Backlog

Stuff I should get around to writing about eventually. This is mainly for myself, but here you go if you want to know what I think about

In no particular order…

Credit Cards

I did a lot of research lol… Yes I know there’s potential legislation that will kill credit card rewards

• How to use a card
• Maximizing credit rewards

Finanial Concepts

I’m not a crypto bro though I swear

• Stocks / Investing Primer - what is it?
• Investing Philosophies
• How does inflation work? + Fed interest rates and impacts
• Faith of banking / Debt
• Tax (how it works, what is is, how to file them, how to maximize your return)
• Crypto? How it works, but not really
• Tax Advantaged Accounts / Roth / Traditional, 401K, when
• Why does the stock market go up?
• Advanced portfolo management / Roboadvisors
• Picking Stocks, Indices, Funds, Etc
• Risk / Ie. No free lunch

Watches

I’m not fully into the hobby yet, but I know enough for a primer. I’m too broke to get into it haha

• Types of watches (automatic, quartz, hand wound etc)
• Types of watches (chronograph, diver, everyday, dress)
• Types of watches (brand)
• Buying guide? Taking care? Idk

Technical Stuff

• Git
• How to set up a blog
• How set up your personal site
• How React works
• Functional programming vs Object oriented programming
• Maybe a series on how to learn programming
• ChatGPT?
• Translating problems using linear algebra
• Applying statistics into real life

Academics / College / Internships

• Reflecting on my time at UW
• Internship Grind / Mindset
• Imposter syndrome
• Looking retroactively
• Interning in Quant vs Big Tech vs Startup
• ~Facebook~ Meta vs Amazon vs Optiver vs small startup
• Perfection
• Continuing education while working full time?

Work Stuff - Technical

• Writing documents
• Working in Security
• Meeting with other teams, getting past JIRA red tape
• On call / On run
• Time management

Work Related - Non-Technical.

• Watching for signs of burn out
• Problem solving
• Understanding how managers view the relationship
• Senior vs newbie programmers
• Visibility
• Promotion/Independence/First year thoughts?
• If I feel complainy…. just complain about things (anonymously of course)
• Working on something you care about? For money?
• Work life balance?

Health Related

• Gymming (routine, nutrition, supplements?)
• Importance of Sleep (and how I don’t do that enough)
• Volleyball? (rotation?, how I suck?)
• Running (training, 5k, marathon, shoes)

Pokemon Cards

• Modern day pokemon investing
• How to Properly Store / Protect Cards
• Looking at Pokemon Card Gambling TikTok Rings

Random

• Pokemon Breeding (Perfect IVs) - don’t judge, but you can express this as a graph problem
  • I play a game called Pokemmo, and you can actually use this to analyze the market..
• TFT - Ok this one you can judge me on, I’m a nerd
• Fine dining ettiquete / dress code
  • My life goal is for the waiter not to redo my napkin when I leave the table
• Alcohol (wine?)
• Should I keep recipe lists on this site? I’m not sure (or for you readers, it’ll be what NOT to follow since my cooking is kind of bad)
• Vacation / pics / more personal life stuff, ehhh don’t feel strongly since this is public stuff
• Gambling and Game Theory
• EV and applying to real life concepts
• Paradoxes
• Telling a story from basic things
• Fixing a washing machine
• Catching fish and shaving asparagus
• Prisoner’s dilemma and free protein shakes