It’s Sunday evening here in San Juan, and with an exhilarating week ahead of assembling Ikea furniture, buying dishes, mopping the floors, and finalizing production code, I needed to get this done tonight. Truthfully though I am looking forward to unpacking my suitcase, something I haven’t done in over a quarter of a year. …
Nusa Penida and YouTube Tip
I’m back in Bali after a weekend trip to a nearby island for my girlfriend’s birthday, Nusa Penida. I left my computer at home Friday-Sunday, and was happy to see that none of my trading programs malfunctioned (I did put strong safeguards to ensure they wouldn’t), and even made a little money without me looking …
Benefits of Not Being Productive
I never read about the benefits coming from hours spent surfing the web, hanging out late at parties, and various other things that are mostly a distraction from life. The reward/wasted life ratio is so small, yet how do you quantify the value of major life insights that you occasionally stumble upon through this? …
Getting Motivated Again
I’m sitting in a coffee shop (Machinery) here in Bali with a humidity and espresso induced glaze on my forehead, and feeling pretty good. I’ve been a bit demotivated to blog lately, but I spent the last few days reading which always helps. How do people blog on a daily basis? It’s really hard …
Last Week in Stockholm
I’m going into my final week in Stockholm before I head to Bali for what I think will be two months. I need to book my ticket back asap (you can’t go there without a return ticket), as well as somewhere to stay. I’ve been so focused on trading work that I’ve forgotten some of …
First Impressions Bali
After 30-40 something hours (4 connecting flights!) of travel, I landed into Bali a few nights ago. Perhaps because of all of the flying my body lost track of what time it thinks it should be, and I don't have jet lag going to bed/waking up like I’ve been living 12 hours ahead of time …
Good Week + Short Story
So many times I've made strong resolutions to break them within days, hell even hours sometimes. I can't imagine how many times I've promised myself a month of clean eating after an ice cream binge, only to order a pizza that evening. The best outcome I've realized is to make positive progress in the direction …
Week 1
I'm not sure that I'll update about the program every week, but I just finished the first (4-day due to Labor Day) week of Insight AI. I had pretty much no clue what the program entailed outside of building an applied Artificial Intelligence project. One of my friends had done the program in the past …
Leveling Up This Week
Had a good well-rounded week here in Silicon Valley. I’m pretty conscious each week to not neglect my career, relationships, and physical/mental health. I have a hard to fix habit of both aggressively scheduling my accomplishments for the day/week, and also stumbling onto new and improved things to do. Overall though if I can slightly …
Quick Update
I deleted two half-written posts this week which has caused a delay in me putting something on here. I enjoy writing like many other people to clarify my own thoughts, but I was getting bored with myself, and I didn’t want to subject you to that boredom as well. The past week I’ve had …
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