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Martin Cortez is a Chicago-based software engineer.

He is married, has two dogs, and became a father in July to a daughter named Penelope.
Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter … but your readers are far more critical than the Python interpreter.
If the Internet really were a series of tubes, Yahoo would be the leaking sewage pipe.

Everyday

Forty years from now, we’ll know, at last, how we looked and sounded and made love, and who we really were.
The New Yorker, http://nyr.kr/HGC9jb
We’re bundling young people into things called startups, and selling them to investors for ever-increasing amounts of money.

He was given to fits of rage, male chauvinism, self-righteous misanthropy, and nihilistic moods of despair.

He had complaints about life, but never any solutions.

He longed to be an artist, but balked at the necessary sacrifices.

In his most private moments, he spoke of his fear of death, which he elevated to tragic heights, when in fact it was mere narcissism.

Manhattan
War is the most horrific, sickening thing mankind can inflict upon itself, fought by and large by uneducated maniacs that have no other place in the world.
The Comma Sutra

The Comma Sutra

Most poorly designed Economist cover I’ve ever seen

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.
“Outliers”, Malcolm Gladwell
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