life

I have many conflicting thoughts that I -- as a data engineer, a consultant, a member of society, a friend to some, and husband to one -- am going to try to articulate throughout the course of this post. I will do my best to organise my thoughts throughout this piece in way that at least helps me formalise how I am currently feeling about my long-term future in data and software engineering over the last two years of using AI to various degrees.

Years ago, I was looking through old photo collections of my youth. Despite the happiness on my face, the people smiling around me, there something missing, my father.

The dozens of predictions that economists have been making over the last two years centers around this idea that once everything returns to a certain level of normal - probably better to use safe instead of normal but I'm sure we all agree normal means something different than it used to - consumers are going to start splurging on all the money they have been saving up. Personally, even if this turns out to be the case eventually, I think this saga of our lives really has given us enjoyment in the little things.