Tracking Time at Work: Meetings
If you haven't heard an engineer complain about how many meetings they are in, then you might be living under a rock. It's practically a trope at this point.
Topic
life
A collection of 11 issues
Engineering a Wake up Routine
Somewhere in the past decade I went from being a chronic night-owl 🦉 to being a "morning person" 🌅. I'm not sure what changed and caused me to come over to the dark side of early risers, but I guess I'm in that camp now.
But
Interfaces
I've been thinking a lot about interfaces lately.
An interface is "the place at which independent and often unrelated systems meet and act on or communicate with each other" 1.
When you interact with your phone you utilize a graphical user interface, or a GUI. This
Tracking Time at Work: Planned vs. Unplanned Work
We've all been there. You plop down at your desk, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 🐿️, coffee steam curling lazily up from your "best dog mom" mug ☕. You know what you need to do today.
Tracking Time at Work: How much do I work?
Once you start tracking your time, the first and easiest question to answer is: "So how much do you actually work anyway??".
The cold came to Texas and the internet froze 🧊
(or how I wasted my three day weekend)
Project: Tracking Time at Work
We all have a subjective perception about how we approach work 💼. We innately have a sense of a productive day vs. a non-productive day, a stressful day vs. a chill day, and so on an so forth. But how does our perception align with reality?
Over time, how good is
2024.00 Learning Japanese
As a side project, I'm going to try learning another language this year. And because I wanted to make this as difficult on myself as possible, I decided to try Japanese 🤦.
According to the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute, Japanese is one of only two
Reflections on 7 Years of Peloton To Garmin
Over the years I've built many tools and weekend scripts, but Peloton-to-Garmin is the first tool I wrote that was used by a community of people and it's been so much fun growing and learning how to maintain a free open-source project.
Seven years ago, after
Race Recap: 2023 BMW Dallas Marathon
The culminating race of 2023 for me was the BMW Dallas Marathon. With a year of consistent training under my belt and a moderately well executed 20w marathon build up, I wanted to put my fitness to the test with a race.