Right Now

Life

I am trying to cope up with life right now. What lies ahead of me is perhaps one of the impactful life-changing moments of all time. I will try to be my best and ease into the corporate life over the next few months. The mere thought of being 21 yo and the realisation that I will soon have to be financially independent is scary. I am trying to be optimistic and hopeful about the future.

I wish to give my best at the trainings and coursework that I will be going through. I also wish to contribute to open source projects, help others around me and learn more about tech and life.

Health

I will not lie here, I have not been taking care of my health as well as I should. I have been inconsistent with my dietary plans and often find myself indulging in junk food more than often. I try to maintain my weight and see some reduction but after a while I find it on the rise again.

This has to change. I risk developing lifestyle diseases if I continue on this path and the situation can worsen. I am trying to take care over the past few days and be conscious about what I consume.

Reading and Learning

I've been trying to read more technical books and articles. I can somewhat keep up with articles as they are fairly short but I think I have decreased my focus span for books.

Currently I want to learn more about system design and architecture. Of course the famous book is Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. However I am trying to ease into the topics with Mikito Takada's Distributed Systems for fun and profit.

I keep my notes in Obsidian and occasionally write blog posts on what I learn.

I am also learning Go and trying to fit it into my usecases rather than reaching for Javascript all the time.