Row 0: What's Your Dream?
“People’s dreams have no end!”
What’s your dream?
Mine is simple. I want to do all of the things I want to do without having to give any of them up.
If that sounds a bit insane, we might not have caught up in a while. Otherwise, you might know that my “normal” consists of months where I travel every weekend for a different convention while working as a full-time engineer finishing a master’s degree, crafting together freebies the night before and documenting parts of the journey on LinkedIn for fun.
I had a glimpse of this dream life last year during what I’ve called my “adult sabbatical”, which was a lot less “change the world” and more “work alongside my own brain instead of against it.” To me, this meant finding a better way to manage a brain that runs seventeen parallel tracks. More on this later.
Most of the advice I’ve gotten about success was some version of “pick one thing.” You’re spreading yourself too thin. You can’t do all of it. And sometimes, that may be true, but it’s never stopped me from trying.
It’s also times like this when I appreciate my loved ones and therapist who try their best to follow my racing train of thought, especially after I realized how many trains were happening simultaneously.
This year, I finally found a way to channel the chaos into something that actually works. I’ve always embraced the insanity, but there’s a difference between embracing it and making things actually work, and now I’m hoping to share some of those creations with the rest of the world.
So, it might be time for a reintroduction.
I’m an engineer and full time data gremlin who’s graduating soon with my master’s in Business Analytics. I'm addicted to automating things and hoarding data on anything that piques my interest and a total dopamine addict. I’m a home maximalist and an artificer who loves figuring out ways to create every kind of product possible. I’ve been an unashamed nerd, anime watcher and gamer since I could read and love shoving those interests into as many projects as possible as a way to learn, grow, and have fun along the way.
This newsletter is the extended cut of everything that doesn’t fit in a LinkedIn post because wow 3000 characters is shorter than you might think. It turns out I actually like writing when I find the topics interesting! I definitely have a backlog of thoughts and projects to share.
Over the next few issues, I’m going to walk you through my first mega project that’s consumed my life in the first half of the year, starting with why existing tools kept failing me, how I created a hamster system that actually works, and how you might build your own version if your brain also refuses to pick just one thing.
And maybe, I might be able to inspire you to achieve your own dreams along the way.
What’s your dream?
Coming up next: AI Agents for the Rest of Us, or How I Operate My Life with the Help of 17+ Hamsters