 I think that's not true. That's not true. It's ironic. So, well, technically it is falling. Everything in this picture is falling. The pain is currently moving upwards while decelerating downwards. So everything is falling. So I was a, as part of the NASA initiative for education, I was part of the bomb counter program. I helped design this robot and got to fly it. So we got to fly 30 parabolas of about 25 seconds of zero G. And the reason they called the bomb a comet? Well, they don't like that. They prefer to wait this wonder. The reason they called the bomb a comet is not the 30 parabolas of 25 seconds of zero G. It's the 30 pullouts of 1.8 Gs. That's what it really gets to be. But me being a student at the time of the prestigious University of Madison being of Wisconsin-Madison known for some things including partying I wasn't affected by that. Anyway, a few years later this is me. I'm working for Orbitac on the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin and this picture is actually taken in Bedford, Pennsylvania. I helped design, build and test this mining piece. So as far as I know, it's the only on-flying variable geometry cut ahead in the world. And it's actually designed to mine on the moon. Pretty neat, huh? So a couple of other projects I worked on at Orbitac, by the way if your industry has a lot of acronyms I ask you to refer to the aerospace industry. So this is the loop like low energy planetary excavator which is the mining machine I just talked about the advanced animal habitat which is a rat cage in space the plant research unit the humidity validation eventually I don't think that's actually an acronym I worked on the Bigelow Aerospace Sun Dancer pressure relief system pressure control system which is very different and the temperature humidity and ventilation system I also worked on the prototype of the rocket engine behind the Aquarius launch vehicle So basically when asked what I did I got to say a number of things I could say I'm an engineer, aerospace engineer I'm a lunar excavation engineer I'm a life support engineer for next generation space station I could say I'm a rocket scientist These are actually in a certain order for the majority of my time as an aerospace engineer I was single So they're kind of in the order of likelihood of picking up a weapon on top actually rocket science just seems a little over the top Regarding rocket science a lot of people in our industry like to equate web development with rocket science I have the unique ability to speak professionally of both industries I would like to unequivocally say this is not true This is now your Stokes equation It describes how fluids are fluid So on top we've got unstable accelerations and then a bunch of other stuff I stands for Inviscid Viscous There's the u-vector We've got some Inviscid stuff There's the internal energy at the bottom We've got our viscous stuff with a bunch of shear stresses Those are the tows and some cues that represent energy Here's our axial shears and our transactional shears And then our heat addition and at the end we've got our mass diffusion due to combustion This is not rocket science This is not rocket science This is really cool But it's not rocket science This is tractable Now your Stokes isn't usual Anyway, this is a ruby cap That would be your cap I was meeting with Steven Anderson for lunch for about a third time We're talking about how this software industry was doing it wrong And he asked me if I wanted to start a business with him I said to think about it and so we went on our separate ways and finished off our day job and then I called up my dad and told my dad this guy wants me to quit my dream job and my dad said maybe you should sleep on it We started this phrase before maybe you should sleep on it I thought that was Holcomb I wish it right there It was actually pretty true You should definitely do that when faced with life changing decisions So I started to examine what was going on at my so called dream job I would ask for random things from my boss knowing that they would increase my productivity and my coworkers productivity You know, version control We love version control You know how we did version control in engineering and copying files This is good times So PR stands for copy release Anyway So I had this dream job and my timeline for the day kind of looked like this I'd sleep, work, and I'd either write code drink or play phrase V or some combination thereof So I realized hey this isn't the dream job that I was thinking about but I ended up doing this starting this experiment called venue works with Steve I didn't really know it at the time but I did kind of basically jump in with the goal of much like Matt's increasing program or happiness This is important to me because I'm leaving my dream job We rubious love this phrase It means we can do very powerful things very simply That makes me happy I went on a journey This is kind of in the middle that's architect So after moonlighting for a few months I quit this dream job I quit this amazing job where I was making cool shit for space So I went from the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin all the way downtown where I began setting up the roomy environment Welcome to my talk My name is Bradley Griziak and Aaron so eloquently avoided pronouncing my last name So when I talk about the ruby environment I'm not talking about the environment that we're used to It's not the cool output we get when we type rvm info I know this is going to freak you guys a little bit out a bit out but the things that go on outside of a computer, they're actually kind of important I don't know if you recognize that but at the end of a week Friday night you could go home and start complaining about how awful your weekend at work was Man, that's terrible, I just got out on the line Or you could spend Friday night at the office hacking away with your coworkers on some side project or have them forbid bringing your kids into work on a Friday evening and teach them how to cope Woo! Wouldn't that be cool? Anyway, so when I was looking at the the ruby environment I saw three components to it So I looked at I looked at three components I looked at the outside which is the easiest to discern which is the change I looked at the inside which is really quite easy to change and then I looked at people on their tablets Now before I get into those, I'm going to have a quick disclaimer slash caveat Perhaps you're a lowly minion the many rungs of the corporate ladder with my friend here here at PT&D I thought you were going to be the one heckling me I don't know what that's about or you're stuck in a three release who knows but what I'm offering here is a grab bag take what you will and try to apply it if you're not entirely happy with where you're at so basically use what you can we'll be back to the outside who knows the three rules of real estate location, location, location alright, who said that alright, that guy can you do that guy at your ticket would it be on the other side of the room location, location, location those are all the same rules it doesn't look very dry either is this so this is this is a picture of the state capital in Madison this is taken from approximately the same distance from the capital except it's located about 180 degrees from where our office is so I can't exactly suggest everyone relocate their office a black away from the state capital what you can do is relocate into a population center and if you're inside of a population center you get all kinds of things for free you get things like coffee shops coffee shops around us you can have restaurants which play a huge role later on in my talk you actually get design firms not as many but quite a few, that letter B up there that's swing they're literally across the hall from us really nice synergies going on and then of course there's the bars we have a lot of bars around our office it's really nice we've got a bar below us one floor down and we have a group of that has probably around 10 or 12 beers that they're brewing at any given time they're across the street so it's important to have interesting businesses around you that are also enterable usable you could be in a business bar you could have a aerospace company a couple doors down really does that bring you joy day to day? probably not what could bring you joy day to day is the ability to go to a restaurant for a bunch by walking there or out to work anyway, so those are some of the things that are outside of you but if you're in a population center you also get a bunch of activities outside so in Madison what we have is semi-weekly farmers martins not bi-weekly we have one on Wednesday and one on Saturday I think they do that because they're making up for the cold months it's really nice to just go outside and get some fresh fruits and vegetables and meats and cheeses good times we also have lunchtime live so every Tuesday around noon a live band plays on the Capitol Steps it's really kind of neat you have all these kinds of events that happen inside a population center but you have to seek it out I didn't even know that this lunchtime live thing was going on until after we had moved in to our office so you gotta look for what's available to you another important thing to us at least is have some nice scenery so we have late people see it? actually yeah can anyone not from Beniworks name that lake? no that's not I'm sorry the answer is lake Manona not Mendota Manona alright I was expecting to keep that beer taking myself but why don't you so if you don't have a lake hey mom these are cool try to locate there but scenery in general have that it's nice to have one of the biggest problems though with being in a population center is transportation it becomes much more expensive as you locate closer and closer to hubs of activities so you can look into alternative transportation you might think I as a co-owner of a rail shop I roll into work every day in my SLS the truth of the matter is the SLS isn't my computer more to the point I don't really have one 90% of the time I'm actually riding one of these two loads of transportation the bus or the bike Beniworks hands out free bus passes for every employee to use however they want they don't even have to use it to go to work they might use it for whatever it's cheaper way cheaper than buying a parking space and frankly it's much more green if you're into that kind of thing that's what that's to me as a side note about bikes if you're going to do bikes if you're going to have employees that like to like to work I highly suggest you find some way to provide secure storage for us we just haul our bikes into the office but that's about all I've got for outside again do what you can you don't necessarily have the ability to move your office tomorrow but if you have the ability to get some input into the next decision of where the office is going to be consider some of these so next is the inside this is the easiest category of the three to affect because frankly all you got to do is bring stuff in so the question becomes what does the ruby environment look like when applied to the interior of an office first thing to do is to embrace everyone's extra curriculars we've got two developers who are pretty decent at Rubik's cubes at Beniworks I have maybe one of them the other guy he's really good at them and he has a bunch of them that are not just cubes they're various other types of puzzles so he brought them in you can do all of those except for the really big one in the center he hasn't had the time to do it apparently that one takes hours and hours to do even if you know exactly what you're doing so we're also fans of LEGO as you can see by the spaceship guess who that is another thing that