I spent most of my childhood as one of the smallest kids in the room. Those years shaped me — and now I’m sharing those lessons with my son as he faces his own early challenges.

The ER doctor held up the pellet and said, ‘It was a quarter inch from the artery to your brain. If it had gone left, you’d be dead.’ That moment rerouted my life.

Documentation is the broccoli of programming: good for you, often skipped, and essential for growth—in code and in life.