Katie Lin is a software designer and engineer. They enjoy kayaking and playing bass guitar. You can write to them here: c.lin (at) mailbox.org

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them— especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

Daniel Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist

Do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Doris Lessing