Are You Preoccupied?

Preoccupied — A state of being so focused on a particular task, problem, or concern that it dominates one’s mental and emotional energy. When you’re preoccupied, you’re focused, coming up with creative solutions, productive, and...

Commit Messages

Software developers work with a tool called a “Source Code Control” (SCC) tool.   Think of an SCC tool as a library card catalog system that keeps track of everything about the books. The card catalog shows you what books exist, where they are, who the...

Presence

Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do…Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun – Ecclesiastes 9:7, 9...

Common Destiny

All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean…This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.  Ecclesiastes 9:2-3 We’re all on the...

Time and Chance

The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11 Solomon got it (assuming Solomon wrote it). You can plan. You can get...

The Network Topology Problem

In engineering, choosing a network topology affects the short-term and long-term operations, performance, reliability, and abilities of the network and its constituents. Star Network The hub and spoke model. Every connection runs through the critical hub. It’s...

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