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#+title: 2021-06-09

I've been feeling unmotivated lately, perhaps due to my recent loss as well as
working on the same project for so long.

* What makes me feel motivated?
- Teaching
  + Pairing with Eric has been great
  + Mentoring Alex has been as well
- Designing systems and release plans
  + Very proud of User Management. Simple design, complex migration and release
    plan.
- Studying and applying programming paradigms
  + Polishing the monad library, focusing on completing async Result to provide
    concise pipelining.
* Lingering TODOs
- Talk on [[id:5cb1f706-0162-4e6d-9cd8-dc6af3ae68cc][Python Types]]
- Talk on [[id:df5b2861-3838-409d-b4e4-fce7f302f778][my work setup]] (Emacs, note taking, git client, etc.)
- Setting up a concise framework for HTTP API services based on our current
  cookie-cutter. Not as exciting as some things, but still at least interesting.
- Starting up a fortnightly seminar covering SICP and other texts / topics for
  anyone interested.