Concurrency, Christmas, and the Ultimate Programmer
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It’s the Christmas season, and I’ve been reflecting on something that has fascinated me since I was a child.

There are billions of people in the world, all living different lives, making choices, building dreams, and facing struggles simultaneously. Life does not take turns. It runs in parallel.

Sometimes our paths intersect. Sometimes they do not. Yet everything keeps moving.

For a long time, I could not fully wrap my head around this. Later, while studying Computer Science, I encountered the concept of concurrency, the idea that a system can manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Independent threads executing in parallel, coordinated by scheduling, synchronization, and shared state.

That was the moment it clicked.

Human life itself is concurrent.

Long before we gave this…

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