December 15, 2020
Given the state of the world in 2020, I’m grateful to have had the opportunity and capacity to work toward my goals. Here’s a reflection of some of the things I did this year and some things I want to do next year.
I started blogging in late 2019 as a way to document and share learnings from my journey into software engineering. In early 2020, I then dabbled in writing a few code tutorials and discovered I really enjoy writing technical blogs.
Here I am now, with quite a few blogs under my belt this year:
My primary goal in 2020 was to learn how to code and land my first software engineering role. To accomplish this, I set Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). I used my OKRs as a systematic and metric driven way to create an iterative learning plan for myself.
Because of the positive feedback I got from a lot of friends and mentors, I decided to make my OKRs public. I also shared my learning resources in a GitHub repo.
The goal of making my learning plan public was to pay it forward and share my journey with anyone who might be thinking about going down a similar path. To my surprise, I’ve gotten about 300 stars on the GitHub repo. I also received dozens of emails from people who have told me they found the guide useful and adapted it for themselves.
As part of my OKRs, I invested a lot of time in:
In August 2019, I left my job to learn how to code and become a software engineer. In August 2020, I landed my first software engineering role. I am currently a software engineer at FreeWill. I’m happy to be doing something I like while also working at a company with a mission I believe in.
I baked countless loaves of sourdough bread and went through at least two 50 pound bags of flour. That's 100+ pounds of flour!
Of course, I painted bread!
Bread with Pearl Earring
Frida Kahloaf
Bread Kardashian
2020 Quarantine Sourdough Phase
Here are a few things I want to learn more and write about:
I accomplished my 2020 goal:
I’m looking forward to writing more about the things I learn. Thank you for reading my blogs and coming along this journey with me.
Wishing you and yours a safe and happy holiday!