In the numerous teaching/software/writing jobs I have worked with, I have encountered several life-changing learning experiences. These experiences pushed me into situations to provide an optimal service for my customers, fellow developers, and “students” alike. …

During my undergrad, I was privileged to be one of the students who enjoyed the Inverted Classroom Approach. This approach involved watching a 20–30 minute video at our own time, accompanied by in-class lectures that focused on doing practical exercises. This learning style for me was vastly helpful (although it…

Back in 2019 at a Christmas Party, I met a new friend who seemed pretty important with my spiritual journey. We ended that evening talking about power. This Medium post is dedicated to him. In the realm of any human interaction, there are inevitable power struggles. We might not know…

I previously discussed the issue with a lot of non-fiction books. My years of visiting the bookstore/library resulted in a set of techniques to filter the right books to borrow, read or even purchase. Read One Chapter or Check out A Summary Open the table of the contents. Pick the…

RECENT UPDATES — February 15, 2021 : Rewritten sections for conciseness and better wording The yearly Canadian Computing Competition held by the University of Waterloo contains five programming questions offered to grade 11 or 12 students. All students are required to code user input handling, relevant computations and display of…

you can’t “unlearn” bad behavior, you replace them with “learned” good behavior. A comment wrote by me summarizing my life challenges trying to be a more effective person. …

During my youth and university years, I held the belief that some of the teachers, professors and instructors I met was underqualified for their positions. What I absolutely detested was when teachers had bad attitudes and were hostile/moody/negative against their students. Other reasons were for incompetence such as doing the…

When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Canada, I had lost about 10 pounds from 190 pounds into 180 pounds using some of the strategies previously mentioned and here. Knowing that the pandemic would force me in a situation to stay home everyday for some time, I believed that the lockdown…

I started therapy in the fall of 2014, during my 16-month internship year. I had two goals. First, to deal with the stressful events during my childhood, and teenage years. Second, to resolve some of the issues I had with my current adult life. I was hoping that, after I’ve…