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The Tao of Tester/Programmer

Balancing a Classic Software Duality In the West, we are very dual. Our opposites tend not to touch or integrate, much less balance. The true, intertwined and balanced nature of duality comes more easily to Eastern cultures than to us. Opposites naturally include and oppose each other in the East. Yin includes some Yang, and [...]

Learning Always Happens: a Gratitude Practice

Pleasant and unpleasant things occur to us. This is a fundamental Buddhist tenet, but also a pretty obvious fact of life. The older you get, typically, the more obvious it grows. Life is often inconvenient, disappointing, frustrating. On the other end of the pain spectrum, life is sometimes quite painful. It sometimes seems unbearably painful. [...]