Morning: Up around 8, lounge around for a bit, and bring my laptop to bed. See that a few projects have come in, so I start working on those. No meetings today, yay! Jot down notes for a meeting with my boss next week regarding one of the projects and figure out a plan for the rest later this week. His family friend drops off recent goodies they brought back from a recent trip abroad. Brush my teeth (I really need to get into a habit of doing this each morning), shower, and get dressed. Head out to the sushi buffet at 11:30. His friend is meeting us there.
Afternoon: His friend is running late, and by the time he gets there, I've eaten three huge plates of food -- one overflowing with sushi; another with shrimp tempura, fish katsu, noodles, spicy chicken, and hibachi mushrooms; and a third plate of sushi, fish katsu, noodles, and spicy chicken. Unfortunately, the shrimp tempura is popular and his friend doesn't get a chance to try them. As he eats his first plate, I eat a chocolate fondue marshmallow, some rice krispy treats, and finish off with orange slices which are SO juicy. YUM. To walk off the food, we decide to head to the outlets in one car. At the outlet, I get 6 pairs of socks for $3.57 (from that store which is closing). Then we stop by the Adidas store where he gets a couple of fanny packs, a hat for me, and some "home" shorts for me (too short to wear outside but really comfy to wear at home). His friend doesn't get anything, and we all head back to his friend's boba store to drop him off and grab a couple of drinks. SO gets a mango passion fruit drink, and I get a wintermelon crema. Head back home, take a sip of the crema drink (so delicious), and start working. Finish a project, jot down some notes to go over with my manager, and plan out my day tomorrow. Then read a WSJ article about how Peleton thinks they "might be able to slap a reasonably priced subscription on what was once aspirationally priced hardware."
Evening: Eat a pineapple cake, watch Selling Tampa, and dinner is Japanese chicken curry & rice. While he plays GT7, I read for a bit. Here is what I learn:
- On the gate of prestige: Many desirable things someone wants over the course of a career will be gated by mechanisms that favor applicants with prestigious backgrounds.
- On career longevity:
- The biggest barrier to a multi-decade career is burnout. In order to prevent burnout, you must manage your own pace and look out for your own mental health. Remove the default approach to any situation that fixing the situation is your personal responsibility. Instead, approach work in a way where you set yourself up to do your best work years down the line.
- As you get farther into your career, you get more deliberate about selecting roles to avoid situations that can lead to burnout, have toxic parts associated with the job, or otherwise take a bad turn.
- Learning doesn't just come from doing things, be they old things or new things. Learning also requires time that you specifically carved out to reflect on how you're doing old things, how you're approaching new things, and how you could adjust your future approach. In order to improve, you must have space to reflect.
- What financial independence means: creating flexibility both for you and for the people you love & who depend on you
- On management vs engineering: Management is really interruptive, while great engineering requires blocking out interruptions.
- On why doctors are choosing early retirement: As one doctor said, being a physician isn't what she thought it would be. No one cares how good of a doctor she is, but rather, simply how much revenue she can bring in for her hospital, or alternatively, how much free or donated time she can provide to her employer such as teaching, research, committees, administrative work, etc.
Clothes = $3.57
Spare change found yesterday = $0.30
Total = $3.27
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