Working On
- Designing and developing microservices with Azure with a large e-commerce retailer
- Improving my technical writing
- Trying to get better at public speaking via Toastmasters
Listening To
- Sarde
- Joe Pass
- Grant Green
- Curtis Fuller
Songs I Love Currently
- Tico Tico - Grant Green
- Saçlar - Kalben
- I Want You (She’s So Heavy) - The Beatles
- Five Spot After Dark - Curtis Fuller
Watching
- Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3
- The Pitt
- Predictive History
Watched
- Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Volver
- Leila and the Wolves
- Hamnet
- Ila Ayn?
- Tajouje
- Persepolis
Reading
- Crime and Punishment
- For Bread Alone
- Babel
- The Hostage
- Psychology of Money
- Quran
Ongoing
- Playing guitar for at least one hour a day
- Theory learning:
- How to apply triads
- How to play with chord changes
- Autumn Leaves in B Minor
- Songs learned:
- Saçlar
- I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
- Went from 5-6 Diet Cokes per day to 1 per day
- Writing daily in my gratitude journal
- It’s been 4 months since my last Turkish class with my tutor, I need to do my last homework and get back into it, currently at B1 and stagnating
- Went to my three Toastmasters sessions
- Revisiting writing more online, especially adding to this website’s blogs, and LinkedIn posts
- Winter is almost over!
- Last year I was focusing on building, this year I’m focusing on making more business impact