When you spend all day, every day, cutting through code and honing in on the key details, patterns, and solutions, your brain becomes an expert at quickly identifying the crux of the matter and filtering out all the noise.

Reflecting back on the core of my decision-making process, I find myself returning to a fundamental question: what am I ultimately trying to optimize for? Does the things I do everyday get me closer to what I want?

Critical vulnerability exposing the private data of thousands of students.