This weekend, I am favored with the good fortune to participate in both SharifCTF and the Codegate Qualifiers CTF. In times like this, we often get so engrossed in our efforts to wrangle that final rop chain gadget, that we simply forget to smell the roses, so to speak:

As our industry move towards ever increasing levels of cyber excellence, may we never forget what made all this so great in the first place.