Payton.Codes

Musings on life, games, and code

Tag: sabbatical

  • The Lost Card

    The Lost Card

    I was first inspired to become a software developer when I was very young when I got an original NES. Playing those early games gave me a passion to learn programming that was the foundation of everything I’ve done since. Back in the early days when I was just studying BASIC and Hypercard, I made…

  • Time Greed and the benefits of slowing down

    Time Greed and the benefits of slowing down

    I just came back to work from a three-month sabbatical, and I wanted to capture some of the things I learned during that time. Part of my sabbatical was a meditation retreat where an important theme was paying attention to the forces of Greed and Aversion in our minds. Over the course of the retreat…