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 …
It is so hard to choose
Ayden deciding his career: “There are so many cool job, I want to be fireman, goalie, dad, police officer, monster truck driver.”
Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results: A Reflection on Human Nature and Trading Strategies
It’s both intriguing and somewhat disheartening to observe how trading concepts often mirror human behavior. Here’s how: Follow the Trend …
Zygo: Finally listen to everything while swimming
I love swimming but it is hard to swim for more than 30 mins, not because I get tired but because it gets boring. I had been looking for headphones …
How to find the other end of deck drains?
In our backyard lay a series of deck drains that perennially harbored standing water. Despite my best efforts, tracing the end of these drains proved …
How to Advance in Your Career as an IC
Interesting post and discussion at Hacker News about advancing as an Individual Contributor. Still debating which way to go. …
American flag is better than Texas flag
Ayden: Baba, American flag is better than Texas flag. Me: How come? Ayden: Because it has more stars!
Every day is a vacation
I think a lot of people would love to live their life as if they are on a permanent vacation. Before I was married, I didn’t make a lot of money …
Heroes
Follow up to my last post, the people I admire the most are usually startup founders or business people. And then creators of open source software. …
What you should do with your life
“What should you do with your life?” This is the question I almost ask myself daily. I am still not sure what my long-term goals should …
My heart is growing bigger
Driving to Ayden’s first Monster Jam show, as the AT&T Stadium came into view, he was getting excited. His heart was probably beating …