All right, look, people. No one’s perfect. Not you, and certainly not me. We all make mistakes — what separates the professionals from the rest is our ability to recover gracefully from those mistakes.

In this talk, we’ll look at version control using Git. We’ll use a nice GUI so we need deal minimally (if at all), with command line stuff. We’ll find out how becoming comfortable with version control will empower us to make all the dumb mistakes we want, which can enable better design, better code, better writing. How? Because we can make mistakes knowing that there is a giant, nerdy safety net making sure we aren’t going to suffer for all our risky behavior.