"There's a way to do it better - find it."
Hi there, and welcome to my digital garden a.k.a DOAvC!
This is where you will find my freely formatted and unfiltered thoughts. I hope you're ready, because I think will be a wild ride.
My goals here are:
- Start documenting (and observer while accepting) the hectic thoughts and insights I have during the week while reading, listening to podcasts or talking to people;
- Make sense of things outside of my own head and hopefully hear/learn from others;
- And, lastly, learn to better structure my thoughts for myself and others so I can improve my communication skills.
But why am I doing this?
Ever since I started learning to vibe code (yes, I see it as a skill!) around February of 2025, I developed what I can only describe as an obsession with understanding AI and technology in general.
Back then, I was also recovering from a burnout and an ACL surgery (what a year! and I mean it in all possible senses) which forced me to revaluate life and truly make some serious decisions about how I wanted to live life. Funnily enough, as soon as I started 2025, I had decided this would be the Year of Intention, meaning I would not live on auto-pilot anymore and I would live mays with intention and make decisions that truly mattered to me, or as much as I could.
Long story short: I started vibe coding, got obsessed with it (still am), and realized I knew nothing about it: coding, AI, technology, you name it...
But, for the first time in forever, I felt fulfilled because I could build an app - or almost - how I imagined. I was always an idea person, always had many, always thought they were incredible, but never acted on them and never felt brave enough to share it in public. I was too scared to even try it, if you never try it, you never fail at it, right?! We both know it's wrong (:
I guess that was my turning point. And that was when I started kinda learning to code and never stopped. It's been 9 months - no pun intended - and this is my baby. After several messy notebooks, notes on my phone(s), messages to myself on whatsapp and some confidence deploying things on vercel, using github and whatnow...here we are!
My pledge (to myself):
I promise to treat this like my notebook, to make as much sense as I do with my notes and to share what I can on a regular basis.
This means I will work hard to go back to my centre, so I can allow for my introspection time, where the magic happens!