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What Pro Athletes and Career Software Engineers Have in Common
For the modern software engineer, peak performance relies less on raw coding hours and more on high-level decision-making. We must adopt the maintenance and training regimen of a professional athlete to keep our critical thinking sharp.
Work-Life Balance: Investing in Peak Performance
Work-life balance is often mistaken for laziness, but it is actually the critical factor in maintaining the mental and physical capacity required for peak creative performance in technical roles.
Why I Built an AI Assistant
FAQ sections have become information mazes. AI chatbots can eliminate repetitive customer service inquiries while actually doing something useful—like scheduling meetings or pulling specific information instantly.
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What Pro Athletes and Career Software Engineers Have in Common
For the modern software engineer, peak performance relies less on raw coding hours and more on high-level decision-making. We must adopt the maintenance and training regimen of a professional athlete to keep our critical thinking sharp.
Work-Life Balance: Investing in Peak Performance
Work-life balance is often mistaken for laziness, but it is actually the critical factor in maintaining the mental and physical capacity required for peak creative performance in technical roles.
Building a Lightweight Home Network Monitor
How I built a minimal Docker-based network monitoring solution on a Raspberry Pi to diagnose intermittent connection issues with real data—demonstrating hands-on technical problem-solving and purposeful architecture decisions.
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A deep dive into why Guam is losing the Korean tourism market to Vietnam, focusing on the critical hotel price crisis and actionable solutions.
Why I Built an AI Assistant
FAQ sections have become information mazes. AI chatbots can eliminate repetitive customer service inquiries while actually doing something useful—like scheduling meetings or pulling specific information instantly.
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