Donald Knuth, one of the founding fathers of computer science, shares a riveting thought on premature optimization, and its risks. “Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are…

Season change and people with it. Clinging to past environment shatters the ability to appreciate the now. Life requires adaptation.

Like a veil being lifted, life is a journey of discovery. That journey is often uncomfortable entertaining questions like “What does it means to be morally correct?” “Was I in the wrong to do that?” But better to identify shortcomings than to deliberately turn a blind eye to it. Honesty is not without pain. And…

I was on a ski lift when it stopped and the chair had enough flex that it dropped 4 feet. In response, another passengers on the lift exclaimed, “I like when the chairlift drops and turbulence on a plane. It feels like a roller coaster.” This statement was so foreign to me I half expected…