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From YouTube: Lightning Talk: A Puzzling Solution. How To Be Better At Accepting Others Experienc... Duffie Cooley

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Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from April 17-21, 2023. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.

Lightning Talk: A Puzzling Solution. How To Be Better At Accepting Others Experiences. - Duffie Cooley, Isovalent

As we gain experience and expertise in an area of study we often find ourselves struggling to meet our colleagues where they are. In this session I am going to share an experience I've had that I think can help you bring a little objectivity to the problem. We can all do better at listening and raising others up. I've spent years at this and I still make mistakes all the time. If you are interested in seeing someone solve a rubiks cube live on stage come on over and join me for this lightning talk!

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My name's Duffy Cooley I'm, the field CTO at isovalent I'm, also a cncf Ambassador I, feel like my 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 I. The way I do, that is by sharing knowledge.

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I, do a 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 going to solve this one live and the and I want to share with the idea of this talk. Is it's a talk? It's a talk about perspective right, um one of the things when I was a kid.

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uh Somebody handed me a Rubik's Cube I was like 8 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 Cube and that person should just be able to solve it without having to like 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.

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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 it's certainly not with coating, but 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.

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You know um 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 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 or even solve more complex problems.

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The um 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, Etc.

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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, We 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 um and I think that this is just a 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.

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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, for that to be hard for everyone.

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The last layer here and.

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Very loud Cube I apologize for that.

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There we go a little troubleshooting on the Fly.

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I, don't think I could probably do this Cube like this, if I didn't have any chance, but it works out. Foreign.

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I was initially going to 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.

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Well, that's interesting.

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All right, I think I made 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.

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All right green white here over here.

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The other thing that's interesting perspective, wise, is that this uh is a much larger Cube than I'm used to.

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um So what that means is that it have to kind of like relearn, so many of these algorithms that I would normally do on a cube. That is a significantly smaller device all right. So now we're back to that.

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I can actually feel you rooting for me. It's amazing.

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I'm out of time, this is the last talk.

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And right yeah, the demo Gods come for us, no matter what we're doing.

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All right here we go and finally.

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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, keep calm.