Hello everyone! My name is Ben and I work on a Java stack for data integrations at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. I came upon Clojure while browsing functional programming videos on YouTube and discovering Rich Hickey. Haskell had won me over to an FP way of thinking but I was searching for something more practical, that could theoretically be incorporated at work. I haven't written a lot of Clojure yet, but being able to slurp some JSON data from the web and seamlessly use it as a map and pull out specific fields impressed me. It's even fewer steps than in Python! I hope I can learn from other folks in here about bringing Rich's ideas about the powers of simplicity into a workplace that might not be very familiar with them yet.