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Cake day: June 8th, 2025

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  • I went to track and field camp one summer for my first time. It was supposed to be a weeklong event, but my mom sent me on the last day. Well, I had never done any of the events before and the last day was when the competitions were. So, they threw me directly into it and I competed, with the competition being the first time I had done any of these events. I came in dead last for all of them. I still remember getting many purple 8th place ribbons just like these. And, I never tried track and field again.












  • I’d rephrase this… trust scientific medicine, but don’t necessarily trust all doctors. Doctors are human and don’t know everything. But, usually the answer exists or can be found through scientific medicine.

    I recently was diagnosed with a somewhat rare disease and it took me a long time to get to a doctor that knew what they were talking about. Until I found them, I’d wait for months to see a specialist and then realize I had learned a lot more than they knew about my particular condition just from reading patient forums and medical papers while I waited.



  • At work, I had to design something for a new software product and realized that if we applied the same approach as our old product we were going to run into major scalability issues. The problem is the whole organization was basically used to the product working this old way. For months, people tried to ignore the scalability issues and push forward with the old approach in the new product. I kept being a pest though and pointing it out. Eventually, I wrote a several page document with data and graphs explaining exactly what the problem was and presented it to other teams. I also did research and found that our competitors were doing it my way, which I attributed to the scalability issues inherent to the problem. This forced everyone to accept the problem and eventually my solution. It was really hard to basically be fighting against a mob mentality and feel like the only sane one. It was also hard because even after the solution was accepted people were still upset about the change. In my view, this was like being angry at the laws of gravity. You can feel that way, but it doesn’t change that they exist and you have to accept them.