I'll be posting random content and thoughts I have periodically. Some things I want to talk about include reading, writing, tech, basketball, sleep, and running - but I'll also write about what comes to mind. No rhyme or reason planned, just my ramblings. You can subscribe below, or just read here!
For the last few weeks, I've been following a training plan from Runna to train for my first marathon in 2025. I'm about 5 weeks into that plan and super happy with it so far. I'll get into some specifics of that Runna plan below, but as someone who works with Large Language Models (LLMs) at my day job - I wanted to see the types of plans AI could generate and compare them.
I'm not going to pretend that I'm even a little bit qualified to write a review on a book that's won a Hugo Award, but I was super impressed by this one! I know I want to talk about / reflect on books I've read more often. After reading The Emperor's Soul, I found myself thinking about its deeper meaning and was inspired to start writing my thoughts. So here it goes!
I slept more than usual in 2024, and I'm proud of it. To give an adequate amount of context for this, I need to go back 6 years. I was in-between jobs and drafted a Career Plan for myself (maybe I'll write about this later!) that involved getting a Master's Degree. Some research, a few jobs and a handful of classes later - I found myself starting a Master of Science in Computer Science Program at Georgia Tech in 2020. I found out a few things early on in the program: