Habits/Skills - Victor Huynh

First day at my new job approaches

I’ll be starting my new job on the 29th of November, a pretty exciting time.

I don’t think I’ve been working in office since early Covid, so that was around March 2019 I believe, so this could be an awkward yet refreshing experience for me.

I’ve been slowly phasing out some things that I thought were distracting, and I’m excited to learn and apply my skills, and with a pleasant team that I’m working with, I’m definitely more on the excited end than anything.

Other than my ruined sleep schedule, I think I have a good control of my current athletics and exercise routine. Reading has been relatively consistent, and distractions are at an all-time low. I’m on the fence about completely quitting games (I know, I’ve said it in the past again), but there was Group Ironman that pulled me back in for a bit. Right now, the hype has died down quite a bit, and I’m very far ahead when it comes to the boys, so I might be taking it easy for a bit, at least until I get the hang of things at my new job.

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I got hired!

So, after almost 3 months of interviewing, I finally got hired by TD via reference + 2 interviews! Very happy and relieved that this phase is over.

To be honest, even though it was sort of a rash decision to leave my job, I feel like these past 3 months have really given me a lot of insight on how I should lead my life. I’ve done a lot of thinking, especially with what is important to me, and I’ve really come to embrace the philosophy that less is more. I had previously thought that I was doing as little quantifiable things as possible already, but during these few months I’ve realized that it wasn’t necessarily true.

Sure, I was playing “2 games” and “2 sports” while focusing on my health, diet, and reading habits. But in reality, even though they’re objectively just under 10 things, the amount of time that was spread out was significant and skewed. It’s not difficult to believe that people tend to spend time on things that are more enjoyable (i.e. games/sports, as opposed to career or training), and I realized that it was the case for myself as well. The ratios were not as clean and consistent as I’d liked, and I had to make a change for the better if I wanted to achieve greater things.

I think ultimately, 1 sport to truly hone in on is ideal, you can see what golf and baseball did to Michael Jordan for example. Even though he was one of the greatest basketball players of all time, even with his athletic ability, drive and learning skills, there was no chance that he could amount to the people who were already great at that sport — not to mention that his main sport, basketball, had suffered a bit because his body was forced to adapt to these different circumstances.

I feel like people should be the same way and truly mean it. Perhaps it’s a little preachy or hypocritical even, but in this point and time, I don’t really see the point in exploring new hobbies when there are already hobbies that you highly regard and are a part of your identity. Could I live my life without knowing the pleasures of skiing and scuba diving? Probably. Would it be a life changing experience? Possible. But would it become a part of my identity in the long run? Unlikely.

Just some things that I was thinking about that I wanted to express in writing.

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Tri-weekly update

So my friends and I have started this tri-weekly update thing where we get together and talk about what we did in the past 3 weeks and what our future goals would look like. This is kind of like an accountability check and progress check (pretty much a stand-up) in order for us to achieve our goals and keep the progress going. 3 weeks just seemed like a nice midpoint between biweekly and monthly, also to keep you on your toes 🙂 .

This is the 3rd meet-up thus far, and to be honest, probably the worst chunk of time I’ve had compared to the previous two. Have to get back to business.

Reading – average progress, definitely could have been better (1 week slack):
No progress on CTCI lol
Completed Blackthorn Key Book 1
60% progress Blackthorn Key Book 2
Started “A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript” but it seems whatever..

Website/Youtube – having issues with time/resource prioritization
Wrote more blog posts
Decided to put YouTube on the back burner for a bit

Fitness – Plan is to be more consistent (been lacking these past 3 weeks no cap, 50% RPE at BEST)
I think I’m going to make fitness my main source of de-stress/zen time
Current weight: 156 (Goal 160)
Tennis dream more viable, visited the sportings good store in Markham (racquet guys), got some insight/advice from some of the guys working there
Decided to start in spring instead of gearing up right now (very close to buying stuff)

Career – got burned out a bit not gonna lie
Codewars prog: 208 kyu (3 weeks ago was 128)
Bullet journal consistency went down the drain again… SHIT
Started my app again but slacked off a bit in this area as well, probably only put in 3-4 hours… SHIT

Social/Gaming
Still working on minimizing social distractions (left community too lol), can’t help it sometimes tbh
Quitting anime/shows altogether lol, decided it wasn’t going to contribute to the endgame and takes up unnecessary memory
Fixing my YouTube algorithm to reflect this

Endgame build (personal note): Developer / Cook / Athlete / Reader (rejecting all else)