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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 …
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 have 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 wrong expectations. It is so easy to know what is right action but sometimes so hard to do it. Ayden is having rough morning. Well …
What you should do with your life
“What should you do with your life”, this the question I almost ask myself daily. I am still not sure what should be my long-term goals. I …
My heart is growing bigger
Driving to Ayden’s first Monster Jam show earlier this, as AT&T stadium got in our view, he is getting excited. His heart was probably …
Why Midlife Crisis?
I am not sure if women experience midlife crisis but I know several men who have experienced or are still in middle of midlife crisis. I have a theory …
Don't buy the house
We just recently bought a beautiful single family home. Before this, we lived in a townhouse. And before townhouse, I have lived in apartments. Buying …
10 Years Goals
There is a saying that we overestimate how much we can do in days but underestimate how much we can achieve in years. Nothing makes a father as proud …
Digital Minimalism
Just the other day, I happened to skim a blog post, “My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span.” It struck a …
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
“It’s What I Do” by Lynsey Addario is probably in my top 10 favorite books. As someone who always wanted to be a serious …
Be the people that Evan's be
Last year, Ayden got into Minecraft thanks to Evan Storm’s channel. So we bought Minecraft on PS4 and started to play. I preferred to play in …
Can you bring toys back home?
Tonight, I was reading Puss in the Boots bedtime story to Ayden. Story begins with Old Miller dying. Ayden asked me if people die in real life. I am …
Wheels and Engine Sound
Last year, we took Ayden to monster truck show. We didn’t know how loud these trucks can be. So we bought ear protection headphones for him. He …