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RTTBROS · Jan 14, 2026 · 2m

The Rubber Duck and the Real Counselor

"Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety." — Proverbs 11:14

There's this interesting practice in the computer programming world that caught my attention. Programmers keep rubber ducks on their desks, and not just for decoration. When they get stuck on a coding problem, they explain their code to that little yellow duck, line by line. They call it "rubber duck debugging."

Here's the amazing thing: just by talking through the problem out loud, even to an inanimate object, programmers often spot their own…