If you look at Microsoft, Microsoft held very, very well as well. OK, any single pullback into the rising five day support is bullish if the bulls defend. That's exactly what Microsoft has been has been doing here, right? Riding the five day moving average. We saw a lot of 400 weeklies coming in. Amazon looks ready. OK, I know they report next week, but this thing looks ready. This thing has been consolidating now for a couple of weeks. If you guys remember a couple of weeks ago, we had this really great breakout on Amazon from the 52 level touched right into supply in the 57. This thing is like a day or two away from really busting out. This is something that if you trade the technology space, you should really be aware of this is one of the one of the beautiful charts left that is not overextended, has not really had that mega run like a name like Apple, right? And Apple broke out three days ago again above the 50 day moving average is bullish. Apple broke out above the 50 day. It's having a really, really nice run. We saw a whole bunch of 97 fifties coming in. We saw a whole bunch of 200 weeklies coming in. So again, further stretching the breakout of the stock as well. And look at the video. This is the champ. Like this is a champ of all champs now. Not only is the stock up literally, it's up 200 points in the last few weeks. The damn thing does not want to come in even on a res day today. It had an opportunity to really get hit today when it lost the previous day's range and it didn't quite hit the five day moving average. But that shows you how strong it is. And now it actually closed the highest close in this whole formation as well. We did see some 615, 620 weeklies as well. So the way they're betting the stock, despite the 200 point rally, so far, in the last three weeks, there really is no stopping. It's almost like they removed the brakes from this from this vehicle. Because again, there's a lot of really aggressive bets. AMD continues to shine as well. Same type of setup, same type of scenario that with Microsoft, that with Nvidia, it's just hugging. It's just hugging the five day every single time it comes down to the five day. It gets it gets defended. The key is with these stocks and eventually they all will get pulled. It's just it's just common sense. It's just gravity. But eventually, if the five day gets lost, this is not just a specifically for AMD. It could be for Microsoft. It could be for Nvidia. It could be for anything going down the road, right? Whether it's tomorrow, be aware of the five day, because if the stocks start losing two or three days ranges and they start losing the five day moving average, you could have a nice backside trade for one day. We've seen in the most aggressible markets that if the five day gets pulled, we've seen days that one candle wipes out two, three, sometimes four days all worth of buying. So it's always something that's in the back of my mind. So again, these five day holds eventually will become a massive support. And if they do get violated again, it's not necessarily for tomorrow, but if they do get violated, that's when you backside trade starts. Let's talk about the one that everybody wants to talk about for tomorrow. Your friend, my friend, everybody's friend, right? Elon Musk, greatest stock of all. So for weeks and weeks and weeks now, we've seen it's not really, you know, it's not really a secret, right? For weeks, we've been seeing a lot of weakness in the stock. It failed to break out. It failed to hold the 50 day. It failed to hold the 200 day pretty much. We've been short-sighted on the stock every single day. Yesterday was the only day I got long. We got long. We took advantage of the previous day's range. We caught the move for like three points. Today, it did exactly what it did yesterday. And today, at the open, just like it did on yesterday at the open, it got rejected into this declining supply. Everybody sees, we actually put short on this decline, which turned into a really, really good day. But, you know, I wasn't really expecting to trade a lot of beta names today because everything was just kind of stuck in a resting position. But this thing did exactly the same thing it did yesterday. It got rejected off the top of supply and then basically faded the rest of the day. Here is kind of where you start putting on your thinking cap and maybe start putting on your speculation cap again. If you guys remember yesterday, we talked about there wasn't a lot of enthusiasm for the Netflix quarter. I have to say, there's no enthusiasm whatsoever on the Tesla quarter going into tomorrow, right? You have absolutely naysayers thinking the stock will be at 190, 180, 175, 150, and maybe it will, right? We don't know. OK, speculation into earnings is your guess is as good as mine. Again, that's the exclusive social media answer you guys are going to get. You don't get this type of information anywhere. But all jokes aside, nobody knows what's going to happen on earnings, right? If you look at the bare bones of what's going on, and this is what we talk about data, data, data, again, we've not seen any put buying or any significant pump buy. We saw a little bit of 200 puts come in towards the afternoon when the stock was about to go red and actually did go red. It was a seven point also, excuse me, almost a nine point reversal off the highs. But we haven't really seen an abundance of institutional money flow coming in on the put side. Does that mean anything? It means absolutely nothing. The price cuts, right? The price cuts in different models, that's going to play a part of it. The out of the money call buying that we saw a couple of weeks ago, that's going to play a lot of buying coming to come into play. But the key is for Tesla and not to compare it to Netflix, but the key going into Tesla, in my opinion, for tomorrow is just don't do anything or say anything stupid, right? Everybody knows this price cuts. Everybody knows you have a little bit of the inventory. Everybody knows the Elon Musk needs to acquire 25 percent or else he's going to go play in the AI space full time, according to him.  Matter of fact, Elon, don't say a word on the conference call. Whatever the headline is, whatever the earnings are, that's it. Ride a die with it, right? Fall in the sword, zip it, shut it, zip it and see what happens. Because if you do zip it and shut it, well, eventually the people who have no more ammunition to sell again, because we keep this in mind, the stock has sold from 265 all the way down to 207 in the last month. It's a pretty heavy decline. So 14, 14 percent plus or 14 percent minus performance for 2024. The key is the bulls want to see if the bad news is baked in, right? That's kind of like the low hanging for right now, because if they don't say anything stupid, yeah, they might rally the stock.  Again, I am no handicapper.  I think anybody who's trying to predict what's going to happen, you might as well tell me the score of the Super Bowl before even tell me who's even going to be in the Super Bowl, right? Just tell me the score. That's what trading into earnings is. It's a guess. So I know you want to start sound smart on social media and God forbid anybody thinks you don't know what you're talking about. But earnings just like betting a sporting event is it's either going to happen or it's not. So before you start this incredible battle with some strangers on social media, what happens with Tesla is going to beat, what happens with Tesla is going to meet and all that good stuff. Just remember, nobody knows anything. Nobody has a clue. You could have the earnings report right in your hands. And you could still mess up the trade because the price action might not agree with the earnings call.  So going into tomorrow, look, I really like certain setups. Amazon, I really like. We talked about Amazon a couple of minutes ago. Amazon, I'm watching for the top of the range here. Snow is another name that looks really, really good. Nice looking chart there as well. Let me give you guys a couple of more names to watch for tomorrow. And, you know, Microsoft looks decent. I would like to see one sell off if there's weakness on Nvidia. I'd like to see if we could get a remount, basically a bounce play off the rising support, because if you notice here, every single time it's hit the orange line, it bounced, orange line, bounce, orange line, bounce, orange line, bounce, orange line, bounce. It didn't quite hit it today. So if there's any weakness tomorrow on Texas Instruments earnings, let's see if we could catch a remount buy on Nvidia. Other than that, that's it. You know, other than that, that's it. Again, I think the longer the technology space kind of just waits it out a little bit, gets a breath, gets its feet set underneath them, the higher probability that we will continue this rally in the next couple of days. But guys, always keep this in mind. Be prepared on both sides, because eventually if the market does get pulled and you have a little bit of a buying strike, those five day plays that we just talked about that held for the last couple of days. If they lose them, it will be an aggressive engulfing candle. Again, you could go through your history books, go through your charts. You'll see no matter how aggressive a bull market is, it never it's going to go straight up in those days when they lose the five minute, the five day, that's where you can get an aggressive pull on a backside play. So tomorrow, again, pretty much is what it is. Again, not a lot today, really not a lot today. As you can see, there was not a lot of beta names today. SRPT didn't confirm, EYPT didn't confirm, Disney gap into the area went straight down, CVNA didn't confirm, Micron didn't confirm, AMD I was watching for the five day break, it didn't confirm.  Well, that's the whole point, beta wasn't doing anything. We caught a great, great rejection play on Tesla. This little sucker, one nuts. Remember we were talking about D-Wack yesterday? This is the Trump stock, 50-20 needs to build. That's the one one nuts. Again, it's not really my thing. I only traded today. I traded some Tesla today, which was really good. And I traded out a little scalp on the video to the downside. But D-Wack, right? We talked about this yesterday, 50-20 needs to build.  Congratulations, if you did play this thing. And snow today broke out as well. 203 needs to build. Snow went from 203 to 206. I like snow, if it could confirm today's channels going into tomorrow. So that's it, the stage is set. The outfits have been picked out. The star has been identified in Elon Musk. Tomorrow is a big day for Tesla, for the rest of the speculation market. And as we continue with the earning season, we'll see how well the bulls can continue to brush off any type of bad news to continue this magnificent rally from 2003, 2023. Guys, God bless. Have a great night, everybody, and I will see you all tomorrow. Take care.


My name is Victoria Mikus and I come from Dulig, First Nation. I'm a Kobi, I work for, my title is Oral Language Lead and I work with all the kindergarten teachers in the communities that I co-serve. I travel a lot for work. Mostly I work with kindergarten, so they're ages four and five, most of the kindergarten are four and five. And I just started the job actually in August, so prior to that I had been a teacher for like 28 years or so, so I've always been involved in education. And recently I've been getting into First Native Language, so that's what I'm passionate about, learning the language. I'm also still learning. I can read and write in syllabics. I still practice. There's a thing, when we first started it, we went to our elders to ask for their opinions and what we should do, because as a solo co-district we're trying to standardize the writing, like let all the districts use one chart as in syllabics. And then we went back to the elders and asked them if it's possible that we could switch, you know, use one whole for all the communities, but the elders said no. They wanted to stick with what they know and they wanted us teachers to teach the students our writing style. Our writing style, where I'm from, is different than any other reserves. And then the elders decided to stick with how we write. And we did. We write the way they wanted us to. And now in my community, my home community, we still have the full immersion program running today. It's just only in kindergarten. And then grade one, it doesn't... They have native language teachers for primary and intermediate level, up to grade nine. They have native language every day. It depends on the times, but they do continue. In kindergarten, I'm only speaking in kindergarten, we talk and we label stuff so they'll know. And, you know, so they talk more in the language. They really not learning how to write at that time. They just like oral language is what we are like. And that's how it should be, even any language. Oral language should be taught more in kindergarten. Because it's based on if you have a good oral language skills, you'll have a good literacy skill thing. It leads to... Usually it's funny because parents come to us and say they learn more from their kids because young parents, they don't speak the language and then their kids teach the words to them. I would think that they should... They used to plan it the way it was before prior when I started teaching. The vision in the full immersion program was that they would start in kindergarten, the full immersion in kindergarten, JK and SK, and then they go up. But it didn't continue the way they did. The board left and they changed board members and such, so they stopped. So what they were planning was from what I understood was the full immersion would be in kindergarten and then 50% in grade one and so on. And then I think it stopped like 20% in grade eight. And it goes, you know, it will increase and they add another program. I mean the language in each grade, but that didn't happen. So that's what I would like to see, like to come back. And I mean, you know, to follow through that so our kids can learn the language. I think even just the skills, you know, they need to learn how to live the way we did before. We, our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents did. It's different how they do it now. The tools you get, you know, modern tools. And when I taught, I taught native language for a number of years and during that time I had a cultural program. And I took, it doesn't, I took all the way kindergarten to grade ninths. For every Friday I wrote it. So I did skills that they could do. So like we did checking the net or bail net, setting it out and all that. And building a shelter. We didn't use any tools that, you know, modern tools or whatever. And I always make sure that I had an elder teaching them. I didn't teach them, but I helped the elder. So they should learn, yes. Not just the language, the way they lived. We need to teach them everything, you know. Not just portions of it, like portions.  We teach right now. Like, well, I used to teach, not anymore. But, you know, just, we do the language and then we do the skills later. You know, we have to do everything together. I mean, all of it, you know. Especially in the communities. On the first nation, I'm really learning too awesome. It takes me a while. Like when I pronounce, when I talk in my language, it takes me a long time to say something and sometimes I say it wrong. Yeah. But I try. I use my language more and more. Well, I guess the older I get, the more I just get it. I'm learning too fast. I'm learning too fast. I'm learning too fast. I'm learning too fast. All I said was, like, learn your language and listen to your parents and grandmas and, I mean, grandparents and great-grandparents.


So, the topic which I will want to talk about here is building customized Linux based operating system using Malik's script. And I am recognized by Tarun Kumar. I'm a final year undergraduate student with electrical engineering as my core. And I did GSOC in 2017, 2018. I was a mentor in GCI 17, 18, code heat 17 and 18. You can find me with meets2tarun.github.io on Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub, with the same handle meets2tarun. So Malik's, which I used for building the OS. So if we subset it, so Malik stands for beautiful and Alex loving it. So it's like an operating system which is beautiful and everyone loves it. So the basic qualities of Malik's, it's based on LXQT as the desktop environment. It's based on Ubuntu architecture. The basic philosophy behind this, it's very lightweight as compared to others. And the thing that makes different from other Linux distribution is that you are able to customize it. Talking customizing of Malik's is through customizing and altering the codes. And you get a pre-configuration in Malik's. There is a proper documentation with the help of which you are able to make certain changes in the operating system. There is a system lock feature, which will be described in the upcoming slides. So let's talk about Malik's generator. So I explained what is Malik's, Malik's is just an operating system. And we can make changes into it with the help of changing and altering the code. And there is a web app known as Malik's generator. So Malik's generator is just a web app and it is made for all the users out there. They are not able to make changes in the code to make, to customize their own OS. So we created Malik's generator with the help of which one just needs to go through this particular form and make changes to this particular form and whatever changes he or she made it will get implemented in that particular Linux OS. So you don't need to customize the code, don't need to changes the code. And at the end of the day, you are able to create your own customized Linux OS. So let me go through the form quickly. First you need to have your email address on which you have to put your email address and there you get an ISO link at the end of the build. You have to name your distribution. So as you create your own distribution, you want it to name something special for yourself. There is a browser homepage, there is a browser search engine. So if you selected some browser to get installed in it, so you want that particular link to be the homepage of that browser or that particular link from which all the strings will be searched. That will be the browser search engine. And there is a 32 bit as well as 64 bit support. By default, if you didn't check this button, it would be 64 bit. And if you check it, you will get the OS into 34 bit. So we have support for both 32 as well as 64 bits. And there are some queries over here like notification, screensaver, sleep modules. So if you check those ticks, so it would be like you would be able to see those features in that. And there is a third party softwares like Chromium, Firefox. So if a person just want that particular package in it, he will check it and that only package will be installed. There is a logo. So you have to upload an SVG where you will find that particular logo for that OS. There is a wallpaper. So you just need to upload a background image that will be set as a wallpaper over the OS. And there is a desktop file so you can upload here a zip file or a bunch of files that will be present on the desktop. Click on the build button, wait for 10 minutes, and you will get a link on your email with the ISO. Then you can run it in VM, live boot it, and you will see all those features which you created here will be present in the operating system. So basically what happens here, talking about a workshop, talking about a conference, we have to set up the computer which is going to project, the computer which is going to be used in the workshop with those particular settings which is needed for that workshop or conference. So just consider a scenario. There is a workshop and the person is going to have around 100 participants in the workshop. So a particular software like something is going to be needed throughout all the computers. So that single person has to set up all those 100 computers with that particular software and that particular settings in the software. Our Mellix can be a solution for him. So he can go through a single time setup. He can use Mellix to generate that particular ISO with all those desirable customizable settings which he wants all through all those computers. So we have future plans, how to set up all those computers. We can use Ansible. Now this idea is not yet implemented. This is just a perspective to implement in the future Mellix. We can use Ansible and with the help of SSH, we can put it run on all the computers throughout. So going through all the, so this is various snapshots. So Mellix generator was like this just one year before. It's around six months before and currently it's like this. So Mellix generator gives us power to customize the OS. So we use Travis in the background in those 10 minutes Mellix generator triggers that particular Mellix repository and Travis build it and deployed it on GitHub. We use a send grid to send the ISO link. Users can upload wallpapers, set up packages and customize it and the ISO will be mailed to the user. So in the last GSOC, I went through lots of milestone but one of the important milestones is that before that it's just 32 bit but now the system, most of the machines are 64 bit and they required that particular 64 bit OS. So we are able to convert it into 64 bit just this year only. Okay, so the takeaways for Mellix generator is that we are able to generate our own customized Linux distribution in around 10 to 15 minutes. Even with our mobile phone also. We can generate OS for conferences, summits and workshops with all those desirable settings. We can likewise our people, one of my friend just saw my computer and he was just impressed by my workspace. Most of the developers are here, they must want to show their own computers to their friends or they may get impressed by seeing their workspace and they say, wow, how do you do that? What desktop flavor you are using? What is that screensaver? What is that terminal that you are using? So you can make all those changes and you can generate an ISO and distribute it to your friend, save for future. So you set up your own way of working on in a workspace in your computer but somehow you find some bug and you have to have to remove all the things and reset the operating system. So it will be back straight to the original version and you have to again start with the fresh operating system. You have to set up all those things in that. So you can set up your own operating system and then save it in the ISO format and again when you find some bug, something, you don't need to go through the proper operating system, you can install that particular ISO and it will have all those customizable settings. So there is few ideas that I would like my fellow developers to implement. So we can use InSable, we can use Docker image. So now today, Melix is only usable to generate an ISO image. So what we are thinking, we can use virtual machine images, we can use Docker container for web-based interface. So the idea behind is that we can use an link, we can use a link and with the help of which the person just go to the link and find that way to operate that operating system on that particular link and it will have all those features which is made customized by some other user. So suppose that I give you link and there is a workshop and a person is there who just distributed a link and all those people directly go to the link with the help of internet or internet and find a workspace which is suitable for working in that workshop. Okay, so Melix generator and Melix has some Melix add-ons. So one of the important add-ons is Melix system log. So basically in library, there are computers in computer centers. There are computers and people go there, students go there and make dirty everything. They make dirty on the desktop, they alternate the files, they change it, they install their own installation, it's not given there. So they make dirtiness over there. They create folders, they create files and then what the manager of that computer center do, he went to all the computers over there and he cleans it. So Melix system log, it's just with the help of this. You just need to enable that and ask the students to attend that lab and after the students leave that, you just need to restart your computer and at the point, at the instant when you just enable the system log, it will go straight to that particular instance. So all those changes which are made after enabling the system log will be vanished. There is a package called as Mu. So basically we are here and we are working on different Linux distributions. Someone works on Debian, some works on Fedora, someone on different operating system. So if you wanted someone work on YUM, YUM wants to install some packages using YUM, some works, some install using sudo install, app.get install. So if in the case when you are not familiar with U1 too, you are just familiar with Fedora, you want to install some package, for example, YUM install package one and if that particular package one exist, it will automatically translate it to app.get install package one and you are able to install that package. So here are a few links. The first one is where the web app is deployed. You can find it here. The malix where the original ISO is there. This is the link for malix generator, the web app where you will be able to find the web app source code. This is the system lock source code. This is the MewSource code. This is the Gitter channel where malix discussions goes on. So on the very first slide, I went through this conversation. So this is the idea behind that if we are able to customize an operating system and use that in that workshop, I think there would be no problem if we turn off the screen shaver feature, if we turn off the notification feature and install all those requirements which are needed for in that particular workshop. So no one needs to be take care that screen shaver will not get on in the middle. So these are the few peoples who were starting with the development in this project. So you can find me here, Tarun. This is Harsh. This is my co-developer from the past two years, Niko, Yao and Andre. These are the mentors which helped me able to do all these things. Without them, it's not possible. So I would like to thank on behalf of malix teams. It's my honor to represent malix and malix generator on behalf of malix team. Thank you. I hope it makes some sense out of these 20 minutes. So I welcome all the questions from your side. Yes. System Lock is basically just a JS based code. Yeah, there is a little Python there. So what we do, in the windows, if you use windows, there is a system restore point. There is a way to create the system restore point. So when you create that point, it's similar like it's created, in windows there is a drive CDE. So C drive will get restored to that particular point. So we use exactly the same philosophy there. In the system lock, as soon as we turn on that particular system lock feature, we fix to that particular instance. And all the changes made after that enabling of the system lock will not be the permanent changes. That will be temporary changes. And that will switch again to that instance after restarting the system. For the timing, users home directory. Yeah, for the timing. Because, yes? Yeah, that will be maintained. Only the changes made in the home directory will be vanished. Yeah, because it is designed basically for workshops like and laboratory like things. So when a person goes there, I went, I also went in labs. So I see that people's make that in us on desktop and they make changes the file. They may also delete the important files and they may also create their own containers on the desktop. So and the instructor of the lab then goes to each and every computer and then cleans it for the next batch to come again. So that's a solution. You don't need to do that. You just need to restart the system and it will get again to that particular instance. Okay, yes? Yeah, yeah. So why, just for home directory, why not the whole workspace? Yeah, that would be much better, no? The whole workspace which has all those configurations, all those packages, all those desirable settings which you wanted to work for. Just suppose you forget your laptop in your home and you need to do some work. You need to edit some slides. You need to edit some documents on a system which is not a particular of yours. And using some other systems make you feel that, this is not, I'm not able to do that because I'm not able to do that.  Yeah, yes. Yeah, so basically what I get you locked here so people doesn't able to use the pen drive. Yes, they're not good. Live boot, that also not possible. Yeah, so the solution to that that I thought is here. We want to build Docker containers for web-based interface. So yeah, so you just get an address. You have to go to that particular address with the Honor browser. You are able to have internet connection on your computer and go to that particular link and there you will find the interface which is similar to your working space computer. It depends on the internet speed. It depends the packages you are accessing. So if the package is heavier, it would take time but for the lightweight packages and just for the convenience of us, for the convenience of us in working that particular space can be a solution to your issue. Did you get my point? Yes. Yeah, so yeah, changing the amount to rather than home. Okay, okay. And that needs to be changed from BIOS. No. Changing. If that exists, then automatically the home directory and the workspace points to the platform. Yeah, so we can set the priority over there. First look on the USB. If there is something to boot, then boot it from there. Otherwise go straight to the hard drive. So, okay, okay, okay. So these changes can be made through. Yeah, this can be a solution. Just for, yeah. Okay, so our working space will be from the hard drive but the home directory, if present in the pan drive, will be copied straight to the, yeah. It's used directly, not copied, yes. It will be used directly. Yeah, this can, yeah. We can use that idea too, yeah. Thanks, I can help others to implement this also. So for, and for the web-based interface, will it be a solution for you, use case? In some cases. Okay, and booting from pan drive, yes. It can be. Okay, and in the case where booting from pan drive is possible, means they haven't locked the system. Yes. So we can use in that case, our own personalized distribution, yeah. Yeah. So in those particular case where the work systems are locked, you are not able to boot from pan drive, you have to be with that particular feature. Okay, I get something to learn here also. Thank you. Any more questions? What is the home with this OS? Hardware like generation one. Yeah, it's 4.9 right now. Yeah, I have that image. So sorry, 4.4, it's working on 4.4, but Saraz asks about the hardware. So it's basic, so I tested it on a machine which has around 512 GB of RAM, and it works on Intel Platinum, Core 2DO, the oldest, yes? 500 megabyte of RAM. And Intel Platinum Core 2DO, I booted, live boot the system doesn't install on it, and the memory, the hard drive is around, yes? Yeah, it's pretty old. Yeah, yeah. So it's completely lightweight. If you get through the link here, get through this particular link of Mellix, so this is the root link, you will find everything here. So you will able to find all those packages which are inside that, and if you find that, okay, this is the package that I don't need it. There are a few packages which are already installed in here, and you can just remove that, and it's very lightweight. Yes? Yeah, comfortably. So our next task is like, all those operating systems today have some personal assistant over there. So, Fosacea wants to implement their own Suzy based desktop. So a desktop which has Suzy as their personal assistant, and it can be used to make user interface more and more personalized, and so it gives suggestions based on the work past experience. So any more questions? Yeah, it's really thankful. I am very thankful to everyone, and this is a great talk, and I am also able to learn lots of things. Thank you.


in the salesman. Yeah, that's pretty bad, isn't it? That's pretty bad. Not only that is I used to be in the automotive industry. Oh my god. I never knew that JR. That's terrible. You know what? Everybody is driving cars. It's not so terrible. And everybody needs cars. It's not so terrible. But here's the thing. We all need to sell. I know this for a fact. I mean, if you go to church, you used to have a friend who was a preacher at Baptist Church and he says it was tough as a sales job in the world. He said I got one book and nobody can agree on it. It's really tough. And he had to sell people and join in the congregation.  You sell. You sell your kids on having good manners and making their bed and brushing their teeth and eating. Dang, if you can't convince people to do things that are good for them, then you're not going to do well in life. You just won't. And that's that's really kind of a shame because so many people I'm looking over at this computer here. Hello, Syed. How are you doing, man? Good to see you. I hope I pronounced that right. I'm terrible with spelling and everything. So, you know, I apologize for that. But if you can't sell, you're not going to, you're not going to do well in life.  Now, when I say sell, you only want to sell stuff to people that it's going to benefit them. If it's not going to benefit them, don't sell it to them. I mean, that's the wrong thing to do, right? So, when we talk about selling, I'm not talking about making people buy things they don't want to buy. That's wrong. That's just flat wrong. That's not what you want to do. Your goal is to sell people things that's going to improve their lives or solve their problems or help them out. You know, a doctor's got to sell you on taking a pill or on doing some type of health regimen or whatever, right? And should that doctor be a poor salesperson, it could harm your health. If you say, well, you know, this doctor told me to do these things. I don't believe it. He didn't convince me that that's what I should do.  So, you know, understand what selling is first before we get into these techniques. And I'm going to get into the techniques in just a second. And I got to tell you, I spent, oh, yeah. Have you ever heard of this one? Sell me this pen. Just sell me this pen. You've heard that, right? That was in a movie. I won't even mention the movie now. But how would you sell this pen? I got two pens here, by the way. This one here is, I don't know, it's like one of those box where you get like 24 in a box from one of those office supply places. This one here is a pilot's pen, okay? This is what the captain of an airplane uses. And it's all smooth and cool. And it's got gold in late in it. And this one here sells for about $300. This one here probably sells for about 10 cents. They both do the same thing. They're both ink pens. And I'm going to wait until the end. But I want you to guess why somebody would pay several hundred dollars for this pen and only 12 cents for this one. And they do the same thing. Literally, there's no difference. No difference whatsoever. They do the same thing. But why would somebody spend so much money for this pen? Right? I already gave you the answer, by the way. And they wouldn't spend any money for this pen. But before I get into all that, and I'm going to tell you the answer at the end. So don't worry about that. Hey, do me a favor since we're just starting out. If you would click that like button there and put a comment. The comments matter so much.  So unfair. Do me a favor. Smash that like button right now, right now, while you're watching just, I'll give you a second. Okay, you got it done? I really do appreciate it. Do that. Just hit that like button right now. And don't forget to comment. You know, say, I like this. I don't like this or hello JR, whatever you want to say. But let's get into selling because selling so, so, so very important. And I got to tell you, that has been the number one benefit that I've had at, you know, marketing products online is being able to sell because I understand that, you know, you have to meet people's needs and solve their problems. And you know, if you do that, you don't have to force anybody to buy anything you have. And if it, if you've really convinced them that they need whatever you've got, they'll pay almost anything for it. I mean, I've charged thousands of dollars an hour in coaching, because people say, Oh my God, I really want that. I know that I'll get more money back than what I put out. And by the way, later on, I'll do this. I don't think I did it. But I'm going to put a link in there. I am taking on a few coaching students, and I won't charge you thousands of dollars an hour. But I take on a few a year to help along in their business. And after this video, I will put in the description. I don't think I can do it now. I can't do it now. But I'll put in the description, an application, if you want to apply for that, because I'm also going to give away a $1,500 free blueprint call. And you don't have to buy anything to get that. You just have to be selected based on your application for me to talk to. So it's real simple. So let's get into the selling thing here real quick. Let's talk about it. So we know right now that selling is important. I hope I've convinced you of that. Selling is super, super important. But now here's the thing that you've got to understand. People do not buy based on logic. They don't buy based on logic. They don't do it. And you're going to say to me, well, sure they do. They figure out, you know what the best price and what the features and benefits. No, they don't. They don't. They just don't.  And I'm going to give you an example of that. Like I said, I was in the automotive industry for years. And I used to have people come in and say, well, you know what, we don't really need this car. We're just kind of looking really. You know what the hundreds of people that bought last month didn't need a car either. And here's how I know they didn't need a car. They drove in to the car dealership. They drove in to the car dealership. And I would say a good 99% of the people would tell me, you know, we're not buying anything today. We're not buying anything. We're just not going to buy. And of course, a lot of them did, right? But they had that mindset that, you know, I'm just not going to buy anything. I'm not going to buy it. This guy's going to try to sell me something. I'm not going to buy it. And, you know, if you if you say they if you say people buy based on logic, you would say, well, people buy a car because they have to have one. And they don't have to have one. And the truth is a lot of people in the world don't have cars, they can walk. They think if they live in the city, it's more of a hindrance than anything else. I was talking to my wife about that the other day.  But you know what? You don't have to have one. What could you do? What you could do is you could take public transportation. You could jump on a bus. You could take an Uber every single day.  You know, now people are supposed to far for me to walk. Well, you know, in some countries, they walk 1020 miles. Well, I'm in the US, you can't do that here. You could do it. The thing is, emotionally, you want a car because it solves some of your emotional needs. Maybe it's status. I used to tell people would you buy a luxury car? If nobody could see you in it? The majority of the people tell me no, I probably wouldn't. You know, I wouldn't I wouldn't buy a fancy sports car if nobody could ever see me in it, or a nice luxury Rolls Royce or a Cadillac. Because what's the point? So what they were really doing is they were buying these cars based on emotion. It was not was not was not based on the fact that they had to have a car. This is not the case. So the first thing you've got to understand when you're trying to sell somebody something is it's an emotional buy. Okay, it's something that you've got to get them to want to buy based on emotions. If you can do that, okay, if you could do that, and you can make it fun, and you can make it solve their problems, you're probably going to sell the car. I mean, people buy for all kinds of reasons for status, you know, you know, they buy clothes because they want to present a certain image.  But people choose not to do that because they have other reasons. There's emotional reasons. Maybe there's a particular brand of clothing, they want to show off, right? And and that that that particular brand maybe says something about them.  Okay, so that's number one. First off, they buy based on emotion, not logic. Number two, people don't buy their way into anything. They buy their way out of something. Okay, so I'm going to give you a couple examples of that. They don't buy a suit because they want a suit, they're buying their way out of looking bad, when they go to that dinner, when they go to the job interview, they don't want that to happen. There's that fear in there. You know, so if I was selling a suit to somebody, I may say to them, imagine when you meet with your next client and they see you in the suit, what they're going to think, right? Because everybody wants to deal with somebody successful.  Now, the amount of money that you spend for an object is in direct relation to the ability to understand your marketplace problems and pain points. If you can describe their pain points more than them, and they feel like you understand them, they're going to give you more money. It's really that simple. So you really kind of have to get in their heads. I know when we had people come into the car dealership, I would always tell the salespeople, never walk up to anybody and say, can I help you? Never. Worst thing in the world to do. And here's why. Here's why. Because a husband and wife, if they're going to buy a car and they decide they want to go out and buy a car, here's what they do. This is the conversation they have. They look at each other and say, look, we kind of need a car. We want to get one, but we're not going to let anybody talk us into it. We just want to go out. We want to find a car that we like. We maybe drive a couple, see what they're like. And then we want to get some payments. We want to find out what the price is, find out what the interest rate is. Maybe we can figure out what our car is worth, and then let's come home and then we'll decide on it. Because we're not going to buy a car today. We're just going to go look at it. Now, that's what's in their heads.  I guess what they're going to say, no, no, no, no. Matter of fact, why don't you just go away? And they may not even be likely to even look at cars. Maybe they feel intimidated and they certainly aren't going to drive your car. But if that same salesperson walked up to them and said, hey, welcome, I just want to let you know there's no pressure here. Don't feel obligated to buy anything today. Well, that's different. They aren't hearing that from salespeople. As a matter of fact, while you're here, I want to provide you all the information you need. As a matter of fact, if you want to drive some cars, feel free to drive them without obligation. If you want prices, payments, interest rate, even once your car is worth, I want to give that all to you. And then if you want to go shop us and compare all that, I want you to feel free to do so. Is that fair enough? And I would end it with, is that fair enough? And the people would look at each other like, that's exactly what we said at home.  Yeah, as a matter of fact, we want to go look at your cars. We want to drive your cars. But here's something funny that happens. If they know that I understand them and I'm doing those things and they go out and they drive my car and they spend an hour or two with me and we build rapport and they like me and they like the car and we get inside and they say, well, let's look at the payments. They sit down and start going through payments. They get emotionally involved and they've spent time with you. And if they spent time with you, guess what they're more apt to do? Buy the car. So it's, it's all in the beginning. If you can get across in the beginning, I'm telling people this when they're doing a sales page or sales letter or whatever. If you could spell out all of those pain points in the very beginning that they're having and say, look, I understand you. I know where you're coming from and I want you to know that I want to help you with those things. Okay. Now that's number two. Number three is really kind of interesting and it goes back to these two pins right here. What is it about these two pins? Why would you spend hundreds for this one and only spend 12 cents for this one? Why is that? This here has no story. I mean it's cheap too. I mean it's plastic, right? So you could give it a little bit that this is metal and it's got gold and all that stuff in there. But in the beginning do you remember I told you what this pin was? This is a pin that a pilot of an airplane uses. The captain of the airplane, right? There's a story behind this. This is important. And guess what? When somebody has this pin and they buy this pin and somebody else uses their pen if they loan it out. I was really worried about learning about pins because they normally don't come back. Guess what they're going to do? They're going to pass that story on. They're going to say you know what? This pin is kind of unique because this is used by pilots of airplanes and this is a very high quality pin and it's weighted and you know it's got this gravity thing in here where the ink always comes out in case they're writing and don't know how they're going to be flying, right? And that's why this pin has so much more value than this pin right here. It's the story, man. It's the story. So number one, you've got to understand they buy based on emotion. Number two, you've got to understand their pain points. If you understand their pain points and you can describe them and you can solve them, you're doing good. That's number two. And number three is they buy stories. So if you can hit one, those three things when you're out there trying to sell and you're doing a sales page and you're going to have to sell. I don't care what your product is. I don't care if it's home decorating. I don't care if it's lawn service, whatever.  You've got to sell them on it. You can't just look at your kids and say, don't do that because I said so. How well does that work?  And this is why I'm asking you to do this thing and you can tell them a story. Man, makes all the difference in the world. So I hope this helps you out. If it did, do me a favor and put a comment. Did I mention that? Smash that like button. I mean, hit it hard. Hit that like button really hard. The harder you hit it, the more liked this video is. Right? Well, maybe not. If you haven't subscribed to my YouTube channel since we are live on YouTube and Facebook all at once, that's pretty cool. Let me get back to this other screen here. I've got all this software stuff now that I'm trying to get accustomed to and I think it's working out well. So anyhow, if you liked this video, say it. You know, say, I like this video. Good information. I can use it. What were your experiences selling? What do you think of selling? You think selling is good or bad? I mean, do you agree with me? Put it in the comments down there. I would love to hear it. If there's a subject that you want to learn about, make sure you put that in the comments too. Now, I've got a free course that I'd like for you to check out. It's not in the comments yet, but I'm going to add it there. If you aren't seeing this live right now, it will be in the comments done. Hi, J.R. Jackie, what's up, Jackie? I appreciate you doing that. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. You're an anniversary follower. That means that Jackie's been following me for at least a year or more. That's very cool. I appreciate Jackie. Very, very cool. So that's it for today, guys. I really appreciate you being here. I appreciate you listening to my video. I really do. If you want more training, of course, check out my channel. We have a couple of groups. We have the art of e-commerce success. I'm also going to put in the link. I have a book there. If you don't have a product to sell, I wrote a book on how to find profitable products to sell online. Pretty cool book. It's like $5.60. And it's really cheap, but it will help you out and it will help you find some cool products. In addition to that, I told you I'm going to put in the comment section, not comment section, description section, where you can get a free course that I did. It's a really nice course. Several videos, walks you through different steps and that's free. So check that out. And then I also have my inner circle if you want to check that out. My inner circle is a special group of people. And if you click on that link where it says inner circle, you can go there. And when you do, you can watch a free video. You don't have to opt in. You don't have to give me your email. You don't have to give me credit card. Nothing. And you can watch it for free. So that's pretty cool. Guys, I appreciate you listening. 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In this section of Down the Rabbit Hole, I ask myself a question that you didn't ask on the live stream and I then answer it. Give us an example of a couple of types of attacks and problems that can happen in DeFi or that have happened recently. So I'm going to give you three different examples of decentralized finance where things went horribly wrong and then sometimes got fixed and sometimes didn't. The first one of course is the one that started it all, the Dow. The Dow was introduced shortly after Ethereum's birth as a mechanism for a crowd-based venture capital fund where people could vote proposals that would then get funded and the Dow in its very beginning accumulated a very large amount of funds. Then a bug that was undiscovered in the Dow code, specifically a re-enterancy bug that allowed someone to call the withdrawal contract from within the withdrawal function in the contract from within the withdrawal function of the contract, allowed someone to drain almost 300 million dollars, if I remember correctly, from the Dow or some ridiculous amount like that into their own contract. This ultimately led to a hard fork fix of Ethereum and also the split of Ethereum into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic and created a whole debate about moral hazard and bailouts and the immutability of Ethereum and left a bit of a wound in Ethereum that took more than two years to heal. It was Ethereum's empty gox moment, just different in some ways. A second one that also happened more recently was a problem within the Dow stablecoin when it faced its ultimate challenge, the collapse of Ethereum's exchange rate, the Ether exchange rate by more than 55% in a single day, also known as Black Thursday. You probably remember that it was in the beginning of the pandemic and just after the stock market had crashed and Ether together with every other cryptocurrency dumped 55%. Because DAI depends on over collateralization where you must maintain 150% of collateral in order to back your DAI as an absolute minimum, even contracts that were 300% collateralized, which means for every three dollars they had funded, they only took out one as DAI, even those ended up under collateralized. Now, in normal circumstances, the immediate response that would be through automated systems as well as manual interventions, people pump DAI back into the system in order to recolateralize their loans or they put ETH as additional collateral in order to refund and recolateralize their loans. However, of course, during the time that Ether dropped 55%, gas prices shot through the roof. It was very difficult to get transactions through and that was compounded by another bug in the auction system that allowed some people to basically snap up some of these loans for zero and liquidate them and that was a disaster. In the end, those loans, as far as I know, were recolateralized through a fundraiser that was done by MakerDAO by asking the holders of the MakerToken to put more funds into the system. And the damage was only about $5 million and most of the people affected, I think, were made good, made whole. Another example of a cascade failure of multiple problems all occurring at the same time. And of course, it was a bit of a black swan event because a 55% drop in a single day had not been seen until that moment. Finally, the third one which is even more interesting was the ingenious use of flash loans in order to exploit a weakness in the system. Here, a flash loan, as we said before, is a loan where you take money out in a transaction. That transaction as it executes creates a cascade of contract calls and as long as the last event from the transaction refunds the flash loan, you are allowed to take that loan. By taking a flash loan of more than a million dollars, an attacker was able to create a cascade of contract calls effectively using DeFi's composability to create a brilliant scheme. In this scheme, a loan from the flash loan was split into wrapped Bitcoin and Ether and then was used to take a short position in a decentralized exchange against wrapped Bitcoin, followed by a dump of that wrapped Bitcoin on the decentralized exchange, followed by a liquidation of that short in order to gain the difference and a repayment of the flash loan, all in a single transaction. And I believe just over two million dollars was exploited using this trick. So this is an example of unintended consequences when just like the good guys can do composability, well, so can attackers and an unintended consequence of weaknesses in futures markets and flash loans and various other components all used together to execute an attack. So, if you want to support it, join me on Patreon.


So, you just need your fill. Not a problem. DT just means smoothness, the higher the value, the more choppy the effect will be. The lower spawn speed, the bigger the delay between when you click and when the particle starts to grow. Normally, it will fill the area that is parallel with the faces that you started to fill. However, if you increase the max-derive angle, it will start to climb up and down walls and angles. The bigger particle life, the longer the particles will last. The more the speed, the faster the particles will travel before their life ends. And honestly, I've never really needed to change the reset times, but you can mess with those here. And spawn rate factor determines how many particles get created. Hope that helps, and as always, hope you have a fantastic day, and I'll see you around.


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And Protestant Christianity prides itself that it does not rely on the words of men. Protestant Christianity tells us we're all about following the word of God and the word of God alone. Judaism has a Talmud, a Talmud is a very large book, 2,700 pages of the words of men. And Protestant Christianity sees this as an inherent fault in Judaism. Talmud is such a significant book, an important book in the theology, in the thought process of a Jew, and that's all the words of men. But the Protestant tells us that no, he only believes in the word of God, he sees his path as a better path and a higher path. But if you think a little bit beyond the superficial, you realize that the Protestant is not relying on the word of God, but he's relying on the words of men. And the Jew is not relying on the words of men, but is relying on the words of God. The core doctrines of Judaism are all spelled out explicitly in the Jewish Bible.  That's all the Jew needs to know about who it is that he is to worship. That's the word of God, direct word of God. What does the Jew need to know about atonement? What does the Jew need to know about how to find, achieve forgiveness for your sin? It's explicitly spelled out in the Jewish Bible. In Deuteronomy 30, God lays out the path for the nation, how the Jewish people as a nation can turn back to God, and that is through observance of the law of Moses, returning to God, listening to his voice. And in Ezekiel 18, chapter 18 and Ezekiel chapter 33, God lays it out very clearly how an individual returns to God. Repentance, open your heart, come back to God, and God will forgive. Those concepts are clearly and explicitly laid out in the Jewish Bible. We don't have to rely on the words of any men when it comes to the basic teachings of Judaism. The Talmud is here to tell us how to observe the commandments. That's not the foundations, that's not the core beliefs of Judaism. What does Protestant Christianity believe in? Now, I'm not talking about Protestant Christianity today. What does Protestant Christianity want us to believe that we were supposed to believe when Jesus came to the scene? When Jesus appeared with his message, when Paul came along with his message, when the teachers of Christianity came to the Jewish people with their message, the Protestant teachers tell us that the Jews were supposed to know certain things. They were supposed to know that there is no atonement for sin without a blood offering, and that that blood offering is the death of Jesus, and that the only way you can access that blood offering is through devotion to Jesus, worship of Jesus. The Protestant would have us believe that before Jesus came on to the scene, the Messiah that we were supposed to be waiting for was a Messiah that was going to bring about a new election, an election of people that believed in him, as opposed to the election of Israel, the election of the nation of Israel that took place through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Those concepts are nowhere to be found in the Jewish Bible. The Protestant theologians weave these concepts, they fill in blanks, they try to find a hint here, a line there. For example, the Protestant Christian tells us that the Jewish Bible teaches that there is no atonement for sin without a blood offering. Now, this concept is nowhere to be found in the Jewish Bible, certainly not as an explicit statement, but even if it would be an explicit statement, which again, it is not. It still wouldn't bring us to what the Christian would have us believe about atonement. The Christian wants us to believe not only that there is no atonement for sin without blood, but that the only blood that truly atones for sin according to the Christian is the blood of Jesus, and the way to access that is through devotion to him. Those concepts are nowhere to be found in the Jewish Bible. The concept that devotion to the Messiah will bring about a new election, another concept that's nowhere to be found in the Jewish Bible. It's a concept that the Protestant theologians have to weave together from strands, from hints, from mistranslations and misapplications of scripture. The Protestant is relying on the words of men, the twisted words of Christian theologians for the foundations of his faith. The Jew can be confident that the foundations of our faith are the Word of God. They're explicitly found in the Jewish Bible. The main foundations of Jewish faith, the pillars of the Jewish faith, are explicitly spelled out in the Jewish Bible. We believe we follow the Word of God. We do not follow the words of the twisted, the twisted words of the Christian theologians.


series isn't just a match-up between two heated rivals, it's also a way for Major League Baseball to grow the sport right here in the UK. The Yankees brought out all the heavy hitters to show local youth what it's all about. Welcome to Finsbury Park, home to London Mets, Baseball and Softball Club. And tonight, the home of the New York Yankees. We're going to work with you guys first, right, while y'all are trying to pitch. We wanted to do something out in the community, we wanted to do something involving baseball. And that's not the easiest thing to find in many countries. But our friends in Manchester City knew about this club and the minute they told us about it, it was a no-brainer. Baseball is not a huge sport over here, that's what we're here for, you know, to promote it and to see the passion and the love that these people have for the game, it's incredible. Having a chance to be here at their park and find, identify the spot where baseball is being played by the youth, the only baseball being played by the youth here in London, you know, the meteorites.  There you go. What the Yankees are doing here with the youth in the next generation is really spreading the love and spreading baseball. Me coming from Puerto Rico and coming from a very humble family, being able to make it to the big leagues through baseball was something very important for myself, for my family, for my country. So I'm just happy that you guys are doing what you guys love. This is a great sport, this is a sport of opportunities. Make sure that, you know, you give your best day in and day out. All right, here we're just going to take our lead off the second base. To see the enthusiasm from these kids about the game of baseball is, you feel fortunate to be a part of it. I especially want to thank all the major league players who are here with us today. You don't get a group like this in a youth event in the United States. So it's a pretty good group. So thank you very much. Having Matsui and Reggie Jackson, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez and Andy Pettit, Naren Boone out here doing their thing with Nick Swisher. It's pretty cool and pretty special and I think the kids are having a blast. It's phenomenal. I'll tell you, these players, we started out with three or four and then we're got around. All of a sudden everybody wanted to come and do this. I mean, it's just, it's a great event. It's exactly what we do all around New York City every year and to be able to do it this far from home in a country where we're really just kind of beginning to get this whole process going and it's a thrill. Just to see what Commissioner Rob Manford, Hal Steinberg and John Henry from the Red Sox, you know, take so much effort and energy to get across the pond and really just play what is truly the greatest game in the world. Our presence here is big. It's huge. They love it. So that's, that's what I like. They love it. We want to present you guys with this legacy gift of some really cool equipment. So let's, let's take it away guys. Hopefully you guys and your friends and people that come after you can put this stuff to really good use and, and baseball can become a huge thing one day in London. That'd be great. Hopefully this will help it, you know, transform this area and it'll grow and the love for baseball start growing a little bit more here. You want to have balance as you're going down through your delivery. Okay.  All right. There you go. To be able to be here and to do everything we can to help globalize our game and to teach this amazing game that we have in the States and literally to bring it to the front doorstep so people here in London for myself just to be able to be along for the ride and ride everybody's coattails. I could not be more blessed. You go catch it. There it is. There you go. Nice job guys. Nice job. You have to do it in control. When he says this, you get no do like this and come to London. The last thing that you'll be thinking is baseball. But yeah, playing baseball here in London. You know, amazing.  Love the game of baseball. Want to learn the game of baseball. And that's where we're here. First thing I want to do is an infielder. If I want to make sure I secure the baseball, I want to catch it. This is an amazing opportunity. I think our job is out here amazing. If we can affect one kid, I think we've