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what it represents and how did I come to it?</p><p id="4aaa">First iterations were totally unrelated to this final result. They were nice, but they felt a bit off.</p><p id="38ad">Then I had a moment when <b>what I do</b> returned into focus: I build software and give advice on software solutions.</p><p id="5936">I write blocks of code, mix technologies and that translates into products for myself and my clients.</p><p id="6185">Then <b>Constanting</b> started to make me think of <b>Constructing</b>.</p><p id="7160">I don’t know about others, but when I think about building blocks my brain thinks instantly of Tetris. Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Soviet Russian software engineer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pajitnov">Alexey Pajitnov</a>.</p><p id="601d">Tetris is copyrighted, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyomino">polyominoes</a> aren’t. So I decided to use these simple geometric shapes to build my logo. I used 2 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetromino">tetrominoes</a> and one domino piece.</p><figure id="6667"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*XogMEIEn5EQHTacfdvZgmg.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="7858">When you rotate the logo 90 degrees to the right (clockwise) you also get the <b>IT</b> word. This was an unintended outcome that I realized after finishing up and presenting it to my arduous critics (my better half, Monica, and my sisters: Oana and Alina).</p><p id="ba79">An intentional effect was the aspect of a staircase, which should communicate to business partners the message of stable growth. Although I’m not very happy with the right-to-left direction of the stairs, that was a compromise made for keeping the words and letters that form within the logo.<

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/p><p id="10b4">My choice for colors was very much linked to my country of origin’s flag, and that is <b>Romania</b>.</p><figure id="43e9"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*CN6xpGZxLfaA-LJ9W7CLTw.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="d7a2">So that’s the short story.</p><p id="80aa">The bottom line is that I’m very happy with this bootstrapped logo I made in-house for myself. In total it was around 2 weeks of thinking about the Identity and 1 day for executing the logo.</p><figure id="ce06"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*3P9JTncDwQexnUVMzX0p7Q.gif"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="bbd8">The Dutch may have fun or difficulties with the pronunciation of Constanting because the G at the end, and the bright side from this perspective is that most of my clients aren’t from The Netherlands.</p><p id="b511">Nevertheless, the process of registering with <b>KvK</b> (the Dutch Chamber of Commerce) went on smoothly.</p><p id="dfba">If you have a business and want to stand out, you can try to 3D print a coaster to use around the office and/or house.</p><div id="5e13" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/3d-printing-a-coaster-with-your-company-logo-9df3beafb1f2"> <div> <div> <h2>3D Printing: A Coaster with Your Company Logo</h2> <div><h3>From digital to analog in a few simple steps</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*-yZreBO20R3FYchYzXIyxQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="f0f8">Tha(nk|t’)s all!</p></article></body>

What Is Truth? — A Touchy Subject in that We Have Different Definitions

People Exchange the Truth of God for Something Else (Romans 1:25): Half-Truths, Wrong Assumptions and Perceptions.

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The fact is we don’t like to be told what to do — or even what to believe — even by God himself. It’s just part of the human condition for most of us.

Yet Jesus said the reason he was born, and came into the world, was to be a witness to the truth and give testimony about it (John 18:37).

I don’t know where I saw this division, but it rings true: God speaks in favor of unity — others speak more about division. God speaks for diversity — others speak more for integration. God speaks for having roles — others become jealous and want sameness. God speaks for responsibility — others prefer to blame and criticize. God speaks for authority — others want to rebel and disagree. God speaks for delegation — others would prefer to see tyranny. God speaks for freedom and liberty — others want tradition, even bondage.

I think everything in the Bible is TRUE. We’re told God cannot lie, as we can, and he inspired the Bible’s writing and even spoke a lot of it.

But everything in the Bible is not TRUTH. The gospel came with Jesus in the New Testament. It’s called ‘the truth of the gospel.’ You might say Jesus ‘invented it,’ except he received it from Father God.

Things were not working very well with people under the Old Testament. We’re told everyone failed in trying to live it (Acts 15:10, Romans 3:10). And in Romans 4 we’re told this caused God’s anger. Everything God said was true, but just things being true doesn’t always grip us. After all, we know it’s true that the moon and the sun are lights in the sky.

But we’re told the gospel produces peace with God because of Jesus. The gospel is called ‘the gospel of peace’ (Romans 10:15). It goes on to say it brings us ‘good news of good things.’ We don’t hear a lot of real good news today, now do we?

God says to truly believe truth is ‘to receive a love for the truth.’ This is true with almost everything. We don’t receive what we don’t like. Jesus says when we’re on the side of truth we listen to him. From what I hear a lot of people say, they’re not on the side of truth. We live in a very tolerant, ‘anything goes’ type of world.

We’re told truth lets us know ‘the spirit of truth’ v. ‘the spirit of error.’ If we live in God’s gospel truth, things become much more simple and easy. Paul talks about ‘the simplicity that is in Christ.’ Jesus says, “My way is easy and my burden is light.”

Truth can best be defined as ‘reality, as God sees it.’

Now, if you’re not linked to God, this is a meaningless statement. We like to invent our own ‘reality,’ whatever this means to us.

Even in religion, take your pick of what ‘truth’ really might be. They all teach something a little different, and they all claim to be right.

I refer to it as ‘The Second Tower of Babel.’ The first was in Genesis 11.

In the 1827 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, you will find truth defined as ‘fact and reality as revealed in scripture and the prophesies.’

You won’t find that in a modern dictionary. Everything has been changed. Most things today are more human thinking. God is largely excluded.

But here is the dividing line. Do we choose to believe God’s truth or not? I’m not saying what to do. That’s a personal matter. Even Jesus didn’t tell people what to do.

He just presented his side of the case, as we lawyers always do in court. We might be wrong or right, but we still present our side of the case. Paul calls it ‘the wisdom of man,’ versus ‘the wisdom of God.’

We’re told we are given the wisdom of Jesus and the mind of Christ (First Corinthians 1:30 and 2:16). But it’s only true if we choose to receive it. If we don’t, it’s not for us.

Romans talks about either submitting to the wisdom and ways of God or submitting to our own ‘self-thinking and self-righteousness.’

This is the battle since the beginning of time. The devil told Adam and Eve in the Garden: “You can be like God.” They then became independent.

GOD versus SELF is always the battleground.

In Second Timothy 1:12 Paul says, “I know WHOM I have believed.” We too often tend to say, “I know WHAT I believe.” And it often changes.

Galatians says that FAITH comes through GOD’S LOVE. If we don’t know God’s love for us, it’s very hard to develop faith — except faith for earthly things: health, healing, a new job, a new spouse. Jesus asks, “When the Son of Man returns, will he find faith in the earth?”

Do you really believe WHAT you believe? Is it a reality for you? Or is it only a way of thinking at the moment that will change? Is it a preference? We tend to know preferences change as we change.

Or do you believe in a WHOM, not in a WHAT? The more I relate to the WHOM, the more WHAT is revealed to me.

We’re told Jesus is God’s MESSENGER and he brought God’s MESSAGE. His message is his gospel truth that brings us peace and power in God. You really can’t receive a Messenger unless you also receive his Message.

God judges the secret beliefs of our hearts by his gospel (Romans 2:16). Jesus will judge our belief in his gospel truth (Second Thessalonians 1:7–8).