The Technologist

I run parkruns on Saturday mornings. I travel to places I've never been. I write code for a living.

I once inherited a .NET application. I opened the solution, saw the familiar folder structure (Models, Controllers, Views) and thought I knew what I was dealing with. ASP.NET MVC. Straightforward.

My mate and I both run parkrun. He's faster than me, comfortably and consistently faster. So when we started talking about making it competitive between us, the conversation lasted about three seconds. "What's the point? I'll win every week." He was right. And that bugged me.