All right, I think I'm gonna start now. So thank you all for coming by. Congratulations, you made it, the last session before closing session. And I hope you all have been having an awesome DrupalCon. My name is Matthew Tift, and I work at Lullabot. We're a design, strategy, and development company. I also, you can find my name in maintainers.txt under the configuration system. I maintain a number of modules, and I formally worked in academia. And I have a degree in music history. I used to teach at the University of Iowa, and I've been interested in critical theory for a long time, which is why today I'm here to talk about public sphere theory. And the way I have this structured is to make it as understandable as possible, because this can be a quite complex topic. So I have four parts. The first three will take about half the time, and I'll talk about Drupal, then public sphere theory, and then Drupal and the public sphere.  So today, although I'm talking about a theoretical subject, I hope that what I'm saying is a kind of practical advice that public sphere theory, for me, gives me a different way of conceptualizing Drupal, which in turn helps my interactions with the community and interactions with the other individuals. And I hope today, then, not to try and criticize other views about the Drupal community, I'm not here to try and convince you of anything or convert you or relay some sort of hidden message about things that have been going on in the Drupal community, I am here to offer up some ideas that you may or may not find useful for yourself. So the first part, we'll talk about Drupal. Now, you've been at DrupalCon for a few days. You probably have a good idea what Drupal is. And the kind of language we use to talk about it, we say it's a content management system. We say it's developed by a community, which in Wikipedia has been happening since 2014. I don't know, maybe a little bit longer than that. On the other hand, you could go to a place like the Linux Journal and read that Drupal is not a content management system. So the language that we use can be contradictory. And maybe you think Drupal is hard. We can use words like that. But however we break it up, whether we say we associate Drupal with an organized group like a local user group or an institution, maybe you associate Drupal with Lullabot or Palantir.net or some other organization you think to me that's what Drupal is. Or maybe an individual. Maybe you associate Drupal with Driess or with Alex Pot or Tim Plunkett or something like that. And then we also talk about Drupal in terms of the market. Driess talked about the idea of the enterprise label being slapped on Drupal recently and how he presented a different label which would be for ambitious web projects. So we have lots of ways of talking about Drupal that are more than just the code. But I'm sure for many people that is the main thing that they care about with Drupal. So you could say as the Drupal Association did a few years back that Drupal has something for everyone. Or you could say I work in Drupal and I'm going to measure how an individual contributes to Drupal. We have this site that has not been updated for a long time which is called Certified to Rock where we measured an individual's contributions to the community. One of my colleagues at Lullabot once gave a talk about Drupal using, let's see, as would be a simile. He talked about it as a platypus where this odd sort of creature that we have assembled. So there's lots of different ways to talk about Drupal. And one that has gotten a lot of attention is this idea of Drupal as an island. And the idea being that the Drupal island is this place where we all are, I guess it's sunny and I don't know, maybe beaches or something. But the idea is that we want to get off the island and go look at some of these other communities like go attend a PHP conference or something like that. But this idea, I've talked to a lot of people this week that have felt that this is relevant, that we're an island. And this kind of thinking, I've been sort of interrogating a bit more recently. Dries has talked about Drupal as a public good which is a really different way to talk about Drupal because it's based on economic theory. At his keynote in Amsterdam a few years back, he compared it to roads or street lights or parks or other types of things that benefit the public. And as a result, then he could look at issues like the free rider problem and trying to entice people to contribute to Drupal. So that to me seems like a very different way of understanding it. Dries and I also published a blog post after months of work looking at commit credit data where we said, who is contributing to Drupal? And then we tried to answer the question, who sponsors Drupal? So while we were doing this, I would talk about some of the things that we found, some of the data that we looked at. And one of the things I heard quite a bit was saying, well how do you measure something like generosity? How do you measure how much time it actually took to create that patch? How do you measure that person who is organizing a local user group or something like that in all of the effort that they have because that would never show up in a commit credit. And there's all kinds of examples of this that we can't really measure. So this idea of actually existing in Drupal to borrow a phrase from academia is a tough one to pin down. And as a result, I tend to like talking about Drupal just in terms of the way that we talk about it. So I wrote an article about this a few years back called The Cultural Construction of Drupal and I talked about some of these issues that we construct ideas of Drupal using these kinds of language like an island, like a platypus and that kind of thing. And if you're interested more, you can check out this article. But in essence, Drupal is changing constantly. We know not just the code contributions but how we talk about it, how we understand it. All of these things contribute to our understanding of it and our participation in the community. And ultimately, I think it is really interesting to try and say, I want to measure this. I mean, how do you relate to that? How do you say Drupal is important because of blank? And as a result, we have this kind of relationship to it because certainly there are people in the community that have a real affinity for Drupal that you want to go give it a big hug and say thank you for everything you've done. And that to me is just kind of a fascinating question to try and understand why people come to the community. So one way of understanding that I think is through public sphere theory. And this brings us to the next section of the talk. So there are a few things that we can say about public sphere theory with relative certainty. We can say that the term was coined by a scholar named Jurgen Habermas. We can say that Habermas is a very influential scholar. In a, there's lots of rankings where he shows up saying, hey, who are the smartest people on the planet and he'll be up there. In this particular one from a few years ago, he was just after Elon Musk and ahead of Naomi Klein and Slavoj Zizek and other people who we think of as influential, especially or at least in the academic world. But even if you're not an academic, you've probably heard of Elon Musk and to see Jurgen Habermas next to him might be kind of a shock for some people. But I wanted to sort of contextualize the impact of this theory on other folks. So what is this theory? So if I was to boil it down, taking the dozens of books that I've read on the subject and articles and that kind of thing, I think this is one of the key concepts that we can find as useful. That there is an idea of a private realm and there's an idea of the state and then somewhere in between there's this public sphere. So this was key for Habermas's theory in that it was different from a setup where maybe there's an authoritarian telling people what to do. That the public sphere was not just this different place, but this influential place. And the theory is useful because it's both historical and it's what we'd call a normative ideal. And that's a very academic phrase that says, this is what it could be. This is like this idealized place. This is a place that is desirable. So by treating it in this way, we can use that sort of as a benchmark for how we're going about our day-to-day interactions with Drupal that the theory is describing a place that's both historical and idealized. And what is this place? Well, one way to understand it is thinking about an 18th century coffee house because the public sphere in Habermas's theory was actually a place. It was in England, a coffee house in France. It was a salon in Germany. It was a Tischgesellschaften. So we had these different like physical locations where people would get together and debate ideas. They would read the same journals. They would come in with ideas and they would debate. So what did they debate? Well, they had rational critical debates and that's one of the key ideas of this theory of the public sphere, that people are offering rational ideas, that people are analyzing, that people are saying, here are some of my ideas about specific subject and they're not just coming in with crazy ideas. So it's important in the public sphere in this theory that you disregard status, that it is a place where everyone is welcome and it didn't matter if you were a lord or a working class person that you came in and it was about the ideas that you had. What could you contribute to the debate that was useful? And the debate was often about unexplored topics. It looked into habits we had formed, ideas that we had held and said, why do we do that? So it's not about holding on to any own personal ideas. It's about saying, we've thought about this for a while and why do we do that? So that would be the type of topic in the public sphere location. And if you wanna use some big language, I guess, you could say that it frees society from domination. It was a place that had a very different effect from people who were told what to do. It had power and importantly, the ideas that came out of the public sphere were legitimate because everyone was welcome in theory, because everyone could present these ideas, you would end up with legitimate ideas that in turn became effective ideas. So to bring about change in the public sphere in theory, it had to be legitimate, it had to be effective. And it's important to note then that as John Dewey did, the distinction between the public or the private and the public is in no sense equivalent to the distinction between the individual and social. So it's not simply that people got together to discuss things, but they did it in public. So you could still have groups of people that are getting together in private discussions, making big important changes, but in the public sphere, it was about individuals getting together in a public place. So there's not just one public sphere, as I said, this was a phenomenon that from the 18th century onward occurred in lots of different places, so there's no one public sphere. It's not a place where you go to talk about your feelings or why you're upset or something like that. It's about rational critical debate. It's also not a place where you engage in commodity exchange. It's not about doing business, it is about the ideas again. And it's also not a place where you go to get good polling data or something along those lines. So it wouldn't be as though somebody is gonna go into a public sphere or in a coffee house and they are going to tally up everyone's opinion and based on that make a decision. That is also not part of what it is. Again, it's about the ideas, it's about the debate. So no institution then can come in and sort of push their weight around. I couldn't go into the public sphere and say hi, I'm Matthew Tift, I represent Lullabot and here is the institutionally sanctioned opinion that we would like to present. It was not that because, again, that would go against the notion of it being classless and it would go against the notion of the importance of the debate and the individual as part of that group. So if all that seems a little bit overwhelming, the basic things that I think you can pull from that is that we have a public sphere is inclusive, classless and rational critical. So that's what I am sort of highlighting because I think that is perhaps what can be useful for us as we look into the Drupal community. But lots of other people have used this to look into other communities. So for example, to give you a better sense of how public sphere is used, a lot of feminists have looked at this and said, public sphere, oh that's different because people traditionally have thought of women's role as in a private sphere, not out in public. So lots of feminists have looked at this and sort of interrogated the theory and understood how women play a role in society in a different way. Black public sphere is another idea where you can imagine maybe with what I've told you how different it would be to understand a public that is classless versus a slave society, for example. So there are all kinds of public sphere theorists. One recent was about, for example, YouTube as a public sphere. And I could go on and on, but I just wanted to highlight one that I thought is particularly relevant for our purposes which is this idea of a transnational public sphere. So that might sound like a big, hard to understand concept but basically the theory that I had mentioned before talking about public sphere as between the private realm and the state, Nancy Frazier looked at that and she said, well that's not really relevant to us anymore. And she said, there's not just one state that people are trying to influence anymore. We are all people from lots of different countries, I'm sure just in this room, for example, we're all people from lots of different countries and what we're trying to influence is maybe a much more amorphous than we're trying to influence one particular government. So the transnational public sphere reconceptualizes the public sphere as influence by looking at what the influence is. What is it trying to do? And our keynote speaker today has highlighted in one of her articles because she's a public sphere theorist of sorts. She wrote an article in a peer-reviewed online journal by the way called, or not peer-reviewed open access journal called the first Monday and she started off by saying the emergence of network technologies instilled hopes that interactivity in the public sphere could help limit or even cure some of the ailments of late modern democracies. So big words again, trying to affect democracy through the public sphere. So this theory can be used in all kinds of different ways. And I want to talk a little bit about how we might use that to understand the Drupal community in a different way. So you may be sitting there thinking, wait a second. We don't go to coffee houses and argue. We sit at home and our underwear and get our work done. We play video games. We don't talk to people. That's not relevant for us.   And really, come on. Drupal is about business. So I would not particularly want to get into big arguments saying those things are incorrect. However, I would like to highlight some aspects of the Drupal community that I think are relevant for public sphere theory and I think we have our own public sphere. So for example, the IRC. This is one of the key ways that members of the Drupal community can communicate. And we have handles where we don't necessarily know who we're talking to. We don't have a place that is moderated with an agenda. You go into the IRC channel and you present your ideas or you say I have a problem with this and somebody helps you out and somebody else might say oh, that's not quite correct. But it is this sort of classless place that we don't necessarily know who we're talking to. Or our issue cues are similar in that way. And then there's the human element too. We value being human in the Drupal community and lots of us attend local user groups, Drupal camps, Drupal cons. And in these places, we allow for debates. And so often we'll say things like, well, the really important conversations that I had at DrupalCon happened in the hallway. And that too is another sort of public sphere kind of place where it's sort of you happened across someone else. You had a discussion, you worked something out, you did it in person, you created a new idea, you interrogated some sort of predetermined idea that you were going to question. So we have these kinds of conversations. And the agencies that a lot of us work for, they believe in open source values and they promote those through articles and podcasts and speaking and we contribute to Drupal core. So I see that there are not just people that are working for themselves or working for an agency, but they're participating in these places and they're doing so in a variety of different spheres if you will. So I have my own podcast and I give it away and I offer my opinions and I debate people on the show or I ask them the tough questions. So these are the kinds of things that I think reflect well on our community is when people are doing this kind of thing, sharing these ideas in a public way and that that is the kind of part of our community that is important. So what then are we influencing? What does the Drupal public sphere influence? So you could say that we influence the public good in general or you could say we have some sort of influence on states. So we have a wiki page on Drupal.org that lists more than 150 countries that are at some part of their government using Drupal. And that's more than three quarters of all the countries in the world. So you might say, well, you know, they're just using the software as a business decision. It was about accessibility or something like that. But I would at least like to think that maybe the practices that we've adopted as a community have some influence in these countries in how people interact. Maybe there's something there. Maybe that's a stretch for you. Maybe you think, well, do you have specific examples? And we heard about one this morning in the introduction to our keynote about the first Drupal distribution to help empower one particular presidential campaign. So this is somebody who was motivated in the Drupal community and wanted to take Drupal and do something specific with it. And here is one potential place where we could look at as a site for influencing governments. Orges people in 2013 at Drupalcon Portland, more than 70 developers got together to help some victims in Oklahoma City of a tornado. And the community was devastated by this in the Drupal community. Or one section of that tried to help those people in the way they knew best. So this was an example, again, of people getting together saying, how can we help? How can we have some influence for good? Or another more recent example is Drutopia, which is a, there's been a couple of buffs, I think that have mentioned Drutopia. I know some of you were there at one of them because I was at least at one of those. And it's again, a group of people that said, there's something about our community values. There's something about the way that we do things that we think we can use this software for good. And these are the kinds of things that I hope that we can continue to cultivate. So typically when we talk about Drupal and the community and growing the community, we will talk about things like sprints. As a speaker at Drupalcon, one of the required slides that I'm supposed to have is mentioning the sprints tomorrow. We're all supposed to go to the sprints and sprint. And the page that describes this has some information about how it works and that sort of thing. There's not a lot on that page that talks about why. Why do we sprint? Why do we try and get new contributors to the community? What are we trying to influence in those practices? So maybe we would think, okay, I'm gonna go to the sprint because currently, as of yesterday, we had 106,840 active contributors and I think we need to get that number up above to more like 106,900 because then I would feel good about my community. Then I would feel good if we had that commits closer to 3,000 or something like that. And I honestly don't think that many people in our community are driven by metrics like that. I don't think that's why most of us contribute. I don't think those sorts of numbers would somehow explain why people want to go hug a giant blown up Drupalcon. So why? Well, Tocqueville has an interesting quote to this effect and I think it can help us out a bit. So I'll read this. He says, each person withdrawn into himself behaves as though he is a stranger to the destiny of all the others. His children and his good friends constitute for him the whole of the human species. As for his transactions with his fellow citizens, he may mix among them, but he sees them not. He touches them, but he does not feel them. He exists only in himself and for himself. And if on these terms, there remains in his mind a sense of family, there no longer remains a sense of society. Now these words struck me pretty hard when I first read them because I used to tell people what really matters, the only thing that really matters is the health and wellbeing of my friends and family. And I used to believe this and I'd tell people that and they'd say, yeah, that sounds about right. The health and wellbeing of my friends and family. And this Tocqueville quote suggests that if you believe something like that, well that's going to result in the decline of society that we need to do more than just do things for our friends and family, that we need to get together, that we need to meet new people, that we need to interact, that we need to share our values, that we need to have these debates in the public sphere.  These are the kinds of things we hear quite a bit. But instead I'm saying, and this is not directly public sphere theory, but we need to refrain from divisive speech, share our knowledge, act with compassion and follow our code of conduct. So with that as a base where we are considerate and respectful and collaborative, we can then look maybe at other parts of our code of conduct and interrogate some of these words. So we say as our community grows, it is imperative that we preserve the things that got us here, namely keeping Drupal a fun, welcoming, challenging and fair place to play. So maybe you read those words and say, yeah, let's just make Drupal fun. Let's make it challenging and playful. And for many people I think that does speak to them, but I kind of look at those words and I think there might be something more that influences how people are participating. And I think that looking at that through the lens of public sphere theory that we could think about it differently, that we could say we want to be part of something greater. So I saw this the other day and I can't honestly remember, or I don't honestly know where this comes from and if you Google these words on the internet, you won't find an answer, but I read this and I thought immediately about the Drupal community. The expectations of a wise water drop. I don't want to go alone in selfish pursuit of my own path where I only dry up and disappear. The place for me is a reservoir where I can live forever as part of something greater. So that to me feels like Drupal. Like I feel like I'm participating in something that's greater, something that's good, something that's helping people. And whether or not that's real, whether or not that's like a historical fact or something that I'm imagining, it's something that I want to cultivate. And as a result then I want to look more closely at those unexamined aspects of our interactions. What sort of habits do I come with? This is my eighth Drupal con and I have ideas about, oh, when I'm at Drupal con I want to make sure I see Tim and hang out with Mike and I know I'm going to want to go to the keynote and the Dries note and I have these sort of habits, but then I kind of want to look at, well, do I have enough time in there to meet new people? Am I missing out on those interactions? Am I simply just catching up with anyone, someone in particular, or am I here to try and affect some sort of change? And I think each of us could ask these questions, whether we're here for the first time or we've been here many times. What expectations are we coming to Drupal with? Where do those come from? And what might we want to consider as something that we want to cultivate, something that we think is beneficial versus something that maybe there's some aspect of the community that we might not find as useful? So some of the questions then that we could ask are, are our spaces inclusive? Do we interact in ways at our parties, at our keynotes, at our sessions in the hallway that are open to everyone? Do we really provide a place for rational critical debate? Do we allow any sorts of crazy ideas? Maybe the sense that I'm standing up here behind this podium is one sense that we do, so that's cool. Do we disregard status? Do we question unexplored topics? So all of these aspects of the public sphere theory, we can sort of hold them up and say, how does our community do that? How do we contribute to the public good? How are we helping? And if so, are we just here because we want to try and get another client? I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I'm saying if you really look at that, you say is that why you're here? Is it because the good code, more clients, I can support my family? And I'm saying this as a guy who writes Drupal for a living. And I'm telling you now that when I really think about what motivates me, it's not just to get another client for Lullaby. And one of the easiest ways I think we can do this, whether right now, whether you leave this room or a week or a month from now, is think about those times or notice those times when you think Drupal is like this. Right now, talking about ideas about Drupal for me, that's Drupal. Watching Dries' keynote when he says, I'm gonna talk about the technology. And then he proceeds to show us six videos of people and stories about people that contribute to Drupal. When I saw that, I thought, that's Drupal. It's about the people. It's about some guy in an island off the coast of Spain making everybody laugh, saying, hey, I saw somebody on the road. And they recognized me, that's Drupal. I mean, that's why, I think that's why a lot of us get motivated, that we see somebody else and we think, oh, well, they use Drupal, and we have these sort of expectations around them. And I think when I see stuff like that, I say, yeah, Drupal's like that. And I wanna cultivate those things. And there's other aspects of what happens at these conferences where I think about, why are we doing that? No, I don't know if that's good for the community. So again, I'm not here to try and tell you what to believe, but I'm here to ask you to notice. And I'm here to say, one way you can think about it is this idea of the public sphere, that we can't really measure a lots of these kinds of contributions. But we can alter our perception of the community, the way we think about it, the way we talk about it, to say, here's what we are, here's where we fit in, we're separate from the private realm, and we're trying to influence something, and we're going to do something that works well for our values. And let's cultivate that. So with that, I would like to open it up for discussion. Could you speak into the mic? Thanks. I just wanna point, my background, I'm a psychologist. So when you said that part about we cannot really measure, we can actually do that. But I think it would be actually helpful. My thesis was about the mental construct. I don't know if you're familiar with Moscow Viseba. It's a French, Russian theorist. And you can actually measure the interaction between all this area and the mental construct of Drupal and see how interfere with all the area or our life, you know. It's not an absolute measurement, but you can have point of reference between, I don't know, what's the public sphere and what's the private sphere? What's the mental idea of work? How much is, you know, for example, how important is for us as a simple way to put food on the table or how much important is for us as a community, you know, things like that. So how do you measure then? Hey, questionnaires, you know, that's the best things, you know.  At least the people that are more involved than the community would be probably interested in something like this. Okay, sure. Yeah, I think there's a value in trying to find ways to measure, yeah. Yeah, so last fall, when Dries and I looked at commit credit data, it was one effort to try and measure, to try and say, how are people contributing? Well, what can we sort of measure? What, and one of the things we had come up with was, well, we can say, did I write this code sponsored by a company or did I write this code as a volunteer? And we found that 69% of the code that had a commit credit information was sponsored. That, you know, almost three quarters of the code that goes into Drupal Core was code that people were writing while they were getting paid. And that to me is, you know, it's interesting. And from there, we can maybe ask other questions. We could then, you know, one of the, some of the stuff I started to do and that we're going to do is to say, well, let's see what we can do to compare those commit credits to profile information and look at, say, gender information as compared to commit credits. How does it change over, you know, at a DrupalCon? How does it change when we change the rules about being able to maintain a module? So there's all kinds of interesting things that we can kind of, what we can sort of measure, I guess what one of the points I want to make is that that measurement is just, it's difficult to get a full grasp of all of that, that there are so many different things and that part of what we can do is to notice it for ourselves why we participate and then to sort of cultivate those values. This is Tim, thanks Matthew. So we have these community discussions going on right now and I think a lot of these are about figuring out what the community is. One of the things we were, I went to one yesterday and we were talking about, I was thinking about the Drupal project versus the Drupal community and I'm trying to figure out if these are different things or if they're the same thing. I think some people that the idea come for the code stay for the community, some people are really, you know, their connection to Drupal is the code, it's a tool that they use, they might contribute to the code but that doesn't necessarily mean that they imbue the community with any extra, that there's any extra value in the community for them. I think, you know, we've talked about this before, there are people like myself who really the community itself in a lot of respects takes precedent over the code. I'm very much attracted to the Drupal community and like the fact that we're producing good code that's useful to make the world a better place, I think, to the extent I have a question for you or anybody in the room is does this public sphere theory at all help us, help me figure this out? Like what's the difference between the project and the community and or how do I make sense of that? I'm thinking, you know, is in your idea, the public sphere being between the private and the state, you know, is could the Drupal project in a sense, the code and that be the state and that we've got a bunch of individuals and companies and then we've got this community in between the two. I don't know if that makes sense to anybody. I'm just figuring this out. I'd be curious what anybody else thinks. Yeah, me too. Anyone else wanna? Yeah. It's actually a very interesting question and I feel like there's a lot of overlap and it's hard to, you know, the public sphere is kind of an amorphous thing because like, so I work at a company that, you know, and obviously it's a job and I'm getting paid fairly well, but it's so much more than that because of what the work that we're doing is informing the larger public on issues that are affecting them even when they don't realize it. We're trying to sort of educate and inform and kind of fun way that's easily consumed and shareable and we're actually having an impact because I was literally in a bar in Brooklyn and the bartender knows where I work and he says, oh, my sister was visiting last week and she said, I got this great new site to tell you about and it was ours. So like, you know, we're doing a public good even while we're making money and I think that's true of the Drupal community too. We do both simultaneously in a lot of cases and I also spend a lot of time in the political realm and I do a lot of volunteer work with Drupal for political type things. I mean, so we kind of do both. Yeah, I think it is difficult to sort of tease out the differences between those things. Like I said about Drew's keynote where he said, I'm gonna talk about the technology. There's been a lot of pain and suffering in the community and I'm gonna talk about the technology and that to me was totally fine. I didn't hear other people like complaining. Oh, he's not talking about the technology. Instead he's showing this video of this woman talking about testing, that kind of thing. So teasing those out, I guess I would say what would be the advantage to sort of differentiating those things? Like what might be gained by saying, well, really the code of the community, same thing. And if that's the case, well, what does that mean? I'm not sure that making some sort of conclusion as to, well, I think this way versus I think that way might change how we'd go about on our day-to-day basis. But I think what helps me with the public sphere theory is the interconnectedness between our different activities and the influence that they have on something else. That to sort of offer a different narrative that we're not an island to me actually helps me think about the repercussions for what I'm doing. I think it's so easy sometimes to get lost in the code to say, there's a bug, so I'm fixing it. And that on its own, it's easy to think of that, not having any sort of influence other than I fixed the bug and now the code works better. But then if I say, well, what bug is this fixing? What module is this affecting? How is that module used? And what organizations use that module and what people are affected by that? So just sort of reminding ourselves perhaps more often that those choices have repercussions and the theoretical stuff can be interesting. I mean, I personally would say something like, well, there's no difference between the code and the people. But that's like getting into philosophical or religious grounds or something like that. And I don't know how helpful that is. That seems to just cause more angst with some people. Mateo, the star of Drupal Khan. Something that happened in my town was that someone went to visit an African country. They didn't get their shots and they came back with a highly contagious airborne disease. And we live in a country where we have universal free healthcare. He was very poor. He was homeless, basically. And since everyone contributed to have these very expensive healthcare system, we were just safe. Like I probably am not dead because many people contributed to something that they were not gaining immediately from, but they are protected by. Many times when I work with Drupal in the issue queue, I can just solve my problem and the code. I multiply the time that I spend with these issues by three times probably by making sure that I put a UI on top so someone that doesn't know code can go and use that code. Cause that's the Drupal way, right? We've been doing this, we've been doing it like this forever. It's almost like an automatic thing that we do. I think that both stories are connected in the way that I like to be in my day-to-day society, my day-to-day Drupal society in a place where people are more empowered, therefore are happier somehow. They can, I don't know, maybe afford to just live where they want to, like I do because they can work from home, they have secure work. And I don't think about any of this, right? I just try to do the thing that I feel it's the best. Sometimes it feels that it's the technical challenge, but I think that somehow the philosophy in Drupal is affecting my actions. So I can create a greater good where everyone is safer. And thanks to this kind of mindset that we have, we are affecting everyone else's kind of state of life, like empowering all people. I think that kind of makes, like for me, both things are deeply interconnected. And I don't know if there is a separation between the two. That's a good point. I'm manning, and this is awesome because it's helped me rethink everything that's been happening in the last month and thinking of it in terms of the public sphere and making reason-based arguments and decisions. And, but there are two slides that you had that were very striking to me. One was the Code of Conduct where it said, we wanna keep it fun, which is what brought us here. And that conflicts with when you said, if you're thinking of yourself and your friends, you're not thinking of society, you're drawn from society. So if we're thinking about what made it fun for us, that will continue to attract people like us and not grow the community. So what brought us here might not be the same thing that are gonna bring other people that we need to have a bigger community, not just like us, to think of the social public sphere aspects of Drupal. So I'd like those two together. And that might be part of the problem with our Code of Conduct is that we designed it, thinking how we can keep it for ourselves instead of thinking how do we expand it to more people. That's not a question. Yeah, that brings to mind all kinds of issues about why the Code of Conduct is in place, why are we having these listening sessions now? What's gonna happen with the data from those listening sessions? Is that gonna be a process that just ends at some point and then we have new rules and we're gonna stick with those? Or is that an ever sort of growing, changing process that we need to constantly be evaluating? And if we say, we like the community the way it is and we wanna grow it and we wanna have more people, that has a particular sort of appeal to certain folks, growing the community, more numbers. I wrote an article one time called Better Than Bigger, which was actually sort of critiquing a lot of his arguments in his Amsterdam keynote, saying, well, let's not look just at why we wanna grow the numbers but how we want to sort of cultivate the community we have and make sure we have processes in place that make it welcoming to everyone, both the people that are in it now and the people that we want to attract. And I certainly agree that we want to continue to attract a broad diverse group of people in this sort of classless society, this ideal. And to me, that's very appealing and super challenging to try and put those into words if we're gonna say, those are the words. On the other hand, I do feel like with some of these recent events, I think it's important to say, what are the limits of our community? What do we absolutely not stand for? What are those things that are not changing values that define the Drupal community? And those are really hard questions, of course. But I think those are all sort of related to this idea of growing it, making it more diverse and then sort of dealing with the issues that come when we grow the community. When we say we're making enterprise software now as opposed to personal blogging software or whatever we might have said before. I would just say we want to not just grow the community but grow as a community. Much more poetic. Man, I wish I would have thought of that when I was writing that article. Sure, maybe just a snarky remark, but I don't think that Tupacon is a classless forum of debate, because I mean, it is 500 bucks, right? I totally agree. Can I move on other criticism? He started. Now I was saying as a novice to Drupal and one thing that I am connecting with the previous debate that we have about how difficult is Drupal to learn. I think that an effort to make Drupal more accessible would actually increase the amount of contribution and the community will make it much easier to be, because otherwise what do you have? You have a situation where a company that wants to move toward freeware and has to deal with support the company that costs the $50,000 a year and that makes it impossible for a small entity to get access to this community. Yeah, we've made those decisions. We have decided we're fine with complexity. We're fine with it being hard. Certainly, and again, this gets back to the whole difference between this is how it is and this is how we'd like it to be. And we can sort of debate all these kinds of things about how it's been, whatever, but in a way there's the sense that we have something, we're stuck with it, what we have now, and we could make some choices now going forward and how do we make those choices? Now that we have the situation that we're in, we can decide we want to do this based on these particular ideas. And I think that can be a real effective way of bringing about the change, rather than necessarily rehashing or bringing a lot of the feelings into it. I mean, I know feelings are important for, we don't want to hurt people's feelings, but. No, no, no, we'll see if we'll have enough of this but the part that was certain to me was okay to a point where the economy comes as nobody is, where I know what this means and you don't, but I'm sorry for you, there is that part, that the control, I would say. Now this is set up, I understand that general philosophy and what you were trying to say, but to a point that has to be controlled, we're talking about, for example, in the previous lesson about creating a building for that that can be stable and give everybody an opportunity to understand the meaning of things that is the first step to that. Sure. Yeah, things, simple things. Last question or comment, Tim, you get it. Just one last comment, I mean, the idea that sure, it's hard to distinguish, like my idea, the distinction between the project and the community, it's clear those things are intertwined a lot, but I think we're fooling ourselves if we don't talk about the fact that they come into conflict, right? We have, if you're purely looking at Drupal as a technical project and you establish your goal is to make the best possible technical project, the best possible CMS, you may be pushed in the direction of making decisions, which are not necessarily in the best interest of the community, which may exclude certain people from the community or push them out. And I think we're experiencing some of that, I think, with Drupal 8 right now, right? It's, you know, I think most people would agree that technically Drupal 8 is a better product than Drupal 7, but we are, I think, leaving some.


How long did it take to join it? Well, it's a six month process and I'm lucky because my last two years spent in the regimen after spending 10 I was an instructor running SES selection, so I've seen selection from both sides of the fence Like I say, it's a six month process. It's broken down into segments and it's nothing like that shite That's on TV. I can tell you now During that six six months process You'll never get an instructor scream at you shout at you or try to motivate you The first phase is what the call the hills phase. This is where we take the soldiers up as individuals onto the breccan beacons and They they're set marches like walks. They get longer the weight the carrying gets heavier But they're always by themselves and there's loads of different routes, so they can't follow one another So after that period there's test week, which is a set of set marches Ending in a 65 km art called long drag The successful guys after that have proven that they can push themselves under audios conditions The next thing is we then take them to the jungle for five to six weeks But this time we put them into patrols and we're looking at them as are they a team player? Can they mix with five of the strangers and come to this unit and this as an instructor? This is where you start seeing to guys souls Because the jungle is actually harder than the hills phase because it's a hostile environment as soon as you get under the canopy It's a it's a a primary jungle.   So during that period We've only probably gone into the jungle with 45 guys and we started on the hills with 200 You know, half of these half of these guys are gonna stick their hand up and say it's not them not for me Some of them that don't you know, they're not gonna pass So, you know, you're always making notes and I used to be fair as an instructor and under the trees If I had a certain individual and I wasn't sure what I would do is get him moved into another patrol So somebody else could look at him just to make sure it wasn't a personality You know problem because we all have friends or we all know people but you don't like them and there's you You know for no reason and you just think mmm. I'll just check double check on this kid the next phase after that is Combat survival again, we get the guys and we teach them All the things they need to know in terms of survival and how to conduct conduct themselves after capture That's resistance to interrogation and various things next phase after that is Continuation training. So this is where now we've got to teach soldiers who are used to carrying a weapon in a uniform how to carry a weapon in Seville clothes and then say walk in your neighborhood or my neighborhood and not stand out how to blend in To be a great man whilst, you know, they're on the radio. They're following somebody And that came from say like a Northern Ireland type of scenario Now they do other scenarios that are more fitting like lurk working in London Maybe following a terrorist cell to know that they've got to get in close to you know, put one into their head Other technical equipment now listening devices drones Other various other various kit. So at the end, you know, it's six months and you're usually left with anything from five to twelve guys and they're then sent off to one of the four squadrons and Basically, you're the new guy in the squadron, but you have to be capable enough To fit in as in, you know what the score is a good friend of my brothers. He passed Into the regiment and B squadron was up in Afghanistan But up country and this lard He was flown out To join the squadron, but he was at Basra Then he had a two-day road journey to get to the squadron and he had a bunch of Afghan soldiers Well on the first day he was ambushed and he was in an ambush for two days Conducting like this operation where he's having to call in fast day to drop audience ordinance Bring in other troops to orchestrate this whole attack. So the guys have to be top-notch once they pass selection Do you know also even you're Giving them the course and putting them through their paces. Do you know from day one who's got a good chance of passing in the jungle? I know within I would say a week of how they conduct themselves and there's a couple of little Tests I would do with them that I wouldn't you know, it's not rocket science There's an exercise the hardest thing in the jungle is navigating to know where you are because you can't see nothing so everything's done by pacing and it's ridgelines and River junctions and things like that. So there's a certain skill to it So what I would do is take the guys out and we do it tactically So we're moving slowly, you know, everybody getting into fire position stuff like that get into a lying up position And they run through all the drills and then I would say right fellas tomorrow we're gonna just do some Semi-tax stuff And I will give you start giving your tips and stuff like that But but I want you up at three o'clock in the morning on the track now When you're in the jungle in the in the in the light goes down It's like being locked in a room without any windows and somebody puts a blanket over your head Now the guys have to then put the hammock up have to put the poncho up They have to sort the food out and everything else.   So the patrols working but you can all I Guarantee you'll always get one guy who will slope off and he just gets his hammock up gets his scoff on and he thinks He's in bed now for an extra hour's kip because he's just looked after himself Then as soon as I identify that person when you watch them as a patrol working He'll always stand out like a dog like a dog's wallet and he and know he's not working with it The more you watch the more things you see and then at the end, you know You're making notes and stuff like that and during the period of time They'll come up to you and they'll just say, you know, I'm gonna wrap the funniest one was we went out on a three-day It was actually a three-day turnaround Navics so we walked for three days just directly out into the middle of the jungle and I could see this kid he was gonna wrap and Sure enough the end of the day came up and he went staff. I've had enough and I want Just sit over there and take five minutes. I'll give you five minutes to think about it and Came back. You went.  I Said you you're off and he went, well, how am I getting back?   I don't give a monkey's if I've got Ticks on me bites leeches whatever they can chew away as much as they want. I know I'm safe Whereas in the desert, there's no way to hide is that what a lot of people break in the jungle Yeah, was that the main yeah when you consider these guys are the fittest from the course because they've passed the first phase They get in the jungle and they just wrap and they let themselves and it shows mental weakness that they're you know They're not focused and you know certain and they're all shapes and sizes You know, you can't just say he's a big lad like yourself. He's a big unit. He'll be fine It's all shapes and sizes now another one and on my selection, which was unusual During the resistance to interrogation now You've had a hard week on the run no food and living in just your clothes piss wet through and Sometimes it's all around Scotland and further down to Northumberland So yeah, you're knackered and then you go into a resistance to interrogation for 36 hours and you get in you get it's it's very realistic You are you're subjected to sleep deprivation, which really screws your mind up But you're interviewed by different people and you'll usually get a guy who looks decent He'll ask you nice questions and you'll say if you sign this piece of paper I'll give you this bar chocolate.   So you're freezing cold.  Well, I mean to me I'm just like Just blanket zone it out and you're there because you can't talk Can't you you can only see your name rank and number that's it And I'm thinking they can punch the shit out of me because they can't kill me because it's an exercise But your head starts to get twisted and these guys are in foreign uniforms and stuff And you think and is this real and you start questioning yourself well these lads one lad He was a big old paratrooper being down south He launched himself over the table to knock this bird's head in and obviously that the guards pulled him down He was off selection and he'd done all the work on the hills done all the work in the jungle And then another guy did it and she had seven guys crack under an interrogation and it's It is it's a it's a mental state and it's it's hard to tell you I mean if you if you were doing some psychedelic, you know, there isn't like saying gnomes running around the floor But they're there that's like not being on drugs But it's like being on drugs because you haven't slept for maybe three or four days And then the when you're in the when you're in the bag in the pen You're in stress positions with being subject to white noise and it really like screws your head In a big way and that's the easiest way to interrogate anybody is first of all keep them up for a week and Then they'll start seeing things They'll hear voices and then you throw a bit of waterboard in and they'll be fucking singing like a budget Yeah, I don't know if this is true, but I used to watch the I don't know what film it was But these I think they used to put the soldiers under the water But it used to just tap on the top of their head like that trip. Yeah, it's just to make your answer You should lose your shirt.  So that's the mental torture. Yeah, not the physical.  That's it I didn't believe him.  And I was like wouldn't speak to him and it took me about three hours Until other guys were coming out of the pen and we're all sat together Because you're that aware that this could be a setup, but it wasn't, you know, but that's how much it screws you


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What's the word y'all? Are we ready to start giving out awards? We're weak into the NBA season, so let's just start throwing them out there. There are a few things we gotta get off right up rip and I might say this multiple times in the video because every year when I do a first week awards, one month awards, people don't understand. This is not a prediction video. I am not saying based on the first week of the season, I think that in April, this person's gonna win. That's lame. No, we're not doing it. I am saying that if the season were to end today, this is my MVP.  That's not in the war, but it might as well be. You know, this is not a prediction video for the second time. You got it? Great. Also remember, there's only one award that I could give out so there's a lot of candidates for each one of these awards. So if you disagree, that's okay. We're just talking hoops around here and the person that you got number one might end up getting the monthly award in a couple more weeks. Leave a like, subscribe and enjoy basketball. Let's get into it. Starting off with the MVP award. Let's get the heavy hitter out of the way and my personal opinion based on the first week of basketball, I am giving the MVP award to Damian Lillard. I don't have the upgraded stats because his game is still going on but they yanked the starters but he ended with 31, six and eight and a plus 24 against the Denver Nuggets. He also has two other 40 pieces on the season and he had one sneaker game that was the first game of the season but after that, he has been absolutely lights out and the Portland Trailblazers are surprising four and oh. So that's every assignments for having the first big game of the season because before this, he was shooting like 27% from three. We all knew he's a better three-point shooter than that but today in that third quarter, he was insane. I don't really understand the Portland Trailblazers right now because somehow they have a good defense with use of Nuggets and use of Nuggets. Matter of fact, let me look at use of Nuggets numbers because I ain't looked at him but the eye test is telling me he might have the worst field goal percentage amongst seven-footers in basketball that's not shooting threes.  So all the game just ended great. So today he ended up with 13 and 12. I don't know what he shot from the field but overall on the season, 33% today, 40% before that 60 and 33. I just feel like he misses so many bunnies but anyway, they got it done. They also don't have Gary Payton II in the lineup which is kind of important for defense. They've been able to put it together. Shout out to Damian Lillard. He is my number one. With every single one of these awards, I'm giving top three. So Dame, here's your trophy. Let's get to the runner up. The runner up for my MVP is Jason Tatum. Actually, I got a tweet. Everybody watching this is an NBA fan. So you know all of the emotions that go into watching your favorite team. And the first quarter, Jason Tatum hit like 16 points against the Bulls and this was my tweet. Here man, because the way he was hooping and the way he had hoop for the first couple of games of the season, he just looked like the number one cat. And then the Bulls came to play was specifically Alex Caruso got sucked into the game and I took my MVP award back. And now he's second on my hierarchy because he ended up blowing this game. JK, it wasn't him, but I mean, the team ended up losing stuff like that happens. Actually, this exact thing kind of happened to them last season, which was the start of their turnaround. I don't know if y'all remember that they were up by like 20 points in the fourth quarter against the Bulls. The Bulls came all the way back and won that game. And then like a week or two after that, that's when the Boston Celtics turned it up and became basically the greatest team of all time for the second half. So this is not anything new for them, but Tatum has been amazing so far. I'm super impressed with his defense. Now overall, the team defense hasn't been as great as you want it to be. And that's strictly based on the numbers. The ITES can be iffy. I mean, today it was bad. But like the other games, the ITES kind of told me all day, all right. And then the numbers said otherwise. I don't know, but Jason Tatum is a guy that could go out and give you 30, but also takes the responsibility to guard the other team's best player. We're talking about a rookie here, but I still want to do this little antidote. When they were going against the Orlando Magic, he took the assignment of Palo Banqueiro. Again, we're talking about a 19 year old rookie. So all is at that big of a deal. It kind of is because he's the best player on the Orlando Magic through the first couple of games of the season. And today he wanted to take an assignment in Demarda Rosen, but it wasn't even like Demarda Rosen taking the big shots or hitting the big shots. It was a collector shot to vooch on his birthday, 20 plus rebounds, but second of my MVP will be Jason Tatum. Third is Jama Rant. Oh, Memphis fans already know you upset, but listen, hear me out. Y'all did lose my 40 the night. I'm just saying you did lose my 40. And then there are a couple of candidates that didn't make the list. And it feels disingenuous because how the heck have the Dallas Mavericks and the Bucks only played two games on the season? Some teams have already played four. You only got two, right? So Yannis deserves to be in this conversation, but he's only played two games. And Luca also deserves to be in this conversation, but he's only played two games. I know it's two versus three, but you get me, hopefully. So it goes Damia Lillard, Jason Tatum, Jama Rant and Jama Rant gave us another performance. He continues to dominate the Brooklyn Nets. I think over the last couple of years since Jama Rant has got there, the Brooklyn Nets have not won a game against the Memphis Grizzlies. He continues to do this thing. And if you look past the 40 point loss of the Mavericks, Rich is still crazy to me. They're three and one on the season with a roster that I didn't think was gonna be able to hold up as much as they were last year, just because Jared Jackson Jr. is not there and then they traded away some quality, quality role players. They've been able to fill those voids. Now, the defense is still not very good, but same time this year, last year, they had one of the worst defenses in basketball. But right now they got one of the best offenses in basketball and a lot of that is Jama Rant. Shout out to Desmond Bain for the big game today. Those are my top three MVP candidates. Now we're gonna get to Rookie of the Year. Now, I don't wanna pat myself on the back, but the top two players of the draft class so far have been two people that I predicted. Now, like I'm saying, I'm not trying to pat myself on the back because a lot of people understood that Paulo Mankaro went number one for a reason and a lot of people understood that Benedict Matherin was a beast. Again, he got drafted and said LeBron has to show me. LeBron has been on top of the league for 20 years and Benedict Matherin was like, not against me. And he has showcased that kind of energy. Now, who's number one? Who's number two? This is the way I determined it. I went based on the efficiency numbers. They're both averaging basically the same amount of points per game, but one thing Benedict Matherin has done is shot it better from three, seven attempts per game, shooting like 43% through the first week he's been dominant. Tonight maybe not as much, but he did have that crazy fourth quarter where he almost brought his team back. But I mean, look at these numbers from Paulo. He's been amazing too. If you have Paulo number one and Benedict number two, I couldn't be mad at you because both of them have been amazing. One luxury that Benedict Matherin has over Paulo is that he's not getting the other team's best defender every single night. Like I said, Jason Tatum took it upon himself to guard Paulo and I don't think a lot of teams have caught up just yet to what Benedict Matherin has been able to do. And maybe his numbers go down once the team does a scouting report, but both players have been lights out so far. And then my number three is gonna have to be Jayden Ivey. I was tempted to give it to Keegan Murray, but he missed the first couple of games because he got the virus, but the minutes he has played has been amazing. So he'll probably end up in this conversation for sure. I mean, the team looks dramatically different when he's on the court, shout out to him. Jayden Ivey is averaging 17.75 rebounds, six assists, 50% from the field, 45.5% from three. Almost four attempts and people are questioning whether or not his jump shot was gonna be real. Remember, it's only a three game sample size, but through the first three games that jump shot looks light out. Those are my top three candidates so far. Defensive player of the year. Now, this might be the hardest one. How the heck do you determine the best defensive player in the league based on a two to five game sample size? This is what I came up with. Even though this team has not won a single game on the year, the Lakers defense has been pretty damn good. And though Anthony Davis still sometimes looks like he's lost a step, him at that five position hasn't pretty good protecting the paint. I think he's averaging like close to three blocks per game and he's also getting like two and a half steals. And like I mentioned, he is the anchor of one of the best defenses in basketball. So I'm giving him the nod. Number two is Yanis. Again, only two game sample size, but we know Yanis should be in this conversation every single season. And just like the year before this or the year before that, year before that we know that Yanis is an elite level defender. Number three is rough though. I mean, I'm looking, I'm trying to look at stats. I'm trying to remember games that I've watched and try to think about overall defensive impact. And you know what? This might be one of those awards that, hey, we leave it at two and I'll open it to the public. You let me know. Most improved player. There's two real candidates when I think about this award based on the eye test. I ain't even looked at the numbers here. I'm gonna go with Taris Halliburton as my number one. Actually, let me go look at the numbers. Now, Taris was a extremely popular pick going into the season for good reason. Once he got traded to the end in the Anapacuses, points per game was from like 15 points per game to 19. He was averaging double digit assists. And I mean, I'm looking at his stats right here. He's been incredible. 24 points per game. He's leading the league in assists and he also gives you 3.5 rebounds per.  And if we're comparing it to last season, he was 15.5 last season in totality and it jumped up almost 10 plus points. In assists, he got one extra assist, rebound and better. The turnover numbers have not really changed even though, you know, his responsibilities are higher and three out of the four games he's giving you at least a double double. I mean, this is by far, in my opinion, the guy that's the front runner for most improved players so far. Ain't really got no time for no arguments. Big long shotgun. Look like Laurie marketing, baby. He's gotta be number two. I mentioned him in yesterday's video. Even to them boys almost won again, but the streak ends against the Houston Rockets. I just knew, I knew it was. I said it yesterday. I knew it was gonna happen. But he went from 14.8 points per game to about 21 and a half. I mean, he's still, oh, it's actually three point numbers a lot lower than I thought it would be.  He's been a career 35 ish, three point shooter. But for the most part, he's making an impactful place on both sides of the floor, something I didn't think I was gonna be able to say about Laurie marketing. So he would be my number two jumping up from 14 or about 15 to about 21. And lastly, a very underrated pick is going to be, why am I getting McDonald's and Shaq big podcast ads? Nick Richards. Nick Richards went from a guy that could not get on the floor through the first two years of his career. And then this year he's getting way more minutes. I mean, not a ton. He's only getting 22 minutes per, but he's averaging 15 and nine. And I watched him yesterday and this man was everywhere offensively and defensively. So a name that you might not have heard a ton in his NBA career so far is really making an impact on the Charlotte Hornets. So he's my number three. So I was thinking about Deira Fox for his jump up so far because he's been lights out as well. I mean, 31, six and seven is insane stats, especially when he only averaged 23 last season. So he will probably be number three for real, for real. But I wanted to give love to Nick Richards. So shout out to him. I mean, low key, we talking about just straight up jump. You can argue Deira Fox over Laurie Marketer. You know what I'm saying? So I was just kind of in the moment with Laurie because he is Laurie, but Deira Fox really good conversation. The more and more I look at these numbers, man, he's even hitting the three point shot. If he can keep, now he's not gonna shoot 45% this season, but if he can keep up as a average three point shooter, whoa, and unlock so much for Deira. Shout out to him, man. I'm still rooting for them, by the way. I just don't believe in it. You know what I'm saying? They still got my heart, but I'm just saying I'm not investing in them anymore. That was my problem. I invested, every video I was talking about, Kings this, Kings that, and they started off on three. But like, I'm still watching it every night hoping that they win until they come to Chicago. Oh, six man of the year is easily Christian Wood.  Here's my preseason pick. You know, he's after 25 and 10 again. There's only been two games that they've played so far, but he's doing it in how many minutes? Tell me again, 25 minutes per game. He's averaging one point per minute on the court and he's shooting 50% from three as a guy that's six nine, power forward center, and he's also shooting 55% from the field. Everybody knew that Christian Wood can hoop and everybody knew that Christian Wood can score, but he's doing it at a crazy clip through the first two games of the season. So he would be my six man of the year. Other candidates, I mean legit, it's probably Benedict Matherin. I'm trying to think of any other players that's been impact for off the bench. It's Benedict Matherin and a low key guy, Jettie Osmond. I watched Jettie Osmond just give the Bulls the word. I might even go Kevin Love. Kevin Love hit like nine threes against the Bulls the other day and the very next night, he also had a couple more. It's between Jettie Osmond and Kevin Love, tomato, tomato, both of them having really good for the Cavaliers so far. I mean, based on what we've seen so far, the coach of the year has to go to Chauncey Phillips again, took a team that I didn't think would be able to defend anything and they're doing that actively between the first unit and the second unit. So he's got to be number one. I've given Will Hardy the benefit of the doubt because they're three and one on the season and the one game that they lost almost went into overtime. And lastly, Greg Popovich. Every coach that exceeds the expectations for week one is getting love and Greg Popovich, Will Hardy and Chauncey Phillips are the three guys. Now I'm thinking about executive of the year. I'm thinking about a team that made whatever trades needed to be traded and improve their roster. I forget who's running the Cavaliers. Is it Kobe Altman? Kobe Altman moved over to president. So Mike Gansy, whoever's running the team over to Cavaliers should probably win executive of the year. And I'm saying that because Donovan Mitchell has been one of the best players in basketball, they lost Deers Garland 20 minutes into the season and it has not mattered whatsoever. They set a back to back and Donovan Mitchell basically gave them 30 plus points in every single one of those games. And I guess Danny Ains has to be in here too. I mean, we traded away Donovan Mitchell to Rudy Gobert and we're still better than some of the teams we traded them to, you know? But that's it. Those are all of my awards. You let me know.  But he can't win an award right now. I can't give it all. What about this guy every single time we do a war? So let me know in the comment section and I'll see y'all soon. Peace.


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Hey folks, good morning. It's Hari Swaminathan from optiontiger.com Friday June 29th. I'm looking at Baidu for a potential trade here. As you can see after its earnings it went up and here there was the news that their CEO had resigned and so it got beaten up and then it recovered somewhat and now along with the rest of the markets it's been dipping down. Here as you can see it's gone down below the Bollinger Band. The CCI is also very oversold. Looks like some supporters coming in over here. There was a large volume bar. However it remains to be seen at least for one more day whether this can sustain itself. Markets have turned somewhat positive with the ES also looking positive on the future. So what would be a good trade? I wouldn't go straight up on a long call because we don't know if that's the case but what we can say is something like a bare call, I'm sorry a bull put somewhere around the 225 level would be good. So what I have here is a 21 day series right here expiring on 20th July and if you look I have a bull put here. It's a credit spread. You get 73 cents. It's a $5 spread so that's about 14% in about 21 days. So if you look at the risk profile that's what it looks like. Baidu is at 242 which is right here and of course if you look at the Delta as well of this option it's about 18. So it's below 20 that's good and you don't want to go too far out also. I think Baidu might especially given that the charts are saying that there's some support coming in. Something like a bull put at the 225 level would be a decent trade with about a 14% return in about 21 days but I think we need to wait for one more day I think to make sure that this can turn around before we put this trade but perhaps on Monday this trade can go in as a pretty decent 14% trade on Baidu. Thanks.


But I completely take your point and I think in some ways it's kind of natural to feel that way because we get these opportunities and it feels like we're having to ask for something else. The way I try to reframe it in my mind is that we're not asking for a gift, what we're effectively trying to seek is a compromise. This situation is designed for neurotypical people, it doesn't work for us, it causes us a lot of pain. Just by being there and doing the same thing as everyone else, we're putting in 10 times the amount of effort. So by asking for a few adjustments, yeah, it requires them to work a bit harder, but we're already working a lot harder than they are. So I see it as kind of levelling the playing field as opposed to creating a burden upon others. But one thing I think I should mention as well is sometimes it's actually better for your mental health and more autism-friendly not to advocate for yourself. That completely goes against the whole theme of this.


So do you guys want an incredible Diablo 4 farm for legendaries, unique items, I mean gold, XP while today guys I bring you an incredible spot How's it going people my name is DPJ and to celebrate the launch of Diablo 4 I'm giving one lucky person a chance to win an ultimate edition version of the game to bring the chance of winning this Simply drop a like on this video make sure you are subbed and leave a comment down below Also guys if you're looking for people to play with check out my discord link down below Okay, so this spot is absolutely incredible.  I mean it's not not very often guys You'll see a point where you get halfway through a dungeon and you have to empty your inventory because you're full of that loot Well, that's what this dungeon drops. I mean the amount of the amount of loot drops is unbelievable This chests I counted I think on one run between 10 and 15 elite enemies It takes about 10 minutes to run If you're a good player or take less than that you can do this in a party can do it solo It's unreal on screen now You're seeing just a first instance of ads look how many there are this place is full of them Okay, so the dungeon is located right here on the map you can see where that guys Right near the bottom of the map It's called the ruins of order. Does that say oh do oh do. I don't know people I don't know. I can't pronounce things on a good day But hey, this is the one you want to come to a once mighty fortress consumed by the swamp. This place is absolutely Incredible now as we know Blizzard are seemingly nerfing These these kind of spots these kind of farms this one I can guarantee people will also get nerfed It's just a matter of time. So use this while you can now I personally at the minute I'm just still playing on a world tier 2 trying to get to a level like 50 50 152 Then I'm gonna switch for world tier 3 and start farming. I am a solo player I mean I do play here and there a couple of powers, but again, I mean I'm looking for a team I fall team. I'm gonna create my own clan all that good stuff If you're interested in that you want to play with me you want to help me out We want to share ideas on builds and stuff again. Check out my disco look down below But yes as a solo player, there's not many spots and in the game where you can actually farm solo This is definitely one of them that still works again. This ruins of order is Unbelievable. It's a great great dungeon on screen now by just seeing a few instances of me just rushing through charging through those ads Raking in that XP so that stage guys were I mean I'd done the complete campaign But I needed a few more levels before could actually survive in a world tier 3 as a solo player I'm gonna farm things like dungeons and such. So I was looking for as I was traveling around the whole map Well, I said home at not the whole map, but I was traveling around looking for certain dungeons I found a few here and there good spots. I've already posted videos on my channel on them But this for me definitely as a solo player right now is the best I have found Now there's no doubt better spots out there There's no doubt better ways of earning XP out there just yet to be found but guys trust me when I say this this spot is Unbelievable now whether you want legendaries whether you want unique items I mean whether you want just XP this can be achieved all within this dungeon again If you want those legendaries though, and you want that them unique items this than the other I'd probably suggest you wait until you get to a world tier 3 to start farming I mean, I mean, I mean you can keep get legendaries. You can keep them You can stash them use them moving a world tier 3. I don't know but Until you get to a world tier 3, I do believe farming those legendaries for your build at least is a little bit of a waste at the time I mean, yes, we cannot grade them But once you get to a 50 50 plus a level, I mean you're gonna be earning so much Yeah, so much loot so much high-level loot when you're actually able to farm that true end game So it doesn't really make sense that if you're below a level 50. I've seen I'm seeing level 20s 30s 40s Asking for great legendary farms, which I understand if you're trying to complete the campaign They just want to progress the campaign a little bit easier And yes working on a build milk build is a good good thing in regards to end game builds I don't think farming at a level 35 will help you much. Well, hey, you play the game How you want to play I've said this a million times There's no right or wrong way in how you play the ablore for not in my opinion anyway, you play it how you want to play I actually Chilled when I played the game. I didn't rush through the campaign. I like to soak in that story. So I'm up chill I'm literally guys only a little 45. How many days later? Are we so I'm rushing nothing And that's why if you're a new player to the game Or if you're still struggling to level up if you're below a level 50, I mean a lot of my videos will help you out because They're helping me out. I'm on your level. I'm on your level guys. So I know what's needed I mean, you'll see a lot of farms these days posted by other content creators They are great great farms or they end game farms.  I'll watch the farm the other day, which looks so good. I Went to as a solo player.  We can actually earn great amounts of XP Great weapons great armor and all that good stuff and this is definitely one of them We should definitely be taking advantage of so the ruins of Ururu is just Unbelievable and you're seeing on the screen now. Do you have ads in here?  It isn't nowhere near finalized I mean a lot of people have asked me for a build guide on this But there's really no point because I'm gonna change up here and there Most of my armor doesn't even come inside or work with My build and what I'm using that's why I'm still I'm waiting something I'm waiting until I'm actually able to survive in a world tier 3 as a solo player not playing in a party That's when I'm gonna start working and actual Investing into farming materials about grading this that in your vessel Yes, it's a work-in-progress build as of right now But if you are interested in what it is right now hit me up on my discord again link down below I'll show you the build as it is right now how it works why it works like this, but it isn't relying on any armor pieces What so ever it's just my first build. That's it. It's just my first build not even a level 50 yet So yeah guys if you're interested in it hit me up on my discord like I said, but yes This is an amazing farm I definitely recommend you using trying out and let me know down below use it while you can because as we know Blizzard will probably nerf this as soon as it catches on like they have with many many other farms in the game But guys thanks as always for stopping by if you do enjoy this video leaving a like really helps me out I feel like what you see I'm gonna see more Diablo 4 be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys. I will see you on that next one


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just to get a feel for what we're doing here. We can see there's three main categories, operating, investing, financing. Then you got the net cash increase for the period and the cash at the end of the period. That 4063.52 should tie out to what's on the balance sheet at the end of the period. So if I go back on over here, you gotta pull up the trustee calculator because if there's something in undeposited funds, then you gotta pick that up. So here we've got cash of 201 plus, you've got the undeposited funds here plus the 2062.52, there's the 4063.52, which ties out to the statement of cash flows. So in that sense, you can say, okay, the statement of cash flow kind of ties into the cash. It's giving you more detail on the cash balance, but that's really way too simplified a thought process because it's kind of like a bank reconciliation in that we're not just looking at the cash balance by checking the transactions on a cash flow basis. We're basically looking at the whole accounting system on a cash flow basis type of system. So you can kind of think of it as if you went to the balance sheet over here and we think of the income statement as basically a breakout of the equity section, which is assets minus liabilities. Now we're kind of reversing everything and we're kind of breaking out in accordance with the cash flow accounts to see the detail, how we got to the current position in cash flow, beginning balance, cash flow, what happened during the period, mainly income statement activities, but on a cashed basis to get us to the ending point that we are at. Okay, so back to the statement of cash flows. So we've got these three major categories of the statement of cash flows. The operating activities is by far, typically the largest category that we have. And you can think of it kind of like the income statement, our operating activities type of thing on a cash flow basis. Although most of the time we use what we call an indirect method, reconciling net income on the income statement to net income on the statement of cash flows or operating activities. Then we have financing activities, which typically deals with the purchase of fixed assets because that's, I'm sorry, investing activities, which typically has to do with the purchase of fixed assets. And then we've got the financing activities, which typically has to do how we're gonna finance the business, which might include the owner putting money into the business or taking out loans, paying off loans, paying dividends or owner's equity. So these are the cash flow.