 Hello, everybody. I'm Aaron from Victor Ops in Boulder, Colorado. I'm going to talk a little bit today about data and intuition and how we bring those two things together and actually make choices around our infrastructure. Let's make sure this thing is real. Oh, there we go. So every day, data scientists are telling us that there's about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data that's created. So that's about, if you put those on Blu-ray disks, it's about 10 million Blu-ray disks. That's about 14 statues of liberty stacked up of Blu-ray disks. This is every day that's created. So 80% of small businesses report that they have experienced an outage. Those outages cost anywhere from $145 to $250 a minute. So you're looking at about $80,000 to $1.25 million for an hour that you're down. So this is very expensive. I realize this slide, I should have had a sad face. And I'd be all happy because I was at the track and won some money. But anyway, it costs a lot of money. There's a lot of pressure when you're trying to respond to that infrastructure. As well, your brain holds about three terabytes of information. So three terabytes is about one millionth the amount of data that's made every single day. So how in the world is it that we have our brains that are able to actually make choices when we're faced with this pressure and all the money? Now, the Vikdrops data scientist, Ryan, he tells me on average, people are getting about 225 alerts in a day. So it's about 11,250 lines that you have to process if you're looking at 50 lines of code in a day. So I wanted to bring it down. Let's go back to those days when you're at the service desk. Let the phone ring a couple of times. Smile, we're going to relax a little bit. It's not all terrible. So let's talk a little bit about how our brains actually work. And we're going to look back at our more primitive brain. So the primitive brain was not like coding and hacking alerts and doing all this really complex stuff. So our primitive brain, the first thing it had us do was to go out there. We're out in the world. We're with our tribe. And we're working maybe to find some food. We're going to go out there. We're going to find some food, bring that back, take care of the tribe that's back at home. And now, the only problem with this is when we're out and we're trying to find that food, there was probably something that was actually chasing us and that was interested in having us as dinner at night. So there's this idea about surviving today. And it also might have been back trying to get your tribe, as well, while you're out trying to find food. And then kind of that third sort of primitive thing that our brains do, it's about kind of finding someone special. Hey, let's find someone we care about. Let's bring that person into the tribe, hang out, spend some time together, and just enjoy each other's company. So these are kind of how our brains was hardwired. Now, the other problem of this is with this hardwire, we kind of continually do this cycle. Maybe find that special friend, go out and find the food, and then repeat the whole process. So how is it that our brains today actually have the ability to make these more complex choices? And that comes from our frontal lobe. So your frontal lobe is this really cool tool that actually allows you to make these creative decisions. It's much more like complex decisions are all happening in your frontal lobe. So it's a really powerful thing. And the great thing about it is it actually works in the background when you don't even know it. It's like the little wizard back there. And it's taking in all your experiences, and it's like compiling these. So you even have all this data. As you have experience, like you're learning, and your mind is actually grabbing all this stuff. And your mind is really powerful. It can do little tricks on you that you don't even realize are happening. So as you read this, all of a sudden you know that the is repeated every time in the sentence. And your brain kind of auto fixes it for you. Same thing with the captcha. You know, captcha out in the digital world, the captcha will actually stop a computer from doing work. However, your brain, you can recognize this thing. You can see the silly computer. And you have the ability to think beyond it and actually make a choice about what you're doing. Now, the National Weather Service is responsible for some really important forecasts. They have really powerful tools that model the weather and really take care of communities. If they forecast something is happening a little bit more to the west than to the east, it could hit on a totally different coast. They never release a forecast unless they've actually had a human brain put their intuition and apply it to that forecast. And they found that their forecasts are about 25% more accurate when they take the data and take their intuition and apply it all together. So I'm gonna encourage us all to do that. Use the data, trust your intuition, and that's how you can make some really powerful decisions. And my last slide, I just wanna encourage everybody. Let's have a little bit more love, a little bit less hate. And I'm really thankful for the opportunity to be with you guys today. Thanks.