Category: Guitar
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YouTube Review: “My Guitar Teacher TOMO FUJITA Gives Words of Wisdom”
I recently watched a YouTube video titled “My Guitar Teacher TOMO FUJITA Gives Words of Wisdom”. In this video (below), YouTuber Mary Spender interviews Tomo Fujita, a guitar instructor who taught at Berkelee school of music for over 20 years; he takes his years of accumulated knowledge and shares some words of wisdom. From this…
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Daily Review: Day Ending in 2020/10/15
Family Difficult time comforting Jess when she’s upset. It’s insane but it’s so easy for me to gently console other people (like friends or even strangers) when they are upset but I find it incredibly difficult to do the same for Jess. The words just don’t come out. It’s difficult to put into words why…
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Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/31
Yesterday Most interesting part of yesterday was a 1 on 1 video Chime chat that my co-worker scheduled with me. What started off with me stepping through our code base (for a set of features I added to the dataplane) morphed into a lengthy discussion around mental health and burning out and the idea of…
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Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/30
Yesterday Writing Wrote and published an article on Time Management Tip #1: Pomodoro Technique. How I use the technique and how I’ve adjusted it to fit my needs. Music Had my bi-weekly virtual guitar lesson with Jared. This was the first lesson back, after he took a 1.5 month sabbatical, a vacation he deserves and…
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Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/08/30
Writing Developed a manageable cadence of blogging a single blog post every day, most of them daily reviews or notes taken during advanced operating systems Writing the daily reviews (each entry eats up about 15 minutes of my morning) help me not only plant my two feet in the ground and settle for the day,…
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Daily Review – 2020/08/26
What’s your chief aim for today Write and publish one piece on this blog Review Inbox and Important projects sitting in OmniFocus (this was a miss yesterday) Put in 1 hour study session before and after work for advanced operating systems (seems unlikely since I woke up at 05:00 instead of 04:30 and made the…
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Daily Review – 2020/08/25
What’s your chief aim for today Recover from waking up from 03:00 AM from being woken up from operational issue Write and publish one piece on this blog Review Inbox and Important projects sitting in OmniFocus Put in 1 hour study session before and after work for advanced operating systems Chip away at writing one-pager…
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Fear is a Guide
While driving to my tennis lesson, I listened to Jared’s (my guitar instructor) video on “Fear is a Guide” and I must say that I love the new direction he is taking on his YouTube channel. He was previously focusing on delivering guitar lessons. Now, he’s honing on what is important to him including song…
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Guitar practice journal #1
Today I practiced my guitar for 20 minutes, a generous amount of time these days (if you are parent you’ll understand). During this practice session, I worked ear training: I looped the song The Funeral (Band of Horses) on my iPhone and played along, plucking the individuals notes in chord progression on my Traveler’s acoustic…
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Top 6 photos from first family photo shoot
Below are my top 6 photos I cherry picked from our first family photo shoot that took place a couple weeks ago. As some of you my already know, my daughter Elliott was born recently, on October 3rd (2019). And shortly after, my wife had arranged for a professional photographer — Stephanie BC — to…