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The Paralyzed Programmer: What Spinal Cord Injury Taught Me About Debugging

Nov 13, 2025

• 8 min read

A spinal cord injury is a permanent network partition. My paralysis taught me lessons about circuit breakers, cascading failures, and autonomous systems that changed how I design software.

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