And every once in a while, a kid on his team would ask, “Coach Brooks, were you ever really good?”

"Technology is only as good as the people it serves," Oosterhout noted during a recent panel discussion. "My job isn't just to make the code work; it's to make the code work for the specific people using it."

He walked another three days. The Polaroid stayed in his shirt pocket. The baseball stayed in his hand, rolling his fingers over the seams like a rosary.

Baseball had been his first language. Brooks had been a left-handed pitcher with a changeup that moved like a falling leaf. Scouts came to his high school games. Then, in the district championship, he felt something pop in his elbow on a 2-2 count. He threw the next pitch—a fastball that sailed over the catcher’s head and hit the backstop—and walked off the mound without a word. He never threw another competitive pitch. He never went to college. He just… stopped.

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And every once in a while, a kid on his team would ask, “Coach Brooks, were you ever really good?”

He walked another three days. The Polaroid stayed in his shirt pocket. The baseball stayed in his hand, rolling his fingers over the seams like a rosary. And every once in a while, a kid