The only badge worth earning is wisdom—because it never expires Confession Let me say it straight: I’ve given up chasing certificates. Those laminated proofs of “competence” people brag about on LinkedIn as if they were military decorations. I stopped paying hundreds of dollars just to sit through another exam that measures recall, not understanding. There was a time I was
Tag: curiosity
The Path Not Taken If I’m being honest, I wanted to major in History.Not Computer Science. Not IT. Not anything involving servers, protocols, or subnet masks. I was fascinated by stories — how societies rose and fell, how ideas outlived their authors, how the smallest decisions rippled across centuries. History, to me, was the ultimate network: human connections spanning generations,