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What I’ve been up to 🌱
I’ve been intentionally prioritizing getting back into a routine and specifically being back in the gym (it also helps when my company is doing a 30-day fitness challenge!). Seeing a very +ROI on energy, sleep, and confidence since 💪
Starting pro-bono life coaching and sharing my journey on my IG. My primary motivations are to 1) learn how to ask better questions, 2) develop a community of people who want to intentionally level up, and 3) validate my “build” mentality by teaching it. More details here if you’re interested
I’ve been learning python. I’ve been taking my first CS class and challenging myself to learn to program. It’s been a big adjustment and difficult at times (coming from a bio background) but I’m very much enjoying the grind :)
What I’ve been thinking/learning about 💭
This month was defined through my exploration of AI - the good, bad, and the ugly. Whether it’s AI-generated images, AI assistants, or even an interior designer or personal mentor chatbot. Just look at how fast it took ChatGPT (my most used site) to reach 100m users. We’re very much approaching the age of AI, but with a few warnings I’m learning about.
I’ve been feeling very grateful this month for my family and actively trying to balance what I do when I’m at home. The tradeoff is always working on stuff or spending time with them. There’s just been a few too many reminders this month of how short life really is.
An ongoing thought is how I should juggle or the extent to which I reveal what my identity will be across varying contexts (eg. with my basketball friends vs on my tech/bio twitter vs with my closest friends). A good friend described herself like an onion with people seeing different layers at different times. Maybe that’s the best way to do it, but am still trying to figure that out.
Lmk if you are (or know someone who is) working on or thinking about the above!
Personal asks 🙏
Hard to believe that it was only 21 days ago when the SVB crash happened. A close friend was personally affected by this as an incoming FTE in SVB Boston/Toronto. If you know of any finance/VC/operator roles, would appreciate any recs for him!
I’m looking to coach 3-5 people for free as the first step in life coaching. If you’re interested, would love to see if there’s a fit :)
If you’re in Markham and know anyone who wants to play basketball, will be organizing a small basketball league/run until June. Reply if interested.
What’s next for me ⚡️
Wrapping up the last month of my 2nd last semester of school in April - very excited to be done to have more time to learn and build.
I will (excitingly) start my coaching sessions next week! I’ve been prompt engineering GPT to teach me everything I need to know about this (and pretty much everything else too).
More learning, more building, and lots more fun - in public. Maybe a comeback of my YouTube channel?
Thanks for reading this month’s update. I would love to hear how I can help you this month (maybe I can make some intros, work through some thoughts with you, or otherwise). See you next month 👋
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