real he's real he is a real NFL football not even just player but a person and the Isabella is real the guy that we saw on the Cardinals he wasn't a myth the guy at the Raven sign to the practice squad it feels like ages ago he wasn't a myth he's real because he has been called up for the game tomorrow against the Atlanta fight can you all believe it he all believe it this is crazy we've been asking about this guy week after week after week after week after week after week Rashad Bateman went down he was hurt Ravens brought in and I believe they brought in Andy Isabella even before they signed to Sean Jackson I'm pretty sure but let me know if I'm wrong because y'all know I'll be wrong a lot of stuff but Andy Isabella the guy who we the Ravens it's like it's weird because it was announced that the Ravens are signing Andy Isabella to the practice squad and then it was like oh wait a minute Andy Isabella did not get signed to the practice squad yet then it was like okay Andy Isabella is in Baltimore he's officially signed with the Ravens practice squad okay but then after that we never heard from him again never heard about him again didn't hear about him in practice anything didn't hit didn't even know what number he was wearing don't even know what number he's wearing I guess we'll find out tomorrow but he is real this is this is crazy this is crazy but welcome let's read the the report straight from the Baltimore Ravens it said we have elevated why receive Andy Isabella it's crazy right just three that first part alone is crazy right but let's read the rest because we got some more stuff to talk about with this game we have what elevated why receive Andy Isabella and quarterback Anthony Brown from the practice squad for Saturday's game against the Atlanta Falcons now I want to say is this Anthony Brown's third call up because it'll be Falcons he got called up last week against the Browns and then he get called up against the Steelers too right so yeah this I think this will be his third call up since he's on the practice squad so for Anthony Brown if this is his third call up y'all let me know if I'm wrong but if this is his third call up then the Ravens would either have to put him on the active roster or they would need to release him from the practice squad and then he would have to clear waivers nobody else would sign him and then they could sign him back to the practice squad again and that's if they wanted to keep him around so you got two options so because again when you call up somebody from the practice squad three times if you want to keep them around you either put them on a roster or they go back to the practice squad so we'll see what happens with that now it's funny because Devon DuVernay we know Devon DuVernay he was used as a kick returner as a wire receiver as a jet sweep king and he lost his crown for a little bit early on this season he lost his crown DuVernay was like I don't want to be no jet sweep king I'm relinquishing my crown give it to somebody else but then Greg Roman end up giving him his crown back he's like no you gonna be running him jet sweeps buddy you think you think you're getting away from the jet sweep oh nobody you running them jet sweeps so he got his crown back he went from the prince then he went back to the king again so with him being out you need someone when a king dies you need somebody to take the king's place Andy Isabella you have been chosen my friend you've been chosen my friend and the reason why I say that is because the Ravens are setting it up Ryan Mink he wrote this article and let's read about it let's read some little excerpts about he said Ravens have elevated Y receiver Andy Isabella in quarterback Anthony Brown for Saturday's game against the Atlanta Falcons it will be as Isabella's first game as a Raven after signing to the practice squad on October 10th Ravens may be looking for Isabella to replace the speed element lost by Devin Duvenay's foot injury which sent him to injury reserve this week then he listed the drag I just read it a former second round pick in 2019 Isabella ran the 40 odd dash in four to seven seconds in the combine the 5 foot 9 speedster never broke out in his three seasons Arizona but made some big plays along the way registering 31 catches in 426 yards in three touchdowns now the Ravens they love that but where Ravens really fell in love with Andy Isabella it was this past preseason y'all remember remember the battles that he was having with Brandon Stevens in that preseason game against the Cardinals I do I know y'all do too but anyway here we go this is it right here this the kicker this this the one the Ravens often utilize Duvenay as a lateral speed thread in their offense using him on jet sweeps and at the least a decoy to stretch yeah okay but anyway it said let me let me start over the Ravens often utilize Duvenay as a lateral speed thread in their offense using him on jet sweeps and at the least a decoy to stretch the defense and open up running lanes Isabella could offer a similar threat X Thursday whether the Ravens feel like there's one player who can feel Duvenay is void or committee head coach John Hardball said it's a mix of those two so Ryan Ming trying to let you know like hey you you thought just because the jet sweep King is gone that he won't be replaced oh we got something for that but anyway um shout out to Andy Isabella excited to see him go to work we're definitely gonna be hoping that he goes off is he gonna be a returner oh cool is it gonna be a receiver all right cool but is he gonna be the jet sweep master yeah even cooler so um Andy Isabella and Anthony Brown they got called up now and more serious news um Josh Bynes who has been inactive and active and active and inactive and inactive and active and active and inactive they released them they waved them they cut them whatever you want to call it um Josh Bynes is somebody who had been the hero Josh Bynes has continued to be the hero the hero for the Baltimore Ravens he played back when Ray Lewis was playing he was a hero back then he filled in for him back then and then all these years later because remember Josh Bynes he was the one that made that last tackle in the Super Bowl game against the 49ers he it was him he was the one that sealed the deal for the Ravens to win the Super Bowl but Josh Bynes he has been a Ravens hero he's been their go-to guy um back in 2019 when they had a peanut Patrick on Wasu they had Kenny Young the Ravens were like we don't know about that we don't know about these guys then they traded Kenny Young then they ended up signing Josh Bynes and LJ Fort and they held it down then Josh Bynes he came back again when they things a little shaky with Patrick Queen I think the year at what was it 2021 and then they signed him again in 2022 so they just keep bringing Josh Bynes back over and over but now really ever since Roquan Smith ever since Roquan Smith Josh Bynes been inactive a lot and I think I want to say actually maybe right before Roquan Smith I think he was inactive in that Tampa Bay game and the Tampa Bay game was before Ravens got Roquan Smith I'm pretty sure but y'all again like always like I keep saying let me know if I'm wrong but anyway they um they waived Josh Bynes because he they weren't using them at all anymore like for nothing but they added they signed Isaiah Mack to the 53 man roster Isaiah Mack I believe was on the practice squad and what he is going to be doing is filling that role for Kaleas Campbell who is out for we don't know how long but we'll see because Kaleas Campbell him being out is a big blow because the Kaleas Campbell it's like he doesn't make many flashy plays but he can make some special plays obviously the field goal block where that was a flashy play and a special play but sometimes with Kaleas Campbell when they'll be them plays with or you think the this little running back about to get a bunch of yards and Kaleas Campbell this dude wingspan is like 15 feet wide so he stretched his long arms around that running back and wrap him up and say oh you're not going anywhere and then it'd be like okay only a gain of one that's it shout out to Kaleas Campbell he will be missed oh Marcus Peters he's out the game oh look at that my watch over there connecting with me but Marcus Peters he'll be out the game tomorrow too that oh wow I forget about that so I thought Ardarius Washington was gonna get called up for this game but nope nope so it'll be Marlon Humphrey it'll be Brandon Stevens probably get some Pepe Williams Kevan Seymour he'll probably have a lot more action tomorrow so yeah we'll see how it goes man but that's that so yeah Andy Isabella is happening it's funny because we just recorded a question from subscriber video like maybe like four or five hours ago we were gonna drop it tonight but then I saw this Andy Isabella news I say wait a minute the question from subscribers can wait that can wait we'll drop that tomorrow morning or another day or something like that but my guy Keon who is a team keeping clean patron appreciate you my guy Keon in that episode he had asked he said hey when we gonna find out about Andy Isabella when we gonna find him what's going on with Andy Isabella and I told him my answer to the question was like hey you you probably know more than us but look at that maybe maybe he really did know more than us because the timing of that question and then this news comes out today I don't know coincidence I think not but just like Andy Isabella is no longer when it comes to being such a mystery for the Baltimore Ravens and just a mystery of a person we out


Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today I'll have another episode of Gmail tips and tricks video and I'll talk about how to create a new Gmail account from scratch. If this is your first time or a pre-visit thank you for your support on this channel. I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you're into thinking outside the box you may want to subscribe this channel. If you're looking for more Gmail tips and tricks videos there will be links in the description box below. So I'm going to assume that you have never created a Gmail account and this is the first time you are creating a Gmail account. So this is the video for you. So the first thing you have to open up a browser and you have to go to gmail.com. So right now I have a Chrome browser and I'm using incognito mode just to not to mess up with my own email and the website you're looking at amitdan.com. This is actually my own website. So the first thing we'll do we'll go to gmail.com. So let's type in gmail.com where the address bar is gmail.com and click on it. So now you can see that you're greeted with a message that create an account and secure smart and easy way to use email. So this is the Gmail main page when you don't have any Gmail account or you haven't logged into any Gmail. So we're just going to create or click on the button where it says create an account. So here let's say create an account and if you're looking to open up an email for work this is going to be this button but we are talking about personal email. So we'll just click on here. So now it's asking you a few personal questions. So first name. So I'm just going to say that you know Jerry last name Bondon and username. This is going to be your username what you'd like to you know your email address to be. So for example my own personal email has my name attached to it and you can choose anything you want as long as it's available. So for example if you are trying my first email let's see if that is available. So my first email email and it's going to give you a message that this username is taken try another one. So let's say if your name is Bill Smith or Jerry Bondon you can just try using your real name but I don't think it's going to work. Most likely it's not going to work because everything is taken. So you can be like a little creative and say Jerry Bondon one you can add one or one two three but even you can see that you know these are all taken. So you can add Jerry Bond Toronto. Let's see if that works even that says taken. Let's add Canada even that one is taken. So what we can do we can do Jerry Bondon Toronto today. Okay so I have a feeling everything is taken. So what I'm going to do I'll just you know use this one what they're suggesting must my first email 533. So now you have an email address which is my first email 533 at gmail.com. Now you need a password and it has to be eight or more characters with a mix of letter numbers and symbols. Symbols are signs like you know for example at it's not showing you actually I can show you the password if you click here. So these are like symbols number add so you have to choose one of these and then you're going to have a like you know email. So what I can I can do I'll just let's choose a password my first my first and all that Jerry and then all that at and then all at one because you have to have a number. Okay so this is going to be our password. So when you're creating your own email do not show your password to anyone do not give your password to anyone just this is just to show you how to create an email that's why I'm showing to you showing you this password but you know once we're done with our tutorial I'm just going to delete this email this is not going to work so that's the reason I'm showing you. So when you're creating your own email do not share show or give out your password to anyone. So we're just going to type in the same password right here. So my first Jerry at one. So I'm just going to copy this pass password and you know open up a notepad just to you know write it down because I don't want to you know forget this. So I'll just you know leave it on my notepad. Now what we you have to do so you're going to click next and it's just creating your you know gmail email. Now you have to verify your phone number. So the thing is it's going to send your text message and you have to verify your phone number and I don't see any other option except a phone number. So you have no choice but giving it a phone number. So what's going to happen here that I'm going to give my phone number but I'm blocked that I'll block that. So you know it doesn't go public. So I'll just enter my phone number just for verification purposes. It might block me because I have already other emails with my phone number but let's see what happens. So I'm just going to enter my phone number next. Okay so the phone number works and Google sent me a message and I have to just enter that message here. So whenever you're entering your phone number you're going to get a text message and you have to you know get that verification code from your phone number and you have to put it in here. So this part is very important. If you do not do that you're not going to be able to open an email. So the verification code I got is G398231. You can see that G is already there so I'm just going to enter 398231 and if I click verify then it's going to verify. Now I see that another option that called instead you can use that option as well. It doesn't matter but text is what I'm using right now so verify. Okay so looks like we have an email address and just to be sure I'm just going to you know copy this email address and put it on my notepad. So when I need to delete that I'll just delete that and so it's just telling you congratulations. You have your email address now which is my first email 533 at gmail.com. Now it's saying that Google will use this number only for account security and here this number will be visible to others and you can choose later whether to use it for other purposes that's fine. Now recover email address. This is kind of optional but I suggest you to do that. What it is that you know if you lose your password or email. So here we have the recovery email address. What it is that you have to enter an email address and if you lose your email and or password then Google will you know send you the information here. This is I strongly recommend you do that and even if you do not have another email what you can do you can ask your friend or relatives to share their you know email if it's someone you can trust because Google is going to send you the recovery email or password into that email. So this one it can be your espouse or friend or partner or someone you know very close and you can use their email and or if you have other email if you you can enter it here too but if you don't want that then you can just leave it this is totally optional. So now it's asking you to enter a date of birth so what I'm going to do I'm just going to enter like a fake date of birth so let's say February 1 1900 and gender I'm not sure these are optional or not but looks like they're like you know I have to enter them and it says that why we ask for this information so looks like we are done here so I'll just click next and get more from your number so if you like you can add your phone number to your account for use across Google services so this is just you know you can add the same phone number you provided for your Google account so you can actually you know opt-in or you have the option to not but I'll just like you know let's say we'll opt-in so what happens that it links all your Google stuff with the same number for security and for video message and calls or other Google services so that's a nice option so you can just you know click yes I'm in now we're gonna have to go through some privacy and you can just like you know read them if you would like but usually most of us you know most people I think they just click on agree so now here you have your first email so you can see that this is your primary inbox and this is your social inbox so what it means that you know here you're going to get your emails from like you know let's say Facebook or Instagram and here we have promotions so let's say like you know if like in a marketing or other things they're asking to buy something then here you're going to get it you can actually march them into one or you can keep them separated my understanding is that it's easier to have just one inbox instead of like you know three separated tabs and you can add or remove tabs click inbox settings so let's do that so you're going to click on inbox settings and it's just giving you how to remove that so what you can do you can just remove social promotion and then save and you can see that you know now those tabs are gone so you have one main inbox and google just sent you a kind of like you know congratulations email and here is your first email now it says the dynamic email parts of this email are dynamic and can collect and show up to the information so it's just give see a message of what type of email art they and what's going to happen here if you take a look on the left so this is your like you know panel and here you're going to see other stuff for example inbox sent draft and more so the scent is going to show all the email you're going to be sending so let's create an email here and I'm going to just send we can just send to this email address so for example let's click here it's kind of like you know I'm sending it to myself and we can set test and you can even say hello doesn't hurt and send and you can see that you got your own email which is right here now this email because you sent it from this mail email address is going to be under the send box which is going to be let's find that right here sent and it's going to show you all the emails you're sending now here you have a folder called spam and this is going to be you know all the spam emails are going to be caught and stay here and it will give you the option to delete them but if you don't delete them manually then system is going to delete them every 30 days so you can just you know keep an eye on this in this folder sometimes you can just check once in a while which I do because sometimes good emails get caught as spam so you might want to just keep an eye here and then here you have some important emails so this is kind of just like you know google whatever email google thinks is important it's going to show you here and here this is going to show you any draft email let's say email you started writing but you haven't sent it yet so those are going to show up here and another feature you have here all mail so this is going to show you all your emails even if you are archive something so for example let's go back to inbox you know let's say this is your email I'd like to archive this email it's kind of like you know saving your email so it doesn't show up in the inbox so if you want to archive email then you can choose one or multiple and then if you hit archive then this is going to take that email to that all email section where all email appears so for example this is that archive email the way you can tell this is archive because it doesn't have any level or folder attached to it for example here you can see inbox and here you don't see any folder attached to it so that means that this is archived email so now I'm going to show you how you can create level levels or folder so to kind of organize your email so if you click on one email or if you actually can go and set that email by clicking on it either way it works so let's say we click that email and here you see that there's levels so if you click on it then you can create level so I'm going to say that this is kind of personal just to create a level and if you click here create new then you can see that you know it's giving you another message and create and then it's going to put that level or that email under personal so here you're going to see that there is a like you know folder or level or tab which is personal so that email is now going to be staying in personal folder so for example this email should be in that personal folder and the reason it has that white part kind of highlighted because you created a level and this is in your personal folder but the reason is still it's showing up in the inbox because you haven't archived it yet so if you click here and if you hit archive then this is going to disappear from your inbox and this is going to be go into now personal folder or you can access from all emails folder okay so now if you'd like to later let's say you have too many levels and if you'd like to manage then you can click here and you know you can manage all your levels so I'm not going to go into details because then the video is going to be like you know probably more than one hour which I don't want I want to keep anything simple so I'll just go over the basic stuff now let's send ourselves another email another email test and send an email so if you go to inbox so now you can see that you have the capability to add email to a task let's see how a doctor's appointment or dentist or something and you'd like to save that email as a task or add that email to your task then you can just choose that email and click here then this is going to be added to your task list which is going to be showing on the right column and here you can even do more stuff by going through this so for example let's say you know you can rename it you can sort it out and you can do it as a reminder so you have a variety of option so you can just like you know that's something I wanted to show you and here you can see that you have an option to go to your calendar so it's loading your calendar and then it's taking a few seconds so I'll just you know click it exit but it's going to load your calendar and here this is kind of google's note taking system it's called keep notes and you can like you know add notes and anything so this is a very handy feature and actually I use google keep a lot to create notes and then here you can add a task manually and then here you can add contacts for example your friends or anyone to your list and it's going to be a lot easier to send them email so now here you have more options here you can actually create a meeting or join a meeting so via google google's you know meeting app which is meet.google.com and you have to just like and give them this link and you can send them invite and start now and then you can use google hangouts which is like a kind of chat service and then let's see what we have here so we have here kind of create new label so instead of creating a label from your email you can actually create a label before to organize your email just from here and then the other thing is here that we have an option to start an email so let's see if you think this is an important email and you'd like to start it so you can just click here then it's going to create a star and if you remove that you just click it again that's going to remove it and also you can create a star from here so that's going to be another way you can you know add a star and you can add like you know multiple star if you just click more than one you can just click one by one now here you can sort out your email by all none read unread or start unstart so if you have like you know hundreds of or thousands of emails then this is a good way you can like and sort them out and let's say you received an email and you think this is a spam and you can just mark that email as a spam email by clicking here and also if you'd like to delete that email you can do that just by deleting clicking here and also if you already read an email but you'd like to mark that email not read then you can just you know click it and then you see that it looks like it's not it's not ready yet so there are lots of options here and you can do these from staying in the inbox or you can do the same thing when you click on that email and go to that individual email and if you'd like to compose an email then you just hit this like you know huge button compose and then you have to type in the email address you're sending it to and then you can let's say we are sending ourselves then you can subject it hello or hi and we will just say how are you so you can see that I just pressed our road y and it's giving an option u because it's just the ai is trying to predict what you're trying to write so if you do not want to write the whole thing all you have to do is press tab let's do that and you can see that you know it's completing that word for you so that's a very good option and this is called smart compose so it's just suggest you to save time so we're going to keep it now once you finish writing an email you can send click here to send that email so it's going to send the email right away and if you click here it looks like there are other options and you can actually schedule to send so we can send like you know at a later date or later time and you can choose custom you know date and time which is here and then another option when you click send then you have a few seconds to stop that email so let's say I'm I hit send and here you can see that undo button so if you just click here that means that that email was not sent I think I was too late to click the undo let me just take a look here yeah unfortunately I was too late but if you just you know hit that undo button then it's going to send that email let's compose another email because I didn't show you something some other stuff okay so now here you can choose to you know change your formatting options if you click here you you're going to see this in a bar and here you can kind of like you know highlight bold you know use the underline italic all these options you have numbered list points so you have many more options here just by clicking this button and then if you'd like to attach a file then you can just click here it could be at like in a picture pdf file and it's going to just like you know show any files and anything so for example we're going to just attach this Niagara Falls tour and you can see that you know it attached that file and if you'd like to remove that then you can just click here and it's going to remove attachment now here you can you have the option to insert like you know emoji and other stuff so you can just click here like that and if you'd like to delete it just highlight and enter delete and here you have the option to insert files from google drive if you have google drive then you can use this to attach files and then here you can insert photo so you can insert photo like you know from your own photos or you can just insert from like you know url address here so for example let's type in my own website amitdon.com and see if it can find something so it looks like it's asking you to enter HTTP before so let's do that okay so what i'm going to do i'm going to is not working with w so it has to be this way HTTP colon backslash backslash okay so now okay it looks like it's saying that we cannot find that access the image we cannot find or access the image so somehow it looks like the images like you know are blocked on my website you cannot access them but this is how you can access image and if you'd like to upload from your computer then here you can choose the upload and then this is going to you know choose any photo you'd like to send so this is just my youtube video thumbnail which i created and it added that video and now toggle to confidential mode okay so i haven't actually tried this before and even i didn't know today is the first time i'm you know finding this out with you so basically if you choose this option you can make an email expire within a week within like you know one day or you can choose i believe other custom date let me see looks like you know the least you can do is one day and require passcode so you can you know email proof your passcode proof your email by sms passcode or no sms passcode so there's lots of different option this option actually i'm learning some of this stuff new and this is the email signature so i'll just you know delete this picture so we have some space so email signature is what that you can create a custom signature for example today is a good day or if you have a business or if you have if you'd like to give out your like you know website or youtube channel then you can create custom so let's say i create the when they are and it took me to manage signature and then here uh there should be a space to manage signature okay so which is going to be right here you can see it so basically just took it to the settings and you have to set up a new signature so name the new signature let's say my youtube my youtube channel and if you create i'm going to have to minimize this just to show you a little bit better and here you can you know save your message inside that signature name so let's say for my youtube channel please visit my channel youtube okay so this is my youtube address so i'm going to save this i don't see any place to save here but i think it's going to be saved automatically that's what it looks like to me okay i don't see any save button but i have a feeling that you're going to save this just by clicking save here which is going to be let's see there has to be a save option so here so if you click save changes then that signature should be active now now let's take this out uh go back to signature if you take a look here signature default so it says that for new email use no signature so the reason the defaulted to no signature it it didn't let me you know insert any signature so what happens you have to just switch it to the signature and you can also add signature on your reply so here is my default signature and i didn't choose to signature add signature on reply so i'm just going to save this and now see what happens so you click here okay so looks like it still it didn't you know work so i'm just going to you know click here and we'll just go back to the draft i think it has to refresh that's why it's not working yet okay now you can see that you have that option my youtube channel and if you just click here it's adding that message so that's what signature is and here is how you're adding signature now you can you'll see that there are three dots and it has more options so you can add like you know labels plain text mode print check spelling and smart compost feedback so you can add all these so some of the features i even didn't know by myself but you know i found out when i was showing you how to create an email which is a good thing and i think that's the basics of everything and i don't think there's anything to show you for now but you know once you start using that then you're going to find out more and more and also i have other gmail tutorial which you can you know view in this playlist which i'll put it in the description box below before i go just one more thing to show if you'd like to search your email you can just do a search right here for example if you just enter how and you can see that is giving the result and if you'd like to broaden the search or filter the search then you can use these parameters to from you know date attachment without attachments you can search it this way so that's another very handy feature when you're going to have like a thousand so emails and you'd like to find one specific email or several emails that's how you search your email so that's all for the gmail tutorial thank you for watching this video there'll be more videos coming up so i'll see you shortly thank you


The story that we've been told for a long time is that something happens in the world. We see it, we hear it, and then we react to it. So there's a scientist we call that, a stimulus. There's something in the world that causes our brains to, our neurons to fire in our brains. And then we evaluate it, and then we plan an action and we execute the action. So stimulus, response. And if we want to control ourselves, sometimes that means putting the brakes on that response and planning a different response instead. And I would say, if you have to put the brakes on, you are already, you know, you've lost the bet. You're already 70%, 80% of the battle is already lost, really. Now that's not to say that we never, that never happens. It does sometimes happen that we put the brakes on one response, hopefully before we, you know, Will Smith should have, you know, put the brakes on. But I would say that the most effective way to build in control is to understand that your brain does not react to things in the world. It's predicting.   Your brain is changing the firing of its own neurons to anticipate what's going to happen next and plan for it. And actually, you know, the really, the real crazy bit of this is that if we were to stop time right now and look inside your brain, your brain would be, you know, like having a model of, it would be modeling what it believes to be happening in your body and in the world. And it's gonna predict what's gonna happen next and predictions begin as motor plans. So you're like, the last time I was in this situation with, you know, this pattern of sense data, what did I do next? And that is what your brain starts to plan. It starts to plan the action. And as a consequence of that planning, it also starts to plan what you will start to anticipate, what will you see? What will you hear? What will you smell? What will you feel? So it's not the case that you see first and then you act. It's that you prepare the action first and then you see.   So just between us and our list or like millions of listeners, like I'm not a real sports fan and I'm not a Red Sox fan, but just because I don't, I didn't really understand baseball very, I wasn't really interested. I actually come from Canada's. I wasn't thrilled with hockey either. But I have to say that now I'm very much, you know, not just hockey and baseball, but like I just started reading about total football, which is a kind of soccer that gets played. And I'm like, this is amazing.   If he tried to do that, he would miss the ball every single time. It's just physically not possible.  It's conditional on what you see, what you hear and so on conditional on those motor preparations. What does that mean? What that means is that if you want to control your behavior, you have to architect your environment correctly to help you engage in the actions that you want to engage in. A simple example is every day around five o'clock, I really get hungry. Now, am I really hungry? Not really. I'm probably really fatigued and I think that if I eat, it will give me more energy. Right? And what do I want to eat? Do I want to eat, you know, if there are potato chips around in the house, I will eat them. I will eat them. Yeah. So what do I have to do? I have to have no potato chips in my house. Now that's a trivial example, but it's an example of what scientists call niche construction, niche construction. The parts of the world that matter to you that are important to your wellbeing are your niche. And if I make sure that I don't have potato chips in my house, that's a form of niche construction. If I make sure that, you know, I keep my windows open and, you know, to get fresh air or light or I go for a walk, that's niche construction. Because what I'm doing is I'm constructing my environment in a way that will help me engage in the behaviors that I want to engage in, right? So we do things like we have these little, you know, programs or apps that will lock us out of our phones, right? I mean, that's niche construction. And then I would also say though, that for humans, a huge part of our niche, our ecological niche are other humans, okay? And, you know, the best thing for a human nervous system is another human. The worst thing for a human nervous system is also another human. And so the way you treat other people, how predictable your behavior is to other people influences how they treat you, how predictable they are to you. And so the way in which you treat people is also a form of niche construction. It directly influences, it directly impacts your well-being. And I think that if you understand these things, if you understand that the brain is predictive, if you understand that, you know, that basically automatically your brain's gonna predict what to do next. And if you don't wanna have to engage in like the energy, the effort of putting the brakes on, you can try to architect your environment in a way to, you know, do niche construction in a way that will allow you to engage in the behaviors that are the ones that you want.


Great. Yes, these are things I learned collecting secrets. I did do a research project in an art installation over a couple of years based on collecting other people's secrets and redistributing them. It was done in collaboration with Jessica Yokovsky, who is here today. So everybody, think about something private in your digital life and your text messages, emails, past or present. Do you have something? Yes, everybody does. This project was exploring that, the fact that we have these things that we are leaving traces of, but not necessarily thinking about the future that we're leaving them to. In survey research, we discovered that while people would be very keen to read the emails of their great-grandparents had they kept them, they were less inclined to want their great-grandchildren to read theirs. So we designed this installation where you have a computer that asks you for a secret. And if you type one in and push Enter, there's a little printer that prints somebody else's secret in return that you can then take with you. It's super simple, but it had some more elements. Sometimes it was in a more brightly lit environment, like on the left. Sometimes it was in a dark, more private space, like on the right. There was also sound and projection and some other complicating of the algorithm that we did. It showed internationally. So in those cases, it was adapted in different languages or included different languages. So you see Berlin and Warsaw here. And as a result, I learned a lot of things. So I'm gonna give you just a very brief synopsis of what some of those things are today. And I love how it relates to all these other topics of misinformation and trust and sexting, everything. Secrets are weird and funny. I don't mean this in a judgmental way, but rather in an endearing and appreciative way. People are complex and strange and often don't have an opportunity to share those things with others. People are extremely willing to share secrets in this format. Even after they realize having received someone else's secret that someone else is gonna receive theirs, often people return to the installation enthusiastically to share more. We can't know when a secret is true. We may have an idea that some secrets seem more true some secrets seem less true, but we can't really know which brings up questions about our relationship to information online more broadly. We also make assumptions about other people's secrets or rather the people who submit the secrets. For example, if you read a secret about a bully, you might be maybe more inclined to think it's from a male or if you read a secret about an eating disorder, you might think it's more likely to be from a female. Obviously this is not always the case. I'm gonna give you a little sample of the audio secrets. I killed a bunny when I was seven. I enjoy it. I've lied about my identity, my home. My friend microwaved her hamster and it died. I think Bernie Sanders is handsome. Secrets are also very common. Not surprisingly infidelity is among the highest frequency. There's many others. And yet secrets also can make us feel more connected and bring out our humanness. Technology so often make us feel kind of disembodied and disconnected, but there's something about the sharing and anonymity that we should think about as we bring more technology into our lives. They also make people happy, even the dark ones.  We also tell ourselves stories about what the machines are doing. Anecdotally we heard theories about why people were receiving certain secrets or what was happening with the remote printers and why they got a certain sequence. And this is our inclination is to connect the dots with technologies, but it's useful to shine a light on that inclination itself. Anonymity and intimacy can lead to connection and compassion. Usually we don't have anonymity and intimacy at the same time. And this is something that can be really valuable because you don't know the secrets belong to. And lastly, fragments misrepresent. Obviously if we think about our corpuses of our online data, that's not who we are. That's just one kind of slice or one representation of us. So we should think about how we're leaving information in the world. These are two of my favorite secrets that came in during the duration of the installation. And lastly I want to thank my collaborators on this project and they're listed up here on the screen. Thank you very much.


Yo, what's going on guys? It's BoyOJail and today we are doing a gaming video. Nah, I'm just kidding guys. We're doing a vlog. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's gonna be weird for me to edit this, but we are doing a vlog today. And the thing that's bad about this is that I have to wake up 6.30 every morning. It's not 6.30 now, it's like 7.20, so, uh, yeah, it's gonna be a great day. I'm gonna be tired because I'm always gonna be tired the every single day because I gotta wake up at, uh, 6.30. Oh, see, look at that. Look at that. I was kind of close. I said it was 7.20, it's like, what, 7.23? Damn, and I'm gonna be leaving at 7.30 to 7.35.  I'll just buy lunch today. Damn straight, you heard me right. I'm gonna be buying my lunch today. Is there anything in the comments? This is probably a boring start because I'm freaking tired, but just wait, guys, just wait. Okay, now the reason why I'm vlogging today is because I, I don't know, I've just, I just want to show you guys what I do at a Tiger Polytech, I guess, because, you know, I'm no longer at high school, so this is, like, a new, and it's like a new thing for you guys. It's a new experience for you guys. I'm gonna be, like, vlogging the entire day, and if you guys do like it when I vlog during Polytech and stuff, then, uh, let me know because I might do them, like, once a week if you guys like it, and I will also try and do videos in the weekend, which I didn't do this last weekend, so, yeah. Which is basically the reason why I am vlogging today. Dude, I'm trying to find something for breakfast, but, like, what is this? There's Kit Kat. Should I grab the Kit Kat? I think it's coffee-flavored. Boom. Oh, speaking of Kit Kat, I want to try those Japanese-flavored Kit Kats. You know, like, the strawberry, apple, pear, wasabi, green tea, or I want to try the green tea one so bad, but here in New Zealand, the only other flavor that we really got is, uh, this, and I think there was, like, a cheesecake flavor, which is really nice, which is probably, like, the one from Japan, but if you guys want, I could do a Kit Kat flavor video where I, like, try the Japanese Kit Kats.  You know what, we're going to have a little bit of this for breakfast. Look at that. It doesn't look appetizing because there's black chocolate on the white one, but, oh well.  Even though I'm not the biggest fan of chocolate, I freaking love Kit Kats because it's not just faulty chocolate. It's like, you know, it's got wafers in it, which is just nice. It just has a different kind of thing to it because usually if chocolate has another flavor, they would, like, put it inside, so, like, you know, caramel, that would just be, like, gooey caramel inside, and there wouldn't be any other, like, solid substances, like, a wafer would be, like, in the Kit Kat, so that's why I like it, because it's not full chocolate. It's just good. It's okay. At least you try to explain it. Yeah, my friend, she has a lot of Jake White stuff. We can see he loves his White Stripe, you know, Seven Nation White Stripes. He loves the White Stripes. I'm sorry that I butchered that, but not really. But you're going to be seeing the guy who loves Jake White and the White Stripes today. It's not hard to miss him. I'll give you a hint. He's got an aphor. Alrighty, everyone. I'm going to be leaving in a few seconds, so I'm just going to, like, have a little wee montage. It's not going to be too long. It's going to be, like, five seconds of me walking to the place, and then you're going to see Mr. Afro. You're going to see Mr. Afro, guys. It's going to be cool. Oh, man. I wish I could show you guys this footage, but the wind is terrible. Like, the wind is absolutely terrible. It's too loud. I'll just show you guys a quick clip of how bad the wind is. Yeah, yeah, that's not good for about five to seven minutes worth of footage. So I'm just going to tell you what happened, and then we'll go to the part where it's less windy. Go to the part where it's less windy. So what happened was that I was walking across the field. I was talking to you guys about what I'm going to be doing for the day, which was just going to Polytech, and, yeah, that's basically it. And then I went to the meeting point to meet up with my friends, and they were there. So I was like, oh, okay, so I'll just wait for them to come here. And also, I was waiting. This happened. Hello. I'm back. That's right. Dude, where was the last time you were in a vlog? I don't know. The last thing you know, House Singing Day was the last one. House Singing Day.  But yeah, so after we talked, I asked him to do something for me, which was going to be funny. And when he did do it, he was going to send it to me on Snapchat, which you will quite maybe maybe just yeah, you probably will see it later in the video. And don't get me wrong. It's a funny thing. It's a pretty funny thing. So after he left, I was like, okay, I'll wait for a few more minutes. And if my friends don't arrive, then well, I'm just going to walk without them. So I waited for those few minutes. And my friends didn't arrive. And I was like, okay, I'll send them a text to see where they are. I sent them a text. And about 20 to 30 seconds later, they phoned me. And they said that they are at the teeth on the peninsula, which is about 20 minutes away. So now 20 minutes ahead of me. And I was just like, oh, no way. I got at the freaking park at eight o'clock. And you guys left without me. And I was just like, yeah, okay, I was a bit angry because I was like, fuck, I've got to walk alone. I wanted to talk to these guys about something and all that stuff. But at the same time, it wouldn't have been good because the wind was bad. So I don't really care anymore. But yeah, so I was angry. And then I started walking by myself because you know, I was 20 minutes behind.  And you guys won't hear anyone. No one will hear except for me. So yeah.  And then yeah, that's basically what happened. And yeah, let's get back to the vlog. Yo, look at that. Wow. I walk here so many times. Now I've never really looked at it like the whole thing. I usually only look at the end part where it's like a crack. But dude, this whole thing is so nice. Is that yacht still here? Yeah, that yacht is still here. I'm going to show you the yacht. It's awesome. I'm just going to get to go to angle of it because you can't really see the full thing. You can only see the front of it from here. So I'm just like going to go to the wharf, show you guys like what I see in the morning, which is the water, but there isn't usually a yacht there. So I'm just going to show you guys that yacht. Okay guys, so this is what I usually see every morning when I walk here. So this is like the wharf. There's usually, well there are people fishing here, as you can see down there, there's people fishing. But look at that, look at that yacht. That is the 1.1 mil. It's a bit more than that. The guy owns a company, it's a German company called Wharf, W-U-R-T-H. I probably said that wrong because it's in German. But yeah, that's what the company is that he owns and he owns that boat. I think he owns that company or he's someone big in it. Oh god damn. I wish I could have a boat like that one day. Actually yeah, probably the next time you'll see me we'll be at the train station, which is like five minutes away. So yeah, I'll see you guys in a second. Alrighty guys, we're at the train station, place where trains come and go. Actually here's the Tyre Gorge. I didn't actually think we would see this this morning, but this is a tourist train. Basically a little tourist going out, they go to the Tyre Gorge and all that stuff. Pretty lit, pretty lit.  Or you might be like, wow, that's pretty cool. But yeah, once I show you guys the front of the building, it's going to be pretty lit. I actually love the, I just love the building. I love, I just love the design of the train station. It's absolutely amazing. It's just every time I look at it, it takes my breath away. So here's the garden of the train station. Pretty lit, pretty lit. And then there's the train station. That looks insane. It's freaking beautiful. And then look, there's a tower there. It's just amazing. I freaking love the train station. So yeah, that's like the last cool thing that I see on my way to Polytech every day. I see a lot of cool things on the way to Polytech. I see new ships being docked in. I see the beautiful scenery of like the Peninsula, see the train station. I get to see the ugly teamfab at the end of the Peninsula. Oh, it's just amazing. But yeah, basically next time you see me is going to be in Polytech. I'm not going to lie this time. You will see me in Polytech next time. You seem so happy. Man, what am I doing? I'm making the road great. Sorry, I was zooming all the way.  Thanks. Are we going to plug it in the box? I highly appreciate it. We're going to put it in the box. You're going to keep this in my hand. How often do you do this? How often is it going to happen? What do you mean? What's your average view on this? Five. Zero? I don't even appreciate it. Thanks. No, I'm not lying. Five and a half. My heart. Do it again. You do it.  Oh my god, that is bright. That is, honestly. Is that what you mean? Yeah, it's pretty warm. That's toast. That's pretty good. Do you think? How far is it going to go? I don't know. He's framed it like an interview. It's an interview. I want you to know, Logan's different off camera. He's a different person. He changes himself for you. He's really, he's depressed. He needs help. Cool help. You heard him here, folks. Cool help. We're going to make so many Jeff memes this year. Jeff memes are the best memes. I just want to be a man. Cry. Look who helped me. That's not Cameron, is it? That's Jeff. Yeah, thank you. No one else knows his name's Cameron. I'll vlog too. Do it. Do it. Do it. Let's do it. Take it. He should kill himself. I'm going to delete his channel. Okay, I don't think you can delete it off this camera. We just know, are we going to have the person walking? I'm afraid we're going to have them walking. Well, if we're going to do walking, we should use the shotgun. So we don't have a wire. Okay. Come across. Okay, there he was. I'm not, I'm a shotgun. Just give up. Just give up. No, I'm just going to get a shotgun. What are you calling me, boss? Yeah. Too much spice, mate. Too much spice. Too much spice? Too much. I'll be a main vlogger.  I'm so rude, mate. So rude. I bet your subscribers will love me. Yeah, they're probably. I feel bad. I feel sad. I'm mad. I went to go, go to the camera bag, and then I was just like, no, I'm good. So my heart is broken. Whose corner? This is a lamb. Lamb is nice blonde here. No, no, give it here, give it here, give it here. Oh, that's a nice hand. But here we go. Here we go. I couldn't, I could never, I could never walk around the vlog here. Couldn't you? Hi, I'm Alja, I'm gaming. Let's put it here. Look, I have friends. Jesus Christ. How? It's a brilliant old people's zone. You've got there. Oh, I didn't really get it. That was too young.  Here we have the owner of the channel.  So basically all of his next vlogs are just going to be us relentlessly bullying him. I don't know.  There's vlogs at every point you can just be like, It's kind of sad, man. It's his own channel. It's just killing me. Poor guy. Who cares, he's funny, though. Yeah.  I want him, I want him. We're going to record it. I mean, it's very comfortable to hold this camera. I'm going to be honest. That's going to be exciting when you get home, put it on for me, and we realize that we're just setting these little things about you. I don't care. You see, that's why he's not funny. I know. He puts up more than Jeff does. No, but it would be fun. Yeah. Well, I'm going to just... He hasn't triggered a real ego. You haven't seen me ever. No, it would be fun.  Like, you know...  Like, he could annoy me, but I can hold... I can just contain myself. No, you can't. You've finished it so many times. I'm Logan. I never last out Logan. I kind of... With Logan, I keep it. Because it's Logan. I understand. There. You want to blow it up here? Yeah. Still there, Kat. Okay, Kat. I am. Logan, what's the narrative of this one? What's the narrative of this one? When you hear this, what's the narrative for me? There's no such thing as a narrative. There's a narrative. I want to go next.  No, it's just... We're not chasing ice there. What do you want of me? No, it's not here. No, it's over there. That's it, David. No, it's not there. It's like...   It's not just random. It's about Jeff. It's about what my day is like at quality. All right. Will you stop this? Could you be algae? I'd happily be... Actually, no, I wouldn't be happy. Yeah, I could be algae. Yeah. Would you happily be algae algae? No. Happily be... Not happily, but like... I could. I could do it. I could. You couldn't? You couldn't?  That's interesting. Honestly, I'm hating these vlogs already. You're the funniest vlogger you've... You're filming this vlog. I'm filming. Jeff's what I'm filming. Oh, man. There's quality content there. You're the pop of Jeff. I want to do one of those. Whole-handing one. I'm going to bleed you and look back.  Yes. Honestly. No, Jeff. This vlog is going to be up tonight.  No, it's not a week. It's not a week. No, it's a week. It'll be next week. It'll be a week from now. It'll be a week from now. No, it'll be a week from now. It'll be a week from now. It'll be tonight or tomorrow night. Yeah. Oh, there we go. Well, that's what he told me on his YouTube channel.  He didn't say anything.  No, Jeff. The man's great. The man is great. Did you get that? Yeah. Retard. Wow. You're going to update the vlog of what's happening. A good natural doll. A natural squad. Are you going to update the vlog? What are you shooting? He's just being a figure. What am I doing? You're vlogging this. I'm just vlogging it. Hell, yeah. I feel like I should at least do something. Except for vlogging. Maybe. Look. You're vlogging us, yeah. Or staying out of the way. Oh, yeah. We're ready, guys. We're at the Ogdenham right now. I'm going to be doing it. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That's awful. Ganym. Oh, my God. Ganym. Oh, my God. I think the YouTube boys are good. Oh, my God. Are you guys? I know you guys would all react like that. Yeah, well, when you do something like that. When you do something like that. Let's get right into the news. You're wrong. Oh, my God. What's Lucas doing? What is he doing? Is he going to the bathroom?  What do I say? What do I say? What do I say? It's a piece of camera about the interviews and the tourism. So we're talking about... Oh, no. He's coming back. I see some pictures. Yeah. Oh, that's dramatic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need you to... Oh, we're just going to the shower. Yeah, that's right. Oh, okay. Let's go do that. That's the jet where I just sit. It's so cool. You having a good time there? What? Nothing. What do you mean I've done nothing? Nothing. What do you mean I've done nothing? You said they're involved. No. Because you guys told me to. I'm not going to break anything. Hey, Pett. Yeah, what would your catchphrase be, Jeff? I wouldn't have a catchphrase because I'm not as desperate for our viewers. What do you mean? I think you know what I mean. You're trying to be someone else, Logan. No, I'm not. Someone you're not. I am me and only me. I don't believe you. Are you sure? I am not going to... I'm not going to answer that. Dude, your hair looks great in this shot. This guy right here is loving me talking to you guys. He loves it. Yeah, it's good. You're all great people. I hear sarcasm. No. Sarcasm again. Okay, guys. So the thing that I was talking about before, about Kaia, here's the thing that I asked him to do. So let's see. Oh, come on. Oh, yes. He freaking destroyed him. Hey. How are you, Kaia? The tourist season has come to an end here. And this year, the percentage on the tourist coming to David has increased by 15%. And it's just been back here all around. There's floors, and they've got special money. And yeah, there's all. What a thing. There's only doors. They're a nice thing. Look at him. Why do you dare? Why do you dare to go upstairs? Look, guys. You subscribe to this guy and he dares on camera. Right. Who's... Give me your arm. Who's this? You're next. Thanks. God, you're just gorgeous. You won't believe it. Having a bit of a problem with the talent. If you can call it that. Sound guys great though. The other team, I'm not so good at it, but just bring me that. Sorry. I'm going to have to pass you off to a less attractive male. Retard alert. Retard alert. What did you just say? Look, I filmed a lot of bad stuff, man. Get away from me. I'm excited my time has come. Finally.  You know, they wouldn't wear my keys on shop. I'm just here. Yeah. It's okay. You're missing. Oh. Oh. No. You haven't twisted it either. As you go. Well, I don't know how to twist it. It's all good. Cameron, it's okay. No, it's not. And we're going to reaction video. And let's get it right. Yeah. It's been cold. It's been cold. Oh, my God.  Cashew chicken honey noodle. Chicken. Ah, yeah. Honey chicken noodle. Hi. I'll get that. Do you guys like the guy that you're going to meet? Uh, I can't do it. I can't do it. You can't do it? Yeah. I can't do it. I want to like a hmm. Could you? I'm enjoying it. Yeah, vlogging is a fun thing to do. You just like your YouTube channel. When? Oh. Yeah. You just buy a camera and start your YouTube channel. If you make a name for yourself, what is it? Every time you do that, can you uh, can you do that so it's uh, like headmarkers? That was a really nice act. At the end of the day, the vlogging Lewis is signing out of his computer. Transferring all my files on the camera to my hard drive. So when I go home, I can hit it straight away. Look at that efficiency. Very good. I care about you guys.  Alrighty guys. I am home, finished work. I was going to record at work but my battery died. So I've just been charging it since I've gone home. And yeah, that was the vlog. Probably wasn't the best vlog but yeah, it's still a vlog. I just wish I got to do more things in the vlog because uh, I was kind of too scared to record during like the lessons because uh, I'm a pussy. But next time I'll definitely record more often and I'll do more things with the people around me because man, I feel like a high majority of this vlog is just me walking to the Polytech and that's all. Like maybe like 65% or 75% of this vlog is just me walking to Polytech which is not okay. But it is not, not really. Anyways, I know what I gotta do next time I do a vlog at Poly. But you guys, let me know if you want to see a vlog at Poly. Poly at Poly. And yeah, that is all. I hope you guys have a great day and just keep on smiling. And adios, amigos.