Maturity

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🐈‍⬛ Life

Hi friend! How’s the week going for you? It’s still pretty difficult for me right now. I think what gets me is how 30 minutes can change so much. Tbh I’m still not sure where I’m even going to live. I feel like the nature of my content is going to change too. During hard times, I think some people find comfort in what is familiar, but for me, I have to make changes or else I would just do this:

There’s something that an amazing friend told me. You have the choice to channel the emotions and pain you feel in many different ways. You can channel it into sadness and longing for the past. You can channel it into avoidance. You can channel it into hatred. Or you can channel it into improving yourself. The last one is hella hard because you have to accept what happened, introspect, admit your mistakes, and then actually change yourself. I think I’m finally mature enough to do the last thing. It’s gonna be HELLA painful but I have faith that this will all be worth it. ❤️

(๑*ᗜ*) Anime

I watched a little bit of New Game! this week. It’s about a high school graduate who starts working on a game series as a character designer. This is a slice-of-life anime that follows her and her team as they create a new installment of a series called Faries Story 3. The characters are definitely…interesting. It’s a nice lighthearted anime but it’s nothing particularly spectacular.

What I did find interesting though is how it depicts Japanese work culture. I’ve heard about how brutal the work culture is but through this anime, you learn a bit more about the mindset (or grindset lol). It’s normal to stay overnight at the office and the satisfaction from completing a project is supposed to be enough to justify the overwork.

📖 Books

I’ve been writing more than I've been reading this week. I finished Attached and 13 Things That Mentally Strong People Don’t Do. Except for that, I’ve been focused on writing out all the thoughts that keep swirling around in my head. It’s been helpful when emotions get too intense. Sometimes I think that things are okay but then suddenly it feels like the rug is pulled out from under me again and I burst into tears in public lol.

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🌻 Learning & Productivity

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👨‍💻 What I’m Learning

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💻 Today’s coding challenge (SQL/Python)

🎁 Currently active Meta question!

The CMO is interested in understanding how the sales of different product families are affected by promotional campaigns. To do so, for each of the available product families, show the total number of units sold, as well as the percentage of units sold that had a valid promotion among the total units sold. A promotion is valid if it's not empty and it's contained inside the promotions table.

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-Tina