 Hi, everyone. My presentation is Be More Ridiculous. My name is Anthony Navar. I work on Rails in order to add factory design labs in Cherry Creek Denver. And I'm here to tell you about, first of all, a few tools that I can't live without, but one in particular that allows me to sometimes go from being a good developer to a great developer. And on occasion, a good person to a great person. So first of all, in my day-to-day job, I'm not the smartest person when I walk in the room. My colleagues prop me up. They challenge me. They keep me honest. And without that, I just couldn't do my job. And the same applies to not only my own experience that I've had after 10 years in the industry, but also the experience of all the people who give back on a daily basis and post to blogs and allow me to just go to Google and find my answer right then and there. Without that, I just couldn't do my job. And of course, there are great tools. And that's a lot like the blog posts that are out there, people giving back. Without the great tools that everyone else has already built and was good enough to put in the public domain, I just couldn't do my job. These are the table stakes. With these things, I'm a good developer. I go and I get my job done. But I would suggest that there's one thing over the course of my life, my career, if I look back, all the stuff that's really mattered has been surrounded by at least an element of ridiculous. It's one of my favorite words. And it's one of the things that defines me as a person. Case in point, I would prove this to you about myself by pointing out that I'm in front of 250 humans right now. This is ridiculous. It's also, by the way, nerve wracking and uncomfortable. I've never done this before. So it's a little bit of a ledge that I'm on. But if you haven't done it yourself, I would highly recommend it. Because, again, looking back on my life, these are the things that matter. Let me tell you a small story. This is ridiculous. So my dad bought me a cheap airline ticket to come visit him in Tennessee while I was going to school in Penn State. And I mentioned it was a cheap airline ticket because we went through Detroit to get to Tennessee. That's ridiculous. Not the actual flight plan, by the way. That's Google Maps driving. On the way back, five people couldn't get on the plane because it was overbooked. Ridiculous. Sorry. So, there it is again. So 20% of the five people who couldn't get on the plane were myself and my future life. It was her first day in the United States. And she was coming from Taiwan to go to Penn State. And that is how I married someone from halfway across the globe, seven years my senior. So a lot of you might be saying to yourselves, I'm already good at being ridiculous with my family. That's my mom. I owe a lot to her clearly. I'm good at being ridiculous with my friends. Jay was saving us some seats at Ignite Boulder last night. That's Jay's ashamed, by the way. I talked earlier. I hope that a lot of you as devs are also good at being ridiculous with your colleagues. That is a baked potato mouse. But I would like to suggest to everyone to be more ridiculous with your code. Take TDD, for example. I find it kind of ridiculous that we're encouraged to do the least possible thing that could work. But that's awesome. That's what makes this kind of cool. What's the least possible thing that can make this work in this case? Turn true. And given a lot of other design parameters, a lot of other business needs, maybe that is ridiculous. But maybe it's not so ridiculous that that still returns true if the boss is within earshot. So I would like to suggest that by being more ridiculous, by doing ridiculous things, we find what's not. Mike's suggestion to grow devs. Ridiculous. I love it. Wayne? Yeah? Just read it. So I would like us all to start using this word as a compliment to one another. And I would like us all to start being more ridiculous and testing the boundaries of what is safe and what works for us so that we might expand them. Thanks. That's my time. Ridiculous.