I'm doing it for recording purposes. I'm sure my voice is loud enough to be heard at the rear but they've asked me to use the mic. I have the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of giants. We have in the audience here Bob Waldy who will be speaking after me. One of the reasons I'm here is because I was inspired by a company called Stallion many years ago and I'm embarrassing Bob by sharing the story but I do want to pay tributes to those who have come before me and continue to do great work for Brisbane. I am going to talk a little bit about some of the economic advantages that I think Brisbane has and some of the opportunities that I think those who are motivated and willing to participate in the open source community can get some economic benefit out of so there is ways to make money out of open source software. Red Hat obviously is a good example of that. So I'm going to do one slide about Red Hat for those of you who don't know just to set some context about the company that I'll be talking about and their Brisbane operations. A lot of you will have seen the brief that I had provided Martin and thank you for the introduction Martin is why is Red Hat in Brisbane? Why are we here? And I'm going to answer that story by talking about some of the demand. This is the business track of open source software so I'm going to use that supply demand analysis and I'm going to talk about some of the demand for open source and some of the skills and services that are associated with open source and then talk about how Red Hat chose Brisbane to be able to supply some of those to meet some of that demand. So Red Hat as a company and this is the only corporate slide was founded in 1993 IPO in 1999 66 offices and 30 countries revenues in excess of 700 million US dollars last year that's our goal to be a $1 billion company by the end of our next financial year. So it's certainly been a very successful company but a very hard place to work for the just have my 10th anniversary for all of those who all the Red Hat is in the audience 10 years of Red Hat last year and it's been a wild ride certainly when I joined the company has changed dramatically over the last 10 years and through telling the story of Red Hat in Brisbane I think you'll see how we've evolved as well to to meet the demand for Red Hat's services and upside to the downturn so this is a presentation that I gave to Linux conference back in 2002 when Red Hat was only just started so I wanted to try and use this as an opportunity to talk about the fact that the global financial crisis has been a challenge for many economically most of the small businesses that we know that we have relationships with in Brisbane have been going through hard times in my role I travel through India China and the Czech Republic and globally I've seen the impact of the global financial crisis the difficulty it's been to you know for companies to grow in these in these economic times so my objective here is to give you a bit of a background of why I think some demand is going to continue and why I think we continue to have an opportunity to build thriving businesses around open source software and that's because of the demand for it going back to 2002 when I first presented this a lot of the content hasn't changed and that surprised me in preparing for this talk I did anticipate that things would happen much faster so 10 years ago when I was you know a little younger a little naive and getting excited about joining Red Hat and the opportunity that open source had it took a long time to achieve some of these objectives but we can see here one of the main reasons that I think there will continue to be economic opportunities around open source and that's because of the demand for open source in Asia and it's driven let's you know the it's it's touching go where the Japan or China or the world's second largest economy there are by the second or third depending on where you are and when you do that numbers so we've got two of the largest world economies in Asia and we're in the same time zone and we have a lot of skill sets associated with Asia increasing deployment of open source software many of you if you followed open source deployments throughout Asia will have heard of red flag you may have heard of Hancom you may have heard of Miracle there's a large number of Linux distributions that have grown up in China Japan and Korea and they occurred because of the demand for Linux India is a recently joined the free software foundation one of the most exciting projects that I've seen happening in India recently is their national ID project the unique ID project of India where they intend to issue an identity card to every citizen of India the purposes are primarily to reduce fraud so there's a lot of people claiming benefits and they believe that if they can get rid of at least one or two percent of those fraudulent cases they could fund the program completely the code for that project is developed as an open source project literally it's a government-run project and it's all done in an open source fashion predominantly with open source software so in terms of a not just the economic benefits the lower cost you know the total cost of ownership being better with Linux open source giving you freeing you from vendor lock-in it's reached to a point where governments are now not only embracing those value propositions but also embracing the way that the software is developed so the government projects are being run under an open source model I think it's a really important example of a tipping point that we see in major governments throughout Asia and let's face it major governments in Asia have got a lot of money so that's where we see the economic opportunity continues to grow so the open source advantage in Asia is input method technology Red Hat in Brisbane has been developing input method technology and we have now worked with our offices in China to implement iBus it's the reference implementation for the CJK Northeast Asia open source software symposium there's a collaborative China Japanese and Korean government effort to coordinate in seven different layers one of those is on input method technologies it's a very important part of the industry throughout Asia most of you appear to be speaking and hopefully familiar with English and a familiar with using English entries your for character entry for Asian languages it's it could be a very complex and at times a very expensive exercise to get input methods that are available to you in your language Chinese has well mainland Chinese has over 28,000 characters in their GB 80 no 3o standard and to pick one of those 28,000 characters requires very complex software traditionally that's been an industry locked up by proprietary input methods but recently they've moved and Northeast Asia open source software symposium a conglomerate of the three governments have agreed to adopt iBus as a reference implementation and that's completely open source and primarily developed by Red Hat so it's a real game changer for those who have to use Asian language technologies there's also as I'm sure you will have seen if anyone's following slash dot or recent news there is and the venerable Jeff Houston is doing a keynote I think tomorrow Jeff Houston speaking tomorrow or Wednesday is it strongly recommend you go see Jeff he's a good friend of mine he wrote the OECD paper on the depletion of IPv4 and the necessary need to migrate to IPv6 IPv6 has been around for almost 15 years a lot of the standards development and certainly a lot of the early implementations were done by Japanese vendors so there's a lot of technology and to some extent a there's both a supply of IPv6 skills in Asia and a high demand IPv6 skills in Asia so AP Nick the Asia Pacific Network Information Center where I worked previously is about to make a request for a slash eight in the next couple of weeks and when that happens that will trigger the other registries getting their slash eights as well and that will mark the end of available IPv4 address base so these sort of tipping points are going to continue to happen and I think Asia has a has a potential economic advantage by having been you know being a being forced to use v6 earlier than others but also by having been involved in this development early on and obviously a lot of Asian language technology is developed here locally so I'll talk specifically about China Japan and Korea where this demand is coming from we see that the Chinese government wants to comply with software copyright and you know the safe use of software so they've been investing in local Linux companies they've been encouraging Linux and open source software for government procurement since 2002 red flag is a very famous Chinese distribution there are many others three or four famous ones just in Hong Kong alone so there's a lot of opportunity for Linux distributions to meet local demand and as the market has matured it's gone beyond just the Linux distributions into middleware stacks programming languages other opportunities training and input methods that I mentioned earlier so that's not going to change this is part of the Chinese government push to get away from pirated software they want to get to open source because it solves that problem for them Japan as I mentioned earlier were the lead were some of the leading developers of IPv6 certainly NEC and their their implementations on routers was was very early on and as a country they have had a strong push for open source software in education and in government so they've been doing this from probably about 2003 2004 where they've had research into the adoption of open source software for education sectors so again government demand for open source software and for all of you who may have contributed to open source software in the past it's an economic opportunity either in countries that we're either in these countries specifically or to provide services to these countries as they continue to adopt open source software career is probably one of the most famous for the use of Linux and embedded devices Missy Linux the early use of Linux for embedded has been a very prevalent and that one point in 2006 2007 I think there were over 30 Linux handsets so we go back four years everybody's heard of Android now but we go back four or five years and we can see just as prevalent Linux adoption on embedded devices in Korea so they were certainly ahead of the curve in terms of adopting Linux from better devices government procurement there's even an initiative inside of Korea to do a Korean distribution you will have seen in the press recently talk of Russia creating a Russian Linux distribution this nationalization of Linux I'm not sure sure I agree that that's the right approach it does have a bit of a fork a mentality to it so I think there would be issues over time with countries that have tried to create their country specific distribution I think that that kind of misses the point of it being a communal global effort but it does show that they're trying to embrace open source and they're trying to make it their own and that creates an opportunity to meet that demand governments want to get to have the ability to read the code you know the ability all of the advantages that you probably have felt by using open source in the past so to summarize strong government support and government hold a lot of money particularly in China Japan and Korea so that's going to give us an opportunity for developing nations to break out of piracy a lot of the developing nations asian nations don't want to do software piracy they would just want to get their job done with computers and open source gives them that ability to do so they've been Asia has been a leading technology provider and implement it for some of these emerging technologies IPv6 that I mentioned earlier and there's a lot lower barrier to entry there's no sort of intellectual property barriers to the adoption or understanding open source software so it makes it much easier for them to embrace it okay so hopefully I've left you all with a demand and now we're going to talk about how Red Hat in Brisbane has grown to meet that demand indirectly and directly so I have the pleasure of running our operations in India and China so they report up to me so it's not a combative relationship the success of Red Hat worldwide has meant that we have grown operations in China and India but it's also helped Red Hat in Brisbane to grow so we've grown together as opposed to having to lose jobs to India or China and I think we can sustain a competitive advantage in the Queensland or the Australian economy because of some key points here first one being economic you may be surprised to see that I would be willing to put up a slide saying that Australia's got some economic advantages but it does one of the things that you learn as you start to budget and plan for staff across the globe is that wild fluctuations in exchange rates or cost of livings can make your budgeting and planning exercises very difficult Australia has had a great track record a very predictable stable economy my personal belief is that a lot of that's based on the fact that we're the world's largest exporter of coking coal and one of the reasons I'm participating in an event like this is because I think we can't remain dependent on exporting coal around the world we need to become a services economy at some point and I think we have great opportunity to be exporting services which I'll talk through here but that has made a big difference to Red Hat's ability to plan and to execute comfortably in Australia because it is very easy to predict it's a very stable economy culturally and I know this again probably would go without saying but the Australia as a multicultural society has federal government state government local government support and QUT is the university that we're now is a great example of the impact of that so we've had federal legislation for multiculturalism since the 80s state legislation after that and what it's meant is that we're a great exporter of education over 30% of the IT graduates coming from QUT are from outside Australia so I have a as a business operator I've got a regular supply of graduates with language skills and IT degrees willing and interested in living in this country and that's a real advantage that's an economic and a cultural advantage that not many other places in the world can have where we're able to get all of these multicultural people from Europe people from Asia not just willing to to study in Australia but also willing to stay and work in Australia and that's an advantage that not many other countries in the world have information technology and innovation so the Queensland government has had the smart state initiative for those of you who are outside of Queensland or Australia you will see the occasional smart state on our license plates there's a Australian tall poppy backlash to that we're not very comfortable calling ourselves a smart state but I'm one of those people that says you know I'm on the side of the coin that if you keep saying it and keep delivering it eventually it'll come true so I want us to be a smart state I don't want us to be a coal exporter for the rest of our lives and I think we can add higher value to the world and one of the ways that we can do that is by having a stable economy and a great supply of IT skilled language multi-lingual people this current practice Red Hat's not the only company that has identified the opportunity that Queensland presents there are a lot of other companies that have chosen to set up headquarters here or have grown large operations here Boeing has its Asia Pacific headquarters here Oracle has a large development team here Stellar are a very large call center operated down on the Gold Coast and Citibank also do their call center work from here I pick our call center but that's mostly because of the brand names here but there are a lot of other very successful software companies based in Brisbane so now I'm going to move on to the what does Red Hat do in Brisbane part and the objective of the background here was to show that there's a demand Asia is going to continue to demand skills in open source that may be training that may be input method technology it may be operating systems providers it may be middleware providers there's a demand for those open source services in Asia and it's going to continue to grow and Brisbane has an advantage has an economic advantage and that's a stable economy we have a ready supply of multi-lingual IT skilled graduates and the Red Hat's been able to capitalize on that as some of the other companies that I mentioned as well so Red Hat began in November 1999 as a sales and marketing operation we were located on James Street in the Valley one of the areas probably recently affected by flooding and we were at a small townhouse you know only a handful of staff I joined I think it's about employee number four in 2001 no worries yet I'm probably going too fast anyway so gives me a chance to slow down okay and at the time we the operations were started under the brief of being the regional headquarters for sales and marketing so Red Hat was beginning to get demand certainly in Japan being one of our most mature markets from a very early stage they wanted to be able to get access to Red Hat and at the time it was a small North Carolina company they picked Brisbane as their headquarters for a couple of reasons I wasn't with the company at the time but one of the reasons that we shared because I also relocated the Asia Pacific Network Information Center from Tokyo to Brisbane was because of a KPMG report that was published at around this period of time and KPMG did a study of the cost of operations throughout Asia and what they found was and they still do maintain this report is generally focusing on off-capital cities so if you're in Sydney price of real estate average salaries you know the cost of living generally higher so Brisbane has got economic advantage in all those three areas so the KPMG study showed that IT skills were as a good supply of IT skills Brisbane had an economic advantage over Sydney and Melbourne in terms of cost of operations and so as a location from which to grow the Asia Pacific base Red Hat picked Brisbane as did I when I was relocating AP Nick from out of Tokyo in 2001 we realized I joined the company we were getting a lot of Japanese people calling Raleigh North Carolina trying to speak Japanese and they were having trouble filling that language skills from from the East Coast of the US so we offered to provide that technical support and it began so the operations outside of a sales and marketing activity began in Brisbane by providing Japanese technical support and that's continued to write through to today where ironically it's not so much our Asian language skills which has been the greatest asset of the technical support team in Australia it's been the Australian attitude and how much it's appreciated by the West Coast of the United States so we have a large segment of our customer base who will wait for the support English support to roll around to Australia because they built friendships with the Australian support team so we do a lot of support obviously for companies in Australia New Zealand and any English-speaking ASEAN countries and we also do the after hours follow the Sun Support Centre work for for the United States and to this day Red Hat remains one Red Hat in Brisbane is one of the five follow the Sun Support Centres for for Red Hat. I joined in 2001 with the mandate to do a Asian products so we were a much smaller company back then about 400 staff we're just over 4,000 now I think we're approaching 4,000 so we're 10 times bigger now than when I joined the company back then and we were given carte blanche we were free to do our own distribution so we did we literally made we forked off of the mothership and made our own Japanese Chinese and Korean versions and then over time slowly worked that skill set back into the company as the global demand for for internationalization continued but this is where the research and development activities that came out of Brisbane began was with being given the mandate to do a Chinese Japanese and Korean version of our product so like most startups we outsourced most things in the beginning and internationalization wasn't something that we could outsource there was no anyone who was around during the UNIX wars will have remembered that internationalization and particularly input method technology was quite broken at the end of the UNIX wars we only had the X input architecture and you know if you wanted to switch languages you had to log out of your desktop and log back in again so there was a lot of research that needed to happen just in terms of core rendering and rendering input and print display technology that was brave new world nobody had ever done it before we certainly couldn't copy it from UNIX because it it kind of stopped halfway through but for 2001 we use third party so we use translation companies what we identified early on was that most of the large translation companies worldwide were very familiar with the lingua franca of windows in Microsoft and so when we tried to use them for localization of open source software it's a different vocabulary it's a different language they didn't do a good job of it so we chose to bring that in-house primarily to have that ability to educate a set of staff on the language of open source it's gone on to mean a lot more to us than just the ability to deliver good translations so it's specifically called localization because we found that investing in people whose native language skills are their primary asset but have an IT background that there's lots of tertiary benefits and the way the translation industry is structured today you rarely get to use that advantage so if you've got a dedicated Japanese associate who's part of the red hat brand and they're translating a piece of collateral they're going to have a very different attachment to the material than somebody using a third-party translation company so they they're invested in the material that they're doing the other advantage given that we're co-located with internationalization is that we can use them to test our software so to do a Japanese translation you have to have a Japanese input method and we're producing the input method technology here in Brisbane so there was a proximity advantage by co-locating internationalization and localization a third advantage occurred later when we started to do quality engineering so that that one localization person you have hired as a translator now has become a quality engineer have become a user interface tester and as and also continues in that role of translation the most important advantage that I think has occurred for red hat and what has made us sustainable here is that we acknowledge that we're part of a community so all of the Japanese all of the translators that red hat have have a mandate and a responsibility to be part of their local language community so you know translators up for Japanese Korean and Chinese have been with red hat for almost 10 years as long as I have and many of them are community leaders in the Fedora project or the Mozilla translation for Chinese or the GNOME Korean translations are done by red hats and they have that dual responsibility of corporate performance but also community contribution and that's made it very sustainable for us they're very high their associates but they're also very high value for us because they can influence the adoption of technology they can influence the quality of the translation before it even becomes a product and there's a lot of tertiary benefit there that those from a traditional proprietary software ship off your message strings get your translated strings back ship the product they miss out on all of that the feedback loop of being part of a community 2004 we took on product management this is when red hat was going to be a box product company we were selling t-shirts mugs and poker books and so we took on that responsibility Asia was still to this day suffers from lack of ubiquitous bandwidth and that's probably one of the most common conversations I have with my European and American counterparts is that downloading this DVD it's going to be cheaper for me if you to ship it to me in the post then for me to expand expand all of my bandwidth trying to download it so a lot of folks don't realize that bandwidth in Asia is a still a precious commodity and it's very expensive so we were had a large demand for for poker books just as a way to distribute Linux as interesting open source started to grow through Asia so we took on product management we also consolidated European language translations here so since 2004 we've been doing all of the European work for for red hat from here customer service so then red hats beginning to in Brisbane begins to get an internal brand and in an internal recognition and the language skills that we able to provide the product engineering group become and a technical support group become of interest to other parts of the company and customer service so those not related to technical support begin their operations and continue to do their operations for Asian language support from here product management gets crossed out because we no longer do box product we don't we don't do retail anymore quality engineering I mentioned earlier about the proximity advantage of having the internationalization engineers in proximity with the localization services providers coupled with quality engineering and we can see that we're able to do desktop testing not just in English but in all of the 23 languages that Red Hat now support from a single location for those of you who do large-scale software development what you will encounter is that localization internationalization all of those sort of activities are right right at the end you know they're the tail of the dog no matter how good your program management or you know your formal software development lifecycle may be it inevitably comes to some as a patch that needs to go in I've got a break string freeze can translation catch up and can we still keep to the ship date so anyone is faced that sort of commercial pressure of delivering software realize that these are very much tail activities in the last things that people think of when they're making a code change and by having all of us related to localization internationalization and the testing of it co-located it gives us very rapid response so we're not going to translation vendors all around the world trying to coordinate getting at you know translations in on time within 24 hours so often what happens at Red Hat is that there will be a string freeze then an engineer or break it it's a major UI component we need to get it fixed we can't ship the product without it and within 24 hours we can turn it around so the US shut down Australia turns on we can translate it into all those languages we can verify that it fits within the UI we can test it we can commit the code changes back and by the next morning the US have got working software and all the languages so we're one of the few companies that is capable of what in the industry is called sim ship we can simultaneously ship all languages at the same time Oracle has done a pretty good track record of that as well and Microsoft unfortunately hasn't had a good track record there it's a major tactical advantage if you're producing large volumes of software to be able to sim ship because you're only ever having to wonder worry about one master you're not having to worry about or did I patch the Korean version did the Japanese version get packed you don't have to worry about that when you're a sim ship company and it's a real tactical advantage for it so not only as the fact that we're in Asia and advantage the fact that we're off time zone we've capitalized on that advantage as well other long-running activities you know IPv6 it's a hell of a lot easier for me to get an IPv6 engineer here in Australia or in Asia than it is in the United States there's just not the demand for it or if there is an IPv6 engineer in the US they're very expensive because they're a department of defense have already started to soak them all up where IPv6 here has been common for a long time you know APNIC was one of the first registries to start issuing IPv6 address space and then certainly for the next ten years it's going to be the largest distributor of IPv6 in the world. Open ITNAN, open internationalization standards, Linux standards based certification, the Chinese government GB80-030 which is a physical test it's not just a rubber stamp you do literally have your operating system installed and they will randomly pick when you wanted their 28,000 characters and they'll tell you how do I put in that character and make sure it comes out on that printer it's a real test and I'm very proud to say that we were the first non-Chinese company to achieve A plus certification for our operating system as a direct result of two engineers here in Brisbane and it was a pretty grueling start but it's something we've been able to achieve ever since. So I'll keep moving on for the Red Haters in the audience some of the timelines it may not have been exactly 2007 so for dramatic effect I've aligned certain activities to to annual boundaries content services was the next one that we that we chose to bring to Australia. So Australia's got a great hidden ability to produce good content there's lots of technical authors here in Queensland and many of them are a very high caliber so once we realize there's an advantage in keeping internationalization and localization in the same time zone we thought well what if the English content was also produced in time zone so that the the English writer couldn't escape the wrath of 23 people who just had to translate their bad sentence so believe me it works so we've moved content services to Brisbane and we're now from our operations here maintaining over two and a half thousand manuals technical manuals a built written distributed and translated from the Brisbane office so what we've done internally is try to identify where the benefits of time zone and proximity have added value and where we've got a skill set to meet that demand and focused on those areas of contribution and you can see how we're continuing through here once we had this many people so we're somewhere between a hundred and a hundred and forty staff in Brisbane we're over 200 throughout Australia with operations in Sydney and Melbourne we needed to have support we're up to just under 200 staff in China about a hundred in India so we needed to have as you can imagine with 400 engineers in this time zone writing code producing material they needed a lot of operational support so engineering operations was established in Brisbane and we're one of the support centers for the internal engineering group there's some great examples here of where that and I don't normally do the Australian thing by the way I speak internationally but assuming that we're in Brisbane is a Brisbane audience I'll talk a little bit about some of the strengths of the Australian attitude and it's that get in and do it get your hands dirty I could say that about the Indian time in the Czech Republic of course as well but that get in and get things done attitude has been a real advantage for us and you can see this with some other Brisbane companies that have come through the incubator the I I hub incubator at Tawang company called CVS dude later renamed to co-decision if you haven't heard of it great Brisbane startup recently acquired did basically what engineering operations do they run version control systems bug tracking systems the nuts and bolts the most systems administration for engineers and Mark Bathy started that that operation in Tawang and and has been a very successful company so we did basically the same thing so although I'm talking about Red Hat internally as a customer all of these proof points I can give you Brisbane startups who've done basically the same thing to a commercial audience so where we took on engineering operations we got CVS dude now named co-decision doing basically the same same activity because of the skill sets that are available here and the off hours the off hours advantage with the US by 2009 our contributions to input method technology have now gone upstream were world leaders and the Chinese Japanese and Korean governments have adopted our reference implementation for input method technologies that's had a lot of impact on Red Hat in terms of our GNOME development team and in particular with our X11 core graphics team so a couple of esteemed Red Hat colleagues will be presenting David Ailey is one of them anyone who's seen the mode setting move into the kernel will be familiar with Dave's work and he's based here in Brisbane once you get somebody of that caliber in your organization they can attract other talent as well so we've started to build our core X11 team here in Brisbane as well finally by 2010 we get some back office support we finally get some recruiting and finance showing up which making our life a lot easier but it shows that we've kind of we've come full circle we originally started as a sales and marketing headquarters at some point along the line that moved to Singapore and quite happy to keep sales and marketing out of my engineering facilities but now we've come full circle and we're back to a real operation where we have you know finance and HR and all those sort of supporting services based out of Brisbane so is there an upside to the economic downturn I believe there is and it's based on being able to find ways to capitalize on the advantages that you have you know I work with you know hundreds of engineers in the Czech Republic India and China and our constantly are talking about what skill sets does this geography this time zone bring you know the great thing about open sources you get contributors everywhere you know we find kernel developers in Beijing who've been writing device drivers for mobile phones for four years incredible you just wow we are where were you why didn't we know about you India and their contributions to fonts and to unicode standards really world-leading in terms of their ability to influence international design the Czech Republic you know long-term contributors to the Linux kernel go back to the early 90s to the mid 90s you'll see a lot of Czech contributors to the Linux kernel so a broad understanding of open source software occurs everywhere in the world India China the Czech Republic also India China and you know other countries in Asia yet to cross that tipping point we don't see them making a lot of upstream contributions they're kind of taking open source and internalizing it and making a value to them and their economies but the tipping point will come and we'll see them contributing to open source in general and that's why I think we're going to continue to see the demand here and that's my speech so save 10 minutes for questions and answers before the audience leaves yeah please yep well for China they publicly stated it was their entry to the World Trade Organization and that part of the criteria for entry that they had to you know address software piracy yeah to the legal legal issue for them just for context just for context what a certain water redacted activities that happen outside of Brisbane we're through in sort of what country will you like an example yeah oh again perspective yeah sure what we found I mentioned China earlier so in for China we found that we can get very good hard skills so HTC have been shipping Linux handsets since troll tech another great Brisbane company well the division of a great Norwegian company recently acquired by Nokia troll tech was based here in Brisbane and they did the QT graphics library which KDE and other projects use we found it was widely very very successful so kind of Korean started with Linux on embedded devices got adopted by HTC and a couple of very large mobile manufacturers in China and with that they had to start getting the two full kernel running on embedded devices so we found that we were able to get a lot of developers in China we who are familiar with small footprints writing device drivers getting things upstream so we do a lot of our hardcore kernel and virtualization testing in China because of that skill set availability India has got a 13 official languages and so as a country there's a lot of people coming through that education system have a lot of understanding of transliteration difficulties with inputs you know rendering display those sort of skills and they're also a long history of contributing to standards such as Unicode so a lot of our standards contributions and development we do out of India and obviously our Indic language localization we do in India the Czech Republic I mentioned earlier since the mid 90s there's been some very famous contributors to the Linux kernel and other open source projects and as a result a lot of the universities are already you know you don't learn Visual Studio C++ at a university in Bruno you learn GCC so it's easy for us to take graduates from that community and get them straight into open source projects they just get it and huge amount of work done in the United States yeah of course any other questions all right thank you


The Abbot and Costello program brought to you by Camel, the cigarette that's first in the service.  This is the music of Freddie Ritchie and his orchestra, the songs of Connie Haynes. Tonight's guest, the Metro Golden Mayor star, Mr. Charles Lawson, and starring but Abbot and Lou Costello. Oh, there you are, Costello. What's all the excitement? I was just out shopping at it, and I bought a beautiful Valentine's. You know, next Monday is Street Valentine's Day. What day? Street Valentine's Day. Here it is, right on the card. See it? What? ST Street. Oh, no, you dummy. That's the St. Valentine. ST means St. Who are you sending it to? Oh, to Miss Carol Law, 156 South Main St. South Main St. Yes, that's where my girl is. What do you mean? South Main St. What are you talking about? ST. Oh, that ST means Street. You said it was St. Now make up your mind. Look, when it's an address, it's Street. Now read it again. Miss Carol Law, 156 South Main St. Now that's better. St. Louis, Missouri. No, no, no, no, no. Just a minute, Costello. That's St. Louis, Missouri. Yeah, but that's an address. Yes, but this time it's St. Well, make up your mind. Sometimes it's Street and sometimes it's St. When does it is and when does it ain't? Costello, let me clear this up for you. You live on the street, don't you? Yeah, no, I live on a doctor.  Yeah, I live on a doctor. Here's my address on a card. Lou Costello, 139 Beverly Doctor. Let me see that.  That is, in doctor, that's drive. Drive, you dummy. Drive. What, on an A card? Well, well, what's all the argument here, bud? Oh, it's Ken Niles. All right. Costello is just showing me a Valentine. Oh, no, that's a coincidence. I have a Valentine for Costello, too. Listen to this. Dear Lou, roses are red, violets are pink. I saw your picture last night and you certainly do. All right, quiet, Niles, or I'll pour a hole in your head and let the sap run out. Yes, and you're the bore who can do it. Oh, dear, I was hot as a hotdog tonight. Just as full of bloney, too. Costello, why do you always fight with Niles? That's right, Costello. You should be glad you've got me. I could be a list on any program.  Oh, quiet, Costello. By the way, Ken, where's your wife? Oh, I left her at home. She's writing a play to do on the program tonight. She's writing a play? What does she know about plays? Well, I'll have you know that my beautiful wife spent years in stock. Didn't the other cattle object? I heard that remark. You'd be 19 with a nose. I said it so you'd hear it. Now, Mrs. Niles, I knew you'd be here today. I read it in a newspaper. The newspaper? Yes, the weather report said big wing coming. That's a lovely jacket you have on. All right, never mind that. Looks like sea biscuits. All right, never mind that, Costello, please. Mrs. Niles, Ken tells us that you are working on a play for us tonight. For our program. Now, I didn't know that you had literary inclinations. Oh, indeed, yes. I'm always reading. You'll always find me with my nose in a book. How can you read it from way out there? Oh, I just adore the old writers. Dickens works, and Zachary's, and Byron's, and of course, Keats. Oh, don't you just love Keats? Oh, yes, I love Keats. I love all kinds of Keats. Beat Keats, little Keats. Hello, little Keats. Oh, quit interrupting, Costello. Tell me, Mrs. Niles, what is your play about? Oh, it's a thrilling adaptation of that famous story, Robinson Crusoe. Oh, what a great part for me. Oh, I play the voodoo queen of the island. I am beautiful, breathtaking, luscious, and exotic. Where can you buy that much makeup? Oh! I'm not going to stand here and be insulted. Here, Mr. Abbott, is a copy of the play. I'll be back later. Oh, that's fine. Now, Abbott, I'm getting sick and tired of this. Everybody wants to be in a play.  And why shouldn't I want a part, Mr. Costello? I'm human, ain't I? What a spot for an ad lib. Now, just a minute, Bottsford. What could you do in the play? What could any sound man do? I could give you sounds. The sound of a cat licking its chin. The sound of a grape scratching its skin. The sound of a mosquito making its... The sound of a seltzer making its...  And if you don't use me, your program will... Your program will suffer. Oh, boy, I thought it was going to say S-T-I-N-T. Hey, Costello! I'll get out of here. North of the Persian Gulf are Americans, soldiers, railroad men, truckmen, seeing that the tanks and the guns speed along the overland supply route to Russia. To Americans in Iran, in Iraq, to Americans throughout the world go camel cigarettes by the million, by the ton, for camels are first with man in all the services according to actual sales records. And when the camels get to Iran, or to you, they're fresh.  Because camels stay fresh and because they have more flavor, more people want camel cigarettes now, both at home and overseas. So remember, if your store is sold out today, try again tomorrow. Camel cigarettes are worth asking for again. C-A-M-E-L-S. Camel cigarettes. Camel demander tobacco is the same for soldier, for civilian, anywhere in the world. Freddie Rich plays the lovely David Rose Compositions Holiday for Springs. Well, Castello, have you read the play that Mrs. Niles left here? I'm reading it now, Abbott. But wait a minute, if you're reading it upside down, you think it's easy? I decided to play the leading part, Robinson Corruso. There certainly is. In the second act, you go away to forget. Well, don't I do anything in the first act? That's what you go away to forget. Oh, Mr. Castillo, have you found a place for me to do my sound effects? Oh, but what sound effects can you do? Lots of them, Mr. Castillo. Did you ever hear a mountain calling to its sun? A mountain calling to its sun? Of course not. I'll show you. A mountain calling to its sun. Hey, Cliff! Hey, you know, that's good. That's just a bluff. Well, here's another one.  Hiya, bud. And did you ever... Did you ever hear a snake asking for chewing gum? How does it go? Wiggly, wiggly, wiggly, wiggly, wiggly. Castillo, but what is wonderful? What's so wonderful about that? I can do a sound that you never heard before. Well, let's hear it. Okay. A husband talking back to his wife. That's all. Come on, come on. Come on, Castillo, give Botsford a chance in the play. Okay, Abbott. Now listen, Botsford, you can be in a play, but remember, don't make any sound effects till I give you the word and the sound and the cue. Yes, Mr. Castillo. This is your chance to be a big shot. Big shot? Yes, sir. That isn't a word. Wait for the play. Come in. Certainly, this is the Abbott and Castillo program. Yeah, what do you think it is? I'm sorry, I just walked past the glue factory. I haven't noticed any change. Yeah. Who is this fresh guy? Castillo. It's that great actor, Charles Lawton. Now listen, Lawton, if you don't like my program, what are you doing here? Well, in my next picture, I played a part of a moron and I came over to see how they act. Oh!  Yeah, that's right. That's what I call perfect casting. How do you like that, Petzl? Castillo, you can't call a man like Mr. Lawton Petzl. Why not? What's the nickname for Charles? It's Chuck. What's a Chuck? That's a roast. And what's a roast?  Higher, Petzl! Now cut that out, Castillo. Him with the overlapping hair? Never mind that. Lawton is a polished gentleman. He looks like he's shellacked. See here, Castillo, I've only seen you once before, for which I'm very thankful. However, in the event I permit such a catastrophe to occur again, I shall depart as a measure of self-discipline to a small tropical island.  Well, with your face, it would be an improvement. There you are, Castillo. None of that now. Say, by the way, Mr. Lawton, how would you like to appear in our play tonight? We're going to do the big shipwreck scene from Robinson Crusoe. Splendid. I love the water, the broad ocean. As a matter of fact, I spent the last week at Del Mar where the turf meets the surf. Oh! Really? Oh! Really? Really, you met at Del Mar with the turf, Mr. Surf? Really? You heard him. I heard it. I had ocean park where the debris meets the sea. Oh, shut up, Castillo, please. Charlie, as the play starts, we board the ship and go off in search of adventure. Yes. I'm Robinson Crusoe, the captain, and I'm sailing my boat around the horn. Horn, yes, sir. I know! I don't get excited, all right. He's going to fall up the whole place. I'll never mind. Take it easy. Now listen. Now, get away, Buttsman. I'll let you have it. All right, never mind. Now, back to my acting. Mr. Lawton, what in the middle of the ocean?  The boat begins to break up because it's only an old bark. Bark? Yes, sir. Bark, bark! Yes, Mr. Bones. Go on with the play. What happens to the boat? It sinks. It sinks. So does the play. Just a minute, Charlie. It's really a good script, and you have a fine part. You play Costello's man a Friday. What? You're asking me to play second fiddle to this over-stuffed porcupine? I'll have you gentlemen know that I was just offered a great dramatic program of my own. You were, were you? What's the name of it? One Hand's Family? Costello, do you expect to play the part of a captain when I come from a family of seafaring men? It was my great-great-grandfather, Sir Thomas, who sailed with Drake in 1588 and defeated the Spanish Armada. It was my great-uncle Reginald who stood at the side of Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. And it was my cousin Archibald, bless his heart, nice fellow, who plotted the course for the Admiral at the Battle of Juckland. That's why I like to plant my feet on the deck of a ship to feel the rolling south beneath man and the ocean spray upon my face. That's why I like the sultans. I love the sultans. I must have the sultans. Okay, Lawton. Right after the program, come on over to my house and I'll send you with a hairy. Get out of here.  I'll be around. No matter how you treat me goodbye, if you find a love you're meant for me. You wouldn't take the old gray mare in the army because she had flat feet. Listen, there, that's flat and it can be worse than your cigarette. If you want a cigarette that won't go flat no matter how many you smoke, get camels. You see, camel cigarettes have more flavor. The result of expert blending of costlier tobaccos and more flavor is what helps camels hold up. Keep from going flat no matter how many you smoke. Prove that in your taste and throat, your T-zone.  And remember, camel stay fresh.  C-A-M-T-L-S. Camel cigarettes, they're first in the service. They've got what it takes. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we present our play, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, starring the Abbott and Costello seafood cocktail players. That little shrimp Costello plays Robinson Crusoe. That old crab Charles Lawton plays his man Friday. And Bud Abbott is just along for the halibut. For the halibut. Ah, come on, Niles. And now it's the player I'll belt you with a smelt. As the scene opens, Robinson Costello and Bud Abbott are aboard ship in the midst of a terrific storm. And the ship is sinking. Come on, Costello. We have to dive over on. The ship is about the cap size. Cap what? Cap size. Cap size. Don't you know what cap size is? Yes, sir. Mine's six or seven-eight. Ah! Quiet. Come on. We'll have to swim for that island. Come on. Jump in the water. Ooh, ooh. All right. Look at me. I'm throwing a blue and red and pink and purple. I'm freezing in technic colors. Stop worrying and stop swimming. We've got to make the shore. Hey, Abbott. Hey, Abbott. I feel something. A shark is biting my toe. That can't be a shark. Sharks travel in schools. Then this one is playing hooky. Look. Listen, Costello. We'll float into shore. Here comes a big wave. I've got to wait for a little wax. Here it comes, Costello. Come on. Get ready. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Blow out my clothes and dry them. Yeah. Well, we made it all right. Now we've got to find out where we are. There's nothing on this island but dense tropical jungle. Hey, Abbott. Look up in that tree. It's a jet. That's a monkey.  Hey, Costello. Climb up that tree and see if there are any other signs of life around. But the monkey might bite me.  Hi, your brother. Hey. Quiet. I hear someone coming. Yes, it's over there. It's a native man. Speak to him, Costello. Okay. Hello, native. My name, Roberson Costello. We your friends. You welcome us to Ireland? Greetings, white man. My name, Friday. Welcome to this island. You all, yowzer, cheerio, piff, piff. And all that sort of thing. Yack, yack. Hey, Lawton, what kind of dialect is that? Me, native. Speak with a drool. You mean, wrong, wrong. No drool. Me, Reed, Esquire. Enough of this talk. He's got funnier lines than me. Now, wait a minute. Just a minute. Let's get together here. None of this kind of talk, Friday. We both need food and drink. What can you give us? Me, give you rubber. All my life, me eat the rubber and drink the sap from the rubber tree. I'll bet you were right. I'll bet you were right. I'll bet you were right. I'll bet you were right. I'll bet you were a tree. I'll bet you were a bouncing baby. I'll bet you were a bouncing baby. You said that once. Nobody hears me. Just a moment, Friday. Do you really enjoy this diet of rubber? Oh, yes, stranger. The rubber has a wonderful tang! But how do you feel if you eat this rubber? Oh, it makes me feel like a king. And you want to sing in the spring. I hear Lawton overaxing. You know, silence, you all. I'd like you to excuse me. Excuse me. Go on. The light is falling. You asked me to get boxes to your chest, didn't you? Now put them back in a cage. Right here. One more peep out of you. Box it up. Give you the bird. Bird? Yes, sir. Metal art. Nightingale. Robin. Where's your place? Castello, let's get back to the play. Remember, the play is the thing. Who called this thing a play? I look pretty. I look pretty. I look pretty. I look pretty. I look pretty. I look pretty. I look pretty. I look pretty. I look pretty. See, you started the war on us about this island. Don't pay any attention to this guy, Abbot. I know every island around here like a book. I've even been to the BVD Island. The BVD Island? Yes, the West, Undy. Undy. That's when I was working in short. Castello. Castello, sir. When you keep out of this and let me talk. Now tell me, Friday, do you think we're really in danger? There's no escape for us. Listen, why even now you can hear the drums of doom. Doom, doom, doom. Doom, doom, doom. Doom, doom, doom.  Doom, doom. Listen to those jive drums, Abbot. What does it mean? It means that the voodoo queen is about to make a human sacrifice. The sacrificial fires are already burning. Help! What's the matter? Oh, it's awful. First they put me in a big pot and then they take me out of the pot. Then they put me back in the pot and then they take me out of the pot. Wait a minute. Who are you? Oh, just a little poker chip. Come on, Miles. Stop making an ace of yourself. Never mind him, Castella. Come quickly. We must run for our lives. Yes. Before the audience comes up the stage and gets us. I am moving while reading scripts. No! Abbot is going to get a pot shot at me. Do not move or you will die. Look, the voodoo queen approaches with her three sacred guards. I will speak to the guards. Greetings. Greetings. Greetings. Greetings. Sounds like my draft board. Silence, white man. The queen is about to speak. Greetings, Friday. Greetings, Saturday. Saturday. Yes, I'm Friday and she's Saturday. Four of these three guys. Sunday, Monday, and all words. Castello. All words. Be careful what you say, Castello. Yes, and do not allow your eyes to stray from the queen's face. That is right.  I'd rather face death.  Do you not realize that beauty is only skin deep?  Oh, I've heard enough. These men must die. It's your majesty. Castello did not mean it. No. Castello just said it for a lock. Lock? Yes, or lock? Sparrow. Nightingale. Come on, come on. Come on, will you get out of here? Throw these men into the sacrificial fire. Quick, we've only one chance down in your knees. We must plead for our lives. Ask her for mercy. Come on, Castello. We must ask for mercy. Mercy. Mercy. Mercy. Mercy. Mercy, Oats and Doats. The land of empty tidings. Avid and Castello will be back in just a moment. Thanks to the angst of the week. Tonight, we salute 23-year-old Captain Herschel H. Green of Mayfield, Kentucky, our Thunderbolt pilot in Italy. Flying one of a squadron of P-47s, Captain Green shot down six German planes in 15 minutes, adding his score to 30 others shot down by the squadron in a single action with the loss of only one Thunderbolt. In honor of you and your squadron mates, Captain Herschel Green, the makers of camels are sending to our soldiers overseas 300,000 camel cigarettes. Each of the four camel radio shows honors the Yank of the Week, send 300,000 camel cigarettes overseas. The total of more than a million camels sent free each week. In this country, the traveling camel caravans have thanked audiences of more than three and a half million Yanks with free shows and free camels. Camel broadcasts go out to the United States four times a week. A short way to our men overseas and to South America. Listen tomorrow to Gary Moore and Jimmy Durante, Saturday to Bob Hawking, thanks to the Yanks. Monday to Blondie. And next Thursday to Abbot and Costello with their guest, Miss Dorothy Lamour. And now here's Abbot and Costello. Thanks, Ken. Well, Costello, let's go home and get ready for next Thursday's program. Oh, Abbot, who's going to be our guest star? Oh, that beautiful Paramount star, Dorothy Lamour. Ooh, Darcy Lamour. Abbot, is she going to be wearing her sarong? No, yes, yes. I guess she'll wear her sarong. Gee, what a quiet program we're going to have. What do you mean? What do you mean quiet? Everybody will be waiting for a pin to drop. Oh, get out of here. Good night, folks. Good night, neighbors. Good night, everybody. Be sure to tune in next week for another great Abbot and Costello show with their special guest, Miss Dorothy Lamour. Charles Lawton appeared tonight through the courtesy of Metro Golden Mayor, producers of Madame Curie. And remember, camel cigarettes are packed to go around the world.  This is Ken Niles wishing you a very pleasant good night from Hollywood. More pipes smoke Prince Albert than any other tobacco in the whole world. Yes, sir. P.A.'s got plenty of pipe appeal. And you'll find out why if you get a big red two-ounce package of Prince Albert. It holds around 50 rich-tasting, swell-smoking pipefuls. And everyone is no-bite-treated to give you cool, tongue-happy smoking comfort. Prince Albert's crimp cut, too, to pack and burn and draw just right. More pipes smoke Prince Albert. It's the National Joy Smoke. We take you now to Washington, D.C., where you will hear the latest figures from the Treasury Department on the national total of war bond sales. Come in, Washington. And here is Ted R. Gamble, National Director of the War Finance Division Treasury Department. There's a fighting man watching you tonight. He's dog-tired and dirty, but neither fatigued nor night brings an end to his job of pushing back the enemy, your enemy as much as his. Yes, he's watching you tonight, and you know that his bit today was his best. He can thank God in these evening hours that he remains alive to fight through the night and tomorrow and through as many tomorrows as lie ahead until victory is won. He's watching you, watching the fourth war loan as it draws to a close. He knows as we all know that its success is with us, that our best, not our bit, will put it over. Tonight, we have reached 86% of our quota with sales of $12 billion and $62 million. Included in this total are sales to individuals of $3 billion, $157 million. With only four days left in this drive, every individual sale is needed. If you haven't bought your extra bond, make it your first order of business tomorrow. Thank you, Mr. Ted R. Gamble. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


What is up guys? Carmen Medic here and welcome back to another dose. Coming to the channel, hi, my name is Nasser and I'm now a fourth year medical student studying at King's College London. In today's video, I'm going to be showing and explaining to you all the different ways in which I use Notion in order to stay as productive and efficient as possible in my day-to-day life, my medical school life, and also my YouTube workflow. It personally helps organize pretty much everything in my life. So when Notion reached out to me and said that they wanted to sponsor one of my videos, it was honestly a no-brainer. I use Notion every single day. I find it extremely useful and I think it will as well. If you want to download Notion for yourself, it's completely free. I'll leave a link in the description down below. So thank you to Notion for sponsoring this video and let's get right into it. So this over here is Notion. This is what it looks like. I've got all these different sections over here on the left, each one of which has many different sections underneath it as well. And I have some of those sections favorited up here for easy access when I want them. So within each one of these sections, you know, I've taken the time to put this banner at the top, put little emojis everywhere, use different colors, because I find that the more friendly, good-looking and easy something is to use, the more likely I am to use it. I have my Notion split up into three main dashboards. We've got More Life, which is sort of my administrative dashboard, my medical school one, which keeps track of anything and everything to do with medical school. And then I've got my YouTube dashboard as well, which has just made my life of making, tracking and progressing my videos so much easier, particularly through this can board idea over here, which I'll go into a lot more detail with later on in the video. And then lastly, I've got this really advanced to-do list tracker, which I've named Work Harder in order to always remind myself to work harder. Now this to-do list tracker is so powerful and is so useful as a productivity tool that I think this is where I want to start my Notion tour. If you want to skip ahead to my YouTube, to my medical school or to my Life Administrative Dashboards, I'll leave timestamps for the video down over here and also in the description down below. All right, so Work Harder is a to-do list tracker on steroids. Full credit for how I set this up in Notion goes to a man named Kay. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'll leave a link to the video in the description down below, which is a tutorial on how to set this up for yourself. I'm going to show you how I use it and how it works. So it's based upon this productivity system that was devised by David Allen in a book called Get Things Done, which is sort of this like pinnacle of productivity books and this sort of efficiency productivity world that I find myself in. And basically what David says is that for your to-do list, you need to have five main sections. We've got Capture, Clarify, Organize, Reflect and Engage. So that's what this system is sort of built around. So up here, I've got my inbox. Your inbox is dedicated to any and all thoughts that you have that come up throughout the day. So let's say I'm on the train, I'm walking around, I'm sitting in a class, and I suddenly remember that I need to do something. I will immediately open up Notion on my phone or on my iPad or on my laptop, depending on where I am, and I will instantly put it into this inbox. So now let me show you how this to-do list tracker works by inserting a bunch of tasks here, and then we can work through it together. So this might be a typical day of tasks that I will have written down in my Notion inbox, these ideas that I will have captured and written down physically somewhere. Now when I'm commuting home on the train or on the bus, or I finally get to my desk and I sit down on my computer, I can now take these tasks and add metadata to them in order to more efficiently and easily organize them. So for example, you can see these columns that I have here on the right. The first one is context. So for each one of these tasks, I can give some context to what this task is. The first one is review the side effects of SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. So this is something to do with medical school. So for example, this has to do with medical school. I can do this task on my desk. I can do this using my laptop. And this is a relatively low energy task. Follow up email for GP placement. This is again to do with medical school. I can do this on my desk, pretty low energy and I need my laptop or my phone. For example, something like this that I feel very, very strongly about liking, commenting and subscribing on this video. This is a pretty high energy task. It's pretty, pretty important. You have to focus your energy a lot and make sure you get it done. And I can also use my phone or my laptop in order to do this, right? Check this out. As soon as this video is over. Alright, so now that I've gone through and added some context to each of these tasks, let's say I find myself on the train or on the bus on my phone and I want to know what tasks can I do on my phone right now? I can go to context, I can add a filter and I can say context contains phone. And then it'll change this table to show me all of the types of tasks I can do on my phone. Similarly, I can do this for when I'm on my desk or when I'm with my parents or when I'm with Alexia or whatever, I can organize my tasks in this very easy way to glance what I can do at different times of the day in different places and on what devices. On top of that, I can add here a due date. So for example, let's say review the side effects of SSRIs. This isn't exactly urgent. I can definitely do this today. Let's put the due date as today or let's do tomorrow actually follow up this GP, see that tomorrow 20 past med questions. I want to do this today. I want to do this now. So let's say ASAP definitely liking subscribing commenting on this video I want to do right now call my mom and dad. That's something that I want to do tomorrow. So let me add that to tomorrow and I don't know find a new audio book. It's not exactly urgent. We'll put it for Monday. Anything that I want to do urgently, I can tick as ASAP in this column. So this also would be here, for example, and then at the end of this table, I need to assign these tasks to a project in my notion dashboard. So I have three main projects. We've got life administrative project, medical school and YouTube. This one over here review the side effects of SSRIs is medical school. Once I assign it to medical school, it disappears from my inbox. So the very important thing about this is that I've captured all of my ideas that I want in my inbox. I've clarified what they are given them some context at you day, etc. And now I'm organizing them. I'm moving them to the place that they need to be. If I go through for this again, this one as well is medical school. This one here, for example, is a YouTube related project. This here is YouTube as well. So now if we scroll down a little bit further on my dashboard, you can see I have a couple of different headings. So the do now area is for tasks that I have selected the ASAP tick box. So these are tasks that I want to do right now, and they will appear over here. If I decide for some reason that I don't need to do them right now, they are not an ASAP task, I can deselect this checkbox and it'll automatically disappear from this area. That's what's so beautiful about this to do list is that it's really variable, it's adaptive, and it changes as I change and as I update different tasks. If we move down a little bit, we get to the do soon area. Now do soon, I've set this table up so that it only shows me tasks here that are due within the next week within the next seven days. So for example, call mom and dad if I decide to change this to the week after more than seven days from now, it'll automatically disappear from this area. And so this is really useful on the weekends when I sit down on my computer and I look at sort of what are the tasks that I need to do over the next week? Do I have an essay due? Do I have some emails to write? Do I have to prepare for a test? What's coming up in the next week? And then if we scroll a little bit further down, I have my medical school, my life admin and my YouTube areas. Now these three areas hold all of the tasks relevant to that project, regardless of whether they are due now or due soon. And as I work through these tasks, I can check them off and complete them as done. Once I've clicked that done checkbox, it disappears from this project area and it moves down into the completed section.  This is how I organize those things. This is how I'm able to keep on top of and track everything that I'm doing. I find this to do this track are so useful. It's completely changed how I think about my tasks and how I complete tasks throughout the day. I'd highly recommend you guys try it out for yourself and implement it into your own life. All right, so now that I'm finished focusing on how I can be as efficient and organized as possible, we can move on to some of the more relaxed things that I have in my Notion dashboard. And I think I'm going to start off with more life. Within Notion, you're sort of dealing in things called blocks. So if I highlight this over here, you'll see that this is one block. This big long title inbox is one block. And with all these blocks, you can sort of move them around to wherever you want. That doesn't look good. Let's put it back where it was. And that way you get a much more customizable workspace, which is something that I really take advantage of as you'll see. So more life, what you guys see here at the top is sort of the basic or beginner version of a to-do list tracker. It's the one that I used before I implemented this work harder one over here. I actually really like this one because I think it's so simple, neat and organized. I've got this template built in over here so that every time I click this plus, it automatically generates a new block that is a to-do list and it's highlighted in a color coordinated fashion for medical school, YouTube or life administrative tasks. So this is also something great about Notion. You can implement these different types of tools that you just can't really find anywhere else. So for example, if you hit the slash button here, you get sort of this long, long list of different types of things you can put here. And throughout this video, I'm going to show you a bunch of different ones that I used. So let's say that I wanted to create a page here. I can right click page and then it opens up this new linked page to that place that I just was. For example, let's call this make and drink more coffee. I'm going to add a little bit of an emoji just to make it a little bit neater and nicer. And then if we go back to more life, you can see here that I've made a link to make and drink more coffee. And if I click on it, it takes us to that page that we were just on. So similar to my previous to-do list throughout the day, I would sort of come up with tasks that I want to do over here. And then when I come back and sit down on my computer, I can move these around and put them in their correct places. I can organize them to where they need to be according to whether they need to be done now, soon, or later. And if I ever want to add another to-do list, I just click this plus and it automatically creates this to-do list with the green highlighted thing. It's amazing. So yeah, a much simpler to-do list tracker than the one I showed you before, but I think it also has its place and it is quite useful as well. And then underneath that to-do list I have over here sort of anything that I just want to keep track of over long periods of time. I've got them broadly split up into experience, consume, and miscellaneous. Under experience, I've got a list of restaurants that I either have been to already or I want to go to in the future. Big shout out to Alexia for coming up with the vast majority of these recommendations. This is like her go-to thing. I've also got the same thing for bars here in London that I want to go to, a list of movies that I've watched or want to watch in the future. And again, this can be organized in a much nicer and neater way, sort of how I've done my books. So if we look at my books over here, I've converted sort of the list that I would normally have like you've seen here in restaurants and I've turned it into this Kanban board. So with this board over here I've got different columns for the different types of books that I have or for what status these books are in. So here on the left I've got recommendations that I've gotten from other people. Here I've got my list books that I've personally looked up and researched and I want to read and then I have in progress books that I'm currently reading right now. So if we go to the books app on my phone and we go to library, you can see that Getting Things Done by David Allen, which was the inspiration for that work harder to do list that you saw earlier and then also Fire on the Horizon and Becoming Michelle Obama. These are all books that I'm currently reading right now. So they go in the in progress section and then once I finish reading a book I can just simply move it over to the finished section and this is a really nice way to keep track of sort of all of the books that I've read, what I'm currently working through and this list of recommendations is perfect because when I finish a book and I run out of things to read on my commutes, I can easily refer to this list and I know what books I want to read in the future. So yeah I find this incredibly helpful. I also think it's kind of cool to see the different books that I've read. I didn't actually start enjoying reading until quite late in my life so that's why this list isn't very extensive but it's something that I definitely really enjoy right now. The pros of having a board like this instead of sort of just a normal list that you might keep in your notes app or in one of the many other note-taking apps that are out there is that one this helps organize your information in a very clear way and then two at a glance you can see all the different meta data about the information that's in front of you. So like yes all these books could be on a list that said done or not done but then you wouldn't have sort of which recommendations that I hear from other people versus which ones that I come up with myself, which ones are my currently reading and obviously these are sort of the headings that are important for me but for you they'll be completely different and maybe you don't want to have a list of books you want to have a list of all the different I don't know Pokemon that you like and the different types of Pokemon or maybe the different stocks that you want to invest in. Like you can literally do anything you want whatever your passion is whatever your hobby is you can use these tools that are in Notion to organize it in a way that works for you. I've also got the same thing for podcasts over here celebrities that I've met countries that I've traveled to where I organize all of this different information and you know before I had everything right over here in Notion I used to have it scattered all over my laptop in different apps and different word documents and different everything and it was just hard to sort of see this information at a glance and when I needed this information it was difficult for me to get but now that it's here and I know exactly where it is it's just instantly accessible. You know some things that I've been tracking for the longest time I think this gym I've been using since 2016 I've got it split up in sort of the different muscle groups that I want to work on different days and I've even been tracking my weight for a long time as well. Yeah since 2017 not every single day but every now and again when I go to the gym I'll write down my weight so it's really interesting to see these things that I've kept track of for long periods of time that I can always refer to easily and quickly at a glance in the future. I've even got my favorite quotes from songs some lyrics and some writing that I've done myself as well. I said at the beginning of this video and I'll say it again I just feel that notion is such a great way to organize your life and then down over here I've got a calendar the way that I inserted this was I went to one of those little blocks that I've been talking about this whole time you just click slash calendar in line and it'll insert it for you. Now the reason that it's very empty is because I purposefully want to keep this calendar as sparse as possible. I only put in here very big and important upcoming deadlines for example if I have a test if I'm taking vacation or holiday if I have an essay do you want a certain date that's kind of what I want to put here I already have a full calendar app for sort of my day-to-day activities and here I just want to see the really important things that are coming up and thankfully in the month of November I have none of those great all right so that's pretty much everything in my more live section my more like dashboard here on notion I actually really really like it I think it's aesthetically pleasing and it helps me organize my data quite well the next place that I want to tackle is medical school now medical school I've got this lovely little banner up here at the top that's me in a couple of years from now and then down here I have just just everything organized so nicely let me walk you through it so here at the top I have these different pages which are links to other pages that I can click on and they have information that I kind of want to review on a regular basis so as far this is a method of communication and handing over important information to your seniors so this is something that I do quite often I'll tell my senior about a patient that I saw you know I want to have this quickly accessible so I can make sure that I do it right and get very good at it the news chart this is how we keep track of observations for patients on the wards something that are I need to be very very familiar with and a bunch of other pages over here for my usm at least studying that I did over the summer this is every single subject in my fat fat first aid book and for each one of these I just have tons and tons of questions that I wrote for myself and each one of these has an answer hidden underneath the toggle so for example what can panic disorder be treated with I click this toggle and I'll see peroxitine which is an ssri that we talked about before conveniently and how I introduce these toggles is again you go to a new block you hit slash and then you write toggle and so I'll write out the question for example let's say what is the powerhouse of the cell everyone should be able to answer this and then I'll write the answer my to a conjure up and then I can hide the answer my to conjure up beneath this toggle and in this way this is sort of a way for me to have flashcards within notion I can easily and quickly test my knowledge for these different sections speaking of testing my knowledge for different sections let's try something out over here something that I will get right on camera musculoskeletal and dermatology the median nerve supplies what parts of the hand okay this is pretty easy and the palm first digit second digit and then half of the third digit armor aspect of the palm first second and half of the third digit see I'm actually a medical student if you ever doubted that I was a medical student there you go so anyways this is where I keep track of all of my flashcard toggle things for my studying at medical school I'm currently going through the ones that I need to do for UK medical schools on past med and so I just completed the pediatrics block I've got tons of questions over here and tables and whatever yeah you can even hide tables behind these toggles really really useful feature and yeah like I said now I'm doing psychiatry so I've got a bunch of different questions over here I've also got notes for my quality improvement project each one of the meetings that I have I create a new page for and I type in my notes over there here on the right I have a to-do list of sort of general things that I want to achieve general things that I want to get good at so for example review of the neuro exam abdominal exams this is a mental state exam which I've done quite a few times now on the psychiatric placement so I've checked it off as done on my to-do list and then every now and again I will just delete them as necessary to free up space over here down here I've got this sort of gallery display which again I introduced by clicking slash and then gallery I think it's called yeah gallery in line you click it and it'll open it up for you but basically what I've got here is all the different blocks that I'm going to have over years four and five of medical school I just finished pediatrics I'm currently on psychiatry next I'm doing where to mess and critical care then absent gynae long-term conditions acute care but the cool thing is is that within each one of these galleries look at how much information I have here okay I click on pediatrics and then I've just got all this information here and each one of these has more pages that I can click into and it just gets deeper and deeper and deeper if there's anything that I access quite often I can save it to my favorites over here so I can access it at a glance for example those past med notes that I just talked about I can click here and it'll automatically take me to that page so if I click back to pediatrics over here and I open it as a full page you can see I've got my lectures most of which I write out as notes on my ipad so I don't really store them over here I've got different clinical skills templates over here I've got a breakdown of the different types of tasks I need to complete from my portfolio so for example I need to submit a daily log every single day of every single week I've got reflections to write in sort of these different areas over here and I've ticked them off as completed as I finish them and as you can see I'm done I'm 100% complete on this part of my portfolio different clinical skills that I need to do and then other over here this is the schedule that I had this was very very useful because I could quickly look at it at a glance and know where I'm supposed to be every single week and then down here every single clinic that I sat in I've got notes for the patients that I saw that I've typed out on my ipad I don't want to go through everything because it's going to get boring but the point is that I've just got a wealth of information over here all very neatly organized and sorted in a way that's easily accessible and aesthetic for me I've got a whole list of notes over here that I can easily access at a glance from my phone when I'm in the hospital on the train on the bus wherever all right so that's my medical school dashboard at a glance I think now let's move on to my youtube dashboard probably something that you guys will find quite interesting a little bit above behind the scenes as to how it is that I make these videos organize them come up with my ideas and things like that here I've got the banner which is the intro that you guys see in a lot of my videos cheeky little film camera over here and then I've generally got this put up into projects on the left and miscellaneous on the right so some things that I think you guys might find interesting is collaborations with companies so this again I've got set up as a Kanban board I've got companies that I want to work with people that I'm either talking to working with currently over here notion as an example and then here I've got companies that I have worked with in the past and I've completed sponsorships with them ones for which I'm awaiting payment from and so again without sort of a Kanban board like this to easily organize in my head who I've worked with who I'm waiting for payment from who I've completed sponsorships with it honestly just becomes so muddled and complicated and confusing and because I'm a full-time medical student I need this to be as easy and simple as possible I've already got tons of work to do I've got tons of hours to spend in the hospital I need my extracurriculars to be just simple fast efficient and easy and so having an app like Notion and using these different tools and displays and views really helps me in my workflow and keeps me organized I've also got my pinned comments over here every single pinned comment you've ever seen on any one of my videos I've got stored over here I write out in this app first and then I copy paste it into YouTube it's really cool to look back through this sometimes and see all the different pinned comments that I write I've got some things that I'm working on in the future over here stay subscribed and stay tuned for those and yeah just keep track of a bunch of different things that I need for my YouTube channel right over here on my computer and then if we scroll down over here we have what I've called the idea box with this nice little cloud emoji this is sort of the lifeblood it's at the core of me organizing and scripting my YouTube videos and my ideas and just improving my workflow when it comes to YouTube videos a big big shout to Ali Abdal who showed me this method of keeping track of videos he's a small up and coming YouTuber if you guys haven't heard about him or checked him out I'll leave a link to his videos in the description down below on the left column over here I have idea so each one of these is an idea that I've thought of for a potential YouTube video in the future the second it enters my head whether I'm on a run I'm on a bus I'm on clinical placement anywhere I will immediately write the idea down on my phone I don't want to forget these things even if they're bad ideas when I look at them sitting down on my desk later on I can build upon them and I can explore them and I can do research and I can make them into an actually good idea so I write down pretty much anything that I think of so I've got 46 ideas over here it's a pretty long list and then once I have an idea here that I start thinking about you know the cogs start turning and I'm like you know what maybe I can make this into a video I'll drag and drop it into the next step of the board so for example here if you take a look at some of these videos you'll know the types of things that are coming up soon on the channel and then once I choose one of these ideas it is the golden goose egg and I'm like okay this is what I'm going to work on it moves into the scripting section so for example for this notion tour before I filmed this video I wrote out a super detailed and long script of everything that I wanted to talk about everything that I wanted to show because I find that it makes for a better video when I actually set down and turn on my camera it helps me sort of keep my thoughts straight and remember to show everything that I wanted to show once the video has been scripted it is ready for recording and once I've recorded it I can move it from the scripted section to the recorded section which hopefully I will have done if I didn't forget to press record okay good so here these are videos that I've already recorded I've already filmed them they're stored somewhere on one of my million hard drives in my drawer and then from there I can choose which ones I want to edit and once they're edited they're ready to publish and once I've published them they are done so this here is sort of a list of the videos that I've done since I've started using this Kanban board method of displaying my YouTube video ideas and tracking my workflow from start to finish so again this method of organizing my YouTube space and videos has been so incredibly valuable for me and obviously if you don't make YouTube videos you know you can use this for anything in your life if you're writing an essay you're working on a project maybe you're building a business you're starting a side hustle with your friends whatever you can break down a huge huge project into these smaller simpler tasks and it really helps getting things done step by step and completing things and seeing the progress and moving them and of course if you click on each one of these things like I showed you before you can add so much information to them and something else that's cool about Notion let's say that I have a new video idea so I've got this new video idea over here so I click on it to open it and I sort of want to build out what this video is going to be about and so down here I've created a premade template also Ali Abdel showed me how to do this shout out one more time and so once I click on this video idea here it will automatically populate my page with the template that I had created from before so for example now I have an area to start thinking about the title for this video I can write down some ideas of what my thumbnail might look like I have my intro the body of my video sections one two and three and outro and then this checklist of things for publishing later on so look at how easy that is I think of an idea I put it into Notion I click one button it sets out this template for me and I can immediately start thinking and writing about what this video is going to look like in the future and that's really the beautiful thing about Notion it just helps improve my workflow helps make everything that I would normally do anyway more efficient helps me save time helps me organize my life and you know as someone who's consistently thinking about how I can organize my life make myself more efficient save more time do more things this is exactly what I need so yeah definitely very helpful I have a lot to say about this idea box but maybe I'll save that for a future video and alright guys I think that's everything that I wanted to show you in my Notion all my different dashboards over here I do have a couple more things over here but they're more of the same more pages and more things where I store different pieces of information honestly I'm just scratching the surface of this program it's so powerful and there's so many different views you can do there's so many different tasks you can like write code to change different things I'm a complete novice at Notion there's plenty of people who have made much more detailed videos about how you can use this app to its maximum potential I'm still learning and I keep adding things on every time I watch a new video so yeah I'm excited to see sort of how my Notion changes over the months to come the different things that I implement different views and boards that I use there's just so much more to learn please do visit the link in the description down below and download Notion for yourself try it out and see how it can improve your own productivity and how you can implement it into your life and your own routine thank you to Notion for sponsoring this video if you enjoyed it don't forget to leave a like and also subscribe to my channel to see more content from me in the future and I'll catch you in the next one peace


What's up everybody jason from jazby's case breaks calm last little filler here to unlock flawless collegiate random hip break Excuse me, we're gonna give away four spots and that 389 39 random hip break of flawless collegiate in this 1920 penini chronicles NBA fat pack break ground teams number 781 So again guys 30 total spots super high-risk high reward type of break first We do the break my customer names and teams distribute the hits out then at the end of the break We'll randomize only the 30 customer names that bought in For my hair Brian Frank down Igor and then customers in the top four We'll get a spot in that break and coming up next in a separate video is to break itself So let's do that now guys. Let's do the break first. Let's roll it and it's a two and a five seven times. Good luck one Two three four five six and seven Ryan Frank down Igor seven seven one One two three four five six and seven 76ers down the Dallas Mavericks All right, so stick towards you guys guys Memphis Grizzlies Lakers Lonnie You got pelicans out here in Igor Yeah, pretty much those a couple bigger teams guys. Good luck RJ Barrett Steph Curry Saku Dumboya Nicola Melly Jackson Hayes PJ Washington, Jr. KPJ The Kendrick Nunn you got a hollow the Andre Hunter Brandon Clark and Yanis on the decompo. Now depends loose Now let's switch scenes give away those spots and flawless number top four get in guys. Good luck Yo roll Four and a one five times. Good luck One two three four and five four and one five times number top four get in Igor Roy Laurel and Igor there you go, man boom Five times top four get in congrats guys coming up nets is to break itself. Appreciate it