One of the wisest men I have ever met once said, “Travel is the cure to bigotry, intolerance, and racism.” Indeed, you can have plenty of ideas when you never leave your circuit, i.e. home, work, shopping, and places of worship, but how many of these ideas are misconceptions?

I’m not ashamed of saying this out loud: “I NEED YOUR HELP!”

As I had mentioned in another article, half of what I learned about leadership came from watching cooking shows, particularly cooking competitions. This article is about one of my favorite examples.

Other than my own personal experience, half of what I learned about leadership came from watching cooking shows, particularly cooking competitions. On one such competition, multiple chefs were battling to become the head chef for a renowned restaurateur. At a given point, the restaurateur (who happened to be one of the judges) was asked about the expectations from the winner. The response was a master class in leadership: “I expect honesty, integrity, and soul.”

In this article I’m presenting a way of using functional programming in Python, highlighting some benefits and a few shortfalls. There are plenty of scholars out there; this is mostly a hobbyist’s perspective, so please don’t consider this to be the ultimate word.

On my desktop PC I’m currently running Fedora Silverblue 40. Same on my laptop, but rebased to Sway Atomic. It took me significant time and effort to come here, though.