Personal 2022 Goal Recap & 2023 Goals For 2022, I had set out a few goals of: * Cast a wide net on new hobbies and potential multi-income streams * Reduce what is in my room (clothes, knick knacks, rare plants I don't like anymore) * Get 3 certifications * Fitness is passion * Improve usage of Figma * Consistency with
Personal Oct-Nov Work/Life Progress Some work/life updates as I have tried to reduce my burnout. Life * Begun taking pottery class for the past few weeks. It's been messing up my fingernails but an extremely rewarding activity * In 2 weeks we will be glazing yay * Tissue culture plants have been doing well.
Plants Tissue Culture Plant Acclimation Recently I took the gamble of trying out tissue culture baby plants off a Facebook plant group. They were fairly cheap as the white wizard philodendron x10 tissue culture pups' agar was molding. I had also bought a white princess philodendron x10 pups. FYI- I did not follow ALL
Personal Ok, ok.. I've been slacking My project wrapped up late July and then I went on vacation. Honestly it's been a good mental break that I really needed. The latest in my life is that I have helped manage a request for proposal for another financial service client. Besides that I'm
Personal Oops It's been a while Hello. I'm still alive, I stopped the work week because work has been piling and I have been spending my spare time studying. I'll be taking my fundamentals tonight and then enjoying my week long July 4th break! I'll be sure to update more
Insights OpenAI & Google Text-To-Image AI Generator Just a day ago, news broke out around OpenAI's DALL-E 2 newest competitor, Google's Imagen. Below are high-level insights of what DALL-E 2 & Imagen are. Let me just share how much I love the name DALL-E real quick....Personally, I am IN LOVE with the
Work Week Work Week 9-11: 4.29.2022 - 5.13.2022 Ok, ok, ok ok. I have fallen behind a lot on this update. It's been crazy, I've been overwhelmed. It's gotten to the point where some times I check my Teams before I sleep around midnight then figured it'd be best if
Work Week Work Week 7 & 8: 4.15.22 + 4.22.22 Oops. Lost track of time and was traveling throughout the week so this will be an overall haul of blunders and work activities done. Week 7, 4.15: * Not too much going on, general product workload * Reviewed with clients around critical open items, risks and dependencies * Learned more about software
Gaming Elden Ring Honestly I've given up on my motivational/educational (finance/tech) videos that I used to listen to on the side. The flavor of the week has been around Elden Ring lore, endings, weapons, etc. As for Elden Ring, I won't play it (too much work) so
Plants Work Week 6: 4.8.2022 (The plant tag is on this because 👀👀 if you keep reading) Monday * An attempt was made to connect with the team, ask them how everyone's doing, how everyone's weekend was... * ...It was dead silent. Ok. Well. Worth an effort * Tracked progress and addressed issues with my
Insights Crypto: PoS vs PoW Okokok. I am very behind on my knowledge around crypto...I spoke to a manager recently during a happy hour which sparked me to want to learn more. :( Below are some of my findings around the differences with Proof of Stake and Proof of Work. As well as a quick
Work Week Work Week 5: 4.1.2022 Monday * Caught up with a product senior manager and updated each other on our lives + what we're working on * Continued to drive team to close out specific tasks for our sprint goals and address any concerns Tuesday * Discussed with my counselor about the burn out I was facing.
Plants 4 Month Monstera Albo Update It's a good looking pimpleProgress photo of my monstera albo that I bought on Jan. 9th. After 3 months, the growth point finally activated and now a cute little pimple is showing. All my plants are growing these past few weeks. My other monstera albo with a more
Work Week Work Week 4: 3.25.2022 Monday * Received additional client feedback on overall UI designs * Continued insights research on the metaverse * Addressed any technical issues the team had with DAML mapping * Had a 1-1 with tech lead on what else is pending and catching him up to speed * Completed sprint planning Tuesday * Reviewed sprint planning with
Gaming Gaming x Collaborations Due to the pandemic, many businesses had to find new ways to reach players/consumers. We have been seeing a lot more collaborations with gaming and apparels as well as with other industries. Not only are fashion brands ( Balenciaga's Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow [https://www.dimensionstudio.co/
Personal Burn Out My general work days begin 8AM - 9 AM and end as late as 9PM. It's definitely affecting my health which partially is my own time management and personal matters that I don't properly prioritize. I have the energy to get work done, the drive to
Work Week Work Week 3: 3.18.2022 Vacation comes to an end. :( Monday * Lament how this will be my last full day in Paris. * Stumbled upon an amazing tapas restaurant [https://www.yelp.com/biz/freddys-paris]. Definitely unforgettable. * Bought some crazy expensive Pokemon cards, only pulled one shiny V card (Moumouton was cuter so I'm
Insights Earth6R Received this sponsor ad. I clicked "Learn More" without thinking of anything else besides it being a cool furniture brand. But then I stumbled upon this unique concept of home ownership. https://earth6r.com/ tldr; * You can buy with crypto or fiat currency * You buy a single "
Work Week Work Week 2: 3.11.2022 A little late due to vacation! Monday: * Continued to review and update the Common Data Model, UI, DAML and payload entity mapping. * Continued to make sure all user stories had the latest data attributes and DAML. (Long, manual process) Tuesday: * Held a longer daily stand-up as team and I blasted
Work Week Work Week 1: 3.4.2022 What a week to begin. Monday: * Day 1 filling in for my product manager. * Feature Timeline discussed with the client for the next phases of work. * Quietly listened as most of the work we've already updated/completed on Azure DevOp's Feature Timeline. * Bad Habit: Slept @ 2AM;
Personal Featured The Beginning of the Journey Hello and welcome to the beginning. A small habit I've started this year is trying to watch motivational/instructional videos instead of music during my downtime or when doing busy-work. During this time my auto-play on Youtube fell on to this: This made me finally think, "Ok