5. The New Formula

A busy week in general with a lot of possitivities. Here’s to many more weeks like this one!

What have I been upto last week?

Last week was a very productive week. I started working on some tasks related to bluetooth. This is the first time I’ve ever worked on a bluetooth related feature. Unfortunately, the task is at it’s last stage. However, I could still grasp some concepts. I’m planning to somehow invest time in learning the technology.

There were some fun things happened at work, specially something called a zoom-play-session. The whole team did a virtual play session to let off some steam and it was really nice. I decided to have a casual chat with my chat-roulette partner without being a chicken about it.

Apart from that, I started reading new concepts about C++ to make sure that I have latest information on the language. I still need to learn a lot. I need to slowly but consistently learn the language.

How is everything else?

This week I started a weekly learning schedule. There are so many technologies that I need to learn and there are a lot of new knowledge I need to gather related to my current work. I keep on switching from one topic to another without spending some quality time learning it. Therefore, I decided to take it on in a disciplined manner.

I’m going to focus on C++, AWS and my blog for 4 months.

Blog is where I am going to invest in learning something random. However, it will be one topic until I come up with a quality blog post. These days I’m working on a blog post which talks about the design pattern state pattern. I’m enjoying the learning process and I’m planning take time in preparing the blog post. I hope this formula would be benificial in the long term.

What am I reading?

I finally finished reading the book ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’. It’s the second book that I’ve read about financial intelligence. The first one was ‘Barefoot Investor 2017’, because I wanted to learn how the system works here in Australia. I learned a lot from these two books and I’d recommend them to anyone who wants to learn about how money works.

This is embarassing! because it is still the same two books, - Sapiens, A brief history of humankind - The English Spy

Any good TV shows or movies?

I watched a movie called “Freedom Writers” and got very emotional. It’s the sad reality in some part of the world and I feel that I’m lucky to not have any such issues during my childhood.

Any new learnings?

Basic vocabulary in Bluetooth and I digged a bit deep into C++ iostream library throughout the week.

Backlog

  1. Build a simple radio - Lame level 10

That’s a week!

-Pradeepa