All right, so thanks for coming. And well, welcome to my bath about who is learning the Dagnan.org website. Well, probably most of you know the website already, but maybe we can take a closer look at it first. So all the guys who have internet please open the web page. Yeah. Do you? Like, you know, that's what it looks like, so you know. Maybe I, Christian Perrier, he had a request. Yes. He had a request. Yes. He wanted that you explain how to pronounce your name. Okay, well, all right. Agnieszka. Agnieszka Tarkovska. Well, these most people say it looks similar. Okay? Yeah. Um, right. So, we've been asking a few people about the website not only Davy users but also other people who I showed it to and it was quite important for me to collect some feedback. And many people did criticize a few things. So maybe before we get back to the design part, I'd just explain a few structural stuff, but at least it could be Chinese for the website itself and then we just go back to the design part. Um, so basically the first thing I've been told about this website is that it's very difficult to navigate. Um, I don't know what to tell about you, but if you can say something about this, do you feel the same or what is it for you, Davy? Yeah. Essentially, that was the main part of my website talk last year. The usability of it really sucks, but as everyone can see, nobody, nothing ever resulted from that, mostly due to time constraints on my part. But I would admit that there are big improvements possible. So will there, yeah. Yeah, sure. You told me. Okay, so any more feedback on that side? So maybe we, like all of them. I think when you go to the website now, it's nobody's fault. Right now, however, how the website is, and there is a website somewhere, it's not on the website. You know, on the site map. Yes. And it's on the site map? Yes, of course. The site map is nobody's fault, but it loves some of the part of the website. I think this is the first point to think of. Yeah, the thing is that you have to be aware of one thing. I mean, if people go to Davy's network, they see, this is the first thing they see is the index HTML or whatever, so this is the thing that people see. Mostly people do not go to the site map first to be able to navigate. So they basically would like to have the navigation kind of logical and fast to use. And I shall give one example here. When you go, maybe it puts to the camera, so if you can see. Okay, so when you go back to the website here, there's like something quite strange. First of all, we have an navigation object, right? And we have navigation in here, but the stuff is repeating.  So what happens when you click on this? What do you have in there? I mean, you have a menu here, which is sort of the main menu, and then you have another main menu in here, which is also divided into sub menus.  Yeah. So this is not really logical. And so let's see what happens. I'm not quite, I didn't try that yet, so let's see what surprise we're going to have. See that? So this is also one thing that is quite a criticize group because you certainly lose the navigation ahead before. Actually, maybe you can go back in here. What about the other parts of the navigation? Because we really don't know which one to focus on. Do you get that? Yeah. Okay. And this is a complete different side opening here, which is not constantly designed for the rest of it. And now I just wonder, how the hell do you go back to the main navigation, for example?  Let's do that. And another thing is, when you have like a navigation verb, this long, it is not really usable because people do not like to read. And if you have too much information on one section, it gets really exhausting for people to get over it. And if somebody would have it on a low resolution, you must have to scroll. So the main thing about building a short page is it's really to avoid scrolling as much as possible because that gets much easier for people to deal with. Well, can anybody explain, please, the logical structure of that? Because why do we have here a main menu and why do we have here the same main menu with submenus? I mean, the cost for being there is particularly historically grown. Like, the main menu on the top was there from the beginning and someone thought, hmm, you can't actually go to many parts of the website very fast. So let's, on the start page, add another menu so that you can jump to many pages directly. So that's the historical, yeah, events that led to this addition. It was even before my time, so I really don't know exactly, but it's my guess. I think it would be a good compromise so that you can really reach those things fast and really choose where your main menu, you know, that you can reach from everywhere. And then, for example, you have some submenus and you just put them separately so that people are able to navigate because in here it's just in chaos and you really don't know which one to focus. Do you understand that? Sure. I mean, if you put the navigation bar here, it's a design question, basically. So if we have submenus, you rather main menu point and then when you click on that, then a submenu could appear.  Yeah. Not all the browsers support it. That's the problem. It's a big sort of thing you have to, you can program to some problem. For example, you use links. I will suggest that you have only the main menu at the main page and when you go to that part of the page, then the submenu could be at the left side. Oh, this is a little bit lazy. Maybe it's working now. I hope it's working now. Right, so if we... You see that here, right? So when I click on that, it is a submenu, you see? So it just appears... I think it's just a normal HTML thing. You don't have to do anything extra. Just CSS and HTML, basically. So this is not supposed to be a problem. Another thing which is quite difficult is you'll see those lines are extremely long and I don't know if you guys ever read a e-book or something and when the lines are very long, they get exhausted or your eyes get very exhausted after that. So, actually, you should minimize the... What is it? Wide? More growth? Yeah, same. So that people are able to read the text. If I, for example, click in the free software link, then you see like a mass of text, which is... I mean, see that? This is really... People are able to read this at once unless it goes like over half an hour and it's already tired of reading this. Besides the fact that there are still many missing in the navigation. So... Yeah, what? I connect to... No, that's the wrong one. Let's look, that looks better. Yeah. Can you pause this for a little? Sorry? Pause. Just a little break before... I don't know if you are sure. And... commercial break. Yeah, commercial break. All right. Do you have any more questions? I think the question is, do you have already some... Yes. Yeah, okay. Sure. I think that's what we're waiting for. Yes! You do, no? Okay, we're... Bleed for... I don't know, Sony. I don't know how to do it, I don't use macOS. Do you pick up the phone? No, from someone else. Who's the camera? Who is... I see. No, I don't know. Actually, it's supposed to show. It doesn't. Okay, but... I think you will be okay when I just show it around. Okay? Why doesn't this work? I don't know. Did you connect... next to the... No. Your computer. Your computer. Oh, you don't have a blue screen. It's got to be this fast, but it doesn't even last. Actually, it should recognize this screen, so... No, it doesn't work. Things can get worse. Now, I have to take my resolution back, sorry. So basically, what we're waiting for is the design set that I would have created. I just go back to my image viewer. See that. Can you expand the menu? What? Did you put any... Yes, yes, yes. So basically, the idea behind it was to... You know, because the swirl looks like kind of... You know, something very light and very... I don't know, swirling. And... I don't know. Just to create quite some looping. Which would also be capable when it's competing. Like when the test is going to be quite long and then you go to top, so there won't be any collisions. So that's why I chose the red background. Well, at least... The part of communication... Well, here's the... I just put it a little bit more logical. I put the main communication here. And you are here in an active part. And this is the sub-navigation. And you have like... You're being in this and being in that part of the sub-navigation. Can you get it? So... You maybe have a partner to do it that way. So that you have a... The main navigation you have like on top. And the sub-navigation from each... From each part from the main navigation just be here. As you can see, it's not that long. Some people really can easily navigate. Okay, this one here. I think that's a design question. We can put it anywhere. So... I was thinking maybe about putting the sitemap and put it in here. Search... Maybe here. Instead of finding a serve on the view. But these are like details which can be discussed separately. You know, because... We're quite flexible using this design. So what you have basically here is... It's a semi-transparent bar which is like on the swirls. Well, I think it transports... And you should have your problem though. And we have the same thing here too. And this line which also marks the active menu active part of the menu by just having this space in between. I think you can see that. Right? So basically I've done in here... This is the RL version. Like when you have all text with RL. All these things can also be created with CSS. So this is the problem. Which is the special color. Yes. I like it more with... Instead of four swirls, I have a swirl in the left tab. The problem is when you put it in the left and then somebody has a different resolution. It will repeat.  But you can show only one swirl. I think it will look better with one swirl. I see too many. You actually can read the text above the swirls. Yeah. So, I don't know, from here it looks... I see the swirls but I don't see the text. I like it but with many swirls. Yes, maybe I just can put one away. This one? No. Only one. I think it's only one. More in the right of the text. No. See, if it's right right now, it's hiding all the text. What could you do to compromise this? Maybe in here I put another single transparent or something that is covering the swirls or I put it in some way. I don't know. Have you tested this because we need to have compatibility with most of the browsers? Yes, sure. Have you tested this with some other browsers? No, these are just images. Text-based browsers. Just images but this is not a problem to make it like XHD now, it wasn't sure. The place should be compared to the links. Yes, I know. Can I sign in? Can I move this way and this way? Here. Only hiding all the text. Okay. It's not so annoying. Okay, so another thing before I make some changes I can do right now because I have my illustrator open so I can just do it on the fly. Maybe just finish this. This is the idea that I have for David. Because this font as we have it right now just is not really good because it's too heavy and it's really, as he said, it's maybe the same effect that you were talking about. Everything. I think it hides this one from Swarov. How do they sign in the font? The font is actually free one. At least it's available in Linux distributions. It's called avant-garde. Mm-hmm. And I used the same font for the Debcon. It was hard enough to find at least a free font and then really it had this kind of fine line design. So I think basically it's a kind of balance between the Swarov and the font. In your design can you go back then? I don't see any footer or something like that. This is just a sample. All that stuff can be added separately. So this is just a little sample of the design because I mean this is just an image basically. Do you have any idea with the language? Because right now it's in the foot of the face and it's very ugly. When you did that it's ugly. Can you maybe do one thing like a checkbox? No. I mean for the languages that instead of a checkbox he has a checkbox. Selectbox. Sorry, I'm sorry. This is the thing I really can't discuss about. I mean I can place the things. You can put it here somewhere close to the navigation. Because when people have to do the problem we should really put it in the beginning because people don't notice that there is a full session anyway. Because most of you do not even go to it. The problem with these details are yeah I don't the problem is that many of these details you probably have to consider in design because you have to at least have a place to place them somewhere. Yeah, sure. So for that case I would like to check Ariel as the font.  Because Vardana is way too much space, you see. And this is the same font size. Which fonts are these now? Vardana is Ariel and this is Vardana. Vardana taking way too much space. Yes, yes, sure. These are normal fonts that you are using on my pages. Yeah, but that's not the problem because the browser needs to have these fonts. I mean, the font we can't really tell anyway which font the user will use. Because basically it depends which fonts he has and I mean I guess it's more the text width and it's probably good just to give a relational maximum width that the user should use and depending on the font this will be longer or not, but at least the number of characters will be at about the same. I think that's what it's all about about the number of characters not so much about the width of the text, or is it? I don't know. It is, because the font size is completely different. But I think I think people need to probably change the font. Yeah, very hard to do. Okay, so let's put the same font size away. Well, at least don't leave me with this word so it's not what I want to say. Just a big one for sure. Something like that. Can you see? Can you? No, no, wait a minute. Like the heart of the speaker. Or the swing, sorry. More to the right. You don't need to show all the spiral. You can show all the heart. No, no, no, that's not good. So I'd rather put it like this over here. So it's not completely in the center. It's not better now, but I think we can show only half. Center. Now, in the center now. And then the right side. The left side, but the thing is the width.  Yeah, you can. But, for example, if you use links, links is not going to support it. And I don't know. Yeah, but for this word, for this word, it doesn't matter whether links because it's the background image and links completely ignore it. I think. But you have to use your script to prevent it from repeating or no, no, no. What she meant was, I think if you do that at the background, then the background. Yeah, and what she meant was that the background image repeats automatically. But that was what you meant with repeating. When somebody has a different resolution, they will repeat. You can see and you can see no repeat. And you only have one. So you mean she should anchor it at the right and no repeat. Because in the center it's very very intrusive. If the browser supports any CSS, I think it will do. I don't know. I think the only sucky browsers regarding basic stuff like this are older Internet Explorer versions and everything down from 6.0 I wouldn't worry so much about. It's my opinion, but I don't know. And if you try to worry about Netscape 4 it's a completely different topic. I think no one should worry about that. No. That's just how it is. Yeah. And bloody. I think it was to find out why it doesn't work. No, it has to be on the computer. It has to follow the law. No, you can't do that. So I don't know. Yeah. Just have to press twice. So experiment with the computer. So you have a little bit of transparency of the source of the testing because it doesn't work. Or you need it to read the text. It's very interesting. Very interesting. Or I made a swirl on your library. You need a swim to play more fun, you know, more nice. But you want people to read the text. Yes, yes, yes. The transparency of the swim maybe. That's what I was thinking. I don't want to hear it in the middle. Okay, but what's happening if some design but there will be some since David said but not too much. Much better. Much better. Much better. And she proposed something. What happened then? There are several things about a design we need to talk about if implementing it. One thing is the menus because you need to define them somewhere or to implement creating them. So one needs a solution for that and one needs to program that. The next thing is I mean changing the layout as such should be fairly easy because you just need to change the template. What you can't forget though is that most of the sites currently will not work if you depend on XHTML or something like that because most of the body texts are HTML currently and are not XHTML compliant. So if you really want to do an XHTML if you really want to but I don't think it has anything to do with the design. No, no because the problem is just up to you. I think HTML4 and XHTML don't display differently if you will. Or today? Because I like the more because it gives a little more tension. Can we compromise or not? I don't know. It's not that... I still see two minus parts. Okay, but it's not a detail that really matters at the moment. I just wrote the layout. Because there's just one square here and then it just gives a little tension to the website.  It's very swirly. It's just simple. I mean, the site itself is actually because you just have the background and the rest is just CSS. Well, decide this part. I don't know if you can do that in HTML. Just one pixel. So, the main problem with implementing a new design is really if you want to combine it with new menus to implement that part. Everything else should be fairly easy. You just need to make a patch for the template or a new template generally because patches of huge patches of HTML files don't give you anything. But, yeah. The main problem would be to talk about the menus. On which site do you want which entries and stuff like that. Well, I made a few suggestions here on the structure. I hope you could follow that in a way. This is only my conclusion of what maybe would be the way in the right direction. But I think this is basically a commutation thing and I really should talk about this. Is it still only this one? Because I think it's quite hard for me to make a platform website because you like it so simple. So, I didn't have any great ideas to do some more. I mean, I can try, but... I still have some time alone. I think it was last. He has some kind of design that was very cool. With He's not here, but Google asked him last. All right. He was very close to... He was paid. The menu here in the lab. And I don't know what it is. Well, but anyway, we have a proposal from there and you said there's more proposals. How there is a community. I want to say that they like this and let's use it. Let's program this. I mean, the main thing first is someone who can coordinate this stuff. So someone who tells, yeah, I want that we have a new design and maybe it's that, maybe it's another one, but let's see the proposals and see them together and discuss the problems with them or the advantages. Let's see how much the actual HTML actually differs. That would be another thing to see to maybe try to really get a good HTML background so that if you ever change the design again, you mostly can get away with changing the CSS. I think the structure right now of the HTML is suboptimal and you will need to change the tool if you change the design. But if you have a really clear and good structure you can do many changes just by choosing another CSS file. I was thinking what is better, and change all the page, solidly plus or step by step? If you change the design you basically change it for the whole website at once because the whole website uses only one template. You can do little changes on the template. You can go over it now. You can go either to the little changes on the template. One day I change, another day I change. Step by step.  Because if you change all the site at the same time we are always forwarding some stuff. For example, when the last change today was changed some time ago it was from standard to understand and all it was. When we were meeting the changes, and the people who were meeting the changes was heading somewhere else. She was doing the I think the last change was doing what we would do. People were detecting the problems and fixing it. If we do a very average change suddenly we are going to have a lot of problems. But anyway we cannot do anything like a local context. Everybody likes to switch as a main logo after a time seeing all the proposals so doing something like that in order to achieve a complete redesign of the web page but it's a democratic decision. It's impossible the west side democracy decision because it's not all people are going to like it. Of course it's the same thing that happened with the law. Not everybody likes it's real not everybody. But the problem is you really should be aware of and I think that's the thing that people are taking wrong the website you're not doing it just for you guys in turn you do it for everybody else you do it for the people who see the website who maybe don't have a clue about them and you have to give them something which they can see it's professional yeah you can understand the problem. Whether it's something that looks kind of professional and serious and you cannot because this is the present for the public it is not for you guys you understand. Yeah but that doesn't change the problem that one needs to think of how the decision process should look like. Who just I talked to many people here like also and some other people as well and they were quite welcome to see changes. Yeah You just need to tell me the persons who are responsible for that Yeah but that's the problem with the whole website. I mean like I'm a webmaster so I can change pretty everything I have to write for everything on the website and stuff like that. So when there are other webmasters there are I think three active people at the moment who are the webmasters, that is me this is Joey Schulze and that is Matt Kray I don't know how they are the active webmasters but being a webmaster actually means more currently means more like being responsible for the technical infrastructure and stuff that normal CVS committers can't do because they don't have to write to so we are not really decision makers we could do that but we would get a lot of heat for that if we try to be like the leaders of the web team so I mean there are like 10 people or maybe even 20 if you don't count the translators that work on the website if you count the translators there is much more but many of them really don't care about the technical details they care about that the text is there and it's translated so the problem with that is we don't have any real leader at the moment we even lack people that are really active at the moment I mean like I'm a bit active and other people are a bit active so that's the real problem at the moment with the website you don't have someone who can decide this actually so if there is anyone who wants to decide why not just go for it yeah that's pretty much how it has to work that someone decides to decide and makes it yeah you need someone who puts in the energy to make this happen yeah you can do it on your main any of this I don't see any problem with that but that person is going to decide all that I mean someone should make a proposal so what I had in mind last year before I realized I don't have the time for it to make a proposal for the process at first then get some discussion about that and then just do it so you practically send a mail like we should do it this now and that's the steps I have in mind that we need to follow like first get some proposals but we have already some then secondly set up a test website with the proposals that we deem are good so that you can see technical problems with them and that's no problem I mean you just do a CVS check out of the website, change the template and we build it completely and we have getting hardware for that to set it up is not the problem and we decide on which proposal to take or something like that and this step needs a bit more detail obviously but you need someone to initiate this and yeah the main problem is to find people that are interested in doing it I mean there are many people interested in talking about it but you need to find people that are interested in doing it yeah but you need to find now some people that are interested in making the technical making the implementation of the background of the back-end working I mean I'm interested in that I have no time right now I will have time in my company but I just see that some people will be interested in doing that to work with I think it should not be such a problem you can't find people to do it if because have some guarantee that his work or the work is going to do to work with some of those people who do some work I mean they don't have a way to to get this work in their work it's pretty up to us really I don't think that everybody is interested so well I think so basically I guess there needs to be a really sign yeah so and we should maybe do my things like set up or announce it somewhere in the list that there's going to be something like that and maybe you can show it for both of us or for both of us somewhere I don't know who has them or where I want to talk about it any questions comments I think you should try also to well I hope it will be like that but anyway it will be good for you to bring this discussion at least your template or your design to end up with the WWW main list so more people can and it's better you don't send any money it's better you show our pay already made sorry it's better you send a mail for discussion don't send don't link any money link an HTML page no HTML I think this is not a good idea because I need you have to it's just about the work actually it doesn't work from experience it actually doesn't work because people want to already the problem is there are so many technical orientated people there and they will to try out what happens if I make the font size 300%, 400% what happens if I do that when I change my font yeah but it's really much time to program this and for that doing this for you basically the work flow goes like this then if you decide some detailed things then you come to the very the graphics for the actual website because everything else is really so much work and we will not be forward with that okay yeah so that's the thing one needs to probably then explain in detail in the mail that yes yeah I only explain the problems that will occur one has to work around that yeah oh no no but I think these are things in this class but you really before it goes to realizing that we really should wait for I mean I can't explain this my concept behind all this I guess it's pretty clear for you guys I don't know how the others look like and I don't know if people who done this are also designers so well actually the rest is planned out too whether if you find some people I could find something I want to say something from outside of the game the users maybe we see now the website doesn't at all represent what they mean at all you are a very serious movement we need you, we need to see your very great image so please do whatever you need to do but this class we see in the website and it is I think is very I don't know urgently need to do this because there's plenty of other sub-projects like Ubuntu and all these things having incredible great web pages representative ARTLs and everything and the mother of all of them has a very humble website and I think it is really something manageable to do this year this year at least have some proposals of the graphic design and then next year not much more than next year with the dummy test websites mounted with that designs just make an invention to know the real course or something and do it shooting so include some technical issues to the usability of the site because mainly for the people that are not used to the avian website because for example I sent to somebody here's the web page download the net install and for me it's easy to find it but some people get really really lost something like popular download and they don't want any new niche can you give me the link please but that's really a problem about the content also and that opens the whole other kind of worms to speak it and it's not that much of another discussion but it's another lot of work if you change the design you can change some things of that but to really increase the usability of the site even more you need to work on the content and that's a lot of work yeah but so the the procedure for this is send a mic with a chance with a patch that's pushing I mean it has to start with some discussion on the main I'm not sure how to initiate best my worry is actually really once you start discussion you can stop discussing and this is we really should be able to do and not discuss too much sometimes it just gets like you over you need a lot of time if you want to do change from inside of the game and the websites yeah the main problem as I said the main problem is that we don't have currently someone who could lead this discussion to something useful because we don't have some lead person in the web team and that we should be able to deal with this without some but it makes it much harder so it's really a social problem at the moment I would say but we should certainly try but we probably need to discuss this later more because now it's eating time yeah it's much time soon but we can certainly discuss this later today yeah sure


Hello friends, my name is Wilson your friend in helping you build a profitable restaurant today We're doing another reaction video because the first one that we posted we had a ton of great engagement And people are actually telling me that they enjoy it something lighter something a little bit more engaging and there is a lesson They can get out of it and which is the reason why we're gonna give it another go so without further ado We are gonna dive into this Another video that is called called the toilet video that Jason has found so let's get it right into it Fun from you show has been running around Taipei looking for the tastiest treats. This place has to offer but today I'm looking for something weird Hunting down the wackiest restaurants and foods in this city including a toilet themed restaurant that's serving hot diarrhea cocoa Hot Diarrhea cocoa How appetizing And today I'm gonna relive my childhood Japanese memories here at the hello kitty good day cafe in spot Actually, I don't think it's a spot. I've no idea what to expect. All I know is that I do not mix with this very well So I think it's gonna be an interesting clash. I'm not too tough. I'm not even too cool I'm just gonna fully absorb all something that I do want to mention is that in Asia Having themed restaurant is a really really big thing because actually in Asia a lot of girls they would actually go and dine in at a restaurant specifically because they like their cartoons because they like their themes and That's what really drives people through the doors Which is very very different because our culture in North America is that we go to places because they're good food They have good gimmick and whatnot We don't get drawn to places because of their anime because of their character because Anime is a huge huge deal in Asia and that's the reason why it does actually have a ton of pole and this Trend has been happening for years Or until my heart explodes As you can see, actually they pay a ton of attention with the aesthetics from the colors to actually all the decor within the place, that's the amount of detail and experience that they want to be able to deliver. And that's precisely what we can learn from them. We don't need to do a Hello Kitty themed restaurant, but the attention to detail, the decor, the ambience, the experience is what people would be able to get away from your restaurant. So if you want to create a beautiful memory or something that is just a little bit different, pay attention to the detail. Alright, they have figured out the pastry and branding to have all these little cakes, strawberry pie, tiramisu, it's very adorable. I'm waiting for something to really strike my fancy. Whoa, look at this. It's a Hello Kitty waffle press. That looks amazing. So these waffle presses, and just so you know, if you want to create your own waffle press or your own kind of item, specialized items for your restaurant, specifically for your branding, it is actually not that expensive to make these plates. You simply go on Alibaba or even just Google different types of manufacturers within China or in Taiwan, and you just ask them, hey, you know what? This is the mold that I want to create, and usually that fluctuates around three grand to five to six grand to make the mold and to create this whole item for you. It doesn't necessarily need to be a waffle machine, just so you guys know. Hello Kitty Waffles, and I'm going to check out the menu and see what else they have. I'm going to make enough seats. Guys, let's take a look at this menu here. First of all, can I just comment how disruptive it is that there's a lot of kids running around here? I'm an adult man. I'm going to a Hello Kitty cafe.  It's just like, oh, hello, could I please have, oh, sorry. Can I please have the strawberry latte with the cute cat face and fruit in season ice cream pancake. Thank you. Okay, I'm going to be honest. I think this booth is a little bit too big for me. I'm going to sit in something a little bit more my size. I know, I know, you will always be the... It is so interesting because when you add branding to your food, it immediately elevates the food item and immediately you would pay 20%, 30% more premium when you add a simple branded item, even as this Hello Kitty face, basically the same ingredients. Everything is the same as a latte, but they spent what, 50 bucks, 100 bucks creating that middle sheet of branded stencil. And then they just pour cocoa leaf on top and then they can charge another dollar, another $2 for the latte. Just amazing, amazing branding and amazing strategy, something that you can perhaps use. The first location, our first meal, I'm just so excited because I'm showing you this really authentic Taiwanese cuisine. Have there been any complaints yet? You can come here and probably no one's going to even complain about you, this tastes really good. That tastes like strawberry milk. Oh, there's the coffee part. Hey, by the way, our kid's supposed to drink coffee. If I was a kid, I would love this coffee. The real reason I'm here is for this authentic... Oh, that's a dense waffle. So now we're going to drizzle on some kate sera. It's hard to say if this is a breakfast or a dessert. I think it's a little bit of both. What we're going to do is just slap on some of that ice cream too. And something that if you guys are wondering, like, hey, you know what, how can a normal person be able to actually create a Hello Kitty themed restaurant? Well, a lot of times, a lot of these big companies, they may not even operate these restaurants themselves. You can actually go and ask them, hey, you know what, can I license off your character to create a restaurant? And that's where the conversation usually happens is that you need to start approaching brands and then afterwards, they're going to just basically charge you a licensing fee to use their brand to create a restaurant concept.  And of course, it's a long process to negotiate, but it is doable because I've heard people actually just randomly go out of the way and just negotiate these licensing deals. And that's exactly what we did with our Nespresso campaign. We approached Nespresso. We told them that, you know what, we want to create a different flavor with you. And right there and then we're able to charge an extra dollar for our ice cream. And on top of that, we can leverage off Nespresso's big, big brand name. That's really the secret in licensing. We're going to fork up some of this waffle and we're going to put it all together. It tastes like a waffle with ice cream. It's about what you would expect, but it's in the shape of a cat head. These items are so, so popular in Asia is because they just need to go like 10 times, 20 times, 30 times bigger to make it like, wow. It needs to be able to have that wow factor. And that's the reason why they would make these giant shrimps, giant crabs.  And that's exactly what they do because in Asia, the density is so, so populating. And that's the reason why any type of real estate, any type of real estate that they do not want to forgo, they do not want to, they want to be able to take advantage of any real estate that they have. And that's the reason why they need to stand out by having these giant sized items as the core. We have traveled to our last destination for today, a toilet-themed restaurant of all things. And I know what you're thinking, why would someone make a toilet-themed restaurant? Basically, this place is like the clickbait version of a restaurant. And then people come in for the Instagram photos, maybe? I don't know if it's for the flavors, the exotic flavors, very exotic flavors. Maybe they've got some good beef noodles in there too. Ooh, man, beef noodles served in a toilet bowl. Can't wait for that. Let's go. Our restaurant, it is called Modern Toilet.  Well guys, do you want some curled up sausage? That looks like some poop. Modern toilet, turd, sub sandwich. Oh man, they got gross names for everything. Modern, toilet, poop, meatballs. That one's not even a creative title. I'm curious what makes it modern. Okay, a modern toilet chicken curry.  This concept is so brilliant. The reason why it's so brilliant is the fact that they don't even need to pay any licensing fee. They're just basically creating this whole concept out of the toilet theme. I don't know how advertising this is. I don't know if I would go. I've heard about this years ago. But then, yeah, the fact that we're actually talking about it and creating a video on it makes them somewhat successful, I guess. But on the other hand, do be very, very cautious. If you want to go down a route of having themed restaurants, there's a fact that whether people will come back again and again. How often would you go back to a toilet themed restaurant, even if it's amazing? Most likely, you're not gonna go back to second or the third time.  That's probably what's gonna happen if you actually do some Googling this shop, most likely will be already done and over with. When we're running a restaurant business, make sure we create something that has longevity that can last for years to come, at least five years. Why is that the case? Because we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in renovations, marketing, and promotions, and stuff like that. And if you're creating a themed restaurant, you spend the same amount of time, effort, and resources in doing the same thing. So why would you want to create something that doesn't have longevity that would die off after the hype is over? You want to spend your money and resources in creating something that has longevity that would be able to create wealth for you in years to come. Let's go upstairs and try to figure this out together. Oh, very, I just heard a blushing sound. It's pretty slamming right now. We see the toilet theme is everywhere. Look at these. Ice cream in a urinal, that's adorable. An ice cream swirl in a urinal. That one's actually kind of clever. They have toilet bowls as chairs. I'm actually not sure how you find a bathroom in a place like this. We're gonna go upstairs to order. Guys, it's the king of toilets. It's like a king. It is so funny, with these toilets, I had an experience actually. I was shopping at Home Depot and somehow I was just seeing this guy. I'm like, why is he just sitting here? And he was actually taking a dump in the middle of the Depot guys because he couldn't wait it anymore. I'm like, oh my God. I really hope that no one does this to this restaurant but I'm pretty sure it does happen. Okay, doesn't this one's not functioning yet? Bam, toilet shaped menu. I'm super curious what they're gonna have on the menu. It got pictures and I like that. Some of these have normal names and some of them have great unnamed, modern toilet, diarrhea, cocoa. Like there's a green curry chicken au gratin. There's nothing, there's no pun in there at all unless you think green curry is just synonymous with shit, okay. Toilet, okay. Toilet, chicken nuggets. What do you recommend? Which one looks the most like poop? Curry, curry looks the most like poop. Let's do the green one. I think we're just, we're here for the toilet theme. We want the full effect. Diarrhea, cocoa. Oh. Yes, the answer is yes. All right, thank you so much. The confidence to be able to say, hey, we're gonna make a drink with the word diarrhea. Yeah, it has to say modern diarrhea. Okay, that's just how creative guys, modern diarrhea, never goes out of fashion. Insane treats. And I only ordered a couple of these things. They also brought this to us, modern toilet bread. Good, perhaps the most disconcerting thing on this table right here, modern toilet poop meatballs. Good, she did a great job with this recommendation here. It doesn't look like someone had a long night. Why, why, why? I don't think this place could exist without Instagram, right? Like people come here just to be like, look what I did. I went to a crazy thing. Isn't that crazy guys? And then here I am. Let's just jump into it. It's starting to look more like meat and less like actual poo. Let's try it out. Ayu. That's actually good. Tasty, it's just like a meat, a curry meatball. Are we doing a real food review here? Am I really reacting to the food? And I think that's, yeah, they just kind of create some swirly mashed potatoes. I like that. And when you need to wash it all down, we've got a nice diarrhea cocoa right here. All right, that's actually good. Served in a urinal. You serve the solid ingredients in a toilet bowl and you serve the liquids in a urinal. The most intimidating right here. I mean, look how poopy that is. Oh my goodness. You wouldn't want to step on that if you found that in your yard. I've been neglecting this guy. I'm sorry. We've got a nice room. Jason, what are we watching, Jason? Why? Why? The toilet here? I would never come here. Just, you know what? Even if you pay me to review this restaurant, I would not go. Like, come on, why? Like it's, there's 10 million places to go to. Why this place? Why? I don't care, Jason. Why? This is so gross. Their meatballs are so gross. Their meatballs. Oh my God. Why? Do not ever, ever do this, okay? If you learn something from this channel and you're like, hey, you know what?  I will disown you guys. I will block you. You will not be able to subscribe to my channel and I will forever ban you guys. Never ever do this, guys. It is a horrible idea. It is so bad. Why? Mm. Oh. The curry, meatball. The thing I'm worried about now is I actually didn't have to listen to that. Hey, but something that they're smart on is the fact that they're selling merch. The fact that they're selling merch is because people, when they go, they just want to have a good time. And many times when they go, they want to have a souvenir. And yeah, selling some merch makes so much sense when they're doing this because people never, ever go back again. So this is the time to milk them. Sell merch. And I bet you people actually use that as a toilet. Not even kidding you. That's the actual bathroom? It's an Estan. She just brought dishes and that's not the bathroom. And then when you look here, what is this? This toilet is sink. Okay, let's just go. We're gonna go, I'm gonna save it. I'm gonna hold it. I'm gonna hold it in. Hold it in. Let's go eat. We should have served this as 720. Must be a hit. Yeah, new flavor. New flavor. Toilet. Ice cream. You can't paint. It's been a toilet. Modern diarrhea. Modern extra-large diarrhea. You have to add the modern in there. Do you have any experience? For example here, I'm experiencing ice cream in the shape of, that's been placed in a urinal. But first of all, that's just rude conduct. You don't poop in a urinal. Anyways, let's try it out. Well actually, for some of you guys that don't know, there are in Asia, there are urinals that are like horizontal. And you do actually poop in there and you do actually do everything on there. You just squat over it. And that's really the really old traditional toilets that's what it is, pretty much. That is definitely some chocolate ice cream. I feel like they could have pushed it a step further and gone for the full flavor. That's some nice, sweet soft serve. Are you showing me, Jason? Why? I have to wait until the end of the day through touring all these amazingly weird restaurants. Next time you're in Taiwan, if you're looking for an amazing Instagrammable moment, check out one of these neat restaurants from this video. No thanks. Hi. Check please. Are we done yet? Before you go, I just want to thank you. We're done. Thank you. Thank you, Jason, for showing me this and just destroying my whole appetite. The lesson here, guys, is that, you know what, themed restaurants do work, but then it is super, super short-lived because at the end of the day, it is a fad, right? And what I was sharing with you guys is if you're spending all the time, money, energy into creating a restaurant already, why not create something that has longevity? Why not create something that you can sell in the future? Create something that is a golden goose that always lays eggs, not just a goose that lays one egg. We don't want to do that. So if you're creating something, think about what would get your customers to come back again and again. And that's really the secret in creating a profitable restaurant. I really hope you guys enjoyed this video because I didn't, but I hope you find entertainment in watching me feel disgusted watching modern diarrhea, but nonetheless, let me know if this is something that you enjoy seeing my reaction and watching these videos and telling you guys what my thoughts are and any lessons that I can grab from it. If you guys do enjoy it, make sure you smash the like button. Otherwise, subscribe along the whole journey. I'll see you guys in the next poop video.


Can you make money from your passion? So that's what I'm going to talk about in this video The answer is in my opinion Yes, you can make money from your passions if Enough other people share the same passion and if you pay attention to what they're paying for In regards to that passion and before I go on my cat has just jumped up here This is mango. He always seems to jump up He I sit here all the time will be my work. He only jumps up when I'm recording something. It's the strangest thing So anyway, yes, he likes the limelight So I better adjust my camera so that's a little seal of him a little better So in in the building of an authentic business there are I'd say two focuses And when you think about this and think about whether which focus you have there's passion And then there's compassion Okay, so check this out passion is whatever you're excited to buy you're energized by you are Maybe you you study the particular modality maybe you Have a I've had a particular peak experience and you want to you want to kind of lead everybody Toward the same kind of peak experience you've had Or you have a particular problem you solve in your life and you think gosh You know what if I could help other people solve this problem wouldn't that be great? Okay? So that's your passion. That's your passion right because it's from your own experience It's from your own head from your own life right from your from your own problems and your dreams, okay? the other focus is compassion now When I say compassion I Don't mean that if you're focused on your passion, you're not a compassionate person. That's not what I mean. I'm talking about How these energies lead into your product? Okay, so if you build a product based on your passion Then you've built a product based on your passion not necessarily other people's passions That's the problem with passion is that it's so easy to become well Actually, it's it's true both passion and compassion can blind you. Okay, so has your passion blinded you? To what the market actually wants and you'll know the answer if you're trying to sell your passion and nobody is buying it Then you've had your pat your passion has blinded you because remember you make money When other people spend money on your stuff Where does money come from money doesn't come from I'm so enthusiastic about this. I'm so passionate about this But you're not buying it. Oh But I'm so passionate about it, but I'm not you know, the other person says I'm okay cool I'm glad I'm grateful for your passion and I'm happy for you, but I'm not willing to spend money on it It's not something that I really can see myself spending money on. I mean, I'm happy for you, right? So that's the problem with passion is it can blind us Of course compassion can blind us too because we get lost in solving other people's problems and then we kind of Lose our own soul along the way. So an authentic business is kind of this intersection of passion and compassion So let me talk about Compassion so we talked about a product based off of your passion can be blinded because other people aren't spending money on it Okay Now let's talk about a product based on compassion Focused compassion Everybody watching this is a nice person. You probably love helping other people etc. etc. I tend to draw People like you into my audience.  It's really I think what spirituality and life is about But in business that compassion needs to be channeled into a product Okay, it need into channeled into a program a service and events that you charge for or whatever it is you charge for so Have you done that? Have you focused your compassion to say oh that's interesting. I've talked to you know 20 people this month and five of them told me that they are really struggling with problem a and You know, they struggle with problem a b c d e f g and I am really excited to help people solve problem g or problem a Great now. Can I create a product or a service or a book or an online course or a Package or an event that I can charge for based on problem g If I if I create a product based on my focus compassion for other people because I have talked to them I know that they're dealing with it. I know they're frustrated by it I know they're looking to get help for it And if I create a product from it and then I offer to them Obviously, they're gonna buy because they like me they notice. I'm compassionate I'm trying to help them out and I've created something that they actually want of course They're gonna buy and that's how business becomes viable right So now let's try to merge Passion and compassion Okay, and and actually before I go there. I just want to say this is why the term Empathy has become more and more popular nowadays in entrepreneurship. That's what they mean Okay, empathy People go wait, but I'm so much. I'm such an empathetic person. I hope everybody but I make no money Okay, so that's why I'm doing this video is to say it's not just empathy empathy is great for spiritual growth and Wonderful, that's what you know all the saints have taught us, you know We need to be empathetic and help other people one of my heroes is peace pilgrim If you've never heard of peace pilgrim, please look her up and read her book Steps towards inner peace it changed my life But peace pilgrim made no money actually she she very purposely Didn't want to take any money for all the help she gave she was a pilgrim. She she was homeless She just walked she never she actually funny story about it Is that she finally died in a car accident when someone drove her from one place to another but she walked for? 30 40 years all across America Just helping wherever she she saw people and she just kept walking until people fed her and sheltered her I mean, it's a truly inspirational story not just did it for three month experiment put on viral video on YouTube She did it for 30 years. Okay, anyway, one of my heroes for sure. I Am not called to be homeless and be a peace pilgrim and probably you're not either I'm guessing that's why you're watching this otherwise you wouldn't have a computer to watch this So if you are called to live a householder life, right being you know being in society, you know Helping others within the system of current commerce then you need to Monetize or monetize your empathy. I know that sounds terrible, but monetize some of your empathy Okay, so that you can keep doing that thing and getting better and better at it in as your day job, right? That's what I do. I love helping people with their business and with their marketing and Yes, I probably would do it for free But then I wouldn't do people I would be you know, I don't know working in a corporate job and not doing this as my day job But right now it's you know During the day. I'm here at home, you know doing this work because people pay me for some of my work I do a lot of this stuff for free as they can tell I love doing this stuff I do my videos for free write my blog post I do I spent a lot of time doing free work because I enjoy doing it But I am uncompromising when it comes to charging for some of it When it's comes to one-to-one work with me, right? Like you're taking one person taking my time I'm unconfirmed. No, you got to pay me for I'm unconfirmed. So you got to be uncompromising You got to be strict about charging for certain things that are not scalable like this a bunch of you are watching this right now I'm happy to just give it away for free But when you want my help one-to-one you can comment and I'll Do some free work replying your comments, but if you try to get in depth in depth with me to say George Please give me feedback on my webpage. I'm like, sorry. I can't help one person for free. Otherwise.  I can't help you one person for free. I can help a lot of you for free You know, if it just takes me one hour of my time or whatever Do you see just like me? You got to be uncompromising when it comes to charging for certain things that are not scalable All right, same thing. I have a I have a group program Just 40 people no more than 40 people and I can't help them for free because sorry about that my phone That's problem with doing live videos. Right? Yes, things happen like I can't help 40 people Many hours a week for free because otherwise, you know I've run out of energy. I'd be in a corporate job and I can't do any of these videos anymore. So How about you? Are you willing to be? Uncompromising when it comes to monetizing some of your empathy some of your compassion in a focused way based on what other people want What other people are struggling with in their life? Okay, what goals they are just yearning to reach okay, and For the rest of it the rest of your compassion and empathy and passion give as much for free as you can Okay, another example in my business is yeah, I have three offerings I have the one-to-one which is full by the way. I'm grateful for that. I have a waiting list One-to-one coaching uncompromising I charge for it even though my clients I would probably help them for free I know some of you are watching let's George. I'll be for free. I can't right. Otherwise, I'll be out of my business So one-to-one I have to charge for because otherwise, you know, I have no business group small group up to 40 people right in a group. I have to charge for that and then my Workshops my trainings my courses that I put together that I put a lot of hours into creating a structured online course To be honest, it's not my favorite thing to do. I don't really love creating my online courses I like it okay, and I can see it helps you. That's why I do it and I charge for it I charge your money got pay me $60 for my newest online course about enrolling clients because if it was just up to me I probably wouldn't do it for free. It's just not I mean I know it helps you and once I do it. I'm glad I did it You know kind of like working out right? You know, it's like I don't really go want to work out But once I do it, I'm glad so I know it's good for the world It's good for me, you know in some larger professional sense probably wouldn't do it for free So so some of my compassion is not so in other words, I've got passion and compassion some of my compassion I don't really it's not my it's not really my passion. I wouldn't do it for free, but I know that's helps you So that's why I do it and you've got to pay me money for it That's why I still am motivated to do it and I still do it as a day job So that's my question for you in this video is Can you are you willing to? separate your passion from your compassion Your your passion We stuff you do for free anyway Do as much for free as you can helping as many people as you can which builds your audience But then you've got to look at your compassion to say am I willing to talk with my audience on an individual basis and say ah You know Ruth What is it you're wanting and what is it you're paying for right now?  So so separate your passion and compassion charge for some of your compassion But that's how what's what people are paying you for is paying you for your folks focused Monetized compassion turn into a product or service and your passion. You know what I'll end with this even Here's the thing to make money faster You need to do focused compassion monetized into a product or service. That's how you make money faster You can make money with your passion. Okay, you can but it'll take you a couple years probably Because you have to just Educate the whole world about what you love and kind of change people's minds and get them to really think like the way You think that's a lot of work right like like I've been doing this for ten years And now I've maybe educated some of you into believing in authentic business and authentic marketing and now you're like well Yeah, I want to pay George for authentic business authentic market Which I never thought about before George and now I'm interested in it and now I'm maybe willing to pay for it But see that's my passion took me years to start to monetize that But I still make more money monetizing my compassion my focused product-led compassion And then let's talk about how to how to integrate the two I Integrate the two by bringing some of my passion flavor into my compassion my monetized focused Compassion work does that make sense? Meaning I sell you a workshop on how to get more clients. It's not my passion It's not if I if I were totally financially independent I probably wouldn't be doing workshops on how to get more clients It's not my passion, but I know it helps you and I'm kind of good at it. So So I'm gonna do that as my compassion work But I flavor that with my passion work by bringing in my passion of authentic business authentic marketing being honest being You see but you wouldn't you don't pay me because I'm honest You don't pay me because I'm spiritual you don't pay me for my spiritual talk. I Trust me. None of you are paying me for that. Okay, you enjoy when I talk about it You know pay taking money out of your walls at George. I love your spiritual talk.  But I'm not I don't have a church. I don't I'm not taking tithes But I flavor my spirituality into my compassion led work that I wouldn't probably do for free You see so that's what makes my work fun. It's like, yeah, I'm kind of I'm not Grudgingly doing my my workshops. I do it because I know it helps you So that kind of helps that kind of incentivizes me a bit. I'm getting paid for it That's certainly keeps me in business and I get to bring some of my passion into it my Spirituality my values my my cat, you know my dog or whatever, you know So I hope this is helpful Think about what that is for you draw two circles your passions And then what is you know on one side and the other side is your compassion your When you talk to people what problems do they have that you can definitely solve you have the talent for it And then can try to merge to is that can you kind of bring some of your passion stuff flavor flavor your season Your compassion led productized work with some of your passion And then you have an authentic business the more you can merge the two so I hope that helps and Wishing you a wonderful rest of your day and thanks for those who are joining me here Jill and susan Swapna, Stephanie, Reza, Judith, Teo. Thank you so much and um, I look forward to your comments. Be well