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## Sanity Questions

1. What is a Headless CMS?
1. What is Sanity.io?
1. How does Sanity fit into Jamstack?
1. What is the idea behind Portable Text?
1. What is GROQ all about? `GROQ is a query language that lets you query, join, and transform JSON documents without having to create schemas, or resolvers`
1. How is it different than say Contentful?
1. I know that Sanity is focused on content, but could you replace something like Firebase or DynamoDB with Sanity.io?

## Random

How did you transition from studying religion to development advocate?

## Knut Quote

Take a vacation…it’s good to take a break and shut the laptop down.
