SEWU May 18

 

• relinquish : There are so many things to do in your life or work. You have to prioritize tasks based on the impact or importance. Otherwise you end up completing less important tasks. you have to relinquish less important tasks. 

• make someone do sth: If you want to up your career ladder quickly. you must know how to delegate work to someone else in your team. you should know how to motivate them and make them work for you and themselves. 

• let someone do sth: one of the issue to assign a task to employee is tricky. we needed someone to distribute tasks. it required a lot of interaction between people. it didn't work well. Instead we just create a lot of potential tasks into issue tracking system. just let them choose their next task. it's been working pretty well since then.

• get someone to do sth: if someone ask to me what's the hardest to thing to do? then i would answer. it's get my son to do something that i want him to do.

1. Do you think it's good to make friends online?
   I think it’s good to have. Why not? but it definitely has a different purpose compared to conventional friends. They usually get to know each other for a specific purpose. For example, if you want to join a specific study club online. All these friends have the same purpose. They don’t usually talk about private things much like real friends. I think that is a big difference. but it makes you expand your life boundary much larger. but the depth is less.

2. What are the disadvantages of social networking apps? it literally gets rid of my spare time pretty easily. Once I start using SNS app, time flies. If i review my SNS activities objectively, There are nothing useful scenarios.

3. Why do you use social networking apps? just want to consume latest news/article or something. or find information from the internet. that's it.

4. How often do you use social networking applications? My phone has an ability to track how i use the phone. it shows time spent for each app and each category. for me, it's around 1 hour per day. I must get rid of this time.

SEWU - Apr 27

 explorer

Explorer:
My son is studying periodic table these days. In Korea 주기율표. 
It would be really fun to explore every element on the periodic table. every element on same column share same characteristics. isn't it beautiful?

initiative:
Recently we had to deal with same problem again and again. it costs 30m min per a week to solve the problem. So I think we need a new initiative to tackle this problem. It would be a great someone have an idea on this. please suggest one in your mind without any hesitation.

resilient:
Life is full of surprises and unexpected joy but sometimes you gonna face unforeseen struggle and challenges too. Whenever that happens, the most important attributes you should have is a resilient mind. Never ever give up! 

1. Do you often get up early in the morning? No. I'm not the kind of type early bird. I usually managed to wake up before my son eats breakfast to spend some time with him.

2.       What do you usually do when you get up early? The first thing i would do is wake up my Phone and checking any notifications might be received during the night.

3.       Which morning do you like best in a week?

4.       Is there anything that makes you feel happy lately?

searching houses

I have been searching for a place to live for purchase purposes(for the purpose of purchasing). At first, I searched for a new place to rent. But my wife and I realized that the monthly rent is too high and It's kind of throwaway money. It's literally a waste of money. That's why I'm consider buying a new house. Instead of spending money on rent, make it pay for mortgage and interests. money could be used for mortgage.

Based on online mortgage calculator, the monthly mortgage payment for $550,000 with 20 years armortization period is around $2500, which is my current monthly rent. It means I can buy a $550K house with my rent. If I increase my down payment, then i can buy a more expensive house too. I think it surely justify our home buying plan. 

our criteria are the following:

1. more than 1000 sqft. my wife likes large spaces.
2. commute time to downtown should be within an hour. 
3. a good secondary school for my son.

I've already visited several houses with/without a realtor. The most satisfying home among them is the one in the Burke mountain in Coquitlam. 3bed room town house is around $800K. It's 3 floors and 1500 sqrt. It has side by side(double) garage on the first floor, which I like a lot. It's like my dream home in Canada. but the commute to downtown could be waste of time. It takes around 1.5 hours, which is unacceptable. 

I'm keep looking at online house listing sites and will contact another realtor soon. I hope I can find the right house for our family.

iPhone

 I bought an iPhone for the first time in my life. I'd always wanted it since the first iPhone launched in 2007. Finally one of my wish lists has been marked as done. It's present to myself for 2020. I wanna say to myself: "You did a good job and thank you for your hard work." 

There were several reasons I couldn't buy it when I was working for Samsung. First, I didn't want to get in trouble from company management. There was a rumor that management would make a list who din't use Samsung phone and report it. Second, Samsung is one of the highest security workplaces in Korea. Every gate is secured by metal detectors and x-ray equipment. Every employee's belongings will be scanned and if a detector find something suspicious. Then security guard will scan your belongings once again. Every phone camera should be sealed by a sticker so that it can't take a picture inside the company. but for Samsung phone, if you install MCM software, it will automatically block your camera when you enter the company and  it will be unlocked when you leave. But iPhone couldn't. Samsung phone gave me more convenience at that time. That's why.

I think i will like iPhone a lot. Even though i haven't use it a lot, I think it's pretty decent phone ever in my life. I look forward to seeing a lot of wow factor. There must be a reason a lot of people keep using iPhone. I wanna find why.

survival instinct

After seeing Interstellar movie, one of the quote i can't forget is about the survival instinct. Mann, Matt Damon, was talking about it to Cooper. suddenly He attacked Cooper simply to survive even though he well trained elite astronaut in Earth. 

some quote from the movie:

• a machine doesn't improvise well because you can't program a fear of death. our survival instinct is the single greatest source of the inspiration. 
• You're feeling it, aren't you? the survival instinct. that's what drive me. that's what drives all of us. And It's what's gonna save us.

Also i remember that the mechanism under the fear is to increase the chances of survival. Think about a person without any fear. He will not prepare for upcoming risks and will not be cautious for unknown thing. It definitely has been enhanced chances of survival of all life feeling a fear. 

theses day, It's been happening to me. I wake up at around 5 in the morning to be afraid of the progress of the task I'm doing in the current company. first delivery time is the end of this year. but the requirements are still unclear lots of integrations are required with different teams and there are still unknown areas. Simply I'm much worried about the current progress. 

Handling ambiguity is always difficult to me. Let's see what can be learn from this and how I can handle those. There must be a way to do well.