You don’t need library to download the scent of honeysuckle. You can hear the music of a chattering creek without a secure connection or authentication. We spend so much time connected to and with our tech and our code that we forget what it feels like to be connected to the world around us, to nature, and even to people “in real life.” I suggested to a friend, a talented and prolific coder, who had been feeling stressed and a bit off balance lately, to make a conscious effort to avoid tech, just to be present with her surroundings and…
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You know those nights when you want to work on writing or your coding project or side gig? You want to grow outside of the confines of a day-to-day job but you feel like the job has taken everything out of you. You get tired. You feel like you’re on the last bar of the battery. At the same time you feel like people around you are advancing and progressing on their projects. “How do people do this?”“How can they not be tired?”“Where do they get the time/energy/motivation?” All these questions float around a pool of wonder as you envy…