Category: work
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What I’m doing now – October 2024
I’m now a fourth-grade teacher in Shanghai, China. This is a significant career shift from software development that I’m glad to be embracing. At the end of 2023, I found myself on the job hunt unexpectedly. Though I wouldn’t have chosen it, it also served as a period of reflection that I welcomed. During this…
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What I’m doing now (posted 2/1/2024)
Still living in Fort Collins and loving it. Winter is always a great season for productivity and I’m programming at least six days a week. Daily programming usually consists of adding features to my new client platform, small enhancements to other parts of this website, or trying some entirely new tech thing to keep life…
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Why I Almost Bought a Gym
Last year I developed one old belief and one new one. The old one is that it is not necessary to be an employee in exchange for a good life. Good lives are lived in abundance all over the world, especially in the United States. Yet, it remains clear that predictable income through gainful employment…
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My Open-Source Journey Begins
I’ve realized that I’m a very specific type of person. This is the case for all of us, and I believe the process of narrowing down the cohort of people we belong to also assists in determining where we can be most useful. This is a two-way street. If you decide you want to be…
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The Types of Work I Do
I’ve been on a journey to realize my full potential as a young person. I’ve done all the work that you’d think a twenty-something who would make the former statement does. I listen to audio books and tell people I “read”. I pontificate on the meaning of life. I even meditate once a month just…
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Building my Website from Scratch
I’m going to shake things up a little. This post will be a technical overview of the website I recently built from scratch and deployed at spenpo.com. My blog will still come back to introspection, but its purpose has always been to explain the things I do. Creating content is an attempt at teaching. It’s…