sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2013: Hacking my motivation for workouts — There was a recent Lifehack.org post on tying something you love to workouts so that you feel more motivated. It’s [...]
• 2012: Tweaking my introduction, focusing on sketchnotes — One of the things I like about meetups is the opportunity to test introductions. With all the different things I [...]
• 2011: Rails: Exporting data from specific tables into fixtures — Rails is pretty darn amazing. There are plenty of gems (Ruby packages) that provide additional functionality. They’re like Drupal modules, [...]
• 2010: A letter to my 8-year-old self — Dear 8-year-old Sacha, You might not believe me, but your interest in computers will lead to making lots of good friends. [...]
• 2009: Putting together an inspiration board — I asked one of my assistants to track down envelope images for the sewing patterns I have, and to send [...]
• 2009: Yes, I work at a big company — Sara Morgan e-mailed me to ask if I could tell any stories about self-employment for inclusion in her upcoming book, [...]
• 2008: Gen Y Growing Up: My first chat with a financial planner — Another milestone! Today, I consulted a financial planner for the first time. I’d been meaning to find a financial planner [...]
• 2008: Kaizen Presentations: Web 2.0 and the University — I’m still buzzing from the first client teleconference presentation I made. I gave a brief overview of Web 2.0 and [...]
• 2007: Money management for the next stage in your life — I attended a personal finance seminar by Ellen Roseman, a Toronto Star columnist and University of Toronto alumna. I’ll write [...]
• 2007: Week past, week next — Last week was a week of thresholds. I’ve started doing my usability tests, and I’m not going to stop until I [...]
• 2005: Structuring content — What do I write about that other people might find useful/interesting? Emacs-related stuff Personal information management and productivity ShortStories and FlashFiction Teaching reflections (haven’t [...]
• 2005: Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals — My Big, Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) are: Revolutionize computer science education by making it highly individualized and experiential. Become a [...]
• 2003: planner-el is now apt-gettable! — After I ran dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz dpkg-scansources . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Sources.gz in my ~/notebook/emacs/planner directory [...]