Weekend Forecast

... life updates and more

It’s been a while since I sent out a weekend and life update article, better late than never. I’ve been working on a few things in life and professionally, and I highly encourage you to do the same.

Being uncomfortable and pushing the bounds for yourself mentally and physically comes with reward, nothing worse than being stagnant. I’m getting old and crumbly and this is becoming more and more attractive (doing nothing).

We should all be trying to do more …

• exercise

• being outside

• learning new things

• reading more

It’s almost Christmas season, throw an old Data Engineer a bone. Your support helps keep this going!

Here is what I’ve been up to…

• spending more time outdoors and traveling with the family.

  • recently did a Boundary Waters canoe trip with friends.

  • spent some time in the Smokies with the family

• trying to bring my value to Data Engineering Central

  • transition towards more of a 50/50 split on paid vs free posts

  • trying out a Podcast to go along with the Newsletters.

• trying to be more consistent on my YouTube channel.

• reading non-fiction books (at least 1-2 a month)

• lifting weights 5 days a week

Some things are going better than others, it takes a lot more effort than you think to keep a weekly pace (at minimum) for the Substack Newsletter. Lots of writing, researching, responding to people, looking for sponsors that come and go like the wind.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to continue to provide more value for the readers of Data Engineering Central. I’m thinking about …

• increasing and expanding the Podcast to do interviews and the like

• offering limited office hours and AMA sessions

• writing another book

• more coding and how-to type content

• more GitHub-style coding problems and exercises

• other things?

Please let me know in the comments what you are interested in, or if you have other ideas.

Anyways, thanks for reading, I appreciate you all following along with my hot takes.