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2022: The Year of Alignment

Review - 2021: The Year of the ChiselLots of change and learning. Graduating, going full-time on Augment, throwing balance to the wind, overwhelming myself. Joining ZeroTo510 cohort, moving to Memphis, and more. Overall, 2021 gets a thumbs up. Deducting a few points for COVID-related transgressions. Close of the year, feeling

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Twenty-two

Age is amusing. Getting older is a continuous process. We've made it a stepwise function. "Years" are the discrete blocks to gauge it by. Nevertheless. Birthdays are points to reflect. To think about age and time. And, theoretically, they're unique. More unique than temporal holidays like New Year's Day. People

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What’s Next?

A Memory“Stand up if you’re living the dream.” The speaker’s voice echoes through the auditorium to the new students. I stand up, smiling. My internal monologue acknowledges that this wasn’t the exact plan, but it’s my plan now and I get to own that. Ferst

Minimum Viable Education

Generally, more information helps people make better decisions. If that's the case, it makes sense for people to gather as much information as possible. However, acquiring and processing information takes time. Time is a fundamental resource and currency. As a result, time spent acquiring or processing information that doesn't impact

Yes

When I was younger, my dad would regularly listen to music in our living room. Music playing also meant I'd be asked who created a particular song. Correct answers usually included Eric Clapton or John Mayer. Particularly infuriating answers would include The Who and Yes, due to the nature of

Finding the next piece

When I was younger, I really enjoyed building LEGO sets. I would open the box, take out the bags, and proceed to empty those bags onto the floor. Then, I'd sit or lie on the floor, with the instructions on one side, the current state of the set in the

Do you wear your watch on your left wrist or your non-dominant one?

For a long time, I've wondered whether the proper way to wear a watch is on my left wrist or on my non-dominant one. According to Wikipedia, this wouldn't be a problem for about 90% of people (source), because those two are the same. The problem is, I'm left-handed. On

The luckiest people in the world

If you're reading this, you probably exist. If you're human, that means you were probably born. I want to take a moment and recognize the chances of your birth. What are the odds that a single living cell originated from the early Earth's primordial soup? What are the odds that

Trajectories

Wake up. Sit up. Get up. Brush teeth. Change into video call clothes. Get on video call. End result: all set for meeting. Sometimes slip into the alternative: Wake up. Check phone. Sit up. Check phone. Get up. Check phone. Brush teeth. Check phone. Change into video call clothes. Check

The density of fun

The density of matter is defined as the amount of mass per unit volume. This is expressed as m/V. This gives us an idea of how heavy a certain volume of a material may be. In the same way, there's a density of fun. Here, we can define it

Paul's perfect picture

Paul pulled out his phone, expanding the button on the back to more easily hold it in his hand. He presses the screen and the camera app opens. He pulls a lens attachment from his pocket and puts it over his phone camera with a flourish. Turning around, his attention

The Flower

It's a bright, sunny day. A small cup sits on the kitchen window sill, full of dirt. A child stares expectantly at the dirt. "When will it grow?" asks the child, as he waters the dirt.

Analog automation

While we have to wait for Apple to release new Shortcuts features so we can automate our phones, our brains already have a full complement of features that we can work with. The developers of humanity have spent billions of years developing those folds and connections!

Top 5

In no particular order, here are 5 of the top products I've started using over the past few months that I absolutely love! No affiliate links here – just genuine recommendations! HeyHey is a new email service that turns email on its head. It has special sections for emails you want

Helluva Dance Competition 2021 - American Smooth

This weekend was the first weekend of Helluva Dance Competition at Georgia Tech! This is my 3rd time participating with Hannah and it was a lot of fun! Here are the videos for the American styles we danced: WaltzFoxtrotTangoRumbaCha ChaSwingFull PlaylistHere's a link to all of these videos in a

Podcast Appearance! HealthCare QualityCast Episode #99

I had the opportunity to chat with Jarvis Gray on his podcast, the HealthCare QualityCast. Big thanks to Nicole Cable for putting us in touch! I was really impressed that Jarvis made our conversation feel like we were old friends getting back together, even though it was our first time

The "f*** it" principle. Why you should try ballroom dance.

I’ve really enjoyed learning ballroom dance over the past 2.5 years. It’s been an awesome learning experience, especially coming from a background of soccer & weight lifting. Ballroom dance was actually recommended to me by a family friend (“Uncle Carl”) about 5 years ago, when I was

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2021: Year of the Chisel

2020 = over. Time to rethink everything and set new goals. New Years' is a bit arbitrary when you really think about it. Is there that much of a difference between December 31st and January 1st? More than between any other consecutive days? Anyway... The Cortex podcast by CGPGrey and Myke

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An Engineer's Guide to... cold outreach?!

I love solving problems and cold outreach is a very interesting one. It's vital to building a business. "Build it and they will come" just doesn't cut it.

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Rangr Podcast Appearance!

I was recently featured on the 6th episode of the Rangr podcast! I really enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with Richard and share my story so far and the lessons I've learned along the way. Check out the newsletter here: https://rangr.substack.com/p/who-writes-your-story And here's a

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COVIDx - Startup Weekend 2020

Excited to announce that my team, COVIDx finished top 3 in the USA at TechStars Startup Weekend 2020: Unite to Fight Covid-19! This weekend, we worked on an app to track COVID-19 based on symptom self-assessment and wearable data. More specifically, we worked to bring the business case to life

The Food Allergy Issue

Let's talk about food allergies. First, I'll define what a food allergy IS NOT: Picky tastes (unless not dying/suffocating is considered picky)Lactose intolerance*Next, a working definition: a food allergy is an overreaction by someone's body when it detects particular foods. Food allergies generally correspond to proteins in

3 months with the CareerBlitz team

Can't believe summer's over, can't believe I'm on my way to the airport after about 3 months working with the CareerBlitz team (Murtaza & Mayhul). It's been a wild ride. Started on May 20 -- Did a test run the day before, but still turned down the wrong Peachtree Street