Hey, Sean, could you run for seats quicker so we can see what's on here? I could run for seats, they're not, they're not really awful. Okay, so the Interim Ministry is a shooter. You can begin. Press, S-U-S. Press, that is over. And then it's being done. Okay. Okay. So yeah, you can run for seats. So we have physicians that are, um, maybe have no, like, like, no one will go for seats. Oh, that's good to hear. What else is there? You can run for seats. Yeah, we can. So, you can run for seats. Okay. You can run for seats. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, you can run for seats. You can run for seats. Okay. Okay. So, you can run for seats. Oh, thank you. And then we can run for seats. So, yeah, just so, so, what are you up to? Oh, the contemplative diameter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's your... Probably the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, how does it answer your... I mean, guys, it's not so far. I still have 20, 20, to start with. We didn't have 20, 20, to start with, 15 years ago. I was going to the culture, you know. I thought you mentioned it on the cusine. So, I mean, probably the strata, especially the strata, is probably to start with 20 more. Oh, that's right. I just, that's it. I don't know, I don't think you're going to be able to... You don't know, it's all just... Right. I mean, it's like a hypo to the soul. I can see it on the space, and being able to hear it, and being able to read it, it's more about your life. Right, so thank you. Well, you can see what I got right here. And then, I'm going to look at this. Yeah. It's a lot of fun, because I take a lot of it and it's a lot of fun. I think my last one was really cool. So it's really cool, right? Yeah. And they're always there to try to get something. Yeah. Is that your main goal? Well, yeah. No, not my main goal. Okay, that's cool. I think I'm still in the house. It's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. It's cool. I'm a little strong on this chair though. Why is it in the room this way? I don't know. It's in the room. Yeah, I was like, where are you? I saw you. I was like, where are you? I was just thinking of a walk-in house. I said, oh, you can be drunk. I'm sure it's going to slow it down. You want me to go back to the house? Yeah, I was like, great. Let's join in a moment of centering silence. Our centering hymn is number three eight nine printed in the order of service. Good morning. Welcome to the first Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical, and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual as together we seek to be a force for good in the world. My name is Dorrit Bergen and on behalf of the congregation I would like to extend a special welcome to visitors.  Visitors are encouraged to stay for our fellowship hour after the service and look for people carrying teal stoneware mugs. These are FUS members knowledgeable about our programs and community life and they look forward to the chance to speak with you. You can also stop by our information table outside of the library where you can find more information about our upcoming events and programs. In this lively acoustical environment it can become difficult for those in attendance to hear what is happening in our service so we remind you that our Child Haven and Commons area are excellent places to go when anyone needs to talk or move around. The service can still be seen and heard from those areas. We do have hearing assistance devices available. Please see one of our ushers if that would be helpful for you. This would be a good time to turn off all electronic devices that might disrupt the service and I would also request that you leave your hymnals on the chairs after the service. 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We hope you took note of all the special announcements that were up on the screen. Again welcome. We hope that today's service will stimulate your mind, touch your heart, and stir your spirit. This is a song by the late great Chihuahua Niso Marare from Zimbabwe.  Doctor of the sun's wash away. Doctor of the sun. Together again in this place made sacred by our presence to share our hopes, to find our courage, to create good in this world. The prophets of all traditions and times have taught that we are called to mercy, generosity, mutual care. That to be great is to serve. We know that there can be no enduring for humanity so long as suffering and want go unreleaved. Until all may be sheltered no one is truly at home. As we gather this morning may the power of our vision sustain us in this work that we may be the hands of holy creativity and justice. And together if you will rise now in body or spirit as we join together in the affirmation of our chalice lighting. All that we have ever loved and all that we have ever been stands with us on the brink of all that we aspire to create. A deeper peace, a larger love, a more embracing hope, a deeper joy in this life we share. And I invite you to turn and wave at your neighbor or say good morning. No touching. Please be seated. If you woke this morning with a sorrow so heavy that you need the help of this community to carry it, or if you woke with a joy so great that it simply must be shared, now is that time. The sharing of joys and sorrows is our time in the spirit of acceptance and support to share with one another some special event or circumstance that has affected your life for the life of a loved one in recent days or weeks. As you share please remember that our services are broadcast on the web. So for the next few minutes anyone who wishes is invited to step to the front of the auditorium lighting a candle. John McEvna, RLA minister has a microphone for you to use. You may also come forward and wordlessly light a candle and if you cannot come forward for any reason raise your hand and John will bring the microphone to you. And John I would like to begin if you would please light a candle for all those impacted by the tragedy of the past week in Florida. If you will join me in a moment of prayer. Spirit of life and love. Our hearts break open once again and we turn to you with an ache and a loss and a deep and abiding love for all those hurting this day. Today we grieve for more loss of life. We grieve for a country and a planet where violence is all too common and all too familiar. I pray that each of us commits to be a little more humane, a little more compassionate, a little more willing to come together to be a part of a solution. I pray that today we decide to support one another. I pray that we never forget. We ask for a blessing on this nation in the names of those who have come before and those who are yet to be in the names of all the helpers of humankind. Blessed be and amen. And I now invite you into a time of the sharing of your sorrows and your joys. I have a sorrow and a joy. I lost my husband recently and the joy is that this community came together. They brought breakfast for me. They brought all sorts of things and they brought joy to me and to all of the family and I can't tell you how much this has meant to everyone. Thank you. I want to share a joy about this wonderful community. Last weekend, 51 of us went together up north and it wasn't religious at all but it was community when we went skiing. The kids went sledding and snowshoeing. It was just a wonderful weekend thanks to everybody that came and to the people that made it happen. I wanted to light a candle for our dear friend Phil Stark who lost her bout with cancer a week ago today. So a joy and a sorrow. My dear friend Dale died of Alzheimer's on Friday afternoon and I have a friend that is 88 and she had a very bad accident but she's now in rehab and recovering and it looks like she'll go home. I don't know if it's a joy or a sorrow but I got my tooth pulled on Thursday. I have a joy that my papa came over yesterday and I don't see him very often. We went out for dinner. Well I have sort of a joy and a sorrow in that, pardon me for being a little vague. It was a decision I had to make, a choice I was presented with and like the either result I took would bring me joy but both would come at a cost to me and so I'm still in the middle of deciding which to choose and it's just caused me a lot of stress and made me question a lot about what I believe and how I should act around people and who I should be. So I have a joy because the issue is resolving itself and this community has always helped me to figure out who I am and realize that even in a world as confused and as muddled as we are there are thinkers, people who are just trying to be better. So this community actually solved this problem for me. Thank you. I have a joy that every four years a lot of the countries get together at this time for the Winter Olympics. I'm just lighting a candle. I have a cousin who's going through some serious cancer treatment right now and in her two-week time span she can't be with her little one-year-old and so my candle is for her and her family but also for her mother my aunt who this is her second daughter to be going through cancer treatment and they lost she lost her first daughter. Mommy has a friend and she's in the hospital and her name is Carol. I've enjoyed a share. Last Friday I just celebrated two years of full sobriety. I have a bit of a sorrow. My dad lost his cat last night. She was about 20 years old and I just it's a big deal for him and I know it's just a cat but he lives in Kentucky and I don't know why I'm crying but thank you Eddie. I'm lighting a candle for my friend Chris who had a very bad fall and broke her femur and had major surgery with pins yesterday and is over at the UW hospital. Hold her in your thoughts and prayers please. And John I feel like one last candle for all the joys and all the tender sorrows that live in the fullness of our hearts and as we rise in body or spirit for our next hymn number 134 our children and teachers may leave for classes. Please be seated our reading today from MJ Ryan. My friend Kathleen is an elementary school principal in California which is rated 47th out of 50 states in funding per student. I've known her for 15 years and have watched her gracefully ride all kinds of change in public education. When I asked her how she's managed to adapt so well she immediately started talking about her networks. Well she said I regularly call a dinner meeting with other principals in the district. I call it the print din. We talk over ideas brainstorm responses to things coming from above offer resources to one another and I rely heavily on my parent council at school to provide guidance to me in areas that I don't know as much about. For instance one dad who's in finance looked at where our emergency fund was and had me break it up into smaller pieces at various banks to keep it safer. And that was before the banks started crashing. I've created a network of support staff at school. Those of us there's only one of the librarian the janitor the secretary and me. We regularly meet to deal with the issues that we have in common. They see things I don't. And finally I've created a network of learning foreign with my teachers by gathering people I know in the private sector to do leadership development invite guest speakers learn educational theory so we can keep up. I have always thought of network as a dirty word as it seemed to involve talking to random strangers at cocktail parties those things never did a thing for me but Kathleen helped me see that we are all embedded in various networks already and that when we're going through change tapping those networks for guidance for ideas on what you need to be learning for their take on coming trends among many other things is crucial. I have always liked to think of myself as a lone wolf but if I really think about it I have several networks friends trainers parents clients don't just network in time of need we all need to stay connected to others as much as possible we need folks we can rely on advocates out there advocates out there in the world call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family whatever you call it whoever you are you need one she was in solitary confinement there was no such thing as any contact with the outside world and she there was no heat in the winter very poor nutrition and her only social outings so to speak were when she was taken to be interrogated once in a while and sometimes even tortured and once in a while sometimes she would get so low she would actually instigate like a little rebellion and she would demand to be released in a prison guard would come get her take her to an isolated place and they would argue and she'd get yelled at usually kicked and punched and then she'd be returned to herself and that actually gave her energy so she would sometimes have to do that so she threw it all this she kept her integrity and her dignity and her discipline and even expressed compassion for her prison guards and one of the things she did to get through was whenever she noticed anything in her environment that was positive she would focus on it so she saw a little spider coming to herself was making a web and she became fascinated with it and attached and she would look for it in the morning when she woke up during the day and when she went to bed and I just found that so moving ahead to write a song about it which we're going to play I'll just give you a quick up a lot of the first which is eventually they released her from prison she was in her 60s at the time and she you know became very ill understandably and they were afraid she was going to die so they let her out they thought she you know lived a few more months she went on to live eight more years in China and she was able to come to the US and she stayed here and became a citizen her friends recommended that she write her memoirs she did they were published were astonishment and became a best-seller so she ended up going all over the place lecturing and she did this until her late 80s and I happened to read her book randomly and wrote the song and I wanted to get permission to release it on a CD so I wrote to her publisher it got a letter back from her and she said gave me her blessing and then invited me to meet her so I went to Washington D.C. to meet her and later the song she took me out for Chinese food as you can imagine she had a word or Chinese food we became friends with Penn Pals and she at the time was in her early 90s sharpest attack living on her own driving reading three newspapers a day and she lives to her mid 90s quite a story of perseverance in the guards thank you both for being here this weekend there's a story about a monastery somewhere in Europe that is perched high on a cliff hundreds of feet in the air the only way to reach the monastery is in a basket and that basket is pulled to the top by monks who hand over hand real in the basket by muscle power alone now the ride up the steep cliff is absolutely terrifying once a visitor became exceedingly nervous about halfway up when he noticed that the rope the only thing holding him at the moment was somewhat old and frayed with a trembling and clearly anxious voice he asked the monk who was riding with him how often they changed the rope the monk simply shrugged thought for a moment and answered whenever it breaks I think of this story when I am having one of those moments where I cannot stand another moment of change I am going to keep everything exactly the way it is now thank you very much and I will worry about it when the rope breaks yet I know in the back of my mind that the rope is always breaking change is a constant and it's happening in more complex and shifting ways at faster rates all of the time so I've been trying to prepare myself as best I can for the changes about to happen here at First Unitarian Society I am taking the pro interim training offered by our Unitarian Universalist Association as a way to prepare myself to work with our interim minister next year I've been reading as many books on the subject of change and change within organizations as I can books such as how to survive the change you didn't ask for emergent strategy how we shape change and change worlds reinventing organizations and one that I never thought would be on my nightstand team of teams new rules of engagement for a complex world now this last one was written by General Stanley McChrystal who is perhaps best known as the commander of the US and coalition forces in Iraq during the war against al Qaeda the lessons he learned during those years as well as a long study of organizational history was the beginning of team of teams the challenges he and others faced were unlike those of earlier wars McChrystal wrote on paper the confrontation should have been no contest we had a large well trained superbly equipped force while they were recruiting locals and smuggling in foreign fighters one by one through dangerous and unreliable methods we enjoyed robust communication technology while they were often dependent on face-to-face meetings and letters delivered by courier to minimize the risk of detection our fighters had persevered through the most demanding training in the history of special operations theirs had attended a smattering of various kinds of training scattered across the arabian peninsula we could at will tap into an unmatched well of firepower armored vehicles cutting-edge surveillance their technology consisted of IEDs assembled in safe house basements from propane tanks and expired soviet mortars we were exemplary in our discipline yet despite our pedigree our gadgets and our commitment things were slipping away from us we had to ask ourselves a deeply troubling question if we were the best of the best why were the surprise attacks not only continuing but increasing why were we unable to defeat an under resourced insurgency why were we losing now what he and others discovered in answer to those questions was that they had to unlearn a great deal of what they thought they knew about how this fight and the world works they needed to tear down familiar organizational structures and rebuild them along completely different lines swapping their sturdy comfortable architecture for organic fluidity because it was the only way to confront a rising tide of complex threats they restructured from the ground up on principles of extremely transparent information sharing and decentralized decision making authority they dissolved the barriers what he calls the walls of our silos and the floors of our hierarchies the ones they believed had made them efficient they became what he likes to call a team of teams a large command that captured at scale the traits of agility flexibility and adaptability normally found only in small teams almost everything they did ran against the grain of military tradition and general organizational practice they abandoned many of the precepts that had held throughout the 20th century because he says the 21st century is a different game and it has different rules so personally i love visuals so i made some visuals to help you see what he's talking about this is as high tech as we're going to get today i assured the saturday people that this wasn't just because they didn't have a projector that you guys were getting the same visuals that they were getting so first is the traditional structure that we all know look familiar he calls this the command hierarchy micristal says the issue here is that when we stack teams into silos we become unwieldy with no information sharing and people compete for resources so they moved to a second structure what he calls a command of teams the teams here can bring a measure of adaptability to previously rigid organizations but your teams are still not communicating with one another as the world grows faster and more complex we need to figure out ways to scale the fluidity of teams across entire organizations which brings us to his team of teams approach now in this model you enable people to operate in an interdependent environment understanding the butterfly effect ramifications of their work making them aware of the other teams with whom they'd have to cooperate in order to achieve success this model creates an organization within which the relationships between the teams resembled those between individuals on a single team teams that had traditionally been in separate silos would now have to become fused to one another by trust and shared purpose now when i look at this visual i don't know about you but i see a web perhaps an interdependent web of all existence sound familiar and i begin to wonder how an image like that can change how we live and move and be with one another and how we can be in our organizations in order to open us to change because knowing that you need to change or even wanting to change isn't enough without rewiring our thinking and looking at new models for ourselves and our organizations and the systems that support us all we get is wishing and wanting and not a lot of movement and growth so this image reminded me of the ancient tale of indra's web that goes something like this imagine if you will a great web spun with delicate intricacy adorned with lovely jewels stretching out in all directions this is the magnificent web of the great god indra indra's web is like that of a spider in intricacy and loveliness but this is no ordinary weaving for it spans the infinity of time and space at each place where the threads of the web connect to one another a single glittering jewel has been hung and since the web is infinite in dimension there are an infinite number of jewels that stretch out across the vastness of existence suspended in and supported by the web catching the light and twinkling like the stars when you look at one of the jewels you notice that in its surface you see reflected all the other jewels of this web it is an infinite process of reflection now each sparkling jewel is a being a human plant animal each of us connected to every other in an interdependent web each of us is there reflecting and influencing one another a change in one jewel in one being in one person will result in change however slight in every other everything affects everything else think about what you might be sending out across this web whenever one strand is harmed whenever there is a tear in the fabric the entire web feels the hurt in the same way every act of love of repair sends ripples throughout the infinite web touching every jewel every being every life this image helps me grasp what thorough called the infinite extent of our relations this is interdependence mutual dependence between beings we know that this is a reality we know that this is biology this is a fact of our existence yet most of us are socialized toward independence pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps working on our own to develop to survive to win at life competition is the way we hone our skill and learn to feel proud about how much we achieve as individuals and sometimes to actively work to bring others down in order to get ahead and it just doesn't work anymore this is what mccrystal learned and how that huge organization figured out how to work interdependently to embrace the complexity within us and within this web that we share and here's perhaps the biggest takeaway of the morning so if I have lost you if you are currently thinking about the errands you need to run as soon as she stops talking come back for just one moment building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual as adrian marie brown writes do you already know that your existence who and how you are is in and of itself a contribution to the people around you not because you do some particular thing but simply the miracle of your life and that the people around you have contributions as well do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people you live with are you actively practicing generosity and vulnerability in order to make those connections strong generosity here means giving of what you have without strings or expectations attached and vulnerability means being able to name what you need now if you can do this if you can build community as spiritual practice you will feel yourself in this web you will feel yourself woven into the world and when we are woven into the world we will not want to sever any of the connecting fabric between ourselves and all the beautiful sparkling jewels that are here with us we will want to repair the web knowing that we are surrounded and held up by others who are also working on repair and we will find possibility and courage and hope now in one month's time we will be joined by the UU minister and theologian and author Tandeka so I encourage all of you to come to the public lecture to register for the weekend workshop she's going to help us look at this brokenness in our web and help us begin to think about how we can heal the broken places within us so that we can move forward in the work of repair in an article that she wrote for the UU world on healing community she says the buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh invented the word interbeing to describe the structure of this binding principle of our lives in any and every human experience everything is present think of a piece of paper really look at it and you will see that everything is in there your mind is in there and mine is also you can't point to anything that's not there time space the earth the rain the soil the sun everything coexists with a simple sheet of paper this is why I think the word inter be should be in the dictionary to be is to inter be you can't be by yourself alone a sheet of paper is he says because everything else is interbeing is our reality the work begins when we listen and notice that all these beings here with us our fellow jewels on the web shining with a radiance and a brilliance that we barely notice it begins when we wake up from the illusion of separateness and independence and notice more deeply something is terribly wrong with our web the model of being in the world that we have used for so many years this one one it just doesn't work anymore we need this one or as my children said mom is that a picture of chaos I said it could be we need to try we need to repair our web and that's our collective spiritual work to ask what we are helping to create to ask what vision we are living into who are our people how do we make our web larger and larger if our structures were built on this model if our leaders and lawmakers were living into a deep practice of inter being then we would not have prayers and heartfelt wishes being sent to grieving families we would have policies and laws enacted that protect the most vulnerable among us our web is in desperate need of repair and it will take time it will take new ways of being together it will take each and every one of us can we break out of the old model of individual silos to realize that our well-being is dependent on the well-being of the whole and that the hurting and the damage has gone on far too long now just before he died at the age of 96 studs circle who'd written an oral history of the great depression was asked what wisdom he had for our time and his reply was turn to others take part in community the big boys are not that bright so i invite you to turn toward one another after our service today get some coffee or tea or hot cocoa whatever your pleasure and find someone that you don't know talk to them about how they have dealt with change in the past what excites them about the future meet someone that you didn't know when you arrived here this morning make your web larger we live within the preciousness of time it is limited and it is sacred everything we do every action we take is practice ground practice building the collective practice building community practice openness embrace change and practice love so in honor of our web i leave you today with a poem from joice sidmar that is called the night spiders advice build a frame and stick to it i always say life is a circle keep going around do your work eat your triumphs and eat your mistakes that way your belly will always be full use what you have rest when you need dawn will come soon enough someone has to remake the world each night it might as well be you and i now invite you into the giving and receiving of our offering you'll see that it is shared with wisconsin faith voices for justice they are our partners in the sanctuary work you can read more about them in your order of service and we thank you for your generosity there's larry johnson my wife pamela and i have been members of f us for about 15 years prior coming to coming to madison i participated in other spiritual communities for many years but often stayed home on sundays when i came to f us i immediately felt at home this was the place for me yes it was the inclusiveness the social justice activism the embrace of spiritual exploration and welcoming that resonated with me uh now i'm involved with the monday night men's group and sing in the society choir pamela has been a participant in quest co-facilitates the tuesday afternoon centering prayer group and has been active in committee work there's much more about this unique community that makes it home for me you already know about the great music program the very special re curriculum the many educational adult educational 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note on talking about data comes in all shapes and he's here today. So yeah Tim. Okay and I think it will be appearing on the screen. I have nothing specific about big data to say just now but my science fiction novel within Stuart is just now published. And can you scroll up a little bit? Now if I was a lot more agile I might beep it up. Wonderful line we have from Stephen Baxter. If you're science fiction fans you'll know Baxter is a big science fiction author and Niven is an even bigger one so this is rather grand company to be in. And I won't tell you the premise because initially you have to see if you can guess the premise which is a nice puzzle in the first part and then we have endless interesting implications of the premise as society for transport for cookery for sex it affects absolutely everything. So a very geeky book I'm glad that Baxter said it was a nice dramatic and driven story but also you have the great game of trying to figure out where the author is wrong where it doesn't make sense. So I look forward to a lot of email saying ah but so I don't know why I'm invited to plug my book here because it isn't big data but I'm very grateful and I will stop taking up your time unless anybody wants to ask a question and there is time for questions is there? Oh one more piece of information the link to Amazon doesn't work yet give it a few days you can order the ebook if you like ebooks direct from the publisher from here but from the paperback is from Amazon and it's not quite yet but very very soon. So I feel happy and I hope some of you will find the book exciting interesting or worth a mental argument with. Thank you very much. Thank you Tim. So a couple of announcements before we start the next talk the BOF sessions are starting in auditorium three so there's a math and stats BOF happening from three to four and there's the alternative data BOF start


way the nice night that Joe Harris had hitting eight three pointers. He ends up with 30 points. Let's hear from Joe. Hey Joe. Coach was talking about the game in totality and what he saw on defense is pretty much the culprit for the loss. So you know when you look at the defense what do you guys need to do to you know create more separation given the fact that you guys can score and maintain that separation. I mean I think we just in general gave up to me points in the paint. You know we're kind of let them get downhill almost that well. I mean they're either drawing vows or finishing at the rim. Well it's like a chance opportunities. And you know especially a team like this in our sort of coming into it we talked about just you know trying to force them to beat us over the top and we did definitely a good job of it. From your perspective you describe that that sequence late the bill three and then the end bound lead into what's three. Yeah.  You know trying to get the ball out quick and get it to Kevin. And you know it's one of those things where he was cutting to the rim and I was kind of throwing the ball where I thought he was going to be going. And you know I had had a time out. Should have been more cognizant of it and just taking care of the ball. So you know definitely just a big mistake on my part.  And even though the defensive effort was great we still should have won this game. And a lot of it comes down to you know the time of the possessions at the end. Greg Logan with Newstay. Joe obviously we know the defense has been a problem an ongoing problem for a while. Let's look at the offense for a minute. 147 OKC 146 tonight. Both nights without one of your main stars. I mean what does that say about how good the offense is and is there because it's that good kind of a reliance on it to a feeling like you don't have to push as hard on defense. I mean I think we knew coming into the season even before we added James that you know we had a lot of offensive weapons and then you add James who's easily been one of the best offensive players in the game. You know the last whatever five six seven eight years. You know to go kind of plug in with the guys that we already have and you know we can score with the best of them. You know we could easily be sitting here at the end of the year and say we have one of the better offensive teams to play this game. But that being said you know the defense has to fall suit to you can't just always rely on the offense. And you know I guess nights like tonight you know are kind of indicative of that. Alex Schiffer with the athletic. Hey Joe you guys had that 18 point lead in the first quarter and obviously by the end of the day essentially chipped away at it completely just what what started to go wrong with you guys that let them let them do that. I think it was you know it's a game of runs first of all you know you see tons of runs over the course of the NBA season and you know tonight was no different but we just didn't capitalize you know I guess in terms of stalling what they had going on you know they got kind of got the momentum going there in the second quarter and it's sort of seemed to continue on from that point and you know we were never really able to get back to where we were at energy and momentum wise in that first quarter. Malika Andrews with ESPN. Joe both Kyrie and Steve have mentioned how they wanted to make sure that you knew that that inbound pass you know it wasn't this loss didn't come down to one play but do you internalize that can you say okay yeah this isn't my fault or is this something where you're like yeah I'm going to beat myself up a little on this one. Well I think it's definitely one of those things where obviously the outcome of the game never comes down to one play and we all know that but like I mentioned to Grady you know there's very timely possessions at the end of the game where you can secure and finalize things and that was sort of one of those those those plays where you know had I even just taken a time out you know we would have been able to get the ball at half court and able to get the ball in or at least you know turn it over at half court it's a lot more difficult for them to get a shot you know versus being underneath their own basket. So you know that being said yes you know it doesn't come down to one play but at the same time I mean had I not made it you know we wouldn't be sitting here talking about the loss. Christian Winfield with New York Daily News. I know along that same vein Joe you know had TLC made that layup you know this the outcome might be a little bit different so when a guy gets a clean look like that and he just misses it what's what's the message to keep him from being from being himself up and kind of being down on this one. I mean it's the same thing I think you have to kind of hit home on the same sort of sentiment where you know it doesn't necessarily come down to one play especially in that situation you know you don't want to put any pressure on somebody to make you know you could argue you're not going to we're not going to make excuses in terms of whether we thought it should be a call or whatever whatever it might have been but he shouldn't have been in that position in the first place you know you could say the same thing about me but we both were and we both didn't just you know capitalize on the opportunity. Last question Matt Brooks with Nets Daily. Hey Joe was this opponent just the way they you know grabbed off off misses and push out in transition did you feel like that was one of the keys to why you guys didn't play as well defensively or is it just a complete lack of focus altogether. I mean they're one of the better offensive teams in the NBA obviously they're one of the worst defensive teams so that's kind of why we have the result that we have but they have offensive firepower especially when Russ plays efficiently like he did tonight you know him and Brad are both capable of having really big nights which they did and everybody else you know kind of plugs in as well they have a lot of good offensive players and yeah just not enough stops in our part obviously a lot of times when you score you know what we scored tonight you're probably sitting pretty good and you're going to win the game but too many defensive miscues a lot of you know separate sort of runs where momentum got on their side and then you have the result that you have.


The battle over who's going to become the House Speaker is now over, but I think that what that Holker Fuffel demonstrated is that the Republican Party really is factionalized in more ways than many of us had previously thought. It's not just the far-right freedom caucus loons against the so-called moderate Republicans. And I put moderate in quotes because I don't think any Republican is a moderate, but either way, it's not just far-right versus right. It's now also anti-McCarthy versus pro-McCarthy Republicans, and some of these insults are absolutely going to leave some lasting bruises, and it's not just that they said mean things towards each other during the battle. They're still insulting each other. Now, that's not to say that some Republicans haven't tried to mend their relationships. For example, Matt Gaetz and Mike Rodgers, the individual wearing the toupee who lunged at Matt Gaetz who was physically restrained, they've kind of buried the hatchet, but others, I think it's going to take a lot more time for them to mend their relationships. So there's an interview by the Associated Press with Lauren Boebert, and something that she said about Marjorie Taylor Greene prior to the speakership vote is so ruthless, so so mean, but true, that you can almost see the effect that those words had on Marjorie Taylor Greene. And let me give you an example of that. But first, let's get to what Lauren Boebert said about Marjorie Taylor Greene. She says, I have been asked to explain Marjorie Taylor Greene's beliefs on Jewish space lasers on why she showed up to a white supremacist conference. I'm just not going to go there Boebert said over the phone as she wrote in a car winding through the high canyons near her hometown of Silt before the speakership vote. She wants to say all these things and seem unhinged on Twitter, so be it. Now, I have a lot of thoughts about this because what she's saying is unquestionably true, but it's ironic because I mean, it's Lauren Boebert who's saying this. She also likes to behave in a very unhinged way and I'll link to that interview down below. The whole premise of that interview, at least from her standpoint, is that even though she almost lost her election, she's not going to change her way. She's still going to be as firebrand as she previously was. So while she is calling Marjorie Taylor Greene unhinged, she too is unhinged, so she has no self-awareness whatsoever. But it's evident that Marjorie Taylor Greene, now that she has lost a lot of, I guess, clout, you can call it, with some of the members of the far right, including neo-nazis like Nick Fuentes, who she was previously aligned with, as Bobo pointed out in that interview.  And I think that Marjorie Taylor Greene, somebody who's hyper-aware of what people are saying about her, saw what Lauren Boebert said. And I don't know when the date of that interview with Boebert took place, compared to the interview that we're going to see with Marjorie Taylor Greene, but either way, Marjorie Greene is aware of what people are saying about her and she's trying to make it seem as if she's more moderate, more reasonable now. And I say that because in this Fox News interview, she denounced QAnon publicly, so let's listen. Just to deal with one bit of history, the Democrats stripped you of your community assignments after you were elected. That was raw politics. But in fairness, didn't you also say around that period that you had been a follower of QAnon conspiracy theories and you had rethought this and you were no longer influenced by the group? Well, like a lot of people today, I had easily gotten sucked into some things I'd seen on the Internet. But that was dealt with quickly early on. I never campaigned on those things. That was not something I believed in. That's not what I ran for Congress on. So those are so far in the past. So she got sucked into an Internet thing that was happening, except you can't just say that. You can't just say, oh, well, that's in the past. I got sucked in this conspiracy theory. That's behind me now. We're moving forward. Marjorie, you're a member of Congress.  I might have more respect for you if you were a flat earther. So you can't just say, well, yeah, I fell for that and I moved on. We have to have a serious conversation about whether or not you're capable of having the amount of power that you have. Again, you are a sitting member of Congress. You have a vote that will affect millions of people around the country and the world, not just your constituents. So you can't just say, yeah, I'm dumb enough to have fallen for that, but I'm going to keep my position of power. But this is her trying to pretend as if she is moderating. So that way insults like the one that Bobo threw at her don't stick as hard. But the problem is she is speaking out of both sides of her mouth, because on one hand, while she's publicly disavowing QAnon, she's also saying things like this in the same interview and listen carefully, because she's going to be asked whether or not she believes Joe Biden was legitimately elected. She's going to basically brush that aside and not even answer the question, but the host doesn't pick up on her disingenuous maneuver here. Let's watch. When things got heated, you said this about Congressman Chip Roy of Texas. He refused to object on January 6th. That's not what our base wanted. So a lot of the people who were back in Kevin McCarthy also didn't vote to certify the Electoral College is also Joe Biden. Do you think that's an important thing to the base even today? Oh, it's very important. Well, what I was pointing out is the same people that conservatives were holding up in high esteem don't necessarily have those voting records while they're at the same time criticizing Kevin McCarthy. Who does Kevin McCarthy did object on January 6th? And he's been a top target of the Democrats and the January 6th committee. Do you believe that Joe Biden is a legitimately elected president? Of course, Joe Biden is the president. That's always a silly question. Okay. Well, I'm trying to be silly. I was trying to just clarify. Okay. He did not ask you who's the president now. That's the easiest quiz ever. He asked you, did Biden win the presidency legitimately? And you didn't answer that question. And if you notice, this is kind of the go-to answer for election deniers. When you ask them, was Joe Biden legitimately elected? They'll say, of course, he's the president. Right. But I'm not asking you whether or not you see that he's the president now. We can all see that. But do you believe the election was stolen? So these hosts, these journalists who ask these questions, they need to be more savvy about the way that they word this and they need to push back because what she did there was play loose with the facts. She's essentially tacitly denying that Joe Biden was elected legitimately. But yet in that same interview, she wants to be portrayed as being this reasonable moderate. It's just ridiculous, right? So that's why people like Lauren Boebert are saying she's unhinged. Lauren Boebert is correct, but Lauren Boebert is also unhinged. This entire party is unhinged. Now, going back to Matt Gaetz, I referenced him earlier in this video, Nancy Mace, she was on the pro McCarthy side and Matt Gaetz was on the other side, obviously. Look at what she said in an interview with Face the Nation. So she was asked, is it going to be difficult to work with these folks, given that you've argued with them before? And Nancy Mace also got into a Twitter fight with Marjorie Taylor-Green, but they were on the same side when it came to the McCarthy speaker battle. But Nancy Mace was refreshingly honest and she admitted that it's going to be really difficult to work with people like Matt Gaetz, who she views as, well, quite frankly, a fraud. The speaker has reportedly given the freedom caucus that ultra conservative faction, a third of the seats on the power for rules committee, which controls which bills make it to the floor. You've called Matt Gaetz, one of its members, a political delister and a fraud. You've sparred with Marjorie Taylor-Green. I'll show our viewers part of that and let them interpret your meaning. How are you going to work with these folks to get anything done for the American people? It's going to be very difficult.  Every time you voted against Kevin McCarthy last week, he sent out a fundraising email. What you saw last week was a constitutional process diminished by those kinds of political actions. That was really interesting. And I respect her for being so forward with her opinion about Matt Gaetz because most normal people can see that he's obviously a fraud and what he was doing with the McCarthy Speaker battle was grandstanding. But I mean, this whole party, it's a circus and it's all about show. They're not seriously trying to legislate and create policies. And she goes on to explain that later on in this interview. If you want to watch it, I'll link to it down below where she explains that like she herself is a forced birther, but they're not voting on policies that are going to reduce the number of abortions. So she floated the idea of expanding access to birth control. So you decrease unwanted pregnancies and as a result, you decrease the result of the number of abortions. And she says that they're not focused on things like this. So they're not serious about governing and the Freedom Caucus has essentially taken over the party and individuals like Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, members of leadership are forced to cowtow if they want to remain in power because the Freedom Caucus is a large enough number of people in Congress to where they can stop things from getting done, stop Republicans from getting the speakership as we saw last week. So either way, I'll admit, I think that all of this Republican infighting and factionalization is really good for the country because the more that they focus on each other, the less they could focus on attacking the working class and marginalized people. So I hope that they keep up the fighting and the insults and we'll see. But I don't think that the bad blood is going to go away anytime soon. I think that this speakership battle is going to leave some lasting wounds, but we'll just have to wait and see for sure. But either way, I'm enjoying the show. Meanwhile,


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So Bitcoin now is down about 30% compared to its yearly highs. But Willy Woo, who's a prominent crypto blogger, tweeted that the drop in price means that this is actually the end of phase one of the bull market, which is driven by FOMO. And now we're going to see a more stable phase two, which is what's going to bring us to $20,000. So do you agree with Willy Woo's analysis? Well, I certainly hope so. I mean, right? That is the wishful thinking. I mean, you can see this, this was a rather nasty drop. It's almost 4% in the span of about 20 minutes, 30 minutes. What was great is that the recovery came even quicker than the drop, right? So that we had that sell-off and then price bounced back. At the moment, we're about where we were before that sell-off happened. What I'd like to do though, because this is like really short-term price action, is we really need to kind of zoom out and show where does this put us as far as the long-term trend is concerned. And at the moment, we're really giving a good test of that $9000 psychological support level. I do believe that when we have a support level building up like that, there's a fairly good chance that we might just step below it, shake out the last few weak hands. I've been hearing a lot on group chats that I'm part of and on social media that people are looking to acquire around $8,500. So that's basically there, you know, the target buy level. So in that case, if that is the case, then we still could see a little bit more on the downside. Of course, I'd be more than happy to see that last night's flash crash indicated the end of it, and we can continue on up from here. Yeah, I hope so too. So my next question has to do also with Bitcoin. So according to data from Coinmetrics, about 3.8 million Bitcoin hasn't moved since 2014, which is the highest amount of unmoved Bitcoin in a five-year period. And so the researchers themselves interpreted that this is a sign that Bitcoin is increasingly becoming a store of value, which is why it's not being moved, which could be a positive sign. The other side is that this large quantity of Bitcoin that hasn't been moved means that people are not really using it, and therefore real-life adoption is lagging. So which side of the issue would you fall on? So by nature, I would assume that that metric is designed to rise over time. And I think that that 3.8 million just gives us a good benchmark figure for how much of the current supply is on the side. So we have approximately 17 million that have been minted so far. So if you take out those 3.8 million, you start to notice the extremely low liquidity of Bitcoin, the limited supply, which is what gives Bitcoin its value. So overall, I think that hodling doesn't necessarily mean lower adoption rates, but actually they're one in the same. When people take some of that supply off the market, they are using it. They're using it for its intended purpose as a store of value. Yeah, that makes sense to me. Actually, everything's about Bitcoin, it seems, this week almost. The next question. It's all about the Bitcoin. I mean, it honestly is. This has to do with the Bank of China, which is among the biggest state-owned banks in all of China, releasing infographics on its website explaining what Bitcoin is, how it works, and if it's valuable. It's also been reported that China might be planning to launch its own cryptocurrency that would be a competitor to Libra. So do you think that these two things, the rumor and then the infographic, are signs that China is more open to cryptocurrency than before? Yeah, I mean, and also we had about a week ago some news where one of a court in China had upheld Bitcoin as an asset, meaning that it was protecting somebody's property rights and saying that Bitcoin was property.  It hasn't. What it has banned is ICOs, and then later on, basically, they closed down all the BTC RMB pairs because they were worried about capital flight using Bitcoin. Overall, I mean, the Bank of China, and they've said it themselves, are some of the top researchers on Bitcoin. They've been completely on top of this space since 2014, and they're quite advanced. So I'm looking forward to seeing if this infographic is indeed part of a wider adoption strategy. I think that that would be quite cool. There was a recent report by Crypto Exchange, the San Francisco Open Exchange, FSOX, where they said that Ethereum might not be considered an altcoin anymore. And the report points out that Ethereum shows a much higher correlation with Bitcoin than the rest of the altcoins do, which would make Ethereum, in their words, an asset on its own terms, much like Bitcoin. So do you agree or do you disagree with their findings? So I'm not sure that they're able to really redefine the term altcoin. As far as I know, the term altcoin means specifically any cryptocurrency that's not Bitcoin. So Ethereum definitely falls under that category. Also, what they were saying about the correlation doesn't really make much sense to me, because if there's a higher correlation between an asset and Bitcoin, that would strengthen the case for it being an alternative to Bitcoin. Whereas if it was an asset under its own right, we would see a lower level of correlation. All in all, I think that Ethereum is one of the top altcoins, and it has used cases that Bitcoin simply cannot participate in, such as smart contracts and ICO is a creation of wealth in a democratized way. But to just say all of a sudden out of the blue that it's not an altcoin and that it's a completely different thing, I think that that's taking things out of context. I want to say and tell our audience that you're about to be going on a vacation, if that's right. That's correct. Yeah, so we're going to miss you over here, but we'll see you again in September. Thanks a lot. Yeah, bye Maddie. Bye-bye. While Maddie is on vacation, comment below if you have any suggestions for analysts or traders you'd also like me to speak with.


Hello, everyone. Welcome to root cons. It's early morning, and I'm Nemo. I'm going to be talking about running my own home server. I do tech and security things at RazerPay, primarily around infrastructure security. But while we'll be spending the next two days talking all about running enterprise-grade infrastructure, if you want to start this conference on a more personal note about how and why I run my own home server. So to start with, this is the broad agenda for the talk. I want to go around what counts as a home server. I want you to tell I want to tell you why you should be running one, how do you get started with it, and a few gotchas around if you decide to actually run this. And finally, we'll have a call to action so you can actually go ahead and do it today. So to start with, what counts as a home server? When I started this journey two years ago, I had different reasons to visually own my data. I believe that the concept of digital ownership today is very, very important. And giving corporations all your data doesn't sound very nice to me. So that was one of the reasons I started it. And I believe if you personally want to run your home service, any computer that runs a service for personal use counts as a home server. It doesn't necessarily have to be an actual Dell server. It could be something as simple or dumb as a Raspberry Pi. But any computer that runs a personal service that is run by you and managed by you counts as a home server. So why would you want to do it? This is the starting question. And I believe these are the different answers that you may have for yourself. For me, there are different motivations. The primary motivation being owning my data. As I earlier said, I believe digital ownership is very, very important. If you currently, how many people run Gmail? Primary email on Gmail, personal. That's almost everyone in the audience. The second thing I wanted to do was be Google my life. I realized I had a lot of content on Google and I don't think that's the right thing to have at this point. Especially, I'm being paid to run my own infrastructure, my company's infrastructure. I wouldn't be a very good infrastructure engineer if I can't manage my own personal infrastructure. So I believe I should be running my own infrastructure. The third was I had this requirement of backing up some of my data locally. I had lots of photos, lots of videos, lots of movies that I wanted to keep locally on my server instead of storing them on the cloud. And I wanted to keep a local backup for all my content and follow the three to one rule of three local copies, two remote copies and one off-site copy. I also wanted to learn and experiment with tech. I want, this was primarily Terraform and Kubernetes for me when I started two years ago. We were migrating across Kubernetes. We were starting out using Terraform across our organization and I thought, hey, can I use these things at my home as well and maybe they'll help me get better at work as well. So it was a nice mix of, in fact, the tools and things that I use at work correlate nicely to the decisions I took at home as well. And finally, this was a very important criteria for me. I wanted to play Mario at my home. You'll realize if you own a PS3 today or an Xbox, it's become really hard to play Mario. And I wanted to get back that feeling. So this is actually where I started out by playing Mario on a simple Raspberry Pi. As with all personal projects, you'll realize things go out of scope and you realize, hey, this is a new shiny personal project and you keep moving on to other things and you'll have other new personal projects that you want to devote more and more time on. And it happens with everyone. So to set a healthy boundary for myself, I said, hey, I'll put a cap on the amount of time I'm going to be spending on this infrastructure. This is not work. I don't want to deal at an outage at work and get back home and deal with another outage at home as well. So I'll limit the amount of time I'll be spending on this to somewhere around five hours a month. It may go up or down if I'm setting up new services or migrating across things. But roughly I try to keep myself to the goal of one hour or so per week. What this lets me, gives me is a healthy boundary in terms of, hey, I'm not investing too much time and this doesn't feel like work. It should be fun. This is how my home server looks. It's a fairly simple dump PC. It runs a mini ITX motherboard, which means it's a much smaller form factor than all the tower desktops you may have seen. This is how it looks currently. Sorry for the potato photo. The two UPSes next to it, but still best com doesn't, it lets me belong quite often. So the next few slides, I want to walk through the software, what I run, what you can run, the hardware, what kind of choices you should be making, and finally the glue that will hold it all together. So this is a list of services that I run, starting from monitoring. I run Prometheus, I run Grafana, which are also the same services I currently run at work. It's fairly easy when you have the same configuration or pretty much a similar configuration style to use at both at work and home. And you don't have to worry about learning brand new tech. Alongside this, I run this thing called a speed test exporter, which gives me immediate speed test results for how ACD-5.9 is performing at my home. I run, I wrote something called ACD exporter, which also gives me details about how much bandwidth usage I have used throughout my month. This is how it looks. So for example, this is screenshot from a while back. My current usage today is somewhere around that. If you go to grafana.vba.fun, you can actually look at the dashboard and play around my data visualization over time. Finally, run CAdvisor as well, which gives me metrics around the containers I'm running, the memory usage, and the CPU metrics. So what are the services? I run a few media services, which include things like ASONIC, Jellison, all of these are basically self-hosted versions of media services that you can find on the internet. I end up stripping DRM from the Audible books and the Kindle books are by to host them locally. On the content side of things, I run a lot of services from NextCloud, which is the one primary thing that I would recommend to everyone. If you want to get started, NextCloud is a great starting point because it acts as an alternative for your Google Drive, your Google Docs, Dropbox Sync, Google Calendar, and it lets you run your own contact server and all of these things together. And it gives you, for example, even things like automatic photo sync. All of these things together make NextCloud a very good starting point. You just run it and you have an immediate switcher point from taking your digital ownership back. I run Miniflux for RSS feeds. How many people here remember Google Reader? Next, since Google decided to kill RSS, there are still a few of us who are trying to keep it alive. Miniflux lets me subscribe to websites across the internet that I follow. And read them at my own leisure. I run Time Machine for backups, which lets me do encrypted backups of my MacBooks, which I have multiple at home. Apparently for my calendar and contacts, I'm running this tiny small app called Radical. It runs a CardDAV and a CalDAV server, which basically lets me sync all my contacts to my personal server instead of sending them across to the cloud. And a few other services, for example, I run Giddy. So the talks for the slide and the code for this all of my home server is hosted on the server itself. So what hardware? Say you've decided, hey, I want to host next cloud. Maybe you want to play a few games. Maybe you've decided, hey, I'm going to run this specific media server. How do you go about picking specific hardware to run it? This is what I run, the DumpSymbl Intel CPU-based system. I also run a DigitalOcean server on the cloud, currently running in Bangalore region, which basically means it's across the city at Electronic City. I primarily use it for services that I want to always be up. I also have a 90B rate five hard disk configuration at home so I can keep backups across multiple disks. So let's see, you want to start this. A great starting point for hard disk. A great starting point for hardware would be getting a simple dumb VM on the cloud. It doesn't cost too much. There are options available from aslo as 350 INR across Scaleway, across GCP, RZR, or DigitalOcean, which is what I use. It works great. However, one thing you must be aware of is the persistence storage cost. Storage costs don't scale across cloud providers and it's much, much more cheaper to own your storage than to host it and rent it from the cloud. Another thing I want to mention is the security footgun, like how AWS says you have a shared responsibility model for managing your own security. They will give you the tools then, but you'll have to ensure that services that you run and the networking that you set up, security groups, for example, are correct and valid to ensure that your services are secure. It also comes with batteries included. So for example, if you do end up wanting to run a separate Postgres server, you can do it much more easily on the cloud. And finally, the optics costs are much more lower. You don't have to go and buy, I think my build costs somewhere around 30 to 40K when I started and you don't have to invest all that money upfront. You can just rent something for 250 INR a month to start with. So as I said, on the cloud storage side, if you actually have a lot of content in terms of media or photos that you want to store or backup, storing it on the cloud may not be cheap. These are prices for EBS volumes. You wouldn't necessarily use EBS volumes, but depending on your use case, it may or may not be possible to use something like S3. So for example, when you have storage, you'll keep getting diminishing returns in terms of what you get on the cloud. However, if you do decide to actually buy a hard disk and put it locally within yours, at your home, it's much, much more cheaper. The cost for retail, for example, at 3DB are $224, while it's almost the same price of $300, you just rent it for a month from AWS. You can get much cheaper price elsewhere, but negatively, it's still going to be diminishing returns. Another great starting point is just a Raspberry Pi. If you haven't tried it, it's great. The current model comes with one gig of RAM. Works great. It does do HDMI as well. You can watch movies. It does X264 1080p videos today. And finally, it also comes with GPIO pins. So if you are the electronic stinking kind, you can go ahead and use it. A few other alternatives are things like System 7. This is Xmefcat, which is like a small, tiny home server that you can run locally. It's an Intel i7 machine, fairly powerful, but similarly, there's Intel NUC, which is also the quite similar form factor device. The problem with these small form factor devices is the upgradability is always a concern. You can't push, put in PCI Express cards, or there'll be certain limitations in terms of how much storage, how many storage space can you have in such devices. You can also look at Hetzner server auctions. If you're okay running your home server in Germany, Hetzner does these device auctions where they'll auction off US generation hardware. And while they're not great for commercial usage, they're perfectly fine for non-commercial and personal usage. So you can just get them off at $30 to $50 a month or so. And it comes in with enough storage, enough compute for most purposes. You can also look at trying out a NAS or a networking device. So you can get, for example, a Synology or a Seagate NAS. While it won't have enough compute, it'll have enough storage. So if your primary use case happens to be, hey, I take a lot of photos, I shoot a lot of videos, and I want to back them up. And I may also want to host a few other services, like maybe a calendar or a contact sync. Looking at a free NAS device may be a viable option. You can run a network storage. You can back up your own things. And while it won't let you play games, it'll have enough leeway to do a lot of things. And finally, if you plan to play games, which was one of the primary use cases for me, I wanted to play powerful games. So go to the PC Master Race Wiki, which lists out really, really great builds that you can do. One thing that you may want to look out for if you're running Home Server is the power wattage cost on these builds. So while getting the highest and the greatest graphic card can build my great idea, it may not be a good idea if you're going to be running your computer 24-7, which is how your Home Server will function. So, and you can actually go wild. If you have some old laptop flying around, you can just use them as your Home Server. If you have old networking device that your company is no longer using, maybe buy them off cheaply, use them at your home, set it up, and play around with it. If you want to try out setting up your own Kubernetes cluster locally, starting with a couple of Raspberry Pis is a great way to do that. It's not natively supported in Kubernetes right now, I believe, but there are unofficial builds that do work. With all this said, there's this specific model that I want to go on a little bit more, which is the hybrid way of doing your Home Server, which is currently what I do. You want to have, because as I said, storage is going to be costly to run on the cloud. So you want to have something with the local storage site on your home. So a simple Raspberry Pi connected to a disk, set up a VPN across the cloud to your EC2 instance. So you can run all your costly cloud computations or any service that requires a high compute that can't run feasibly on a Raspberry Pi, or for example, needs to run 24-7 with higher uptime. You can run them all on the cloud, but anything that does require disk, you can mount the disk across the VPN. It'll be slower, but it will work. So as a summary, it depends on which model that you would decide to go with. You can go with a cloud model. You can go with just setting up a Pi or NAS device or picking up a hybrid model like at it. The pluses are great. More pluses are better if you see money. Emojis, it's possible, doable, but it will cost you a lot of money. For example, with the cloud, you get decent security built in. You have great utility. The ease of setup is much lower. It's still decent, especially if you're used to cloud infra at your work. You can just pretty much use Ansible or a data form or whatever things you are using at work. Storage costs are higher. You pretty much won't be able to gain. Setting up an HTPC is possible, but HTPC here is a home theater PC, but it will likely cost you money because of media storage costs. If you decide to go ahead with a simple Raspberry Pi, it will work for most use cases. It won't have a lot of compute in it, so you can't run a lot of services, or if you decide to watch a movie, your services may suffer. The Opsies is also limited because of the ARM platform support. A lot of services that I run, not all of them are available as ARM containers currently. You may only get AMD64 builds and have to cross compile it yourself. It works with the gaming side as long as you're limited to retro gaming and playing games from the 80s and the 90s, but it won't play any modern games. If you go with a hybrid model, it could all around, but the setup ease and the Opsies are slightly harder, but these are mostly one-time costs that you need to pay upfront in terms of setting up the infrastructure and the VPN once, but those will work out down the line. That's the base solution. The only things you need to look out for are utility and gaming, because while NASA will work great for low compute use cases, if you have something that requires intensive computation, or if you want to play games, that won't be possible. We have a general idea of what you want to run, what you can run, what hardware you need to get, or what computer model you should go with, or on the server. What comes on the glue side of things? How do you actually tie it all together? What I currently do is simply set up Docker and Terraform together, which lets me control all my services as simple containers, but the most important point that I want to make for the glue part is ensure you pick something that's dumb, simple, and you understand well. Don't go crazy and use this, use your home server as your first free BST build, if you don't haven't used it before. Don't switch operating systems, don't switch your orchestration platform completely. Make sure it's something that you understand, be it Ansible, be it Chef, be it puppet, don't hand roll your own server either, don't make sure you're using some sane configuration management tool to roll out your changes. Two other things that I want to mention are Android and Home Lab OS, which are basically simple operating systems that do Android does virtualization and disk storage really well. So if you're the media storage kind, Android works really well. It comes with inbuilt support for a lot of different services. I believe Home Lab OS is currently at 60 plus different services supported natively. You install the operating system and it gives you one click option to enable calendars, media storage backups and all a whole bunch of different services of all sorts. But yeah, if you want to set this up, pick something dumb, pick something you understand, pick something you've already used before or pick something that you think will be helpful to you in the next two years because you don't want to pick something that's too arcane, it'll cause you a lot of pain down the line and you'll definitely go beyond your five hours per month budget. Another thing that I would recommend is picking containers by default. Make sure if you're not able to run a service as a container, it won't run it. It's not worth the pain. I currently am at 35-ish services and 35 includes all the databases as well. So maybe 25 services and 10x auxiliary containers. But running all of them with containers has been so much easier than it would have been otherwise. I don't have to worry about dependency management, I don't have to worry about packages and it generally makes life much more easier. I can just write my configuration as code and read much more easily. Having declared configuration for containers be it in terms of Docker Compose file, I currently use Terraform for writing my Docker Compose file and it generally makes orchestration much, much more easier. If you're not already using containers at work, this is what I would still recommend. It's starting point as well. A little note on the networking site.  You want to do calendar sync from your home to your phone. The primary problem you'll face is most ISPs in India do not give a public IP address. They will net you behind the firewall which pretty much means your servers are not accessible on the internet. The way I get around it is the hybrid working model where I set up my IP address on the VM that I'm running on digital ocean. It's not the only way of doing things. If you go and talk nicely to your ISP or if you pay them enough money, they will actually give you a public IP along with possibly a static IP as well. But talk to your ISP if you think that you will be running a little bit more compute than just a Raspberry Pi or if you think you may be switching ISPs down the line, then it may be worth it getting a simple $5 VPS anyway. Another suggestion is to actually set up a VPN on your home server. A lot of the management info that you run for example, I don't promise you, which doesn't come with auth by default. And I don't want to expose it over the internet at all. How do I manage it? I currently only expose it on my personal VPN network. So I'm able to access it over my laptop and if I'm still traveling I have a way to access it for the VPN but it's not accessible directly over the internet. Finally, set up a wildcard DNS offer services. I currently run star.bba.fun which is the smallest little domain that I could find. But you can pick a simple wildcard domain. What this does is makes it easier for you to set up new services and setting up wildcard tls also the same thing. At the start I believe when I started out I added 10 services across the first week or so and I ran a file of Lex encrypts rate limits because every service that I added or removed was resulting in a new certificate issuance. It's much more easy to do wildcard tls especially this is your personal infrastructure you're allowed to do. Yeah on the diagram side this is a simple hybrid model that I already discussed but running a VPN makes it much, much more easier way to run your management infrastructure on just the VPN my current infra involves running traffic and Docker alongside traffic if you haven't used it is a simple dump HTTP router that can auto discover services depending on whatever you are running. So if you're running Kubernetes or auto discover Kubernetes services, if you're running Docker it'll auto discover Docker services as long as you provide certain annotations or labels or tags to it. So traffic for example will route any traffic that goes to media.bba.fun to the appropriate container internally. None of these services are exposed directly to the internet. The connection happens only to the disk lotion template I have which pipes it across for the VPN. I also have a more confusing diagram which points out how I do the SSH part of it ensuring that SSH is you have a way to SSH into your containers to your host alongside that you want to ensure I run GitE which is a Git server which also supports SSH so I have another port mapping for that as well. Finally on the security part if you're running this these are publicly exposed services I currently run 20 plus and these are services pretty much which you have no control over. If you find a security issue you can point it out to the person but you have no control over the developers who are writing these things. So rule one is run everything in isolation which is why I recommend containers highly. You can set up CH routes or Jail as well but I would prefer containers. Don't expose services by default. Make sure the default should be not to expose anything on the internet. If you're going ahead and exposing it any which way if it's a management service like Prometheus or your Docker, I run the Docker daemon as well make sure those are exposed only over if you're exposing other services make sure they have an authentication system behind them. Don't expose your photo servers across to the internet blindly without setting up first on it. So this is a general workflow I follow every time. Make sure I first set up the service don't publicize it on the internet test it out, make sure it stays secure set up an auth on it. If your service natively doesn't support auth which is the case for many things like for example Prometheus you can set a basic auth on it by on the engine X layer traffic by default supports it with just a simple annotation which is what I currently do.  So yeah, this is the final CD for the talk. If you're interested in that I've managed to convince you today to actually own your data and run your own server so go ahead and buy a Raspberry Pi today. It's a great starting point. It comes and runs Linux by default. It runs a variant of Debian called Raspin has enough packages in it you can set up what things like next cloud with just sudo app get installed next cloud it's a great great great starting point I would highly recommend go ahead buy a Raspberry Pi it costs less than 3000 and a few slides hosting references if you decide to go down the path. The first is the awesome self hosted repository on GitHub. There's a huge huge huge collection of all the personal services that you can run starting from how easy and simple can it be to run your own mail server from various different configurations to running your own VPN to running your own calendar server etc. They have a huge list of applications of possibly with containers you can run. The second is linuxserver.io it's a community effort to build and publish regularly updated container images for various self-hosted software. So for example next cloud has a linuxserver IO image as well which you can use instead of the official image. They're pretty well maintained much lighter than the official images in many cases and in many cases if you don't find an official image for something it's very likely that linuxserver has an image for it. There's also a Reddit community called r slash self hosted where people discuss how to set things up from setting up simple configuration around Terraform or Docker or how to manage containers or how to set up unread for example. Yeah, that's it. Thank you. There's slides on capnimo.n slash talks. I've also written about my home server journey on my blogs if you're interested in reading the whole thing and how the actual tech behind it works. The code all the blog posts are at capnimo.n slash archive. That's it. Thank you. Questions. Please raise your hand if you have any questions for the speaker. Okay, so this is obviously a lot of trouble you've been through to set up your boxes and the first thing that strikes me about running a server at home is you got an ISP that's netting you so you can't talk to the outside world it's a lot of pain. You got power cuts. You got two UPSS to keep the beast alive. Is it worth it? Why don't you just pay for posting in a data center somewhere in the city itself? That's a totally feasible choice and which is what I recommend as well. If you run with a hybrid model you want to keep most of the compute and most of the services that you want decent uptime on towards the cloud side but at the same time if you want to have a local available version of your media backups for example I want to have artists that I can carry around if I want to. Running it locally is a much better idea. Any questions? That's it. Thank you.


Yeah, when we talk about financially independent most people can understand what that means in terms of the world I think for me from my perspective it was that I realized that there was there was actually one form of Dependency that was good. I mean in this world dependency is not a good word You know whether we talk about co-dependent relationships or being dependent on your parents or dependent on government handouts or dependent on Friends to support you or whatever that's not a good thing and And if we talk about being dependent on on drugs or Anything like that. That's not a good thing. What I started to realize was there was one form of dependency that actually was good helpful healthy and And that is dependency we could call it intuitive Dependence that we have a conditioned mind that has all these false beliefs that are based on scarcity fear and lack and Then we have an intuitive side, which we could say is is our spirit a spiritual reality within us and As soon as I discovered after 10 years of full-time University, so I did learn a lot about the world economics and the body and medicine and Architecture I studied all the fields That the world has to offer But I actually discovered after that after I left the university was that that if I could open up and become dependent on the spirit that that would be the answer to all of my problems that that spiritual Dependency would would be a good form of of financial dependency There's workbook lessons in the course that say I will step back and let him leave the way Jesus is always teaching, you know, you know look at the lilies of the field they neither spin or toil and Take no thought for what you should wear and eat and seek eat first the kingdom of heaven and all things else will be added unto you Even nowadays with like the love like the movie the secret the law of attraction. It's saying that if you tune in spiritually that Everything comes to you Through spiritual practice not through necessarily the way the world would say to build financial independence the goal is the same is is Eliminating a sense of lack whether we talk about the sense of trying to become financially independent in the world where you have plenty of resources and there's no need to Strive so much as it is just to to let those resources work for you But with the spiritual journey, it's like what I have found is that Everything that I need to fulfill my function Comes very effortlessly and very easily. I I've never been into vision boarding or trying to Visualize goals and for the future. It's been more of just okay. Tell me what you want tell me what you want to do your work and I'll gladly do it and Things have come Very very easily like I didn't ever I never planned on doing world travels. I Was I never dreamed of it. I never had any ambitions to travel the world but when a New friend met me and said you should start sharing this stuff around the world It was a novel idea to me and he happened to be a businessman who traveled a lot and Who accumulated a lot of frequent flyer points? So he not only delivered the message you you need to travel more and share these ideas overseas But he said how about South America and I said I've never I've never had a thought about that and I said well There's this lady that wrote last week to a friend of mine saying so happy you're coming to Argentina And I said what's that about and she said oh I just sent her some free CDs and she gave us an invitation turns out the man had Entered a contest where if you stay at these certain hotels dine at these restaurants take these airlines You could win the grand prize of one million frequent flyer miles Which he did win the grand prize so he was offering me an invitation to travel overseas and offering to fly me and some of my friends business class to South America on this South America Frequent flyer pool that he had so that was an example to me of the means are provided along with with the function Which is very different from the way we work in this world We think it was great to have goals, but hey, you're not going anywhere without the resources without the money the whatever Means being given So that's one thing that's very much of a distinction. I find that that I've gone into this flow and everything that I seem to need is provided in that flow and I've kind of gone the opposite of trying to work in the world's ways to become financially independent Because I've seen that that given over to the spirit the spirit can use all of those symbols But they come in very unconventional ways. They don't come from Planning per se they come from inner listening and trusting and Following and then they just come very effortlessly But the goal is the same nobody likes to feel trapped Nobody likes to feel at the mercy of something Nobody likes to feel that that they can't do something because they just don't have the means to do it and The world's terms money is the means and in the spiritual journey the miracle the miracle of perception is the means and The Bible says with God all things are possible. I would say that translates to as you Really learn to behold the miracle then you find that all things that you're asked to do are not only possible But they're they're very effortless So it works out really good