Good morning everyone. Dr. Sol here in Beverly Hills. We have a very special patient. She's a VIP. She's super nice, beautiful, everything. She's here to visit us today. We've done some work today. We're going to do some other stuff. So let's take a look at her and see what we're going to do. So she has breast implants in. They're 660 implants. At every stage of life, people have different ideas. People are in different ways. Different things look good. But she's slimmed down. She looks spectacular, curvy. Her implants now make her top heavy. So what we want to do right now is we want to balance her top with the rest of her. So in order to do that, we're going to remove the implants and put in smaller ones. We're going to go somewhere between 345 and 405 silicone under the muscle. And what we're going to also do is do a breast lift. There's excess skin, especially going from 660 down to 345 to 400. We're reducing by about 40 to 40 to 45 percent. Not quite 50 percent. It's a good reduction. So what's going to happen is the envelope is going to be too much for the content. She has good breast tissue right here. Look at that. She has good breast tissue. She told me she developed that over time. So, man, you know, she was smaller, thinner. Now she has more breast tissue. We don't have to use as big as an implant. We're going to use a smaller implant. And as I always say, it's like a origami. You've seen my points here. These are going to come together. These are going to come together. These are going to come together. So we're going to give it, I want to give her a more roundish look to her breast. She's very full here, but it kind of looks like more squarish. Want to make it rounder for her.  You can see there's like, there's almost touching each other, which also has its own issue of skin on skin, which is you get, you get moisture in between. You can get infections in between and stuff. Skin is never meant to be on skin causes trouble. So we're going to fix all that for her. It's going to be spectacular. In addition, we're going to do some work on her arms and get these arms smaller. Again, just fit her back to what she looks like in her body. The breasts look too big for her. Makes her look top-heavy. We're going to correct that. Make the arms smaller. She's going to be fantabulized today. Stay tuned. Good morning, everyone. So you guys have seen the cookie cutter.  And it's a very round, circular instrument. We put it right around the areola to the exact size we want. So this is a 42 millimeter, which is aesthetically pleasing areola. We're going to put the nipple right in the middle of it. We just put it on there, screw it on, boom, boom, boom. And it leaves an imprint of across where to cut. Perfect. So next thing we do is we're going to go over our line. Now, the nipple does not get detached from the blood supply below. It's always attached. People say, oh dude, take off my nipple and place it on. No, it needs to be attached in order for it to have the blood supply. So it never gets detached. It's always attached or else it would die or it would be a nipple graft and you would have no sensation. So it is completely attached, but through magical moves and moves up to where we want it to go. So going through, we're going through here through the side and I'm going to take out the implant, which is ruptured. So that poses a little bit of a concern. You can see it's ruptured. There it is. I'm going to try to clean it up as best as possible and get it out of there. So here we are. I'm actually taking out the implant. Look at this. It's just through this suction device. Look at this. We're just taking out the ruptured. You can see it's totally ruptured implant. We're taking it out. I'm going to wrap it up in this. This turned from an easy case to a very more complex case because she had a ruptured implant. So what we had to do is we went in there and cleared out the implant. We took out the posterior wall, anterior wall. There's the pectoralis major muscle. This is the posterior wall. This is the ribs. This very thin sheet is what's between the chest cavity and the lungs. So we have to be very careful. It's very tedious work, but we were able to get it off. We cleaned it out. We're going to wash it out more, but it's important to get as much as the silicone out as possible. This is one reason where the implant company says they're good for 10 years. After that you should get an MRI or replace it. Another thing is this is when someone comes in and says, I already have an implant. It's easy for you to just take it out and place another one in. No, because it could turn into a very complex case if you have a ruptured implant, as in this case. But we were able to clear it out. Look all nice and beefy red tissue. We're going to clean it out more. The next step is going to be we're going to start our mastopex. Let's hit her up. So here we are. We sat her up. We took out the implant. We took out the silicone everywhere. So I'm looking at the areola being right here and the nipple would be right in the middle. And we went down to a 360 so it'll still give her a full C small D breast. And you can see how the skin is nice and tight. And it's much rounder rather than rectangular and squarish like that. I think she's going to like it. I think it looks nice. And the other thing is her skin isn't touching with each other to cause her to have an infection with skin sores. I think this is a very nice size for her. This is 360. Literally half the size that she had before. She was 660. This is a 360. Look at the proponent up here. Look at how high it is. This is going to look much more natural for her. So again we use the cookie cutter to get a perfect circle. Then we are going to go around the circle delicate. We don't want to go too deep. We just want to go bring through the skin and not get the tissue below it. It's attached still and it gets its nutrient oxygen and blood flow from below. So we're going to start this one. We're going to make the low incision anticipating that this side of the implant will be ruptured. So we'll see. Hopefully it's not. But since the other one was I wouldn't be surprised if this one is too. So here we are. We're opening up the breast. We went from an incision down low. You can see that the light is hitting right there. That blue stuff is actually the gel. It's a very thin capsule. So I'm trying to keep it intact so the gel spillage won't be all over. I'm suspecting she does have a capsule because it bubbles. There's different bubbles here. So I believe that she has a rupture but it's contained within this small shell. And we're going to it's a very sheer shell and we're going to try to keep it intact. It hasn't calcified so it's very thin. I wish it would have been calcified. Then it would give us a thicker shell and it would make our job easier. So here we are. Look this is the top of the capsule, the implant. I've dissected all the way as high as we could go this way. So now we're going down below. We're peeling it off the rib cage. This is some of my colleagues advertised taking out the implant with the capsule and everything for people that have the implants that cause cancer. So that's how they're doing it. They're taking out the whole thing, taking it out from the posterior anterior, taking it, taking out the shell. But this is a smooth implant so we're not worried about cancer. It's the textured implant so we're not dealing with that but we're still being cautious because we want to keep it as clean as possible. So you know this is a very thin layer we're going through so we're working very very cautiously as we move up and peel the implant off the rib cage. Remember we have the ribs and the flora right underneath us so we continue to be very slow, meticulous and cautious. So everyone that has an implant forms a capsule. Even if it's soft you have this capsule. Sometimes it's sheer, sometimes it's calcified. But look at how we're trying to take it. It's called inside shoe capsule removal. The posterior wall is intact, the lateral is intact, superior, medial. All the implant is encapsulated and it restricts it from moving. You see how it's adhered? So when someone has an implant which is a capsular contracture it's stuck in a place. This is what's happening. This capsule is a body's reaction to a foreign object and it encapsulates it and sometimes this capsule becomes hard. Sometimes it's soft but that's what's called a capsular contracture. We're still going on. You can see the implant it's still intact. We got a little poke in there but this is under the pectoralis. Look at this is the pectoralis muscle. Over time it thins out. So we're still trying to take out the implant and block all in one piece as much as possible. I know we got a couple of small little holes in but we want to save as much of the muscle as possible so that when we put in the new implant it will be submuscular under the muscle.  This is the pectoralis muscle now. This thin thing here, this is it. So I'm trying to save all of it using you know precise dissection making it as smooth as possible. So look at it. We almost have the whole implant out. This is the pec minor. Look it's stuck like Velcro. Look at that as I'm pulling it back. This is the superior aspect of the implant all the way to the top. The clavicle. We're peeling it off very cautiously. Again this is incredible. I'm sure you haven't seen many of these cases like this because this is pretty hard for stuck down. So you can see the whole implant is right in this capsule. We're taking it out in one big piece. This is how we started. We lifted this up. We brought this out. We lifted it off the chest wall. You can see as I'm lifting it very cautiously. Look it's almost all of it is released. This is nice dissection. It takes a little bit longer but it's worth it for the patient to get a better result is to have this capsule all out like we have done today. Here is the final step of the release of the capsule there. Boom. We got it all nicely out. That's incredible. I love it. So right now what I'm going to do is I'm going to make this pocket smaller. The implant was so wide that her implant was going to the side. So what I'm doing is I'm suturing the lateral aspect and closing it down so the implant will stay centered in her chest rather than fall in the side when she sleeps. So look at how I closed the pocket here. So now it's the implant cannot go to the side. It's nicely sutured. Look at the suture line. It's sutured from the inside so the implant will lay right where it should in the middle of her chest. Not going laterally. This is different than a totally different case than a breast dog. Usually we're going through a small hole through a funnel. Today I just changed my gloves, brand new gloves. The implant is in betadine and triple antibiotics and we make sure it's twisted and surely in there and slide it all the way in. Bam. Look at that. And we'll put some antibiotic on it. Beautiful. So we've done our dissection. The breast looks wide open but look at with one stitch how powerful this stitch is. It forms into a cone. It brings the breast together. Look how beautiful that is now. Okay so we're done. So you can see that she has nicer space between her implants. She has lateral full. It doesn't the implants don't fall all the way down and they're not hanging on her skin. You can actually see her torso. So we're done. We changed it down from 660 to 365. We did a mastopexy and we'll see her back in the office tomorrow.


This study compared several methods for estimating stem volume, stem number, and basal area from airborne laser scanning, ALS, data. The results showed that the best method was a regression model based on height and density metrics derived from 0.5M raster cells, which had a root mean square error, armacy, of 37.3%. The worst method was a model based on height and density metrics derived from the entire field plot, which had an armacy of 41.9%. Additionally, the authors found that area-based regression models using height and density metrics from the ALS data were more accurate than single tree-based information derived from local maxima in a normalized digital surface model, NDSM, which had armacies of 52.7% for stem number and 21.5% for basal area. Furthermore, the accuracy of these estimates depended on the filter size and the conditions of the applied filter. This article was authored by Eva Lindberg and Marcus Hallows. We are article.tv. Links in the description below.


little little appointment terms video if you're new here hey girl my name is Cara do not forget to like comment subscribe make sure you hit that red button period but yeah girl we are here with a trial haul baby with miss guided thank you so much miss guided for partnering with me on this video it's been so long since i did a trial haul y'all like it's been like a little mini i just got a new beauty room i got a new mirror girl i had to include in this video it's so big y'all i love it so much but i mean it works i still get all new lights from my videos and stuff like that so and one of my lights just busted i don't know if it cracked while i was moving or something like that but bear with me with this one little light so yeah like i was saying this is in partnership with miss guided all the links to these clothes will be in the description box below and there will be a discount code that will be right here on the screen so make sure you guys go shop and also these items are going to be from their new arrivals in their collection so make sure you guys tune in and also these pieces i'm about to show y'all i did not pick out girl i did not pick out these pieces girl my mother did my mama picked out these pieces because i'm like let me see if you know me okay let me see let me see let's just hop right into the video i'm kind of nervous a little nervous okay i'm a little nervous because i really don't know what she picked out she be trying to style me y'all she be trying so i'm like okay girl let me see gonna be all the clothes are still in bags so this is fresh so anyway let's just hop right into okay y'all we starting out real hot this top period instantly it's so cute so it's like a bean neck top and you get to adjust this little tie wrap right here and i love how it sucks in in like the midsection area giving you shape and i love this flared out look right here at the bottom of the shirt oh this is so cute but the pants okay the pants are cute these are jeans but it's high it's a high high-waisted jean so but i just don't like the fit i think she thought my booty was bigger than what it is um so i think i'll have all the sizes in the description box below um she could have definitely sized me down but um i'm not mad at them because if i wore the jeans with something like this like that will cover like this top part area um it will be okay but yeah and then i think it i think they make my butt look good from the back but it's just a little loose right here at the top part so and i just can't get jean with that but like i said she could have definitely sized down because i got a little crotch that ain't going on but i'm really not mad at this outfit like this is cute i would wear this on a brunch brunch day or a date night this is cute i cannot wait to wear this like we started like i said we started out hot hot okay i see my i see you you did it with this one all i need to do is get two-way tape make sure it's like to cure lift these babies up with some tape and we good we're good so this is a 10 out of 10 i love this top the top is a 10 out of 10 but the bottoms we'll give it a i'll give it a seven because they're cute i love the wash i guess i'm gonna write these outfits it's cute i like the wash it's just i don't like the fit they could be a little tighter on me but you see that i walk up back you'll see there's a body atty atty okay so i am really feeling this maxi dress it's giving body baby hey period so and i'm loving this color this is giving me very much vacation this is a dress okay i'll give this a 10 out of 10 you did that i love the high neck and the material of this is so comfortable y'all i love me a comfy but cute outfit no i know what you're thinking that's what i'm saying this guy comes through with the pieces the only thing that i would change about this is just the fit i just want it to be a little tighter um so i'm probably gonna go get this taken in because it's so much space right here and i feel like it can be tighter right here on the waistline and baby snap okay y'all this next fit is a work outfit i love this color i love this color on me because i've been really back on my healthy grind and being in the gym and i love that you can put your phone right here in your pockets or something like that like if you're running or taking a jog or just you know casually just want to put your phone right here or something right here i just love these pockets so convenient um the material on this top tier so soft the quality is amazing i wish the pants were a size down just because i know if i'm working out you know i don't want them to fall and they're tended to fall so if you are gonna get some workout pants size down because they're a little you know this outfit i'ma give it a nine just because um i wish the pants were tighter but i'm not mad at this y'all i haven't worn one of these dresses in a minute little little appointment turns so y'all this is an off-the-shoulder dress giving very much body i love the color on me super to work cute this pine green color this is so simple but yet a statement piece off the shoulder i love the outfits that just give very much body body yari yari and yeah it's comfortable so i give this a 10 out of 10 you did that period this is giving me effortless leg like in the summertime just throw this dress on real quick then go to the mall for my little errands or something like that super cute or you can dress it up whatever you want to do you know a little cute with some you what is this what you be awesome hot no let me stop playing what's up baby no okay she did her stuff with this jacket i would love to dress this up with a body suit but listen these pants these are a size 14 y'all like she really think my booty is like ginormous or something so um these would be really really cute if they fit so it's like a crisscross like button up button if y'all can see and um yeah i like the design on the pants they would be so fly if they fit oversized arms i love the gray so cute it's like a bomber oversized bomber jacket let's give the Jackie i give the jacket a 10 the pain y'all so when i first seen this outfit out the packaging i thought i was like what is this but this is kind of cute it does come with like this little rat thing um your waist it's like a flared out type it's a long shirt dress basically it's a very very sheer i thought it was a raincoat at first obviously i thought it was like a raincoat but this is giving me like cute little one every day with your girls i already feel like the dress is already doing too much very much damnation but it's still really cute and it does come with a dress to go underneath it so i'm actually not mad at this like i'm really not i think this looks really cute um and it's really different so i i will already know the stance for if i took a picture i would be like like really cute like gilmore girl dressed up country gal georgia peach i'm a wife this is what's giving you want to be the right type of girl to pull pull stuff like this off sometimes i'd be so scared to step out of my comfort zone but i literally need to start doing that because you know i want to be that that girl that pulls off different looks so okay y'all so this is the next outfit this is very very out of my comfort zone like it's just different like i don't wear things like this just because obviously i was in an instagram mode but honestly i you know like i said we're trying to transition here so and i'm really feeling is like this is really cute it's like a collared neck dress and it plays out right here in the waist area and the buttons are like a pearl so i feel like this is a more formal outfit the more formal outfit like you aware to like a cute little dinner um or like like i just said a winery or just something like really cute and your stuff um so yeah i'm really not mad at this at all this is really cute i give this a nine honestly just because i would like it to be a little tighter in the waistline area i love it okay this next piece this is like an oversized sweater obviously it says right or die on the back i love the color of this um the material is like a fleece feeling what you would feel inside of like a hoodie or something so that's definitely my vibe cozy vibes um yeah so i mean i would definitely chill in this um i don't know if i would dress it up i mean you could dress it up or down if you want to like you wear with heels i see a lot of girls wearing like oversized things with like heels and stuff like that when i go out i would definitely wear this on like a chill night with my girls or something like that or i can wear it in the house very very much cozy y'all know i work from home um i love the material so i give this like a i ate like it's like you know very chill and it says right or die so again with the sizing ma and i love these i love these pins i'm definitely gonna have to go get these taken in um but yeah i just paired it with this um a seamless uh rice or neck a top um she got me two of these she got me this black one and then um on the description it says nude but this is giving me very much blush obviously i have to give i'm giving these pants a because i like them but they don't fit and then obviously these razor necks so convenient to wear a puff on makes you look more put together um in a basic outfit so i'm gonna give it a 10 so this next piece is this misguided bomber coat um i don't know why this is giving me very much baby shower because maybe cousin comes as baby blue and nude so it says 1990 on the back and it's like i don't know i would give this a seven because i love bomber coats don't get me wrong but this is not my colorway i don't know but if i find like some good shoes to go with it um i would definitely rock this okay y'all so this next piece she picked out from the playboy collection um i'm not mad at it it's like a regular you know sweater little bunny on there how could he hop um and it's cute the back has a stain on it um and it's very comfortable misguided quality is amazing with their basics and sweaters and hoodies i always wear their sweatshirts and sweatpants literally like all the time every time i do a haul i have to pick um of some you know a sweater or a hoodie but yeah this is cute i would throw this on a regular day chilling very cozy vibes um so i give it a eight out of ten because i would definitely wear this on a regular day just about to go to store or something like that you know turn hands with a little playboy bunny right here you know you know at the gas station they won't turn their head anyway but you know the blazer is giving very much boss girl vibes you know you know what i'm saying but you know y'all know i'm my own voice so of course this blazer is giving me very much that i always wanted to like dress up a blazer so body suit underneath where with some jeans and some heels i have the perfect heels to match this um because y'all know like i'm a new girl so this is very much right up my alley i would give this a nine um just because obviously i don't wear blazers like that but you know it's never too late to start so and this is very very cute i love the fit of it it's super tight on the sleeves and yeah it's very it's like not too big where it's gonna like overpower like the outfit that i'm would you know put together so i'm really feeling it so yeah i think i'm gonna probably style this up one day i give this a nine because i like the fit i like that it fits me it's not too baggy and yeah i want to say this next piece is a dress but it's so short i'm gonna have to look up the description to see if it's really a dress i would probably have to wear shorts under this if i really wanted to wear um but yeah it's super cute i love the color i love the fit especially right here on the waistline it's leather so yeah and i love the two little splits at the side i love me i'll say what a split in it i just love that but yeah girl this is giving me very much hoochie okay especially in the back so but we had to say the best for last my mama knows i love me a good pajama set so she picked me up a cute pajama set i love this i love the color i love the pink blush the cheetah print so period i give this a 10 out of 10 that is it for this trail haul i hope you guys enjoyed let me know which one was your favorite my favorite was the white shirt and the long mint green maxi dress so yeah don't forget to like comment and subscribe i love y'all so much and i'll see you on next video bye girl


There is a small amount of actual audience participation, and they've just locked the door. So you're all stuck in the room now, fortunately or unfortunately, and I lied, it's not really locked. Come on in, you're not late, I haven't started yet, no you're not late I promise, but I will get started in about two minutes. And there is a small amount of having to talk to other people which I know is going to be horrendous for some of you. So if you're not a talking kind of person, please do you make sure that you have your digital device open and ready to tweet, which I realize will be a lot more accessible for some of you, and I don't have a hashtag for the talk so you could just put it on the DrupalCon hashtag. I don't think it will be too scary though, so if you want to, you don't have to come towards me, that's fine, but if you want to move forward or back so that you're sort of vaguely sitting near someone else, again, you don't have to if you want to be on Twitter instead, that's completely fine. I love when I say audience participation and then some people are like, nope, I'm out and they just walk into the room. It's okay, the recording will be here for you later when you're ready for it. I think it's okay if I start about 20 seconds early, I think I'm all right with this, I know that everyone's like standing outside just waiting to rush the room but I think we're good. So this talk came about because in part Emma convinced me to tell the story that I had told to her about how I had found what is now, for me, quite meaningful employment. There are definitely challenges with my job and I'll tell you who I work for in a minute so you'll perhaps want to remember that statement of there are challenges. But it's been a pretty interesting journey for me and I hope that for some of you it will be useful, relevant, and for some of you it may just be story time where you get to hear about the different kinds of jobs that I've had in the last 20 years, about 15 of which has been with Drupal. So more specifically, I have been around since the days of Drupal, gosh, three, four in that range, so quite a long time in Drupal Speak. It worked at the time I was working for local government and or was a contractor sort of around that time. Since then I've worked for in-house development teams for agencies. I've worked for Phase 2, I've worked for Lullabot, although I was on the education side of things so more specifically Drupalized me and have also now maybe the right way is to say it landed a job working for the United Nations where I work as a development manager and project manager for within digital services for the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. So the challenging part of my job is that I deal with professional disaster responders and all of the heartache that comes with paying attention to the work that you're doing in terms of how that impacts the field. For me it has been a really interesting journey. We are using Drupal in-house. I manage, we probably have about seven or eight Drupal projects that we host and then there's also a combination of Python, some straight PHP websites. What am I forgetting? There's another platform in there. Don't tell anyone. Node, that's the other one that we host. And so it's a range of different products and effectively so the digital services team acts as a mini in-house agency but there's not time cards associated, doesn't have the same sort of regular or the typical billing cycle that you would think of in terms of doing agency work and we have a much longer term relationship with our clients because they're all within our organization. So similar to some of the work that I was doing but a little bit of a twist. Now, it's kind of a weird thing to do to everyone but what I would really like for you to do is just with the folks around you or perhaps on Twitter if you're not completely comfortable talking to strangers which I completely understand and respect. Do you know right now what it is? And so this is sort of like the before and after. Do you know what it is right now that you are doing when you are most happy?  You may already know them and maybe you've seen or heard about the term flow, like what is it that you're doing let's say at your computer when you are filled with the most joy and then we'll sort of unpack a little bit of that as the presentation sort of unfolds and then the other thing if you have no idea and you actually hate doing Drupal, that's okay. I understand that too. We all have those moments. Today might be that moment for you. What is your other passion in life? So we'll assume that Drupal is your number one passion which may or may not be the case but we'll make that assumption. So what is sort of your outside world or sort of when you're not when you're not doing Drupal what is it? So for me it would be sewing or running are my two sort of outside passions. So I'll give you sort of 30 seconds right now to sort of just do a quick introduction. And at the computer what are you doing when you are most happy and then the second one what's your secondary source of joy? Go ahead.  But what I saw there was a lot of happy faces which is good because initially what I saw was a lot of faces sort of looking at me blankly thinking I have no idea what brings me joy. So for some of you the social aspect of it is what brings you joy because as soon as you were able to talk to someone else you were able to start sort of thinking about what it was that that you actually love doing. There's a few words sort of up behind me that maybe you would have exchanged with one another in terms of building or refactoring, being social or working alone. Do you like optimizing code? Do you like generating new code? There's lots of different things that you could have said. And it's always for me a bit fun to see the reaction when someone else sort of like there's people out there who actually enjoy refactoring. And the look on someone's face is like really those people are like yes I have met them. They exist in the wild. I know that they're out there and it's sort of these different ways of thinking and I'm going to sort of wrap a lot of this presentation. I know you really want to take a picture. The slides are already online. I promise it'll be all right. There's an article that I read or a presentation that I watched actually a couple of years ago that broke ways of thinking about problems into three types of people. And there's a lot of the metaphor that doesn't really work for what we're going to do, but I think it's a good one. So we're going to talk about pioneers, settlers, and town planners. And this is originally a blog post by Simon Wardley who's done a lot with Oskon. So if you do a search for Oskon and Simon Wardley you'll find some really interesting things that he's also talked about. And he basically says that there's three types of very brilliant people who do really, really important work. You've got the pioneers who are going to build something that is a prototype. It's not even a product. They come up with these outlandish ideas that you would never want to actually use. They probably, their code doesn't work a lot of the time, but they're really innovative and interesting ideas that they're going to bring to the table. The next one is the settler. And what the settler does is they take this prototype and they turn it into an actual usable MVP or product, something you might want to, you know, now you're getting into the beta phase of things. You can handle low volume traffic. You can actually start having users interact with it. And they serve a really important purpose. I mean, at this point you're starting to perhaps make money off of that initial prototype. And you are, you're able to bring some reliability to it. And then finally you've got the town planners at the end of things. The town planners take that initial website and they scale it up into something absolutely massive. And they are able to, at that point, so if you think about, you know, I can put a video on my website, but if I want to be Netflix, I don't want everyone coming to my website. So that's the scaling idea of, you have this initial platform that you then want to make bigger. So roughly speaking, you're going to have the pioneers as the people who invent, the settlers as the people who refactor, and the town planners as the people who are going to scale. Now, there's all kinds of ways that this doesn't quite work in the real world, but think of it in that way for this one. So within those three categories, you may sort of initially, you may start to think about which of those three you are and then start thinking about how you experience work and think about whether or not you are fighting with what the work is trying to do or what your employer is trying to do in terms of their core business and what you are most interested in. Ultimately, employers can also be pioneers, settlers, and town planners. And there's also, of course, different points of the project where you may have early on in the development of a product where something is going to be sort of on the innovative side of things, and then maybe it's going to be very innovative, again, at the scaling side when you start to think of a bigger infrastructure and actually making it work for millions of people instead of your cat and your dog. So now we need to start thinking about these types of employers. And the other question that I've asked myself to go over and over again is, how is it that I've had all of these different jobs in the last 20 years and sort of what do they have in common? And I've got some things in terms of I really like three-month projects. That's my window or my attention span for excitement. And even in the place that I'm in right now, even though I'm an in-house software developer, effectively, it's still project-based and I still have multiple teams that I'm supporting and we still have projects that are about three months long where we add new features and then basically set that site up for maintenance mode where it's only getting bug fixes and only getting small tweaks along the way. So I've been self-employed agency work in terms of working for phase two and it also basically agency work as my own self-employed person. And then the in-house development was working for a couple of different and actually all of my in-house agency work has been for government or pseudo-government and then finally the in-house combination which is where I am right now which is effectively an agency inside a large organization. I've found that in, especially at Drupal cons and at Drupal camps, I've found that there's this affinity for Drupal agencies and that's who we see out in on the exhibit hall. Those are the companies that we think about working for, those are the ones that we see and yet of the folks who are here, I'm not gonna do a show of hands because you might prove me wrong but I'm gonna guess that a percentage of you are not actually working for Drupal agencies and certainly if we were to go into the wider audience of who's here, there's not enough Drupal agency work for everyone to actually be working at an agency. So we're likely to find schools, libraries, government, things that are perhaps someone's secondary passion and they're not necessarily building software for the sake of software. So then we start to look at, okay, if there's different kinds of agencies, there's also different types of industries that we can work in and as I was saying, you can be producing technology for the sake of technology which is a lot of the folks who are on that trade floor are building technology for other technologists to consume in their day job. Then we have users of technology which is the government, the schools, the think about all the folks who built websites for if you do agency work right now and then ultimately combining that with your passion. So if you come back to what was your secondary hobby, it's like my dream job might actually be working for Strava, might actually be, there's lots of different ways that you can think about and it sort of as a graduate with a second degree or a second major rather in political science, for me to be always coming back to government makes a lot of sense in terms of my second passion. My first passion isn't necessarily technology, it's more that I hate bad websites and so want to make them better. You know, that sort of refactoring experience and those people do exist in the wild, like yeah, I want to make it better for people.  So if you think about your secondary passion and you pair it with that sort of, are you a pioneer, are you an inventor, a refactor or a scaler? I don't even know if these are words but let's think of it that way. Then we can sort of match those up and find the job that's going to be right for you. Now this next section rather is a cheeky, maybe a little bit cheeky because it's really a primer on reading job advertisements and I have found that most of them are really poorly written. So it may seem a little bit unfair but we'll see if I can match them up, kind of. So the first set, and these are pulled from real job adverts on the internet, you can tell because of that first sentence. So the inventor friendly, if you're thinking about keywords when you're reading a job description that might suit you, you will need, and I have to read this, like this is one of those things where I can't just paraphrase, you will need to efficiently execute on business priorities and designs in an agile framework. So there's a couple of keywords for me here. One is that they haven't actually named what the agile framework is and in my experience, agile is a code word for I didn't feel like planning and I'm going to change my mind regularly. I really like the agile manifesto and I don't particularly have a single framework that I use but for the scale of this company, for this, where this job posting was, this is code for we're gonna change our mind a lot. So if you really like sort of crafting these exceptional software experiences that are going to take time and energy to do the user research, to think about what it is that you need to build to be able to test the implementation with the users to iterate over time, this is maybe not quite going to be a good job for you but if you love to invent stuff and you love to just sort of put things out there and see if it works and put things out there and see if it works on a completely different project, this one may be a good match for you. Second, the second one, come prepared to work in a fast paced environment. That one may just be code word for we don't know how to stop at the end of the day but again, I sort of, I think it's not a, it doesn't have the language of we take the time to stop and think about what we do. So let's contrast it and why I think it's, there are different set of keywords because this one is more on the continuous, it's not about speed so much as iteration. So continuously improve operational processes and procedures, sorry my Canadians coming out here. Development and support of, so that support word to me implies refactoring because if you are responsible for a product long term, you're going to be thinking about how you can change that product to actually meet the needs of the users who are experiencing problems. So slightly different if we go, if I can figure it backwards, yeah. Slightly different from fast paced or focused on the business priorities which is not necessarily the user needs, agile framework, slightly different language on these ones and then scaling, scaling was a bit tricky for me to find examples of the language that I would expect and for the most part I found it in operations where it was more on the, where you have a division between what the developers have done and then what the operations team is responsible for in terms of making sure it stays upright in production. But in these cases I was mostly finding things around performance and scalability as being the key words that you may look for in a job description if that's of interest to you. The big one I think, I don't know it like, it's maybe an unfair heading but the big one for me was how do you personally like to work? So in terms of I work on a distributed team that it is distributed by design, being an operations team in terms of keeping the web servers online, we don't all want to be sat in the same place because we don't want to do night shifts and so we've got a team, part of the team is in Australia, part in Romania and then I'm in the UK. So the culture that we have in our digital space needs to be very aware of time zones and so we try to not have an interrupt culture that results in someone being pinged at two o'clock in the morning with an expectation of an answer unless something is actually falling over. During the work day, we also, for some of the teams, again I support about 15 to 20 teams depending on how you count, we try to keep the focus or the interrupts to scheduled meeting times which allows a larger block of time for folks to actually sit down and get their work done. This is completely different to what you might experience in terms of XP or pairing or if you were in a workplace and there's an expectation that you can just go and tap someone on the shoulder. So think about those keywords for yourself and do you, to really sink your teeth into a problem, do you need to have that quiet time to yourself or do you need to be talking to someone else? So if you think about when I said what brings you joy and you just kind of, many of you just stared at me blankly but as soon as you got to talk to someone else then that sort of got the ideas going and you were able to generate through brainstorming what that was so think about those words and whether or not you want a high interrupt or a high sort of social environment or whether or not you want to sort of narrow down, narrow down the noise and focus it in on specific meeting times. So really the question of which resonates with you? Is it the inventor? Is it the refactor or is it the scale? And asking and taking out of those job descriptions as much information as you get but also interviewing the employer and asking them to tell you what it is that they are expecting from that position. I mean, not at all have I talked about your skills. This is about what brings you sort of joy and how you like working and the delight that that that you need to have from your employer. So now we've got kind of some lessons from the trenches. I've worked almost exclusively on distributed teams since 2006 and it's hard work. You need to be very consciously involved in the day to day activities of how you're going to work as a distributed team. So it means setting up some kind of schedule it means and I don't have a picture in here but we have a lot of meetings that are set aside that there is intentional time. We don't do the 24 seven video camera of the office space. It's very even when we do hangouts we tend not to do video and that's it's just the way the culture of our office works and it works well for us but we do have these really intentional time set aside to have that communication. We tend to work on shorter sprints. We tend to force people to show how their work is going instead of going the longer two week sprint. We shorten things down and make sure that we explicitly know that someone is doing well or has run into problems. We take turns for being responsible for planning instead of trying to do it as a group because it is quite difficult and we also allow people wherever possible to self-select the tasks that they're working on. None of this is official policy. It's just what works for the folks who are currently within the teams that I work with. The next one, aiming for culture is aiming too low. So I have had a couple of jobs where I loved the people who I was going to be working with going into the company and then found that that actually wasn't enough because there wasn't a clear sense of how I could be useful and what the company needed for me and it was just this constant struggle as we didn't figure out where the click was in terms of the synergy of how we were going to work together. So when you do start a job, even if you love the people, you love the company, you love the brand, you love everything about them, stop and think about what you're actually going to be doing for the first three or six months and make sure that it's something that you're excited about working on and they are excited about you working on and it's actually going to be helping them either to generate new revenue or smooth out an onboarding process or whatever it happens to be. It can change. It doesn't need to be the same for the whole thing but make sure you have that plan with them. And then the next one. So this is a tricky one for us right now. Our team, Digital Services is responsible for helping to bring a new way of thinking about software development to our larger division. And we're going from teams with sort of a single developer who sits with the team all the time to having more of a central pool and then taking whole teams and giving them to a product owner, to a software product and they would get an intense period of maybe three to six months to build out a new feature set and then they go and work with a different team. So not all developers are going to want to work that way and certainly the conditions have changed from a developer being effectively embedded to a developer being more sort of special ops now and that they'll go in and then they'll leave again. They'll go in and then they'll leave again. It's more like agency work and that's not going to suit everyone. So if you know really well how you like to work if the conditions change at work you'll be better able to say it's not quite what I want so can I meet my needs within a different division within the company or depending on how big or how small the company is but again the more you're conscious of it the more you can make conscious decisions. That's a little bit redundant isn't it? But you have to understand yourself and you have to be able to see the work for what it is and to be able to compare it against what you need. Oh perhaps in conclusion your perfect job is out there. I do think that like I said there's challenges to every job but the job that I'm in right now brings me joy and I love helping the people that I help. Yes it has its frustrations but I'm sure that every job out there will have its frustrations and I feel for me that it's a really meaningful experience and it's similar in the work that I've done for other agencies. I mean I've worked for not for profits through agencies before but I really love this in-house aspect that I now have. Know yourself, not just your role understand what it is that you need out of a job to feel that you are working at your best. Consider the pioneer settler town planner breakdown there's lots of other different ways that you can think about it but it's not necessarily just about sort of a Myers-Briggs or a true colors or those kinds of things it's sort of thinking about how your role applies to the different phases or life cycle of a product. I work with your team to define and achieve success and then finally my slides are online. I think we may have one or two minutes for questions and I'm hoping that the next presenter will come and boot me off stage those are my last set of slides. I should also remind you contributor sprints are happening on Friday there's a mentored core sprint in the morning and also the first time sprinter workshop happens first thing then the general sprint is full day blah blah blah on you should give evaluations for all speakers not just me but I'll come back to this one. Like I said I don't know if there's questions or not but if you do want to now you've got that sort of pioneer settler town planner have a chat back with the person that you talked to before and think about with them which of those three do you think you most fit with? You're not supposed to clap you're supposed to talk to people. I have one question is do you feel that there is a pressure for like the developer to become a manager the manager to become a director that sort of pressure how? Yeah really really good question. So I think there's effectively become kind of two accepted paths I guess is the right way to say it one is for you to specialize within code and become more of an architect and then the other one is to go the manager track and I absolutely think that there is a pressure to do that and I also think that from my experience I mean I started out doing web development and I am now very very happy as a project manager slash development manager. For me the internet has moved very very quickly and especially as a former front-end developer it just was too it wasn't exciting for me to keep on top of all of the technologies so I would hope that the workplace that folks are in would recognize that an employee may want to step out of a development role or they may love the development role they may love the speed they may love sort of the constant sense of change and be able to support someone in staying in that role and not force them into a management role and the language that I've seen around that is more around architect senior it's not even senior engineer there's another there's another word that is along the architect line which is the not management track so yeah and there's a couple of good articles that sort of separate out the pressures and that sort of thing I can all dig up the resources and add them to the deck yeah. Hi. Hi. I work for a worker cooperative where we all co-own our business and I notice you didn't mention that as kind of one of the business models that one of the workplaces you may find yourself in have you ever worked in a worker owned business and or would that change your perception of how you can affect the future direction of your own type of work and the direction of the company itself? Yeah I would sort of slot that one into self-employed contractors solo printer although it's not the same thing at all there are at least three or four collectives that I'm aware of within the Drupal space one being Montreal based one being San Francisco based I won't remember any of the company names and then where are you based out of? We are agile collective based in Oxford England and just a quick plug Yeah yeah absolutely. I'm doing a talk about worker ownership and growth and sustainability at 2pm on Thursday so it'd be great to have a chat before then and compare notes. And then the other model which I didn't include in here is one where it is sort of owner operated but it is profit sharing for the employees and so the employees get to veto what clients come in and also how they're going to spend their money in terms of whether or not they're going to go to a conference what they're gonna do with or they just want the bonus at the end of the year so there's like this is a very very limited view and yes there are definitely other ways of Indeed. It's just this is these are the ones that I've worked in. Absolutely yeah. Thank you. Yeah absolutely. I think I might be getting the big hook now Amanda's not shown up I keep waiting for Amanda to show up and be like get off the stage and you hear perfect. There's my big hook. All right. Thanks very much everyone.