Wow. It’s been over fourteen years since the last time I wrote a post on this blog. In those fourteen years, the world has changed, and so have I. So this isn’t going to be a technical post, it’s going to be personal. One of those subtle changes that quietly crept into my life over the years was filling the silence. As responsibilities piled up, free time became scarce. Almost without realizing it, I started filling every quiet moment with podcasts, audiobooks, or social media. Whether I was at the gym, cooking, or cleaning, there was often something playing in my headphones. Eventually, I built a habit: whenever it was quiet, my immediate instinct was to turn something on. That’s one of the biggest differences between what my days look like now and what they looked like a decade ago. I used to talk to myself a lot more. I’m a slow thinker, like really slow. It takes a few minutes just to get my thoughts moving in a direction.…