🚀 Globetrotting and Embracing the Expat Life
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I don't know how you got here, but thank you 🤍. This is the first issue of a series of newsletters that I am going to write once a month.
🔖 Insomnia Readings
✈️ Life
Working in tech and moving abroad from South America to Europe
It’s been half a year since I left my country to start again on the other side of the pond.
I'm in my early 30's and I think I move looking for better economic stability. Leaving the judgment aside, my country it’s not having their best moment (if it ever has it) and I needed a bit of stability. I don’t know, I needed a change. I was living in a really small apartment in a main city without having any plans of moving or growing. I Was struggling to feel motivated to work.
Things that I would check before to relocating again:
- Look for countries that have some kind of tax benefit for digital nomads or for the tech industry. Let’s be honest, I don't come from a rich family, and any money return helps me to get a better place to live and save more money for my future.
- The legal time to switch roles or companies. Well.. currently i think we can say that the tech industry is passing a though time, with all the layoff and recession (my company is failing into layoffs and that make the people working so sad) but it's a really dynamic environment and staying in a company more than 2 years could the wrong decision if you don't grow in your role, so having the freedom to change could be crucial.
- Don’t lie to yourself. I have lived in a huge city all my life, I’m used to the noice, the dust and having a coffee shop available for a long time. I moved to a small city in Ireland to try new things. The place is amazing, less people, a place for being comfy and more but it’s just not for me. I like to be surrounded by the mess.
- I won't use the Bank of Ireland's personal account again. While BOI has amazing customer service, the fees are high and the app is somewhat useless.
Next goals
- Priority my mental wellness
- Start building an emergency fund and a finance plan, even though I do struggle to be consistent.
- Keep growing in my career.
- Stay motivated and be more proactive
- Looking for book clubs
👩💻 Challenges
I’m working on a spending tracking app using Django. I know, there are millions of spending apps out there already. However, I’m looking for experience for now. It’s a django app and I have a single Hetzner server setup with docker compose for now.
Goals
- Release the first version and make it public.
- Make a front end user friendly.
- Add authentication with google or something.
📚 Reading
Being more productive didn't mean I was doing the most important work; it only meant I was reacting to other people's priorities faster.
Since last year I have been looking for ways to be more effective with my time and to be able to optimize the time spent working or on the computer during the day. In this search I found the book: Make Time by Jake and JZ. Both authors worked at some point in their careers at Google and could be said to be time management freaks. I'm going to be honest with my review, there are several tips that I plan to follow and how to prioritize tasks and especially The Might-Do List. But I thought it was a super extreme book and I don't think I can or want to apply most of the advice in the book. Either way, if you're looking for time management ideas, you'll probably like this book.
Have you read this? Are you implementing any advice from the book? Share your thoughts with me on Twitter!.
🐍 Python Puzzle of the Month
You are given a list of posts represented by dictionaries. Each post has the following attributes: 'id', 'title', 'upvotes', 'downvotes', and 'timestamp'. Your task is to implement a function rank_posts(posts) that takes the list of posts as input and returns a list of post IDs sorted based on their score and age. The score of a post is calculated using the following formula:
score = upvotes - downvotes
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