What were you noticing from your advantage point with Tanaka through the first five? You know, he's done a lot of off-season pitches early, early in the game. Free swing team. He's got a lot of ground balls, a lot of action at first today. Kind of just cruising here and there. Just getting a lot of contact, soft contact. How enjoyable is that for you behind the plate when he's throwing the way he did today for the first five? Well, I mean, that's usually what you get from us. I mean, he's usually going to move the ball to the sides of the plate. He's going to keep a split down. You know, he's going to get soft contact and a lot of swinging misses. So it's fun when that's showing up. Why do you think he ran into trouble with that splitter in the sixth inning? You know, a better question for him. All I can tell you is that maybe the depth on it was just not as crisp as it was in the first couple ofnings. He'll be the first to tell you. But, you know, I just, the game went on. It was hot. Maybe I pulled it out of him. I don't know. You can see here and try and figure it out. Executers of a couple pitches weren't on point. Based on what happened to Void and looked like you took exception to those inside pitches late in the game, is that just a frustrating situation? Exception, I mean, a lot of balls thrown up in him. Any team's going to get a little frustrated at that point. It's over with. We won, moving on. He didn't next was a buck ten. What did it feel like sitting back there for nine? It was fine when you were walking on the grass. But as soon as you got to the plate, it was like a cone of heat. It was awful. Starting to walk, there's a lot of fire was battling through it too. It was, it was a struggle out there. It was really hot. Probably one of the more hot games I've ever caught. You guys play eleven runs without hitting a homerun. What does it just say about where this offense is at right now? That means we can do it without a homerun. I don't know. Everybody likes to think we're the bombers. But I mean, this team's been doing it here and there without homeruns. And it just shows that we can keep the line moving, get base hits when we need to move guys when we need to. And, you know, we're just playing baseball. Move away gets hit in the face and stays in. What does that say about him? It doesn't surprise me. I don't think it'll surprise you guys either.  The guy's like a bull out there. So just very happy that it wasn't worse than it was. That was some dangerous stuff going on up by the face. I think he kind of dodged the bullet there, not getting too bad. But happy that it wasn't that bad. Not to belabor you're a bad too much, but does that flash to your mind as well, brother and I? In what way? Just that something came so close to him and it seemed so close to having you. You can't think about that stuff every time you get in the box. It's dangerous. People are throwing a rock at you at 100 miles an hour. So if that's going through your mind, you're not focusing on hitting, you're already out. So you kind of just got to find a way to purge it from your brain and dig in there and try and get a hit. Just one of the rare moments you got to show off your speed game? Yeah, I got a stolen base. That's great. I think someone told me I had four. I think I'm working on the one a year thing. I told someone I was in the one and one club. You know, the illustrious one and one club. But yeah, they said go, I go. You just... Oh, you were saying... Yeah, they said go, I go. I'm not going on my own. I'll get yelled at. I thought you might have noticed no one was covering. No, no. I noticed no one was covering when I got halfway there. I was happy about that. But no, I was just getting a sign and going. You get the sign. What's going through your head? Get the second as fast as I can. I mean, I've been doing this long enough. I mean, maybe early I might have been like, hey, what's going on? But at that point, you just go.


The following is a presentation of TFNN, the Tiger Technician Hour, with your host, Basil Chapman. Call now, toll-free at 1-877-927-6648. Hello, it's Basil Chapman, Tiger Technician Hour. Here we go, and we're looking at the Dow 341 on this Tuesday, May the 17th. Up 339 in the Dow, 32,563. We've already hit the 14-period moving average. That was a requisite, as far as I was concerned. If this is a real takeoff in the low that was made on Thursday at 31,228, and one of the reasons why we did go long on the dip the very next morning is because there have been a number of accounts of the Chapman Wave Roman candle. The last one was on the 2nd of May where I called it a semi Chapman Wave Roman candle where the market opens slightly, a little bit of a wick, and then has a big plummet to the downside and then closes a half to two-thirds above the low. It did it again, and I call that a mini Chapman Wave Roman candle on the 12th of March. What am I talking about? The 12th of March. It was the 12th of May. A lot's happened in these two months at 31,228, and it said, the takeoff that happens now, the last time was two bars, two days that is, and then there was a tremendous decline and we broke to a new low. We went all the way below the 32,000 key support level down to 31,228. What's really important right now is that we have three decent green candles. I don't want to have two days and a failure again. With three days, a bit of a pullback on Wednesday may be waiting for the Fed to do something, and then by Thursday or Friday, I want to see the gap in the 32,732,800 range, and that would say the low that we've just made is the kind of low that says, we're making a base that allows for a rally that can last a little longer than three to five days and maybe can go for a week or two, and then we can reassess. That's all we want is to be able to reassess at higher levels, not having this failure, failure, failure because that is setting up a monthly chart pattern that would be very, very negative. So with a slightly bullish point of view right now, I shouldn't say slightly bullish. I'm more than slightly bullish because we only have long positions. Some of them have done extremely well. Others we've just gotten into so we can only say on a percentage basis they have had some terrific balances, but the day is young, anything can happen. SBX.X, that's the S&P 500 index up 48 at 4055. It ran all the way this morning to the 4070.99 level. That 4080 area, I'd say to people in the down this morning when we were looking at the E-mini, I drew this in and I said, well, this is the one-minute basis. So we can look at this, it's gone to peak F, made an arch formation, pulled back in a match of the left side, right side price, time match, and then it broke below it and went lower. And then sharply up to the 200-period moving average, that's the one-minute chart. But this is very interesting because look, in the 10-minute chart, we're in all the way to a peak G. We did a one-to-one of the rectangle formation to the upside based on this incredible support of the 200-period exponential moving average. That took you to exactly a Fibonacci expansion to actually, I call it Fibonacci, but there's 300%, I don't know if Fibonacci had any 300%, I always include that. So it went almost to 300 peak G, pulls back and makes a dreaded H. And I said in the den that 55, that is 40, 55 is going to be kind of a key support level in the shorter term, certainly for the E-mini. All right, let's get back to our story because it's all related. What we're looking at now is that the S&P cash has pulled back. It opened at 40, 52, and yeah, it is at 40, 54. So that gap could quite easily be filled. There's a lot going on here. So I'm not expecting just the earlier move to the upside besides being a very pleasant surprise. I think it had a lot to do with Home Depot coming out with earnings that were surprising. I made a joke saying it's a number of times I've been to Home Depot lately. It's actually been very full at any time of the day. And that's very interesting, but it's given back all those gains. It gapped up at 306.50 at the open, screamed to 310.94, and unfortunately right now it's at 299.33. And that's the kind of story we're looking at right now, that this is a very difficult market. There are so many crosscurrents, and that's the reason why I say to subscribers, as we move higher, we're going to take something off on each bounce because we want to accumulate some kind of percentage gains that gives us a bit of a cushion from our fabulous entries that maybe we can have a little wiggle room.  As I say, the day is, we're not even an hour into the session. The day is really young. And now let's go to the, I wanted to just show you the QQQ at the low of the day, 3 at 2.67. It needs a lot of work. That weekly charge has a nice candle, but that's not good enough. Candles are candles. I mean, it's what happens often. A candle means nothing until the very next bar. And that's really important. So in this particular instance, on a weekly basis, you want to see if you're bullish, at least in the short term, on a bounce in the QQQs. And I prefer the Qs right now. The Qs are up 4.33 and 3 at 2.79, up 1.46. I actually prefer them to ARKK, which is the ARK innovation, which has a bunch of very oversold stocks. But to tell you the truth, the mix there is just, I don't like the mix at all. I'd rather be aggressively long the Qs than to be holding ARKK. So we've skipped that. And I said, no, I'm not interested right now. It's up 1.46, which is good. 59 at 41.63, 2 to 43.38. And the way it gives back is the part that really upsets me. Now, I wanted to just jump over to the CL. This is the crude oil, up $1.09 at 15.27. You remember what I said? That whole 110, 112 areas key. This is leg D. And if crude oil powers higher, we've got to watch that high that was made in the crude oil continuous contract high back in, I believe it was the end of March. March the 24th. It's 116.07. Now, this is also important. A very quick, peak A, then a peak B and a peak C in the rectangle formation or the cup formation in the week, he says, buyers are coming in and having enough clouds to be able to move the crude oil continuous contract higher. It's within a rectangle formation. I don't want to get too messy, but I now need to make it messy. So I'm putting the rectangle formation right there. It's also the lopsided cup. I call it the gravy cup because it's lopsided on one side and then spout comes sort of takes its long, it takes its time to get up. And now what I'm looking at is I don't know if the high of 128.60 on the 7th of March. 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Subscribe to the Fibonacci 24-7 newsletter today, TFNN.com, Educating Investors. I'm looking at three basic patterns all the time. Straight line up, straight line down, cup formation, arch formation, combination of one and two or one and three. Straight line down with an arch, floating at a peak A or a peak B minus, meaning that it goes below the left side low. It's usually very negative because you can go quite a bit lower after that. On the upside, the Y formation, the reverse Y formation, if it takes out, it's green and if it takes out the left side high in a certain manner, you can go quite a bit higher. So the three patterns are real simple. We've got a straight line, we've got a straight line down in the VIX index on the daily chart from 36.54 on the second of May, pulls back sharply to the 50-period moving average, bounces sharply and then goes to an A. It's a gray A because it's not over the previous high. So it's an A, I'll make it gray. It doesn't take more than a second, I'll do that. And then what does it do? It pulls back. If it takes out by one penny, the low of the fourth, 24.94, that becomes another leg down. In other words, that becomes a leg B. This is an A, that's a little mini A right there and if in this move down, it takes out that left side low, that becomes a leg B and it targets a leg B and if it goes anywhere close to 24.70, that 23.72, 200-period exponential moving average becomes a real target and that becomes the lower case H. Look right here. See the pattern? Sharp move down, arch fails in an A. Sharp move down, arch fails. In this case, I'm making it up in A and this is going to make that left side. And what would that do? That will allow, and this is what I've been saying to subscribers when I did my video on Saturday, I was saying under all the conditions that I'm looking at here, there is such an oversold an oversold condition in many, many stocks that were and used to be really important stocks. And that says to me that there's a chance that they could have not just a pop to the upside but actually a little bit of a rally and that rally says you've got to be selective and go to the ones that used to be favourites, the ones you've had before you've had experience with grab them, see where they go. So that's the volatility next. If the volatility next, at this particular point, I don't think it's going to go much above 30 if it does rally because the market suddenly tanks, although it'll be on the market side, but the technicals are suggesting that Green is so close to pulling back the 9p underneath the 14 to go to pink that will be the signal to say the VIX just for the moment is out of the picture. To me that's really important. A couple of things I was asked about SSYS, this is a 3D systems company, I used to have it all notated very nicely. Do we have either this or 3D systems once upon a time? I think we had 3D systems, yes. We've had them both with 3D systems is the one that we had that made us a huge amount of money, I think it was more than a double. So SSYS, nice move up it's a leg B and this is exactly what I mean about the beaten down sector. 3D systems, although what I'm reading, there are more and more companies that are getting involved in 3D 3D printing, but there's just no question that is one of the 21st century production facets that speeds up the whole process. So it is very important and I like it, I didn't understand quite why it got hit so badly maybe it's just because I couldn't make money I don't know what it is, but this is one that's doing quite nicely it's up at 1941, it's up more than that, it's up 13% up to 29 at 1941, it made a low in the 15 it's just four sessions ago hey four points in a $15 stock I would say that that's really impressive, but over 30%, that's very nice. Now what we're looking at is, so and then a question came in was it Tiger YouTube about DDD systems now I don't usually like to talk about stocks that subscribers have just got into, but once it was mentioned, I do have to talk about it so 3D systems is trading up $10.71 of 63 cents, it's good it's over the 9 period moving average, but absolutely it has to break at 1088 was the high today 1098 is the 14 period moving average, until these two stocks in this particular field start to trade, they can't just have pops like this they fail very look, it went to peak B before and that was beginning of May and then it plummeted, it went to lots of peak A's and failed, it went to peak C with a big dreaded H pattern lowercase H, it failed at peak C and that really was a big failure after that peak D high back in March, up in the 2019 area, so this is just the start of an attempt and if you look at the weekly chart, it is horrible so I'm just going to suggest to you that within the context of the rotation the favorability rotation in other words the stocks that had been really decimated this went from 56 down to 8 DDD systems February of 2021 they deserve a balance of course the market doesn't anything about deserving but just on a moral basis they deserve some kind of a balance and how they take that balance is going to be, is this a major buy? I just don't think these things are major buys just yet but certainly on a short-term basis they can have pretty decent rallies enough with that, COP was a question that is COP is Conika Phillips, multinational oil company trading near, it's all time high right now, 107.51 I had a round number close, yeah we've seen these round numbers I can just tell you this I would put more regard into the pattern itself than the round number if there was a pattern from here on in the next day or two where you've got a round number in this case just to say it pops to 108, that's an all-time high and then as an immediate reversal that goes to 105.50 within three days I would consider that number one the chance that it's made at least a short-term top and if 108 I'm just making up a number would be very important because if it's taken out it can actually go quite a bit higher so that's your level to watch on the other hand I would not be looking at shorting any of these anything in the oil sector it's 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like an F slash A and a G slash B I don't have to worry about that right at this moment but what I'm going to tell you is that it's squeaked in your high I'm calling this an E in the daily chart and I'll show you something very interesting why does it always bounce to that thing CVX which is conica phillips just made in your old time high E in the weekly is this a possible F in the E in the monthly F in the weekly and a D in the daily so I'm looking at this and it seems to me that there's a chance on a very short term basis and I'll go to golden and a dollar there's kind of a relationship I'm looking at here that if it works it tells us one thing if it doesn't work it tells us another thing so you see the double top here the mag D this is conica this is chevron multinational oil and you see the way the mag D turned up and the stochastic says 79% the on balance volume is just a tad overboard but the other two are actually moving in sync very nicely the 9th period is way over the 14 so I 174 54 was the high that was made around about the 18th of April and if I do a vertical line right now you'll see that the technicals are in fact way way lower but they aren't really negative so I'm saying I need to be watching this for the next day or two because ExxonMobil safely made a new all-time high right now well another all-time high at least a new recovery high the high today is 92-43 now is this an A B E slash C and an F I'm going to put an F now to be as conservative as possible in the weekly I've got an F in the monthly and this is a double top is it a brand new A F slash B and a G C I'm going to be a little conservative I'm going to put both counts and what it does is oh yeah it's all very well to have a technique that says you could go up and you could go down what's the use of a technique like that no what it's telling me is everything's still positive it's made a new recovery high it's above the rectangle high it is a V shape pattern I can draw the vertical lines right here and tell you that at this peak F top roundabout may the second or third and the dojo candle we've got right now the technicals are weaker than they were then but the 90s the way above the 14 so that says you don't have to do anything right now if you're along these particular I would not be putting a brand new position on right now in the multinational oils maybe in some of the oil service stocks but not yet not not this time at the same time the question about us okay man which is the United States oil fund now I've had a couple of these charts not enough to make it like I've got a new technique or anything it's a technique I've always had but I'm going to make a big deal about it I could I some of you remember way way back I haven't watched this way yet for years maybe decades and the Simpson hairstyle you know how that spike you got those spikes it looks like a like an uppercase M with all those spikes or W well these patterns sometimes unfold and they often unfold within the context of a rectangle formation so what we've got you've got the low in USO which is the United States oil company roundabout the 14th or so of March and then it goes peak A pulls back this is your starting point this is your up arrow right here so whatever happens this is the level that you have to consider if you take this out you have to restart any buy signal so this low in the USO of 67.73 we've typed in it 67.73 that says that every every peak after this you know that's the rule of the Chapman wave count every peak and every truck because that Chapman wave is the way from the never sleeps is important so there's your peak A pulls back there's another peak A wait a minute there's another one lower down and here's another one even lower down so what it says is it doesn't matter because if you go above any time you've made this peak A and you go above it that's going to be a B but wait a minute there's another pull back and another A and a B and then finally goes to a C and then you get the Chapman wave overlapping wave that says aha now you can you should go not just to a C but to a D well we've just gone to a D in the rectangle formation when you go to a D above the rectangle high even if it isn't the high of the major high that was the USO high of the 8th of March at 87.84 remember that's when that's when Crudeau made his high this says just be a little careful because you could pull back into the rectangle once again I don't want to talk short or anything I'm just saying a pull back to to restart maybe restart for another big move up but that's the same to me when I put the whole package together yes you've got a rectangle in the weekly that says ah peak A B and leg C in a very quick motion you could go to a D just under right at or just above the previous high but this is working a little too hard to do it so I'm saying and that was about four or five questions about about the oil service and about the stocks within it so that just says to me now's the time to be a little bit careful yes we have an oil service and we were lucky to get pre-market yesterday and some people managed to get it and now it's up very sharply since then it's up very sharply I'm just watching this scans and saying okay you're good right now and what I've seen is have hit certain points raised to stop or take a little bit off etc but we've got to be really careful because this market is still highly vulnerable if you look at the a UNG which is the natural gas natural gas is at a really big move it's got the same pattern went to a peak F it's pulled back it's full the gap actually and it's trading at 28.50 this is the United States natural gas fund up a dollar 10 and that just says to me wow natural gas is still in play holding very nicely and this is one that could stay in a rectangle so that if it had to pull back towards the 28 right now they would pull back towards the 26 or 25.50 area is this where you want to buy it because it's in the rectangle it could just trade between the bottom part of the rectangle to the top part so I'm watching all of these things and the irony is a lot of the time historically we've seen where natural gas goes up oil prices crude oil pulls back or vice versa the other thing is this is the time where natural gas usually has a hiatus this is where it's made its top and it just sits out months months and months before it comes back again not this time because of the shortage so all of these things are in play and that's the reason why I'm saying don't think of a shorting you want to be adding or you want to take a little bit off and put it back a little bit off and put it back just to build up a kitty because they might be stuck in a trading band so that's what I want you to cover next question came in if the dollar pulls back sharply would EEM be the place to go to that's the EEM is the there we go EEM is the emerging market ETF at a very nice bounce gap up today it's at 41.12 it's up 80 cents it made a low at 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TFNN.com today let's get it investors such as traders and active investors distributor four side fund services LLC don't forget you can listen to TFNN live on your mobile device 24 hours per day go to TFNN.com then hit watch Tiger TV that's TFNN.com then hit watch Tiger TV Hi folks, so a question of the day is GPI and what I'm actually saying is once I'm getting ready to show GPI so GPI is this group one automotive let me just check AZO I haven't updated that for ages we had a fantastic short once with AZO and then earnings came out and dropped a hundred and something points it was really amazing yeah you know I'm doing a little bit of work right now I'm trying to do a little bit of research and stuff on what exactly is going on and what how the deal is on what they what they've got in stock etc so the idea that the automotive companies AZO AutoZone what was it AAP oh I used to have these all notated AutoZone ABCD EF in the in the monthly chart might become vulnerable as the as cars become available and people stop taking the cars in for all the repairs that you have to do holding your car longer than you want I think you're right I just don't know about the timing I I don't know I'd have a tough time saying that this is an area I want to short right now but I will tell you this if you are going to short what you want to see speed to the downside 170 say 184 GPI 176 is the 200-speed really average it's been fantastic support for almost a month now I do have to see it close under it and that will turn the weekly chart which has just gone to an L which means that the 9-period just crossed positive that would flip it back into the S for the cell and all I can say to you is you need to see 174 is it 183 174 with speed and any bounce 176 200-speed really average as a repellent so it immediately pulls back and makes a low that's the only way but if it to me I just think sideways for now in about three weeks time or two weeks time I wouldn't be surprised if I totally agree so that's just this is my own way of thinking right now now I know that you've done these things and the next day does exactly what you want so all I'm going to say is that's just my opinion Nike has given back all the gains on the day it did make 105 round number low four days ago hit 108 117 that's a damn good move on a very short-term basis and it did try to pull the gap it did pull the gap but it hasn't closed the gap no it hasn't closed above the gap and that just says there are just too many stocks that in this area that says they could have decent rallies but their major thrust of the downside has not formed the kind of base that says now we're done now we're going up let me just see okay someone asked me would I just go to gold gold on this particular moment is up six at 1820 so it didn't get to the nine period moving average and it's underneath the 14 period moving average in the in the weekly chart but look at the weekly chart so this is a pattern we've seen the GDX and we've seen in gold pattern that I talk about very often is this is called this is called the falling axe formation where prices run up and then what happens is they suddenly start to make lower highs and lower lows then they form a base and then they break that trend line the downtrend line the upper downtrend line significantly and go quite a bit higher well you can reverse that as well it's upside down you can come down down down and then make higher lows and much higher highs and then all of a sudden stall and that says watch out because you could come back and retest that upside low like the greater age well look that's exactly what happened in gold back in March to June and July and it's happening again and that just says to me gold is not ready for prime time that doesn't just say that the dollar is going to take the lead continue taking the lead and move significantly from here it just says remember I said Goldie Dolly Vixie Bondi and Oilie think of them as five separate things because when you look at the charts you'll find that each one is in its own world there was a point where the relationship was amazing but look here is the dollar goes to 105 from even just the most recent low at about 100 this is a big deal for the dollar it's made some kind of a short term the near term I should call it top it's got this huge thing in the weekly with a cup formation that says wow breaks out and goes above it this is the fourth week above the 102.99 high let's give it until Friday if it can hold above 102.99 for this entire week and close above it that's a that's a really positive if it closes under it says all right now it's time out and we'll see what happens but I am thinking think of them a little bit more separately and not not to be tied to it together and that's just the way I'm talking about and it's only a leg seen in the monthly chart dollars will still go to a leg D now the other thing that we're talking about a question came in about where did it go to yeah code says golden S&P and the correlation of the dollar it's only big in relation to what you're looking at but in fact this is not normally what they do so that's just my my thinking could be wrong with that's just my thinking now the other aspect is why can't we also treat as a leg B up or what was that us oh us oh leg B up us oh that's United States oil oh here no this is not this is a leg D this is a it's called it's a multifaceted by signal that gives you numerous restarts and then eventually you go to your D that's what I'm looking at that's what you asked me that's what you're looking at yes let me just go on CRM this is salesource.com it just can't get out of its own way and that's why I'm saying I'd be real careful we along the queues in a certain manner and we're taking a little bit off I'm not afraid to do that and if we have to get back in we get back if I have to step a while step away all I'm saying is it was extremely oversold I want to I prefer that to the ARKK and look at these stocks I mean salesforce.com always spoken about as a leader in the cloud well now's a lot of competition look at hack hack is the cyber security even that hasn't been able to hold a gain here from a leg D to the downside around about 44 bounces to the 48 level and now it's just stuck this is cyber security crowd CRWD look at that same pattern it's the same way something's wrong in this sector it's been wrong for quite a while why the cyber security stocks aren't at all time highs and pushing high and leading I just don't know everything we look around tells you who cyber is here to stay and it's getting worse and worse I don't know I explain it so we just have to step aside let's just go on the questions here let me go let me go yes this is very interesting Merck made a new recovery high it's actually I think an all-time high at 93 10 up 79 cents this is very good action and it's a leg E in the weekly chart I'm calling it a leg D in the monthly chart Pfizer PFE also 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lower 6 30 you can actually sometimes hold it all the way through a long position all the way through to the close or if you got the high you could hold all the way through to the low this is a now we're looking at a much choppier period and I think that the bias right now is that the tide is trying to turn up how long it can last is really important let's just go back one more time I believe as I say I think I think my show might be replayed in Mary's hour but most importantly what I wanted to say is within the context of the VIX index there we go it's down to 27 remember a little while ago it was in 26s if the VIX index rallies above 28.50 between between 150 that's 10 to 1 eastern time and 20.42 that's going to put a lot of pressure on the market into the close but if it suddenly starts to pull back and goes to the water 26 the low today is 26.49 if it takes out 26.49 the big surprise will be rather than dropping into the close there's a really strong rally I want to see this down 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Controlling your dreams or lucid dreaming is pretty amazing like let's not be let's not beat around the bush here it's very incredible it feels amazing and it lets you experience anything you want but it can be kind of confusing and difficult to learn so in this video i'm going to teach you how to lucid dream in five minutes there are many videos out there you know hundreds and thousands of videos about lucid dreaming in this video i'm going to be very concise if you watch this that's all you need to know i'm just going to teach you exactly how to lucid dream in five minutes or less so to lucid dream of let's just you know bring things back to basics what we're doing is we're training our mind to recognize that we're dreaming while we're still asleep many people do this wrong and they focus on the techniques and the physical stuff you know the waking up at the right time the waking up at the right time the reality checks to doing the physical emotions and routines but you need to think of it more like a recipe so if you imagine when you follow a recipe let's say if you're baking a pie if you follow the recipe exactly how it's written step by step to make the perfect pie and then right at the end just before you're about to take a bite out of this pie you pour in a cup of salt now of course that would ruin the entire pie and you wouldn't be able to eat any of it it's kind of the same thing unfortunately with lucid dreaming you if you follow everything step by step let's say you follow the techniques perfectly you do your reality checks perfectly many times a day your intentions are strong you meditate but then right before you go to bed you blast your you blast your mind with mindless TikTok videos and scramble your mind and focus and make yourself all distracted and then have the blue light going into your eyes which suppresses melatonin production then it's not going to work you're going to it's going to be like ruining the pie you need to have everything at least half right you can you know you can't just you can't just follow the recipe perfectly and then right at the end you get drunk and then of course alcohol inhibits your REM sleep and you won't really have a dream you can't do that and this is what I see so many beginners doing they will follow the recipe kind of okay and this is the first thing most people don't even follow the recipe properly they don't even do the techniques properly they don't meditate consistently they don't sleep regularly and well enough and then they wonder why they're not lucid dreaming and then you dive into it and they're actually also drinking playing video games late you know not not not like winding down before bed and all of this stuff and then it's no wonder why it's not working you need to follow the recipe I would say at least 70% correctly and then not and then also not ruin the recipe by doing something which you know is going to throw you off and but the interesting thing is that if you do follow the recipe correctly and you get most in fact if you get all of the things right then it's guaranteed that you'll lose your dream and this is why through my programs like the boot camp and the breakthrough I'm able to make such crazy guarantees like if you follow this I guarantee you will lose a dream within two weeks because if you do follow it you will lose a dream within two weeks it's like a proven process and all you need to do is identify where in that process you're messing up and where you are throwing the cup of salt into the pie in this analogy and when you get that right when you figure out oh it's because I'm looking at screens two hours before bed or it's because I'm you know my whatever it is whatever the this cup of salt that you're throwing into your pie is when you identify it and stop doing it the recipe usually works in fact it always works because that's the point of a recipe is that if you follow it exactly you will always get the same result and my boot camp program which if you haven't heard of this by the way you go to howtooloosid.com slash boot camp or it should just be on the homepage or there's probably a link in the description as well is a recipe it is literally a step-by-step recipe where if you follow the steps you will get the result there's no there's no you know vagueness there's no way around this the only reason that you would follow the boot camper not lose a dream is if you're throwing a cup of salt into the recipe so if you're doing something that I tell you not to do okay and this is I'm going to be very clear about this because so many people will think oh I can just you know if I get the technique right then it's fine I'll lose a dream that's not true because if you're let's say if you you understand the technique perfectly but you're going to sleep at 4am it's not going to work because you're not in line with your circadian rhythm so that's one step of the recipe that you're ruining it's not going to work and the same in the same way if you're going to sleep at the right time but you're also drinking alcohol before bed not going to work because it suppresses your REM sleep if you're doing if you're sleeping at the right time and not drinking alcohol and meditating but your but your intention is not strong as in you don't really intend to lose a dream which is a key part of the recipe it's not going to work so you need to get all of the things right and this is why so both both so difficult but also so effortless when you get things right and this is where the confusion comes from because the people will hear me making these crazy claims like follow this thing and you'll guaranteed you'll lose a dream they're true the claims are true because if and this is a big if you follow the steps and you know take part in the recipe and don't ruin the recipe you will get the result it's like baking a pie if you follow the recipe exactly you will get that exact pie but what a lot of people think they can do is follow half the recipe and then kind of improvise the rest they say oh well I'll just you know I normally go to bed at 4 a.m. I guess I can just reduce that and go to bed at 2 a.m. and it will probably work fine and then oh no it didn't work I wonder why maybe the technique was wrong or maybe you know and you see this is the problem you need to follow the recipe if you do that and it's not even that hard to be honest it's not even that difficult to follow but if you do it and do it consistently because it takes about three to five days for this recipe if you follow every day for the recipe to really start to kick in you will control your dreams it's guaranteed so I know you're probably expecting a technique tutorial or something in this video especially with the title how to lose a dream in five minutes but this is the kicker okay if you do follow the proven recipe you will lose a dream and it will be so easy you will wonder why you ever struggled it will be so effortless that and so reliable as well like if you because once you've done it once it's like with cooking a pie right once you've done it and follow the recipe one time you don't really need to look at the recipe again you can just kind of do it from memory and because you've practiced it you'll still get the perfect pie it's the same thing with the lucid boot camp program and the breakthrough program if you follow them and if you practice it again most people on average takes between five days and 15 days so that's why I say about two weeks and that's on the upper end most most of the time it happens a lot faster if and it's big if you follow the steps it's guaranteed you know you will you will get the result and if you don't the chances are 99 percent certain that you have ruined the recipe at some point during your practice so yeah if you want to learn how to lose a dream in five minutes just follow the recipe step by step the links in the description and it will work for you anyway leave a comment letting me know what you have been trying and where you think you've been going


No one is immune to the effects of pressure. It's simply not possible. Those who succeed in high stress situations, like musicians and athletes, have just trained themselves to be less affected by it. In pressure situations, they are better than others at performing as they normally would. Elite athletes like Serena Williams, LeBron James, and Tom Brady feel pressured just as we all do, but they have learned how to manage the feeling of pressure in their response to it. Michael Jordan had 25 game winners in his career, 24 of which came with less than 10 seconds on the clock. The only other player in the conversation as the GOAT, LeBron James, leads in a similar statistic. LeBron also leads all NBA players in game time or go-ahead shots in the final possession. These players' almost supernatural ability to sink difficult shots, with all eyes on them, comes from the way they have adapted to the pressure. Watch videos of Jordan's and LeBron's game winners, and you can see it in their approach coming out of the timeout. In their face as they catch the ball, in their movements as they release, they are assured, as much as they can, they're gonna treat it like just another shot. That's why it goes in. As a teenager, Steph Curry had always been a good shooter, but his father, NBA player Del Curry, knew that as his son got older, his unorthodox form would be a problem. Steph shot from a very low release point, and his father knew it would be too easy for a better or taller player to block his shot. So Steph spent the whole summer before his junior year in high school, reteaching himself how to shoot, and changing his release point. It was a process that required him to fail over and over again, at the one thing he'd been phenomenal at. Picture it. After years of being the best at something, a 15-year-old Steph Curry willingly changed how he did it because his future ceiling demanded it. This is one of the greatest leaving your comfort zone examples I can think of. Steph would not be who he is had he not done this difficult and emotionally painful thing. He could have stayed with his low release point, which had been working so far and still been the best shooter in his school, but he saw a bigger world and did the work in order to one day succeed there. Free solo climber Alex Honnold has accomplished some of the most amazing feats of climbing ever done on Earth, including ascending the 3,000-foot El Capitan and Yosemite National Park without a harness or rope of any kind. That's taller than two Empire State buildings stacked on top of each other. In order to achieve something so incredibly dangerous where a single mistake is instant death, Honnold stakes his life on preparation. He does numerous run-throughs with ropes so he knows exactly where every single step will be, which gives him the confidence on climb day. He's always insisted that he feels fear. He just prepares to the point that he knows who'll be able to accomplish his goal by mentally rehearsing everything that could happen. The preparation is what keeps him at ease. Fear never totally disappears, but each practice run is like a rock hammer chipping away at stone. There is no adrenaline rush, he once told 60 Minutes About His Climbs. If I get a rush, it means something has gone horribly wrong. When Diane Van Derren was in her 20s, the epilepsy that she experienced as a child came back with a vengeance. Though she tried various treatments and interventions, she found only one thing stopped the seizures, running. Whenever she felt the sense that a seizure was coming on, she'd lace up her shoes and take off for a long distance run through the national park near her house. At 37, Diane had brain surgery to remove a golf ball-sized portion of her brain, which left her entirely seizure-free. However, it came with a strange side effect. She no longer has any short-term memory. It causes struggles in her daily life and it makes it difficult for her to follow trails, but there's an upside. In distance running, where obstacles are both physiological and psychological, having no short-term memory is a gift. It's better than big lungs or strong calves. Because she is always focused on the present moment, Diane is never dragged down by the thoughts about where she is, how far she's come or where she's going. She can run farther and longer than anyone else because she has a superpower that very few have. She's always focused on the present moment. Be where your feet are. It's so simple, yet increasingly difficult in our modern world, and it is the first step to reducing stress in your life. This is becoming increasingly more challenging, giving the constant bombardment of distractions we face nearly every moment of every day. If I had to pick one fundamental strategy to help manage stress, it's to live in the present moment. Even if the present moment is stressful, A, you'll be able to handle it better when you focus on it, and B, there's only so much stress one present moment can offer. Stop getting upset over events from your past and getting anxious about a future that hasn't happened yet and may not happen at all. That's time travel, and it actually increases stress. Stay where you can have an impact. Right here, right now. Back in 1998, former Duke star and newbie broadcaster Jay Bellis got a call that would change his career forever. Having done mostly local mid-major level games, Jay was asked by ESPN to be the sideline reporter for the biggest rivalry in all of basketball. His alma mater against UNC, ranked number one and number two respectively at the time. The game was gonna be called by Mr. College basketball himself, Dick Vitale, and Jay was thrilled for this opportunity. A week before tip-off, the ESPN producers held a meeting to game plan. Vitale was out of town for his speaking engagement, and while Jay was not required to attend, he decided to go anyway. He figured he might as well show up to demonstrate how seriously he was taking the job. The producers announced that Vitale recommended that the broadcast heavily feature UNC guard, Shaman Williams, who Dicky V had been adamant was the game's player to watch. The lead producer asked Jay if he agreed. I think 99 out of 100 people in this situation would just nod and agree. I mean, why contradict the most recognizable face in college basketball on your first day of the job? But Jay did just that. Respectfully, I see things differently, Jay said. I believe UNC forward, Antoine Jamison, is the player we should focus on. He is the most efficient and effective player in college basketball. As the rookie in the room, on the first question he was asked, Jay decided to offer insight that directly contradicted his Hall of Fame colleagues perspective. He also made a bold claim. Taken a bit by surprise, the producer asked for a deeper clarification. Jay explained that Jamison puts up incredible stats, despite actually having the ball in his hands for very little time. I bet you Jamison doesn't have the ball in his hands for a full minute the entire game, Jay said. If true, this would be incredibly rare. A college basketball game is 40 minutes long. What player who is worth watching would only touch the ball for less than a minute. However, the producers were impressed with Jay's confidence and decided to go with it. They even assigned an intern to take a stopwatch and chart how long Jamison actually had the ball in his hands. In the game, UNC decimated Duke 97 to 73. Jamison ended up with a career high 35 points on 14 of 20 shooting and pulling down 11 rebounds. He was indeed the player to watch. And how long was the ball in his hands? 53 seconds. Jamison was the most efficient and effective player in college basketball, but he wasn't the only one who made the most of that game. Jay Billis did too. Jay seized his opportunity and cemented an important lesson he's carried ever since. Never be afraid to show up and never be afraid to speak up. In the early 1980s, Judd Apatow was a funny kid with a love for comedy. He'd grown up studying the greats, even interviewing a few as a high school kid in Long Island. Young Apatow was witty enough to write some killer jokes for professional comics. But when he got up on stage himself, it was crickets.  His love for comedy did not make him a great stand-up comedian. I'm sure it was a brutal realization for him as a young man. He had dreamed, done all the work, met the masters and yet it still wasn't gonna happen. But instead of giving up, Apatow reinvented himself. After years of hustling through television writers' rooms, he got the chance to create his own television show, Freaks and Geeks. It was an immediate cult classic boasting a murderer's row of young talent like James Franco, Jason Siegel and Seth Rogen. But the show was canceled after one season. Then he made another one, undeclared, that was canceled after two. Again, Apatow didn't get dejected. He adapted to yet another form and tried something new. Movies. That's where he found his flow with a string of hugely successful films. He either directed or produced. The 40-year-old virgin, knocked up, super bad and bridesmaids. Now among the most influential people in all of Hollywood, Apatow has helmed some of the era's biggest comedies, has discovered a new class of stars and almost single-handedly popularized the bromance. By changing his own story, he has altered the course of comedy. Had Apatow begun his career by planning on making groundbreaking comedy films that changed the course of movies, it's unlikely he would have succeeded. He had to get there organically by following his passion, studying the greats, doing the work and learning from his failures. It happened for Apatow because of his talent, of course, but also because he was open to the power of reinvention. In the early 1980s, no rock band put on a show like Van Halen. Before anyone in music was doing complex stunts, they would rig lead singer David Lee Roth up to contraptions that would allow him to fly over the stage while also setting off various pyrotechnics. Traveling from city to city, Roth and the rest of the band needed to trust that wherever they played, those in charge of the stage show had rigged everything properly. The problem? There just wasn't the time for them to check everything. The band's contract had explicit instructions on how everything needed to be set up, but how could the band know if the venue crew had carefully read it? Their performance and sometimes Roth's life depended on it. Their solution was genius and has become a legend, though for the wrong reasons. Roth invented a way to check if the contract had been carefully read. He included in the instructions somewhere deep in the document the demand that a bowl of M&M's be put in the band's dressing room, but that all of the brown M&M's had to be removed. Failure to comply meant the band would not play but still be paid in full. When Roth arrived for a show, if he saw a bowl of M&M's without brown ones, he knew the crew had read everything carefully. If he saw a bowl of M&M's with the brown ones not removed, he knew they had just scanned the contract so he couldn't trust them and the band wouldn't play. Ironically for decades, this story was used as a knock on how spoiled Van Halen could be, but that's because people didn't understand the purpose of the clause. Roth needed to perform his best and devised a way to make sure everything was prepared for him to do so. It makes sense to trust others, but never blindly. If your preparation can be undone by someone else's lack of preparation, find a way to check it before the big moment so you don't go crashing to the legendary boxing trainer, Kustia Mato, who coached both Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, famously said that no boxer can be knocked down by a punch he sees coming. Think about that. No matter how powerfully he has struck, his body will be able to absorb it as long as he is not surprised by it.  If you look at the most famous knockouts of all time, you'll notice the knockout punches were rarely the ones that looked the hardest, but rather they were the most unexpected. This concept applies far beyond boxing. You can't get knocked down by anything you see coming. Know what's coming. Expect what's coming. Arm yourself and design your environment for what's coming. On a similar note, a reporter once asked Muhammad Ali how many sit-ups he typically does in a workout. Ali's answer, 50. The reporter was taken aback, surprised that it wasn't much more. A champion heavyweight boxer surely can do more than 50, right? Ali explained it was 50 because he only started counting after they started hurting. The ones before the pain didn't even register him. Muhammad Ali understood the power of stress, but Ali was right. The reps you do after the burning starts are the only ones that matter.


Do I do I use this mic as well as this? Oh, hello Wow, I have presentation mode This is very unusual for me. Hang on If I just click play This works. Okay Hi everyone. Okay, so I'm Sean I and thanks so much way for that awesome intro and I'm I'm super impressed. This is my first time at Shopee and You know, I'm I'm this is my first time actually speaking at a react event in Singapore even though I'm Singaporean I live I live in New York And I do a lot of stuff. I'm pretty active in the react scene over there And it's very it's very encouraging for me to see local tech companies employees staying after work To like talk about tech It's like you have nothing better to do But don't worry neither do I So, um, I want to make this I want to I this is more this my first ever Soft skills talk like non technical talk. Uh, it's it consists of advice that um has helped me a lot in my career Um, I think that uh, it's it's really beneficial to me. I don't think it applies to everybody There's some people for which this will not be good advice But I think for for people who might who who need to hear it I want to be there and available for you. Um as someone who's been on that same journey Um, and so so, yeah, I'm just going to introduce myself a little bit. Um, I go by switch on twitter. Um I work at netlify as a developer experience engineer focusing on react in general. Um, I Also am a moderator on the r slash react jara subreddit. There's 120,000 of us Talking and sharing and writing about react Um, and I'll tell you the story about how I got to be a moderator. That's part of this journey um, and and the last thing I do is is learn in public which is A little bit of like a hashtag movements, whatever you call it. It's just Uh, some piece of advice that I decided to write down one day and then it went viral Um, and and now and now I'm here. So so, uh, so thanks very much for for inviting me Um, there are two pieces of there are two like groups of topics that I wanted to discuss Uh, and this is very much a work in progress. So It's very open to interpretation. Um But I'm just gonna I'm trying to give you a try high level opinion high level overview and then Also give time for questions because I think that there there's some people with who've already read some of this Um, and want to have questions. Um, so actually, uh, the first the first part Is is the seven opinions piece. So basically what this was was, um, I graduated from bootcamp I'm not I'm not a cs grad. I'm not a cs grad. I only changed careers about two years ago A lot of people don't don't even know that from from from looking at me. Uh, that's a little bit of the secret but But but I wrote this I wrote this series of essays as uh, so like a Like going back and giving advice to to former students for people who are also trying to advance their careers in tech And I originally started with seven. I have some ideas for seven, but I only wrote four. So, um, if you're interested in like the question marks Um, uh, you can you can approach me later and I'll I'll spit ball I I don't think I I don't think I have them finalized yet But I wrote that I wrote these things about a year ago And the the key one is learning public. Um, and then the second one is a follow-up that I wrote like a couple months ago Um, which is a lot of people like A lot of people when they when they're convinced about that they should learn in public Um, the the the next question is how do I start? Um, and so this this goes this essay goes into a little bit about that But that's the rough structure of what we're going to do. Okay, so the sales pitch for learning public Basically, it sums up it can be summed up in the concept that you you have a choice of either Learning in private or learning in public by default most of us learn in private The everything that we that we consume we just kind of passively absorb it and then try to practice it in the future We don't really create learning exhaust. Um, and that's something that I picked up from Brad Frost. He's um Author of like CSS he created the the the concept of uh, um, I guess the the design system Layers and you know that I forget what the name of it is. Um But create learning exhaust. Um, I I have one question in in the pre q&a Um about like how it's so hard like you're you're doing a day job You're doing like maybe some open source or self-learning. Um, it's hard to write extra blog posts on top of it I fully agree. Um, the benefit is, um, you don't have to write for anyone but yourself Write for past you and then keep that keep that as a daily log It doesn't have to make sense to anyone else, but you just like notes Um, and more often than not you actually you actually find that the the main benefit beneficiary is future you So, uh, if if you need to suddenly look back or something that you did six months ago You have the logo that um, but it's from there if you establish that daily habit It's actually not too far to to then polish that up into a slightly nicer blog post for other people to to look up um And mainly the the the thing that you're going for is documenting what you did and the problems you solved Um, and after a while like when you when you you start feeling that you're comfortable doing this, um You you should uh, you should then start publishing for the purposes of um consumption by other people Right blogging on on like free code cam css tricks, whatever and A lot of people stop themselves or don't ship because they want it to be perfect They want they want to like sit on it like make sure they have the right research every last thing I do that. Um, I don't even like just to be clear I don't even follow my own advice most of the time like I just this is like this is me at my best. Um, so The the the point is like just do your best Do your due diligence and then like let yourself be wrong like if you're wrong on the internet There's one thing you can count on the internet is they will come and correct you This is called conningham's law and I know it's called conningham's law Why because once on the podcast I called it godwin's law and guess what? Someone came and corrected me and told me it's conningham's law So so it literally is just how the internet works and once you've been publicly wrong You will never forget it, right? Like it's just impossible physically impossible for you to to forget it Let me show you some of the things I've done. Um, just to make it real for you Like this is not theory. This is actually what I've done So a lot of people in the room are react developers. A lot of people People in the room have seen the introduction of react suspense. Yeah concurrent react So that was the Danny mobile thing it started in March of last year And basically what I did Around about then again like I was a nobody The first thing I did went when that when that when uh, so that happened. Oh, you cannot see my screen. Shit Um, hang on Displays, are you just going to mirror? Okay, thank you Better, okay, cool. So this is my dev2 account dev2 is medium for developers. Don't use medium use dev2 just a pro pro tip um and uh So what what happened so march 1st was that introduction of react suspense March 2nd, I had gone through that entire talk multiple times. I looked for the source code I cloned it. I worked through the entire source code and then I wrote this piece up So this is the first thing that actually and this is like a year and a bit ago And that's the first thing that actually explained in detail every single, um There was a lot of blah blah blah, right? Don't uh, that's not necessary But it's explain it in in in detail And walking through the code everything that daniel vermont presented So this is really just like me making notes for myself, right? But I also took care took care to write it up in in a consumable way Um, and that got me Noticed by daniel vermont like it's it's a mathematical like it's not that hard right like to to like If you're learning in public about the things that someone else is presenting Um, uh, first of all, they want to correct you because that's how the internet works Um, if you if you got anything wrong But second of all, if you explain it in a different way in a beginner's mind's way You have something that the experts do not do not have you can talk to your previous self Who is someone that didn't know this topic before so you can explain it in in new terms and uh, if that's if that helps That that actually helps them because they're not they're already experts and they don't have time to like Write all these super long explanations and so all that so so obviously he like, you know Start sharing it for me and like I can start building Some expertise in react suspense, um, which I have by the way zero expertise because at the time I was Only in my second month in my react job um, so then I started, um Creating this timeline of events. So I started like creating community resources, right? I was like, all right. Let's let's let's let's like check in all the this is a github repo Let's let's like log to put put like create one central place to log all the The massive amount of information coming out about this new api. That's that's that's in react So here's all the here's all the public team communication Here's a community code from from either the the official official demos from from people or Stuff that other people other react developers have have have collected together like I'm not doing anything technical here I'm just being a repo guy. Like, you know, you can in in, um In another world, this would be like, you know, one of the syndrome is like awesome dash react or awesome Whatever, right. Um, I just don't like awesome because a lot of things are no longer awesome after a while, right? Um, and people don't don't have a process for removing that So so, um, I call it fresh, uh, because like I want to keep it fresh I want to keep a timeline because this thing is quickly evolving. Um I also uh split things up into for people into information about concurrent react react suspense um time slicing streaming ssr Basically deaf tools profiler, which was actually has nothing to do with concurrent react, but it was also a new thing at the time Um, so so I didn't start collecting all that info as well as some history from like 2017 all the way to 2014 when concurrent react was first introduced or first mentioned about Which is by the way, like anybody doing research on react suspense and concurrent reacts Will eventually find this repo because it like now has all the all the links, right? So it's like the the number one research resource And then and then eventually I was like, okay, I have all this info. It's in unstructured format Let's actually make it structured and and and so now we have what what it is today, which is Essentially docs for the first version of docs anywhere for react suspense So I have I have um, you know, this is how to use it. This is the this is the api And and and I have all the I have all the you know the the undocumented like you know This is like borderline Not cool with the react team because they don't want people to actually start using it But this is good for enthusiasts and and people doing demos to understand What is the what's the current state of things? So I at least provide a view of the historical state of things allow you to create a timeline But then also have a snapshot of the current state of things. I think that's very cool So so that was essentially my learning public thing for for early early last year. I also did I think like a hundred days of css stuff and that was that was really cool More recently My my my most successful thing so far has been the react text to the cheat sheet I know that multiple devs at I don't know airbnb uber. I like I can't I can't even keep track of like I can now These guys have learned typescript from me because because I just wrote down my own learnings as I As I try to adopt typescript within react These are just docs that did not exist So I just started writing creating these reusable resources And then and then it just grows and grows and grows because obviously as people as people need You know and and and being me being me being An experienced developer going in the typescript I wanted things like okay. I have a problem. How do I troubleshoot? So I just made a troubleshooting handbook This is not the kind of things that you have to ask permission for like just make it No, no one no one's like no one's saying you can't do that Like it doesn't exist in the official ts docs. Therefore like you're in a tough luck No, like, you know, I think I think that I think that people should create their own resources and make that useful for other people And therefore people will start contributing like a lot of these are not even made by me They're contributed by the community And therefore I have people teaching me And and for example, like the entire typescript team has a core team has reviewed this And you cannot pay for this. That's that's one of the that's one of the the key facts about this about learning public You get the the the kind of mentorship and advice and review that you cannot pay for Let me give you one more example on the reactjs.org site, so I I contributed exactly once to react And that was to pick up one of these issues. If you know, there's like a good first issue tag on github so Contributing docs So I contributed it at the merge in the pr I got the nice fancy contributor tag and then I never contributed ever again Because that process sucked But what I did was I double dipped on my experience I was I was I have I now have this experience that 99 percent of react developers have never had How do I like share that? So I made that into a talk and it is now the Introductory video So this is this is me From the react docs So It's it's like it's nothing major like I want to emphasize like I know I know this is very newbie beginner stuff But like being able to tell that story and being able to like make the most out of your experience Like helps to start you off on that learning public journey and And then people are incentivized like you're you're it's like When you once when you once help from some people, right? I think it should be a equal value like they should be getting something from you and you should be getting something from them It's very difficult if it's just a one-way street And but even even even as someone as like it's relatively more beginner You you still have something to offer and in your in your like energy your ability to share your ability to like pull in others Because by by like by the time that they're reached for example, like the react core team No one ever believes they're human anymore Like they're like, oh just come in trying that and it and no one believes them But if you are you know a recent beginner and you say that you did it That's more convincing to other people Okay, so um and that's and like a lot like just a history of uh of community contribution contributions got me Invested I was also on reddit for quite a while and that's that's how I eventually got the job of um The react moderator on reddit Okay, so i'm not here to holly end right like i'm just like I want you to know that like this is me. Oh, I'm also not alone This is chris quayer. Anyone know chris quayer? Yeah uh css tricks guy He attributes his success is to showing up persistence and just working in public um, so here um, this uh Where's the other sorry? I think I clicked the wrong link So chris chris quayer has this thing about working public like basically I looked at successful devs in our industry and like the few times that they've talked about like What made them like successful?  It's just do stuff in public and and then like just get good Over like over many many years um, this is this is chris quayer and and how and how Um, he started css tricks because no one else did he wasn't like the world's leading authority on css tricks But 20 years later he here he is like and he is the world's leading authority on css tricks It's because he's been doing it so long Um, it's it's not it's not something that you you like earn on day one It's not something you're ever qualified for but you you earn it by Um, just showing up repeatedly and learning in public. This is kenzie dodds He calls it intentional career building. He has a he has a he has a talk as well about how um, he uh, he's only he like gone to the angular core team like three years out of university Um, and then and then now it's like a leading react Instructor, um, and he calls communicating double dipping already told you about how I double dip Create value. Um, so again, this is this is more sort of advanced like once you're you have the the habit of creating Learning exhaust owning a content like he does. Yeah So everyone has everyone has has little pieces of advice. This is patrick mckenzie Those of you on hacker news will will will be familiar with that name. He he's one of these like Laotiel like give advice on the internet guys Um, and he's and his his advice is don't end the week with nothing like you you spend most of your week working for shopee what At the end of the week is part of you like what what leaves with you If one day God forbid you should ever leave shopee He should he should also be thinking about your own career and your own development as well What else corey house? I really respect this guy Becoming an outlier again. These are all like very different perspectives on career success personal success and growth as a developer. This is jeff adwood He he's he's more. He's a co-founder of stack overflow and he's more direct Just stop sucking and be awesome And the and the how-to is embrace the suck because it's gonna suck when you're wrong in public You do whatever you do in public and then you pick stuff that matters So picking that is a little bit of like investing and like making bets you do have to make bets And you will be wrong on some of them, but overall It should be pretty easy and that's that's one of the arguments that I have in my essay Okay, blah blah blah, right I have more I have more so that was the first of What should be seven essays in the learning public series? But I don't have time to present everything. I also want to present a little bit about learning gears How to start learning in learning in public for for people who who haven't really begun Basically, I have a theory that there are three gears like gears of learning kind of like bicycle gears like Gear one is like very powerful, but very slow gear three is most powerful Fastest but least powerful. So you if you need to climb up a steep slope You're gonna want to drop the gear one So so the the first gear is explorer gear. So I don't have slides prepared for this, but So so this is and and all this is on my side, but this this is actually the idea of learning gears So the first gear is the explorer gear. The main problem is that you don't know what you don't know The creative exhaust that you write are mainly notes to self. Let me show you my notes to self actually. They they suck But Again, I've been doing this every day more or less since 2017 And some of them have like random notes like like this. I don't know what this is Yeah, I don't know. This is some I was working for the Gatsby team at the time And then we had some meeting and I just took some notes Again, this means nothing to to people who are not me, right? But it will be relevant at some point to people. I have vim tips for myself. What is vim tips? Yeah, things I like about vim Yeah Yeah, again, so so again, like no effort right like I think someone was asking me Was asking the q&a like it takes so much effort to write blogs. No, it doesn't it doesn't You're just writing it for yourself. So that's the explorer gear. Let me let me go back to my my essay about that So no mostly notes to self You want to level up a little bit put it in tweets Put it on stack overflow questions You know, you can ask can answer your own questions or answer someone answer someone else's that time commitment Just make that very low. But just make sure you keep showing up and make it a habit You're no one expects anything from you when you're when you're in explorer mode There's no unifying theme. You're not the x person or x Whatever, you're just like this is currently what you're working on the public commitment level Is low, right? So, um, you're not you're not you you're you're usually operating in one day sprints of like, what do I feel like doing today? So that's the explorer gear the connector gear is like kind of like the next level up the connector gear is Is the the problem here is that you know many you know things that others don't know and you're now you're connecting Them to your knowledge or or different fields with each other that don't usually talk Which I which I do a lot for example with reactant typescript or graph ql and reactant that kind of thing Over over in the connector gear the creative exhaust that you make is explicitly meant for others to read So here you're actually putting some polish into your work So i'll i'll give you one example. This is my article on css tricks Basically rehashing a bunch of different different trends going on in um in design systems typescript apollo and react I just pulled together data points Information put it in some historical context again. Nothing new right? I haven't come up with anything new But I was just like all right. I see I see like striped through a little zappio all the all adopting this airbnb as well Like try to explain what's going on And then and then and then start and then like leave some areas for research but basically All i'm doing is like writing up in a nicer blog post that does take more effort And you're not typically like laying down everything that you know But it does help other people because it's it's made for them to consume And this includes making talks right like like this one. I'm making my own advice more consumable for you Even though it's all in my head And making like blog posts and and books and and other and other things Including the the Even this right this is like i'm connecting people with like You know what what is in current react or i'm connecting people with what is in typescript So these are all valid examples You still don't have a grand overall arching theme to your work people don't know you as one particular person But you're and you're usually juggling multiple themes and the public commitment is usually moderate like a few weeks or months You'll be doing a certain thing For example, if I if I commit to giving a conference talk and i've given quite a few That's usually four to six months out and i'll be i'll be preparing for that talk in that in in that time So that's you see how that's different from the explorer gear And that's that's that's the that's the meaning i want to impress upon you A lot of a lot of instructors and teachers and workshop people are here as well They're not teaching anything that they made themselves But they're just rehashing and making more consumable for people and that is extraordinarily valuable That in fact that is what you you pay for when you go to a university a lot of the stuff that you learn It's not created by the people teaching you it's created by others and you know, you write textbooks and stuff to To learn that um, and then the last gear is mining So this is when you really struck something that no one else is doing that is gold because other people are interested in it and um And really your your your what you do here is you plant your flag you say this is the thing that I do I do nothing else The main problem to solve is that something important to you or to the world is too hard Or the world's to a world too knows too little about something that's important and therefore you dive deep into it So your this is like if you're in academia, you're doing your phd in this And you just like you're obsessed by it. You're or you're I'm normally good at it. Whatever it is You start going deeper way deeper than anyone else. Um, and therefore You're doing basically very specialized r&d or you're building community infrastructure um Why did Tobias copper's create web pack? Why did sebesa mckenzie create babel? It's not because they like set out to like I will I want to make my name What let's look around and like and like get famous for for this thing No, they were just solving this thing that they were just abnormally obsessed by and they were like screw it I'm just going to do it. Um, and that's that's essentially it the community infrastructure like they no longer Yeah, neither Tobias coppers or a sebesa mckenzie or Even jordan walk the creator react None of them do talks anymore because they don't they don't need exposure. They don't need anything They're they're just off in their own world like creating creating stuff And the world finds them right like you in in the in the connector gear You're still trying to get distribution and reach like hey, have you read my blog post yet?  There's only one person in the entire world. I think about is sarah jasner and as a as a As a company, let's say I have a problem. I want to hire consultants That's where you want to be as a consultant. You want to be recognized as the x person I used to say this is like you want to be the guy, but this is more sort of gender bias so don't don't take the gender thing, but like There's there's literally a ride sharing guy. Let me just like ride share guy Is he the best ride share guy in the world? I don't know but google says he is The points guy. What does he do? maximize your travel like Personal branding is about Being the guy again, please like if you're if you're not if you don't identify as a guy just like The person like the the the the dominant person in that category because you have just invested So freaking heavily in the thing that no one else is even going to come close Um, so people come to you. That's a very nice aspect of that Okay, so um, I'm I'm a little bit running out of time. Um I have other pieces of advice as well about knowing your tools Cloning open source apps as well as specializing in new things These are all the things that I've touched upon briefly in this talk But I also wanted to leave some time over for q&a. Um, I think I have Some questions coming in from the the shoppy thing So whoever tzink is I think I've um spoken to you As well. Yeah, um, was that was that helpful? Do you have a follow-up?  That's a job that I do not want But if you have specific questions about something I can help you with I will help you And then if you if you come back the next day with another question I will help you again come in the next day and the next day and the next day And eventually I'm doing that job But like let's just not let's just not call it a mentorship thing Time how how can you share a bit more of a daily routine weekend routine? um That's very that's very personal And Honestly and again, like I do not follow my own advice all the time right like this is the best of me And and I have my weak points my lazy points as well I I do I do seek to be better Myself as something I'm currently in the connector gear. I really want to be a minor One of the things I'm mining on is a proposal for single fund components and react and possibly A new framework that that might potentially kill create react app So this is single file components and react and and I have I have a basic working prototype But again, this is something that I don't quite believe in it Fully yet So there is no routine. I'm not a routines kind of guy I'm more of a like what is interesting to me right now and what is cool Also my I have a lot of speaking So these these are the talks that I do A lot of A lot of them a lot of them are so like a lot of a lot of the work will be driven by the the conference schedule when the um And the the other day to day stuff that's going on in my company For example the past three months I've been a cli developer because of the new product that my company launched an LFI dev um And obviously I spent three months working on on a cli what happens at the end of that three months I do a talk about it Uh, so then I randomly got invited to do this talk about adaptive intent base cli state machines I still don't know what that means, but I Yeah But basically like, you know, just make the most out of out of your day, right like double dip And and all that uh, curious about learning probably. Yeah, okay So I I probably answered that just look at my my talk stuff and my writing stuff Okay, let's go to waste questions. What are you learning now? So I'd say I'm mostly learning typescript stuff now. Um Yeah, but I want to I want to do more Yeah Um, I don't I don't yeah, I feel I feel like I'm like I have I have a lot of pot cooking right now and I'm sort of juggling a lot of different things How do you pick your subjects to learn? Uh, yeah, this one is this one I care a lot about which is um I think the the market will tell you like people's people's interests will tell you people what people other people are talking about And I also have some advice in there about You like whatever is hot right now you pick the thing that's adjacent to it because that will be That will be the next hot stuff And there's there's a lot of there's a lot of economic reasoning behind that What are some subjects of non or topics that non CS majors miss? Okay, anyway, I want to leave some time for like any like maybe two audience questions if anyone has audience questions I've answered absolutely everything Um, no and again like this is this just for this just like my own personal journey. Um, I absolutely think that There are some advice that I can learn from from everyone. So Yeah, have a chat with me afterwards Hey