Alex on engineering, products & everything in-between
New week, new me, and all that. Some new routines are settling, and the combination of not making plans and a few people returning from leave has left me with time, for the first time in a while. Time I have already…
Reader, this week I am looking at the world through new eyes. Primed by some smaller conversations last weekend, a discussion about classifying cultures connected big dots in my head, and further reading/thinking/talking…
Reader, where did I leave you? Ah. On the train to watch the World Cup. Monday was a holiday, so we pulled an all-nighter and enjoyed watching Spain win, followed by a quest to find a full English breakfast…
On Tuesday the cicadas reawoke, officially marking the start of summer. Both heat and humidity dials are set to “high”: And it’s easier to deal with if you stay outdoors. Between the cracks this weekend I revamped my…
This was a good week for eating Okinawan food and for achieving several huge paperwork wins. I’ve unlocked a whole new world of being fiscally responsible. Received a few nice voice notes via my sister who bumped into…
This week I’ve been thinking about career paths, about how to quantify and measure things and social capital. Oh and the humidity has been rising fast. Re-established my gym routine, equipped with a new (and much…
Big week. Got mostly good news. Made some principled decisions. Graduated to a retainer. For my first non-technical post on this blog, I published a short speech in Japanese called “The Same Hobby”. There’s a story…
As part of a recent language programme, I was asked to give a short speech in Japanese. I'm finding it quite challenging to learn, so this was a golden opportunity to talk about something else it is teaching me. Setup…
Most of my time this week went into goal-setting and on learning Japanese. On goal-setting: This was both attending training, and writing/reviewing goals for my department. Nearly there. On learning Japanese: I have…
To set the scene: Last weekend I lost my voice, and then on Monday I woke up feeling totally ill. Maybe it was change of seasons, maybe it was the typhoon, or, maybe it was just not taking a break since in months…