Howdy!
Hope you've been making the most out of life, hope you've been learning and growing, hope you didn't miss me too much, though I'm glad if you did as I'm about to take stock of the past 6 weeks.
1) Work
It feels nice to own an important component of our service. It feels nice to be a dependable member of my team. It feels nice to work with a team that listens, strives to be as inclusive and embraces the challenges of working remotely. The pace of my career is exactly where I need it to be and that feels nice. Of course, there are things I need to improve, at the moment that is time management. I developed a principle never to work on weekends (with exception of on-call weeks) and that has massively improved my productivity and quality of life. Crossing my fingers to make a cut off time of 6 pm on weekdays, wish me luck.
2) Running
Next weekend I will be turning a year older. Coincidentally I will also be running the BMO Vancouver Marathon and running a full marathon for the first time. For the past few weeks I have challenged my body to run as much as 40 km in one stretch and hike for 12 hours. If it weren't for my self-doubts I would be feeling ready. All I know for sure is finishing this marathon will be a major milestone for me. It represents all the discomfort I've overcome over the past year, moving to a new country knowing absolutely no one, being a minority in tech, defining my identity as a young adult. Just like what I tell myself while running long distances, 'This too shall pass'. I do hope it will pass and see you on the other side.
4) Finance
The thing that I bought is a rental property that I'm in the process of leasing. I'm looking to diversify my portfolio with more real estate and stocks. Still reading Investing for the utterly confused by Paul Petillo, I will talk more about this once I have a bigger picture.
5) Reading
7)Experimenting Pondering about
8) Mantras
Thanks for reading and feel to free to comment with any feedback. Have a great week ahead!
Hope you've been making the most out of life, hope you've been learning and growing, hope you didn't miss me too much, though I'm glad if you did as I'm about to take stock of the past 6 weeks.
1) Work
It feels nice to own an important component of our service. It feels nice to be a dependable member of my team. It feels nice to work with a team that listens, strives to be as inclusive and embraces the challenges of working remotely. The pace of my career is exactly where I need it to be and that feels nice. Of course, there are things I need to improve, at the moment that is time management. I developed a principle never to work on weekends (with exception of on-call weeks) and that has massively improved my productivity and quality of life. Crossing my fingers to make a cut off time of 6 pm on weekdays, wish me luck.
2) Running
Next weekend I will be turning a year older. Coincidentally I will also be running the BMO Vancouver Marathon and running a full marathon for the first time. For the past few weeks I have challenged my body to run as much as 40 km in one stretch and hike for 12 hours. If it weren't for my self-doubts I would be feeling ready. All I know for sure is finishing this marathon will be a major milestone for me. It represents all the discomfort I've overcome over the past year, moving to a new country knowing absolutely no one, being a minority in tech, defining my identity as a young adult. Just like what I tell myself while running long distances, 'This too shall pass'. I do hope it will pass and see you on the other side.
4) Finance
The thing that I bought is a rental property that I'm in the process of leasing. I'm looking to diversify my portfolio with more real estate and stocks. Still reading Investing for the utterly confused by Paul Petillo, I will talk more about this once I have a bigger picture.
5) Reading
I'm keen to learn more Distributed Systems, History and Investing, and that explains my currently reading list.
Also considering reading audio books to be much faster. Feel free to recommend any other books in that space.
6) Photography
I haven't taken as great photos recently because my mind has been elsewhere, but I'll share nonetheless.
7)
- The next milestone after running the marathon. I'm considering taking guitar lessons or writing (technical blogposts/tutorials / possibly a book?)
- Hunting and moving to a new apartment further from Downtown Vancouver. Looking forward to the end result not the process.
8) Mantras
- Say exactly what you need to say, put in writing if that's easier; Meaningless conformity benefits no one.
- You get what you ask for, not what you deserve.
- One step at a time, there's always time.
- Take chances, mistakes are inevitable for growth.
Thanks for reading and feel to free to comment with any feedback. Have a great week ahead!
