Last year I’ve written a little post about things I was up to, what I enjoyed and what helped me. Enjoyed the process and having a way to look back to it, so here is the one for this year.
preamble
Most time last year was either spent studying in the basement of my uni with friends or alternatively being with my girlfriends family in the south of Brazil. It has been a good run and I’m looking forward to what is to come.
As I’m writing this I’m dozens of kilometers away from the next city. Feels right, seems like something to get used to. It’s a good life away from people having to focus on what matters.
favorites of the year
Since most of the year was spent studying or close to nice people I didn’t get to read too much as most other activities seemed more important. But what I read served some meaning.
| category | favourite item of the category |
|---|---|
| author | Saint John |
| book | Operating Systems, Three Easy Pieces |
| song | Construção, Chico Buarque |
| album | Passarim, Jobim |
| artist | Antonío Carlos Jobim |
Play and biography are missing because I didn’t read any.
tech
This year I spent most time with sysadmin things, put some weeks into python & java and some days into C. Which means I still can’t program.
I’ve managed to buy NO thinkpad this year.
stationary
Continue to prefer to write on paper to think and take brain backups whereever I am. Here are some tools that I enjoyed the most doing it with.
| category | item |
|---|---|
| pen | LAMY Lx with black lamy ink |
| pencil | rotring 800 0.7mm |
| notebook | leuchtturm a6 (lined) |
positive influences
- girlfriend + her dad
- Showed the importance of hard work and values.
- dad, erik & lstuma
- Great people to be around of. Could always help to explain topics I struggled with and give inspiration of what to put time into.
- neighbor and old people in the metro
- Had valuable advice that they got in all their decades, hopefully helps me to make smarter decisions in my own life and avoid the same mistakes.
- Johannes Gebert.
- Offered me a job in future computing research, does a good job of teaching me how to work in science and the HPC industry.
favourite communities
Family and friends: I didn’t spend too much time on the Internet, was better that way.
important events
- spent 3.5 Months in Brazil
- got a job
- learned to ride a horse and work with animals (a bit)
- first set of rings in the relationship
In general the life in Brazil is teaching me a lot. Different rhythms, mornings for people, afternoons for work - without a loss of productivity. Just different priorities. I’ll write about it separately when I’m back home in the middle of February.
conclusion
Academically the year was a success, but I do see more and more that it’s not what counts. I should try my best but there are things of more importance. I should continue studying most of the time, but ideally uni is only 70-80% of the total time.
Was once again a useful year, glad about how it went.