Coding the world

“We are collaboratively constructing the world based on our life experiences, sharing them with others”

Recently I saw a quote from Naval Ravikant on Twitter that said something like “If you can’t code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts”. Just a while ago I was looking at something on YouTube and the idea of “coding the world” came to my mind.
Coding is probably the most needed digital skill now and will also be in the future. Most of the things that happen in our daily activities nowadays have gone through a computer program. We even have computers and bots programmed with artificial intelligence algorithms replacing many human functions.
I tried to learn to code while studying engineering more than 20 years ago using old coding languages like C++. I remember having a coding exam and my dad asking the day before if I wasn’t going to study for it. I just said that you cannot study coding, you just have a set of tools and use them to write the code when they give you a problem to solve. That’s what I did for my exam and got a good score. However, I never really acquired a taste for coding software, so I better leave that to the experts.
When the words “Coding the world” came to my mind I just remembered the quote and an idea came immediately. Each one of us, coder or not, should leave something out for the rest of the world. It’s probably part of what we are here to do, it’s one of the reasons why decided to come and live.

Each one of us has a unique experience of life. What we go through, what we learn, what we become conscious of while experiencing life is unique. The way we see life is different from anyone else. We are here just to have the experience, to appropriate life lessons the best way we can. But I guess the most important part of it is to be able to share our life with others. Our wisdom is an invaluable resource for people around us.
I believe that, in some way, we are collaboratively constructing the world based on our life experiences, sharing them with others, like a web of life’s teachings, lessons, experiments and individual visions that come together to build what we are as humanity.
Our innate talents as well as those we develop over the course of our lives, the experiences we have, all situations, decisions, places, traumas, emotions, and persons that cross our path leave an imprint on us, and shape who we are. In programming terms, each one of those things that happen to us becomes a patch installed over the source code with which we are born so that we can grow and become wiser.
So how do we go about imprinting our own patched code onto the world? First of all, you have to be conscious about the richness of the source code you have. Through life we tend to follow trends and acquire external behaviors in order to adjust to what’s happening outside, building and using masks that, we think, help us navigate more easily. But the only result of having all those masks is that we end up hiding who we really are and building a personality that sometimes completely obscures our light. That’s why, in many cases, we reach a point in which we understand that we must go to basics, to restore the source code, to being ourselves.
The good thing is that we don’t start from zero. We still have all of those patches running in the background, in this case, the back office of our consciousness. Every new situation happening to us is experienced through the filter of all life’s lessons. We start to feel that we have gained some wisdom and are conscious about applying it, most of the time… We use those tools when we face life’s situations or problems, and we act on them based on what we have learned.
Then, the second thing to do is to share what you know, share your talents, share your wisdom. You might ask how to do that. If you are your pure self, the source code, and interact with the world in any way, you’ll find that you feel more comfortable doing certain things. Some of us are programmed to be good at public speaking, others at writing, others at leading, others at converting ideas and emotions into art or music, others just at listening. Anything that you have been programmed to do, if you exert it, becomes your gift to the world, the way in which you give yourself to others.
That’s how you code the world.