 My name's Duffy Cooley, I'm the field CTO at ISOvalent. I'm also a CNCF ambassador. I feel like one of my big jobs is actually making people feel welcome and included in this huge community and trying to make it seem a little bit less daunting to actually to be a part of it. And the way I do that is by sharing knowledge, I do it, I go live stream, I do a bunch of other things and that kind of thing. So in the prospect of this talk, I decided to bring a cube to KubeCon because why not, right? And I'm gonna solve this one live and I wanna share with the idea of this talk is it's a talk about perspective, right? One of the things, when I was a kid, somebody handed me a Rubik's Cube, I was like eight or 10 or 12 years old or something like that and I remember thinking at the time that it seemed obvious that somebody should just be able to hand somebody Rubik's Cube and that person should just be able to solve it without having to learn how to or learn any algorithms or anything else like that. I think that a lot of people feel this way about what we do, about infrastructure and about coding. They think that, you know what, everybody's doing it, I should just be able to start. I should just be able to, you know, jump in and start doing that thing. And in reality, that's actually not the case, especially not with cubes and certainly not with coding and certainly not with any of the work that we do. We just haven't really thought about all of the work that we put into it over time. So this is a reminder of that perspective problem, right? When we start in a particular area of study, we start thinking, you know, we start building up expertise around that area and as we get further and further into that area of study, it becomes more and more, we have more and more intuition about what happens next. We understand what the steps are to troubleshoot or to evaluate a problem or figure out like what we're actually going to be doing, what order to take things in just so we can ask more intelligent questions or even solve more complex problems. And that's great, right? Because as we build more expertise, we're better at our jobs, we are able to solve more complex problems more quickly, et cetera. But this is a reminder that like we should all just take a moment and just make space for those that are starting out. And remember that, you know, even when we were starting out, there were so many things we didn't know, right? Like so many things that we thought were really hard as we started out, right? And I think that this is just, I mean for this talk to be a reminder of that. Make space for things that are easy for you now and hard for others because they haven't been on that journey. Remember what it was like for you when you started out. Maybe you're just starting out now and understand that, you know, this stuff is hard for everyone and one of the best things that we can do for each other is make space for that to be hard for everyone. For the last layer here. And, oh, very loud cube. I apologize for that. Oh, a little troubleshooting on the fly. I don't think I could probably do this cube like this if I didn't have to trans, but it works out. Our last step, I was initially gonna do this with a Bluetooth cube so that you could actually see this happening with a Bluetooth cube, but sadly, there's no A.B. setup for lightning talk so I was not able to do that. But that's interesting. I think I'm going to be able to pull it out but just give me just a moment while I figure this out real quick. 25 seconds, green light here, green light here. The other thing that's interesting and perspective wise is that this is a much larger cube than I'm used to. And so what that means is that you have to kind of like relearn so many of these algorithms that I would normally do on a cube that is a significantly smaller. So now we're back to that. I can actually feel you rooting for me. It's amazing. I'm out of time. And this is the last talk. Yeah, the demo gods come for us no matter what we're doing. Finally, thank you all for being here. Make time for everyone to find this stuff complicated. Lift everyone up around you and enjoy a really great cube come.