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In this 16-minute all developers-focused presentation, Daniel Christian shares a personal story meant to inspire viewers. This story begins with a mystery and no cure. After 26 years there is a diagnosis and cure. The message: By learning how to live with a disability, Daniel developed the skills (writing, speaking, teaching, connecting) to be a great MVP. Let disability not define you. As for the link to the Power Platform? Enjoy the story.
This PnP Community demo is taken from the Microsoft Power Platform community call – March 2023, recorded on March 15, 2023.
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A
B
So
that's
something
basically,
something
which
will
just
help
give
you
some
ideas
and
encouragement
as
well,
so
the
concept
was
is
from
epilepsy
to
MVP,
and
then
I
like
to
break
this
down
based
on
the
chapters
of
my
life,
so
I
basically
have
these
four
chapters
born
and
had
seizures.
A
New
Beginning
got
married
and
found
a
cure
and
then
became
an
MVP.
These
are
literally
the
chapters
of
my
life
from
the
beginning
till
what
I
am
right
now,
so
it's
it's
not
just
a
fairy
tale.
B
This
is
something
that
happened
to
me.
So,
let's
start
with
the
chapter
one
born
and
had
my
first
seizure.
So
that's
a
picture
of
me.
I
was
I,
think
about
a
year
and
a
half
two
years
old
and
as
you
can
see,
I
was
just
a
normal
kid.
I
was
very
intrigued
with
what
is
this
thing
in
the
back
of
the
dog
and
it
keeps
wagging
it.
It's
obviously
your
tail,
but
but
you
know
just
had
a
normal
delivery
honestly,
nothing,
nothing
very
fancy
about
that.
B
However,
something
changed
at
the
age
of
three.
In
fact,
everything
changed
for
me
at
the
age
of
three.
What
I
did
was
I
started,
getting
some
seizures
and
the
first
seizure
was
actually
a
pretty
complex
one
and
then,
after
that,
what
I
kept
having
was
what
the
medical
term
is
called
complex,
partial
seizures,
and
so
basically
these
are
basically
what
happened
to
me
is
that
my
seizures
were
in
the
temporal
lobe
on
the
sides
and
it
disrupted
speech
causes.
B
You
know,
you
know.
Some
kind
of
automatic
and
repetitive
moments
of
chewing
was
one
of
them
as
if
I
was
chewing
it
altered.
Basically,
Consciousness
I
would
just
stare.
Blankly
I
would
have
this
afraid,
look
speaking
King
gibberish
and
then
the
seizure
as
a
whole
would
last
for
about
two
minutes
after
which
I
would
be
really
exhausted
and
it
usually
took
about
a
day
to
recover.
B
So
these
were
basically
things
that
just
happened
for
almost
you
know
anywhere
from
about
a
month,
and
then
it
would
get
triggered
too
on
an
average
I
was
getting
about
once
a
month
and
any
time
I
had
any
nervousness.
But
if
I
was
you
know
down
from
a
health
standpoint
that
would
trigger
even
more
seizures.
So
this
was
basically
you
know
just
the
whole
concept
having
this
one
section,
the
temporal
lobe.
This
is
a
very
important
piece
of
your
brain
honestly.
It
affects
hearing
learning
memory,
speech,
feelings.
B
These
were
all
that
was
coming
from
that
side
and
that's
usually
when
I
was
getting
all
my
speeds
as
seizures.
So
we
tried
a
few
things
for
my
cure.
Standpoint
tried
both
conventional
and
homeopathic
medicine.
Medical
tests
include
a
lot
of
eegs,
basically
testing
your
electrical
firing
in
your
brain.
B
Lots
of
MRIs,
basically,
sometimes
I
just
feel
like
I-
have
got
so
much
of
this
done
in
me
that
they
just
know
my
brains
really
well,
but
then,
even
even
at
that
time
cure
simply
wasn't
available,
so
they
basically
focused
on
either
the
triggers
or
basically
the
symptoms.
That's
what
they
focused
on.
So
we
couldn't
find
a
cure,
let's
at
least
focus
on
what
was
the
triggers,
which
was
allergies.
B
For
me,
I
was
I,
was
very
I,
had
some
severe
allergies
from
a
I
done
a
specific
Capital
standpoint,
and
so
they
were
trying
to
cure
that
it
helped
to
some
extent,
but
but
back
then
I
I
lived
in
a
country
where
cleanliness
wasn't
a
priority,
so
controlling
dust
allergies
was
really
hard
to
maintain.
So
all
in
all,
basically
seizures
just
became
a
new
normal
of
my
life.
It
was
just
something
that
I
had
to
deal
with,
but
it
did
not
stop
me.
B
I
was
very
active
in
my
school
and
I
did
fairly
well,
but
I
really
enjoyed
traveling,
so
at
a
young
age,
I
was
able
to
travel
quite
a
few
places
around
the
world
got
to
do
some
great
things
too
know
see
some
events
that
I've
never
been
able
to
do
point
being
is
that
even
at
that
young
age,
my
parents
really
never
stopped
me
from
enjoying
as
a
normal
life
and
sure
every
once
in
a
while.
Things
would
be
a
little
interesting.
Well,
you
know
just
had
to
deal
with.
B
Some
of
these
tough
days
medications
definitely
drained
me.
I
was
on
very
high
medication
at
that
time
had
to
at
least
get
nine
to
ten
hours
of
sleep
at
that
night,
because
I
would
just
be
heavily
drained
with
these
medications,
and
then
there
was
there
were
situations
where
I
even
would
be
prepared
for
taking
a
test
like
at
school.
I
would
be
prepared
for
taking
a
test.
I'd
be
a
little
nervous.
I'll,
never
forget
that
there
was
a
time.
B
I
was
pretty
I,
think
I
was
just
in
the
10th
or
in
high
school,
or
something
all
prepared
for
a
test
to
take
the
test
and
then
was
nervous,
so
I
actually
had
the
seizure.
I
literally
forgot
everything
that
I
had
learned
to
take
the
test,
but
that
was
fine,
because
I
was
able
to
go
and
talk
to
this.
You
know
the
the
school
Headmaster
and
they
said
that's
fine.
B
We
understand
that
we
took
the
fascinated
fairly
well,
so
I
made
the
most
of
the
good
days
and
then
you
know
took
it
easy
on
the
bad
days,
but
what
it
did
was
it
forced
me
to
mature
quickly
and
take
good
care
of
myself
and
I
stayed
away
from
nonsense.
You
know,
even
at
a
very
young
age,
I
knew
taking
drugs,
alcohol
abuse
and
everything
was
just
the
wrong
thing.
So
I
had
to
mature,
really
fast
on
stuff
like
that,
because
I
was
already
taking
medication
that
was
affecting
me.
B
I
didn't
want
to
go
ahead
and
have
any
other
craziness.
That
would
affect
me
as
well,
and
then
you
know
all
of
these
were
very
important
life
lessons
that
I
had
to
adapt
at
a
very
early
age.
Like
I
said
you
know,
I'm,
not
sure
of
that.
So
chapter
two
was
a
new
beginning,
my
family.
We
immigrated
to
the
us
back
in
1999,
but
even
at
that
time
we
exhausted
a
lot
of
medical
options,
both
when
I
lived
in
Texas
and
in
Kansas.
B
In
fact,
this
motivated
me
to
it's,
because
if
the
medicine
and
the
treatment
at
that
time
did
not
have
the
Cure
what
I
pursued
medicine
at
that
time,
my
in
my
college,
I
went
and
actually
did
my
whole
pre-med
and
I
was
also
doing
double
majoring
in
pre-med,
as
well
as
in
computer
engineering.
But
you
know
what
God
had
other
plans
for
me.
In
fact,
I
did
have
a
better
understanding
of
my
seizures
purely
from
a
neural
standpoint
as
well,
seeing
where
it's
coming
from
and
all
of
that.
B
But,
but
you
know,
all
in
all,
I
still
could
not
find
a
very
good
cure
for
that,
but
I
kept
moving
forward.
One
of
the
things
I'll
give
you
is
the
Side
Story
of
mine
is
I
refused
to
take
a
loan
when
I
was
in
college.
I
did
not
want
to
start
my
life
in
debt,
so
I
worked
my
way
through
college
I
had
a
full-time
job
and
I
went
and
took
at
least
the
12
to
14
credits.
B
That's
how
it
was
at
that
time,
because
I
worked
my
way
through
college,
so
I
mean
that
that
time
it
took
me
about
four,
almost
five
years
to
finish
my
undergrad,
but
I
I
literally
worked
my
way
through
college
on
that
and
I
was
all
very
hard
at
that
time.
For
me
working
my
way
to
college
having
those
medications
which
were
draining
me,
I
mean
I
literally
had
no
time
for
any
fun
whatsoever,
but
but
you
know
what
it
all
basically
paid
off
to
chapter
three
got
married
and
found
a
cure.
B
This
is
the
love
of
my
wife.
We
got
married
on
June
2006,
that's
my
wife
Rosanna
Christian,
and
it
was.
It
was
an
amazing
marriage
and
it's
been
a
wedding
day,
and
you
know
we've
been
married
now
for
17
some
years
and
what
we
found
out,
because
after
all
these
years,
technology
had
grown.
In
fact,
the
whole
MRI
system
had
heavily
evolved,
and
so
we
were
able
to.
B
There
was
and
I
brought
the
picture
over
there.
This
is
that
there
was
actually
a
dip
in
my
skull
where
some
of
my
existing
brain
actually
seeped
in
and
that
irritation
was
causing
the
seizures,
which
was
very
interesting
because
it's
not
a
hereditary
thing.
Nobody
in
my
family,
even
few
Generations.
Nobody
had
these
seizures,
but
I
did
we
finally
found
out
the
root
cause
of
it
and
the
amount
that
is
there
is
if
this
is
a
large
size
egg.
B
If
you
have
a
full
launch
size
egg,
then
it's
actually
the
two-thirds
of
the
size
of
that
egg.
That
much
of
a
brain
was
actually
seeped
in
and
was
causing
these
irritations.
So
all
in
all,
then
the
seizure
I
mean
the
the
two-phase
surgery
was
done.
They
literally
took
out
that
much
of
my
brain,
which
makes
you
think
right
how
much
of
our
brains
do
we
actually
use
for
thinking,
but
that's
basically
what
they
had
to
do,
and
so
all
in
all
I
after
the
surgery
actually
happened.
B
That
is
one
of
the
sections
of
your
brain,
which
really
helps
you
with
the
speech
like
what
is
in
your
thoughts,
helps
you
translate
over
to
speech,
communicating
that
so
I
did
have
to
go
through
a
whole
speech.
Therapy.
I'll,
give
you
an
example.
One
of
the
things
that
it
did
was
I
could
tell
like
I'm
looking
at
it.
I
can
tell
what
it
is.
That's
a
feature
it
will
record
me.
It'll
put
it
up
on
the
internet
on
YouTube
in
my
brain
I
could
not
tell
you
the
name
that
this
is
a
webcam.
B
The
term
webcam
would
not
come
to
me
because
there
was
a
a
gap
after
the
surgery.
There
was
a
gap
between
my
speech
and
long-term
memory,
so
I
had
to
go
through
this
therapy,
basically
to
rewire
my
brain,
so
I
could
do
this
and
it
was
a
full
six
week
therapy,
which
was
pretty
successful.
We
were
able
to
change
my
medications
altogether.
B
I
remember
at
one
phase
of
my
life,
I
was
taking
three
medications,
I
was
dreamed,
I
was
sleepy,
I
was
oh,
my
brain
was
always
foggy
and
then
the
surgery
was
so
successful
that
we
went
down
and
changed
my
medication
effect
down
to
one
and
even
on
that
and
the
lowest
dose.
What
that
you
could
be
in
fact,
there's
already
discussions.
B
We
might
have
to
completely
stop
that,
because
I
haven't
had
any
seizures
for
over
10
years
now
and
then
so
you
know
we
started
having
like
I
said
this.
You
know
first
month,
then
seizure
free
after
that
we
just
going
ahead
and
kept
tapering
up.
This
is
what
I
said
is
that
we
switched
over
from
three
medications
down
to
one
and
kept
tapering
it
down,
and
then,
after
a
few
months,
I
got
my
driver's
license
back
again,
because
that
is
something
that
I
had
to
basically
keep
track
of.
B
Is
that
if
you
go
through
a
surgery
like
that,
you
are
legally
not
allowed
to
drive
for
six
months,
so
I,
you
know,
went
fully
seizure,
free
and
I
got
my
driver's
license
back
again,
but
something
important
happened
after
that.
My
first
son,
my
first
child,
was
born
on
November,
19th
2020
and
then
that's
basically
my
wife
and
I.
We
were
very
tired,
but
we
had
our
first
family
picture
together,
because
I
was
I
was
Gabriel
born
over
there,
so
all
in
all,
I
had
one
very
simple
prayer.
B
B
I
had
to
work
twice
as
hard
to
learn
something
make
the
most
of
my
good
days
and
then
others,
people's
disabilities
didn't
affect
me
and
I
never
gave
up
like
that
was
basically
how
my
lifestyle
was
when
I
was
in
the
seizures
room,
so
once
I
got
cured,
I
became
100
seizure
free
the
whole
concept
never
changed
for
me,
because
I
took
a
lot
of
notes,
so
I
won't
forget.
Well
that
helped
me
became
really
good
at
blogging,
because
my
blogging
is
step-by-step
process.
B
The
same
process
I
used
to
do
for
myself
to
make
sure
that
I
wouldn't
forget
it
I
had
to
work
twice
as
hard
to
learn
something
well
I
continued
to
work
twice
as
hard,
but
now
that
my
brain
was
a
lot
more
cleared
up,
I
can
learn
so
much
more
like
I'm,
something
which
is
self-motivated.
I
love
to
learn
made
the
most
of
my
good
days
at
that
time.
Well,
now,
every
day
counts.
It
is
very
important.
B
You
may
have
some
bad
days,
but
still
you
know
thank
God
that
you
have
that
day.
Other
people's
disabilities
didn't
affect
me
well,
one
of
the
things
that
I
do
is
I
make
sure
everyone
got
an
opportunity
to
learn,
because
remember
I
was
that
one
guy
who
was
a
little
slow
took
a
little
extra
time
to
learn.
So
when
there
is
other
people
out
there
where
it
does
take
them
a
little
extra
time
to
learn.
B
I
can
completely
relate
to
that,
and
so
I
made
sure
everybody
has
an
opportunity
to
learn
and
then
from
the
never
giving
up.
Well,
I
won't
stop
until
I
have
learned
something
good
enough
to
teach
it,
because
that's
basically
my
passion
over
here
so
I
just
want
to
basically
say
that
you
know
I
started
learning.
I'd
use
the
groups
speaking
at
user
groups,
eventually
at
larger
events
started
me
speaking
at
paid
events
started
volunteering
at
local
user
groups
and
events
I
then
I
got
nominated
by
two
speakers
for
two
separate
speakers.
B
One
of
them
was
a
Microsoft
person
and
that's
became
how
I
became
an
MVP
back
in
2016..
You
see
how
that
path
has
basically
grown,
so
all
in
all
never
give
up
finding
a
cure.
Don't
let
someone
else's
limitations
or
your
limitations?
Stop
you
don't
have
maltesia
motives,
they
don't
plan
to
become.
You
know,
do
all
these
things,
so
you
become
an
MVP.
Mvp
is
becoming
a
byproduct,
continue
to
have
your
passion
to
serve
the
community.
After
that
you
know,
other
things
will
fall
in
place
and
then
hard
work
and
perseverance
will
always
pay
off.
B
Trust
me
when
I
say
that
for
someone
who
was
hiring
seizures
for
26
years,
your
perseverance
will
pay
off.
So
how
does
this
all
fit
in
with
the
Power
Platform?
Well,
one
of
the
things
about
the
Power
Platform
is.
It
is
so
easy
to
adopt
and
I
want
to
show
these
three
things
over
here.
So
on
the
left
side,
you
don't
even
need
the
ability
to
start
coding,
adding
controllers
and
formulas
to
at
least
even
build
the
canvas
design.
B
You
can
now
upload
an
image
directly
whether
you've
hand-drawn
it
or
you
already
have
a
template
of
some
kind.
That
was
what
helps
you
mix
the
whole
image,
the
design
of
the
app
describe
it
to
design
it
same
thing
for
the
power
automate
flows.
You
basically
go
into
the
power
automate,
you
give
it
a
good
idea,
or
at
least
it's
close
enough
to
what
you're
looking
for
and
it
will
help
you
build
your
entire
flow
on
the
right.
This
is
fairly
new.
The
usage
of
building
a
chatbot.
B
You
know,
instead
of
you,
building
an
entire
chatbot
and
putting
the
entire
logic
to
go
and
sort
something
you
go
ahead
and
put
in
your
website,
like
you
know,
wikipedia.com
or
something
like
that,
and
then
it
will
go
and
basically
build
that
entire
board
and
pull
information
for
you.
Building
chat.
Bots
is
so
much
more
easier.
So
all
in
all
examples
like
these
ability
to
go
ahead
and
build.
B
You
know
simple
flows,
ability
to
even
go
and
change
your
format
date
so
that
you
just
tell
it
what
those
data
examples
are
and
you
can
build
it.
So
I
hope
that
this
leaves
you
with
a
little
bit
of
confidence
that
you
don't
have
to
be
perfect
to
actually
be
good.
You
could
be
someone
like
me
going
through.
All
of
these.
You
know
trials
and
tribulations,
but
hang
in
there
hang
in
there
and
you
don't
have
to
be
perfect
to
be
successful
push
through
and
it
will
pay
off.