 And now, I would like to introduce Dave Sawyer, who is with FFW. He is a solutions architect by day and comedian by night. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Good morning. My name is Dave Sawyer with FFW. I just want to talk to you real quickly so that I can get back to the Pantheon Party, which is still going on right now. You know, for decades, technology has been inspired by science fiction. And we see many examples of this. One is Martin Cooper, creator of the mobile phone, credits his inspiration to watching Captain Kirk on Star Trek talking on his handheld communicator. We see many examples of this over and over again, from Dick Tracy's two-way wristwatch radio to today's Apple Watch, from Hal to Siri. The impact of science fiction on real-world technology is undeniable. But what has been the impact of science fiction on Drupal? And is it a coincidence that Drupal 8 was released before the forthcoming Star Wars 8? Hmm. I've seen a lot of people at DrupalCon walking around in Star Wars shirts. Have you? That's what I thought. So to get to the bottom of this, I recently interviewed several members of the Drupal community and I filed this report. This is Dave Sawyer from FFW, reporting from New Orleans. Is Drupal inspired by Star Wars? I conducted several interviews to find the truth. So you've worked in the Drupal space for many years. Is that right? Yes. Yes. Quite some time. So you've probably heard about the connection between Drupal and Star Wars, right? What connection? Well, a lot of people are talking about how Drupal is inspired by the Star Wars story line. You've heard that, right? Never heard that one. He was obviously hiding something. I could tell I was onto something big. So Ryan, you're a Drupal developer. I mean, haven't you heard rumors that there's a connection between Drupal and Star Wars? Star Wars? No, I don't think so. You know, I've been a host of the Drupal Easy podcast for eight or nine years now. I've been a Drupal user for a while. We've interviewed Dries on our podcast and I've never heard of such a thing. Be honest with me, though. Are you hiding something? No, I don't know what you're talking about. So you're a Drupal consultant. Is that right? Yeah, I spend a lot of time with clients talking about Drupal, what a great solution it is. They're always amazed that such a powerful tool doesn't have any licensing cost and that they can just use the source. I'm sorry, did you just say use the force? No, I said use the source, you know, like the source code? It seemed he was giving me some sort of a clue. I knew I was close. So I asked him again. Is there a connection between Drupal and Star Wars? I'm sorry, I really need to get back to work. Please join me in welcoming to the stage your keynote speaker. Humanom is Schnitzel, group CTO at Amazey, Michael Schmid. Good morning. So your brain health is more important than your standing desk. That's what I wrote a couple of weeks ago when I entered my community keynote on the events page on Drupal.org. So what do I mean with that? It's going to be a story about me. It's going to be a story about how I started what I'm currently doing. So that's me. Couple of years ago in the Swiss military, I'm Swiss and in Switzerland we still have a mandatory military service. So every man goes for at least 21 weeks to the military and you would probably guess that you're like out in the woods every day doing, preparing ourselves for war and learning how to survive and all these things and I'm really sorry it's not that. I was in the Air Force and we spent a lot of time in offices. We spent a lot of time preparing exercises and organizing things and doing stuff. But there were some occasions where we went out. And one of them was a three day exercise where we knew we have to rub through forest and learn how to build tents and all these things and I was really excited because sometimes you just want to go out and learn new things that you don't know. So the exercise started and the first night we found a farm and there was a farmer and he was super happy to have us there and we slept there. We slept with the cows in the same room and it was all good and on the next day we continued so we got the order to actually sleep outside. So we found a place in the forest, we put our tents up and organized everything and then we got the order that we need to have a guard. We needed to guard our small village that we set up in that forest and it wasn't a big deal, we did that all the time just that I got the shift from 2 to 3 am in the morning. So didn't make a big deal out of it, we planned the next day and we said okay we get up at 7 o'clock in the morning so I was planning myself okay if I go to midnight then I can sleep for two hours then I do the guard and then I can sleep another. So I was perfectly fine with that situation to get up middle of the night, protect my fellow older soldiers and do that. So we had dinner and I went to bed, I got up at 2 o'clock in the morning again, it wasn't easy but I did my duty and when I went to bed I realized when I went back into my tent I realized it slightly starts to rain but I wasn't too much worried about that. So I went to bed, fell asleep again and then during the night I'm hearing screams, screams of BG4, BG4. It's German and means Bereitsch of Skrad IV which basically means you have to get in a full-on chemical and biohorsered suit with gas mask, gloves, another suit it's super hot in there. It's not definitely not what you want to do. So I'm lying in my sleeping bag under my tent and I'm hearing that BG4, BG4 and it wakes me up and I'm lying there and it's really like what's happening, I wasn't prepared at all for that. And so I'm trying to reach my watch and while I'm turning I'm also realizing I'm completely soaking wet. My whole sleeping bag got sucked up because my tent has a leak that I didn't realize it started to rain like crazy and I was completely soaking wet lying in the bed and I really didn't know what to do anymore. I know I have to get up, I have to get into that suit because there's no other way but I didn't want to. I just, I didn't know what to do so I was wondering where is the shot off switch? There has to be one and I closed my eyes but I couldn't find it. There was nothing. So there was no escape at that situation. There wasn't also in the Air Force we had cool helicopters that sometimes rescue you. When I'm listening, I was listening to a helicopter sound and there wasn't. There was also no waking up because I just woke up. So I'm lying there completely soaking wet not knowing what to do. It was probably one of the few times in my life that I really didn't know and I was hopeless. I was thinking that's like the worst situation and it was actually an exercise and it wasn't something I knew it's not something really bad but it just wasn't that situation that I did not know what to do anymore. So I was lying there thinking what can I do and couple of minutes or seconds I don't know while all these screams around and people are like already starting to remove my tent because everybody knew we have to leave now I realized that everything will be good again. It's just an exercise. It's not something that is going to kill you. It's not something that is going to take forever. It's going to be over at one point and it will be good again. I did not know when exactly I did not know how exactly but I know it will be the case and that gave me hope. So I got up, got into the suit, helped others and I realized also others were at the same situation. They were not prepared for that and actually the hardest part for me was that I didn't get enough sleep. I was really angry at everybody that I didn't get enough sleep. I only had like three hours of sleep. So I realized we are survivors. As humankind, we survived so many situations in life and we are. We have that in our core to survive a lot of crazy things. But I also realized I need to prepare myself better. I need to prepare myself. If I just knew, if I didn't think that I get six or seven hours, I wouldn't have been so angry at myself or angry at the others that I only got three hours of sleep. So I really learned that I need to prepare myself. The problem, though, work as we do it all together, wherever in which company, as freelance or whatever, it's not an exercise. It's our real life. We don't know sometimes when it's going to be over. So I'm not a doctor and I just have a lot of experience in working in tech. I work at AMAZ for seven years now. And right now we have five companies and we have a new one in the making. We have offices at three different continents with more than 40 people and definitely no plans to stop any of that. But I can tell you, sometimes it's not easy. Sometimes I'm back hopeless not knowing what to do in situations like when you have to fire people or when you have hard decisions to make, when you have clients calling you that are angry and you don't know anymore what to do. And a lot of times I'm feeling back in that situation. I remember that I just need to prepare myself and it's going to be good. So if we look at elite sports, they do a lot with their bodies. But if you look at tech, we do a lot of things with our brains. Our brain is our elite sports. And they treat their bodies really, really well. They make sure that their body is happy. They make sure that their muscles are happy, that their muscles are prepared, that everything they need to do at one point is prepared. So I really believe, so I really believe our brain needs treatment as well. Our brain needs the same treatment like elite sports are treating their body. Our brain needs treatment as well. So that's why I'm saying our brain health is more important than your standing desk. So I want to give you some examples of things that I learned over the past seven years that I do to keep my own brain healthy. The first one is get a coach. And I'm not specifically talking about the coach that you maybe pay for. That can be, that's what I do, but if you need somebody that allows you to follow your goals to keep track of your goals, somebody that you go on a regular base that just asks you, how are you standing? Where are you with your goals? What is the current situation? Did you achieve it yet? Did you not? If I look over the last seven years, I overestimated so much what I can do per day. And I think everybody of us that ever estimated what they want to achieve in a day knows that. I think our brain is playing tricks on us. If we just ask ourselves, what can we do per day? But I can definitely tell we are hardly underestimating what we can do in a full year. Myself, a year ago, I decided I want to hand over the CTO of a major lab Zurich to my deputy CTO at that time, Josef. And I wanted to have a second apartment in Austin and that involved like getting rid of my own apartment in Zurich, moving to a smaller one, selling all my stuff and doing a lot of things. And I went to my coach and he asked me, what do you want to do in a year? And I just told him, without thinking if I can achieve it or not, for me at that time, it was completely unachievable. So the only thing we did, just every month, we were sitting together and the only thing he did, he reminded me of my goals. And I saw my goals in front of me and I knew I want to do this. So we did step by step. I completely implemented a new management structure of the tech team in Zurich. We sent people to leadership schools. I did coaching to my deputy CTO. I started to sell my apartment. I found a new apartment in Austin. I sold all my stuff and I achieved it in a year and if I would go back and ask myself a year ago, I would not have believed that I can do that. And the coach didn't tell me how to do it. It was all myself. The only thing he did, he asked me, where are you right now? And that can be a group, that can be your boyfriend, that can be your girlfriend, that can be anybody, just somebody that you go and you have to show your own process. Number two, reflect. So the coach allows you to think about in a monthly base. But a lot of times, we think also in weeks. So what I do, I reflect myself once a week. Once a week, I ask myself, if the last week that that just has passed, am I still happy if the same week is going to happen again? And to be honest, a lot of times I say no. A lot of times I say no, I want to change some things. I want to try something new. But just thinking about that. And realizing that you want to change something already helps you a lot. I do that every week. I ask myself, am I still happy if the last week that happened is going to happen again? And for me, that is the core question. I'm not asking myself, how many hours do I work? Like upcoming to that DrupalCon, especially starting a new company, I was working roughly 80 to 100 hours per week. And I ask myself every week that question. I said every time, yes, I'm still happy. So for me, it's not about how many hours sleep, how many hours of work. For me, it's really myself. I go into myself and I ask myself, is the situation you are in, are you still okay with that? And if not, then change something. And I try to change a lot of things. The week later, I ask myself again and again and again. So try to get into a rhythm that you reflect yourself on the week before. The next one took me quite a long time to realize that. I was just working every day, I liked to get up really late and I literally walked like at 8.58, I walked into the office and attended stand-up. And then in the evening, I was working more and I never really had a productive time. But then I started to work earlier in the morning and I realized that working for myself, working in the morning allows me to really focus for a couple of hours on something without any distraction. We are in a team world. We work in a team, especially in tech, with a person itself cannot achieve something. But I know and I felt myself that sometimes it's just necessary that you have two hours where there's no Slack, where there's no Twitter or nothing else. And at the beginning, what I tried is just to disable these tools. But that didn't work at all. Because I knew the people are wrong. I knew I could some miss something. So I ended up in just checking every 15 minutes, just in this lecture. Then I got distracted when I was somewhere else. So what I do now, I get up really early. It's not easy. And it allows me to have my two hours productive time every morning that I can really focus. And that helps me a lot in getting things done, especially as we hear later that I may be dislike. So number four, splitting up your day. Everybody of us has things you have to do that you don't like at all. Myself, for example, time tracking. I'm really, really bad at it. So I realize every now and then I realize, look, the last two days, you just completely forgot it. And then in the past, I told myself, yes, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it tomorrow. I'm going to do it. And then three days later, I realize, now you have to do a whole five days. So what I do is I try to split up my day. And I try to split it up in a way that I first do things that I completely dislike. I start my day with something I completely dislike. And it's hard. It's not easy, but it allows me to get these things done. And I do them time boxed. So I'm setting an alarm for 30 minutes. And I do things that I completely dislike. And I do them for 30 minutes. And then I do something that I like. And I give that to myself for a bit longer time. But again, it is time boxed. For a more hour, I do something that I like. And a lot of times, I didn't finish what I dislike for the 30 minutes, so I just go again. So I do it again. I do something again that I dislike. And then again, I do something that I like. And that just goes on. And at one point, you will have all your dislike stuff, and then you can do everything you like. But that helps me when I realize I really have to do something. So you can see me in the morning, getting up, going to the office. And the first thing I'm doing, I'm trying to figure out which hours I've worked in the last three days. But then I've done it. Then I'm over. And then I can really can focus on my day with stuff that I completely like. And so I'm just repeating through that. And it's getting something that's really getting used to. And you just do the stuff you dislike. And you have to do that. The next one is about our body again. And you may be heard before that 60% of our body is water. I think we all learned that at one point in biology class, somebody told us that. And you said, OK, yeah. I mean, I cannot see it, but it makes roughly sense. But did you know that our brain consists of 85% water? And that was really surprising for me. Because I thought it's the same. It's actually more than our whole body. So it looks like our brain is really thirsty. And there's a lot of things about how much water you should drink. And if you Google right now, you will find a lot of different things. It's not really clear what. And as I said, I'm not a doctor. That's what I found a lot of times that makes, for me, most sense that it's based on your body weight. So on your body weight, if you're in the imperial system, it's half an ounce or two an ounce per pound. Or if you are metric, it's 30 to 60 millilitre per kilogram. For myself, that's between two and four liters. That's a big range. And the idea behind it, it really depends on your own body. It depends on how much you exercise. It depends on what the outside temperature is. It depends on where, on which place in the world you live, on the amount of water you need. But definitely, you should drink more than the minimum. You should stay above that. Why should we do that? So science shows that if you are only 1% dehydrated, you can already measure a 5% decrease in cognitive functions. It's only one single percent less water in your body than there should. That's not a lot. And even worse is, if you have a 2% dehydration, your short-term memory is getting fuzzy. And for me, especially in programming, when you're working and writing code, you have to remember what you just wrote before. And if that's getting fuzzy, how can you write code if you don't remember what you just did? And you also have problems focusing on task. And that's, again, only with 2% dehydration. So it's really important that we drink enough water throughout our day. And there's a lot of different ways of doing that. One thing that I tried, I had a slack bot that reminded myself, drink water. And after some time, you just get used to it. So right now, I don't need external information anymore. I just drink the water that I like. And right now, I'm between 3 or 4 liters per day. And it's also important I'm talking about water. I'm not talking about Red Bull. I'm not talking about Coke. I'm also not talking about Diet Coke or Coke Zero. I used to drink 7 to 8 bottles of Red Bull per day. And I can tell you, when I stopped and switched to water, my whole body was like, it was so much better. First, I lost weight without doing anything because I put so much sugar into my body. I exercised a lot. That was my excuse all the time. I said, oh, I'm exercising three days per week. And that probably helped. But I realized how my body was just happy that I gave him not sugary water, that I just gave him water only. So I cannot even remember when I drank my last Red Bull, but sorry, Red Bull. So yeah, slides.com, sorry. OK, next one, taking breaks. And one other thing that I learned in myself, and then I researched it, and I realized that, and research again shows that our brain is in two different modes. Our brain can be in two different working modes. One of them we probably all know is the focus mode. It's where we're really into, where everything around us is completely gone. And we are either focusing on whatever you do, reading, coding, giving a session, or whatever it is. So that's a completely focus mode. But there's another mode that we probably all know. It's called the diffuse mode. And the diffuse mode is like the daydreaming mode. It's like when you're just there and not specifically thinking about one thing. So one interesting thing is that we, if you have a really hard problem, we cannot solve really hard problems in the focus mode. Our brain needs the diffuse mode, where you are open to ideas to solve really hard problems. And I can definitely find that, that a lot of times, I'm just working on something, and I cannot figure it out. And I'm stuck, and I don't know how to solve a problem. Then trying to fix it, and I'm researching, I'm googling, or whatever. And I just don't find a solution. Then I get up, and I walk three steps. And after these three steps, I have, I see a solution in front of me. So just getting up, moving the body, seeing other things. Also, your body has to focus that he's not walking into that door that you just walked through. Like, just all these things that your brain suddenly has to do other things allows you to also think different. So how do we make breaks? How do we make breaks if we have a lot of stuff, have a lot of work every day? And I tried all these different tools. If you go and Google Take Break Tools or whatever, you will see that there are thousands of tools that either should completely lock your computer or tell you all the time that you should do it now. I tried a lot of them. And for me, they only worked exactly once till I installed them. Because I hate taking breaks. I want to finish. I'm in my focus zone. I'm really there, and I want to do that. And I know I should take breaks. But if you are in that situation, you don't want to do that. So I found a way. And again, it has to do with our body. If you drink a lot, you also have to pee a lot. And for me, it's something that I cannot not do. It really forces myself in taking breaks. And it's so surprising every time. Every time I'm like in my zone, I'm working, and I'm realizing my body tells me, hey, you should pee now. And then I'm like, no, no, I can do it. And then you're trying to fix a problem, you should fix a problem. And then you end up in a problem, and I say, OK, I get up. And then you walk. And again, three steps later, you realize something about a problem or whatever. So the combination of these two, and now probably all my coworkers in Zurich know now why do I get up so often. Because it's probably definitely more. But it helps me in forcing myself in taking breaks, forcing myself to get away from the computer, get away from the problem, think about the whole picture. Sometimes, though, you are really stressed. And I had situations myself that you are stressed and you need something that relaxes you in a short amount of time. And I tried a lot of different things. And at the end, I really believe it doesn't matter what exactly you do. So you can do sports, you can go work out, you can listen to a podcast, you play a little game on your computer, you read, you watch TV. Just find something that you really like that relaxes you, that you can do when you know there will be a test. There will be whatever, something that calms you down. So it can really be whatever you want, what I just believe. It should be something that it doesn't take too long. Because if you end up taking whatever, doing a three-hour workout, you're going to miss whatever you just did for that workout. So it should be something that just allows you to go back in your comfort zone, that gives you a short amount of time that it relaxes you. So for me, sometimes, it's just spending time with kids. I have a lot of friends that have kids. And I just go out with them. And I get my fingernails painted. And it allows me to go away from the daily stuff. And maybe it's just 15 minutes. But it allows me to go somewhere else, to go in another place, and then go back. A lot of time, though, the kids maybe are not around, so I'm just showering. So I shower every morning religiously. Showering helps me in structuring my day and also relaxing. Because when I get up, I see already my phone, or I already know what I have to do. So showering in the morning just gives me a short amount of time to relax. And sometimes I even shower just before I do something. So when I go to a test, or when I do something specific, and I know I'm stressed because of that, I just take a 10, 15-minute shower that allows me to completely relax, to think about again, remind myself that it's going to be over, that I just have to repair myself. The obvious one is about sleep. And I read a lot about how much we humans should sleep. Interesting is, we don't yet really know why we need sleep. So for me, it's also really hard to stay on stage and say, OK, you should sleep that amount of hours. I think it's really something that you should figure out yourself. Or I met a lot of different people that have a lot of different sleep ways. I also myself tried a lot of different sleeping patterns. So I tried for myself to sleep twice per day instead of only one. So I tried a lot of things. And I really encourage you to know yourself how much sleep you need. But one thing that is really astonishing for myself is you remember that daylight saving that we do twice a year? On the next day, there's a 17% increase in car accidents. So for me, and I can definitely say, my brain is confused during daylight saving. So if you sleep less than you should, that there is danger involved in that. Because every daylight saving day, on the next day, we have 17% increase. So for myself, I right now know I can roughly sleep six hours per night. And then I need, after seven days, I need probably eight or nine hours. So I can do that cycle. But again, figure out yourself how much it is. There is one other cool thing, though. A lot of time I cannot fall asleep. And so I learned one thing first. Go to bed only when you're really tired. Don't go to bed when you think now I should sleep. If your body doesn't show you that you're tired, for me, at least, it never works. I cannot really force myself to go to bed. But sometimes you're even tired and you cannot fall asleep. So I try to find tools or hacks, as we heard before, to get myself sleeping. So one of the things I do is called relaxing breath. And there is a pattern behind. It's a four, seven, eight pattern. So what does it mean? You breathe in for four counts through your nose. You hold your breath for seven counts. And then in eight counts, you breathe out through your mouth. And interestingly, it doesn't really matter if that is seconds or whatever. The difference between the breathing in and the breathing out, so the breathing out is double as long as the breathing in, that's the important part. And I do that every time when I go to bed and I'm realizing my pulse or my heart is pumping. Because I'm already thinking about the next day or what just happened today. So I need to relax myself. And what I do, I'm lying in bed and I'm trying to listening or to feel my own pulse. When I first read that, I didn't believe it's possible what it is. If you're just lying in bed and trying to listen to your own body, you can feel your pulse pumping. So what do you use? I use the pulses as counts. And that also tells me when I'm relaxing. So when I do it the first time, already when I breathe out the first time, during breathing out, I can feel how my pulse is slowing down. So it allows me to relax my body. And with that, better fall asleep. There are even people that say they fall asleep during that. Never happened to me. But it's actually, it's kind of hard to do that. Because you really had to hold your breath. It's not something you do out of in a regular day. So for me, I only do it two or three times. And it already helps me to relax. But still doesn't mean I'm sleeping. So there's another trick. And as we are a PHP conference, you can show the trick in code. So I'm counting down from 100. And I can tell you, I never, ever in the last four years reached zero in my life. So how does it work? You just start at 100, and you count down. And you maybe believe now that's completely bullshit. And when I wrote that the first time, because we all know the sheep counting, you know? Just one sheep, two sheep, two sheep. What is interesting, though, the counting down is something we don't do regularly in our daily lives. So it is something that our brain has to slightly give focus to. And it allows your brain to distract itself from all the other things that you're thinking about. And interestingly, sometimes I start to count up suddenly again. Like I'm maybe at 70, and then 69, 68, 69, 70, and I realize, no, no, no, it's the wrong way, and then I go back. But it really allows me to focus on something that is slightly hard, not too hard, than the hard problems I'm trying to solve. And the lowest number I can remember is seven. I was really scared there, but I fell asleep at roughly seven. And interestingly, now I do that for more than three years. And it's a tool now that my body somehow learned, if I do that, you have to fall asleep now. So I had a really hard time in the past falling asleep in an airplane. Maybe that's because I sleep on my stomach all the time, or maybe I really like planes. Maybe it's both. I don't know. But I had a really hard time falling asleep. And that thing now, if I just sit in a seat in an airplane or actually anywhere, and I start to counting down, I'm going to fall asleep. I'm not doing it now, because there's more stuff here coming go, but it really helps me. It's a tool for myself that somehow my body learned, if I do that, now please go to bed, or please fall asleep. So it helps me falling asleep faster than when I actually, when I'm in a stressful situation, I know I have to get up in the morning again. And that's most of the time more stressful, so you cannot really go to bed. So that really helps me. One other thing, and that's obvious, I guess. But one thing that I had to painfully learn myself is to turn off all distractions. Set your phones in a way that they're not vibrating, that they're not making any sense. Except maybe you have a hosting company and you're on duty, then don't turn it off. But there are, I hardly believe that there's something that has to wake you up at three o'clock in the morning. So turn them off. I told myself in the past, no, no, it's just good. I mean, setting that up is not necessary. But I can tell you, if you do that, you will sleep better. And sleeping is very important. So sometimes all these tricks, they work for myself, but there are situations where it doesn't work anymore, where you're so stressed, where you're just in a hole where you're stuck, that you cannot get out anymore. And so what do we do? In regular life, let's say you have bad eyes. You realize your eyes vision is strange. So what do we do? We go to a doctor, and the doctor helps us. If you have a broken arm, we go to the doctor. And he helps us. If we are sick for a longer amount of time, we go to the doctor too. It's exactly the same. So there was a study by osmihelp.org that is the open source mental health initiative. And they asked people, do you think that discussing a physical health, like eyes, broken arms, or you're just sick, would have negative consequences to your job? 77% said no. 19% said maybe. And 4% said yes, it could have negative consequences. So that means they would not do that. Interesting though, and probably not surprising for you, is our brain can also get sick. It's a part of our body that can get the same problems like a broken arm or things, stuff that does not work anymore correctly in our brain. But if we ask the same question about mental health, so do you think that discussing a mental health issue would have negative consequences? The result is different. Now only 36% say no. 41% say maybe. And 23% say yes, yes. It will have negative consequences, and therefore I'm not talking about that with my peers, with my friends, with my family, and or with my boss. And I really think that's completely wrong. If we as a society treat people that have brain-related issues and they cannot talk about that, we do not allow these people to actually get treatment. Because these people, they will not go to doctor because they're afraid that it will come out. How do I tell my boss that I have to leave in the afternoon? Do I make something up or so? So it's really, really important that we learn to talk about mental health like it is any other physical health in our body. So I really encourage you, if you feel to be in such situation, there is treatment out there. Go to your doctor, like you would go to your doctor, like any other physical health issue. There is treatment, there are solutions, please do that. And if somebody gives you shit about that, don't care, please don't care. It's about you, it's about your body, it's about your brain, it's about your own life. So please do that. So all of that, they're all really cool things and you can do them and they get better. So over the last seven years, I started to doing that and I learned one important thing. I learned that I have to prepare myself, that I have to prepare myself for anything that is coming up, for anything that maybe is gonna be really hard. So I do that every day. So as some of you know, I ran for the Drupal Association Board and for me that's quite a big thing because first it's a second time and then it involves a lot of things. It involves going to a camp, it involves going to show yourself like what are you, you go to these meet the candidate session, so it's a big thing. And I know when it will come out, I will be alone. I will be at a conference most probably in a hotel room myself. So I knew that. I checked the times, when this is gonna happen. So I prepared myself and I prepared myself in, okay, there can be two different situations. The first of them is I'm the winner. That was the easy part. So I just said, well, I'm happy, I'm gonna maybe tweet about it, whatever, that was the easy part, but there was the other part of it's maybe not me. So I prepared myself with saying, okay, I'm gonna tweet to the winner. I'm showing to the world that I'm happy for that person and I knew there will be steam in me and I knew I wanna get it out and I wanted to get it out via Twitter to all my peers because I know friends of me, friends of mine will be there and will read it and if they see that I'm happy for the winner that felt myself. So the day came, it was Tuesday evening I guess and I got an email. I got an email that said something about Drupal Association board members and I can feel my pulse jumping from 60 to probably 180 and I'm reading through the mail and I'm completely hopeless again. The problem was the mail only told me that I'm not the winner. The mail did not tell me who the winner is and therefore I could not do my preparation and I do not wanna blame the mail. The mail was good intention. It was good intention to telling everybody that runs that was desperately waiting on the going out. It wanted to tell everybody we're really sorry it's not you we gonna announce tomorrow who it is. So it has nothing to do with the mail that I felt hopeless. I just was not prepared for that. So I had to get out steam and I don't know Holly if you're here, if you're here I'm very sorry for the mail that I wrote to you but it had to get out. It had to get out of me and I felt better right after writing the mail I don't feel good now about it but I just was not prepared for it. So all these things all these things I told you they will not fix everything. You will fail and you will fail very very hard. You can try to prepare and it makes things easier but it's not a fix for your whole life and I learned that every every day. So you will never be perfect and that is perfectly fine because I don't believe there is a person out there in the world that would say of itself I'm perfect. We maybe believe that all these people are saying that but if you actually ask them, if you would ask me I'm not perfect. The only thing though I can do is I can learn I can learn from my from things that happened and I can improve them. That's the only thing that really keeps me going that every time I realize something or something happens that I did not expect and trying to reflect about what happened and I'm trying to improve it for the time that is coming. So these are all things that you heard today. You don't have to apply any of that you can apply all of that pick out what you think you wanna try talk to me about them tell me if they work. As I said I'm not a doctor. I did not study any of these things. I just do them since seven years and I can tell you for me they all work and I think it's really important that we also start to discuss among us about what works for us that we're not just sharing the newest coolest tech tools but we also share really cool hacks for ourselves. Start the discussion about our brain, our bodies and that will make us as a community much better and will help people that are in hard situations to open themselves to learn about it and get better. Thank you. I'll sit with the king again. Seems to be the theme. So thank you so much. That was amazing. So many interesting and amazing and insightful points about overall health and in the technology sector that we work in. Two key points that I'm taking away from everything I saw there were awareness and making decisions. So having the awareness of what is happening with your health and then making decisions based on that and I'm guilty of this. You are according to what you were saying and I think everyone else is too. Just having the ability to have the awareness and maybe having some tools to give you that awareness and making decisions on that. Do you have any recommendations? I mean as developers I think what we immediately go to what tool can we use to help us to become aware of what's happening? Maybe there's some automated tools or other ideas like that. I think it's really having people around you that somehow force you to talk about that. Like if you had a hard day like in work either talk on IRC. It doesn't matter. The tool really doesn't matter but just talk about it because a lot of time that forces you to explain somebody else what exactly happened. And for me especially in coaching sessions a lot of time I go there and I have an unsolved problem for myself. And then I explained somebody that was not in that situation. I explained that to somebody else and while explaining I'm realizing that I already have the solution but just forcing myself to go through the steps what exactly happened, what is the situation allows me to have also an overview picture of something. So, and I think that was something that I learned also like the reflecting. I didn't do that before I started the coaching. So during the coaching I realized that I have to reflect myself. So I put myself into that situation. So I think it's really a process that you have to start with getting comfortable also in thinking about these things. So in the realm of coaching and finding those resources to help us make those decisions and well with the awareness first and then making those decisions based on that helping us through looking to examples within our own communities and so on. In Toronto we had our recent Drupal camp and instead of having a keynote to start it we arranged a panel of longtime members to talk about the history of the group and all sorts of things but one element that came up was the idea of burnout and I talked about that with Dries in the keynote and one of our members who actually founded our group was at the first Drupal con et cetera hit a real hard wall with burnout and being able to essentially he encapsulated it with saying no, learning how to say no and maybe that is an element of what you discussed too is being comfortable with saying no and how to learn how to do that. Do you have any commentary or insights in what could lead to that process and being able to do that? Yeah, I think it's a lot about the saying no especially in open source it's the community is awesome and we really try to help each other but I think the ability to say no and for me actually I realized it's not about the yes or no for me it's the yes but later. That helps me a lot because I don't want if somebody comes to me and has a question and I see that that person is struggling and I have the solution like while the person tells me what it is about I know I can help that person but it's not about I don't have time right now it's that problem and sometimes a problem that somebody brings you and talks to you right now feels more important than the problem you're trying to fix that is actually maybe more important so a lot about saying yes but please later or yes let's set up a meeting tomorrow or let's set up a meeting in an hour so I can go back to my problem that helps me a lot in being in the situation of wanting to help but not having time because I don't want to just say no that's because especially like I can't help that person that's it. Yeah so yeah saying no or yes but later is a great idea sometimes we're under deadlines and it's really hard to a deadline is a deadline is a deadline we can't do anything about it and we just have to get into that state of mind where we know as you said right at the top of the keynote you know you'll get into this situation where you're overwhelmed with work and stress and things and there will be light at the end of the tunnel and how to get to that preparing yourself and the mindset of being able to do that is very difficult and there are companies who have programs in place to help their staff, employees, remote workers, et cetera be able to deal with that. Do you have any additional thoughts on how that can work and how companies can bring that kind of culture to their company? Yes so what we try is we have scrum teams and the scrum teams do the retrospectives and it's really the part where it's important to talk about also feelings or how we felt in specific situations and I think that allows again an open discussion not about just that we used the wrong tool or we used the wrong process it's also about how can we make ourselves better and it's definitely a process to get that in I think also especially maybe in tech that's the view I have we are not used to talk about our feelings but especially in a team of like four and five people that together achieve a goal it's really important that we know what also the status is and so like if somebody has let's say a really hard time in the personal life and because of that can maybe deliver less in a team or it's just in their thoughts a lot of other ways it's important that the whole team knows so that we talk about that and that's definitely something at least we try to encourage to tell everybody hey if you are in a specific situation we need to know that and let's talk about it and especially if you wanna get that allowed to do that in a company I think the easiest way is to step up and start with yourself as the management as the team lead or as the scrum as whatever it is if you wanna change something if you show that you wanna change with doing it yourself everybody else will follow and I can definitely say it makes it much better of a team if the team can talk about also personal issues stressful situations and stuff like that. I think so you put up seven years on the slide and many of us have worked in the technology industry for a long time I've personally seen this trend towards this idea in this way of thinking and I can see it only improving and becoming more wider spread throughout the industry do you have any thoughts on what the future of this kind of attention to our health can be? Ooh good question I think it's maybe not I would just wish I mean maybe it's just more a wish that I feel if that we can talk about all personal issues because at the end no matter if it's physical or mental or anything that there is no fear of talking about the specific topic I think that is for me at least what I see talking with about the topic a lot of different people that there is a lot of fear a lot of scariness am I allowed to talk about that should I talk about that and I would just wish that we get less of that we have a culture that we can talk about anything that keeps us thinking during the night or during the days or makes harder to work that we can talk about these things. It's not exactly an answer to your question it's more like a wish that I would see in the future going to happen. Fantastic thank you unfortunately we're out of time now for the Q&A so thank you everyone for coming we do have one quick announcement thank you Michael so much for your keynote it was fantastic sorry just getting my notes here so coffee is in exhibit hall session start at 11 and Dan Evelyn please check in at the registration there's a lost item for you Evelyn Evelyn pardon me oh sorry 1045 I've read my notes wrong pardon me session start at 1045 and I guess that's it so thank you again Michael and thank you everyone have a great day.