Middle Earth, circa 2026

When J. R. R. Tolkien published The Lord of the Rings, many readers assumed they were looking at a political allegory. The generation that had lived through the Great Wars could not help seeing the shadows of their own experience in Middle Earth. Armies rising in the East, old alliances strained, ancient evils returning after long…

A Call to Action via Modular Collaboration

Practice makes perfect, well, sort of. Unfortunately, very few technical professions take the word “practice” literally. I have always considered it uncomfortably necessary to think of a doctor as having a “practice”, yet am comforted by two things: first that the doctor is constantly learning and second that my situation has the potential to be slightly…