I wish I could devote all of my time to studying, and it is a little frustrating. Also, after I got robbed at gunpoint a while back, I lost my appetite for food, and now that I am eating a lot more, it seems my body isn’t quite used to it. I feel exhausted today, and I didn’t expect it. I also met a girl today, and it’s fitting, given yesterday’s post about distractions. It is really frustrating that I can’t study more, but I must be patient. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
]]>Today was a good day. No more distractions, and the true 100 days starts now. My approach to learning is definitely working, and every day I feel more comfortable with the basics. The book is fun, Dometrain is fun, and I am getting so many reps. I watched Coding Jesus a few times over the last few weeks, and it amazes me that some people go to college for years and retain very little. It makes me feel good knowing that I am establishing a solid base of knowledge and taking my time. I wish I could spend every waking moment studying, but I will be patient. Learning Chinese is on the back burner, but I am still doing my daily pages (not really a journal, more like an offload), daily blogging, daily math work, daily Dual N-Back, daily meditations, daily workouts (Pomodoro breaks), and I will start my dictionary project tomorrow. It will take me years to copy the dictionary, but my learning path is solid. Cheers to a new life.
来来来来~
-奥奥
]]>Progress is too slow right now, and there just isn’t enough time in the day to get done everything I want to get done. I need to create a better routine, and get my head back into the game. I am letting the stress get to me, and that is ultimately a choice I am making. My only solace of the past 2 days is that I have everything set up for the next 100 days.
加油~
-奥奥
]]>My city seems to be growing ever steadily more dangerous as time goes on. People drive like maniacs and will beep at you for slowing for a turn. Someone stole a truck and drove it into an elementary school. America is a dangerous place, but people seem to be losing their minds. Cap that off with about 10 gunshots ringing through the night. Working full time and trying to study as much as I can is enough, but the extra stress is taking its toll a little bit, and I hesitate to admit it. This is why I am doing what I am doing. I want a better, safer life for myself. The only cool thing about today is that I am truly understanding what I am doing, and my multi-layered approach is working. I should appreciate that more, now that I think of it. I can’t let the outside world distract me. Dometrain is going very smoothly, and I know once I start reading the C# Player’s Guide in earnest, I will be well on my way. I definitely still need to get my routine in order, and implement daily meditation.
我需要离开这个地方~
-奥奥
]]>#Thoughts
Everything I am doing is slowly starting to click, but I still need to fully optimize my daily routine. Dometrain is super fun and helpful at this stage, for it is like a video game, and I am a lifelong gamer after all. I also typed at 120 WPM at some point today. My left hand is so much more capable than my right, due to playing guitar, and it amuses me greatly. Left-handed guitarists definitely have an advantage when learning to code, lol. My right pinky and the right side of my hand are actually a little sore. This week should cement my schedule, as I am getting used to working and studying every day. Working for 109 days straight while studying makes every day very full, and I love it. I wish I had time to study more, but I am in this for the long haul. I will start doing quick, intense physical exercises during my Pomodoro breaks, as I don’t have much time to get to the gym right now. I ordered some resistance bands from Amazon, along with a half-circle block for cervical support while lying down. I have been using water bottles, but I wanted something with more resistance. All in all, there is still room for improvement in my daily efficiency.
一步一步~
-奥奥
]]>End of a long week. I like Dometrain so far; it is the perfect supplement to everything else I am doing. I looked at the roadmap today, and I want to shift it into a higher gear. I have no vices besides watching YouTube, and I realize how much more I need to focus, so I am only going to watch it when I am learning. I know the roadmap is almost arbitrary, and I don’t want to rush anything, but I do want to try to accomplish everything with sincerity. I definitely need to take care of my body better next week, and I am planning to work out during the break times of the Pomodoros. Everything is starting to click a little bit, especially with turning off IntelliSense and autocomplete in Dometrain. I need to take more organized notes, but I will address this next week. I am starting to get ideas for software besides video games that I want to create, as my brain loves to create ideas, but I still have so much work to do.
一步一步~
-奥奥
]]>I will sleep like a baby tonight. During this process, I am also working every day until the end of the 109 days, so each day is fully stacked. I need to focus even more so than I already have been, and this includes disabling IntelliSense and every other autocomplete feature in VS Code. I also realize that I can write code by hand on paper, and in this way I will retain the information better. There is no rush, and I will complete another 100 days after this too. I am fully committed and dedicated to becoming a software engineer, and to my other studies. I also want to hit the gym, maybe once a week, so I truly need to optimize every second of my time. I believe tomorrow will be an acceleration of my coding efforts, as my brain has been a little too excited to sleep properly lately. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
-奥奥
]]>Slow down to go fast.
This morning I woke up thinking about when I was learning guitar, and how I would teach someone to play. You have to learn your instrument before you can play music. You learn how to hold it in a relaxed state, and you train each hand individually with no pressure of rhythm or time. You slow down in order to go fast later. With that thought, I realized how much I want to learn this, how I wish I could spend all day studying, and that I need to slow down a little… I finished the Microsoft C# playlist, and I didn’t have it all down. My roadmap includes many, many reps, but ultimately I do not want to form the habit of rushing. I want to take my time to fully grasp each step, each word, each technique, and then move on. I am going to re-teach myself how to type. I can type over 80 WPM, but my technique is flawed. I want perfect technique so there’s less friction in the future. I also want to be one of those devs who can navigate the computer with no mouse. So, I’m going to go through the playlist slowly alongside the documentation, and eventually read the C# Player’s Guide with the docs alongside Dometrain. Reps on reps on reps. Just like when I sat there for hours slowly fretting basic chord shapes until I couldn’t take the pain anymore. The pain goes away, and then you can play music. 慢慢来~
-奥奥
]]>Today was such a busy day, and now every day is, which is great. I had to go shopping and did some cleaning, so I couldn’t study as much as I wanted to. I am also working every day during this period. It is only day 2, but it already feels like more than that. The MS C# Playlist is basically an introduction to the documentation, which is cool. I will definitely come back to the documentation, further along the road. I truly want to master C#, and I am patient. I also understand why people get stuck in tutorial hell; I took lots of notes and manually typed everything, but trying to learn from videos is not my style. All in all, it was a great on-ramp, and I am thankful to have access to so many learning materials. I am looking forward to having my head in a book for a while, and I am excited to start Dometrain soon. Cheers!
-奥奥
]]>Today I learned that numbers in computing need enormous bit depth just to be precise; it instantly made me think about human cognition. Even the greatest genius who ever lived can’t come close to 32-bit resolution, let alone 128-bit. We are profoundly limited compared to the full complexity of reality. The universe is 13.8 billion years old, and no matter how old we become, we will always be a child by comparison. We should be more forgiving of others, and of ourselves. True understanding produces compassion; to truly know someone is to love them.
-奥奥
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