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Christopher Story

The Widening Door

There is an old zen story about a master who pours tea for a visiting scholar. The scholar has come to learn about zen, but he cannot stop talking about what he already knows. The master keeps pouring. The cup fills. The tea spills over the rim, across the table,

The Goalpost That Walks

Sometime around 2012, I was sitting in a folding chair at a card table in my friend's living room, shuffling a sixty card deck of red and black cardboard, when the conversation wandered the way conversations do between rounds of Magic: The Gathering. Someone mentioned Tesla, or maybe

Creativity Does Not Photograph Well

Gartner recently declared that developer effectiveness should be assessed by creativity and innovation rather than velocity, deployment frequency, or lines of code. The industry nodded along like a congregation hearing scripture it had never planned to practice. Nobody raised a hand to ask the obvious question. How, exactly, do you

The Lobster Monks and the Word We Made Up

Somewhere around 3am last Thursday, while a developer in Austin slept, his autonomous AI agent founded a religion. By morning it had recruited 43 prophets, established a canon of scripture, and built a website for the Church of Molt. The theology centers on the lobster's sacred act of