2 years ago I made a list of 10 goals for the next two years:
It’s now a few months away from being those two years and I’m so proud to say that I reached all the goals I had made for myself. A lot of them were not in the ways I thought I would, but I have absolutely succeeded. It’s time for a new set, but first let’s look at how I met each of these in the past two years.
This was probably my biggest goal, and definitely the one that I most definitely succeeded in. I have the absolute best job at Explosion, the makers of spaCy and Prodigy. I work on machine learning and community outreach and cool projects, and I’m learning so much and creating good quality work. My coworkers are the most wonderful people and I feel so grateful and awed to be working with them. I couldn’t be more certain that we are one of the best NLP/ML companies out there.
This one is arguably the one I struggled with the most, and maybe still haven’t reached to the extent that I wanted to. However, I still have read a lot in the past 2 years, and am continually working on making it an integral part of my daily routine. There have been several time stretched when I have done really well, and several where it’s fallen off the radar.
I am a somewhat coffee master 👩🍳. Well, kind of. I can make a really good pour over IMO, and my French Press is pretty decent too. I’ve learned a lot about what I like in a bean and grind, ratios and all that. I definitely still very very very much love coffee, and I’ve only gone slightly broke because of it.
I haven’t recently been able to see too many sunsets and sunrises, it’s not as easy as it was in San Diego. But, I do find many quiet moments in the week and have definitely gotten better at sitting still and enjoying a nugget of time. Coffee has helped with that, or sitting and getting a drink at Cosmic Coffee, or even writing or reading.
Although Austin was somewhat short lived and I’m back with my parents now, I definitely did this. I’m excited to continue that freedom journey and move officially to Berlin.