No engineer develops alone. Even when we work independently, our thinking has been shaped by other people: teachers, documentation authors…
Month:September 2026
Growing in Grace (2 Pet 3:18)
Peter ends his second letter with an invitation to grow. Not merely to become more disciplined.
Choosing Tools That Form Good Thinking
Tools do more than change what we can produce. They change how we think. An IDE changes how we navigate code.
Spiritual Rhythms for Real Life
Spiritual rhythms can sound idealistic. We imagine long periods of silence, carefully organised devotional routines and lives with enough spare time to…
Building Habits That Make Better Engineers
Good engineers are not built only by difficult projects. They are formed by ordinary habits repeated when nobody is paying particular attention.
Patterns That Form Our Hearts
Our hearts are formed by repetition. What we return to, dwell upon, practise and desire gradually becomes part of us.
How Practice Shapes Expertise
Expertise is often mistaken for knowledge. We imagine that becoming better at software development means accumulating more languages, frameworks…
The Potter and the Clay (Isa 64:8)
Clay does not shape itself. That simple image lies at the heart of Isaiah’s prayer: God is the potter; we are the clay.
Formation — Becoming Who We Are Meant to Be
Formation is happening all the time. We are shaped by what we practise, what we repeat, what we pay attention to and the people with whom we spend our lives.