Welcome back to The Small Brief. 🎬 Today, we're catching a look inside the creative process of Jayanta Jenkins, Head of Creative Studio at Thumbtack. Jayanta chose to spotlight ARCHANGELS, an organization supporting caregivers, a role he knows firsthand. Using Google Flow, he built his film around the phrase "See Yourself." Thanks Jayanta for the partnership. Jayanta created a poignant visual metaphor of a mirror, where the protagonist sees the reflections of everyone they care for before finally seeing themselves. When asked about his creative process and Google Flow, Jayanta said, “Flow pushed the craft further and faster, but human judgement made the final calls.”

🇺🇦 Ukraine Independence Day Event is LIVE in Sl8 To mark the 35th anniversary of Ukraine's Independence, we have launched a special staking event with boosted rates, daily prizes, a separate TOP-100 leaderboard and an extended referral program. Staking - up to 62% APY: • 30 days - 28% APY • 90 days - 38% APY • 180 days - 50% APY • 360 days - 62% APY You can stake BTC, ETH, XLM, USDC, SSLX and other tokens, as well as tokenized precious metals. All terms and the yield calculator: ● Daily rewards — over $3,100 Every day of the event, a separate Daily TOP-35 leaderboard is formed. This time the rewards are tokenized commemorative coins issued by the National Bank of Ukraine: • 1st place - 0.3 Gold Eneida ½ oz • 2nd place - 0.2 Gold Eneida ½ oz • 3rd place - 0.1 Gold Eneida ½ oz • 4th–5th places - 1 Silver Archangel Michael 1 oz • 6th–9th places - 0.5 Silver Archangel Michael 1 oz • 10th / 15th / 20th / 25th / 30th / 35th places - 0.5 Silver Archangel Michael 1 oz It is a brand-new chance to win a reward every single day, regardless of the final result of the whole event. ● Check the current Daily TOP-35 and your position: Separately - Event TOP-100 Daily rewards do not replace the main leaderboard. Based on the results of the whole event, TOP-100 participants will receive separate prizes in CST. So one staking position brings you three things at once: • a boosted staking reward; • a chance to win daily prizes; • a place in the overall TOP-100. ● Referral program - up to 6 levels Invite new users to Sl8 and earn additional rewards from the staking of your referral network - up to six levels deep. The event runs until August 25, 10:00 UTC.

In a Kansas diner at dawn, the truck driver beside me ordered eggs on toast. The waitress did not write it down. She cupped her hands and screamed toward the grease fire: ADAM AND EVE ON A RAFT! WRECK EM! From the smoke, a cook yelled back: SINKING THE RAFT NOW, HONEY! I gripped the edge of the formica table. What ritual was this? They had placed the first parents of mankind upon wooden planks and were preparing to drown them for four dollars and twenty cents. The waitress turned to me. Her pencil was tucked into her silver hair. What about you, hon? I had to intervene. A samurai cannot stand by while a vessel is destroyed. SPARE THE RAFT, I said, my voice steady. BUT TEST THE HUMANS. She stopped. She tilted her head. Her eyes went narrow with pure professional respect. She turned to the kitchen and shouted with the voice of an archangel: RESCUE THE RAFT! KEEP ADAM AND EVE ON THEIR FEET! DO NOT LET THEM DROWN! The kitchen went dead silent. Then the cook roared: THEY ARE STANDING TALL, DARLENE! WALKING OUT DRY! Two slices of thick sourdough arrived, toasted gold as armor. Balanced upon them were two sunny eggs, yellow yolks round and proud, trembling with life but holding the deck. I bowed to the plate. I had saved them. I go there every Tuesday. Darlene just looks at the grill and calls it out: HE IS HERE! READY THE ARK!