Starting a Portrait Photography Business
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get my photography side hustle off the ground. My initial assumption was simple: people are always …
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Photography vs Programming: a Minimalist Perspective
As I build my photography side hustle while working full-time as a software engineer, I keep returning to one idea: minimalism. Both fields pull me in …
What Would You Do When You Retire?
We’ve all heard the classic question: “What would you do if you won a million dollars?” It’s a fun daydream, but let’s be honest, most of us know …
LLMs and an old dev
A lot of developers seem to be afraid of generative AI and LLMs because it may replace their jobs. But as an older developer who sometimes has a hard …
Photography in the age of Generative AI
Generative AI has made my job as a software engineer much easier, but it’s also a bit scary. The question everyone is asking is whether AI will …
Parenting is hard
Only when you have the wrong expectations. It is so easy to know what the right action is, but sometimes so hard to do it. Ayden is having a rough …
Die with Zero
This book showed me an alternate perspective I had never even considered. As an immigrant who grew up in a house where being poor and losing it all …
Happy Birthday Zayn
Zayn is five!! He had a great birthday party yesterday. He is so social and so excited about celebrating his birthday at daycare with his school …
Joker
Heartbreaking to watch. The Joker has been my favorite villain for a long time, and what got me here is that they finally showed the human side of …
Oppenheimer
My #1. I grew up reading about these scientists in my textbooks, just names on a page with equations attached to them. Seeing them walk around as …
The Matrix
The first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 17, and when I walked out I genuinely felt like I was in the Matrix, looking at the street, the people, …
The Social Network
Watched it in the theater with friends, which was the perfect way to see it. As a wannabe startup founder and a programmer, I connected with the …
Vivarium
A couple goes house hunting, gets stuck in an endless maze of identical houses, and is handed a baby to raise as the price of ever getting out. I …
Starting a Portrait Photography Business
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get my photography side hustle off the ground. My initial assumption was simple: people are always …
Photography vs Programming: a Minimalist Perspective
As I build my photography side hustle while working full-time as a software engineer, I keep returning to one idea: minimalism. Both fields pull me in …
What Would You Do When You Retire?
We’ve all heard the classic question: “What would you do if you won a million dollars?” It’s a fun daydream, but let’s be honest, most of us know …