I am not sure if this is the normal season for flower blooming but here they are.
2021-12-20
2021-12-15
2021-12-13
Featured on the Fresco gallery
Today I received a notification about my fifth and my first motion graphics featured on the Fresco gallery (the top left one at this moment). I am not sure how they picked these and that is not my favorite one but I guess that is how things work in the world (like paper reviews don’t tend to match my predictions).
Later, I asked Oscar the head curator who referred me to this medium post and this Behance blog about their curation process.
2021-12-05
GitHub server maintenance
While chasing down a mysterious bug on a Sunday morning I realized that our “GitHub Enterprise administrators are performing scheduled maintenance”, so I went out later in the day feeling better work-life balance.
Thank you Todd! 🙂
2021-12-01
Sinkhole tasks
Certain activities tend to drag me in and hard to get out, such as debugging and prototyping. To avoid crowding out other tasks, I try to schedule these sinkholes later in the day and start with these that I might skip over.
This is an orthogonal dimension with respect to the importance x urgency matrix.
2021-11-21
Random encounter of a photography collection in a physical bookstore
Physical, especially boutique, bookstores are a rare species nowadays, and I am glad to walk into one today and serendipitously browsed Impossible is Nothing: China’s Theater of Consumerism.
2021-11-19
Waiting area after vaccination
Flu shot in one arm
Covid booster another
Still little I felt
2021-11-18
Butterfly effect of small initial unbalance
Part of my body is now made of titanium.
Despite the discipline and care I have maintained, there will always be random deviations that started small but eventually amplified to visible unbalances.
Fortunately, this particular issue could be resolved via mechanical instead of biochemical means.
But something will get me eventually, as nobody lives forever.
2021-11-15
The downside of globalization
Listened to this podcast today, which highlighted the importance of help transitioning those left behind by technological and economical upheavals for social and political benefits.