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I'm doing well. How are you?

Sure. So I work in the data and applied, um, AI space. Specifically focused these days on the customer So customer success, customer support, just ensuring that whatever the companies that I am working for or on behalf of are focused on what it is their customers are looking to achieve with their product, and making sure that everything we undertake in terms of development or you know, priorities aligns with that north star of what it is our customers are looking for. Outside of work, I am single, so it's really I'm responsible for myself and my own activities. Responsibilities, hobbies. But I also have a dog who a rescue dog who's been quite a challenge over the last year to I rescued him. He had quite a few issues that we've had to work on. That have been pretty time consuming as well as figuring out how to juggle all the special needs that he might have or, like, times of day that are best for taking him for a walk or, you know, strategies for training and doing practice or training practice. So that's actually taken a surprising amount of time and mental load in terms of everything I have going on. But outside of that, in terms of responsibilities, those are the major ones. I've also got some hobbies that take up my time. But just generally keeping life going. Working with this rescue dog to get him to the other side, and then work responsibilities.

I would say just looking at you know, my vision for what I want for my life and what I want my days to look like and the responsibilities that still exist despite, you know, some of the, like, things you just wanna do. And figuring out how to juggle all of that. So I'm not somebody who really, like, sits around and and relaxes a whole lot. Um, I'm constantly looking to learn new things, learn new hobbies, read articles, stay up to date on current events. Challenge myself, etcetera. And so just figuring out how to juggle all of those pieces like, I've always got going on and and align all of them into a like a working order, I would say, so that I am actually working towards those things and focusing on where I need to focus or where I wanna focus versus just continuing to accumulate, like, a growing backlog or to do list. Of things to do, but then kind of staring at it and being, like, I I don't really know how to fit these things into my day and make sure, like, I've I've got enough time to do them, but also, like, I'm still getting done what absolutely has to get done. Every day.

Yeah. So I keep a track of, like, just classic to dos in my Apple reminders app, I am constantly, like, screenshotting things that I see on social media or on the Internet generally that I wanna revisit. I'm constantly keeping browser tabs open both on my computer as well as on my phone. For articles I wanna read or products I wanna investigate further, or trips I might wanna plan. By email, I have a tendency to if I see something come across, then it's something don't wanna just like open, scam, and close and move on, It's gonna take some time either because I wanna read it and focus on it and digest it. A bit more intently or because it's gonna require some, like, thoughtful action on my part I just have a tendency to leave those on red. So I've just got a lot of stuff. All over the place. It does seem to be digital. Um, I've always kind of leaned digitally. I like recurring reminders and things like that. I like digital to do list. I also keep a lot of Apple Notes. Every once in a while, I will pull out an actual physical journal and ideate on things or, like, write down goals or you know, goals for, let's say, next year. But mostly, it's it's just like digital stuff all over the place, all over both my phone and my laptop. Not really a tablet, but, like, just kinda everywhere.

Yeah. I would say probably if something absolutely has to get done, like, it has to get done today, and it not done yet, that's gonna be priority number 1. I have found that I have a tendency to procrastinate these days a lot more than I used to where if, like, let's say I have a deadline November thirtieth, there might be a task that's due November thirtieth that like, really, could do today, November twentieth, and knock it out and get it off the to do list, but I find myself kind of just waiting until November thirtieth. If it's something that takes a bit more time, I find myself working backwards. From the deadline. So I'm like, okay. Like, it's due November thirtieth, and I think it's gonna take, you know, 4 days of research to do it. So I better start. November 26. So I'm definitely kind of, like, working from deadlines where deadlines exist. Deadlines don't exist, honestly, it's kind of like what do I want to do or what do I feel like doing today, or what causes what is causing me the most stress today? So, like, today, for example, all of a sudden, just was like, I can't stand all this clutter in my house. My house is not very cluttered, but, like, when it starts getting more cluttered than I like, like, the mail has piled up, like, things I need to take action on, I just kind of leave them in a pile until I'm ready to deal with them. Know, I've got, like, hand wash things that I've, like, got drying on the counter that I just kind of have left after they've dried for the last few days. And it was just like, okay. Now I'm gonna take care of all this because it's stressing me out too much. So I would say deadlines, number 1. What's causing me stress, if anything, number 2. And then just kind of like, what do I wanna work on today number 3.

There haven't been too many of that recently. I would say, like, I've mentioned the dog before and some of the, like, complex needs that he has. So 1 of them is actually strangers him, which makes veterinary care very difficult. So there's a whole, like, framework, like, training framework you can do with these dogs who have that that concern. To get them to a place where they are comfortable for veterinary exams. And that is something I definitively need to be working actively on with my dog, and I just have not been able to make myself start it. And I have a actual looming deadline in mid January that, like, we're gonna go to the vet and test this out. And so it's like, I I need to do it. And if I don't do it, then, like, the veterinary exams are gonna continue to be stressful, and, like, that stress actually spills over into the rest of my life. As well. So it's like, I guess that's the implications of not doing it. It's just super stressful, and it's not just stress about the 1 thing. It's stress about like, I'm I'm just like more on edge and stressed about everything. When something like that happens.

So I'm definitely more short-tempered. When I'm in that kind of state of mind. I'm also less patient with things and more unforgiving of myself. So you know, things that like encounters that I might have with people, close to me or even kind of like acquaintances or or even strangers like, out in the neighborhood or on the street, I'm way more likely to read into them in a way or even react in a way that more reactive and I don't wanna say, like, aggressive, but, like, yeah, like, like, kind of defensive and, like, I'm just trying to protect myself and my state of mind It's kind of how I default. And then with myself, definitely, you know, like, if if it's happening because of something, like, I feel like I dropped the ball on, I'm definitely, like, self blaming. Like, this is only happening because you didn't do what you needed to do. Like, this is your fault. And if you could just, like, get focused or get your act together, like, you wouldn't be in this state. So, like, next time, don't let this happen. So I'm, like, definitely self critical. When that happens.

Yeah. So recently, I would say in the last few years, I have been relying on like, the generative AI, like, chat a p a AI offerings like ChatGPT to basically say, like, hey, this is like what I've got going on, like, help. And see what it comes back with, and sometimes it comes back with just like very, like, organized response of, like, okay. You've laid it all out for me. Like, I've digested it and here's what I recommend or, like, here's my perspective on it. And even though I know that's not an...