I decided to try to resurrect this blog again. The biggest hurdle isn’t getting started, it's finishing a post; finally having it good enough. I’ve started several posts over the past few years, but never finished. Realizing this though, the knowledge I may never publish starts to becomes an impedance to starting. I’ll try to overcome that through high-level outlining and shorter posts, breaking things up if necessary.
On the way home from work yesterday, I decided I wanted to do more reflective writing. To me this means: Looking at my life, deciding what I want to do or change, coming up with a plan if possible, and documenting it. There is something about writing that I think makes reflection more deliberate and effectual. Without it, I think a train of thought can become interrupted and trail off without any resolution. I used to do this often in college but haven’t done much of in the past 15 years. This post serves as a public version of it.
I also decided I wanted to focus on trying to do three things on a regular basis: Learn, Do, and Write
I feel like I’ve done well with learning. I’ve completed a lot of MOOC courses (I recommend starting with Learning How To Learn on Coursera) and reading (currently reading Thinking, Fast and Slow
) but I’d like to continue and increase this.
) but I’d like to continue and increase this.
“Do” more or less means projects, mostly software, but it could be some sort of hobby building or community service. I’ve started but abandoned a few things. I will probably pick a couple of them back up, specifically an engine for the board game Sorry that I can develop AI / Machine Learning players to simulate against each other as well as a machine learning approach to playing Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. Ultimately, I’d like to do something that is more widely beneficial but this will be a start.
Lastly writing is a way to share what I learn and do, as well as accomplish my goal of more reflective writing. Again, this blog provides an avenue to do such.
Some things I might post about soon include:
- Things I like about my new house
- My new job and commute
- Plan and progress on my personal software projects
Thanks for reading
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