My Favorite Quotes in 2023

Here are some of my favorite quotes read in 2023. In no particular order.

“Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don’t cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don’t hold on to it. Don’t be bitter.”
– Patricia Noah

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Annais Nin

“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”
– Tim Notke

“Traveling is the antidote to ignorance.”
– Trevor Noah

“What you do matters, but why you do it matters much more.”
– Unknown

“Goals are for people who care about winning once.
Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly.”
– James Clear

“Intelligence is the ability to understand many ideas.
Wisdom is the ability to identify the few ideas worth understanding.
Wisdom without intelligence can still lead to a good, simple life.
Intelligence without wisdom is a special (and dangerous) form of stupidity.”
– Mark Manson

“Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.”
– Jana Kingsford

“Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts”
– Eckhart Tolle

“Broaden your interests. It’s nice to have at least one surprising hobby or passion. People find it interesting. In many ways, the part of you that is least expected is more respected.”
– James Clear

“What are the most powerful words in the universe? 
The ones you use to talk to yourself.”
– Karen Salmansohn

“The important thing is it isn’t just what you do and what you learn, you gotta pass it on. Then you’ve lived a life worth living.”
– Ronnie James Dio

Favorite Books I’ve Read in 2023

Here are my favorite books read in 2023, in no particular order.

Born a Crime

I enjoy Trevor Noah’s comedy. I had seen and heard good things about his book, so I read it. And loved it.

I like how he structured his memoirs. I like how he jumped around and weaved the story in a manner that kept my interest from cover to cover.

The book is a love letter to his mom. There are so many great life lessons she shared with Trevor, which he shares with his readers. This is one of my favorites:

“Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don’t cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don’t hold on to it. Don’t be bitter.” – Patricia Noah

Learning the things she has gone through and her outlook on life is very inspiring.

Trevor’s description of his life growing up in South Africa was very relatable for me due to some similarities to my growing up in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Be Useful

I enjoyed reading Arnold Schwarzenegger’s autobiography, Total Recall, a few years ago. As an immigrant, I’m drawn to the story of other immigrants. As I watched some of Arnold’s interviews talking about Be Useful, his new book, I knew I’d read it.

Quick read.

A short excerpt from the introduction:

Knowing where you want to go and how you’re going to get there, willingness to do the work and the ability to communicate to the people you care about that the journey you want to bring them on is worth the effort.

Many lessons that both leaders and followers should learn and apply. To start, be useful.

Fahrenheit 451

Loved the book. Even got the illustrated adaptation and watched the movie made in 1966.

I’ll likely have a dedicated post to share my thoughts about this book.

I’m glad I got the 60th anniversary edition, which includes much extra content about the book and its relevance.

On the Shortness of Life

I thought Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life to be an easier read than Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations and Epictetus’ Enchiridion (both great reads, regardless).

This quote is as relevant today as it was over 2000 years ago:

People are frugal in guarding their personal property, but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

This quote:

“Life will follow the path it began to take, and will neither reverse nor check its course.”

…made me think of something I wrote for this song a few years ago:

Out of Many One

In 2021, I watched Jimmy Kimmel interview former US President George W. Bush. I’ve never been much into politics (growing up in Brazil and always hearing and experiencing cases of corruption pushed me away from it), but I remember Bush was the president when I first moved to the US, so I was interested in that interview.

Two things intrigued me:

• First, knowing that he picked up arts (painting, more specifically) after he left office. It made me think of everybody, myself included, who thinks they’re too old to learn a new skill. What kind of skill would I consider learning in my late 60s?
• Second, hearing that his new book, Out of Many, One, was a collection of his paintings of some of the immigrants he has met, and their unique stories.

If you’ve been reading this far, you have seen a common trend for my favorite books last year: Trevor Noah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and then Bush’s book about immigrants.

I got goosebumps reading through some of the stories because they’re so relatable to me.

And I’m curious to know if the former president saw immigrants in that way all of his life, through his presidency, or only after he came out of office.

While he was president, I was busy trying to adjust to the culture, to the language, to a new chapter in my life, and the image I had of him does not align with the refreshed image I now have, as far as his thoughts of immigrants are concerned.

Poems for the Dark

Everybody has bad days.

In 2022, I watched a video of a singer who went by the name Nightbirde. “How can a person fighting cancer, with a short life expectancy, write and sing a song called ‘It’s okay’?” Just as I had that thought, I heard her say in the post-performance conversation:

You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.

Her words, lyrics, and interpretation felt very real and very deep.

I looked up some of her music and followed her story online, hoping she’d get better.

After she passed away, I heard about her book of poems and immediately got it, knowing it would have great thoughts and that the proceedings go to the Nightbirde Foundation, which helps young women with breast cancer.

Some of her poems are dark. Visceral. But real. They speak of real thoughts, feelings, and emotions of somebody experiencing them and managing to articulate them into words.

When I’m having a bad day, I often listen to her music and/or re-read some of her poems, as it helps me bring my thoughts to a different perspective.

As somebody involved with building software and always hearing the industry refer to people as “users”, forgetting that they are people, a passage like this makes me reframe my thoughts:

I am a science experiment
Onlookers take notes
I am a statistic, one sheet in a stack of test results

How many more pieces can I lose
Before I am more robot than human

A passage like this reminds me to use what I have to overcome struggles:

May all of this dirt become the mountains that we stand on
And not the ground that buries us

And a passage like this reminds me to not only use my struggles as a foundation to overcome difficulties but that I can also use it to pave the way for others:

I am hoping that these words can be breadcrumbs to follow,
So those who crawl through this cavern
Will see that there is a way through

Start with Why

I read this book for the first time in 2019 and have used Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle for several things since then. Seeing through the why-how-what lenses sends me back to the time when I started this blog in 2004 and decided on its tagline: “Why do we do this again…?”

I’ve drawn a golden circle to gain clarity on everything I do for Beyond the Track (to understand why I do it).

I also used it to better understand things I do with Improving, making it easier for me to understand [where our values meet](link to my blog post) and be more intentional about the goals I commit to.

This passage in the book accurately describes what led me to Improving:

No matter where we go, we trust those with whom we are able to perceive common values or beliefs.

I enjoyed the 2nd read just as much as I did the 1st, and I’m sure I’ll revisit it in the future.

The Mutt

Skateboarding played a great role in my life growing up. I was never good at it, but I enjoyed doing it, and I enjoyed hanging out with my buddies. That was the mid to late 80s.

Rodney Mullen was featured in magazines alongside the other heroes that our skateboarding community in Sao Paulo could only dream of ever seeing in person.

For the last six years or so, Rodney came back to my attention through his TED talks and several interviews I’ve found online. For me, he is such a joy to listen to. Very intelligent, articulate, thoughtful, and naturally humorous.

I absolutely loved the book. Very easy read, hard to put it down.

His approach to training through deliberate practice early in his early teenage years easily shows how he got to be head and shoulder above all of his competition, and how he became such an influential skater. His work ethic at such an early age was impressive.

He was so stupidly good at what he did, that other people sold his skills for him. He was totally focused on his craft. Who can do that these days? Musicians, writers, actors, software developers… we all have to not only work on our craft but also how to sell it.

Listening to (and reading) Rodney’s words about community, competitors, and innovation brought me another level of respect for him and for the sport. Did you know that skaters at a competition root for their rivals, encouraging them to keep trying a hard trick, and cheering for their successful runs? Where else do we see that?

That persecution from the outside helped us bond.

That passage took me back to when I was 12 years old and couldn’t skate because the city mayor had outlawed skating. My friends and I had to skate in front of our houses, hiding our skateboards if the police drove by.

The Pomodoro Technique

The first mention of the Pomodoro Technique on my blog dates back to 2010, when attendees of the Virtual Brown Bag mentioned it as one of their favorite things learned in our meetings.

I started applying the technique a few years before that, and still practice it daily. I’ve posted some thoughts about it a while ago.

When I first heard of the technique, there used to be a PDF book explaining it. Last year I thought it would be a good idea to read this updated book as a refresher and to see if anything new was added to it.

Many people think: “Why do we need a book for it? Set a timer for 25 minutes, work, take a break, rinse, and repeat!” There’s more to it. I recommend reading the book if you’re interested in the technique.

This passage was a good reminder for me of why I enjoy the technique:

Better use of the mind: greater clarity of thought, higher consciousness, and sharper focus while facilitating learning.

Around the same time I read that sentence, I ran into this quote by Eckhart Tolle, which I believe fits well with the theme:

Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.

There’s also this bit in the book: work, track, observe, and change to improve if you need to. It reminded me of the thinker and doer minds described in the book The Inner Game of Tennis.

Something new I found in the book is the suggestions around using the technique with microteams. Made a note to give it a try.

As I said, there was more to it than working in 25-minute increments. The book made me develop thoughts and make connections that help me get a little better every day.

Together Is Better

Short, sweet, and impactful.

I liked the book so much that I gave copies to all of my team.

One of my favorite quotes from it:

Bad teams work in the same place. Good teams work together.

2023: Annual Review

We’re done with 2023. Here’s my annual review, keeping the looser format from last year.

Book Reading

I’ve read even more books during the year.

But it’s not about the number of books; it’s about “always be reading”.

I’ve retaken the Read to Lead challenge, joined by 2 Improvers this time, and it was great. I enjoyed reviewing the lessons learned and how I applied them, as well as trying out some of the lessons I hadn’t applied before (for example, “read a banned book”).

Some books I’ve read again include Start with Why, The Obstacle is the Way, and How to Live.

Some of my favorite books read for the first time include Fahrenheit 451, On the Shortness of Life, and On Writing Well.

A separate post with my favorite books will come soon.

My reading system leveraging Obsidian has been working well, and I keep making small refinements as I find different ways to make it better.

Life at Improving

In my annual review last year I said I had been going back in the office for most team meetings. In 2023 I started going in pretty much every day (except when I have a specific need to work remotely, such as a service guy coming by).

I enjoy playing pool or ping pong when I’m taking breaks, as well as having conversations that wouldn’t happen if we were all working remotely. The immense whiteboards also draw me in.

I have been arranging my office at Improving as closely as I can to my home office, including a standing desk, a lift for my laptop, and an acoustic guitar within arm’s reach.

Riding

I finally got to ride at the track in Denton, as part of a race weekend with TMGP. First time riding mini-bikes on a track with elevation changes!

I did more sprint races (racing my Grom for the first time), and plan on keeping doing so as a way to maximize my riding time on race weekends.

Our Beyond the Track endurance team raced as many races we managed to do, and we always have a great time.

And our main endurance race bike always looks great (thanks to Michael J.!!)

Looking forward to the new season.

Music

I’ve put out two new music videos.

First of Many: This is one of the songs I had recorded all of the instrumental pieces in 2020, but only got to writing lyrics and doing vocals in late 2022. Wrapped it up early in the year and put it out.

Paranoid: Quick collaboration covering this tune with my brother. This one is very special for us.

I’ve been working on some acoustic songs and may put some of them out this year.
I’m also hoping to write lyrics and record vocals to another song I recorded in 2020.

I’m also working through Duolingo’s Music course. Even though I wrote so many songs, I don’t write or read music. I could painfully, slowly read some notes of the treble clef on the staff, but not more than that. Learning and practicing it a little bit every day is fun, and hopefully, in a few years, I’ll be able to benefit from music theory when writing my own music.

This Blog

Several posts in the year were related to books I read, my approach to reading, etc. These are my favorite posts in that area:

• Read one book or many at a time
• Remembering what I read
• Meeting interesting people
• Thoughts On Books – A Complaint Free World

Some other of my favorite posts:

• Optimize code for reading not debugging
• BDD – What if we do NOT focus on System Behavior
• Test First vs Test Last
• On Curiosity
• May I ask a question
• The Principles of Principals
• User Stories are for Everybody

Looking at some stats:

• The average number of words per post intrigued me: the 2nd highest ever (at 633 words per post), and the highest since 2011
• The most viewed post was one from the previous year, Improving my Reading System and Leveraging Obsidian, closely followed by a post from 2017, Test Style AAA or GWT?
• Many of the most viewed posts in the year were originally posted in 2017

I don’t post content looking for views, but I’m interested in knowing what topics resonate with my readers.

Speaking

I’ve had a good time giving talks through our Improving Talks series, and also as Lunch and Learns to some of our clients.

My favorite talk was a brand new one, “BDD, but not the way you heard it before”.

I look forward to giving more talks. Reach out if you’d like me to deliver one of my talks to your company or user group. I’m more than happy to deliver any of the talks on the list or about anything you see me post to my blog.

The coolest things I’ve learned

I’m slowly learning how to do some basic jobs on my bikes. For context, not too long ago, I didn’t do even oil changes.

In 2023, I did two upgrades to my Kayo 150 that I wouldn’t come even close to attempting in prior years: I replaced the rear shock and the front fork springs.

Seeing the bike as it is on the right side of this picture would cause me a panic attack the previous year:

With the guidance I received from our Beyond the Track community (huge shout out to Michael J.), I was able to perform the tasks all by myself.

There was an important mind shift: instead of keeping my “I don’t do mechanic stuff” inner monologue, and worse, telling others “I suck at mechanic stuff”, I started telling others and myself “I’m learning how to do some jobs”.

User Stories are for Everybody

Not happy with the user stories your product owners or business analysts are writing? Speak up.

I don’t mean that in a rebellious way. I mean it collaboratively.

Let them know where you’re having trouble understanding to produce and deliver results.

Think a different choice of words would clear things up? Consider writing them yourself. Put it down in your own words.

Share it with the team and see if it brings clarity for everybody. It may or may not resonate with others. Pay attention.

The people writing the stories may be fighting their battles and are thankful to see better deliverables, regardless of reworded stories that facilitated communication and collaboration.

User stories aren’t requirements. They’re placeholders for conversation. You’ve heard that before.

With good conversations, stories don’t have to be fully spelled out. Some details can be left out. Too much detail may leave too much room for (mis)interpretation.

Don’t understand the meaning of a word within the context? Ask for clarification.

Don’t understand the context? Ask.

Need different perspectives to understand the context? Ask.

A coder might be able to offer solutions to the problem a story means to solve. So can a UX designer. Or a QA team member. In the context of a scrum team, they’re all developers. Let’s develop great stories.

Great stories are told and retold.
Great stories yield great products.
Great products are talked about, over and over.

If this content resonates with you, or if you know people who should hear more about this, I’ll be presenting a free online talk on Effective User Stories, on Jan 31, 12-1pm CDT, as part of the Improving Talks. Register now!

The Principles of Principals

I always get a kick out of seeing my American-born friends often write principle when they mean principal. Another mistake I see is writing recieve/concieve instead of receive/conceive.

I often wonder why such mistakes are so glaring to me. Here’s what I’m thinking…

Sound vs Meaning

When I’m about to write a sentence that requires either the word principle or principal, I’m not thinking of their sound; I’m thinking of their meaning.

Visual images come to mind as I think of their meaning, and they’re often connected to how I’ve learned those meanings in my primary language (Brazilian Portuguese). So if I’m about to write “The kids were called by the school’s principal“, the image in my mind is that of the main person at the school. On the other hand, if I’m about to write “The kids were schooled on principles“, the immediate connection in my mind is a fundamental truth.

Side note: I’ve recently noticed someone using “verses” when they meant “versus” (maybe they should have stuck with “vs”?)

English as Second Language

In the case of words such as receive and conceive, I do believe I’m never confused about their spelling because of their Portuguese counterparts: receber and conceber.

So when I think of the word that means I’ll be given something, the immediate spelling connection starts as “rece…” (from “receber”), and then my mind makes the quick switch into English, “receive“.

Errors and Relatable Mistakes

It’s interesting for me when I’m in a group of people conversing in English, and many members of this group aren’t native English speakers.

While some of our mistakes may simply sound like plain errors to a native speaker, they’re relatable mistakes for me.

For example, I’ve heard colleagues from India and Mexico say a sentence such as “I did it today morning“, instead of “I did it this morning“; I used to make the same mistake many years ago because that’s how the sentence would structurally go in Brazilian Portuguese.

Words, Meaning, Context, Perspective

Words are important.
Their meaning is more important.
Context drives meaning.
Perspectives help identify and understand the context.

It’s interesting to see how the mind makes these connections.

Please share any resources you might know that could help me understand this better.

JetBrains Rider: Removing “private” from C# code

I prefer NOT to see the “private” keyword in C# code. As a quick update to that post, here’s how to set up JetBrains Rider to not add “private” when it creates code, and also to remove it when using its “Reformat and Cleanup Code” feature:

Meeting Interesting People

I’m meeting a lot of interesting people.

I’m meeting people who seem to think and talk just like me, even though our mother languages aren’t the same.

I’m meeting former presidents, senators, and their wives. Republicans and democrats.

I’m meeting people who made important decisions and later changed their mind.
People who talk about other people or subjects; sometimes they agree with each other, sometimes they don’t.

I’m meeting poets. Philosophers. People who speak with very polished language, others who have a potty mouth.

I’m meeting people who have never existed, yet, their stories resonate with me.

I’m meeting people who speak to me from the past.
Some have been long gone. Sometimes I wish we had met when they were still alive. Sometimes I’m glad I didn’t.

I met a youngster who translates wise words from the past into words I can understand with my limited command of the language.

I met people who told me a fictional story written in the past, about their future; a future which is my present.
And stories about their future which is also my future.

I’m meeting my heavy metal heroes, and learning about their struggles and successes.

I’m meeting people I haven’t heard from in decades.

I’m meeting extraordinary people who have accomplished amazing things in their life and are willing to share their stories.

People who are able to say so much using so few words.

I’m meeting people who help me ask important questions in life.
People who give me advice I can use in many areas of my own life.
They teach me things in a manner I can relate.

I’m meeting people whose storytelling skills take me on adventures I may never get to experience myself, or maybe I will.

People who are sharing knowledge with me I didn’t even know I’d either need or be interested in.

I’m meeting people I feel compelled to introduce them to friends and colleagues.

I’m meeting immigrants whose stories of proving others wrong I enjoy a lot.

I’m meeting with people to discuss lessons learned from other people we’ve met.

I’m meeting a lot of interesting people.

Thoughts On Books – A Complaint-Free World

Will Bowen’s A Complaint Free World is among my favorite books read in 2022.

Going through my notes I see that I’ve done a lot of pondering and it still makes me think deeply through many of the points raised.

Here is a summary of some of my thoughts on it.

Best Advice

This piece of advice sums up the book for me:

Don’t hold back, don’t hold it in, just make sure you are stating only the facts, to someone who can resolve the issue.

Don’t cry out. Speak up.

Stop Whining like a Baby

We complain. Too much.

“The squeaky wheel may get the grease. But if it squeaks too much, it ends up getting replaced.”

Brilliantly put. That one stuck with me as it put into words some of my own experiences.

Venting

But sometimes we just need to vent a little. Right?

Well, no.

Venting is a form of complaining.

People will mirror what they see. Our words. Our body language.

Complaining is like bad breath…

“It seems that complaining is like bad breath – we notice it when it comes out of someone else’s mouth but not when it comes from our own.”

As our awareness of our own complaints go up, so does our perception of complaints from others.

I started being aware of things I used to complain quite a bit before, stopped doing that, then got annoyed when others did the complaining I used to, and then found out I became aware of it and learned to smile at myself and move on. Rinse and repeat.

When asking “why me?”

Our complaints are often followed by the question “why me?”

We can also ask the same question when we’re grateful for someone or something.

Using a Jar of Awesome and sharing that Gratitude helps with that.

The fifteenth

The author talks about a friend who had established a practice of having only one day every month when he could complain about something. That day was the 15th.

The point is that, by the time the 15th comes, he had already forgotten what he wanted to complain about.

The practice of distancing ourselves from the things that upset us is one that yields great results.

Focus Beyond the problem

“Not every problem needs to be overcome, just the ones stopping you from getting where you want to be.” – Ann Hill

The book talks about looking through the problem. Instead of talking about or focusing on the problem, switch over to the desired outcome, and only to people who can either provide the solution or help us get there.

Criticism and Sarcasm

Both criticism and sarcasm are forms of complaint.

Criticism: it made me rethink how I conduct code reviews.
Sarcasm: it made me think before I use sarcasm (“what’s the complaint disguised as sarcasm?”)

Summing up

I’ll be revisiting my notes on this book multiple times. There are many other things I’ve picked up from it that I decided to leave out of this post to keep it short. But I want to close this with a great passage about leadership:

Leadership can be a daunting task. The use of criticism is an indication of a leader who lacks the resources to truly lead.
A leader’s job is the careful balancing of inspiration and direction.

On Curiosity

Most adults are envious of how easily children learn languages.

“I’m too old to learn a second language. I wish I could learn like those kids”, they say.

Why is that?

A common response is: “…a child doesn’t have all of the responsibilities I have as an adult.”

I’ve been thinking the main reason is another one, though: we stop being curious as we age. We even get annoyed when others don’t stop being curious as they age.

A child asking why several times is cute.
A teenager or adult asking why several times is simply annoying.

It’s very hard to learn not just a language, but anything, if we don’t ask why; if we stop being curious.

Look at Bruce Dickinson, not only the famous singer for Iron Maiden, but also a songwriter, airline captain, aviation entrepreneur, motivational speaker, beer brewer, novelist, radio presenter, fencer, and film scriptwriter (great TedX talk, From Rock Star to Businessman). How did he learn all of that? The title of his autobiography, What does this button do?, says it all: curiosity!

For the last couple of years I’ve been noticing someone else who also embodies the notion of approaching life with a beginner’s mind: The Charismatic Voice’s Elizabeth Zharoff, an accomplished opera singer who can sing at this level.

In her reaction videos, she analyzes vocal techniques of several singers across all sorts of music genres and singing styles.

I enjoy watching her reactions because she always shows genuine childlike curiosity. It’s interesting to see her discovering the sound of a wah pedal, or hearing sounds she’s absolutely not used to, such as the chromatic runs in guitar solos by Randy Rhoads.

She always finds positive things to say, be it in the lyrics or in the emotion the singer delivers the words, regardless of whether it happens using a pretty, harsh, or tired (from age) voice.

She is curious about learning how different singers produce certain sounds. When she hears singers producing different types of screaming, she wants to understand how they do it without harming their vocal folds, even taking a singer who’s a specialist on harsh vocals to a clinic to have a camera put in his throat while he sings and see what the doctors find out. She’s even learning to growl herself!

Watching Elizabeth curiously react to singers and music I’ve been listening to for over 4 decades has helped me renew my appreciation for them through exploration of nuances I didn’t even realize were there, but most importantly, she’s a constant reminder of how to keep a beginner’s mind, and the growth that comes from it.

Instead of thinking/saying “been there, done that”, I’m practicing turning it into “hmm, what else is in there? A button! What does it do? And why?”

I’ll close this post by quoting a question from this interesting article that asks “is curiosity the greatest virtue?“

“Could you perhaps work on your ability to become curious, to cultivate curiosity as a habit? If so, how?”

Hi, I’m Lame.

Did this post’s title offend you? I hope not; it wasn’t my intention.

Shortly after emigrating to the US, I learned many words I didn’t know before, including badass, laidback, and lame. The latter came up in a statement such as this one:

“Dude, compared to Master of Puppets, Metallica’s album Load is lame.”

I knew the context. I inferred the meaning of lame as “dull”. For 20 years, that was the only meaning I had either seen or heard used for that word. Until the following exchange happened in a Slack channel:

Some person: “Facebook is now Meta.”
Me: “Lame.”
Another person: “You shouldn’t use that word. It’s offensive.”

I was puzzled. I looked up the word and found something like this:

“Having a body part and especially a limb so disabled as to impair freedom of movement.”

I am positive that definition has no ties to the meaning I’ve intended in the context of that Slack thread.

Ironically, if we look up the meaning of my name, this is what we find:

“Who’s responsible for that?”
“Claudio.”
“Hey, that’s offensive!”

As someone born in Brazil, I could feel offended when…

• My Spanish-speaking friends spell out loud a word with the letter “q” in it
• My American fellows say “coup” or text me “CU”

The other day I was watching this comedy news show and the guy was making fun of vanity plates that may be offensive to some people. He then shows this one, and how it’s offensive to him (saying a meaning that could only exist in his mind):

Well, for me, the immediate thought that came to mind is that “FDP” is Brazil’s equivalent to “SOB”.

Context is very important.

I’m Lame.