I Stopped Studying

There’s a reason why I haven’t posted anything to my blog in over a month: I stopped studying.

There’s a good reason why: I had to focus on various checkups for my health. These checkups I ignored for a good number of years, even though I got email after email about setting up an appointment. Why did I do that? Because I felt fine. Like many people if I wasn’t sick there wasn’t a need to go to the doctor. Yes, I go to the eye doctor and dentist regularly because I do need glasses, and I have a chronic dental condition requiring care. Yet, visiting my PCP or woman doctor wasn’t a priority for me. That changed in June.

I decided to go to the doctors during my birthday week in July because I promised my mom I would come home to celebrate my birthday. Thus, I called all the doctors and made appointments as all of my doctors are still in my hometown. (I’ve seen them for years and don’t want to change them.)

Then I scheduled off time from work to handle all of this.

I took my Grokking Algorithms books to read while on vacation, but I only read it a little.

While I brought my laptop to do some coding, I wrote a few lines.

At the end of July I stopped studying completely.

August came and I had follow-up doctor appointments to attend. In addition, work became busy. Google Deepmind continues to drop new features to Gemini each week or two, which causes us Data Center Technicians to work more to deliver the TPUs needed to meet demand. As my workload continues to ramp up, my energy to study declines.

Now it’s the middle September as I write this post and I still haven’t restarted studying. I want to, but I’m not sure what to study. I am unsure because I have some interesting stuff happening with me at work. Nothing I want to delve into now because I’m not sure how everything will pan out. If things go well, and I do a great job, I may have a new career goal. It’s not that I want to give up becoming a Software Engineer, but I can’t discount a new role that could work out better for me.

So my plan for the rest of 2025 is to keep up my productivity at work, and do well in the new tasks happening also in my work life.