2013 Summary
2014-03-31 13:47:59
Hmm~ o(*￣ ▽ ￣*)o, as expected, I’ve procrastinated until March again. Thumbs up for myself!
The reason behind this is probably the fear of entering the next stage of life. I feel like I won’t officially enter 24 until my birthday.
Another reason is that “The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon” states that a man’s life can be divided into 8-year cycles. When I turned 16, I felt obvious changes in myself. Why didn’t I feel the same this time? Scary.
But turning 24 is inevitable and it has already been several days in the blink of an eye~~~
Gap year
The initial idea roughly came from that amazing post:
“Complete computer programming in one year, complete linear algebra in one week.”
All I can say is, after reading it, I was amazed. It’s incredible that you can do that!
Unfortunately, at that time I had already sold my soul and was extremely broke.
But I always felt dissatisfied and wanted to find an opportunity to take half a year or one year to enjoy myself.
Originally, I planned to start planning at 1.5 years, but I didn’t expect the opportunity to come so soon.
- Boss quit.
- New project manager played office politics (after I left, most of the team left one after another).
- The project was a dead-end, according to “The Mythical Man-Month”.
- Landlord wanted to renovate the house, so he kicked us out…
- Hard-earned money was saved just a little.
At that time, it felt like there was an invisible hand pushing me.
Since it was like this, I decided to go with the flow and firmly rejected continuing to sell my labor at a low price.
Parents
My parents are the old-fashioned type. I mentioned it in my blog before.
So when they learned that I quit my job and didn’t look for another one, they were speechless.
In this aspect, I think I did pretty well.
Once I became independent, I did some things that seemed foolish to them for a while, but I never had an argument with them and I didn’t even mention how they used to beat me up.
According to reason, the Lunar New Year should have been very miserable for me. No wife and no job.
But I ended up staying until the Lantern Festival before leaving, which shocked my sister-in-law.
Cheese is power
Although I’m studying full-time now, unfortunately I have only read about 100 books in the past half year. I’m not very satisfied with that.
But on the other hand, the number of books shouldn’t be used to measure success.
Maybe some people have attained enlightenment after reading a few books, and some people can still succeed without reading books.
Blog
Finally, I set up Github and started writing in markdown.
I started a “ridiculous series” and will slowly write more.
But I found that I have written very little about programming.
Am I really a programmer? (￣ △ ￣)
Although I had doubts, I still managed to convince a child to become my apprentice.
Life
I finally bought an rMBP, so I don’t have to use Ghost system every day anymore (I only started using Xcode now…).
I got a mini from my friend and it feels great. Immediately got an Air and used it for a month. I realized that I mainly focus on reading and don’t play games anymore…
When the iPhone 6 comes out, I will switch to Apple entirely.
I usually watch movies and eat BBQ with my friend, and sunbathe on the balcony while reading.
Finally
There’s always an end, it’s a pity.
Quoting Russell:
“If I had the chance, I would do it all over again.”
2014-01-10 23:32:33
I remember in the previous year’s summary, I said it was the year of my greatest growth. It seems like I will say the same thing this year.
There are some things that I haven’t accomplished, and it’s not enough to rely on a last push to break through by the end of the year.
Looking back at the past two years since graduation, it feels like I’ve lived through it all again.
Of course, the actual process was gradual and linear. If it was sudden, I would probably have a split personality.
The previous me cannot be summed up as foolish.
Perhaps it’s because “The person who knows the way does not speak about it; the one who speaks about it does not know the way.”
Later on, I came across many magical concepts, and I am willing to believe that these things are true.
In my spare time, I reviewed my mind maps and found that most of them were from a year or half a year ago.
I noticed a few points:
- I presented problems without directly finding solutions.
- Some of the learning theories were incorrect or unsuitable for me.
- Unrealistic goals.
- Some milestones have already been achieved (so happy O(∩_∩)O~~).
2013-12-31 23:46:22
What… what happened to the summary???
I messed up again.
The previous to-do list was not completed.
At night, I was studying Ruby on Codecademy. I thought it would soon be the new year and I still hadn’t reached 100%. I got carried away and didn’t even care about the EP. I just kept studying until a moment ago and broke my record, completing 12 pomodoros.
But sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can’t break through. It’s not scientific either.
It is said:
“People who know how to give up do not overly concern themselves with gains and losses. They have broad minds and far-sighted vision…”
Forget it, there is no point in deceiving myself.
I won’t say anything, heartbroken, I’ll go wash up and sleep. Tomorrow, I have to fight for bus tickets…
This is not over, I’ll continue in a few days, the summary will continue.
To Be Continued…
2013-12-20
These few days my head has been hurting. I can see that 2013 is about to end. The past few days I planned to finish up some loose ends, not add more tasks, but now it seems like most of my tasks consist of finishing up.
Especially after my Mac arrived, I got distracted getting familiar with it and wasted two more days.
I quickly listed my to-do list and expelled them from my mind.
- Cultivate true energy.
- Learn Wing Chun: Pak Sao.
- Read more than ten books that I haven’t finished yet.
- ESL.
- This summary.
- Update Blog/about.
Last year’s summary was done in March, but I won’t do the same this year.
Translated by gpt-3.5-turbo