(outside of GTM Engineering @ Gorgias)
Last updated on Jan 26, 2025. Inspired by Derek Sivers.
Building shit in ops
I know I know, this is work related, but after having been a CSM for my entire 4 post-grad working years, I recently made a career transition into the Ops side of the business as a GTM Engineer - it’s a big deal for me!
What this has meant though, is many long days and late nights learning the inner workings of our Modern Data Stack and quickly ramping up in the role to actually be able to provide value.
With the rise in availability and access to low code tools, open API’s, and AI over the past few years, I’ve been itching to start building things both out of personal interest, and for work. What better way than to get paid doing it?
Fitness
After years of battling, I finally joined the 1000lb club with a 405 deadlift, 245 bench, and 355 squat (1005lbs)! That being said, the deadlift was with a strap on my left hand because of an injury, and I wasn’t super happy with the depth of my squat. I won’t be fully satisfied until I hit the deadlift raw, and squat 365 ATG…
My good friend/coworker Rory managed to convince me to run a full marathon with him in Norway this summer. So, until June 21st, my training will look quite different. My main two goals for this marathon are to finish in 3h30 and maintain my current weight throughout prep.
I’ll still also be doing 1 calisthenics session per week and working towards a planche & lever. I can comfortably hit ~3 ring muscle ups now 😌. My long-term, and I mean long-term, cali goal is to be able to hold an Iron Cross for 5 seconds.
Learning Portuguese
Well, this has suddenly become much more of a priority for me because I’m getting married in Brazil in 2026! When I visited Brazil for the first time in 2023, many of my fiancé's friends and family understood a good amount of English, so I wasn’t forced to speak Portuguese as much as I thought. For our wedding though, I’ll 100% be doing my wedding speeches and vows in Portuguese. Sorry mom, I’ll brush up on my Farsi afterwards.
I’ll still be following Nathanial Drew’s Portuguese resources & learning methodology but will probably get a real teacher or join a class. Unfortunately just listening to Brazilian funk music and 10 minutes of Duolingo each day hasn’t cut it, lol.
Migrating Good UX
This has kind of hit the back burner and probably doesn’t deserve to be on this page, but I still am planning on on migrating Good UX to another CMS. I have so many more examples I’ve curated but haven’t added them since that page is getting almost unloadable. It’s become too limiting & difficult to host that in Notion + Super. I might migrate my entire site if I like the tool I end up choosing enough.