We live in a world that measures value by output. From an early age, we are trained to ask questions like What do you do? and What have you achieved? We track progress through metrics, milestones, reviews, and results. In professional life especially, worth is often inferred from productivity. To be busy is to be …
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What Are My Defaults as a Programmer?
Every programmer has defaults. Most of us just don’t notice them. Defaults are the decisions we make without consciously deciding. They are the habits that sit beneath our awareness: the libraries we reach for instinctively, the architectural patterns we reuse, the shortcuts we allow ourselves when time is tight. Defaults are shaped by experience, pressure, …
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Beginning Again: God’s Mercies in the New Year
The beginning of a new year carries a quiet emotional weight. Even when we try to ignore it, January still arrives with questions in its wake. Some of those questions are hopeful — what might this year become? Others are heavier — what didn’t I manage last year? Most of us hold both at once. …
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Foundations
Beginnings are strange things. They carry expectation, but also weight. Even for those of us who resist resolutions or roll our eyes at “new year, new you” rhetoric, the turning of the calendar still creates a pause. January presses questions upon us whether we invite them or not. What am I doing with my time?What …
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