my own special ability is to be able to recognise analog things, to notice when an aspect of a pattern matches another one, it's a critical skill to being able to write algorithms, these patterns are like an invisible skin around everything, so many layers if you just look

it's not as formal and rigorous in the way it works for me but i have helped people probably hundreds of times because i can see one of these "abstractions" in their problem that lets them link it to some sense of understanding or competence or dissolved a block they were having

and it most certainly keeps me in awe, pretty regularly, at the amazing creation He made for us

today i finally figured out some odd things i was seeing on the surface of the ocean were a huge crowd of dolphins

couldn't really see them, just their wash and sometimes the shadow of their bodies moving under the water

rarely a week goes by without one of these gifts falling on me