first check-in

I know the design of this website is terrible. I will put more time into it soon.

I have some interesting ideas I want to experiment with, and I'll put them up here when I find the time. I just figured I might as well get the text up first.

the idea

I spent, or more accurately, wasted, basically all of Saturday just because there was no pressure on me. So the path of least resistance was just bed rotting, mostly, on social media and playing video games. Obviously, this isn't ideal. My goal is to be a great engineer, or just to be proficient and capable and better than my peers. That is my peers at the workplace, not necessarily my peers my age. But there are some incredibly talented young folks who I do know, who are incredible, and I'm working to be more like them.

Given that goal, I was chatting with Claude recently to try and figure things out, and I thought that I might as well publish daily check-ins so that people, hypothetically, would be able to get visibility and insight into my weekend, which does add pressure to me. The goal is to improve and be better, and so I figured that this would help me achieve that goal. It would add some pressure and push me towards the right path. Now, I'm not saying that I shouldn't take the weekend to reset and recharge and recover. Of course, that is pursuant to my goals. I am saying that now, plausibly speaking, as long as I force myself to write these check-ins, just put enough effort to get the first check-in through, and commit verbally, while I am dictating, but you will read this, to daily check-ins in the future, then it will really lock me in because I'm sure somehow this page will get pulled. Maybe from one of my old resumes, which I made 308 redirect to this domain, which now hosts these daily check-ins.

You know, I'm reading these messages back right after dictating, and I think, to preserve the spirit of writing, I will not edit any of the output that I have dictated here. I think it will be interesting to look back upon to see how I spoke or wrote.

moving on

Unfortunately, I managed to get sick over the weekend. This is actually pretty rare. Usually, I just have a pretty bad headache, maybe a stomach ache. Maybe I'm a bit burned out, too stressed, but this time I managed to actually somehow get sick with a sore throat that hurts every time I swallow, some blocked airways, and of course, generally a tired and hazy mind, and my body is heating up. And I feel truly sick, not like bad enough to call out work, but truly sick. So unfortunately, I think I'll have to spend today mainly resting and recovering. I don't even know if I can exercise, which is a convenient excuse, but hey, I will do what is best. I think the goal for Sunday is probably to clean my studio up. It's a little dirty. Eat reasonably, keep up my personal hygiene, and do my Sunday chores so that I'm prepped for next week. And I guess a little bit of studying and building, which I'm sure I'll find time for. I don't know why it feels like 7 p.m. Like, the clock, it says 10:30. I can't believe it. This is one of the slowest moving days ever.