 Good morning, John. It may have come to your attention that I do too many things and I've been asked, how do you do it? And I gotta say, I'm not sure I do. I haven't had good answers to that question because I haven't really ever spent a lot of time thinking about it. And also, like, I don't know that I'm super healthy about it. I wouldn't necessarily give people my secrets because I think a lot of them aren't good for me. But just say that there's an unpleasantly long list there, right? It's looking at me and I- I love all the things and I want to do them all and I will. It's just, it's a long list. Like, right now we're already working on Project For Awesome 2017, which is gonna happen right after PodCon, which is a thing that we just finished a crowdfunding campaign for and now have put normal tickets on sale for if you're interested in podcasts, if you like those. I'm working on my creator track. You know, for VidCon, I'm trying to relearn how to play my own music because I'm doing a solo set this year for the first time in a long time. And I'm also prepping for VidCon Australia, which is coming up very fast. I'm trying to help build a guild of internet creators so we can support each other and, like, have a voice together. That's intense. And I just got a cheapo microscope and I've been pointing it at everything. This morning I brought in some leaves from my cherry tree, which is currently infested with aphids to look at with the microscope. And if you don't like bug things, like tiny- lots of tiny bugs, you want to skip to this time code because we're gonna look at those right now. All at the same time on this tree right now, we got every stage of ladybugs. We got the eggs. We got the eggs hatching with the tiny, tiny little larva coming out. We got the much bigger larva because they get bigger and bigger at the more aphids. And I saw one adult, seven-spotted ladybug and I put it on the microscope and it frickin ate aphids while I was staring at it in a mic. It was so cool. And I'm very glad that I get to share it with you. Also, other things are happening, like Nathan Zed just launched his merch on dftba.com, which is partially based on a video he made here on Vlogbrothers, and it sold out in, like, in five minutes. It's very good. We should have printed more shirts and I feel bad. Anyway, I've been thinking about all of this stuff about productivity and doing too many things a lot lately. So here are two unhealthy secrets to my productivity and three healthy ones. First, the unhealthy ones. Number one, I have convinced myself that if I am not using all of the tools I have at my disposal to do the maximum amount of good and, like, give people good jobs, then I am less of a good person than I otherwise could be. And that's maybe a little bit too much pressure. Maybe not. But maybe. And the second one, I intentionally put myself in situations where people who I care about and who I respect rely on me to do things, which is very motivating but also very stressful. Now, for the healthy ones. One, I don't get caught up in doing anything perfectly. I'm not here for the idea of the idea. I just want to try stuff. And if it explodes, it exploded. And, like, I learned. Two, I love giving other people responsibility. I love putting them in difficult situations and saying, figure this out, help me do this. And if they do it wrong or they do it differently from how I would have done it, I don't get mad as long as they're learning. Because there's no way to get good at stuff except to do it and fail and learn. And finally, number three, and this is, I think, for everybody, and this is way bigger and broader than just productivity, I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself and something that I don't mind liking about myself. I want to understand stuff. I want to understand people. Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions, but also just feeling better. You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you, like, loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want. I'm going to get, like, 70 to 90 years fingers crossed. That's all I want. I want to do that for 70 to 90 years. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. You can check out Nathan Zed's new merch at dftba.com. It is currently sold out, but you can pre-order it. And if you are into podcasts and recognize any of these podcasts that we're going to have represented at PodCon, check out PodCon.com.