Salt bae itu orang ngapak kan?.

Dualipa contender: dialupa.

Met 2 people for “networking” today. Felt productive, but also tired. They’re reputable design leaders in their own regards, but I still feel empty. Not their fault, just me and my thoughts.

Every time I hear “agentic” either:. 👉 a kitten dies, or.👉 a mosquito is born (a jentik nyamuk, see?).

RT @dvassallo: We want everyone back to the office!. The office:.

What does it mean to be a designer?

Singapore is hot but god bless bus and MRT aircons.

I almost gave up on myself.

I know everyone’s supposed to be excited about AI but I am not, I am not even excited about anything anymore.

Classical music to cure brainrot.

Paling hemat untuk LLM chat itu emang Gemini kayaknya, karena kalau gue udah bundling sama Google Workspace (personal email). ChatGPT emang lebih oke tapi additional fee. Tapi Claude so far jawabannya paling cocok tapi terbatas kuota.

Hampir pasti pulang ke Indonesia untuk sementara waktu setelah dilayoff bulan Februari 2025. Kalau ada temen-temen yang mau kolaborasi, atau ada lowongan di Indonesia, atau bantu-bantu untuk UX di timnya, saya terbuka, ya.

It's amazing how fast you can write to a person you feel comfortable and have psychological safety with, in this case it's my ex-boss who was probably one of the best, if not the best.

Minggu ini anxious banget karena:.1. Ditolak perusahaan yang pengen banget join, tapi in hindsight, it's probably a blessing.2. Nyiapin deck presentasi buat take home test sistem kebut sehari.3. Presentasi 1,5 jam on the said deck.4. Kurang tidur.

Just so tired this week.

Just saw the career path for a classroom teacher in Singapore. It is so well-defined.

After having 3 days of back-to-back job interviews, today is a free day. I can rest a bit.

Day 36 after layoff. Things are still kinda vague. Equal proportion of hope and anxiety everyday. Feeling validated at one time, then crushed another time. In the spirit of being proactive for my wellbeing, I have decided to go for life (ontological) coaching.

Portugal, 2023

Lost my job again. Laid off. 😔. Joining the candidate pool once again!.