Curtain Up: My First Year in France

My first year in France had nothing to do with software.

Arriving in a new country means beginning again somewhere else. I spent that year in theatre and the performing arts, and through the stage, Parisian life opened up to me: the rooms, the people, a certain way of being together around something being made.

Theatre has one discipline that has never left me. You rehearse before you play to an audience. You run the same scene again and again, you change what does not work, and only then do you open the doors.

Years later, when I build a process for an AI agent, it is tested dry before it is ever switched on. I do not think that is a coincidence.