It's wild, but more people know how to drive a car than know how to use their own body effectively. And so many have such difficulty in manipulating other bodies: in lifting others, in touching them, in wrestling and playing with them. Contact Improvisation is a safe way to study and to experiment in this domain. I was totally ignorant and awkward before I started learning to dance. And I was misusing myself: not listening to my nerves, holding myself poorly. I was missing half of life. Now I have it. And in the balance I've become a more effective coder, because I can refresh myself by diving into visceral reality more fully. I've become more effective in a many ways by paying more attention to my real existence. And I've also met lots of wonderful, brilliant people in a no-nonsense way. Had I met the love of my life, Carla, in conversation at a dinner party, events may have gone differently. But we met dancing contact improv, and the rest is personal.