They say you will truly excel in something you feel you can do forever — or for free.
Let’s see… Learning something, asking questions, pondering, all-things-music… Can I work as a forever-student professional??!
You see, over the years I’ve tried different fields, professions, occasional unemployments 😅 The pattern? A jack-of-all-trades — master of none. Or, rather, an expert of none.
Now I have new interest - Data Science. The time has come to deepen knowledge in one field. Besides, Data Science does seem versatile enough for my curious nature. But what I’m most excited to see is what concentrated focus can achieve. What will happen? I think even without natural abilities it should yield tangible results.
So here’s the plan:
- Use writing to document progress and explore how it can also reinforce learning. Which answers could be answered with ‘data tools’?
- Show up
- No perfectionism! Better a finished project than an eternally perfect draft.
- Finish three Data Science books from cover to cover. These are not my only resources, but I’m truly interested in what dedicated study in one source can do.
Role Model
It resulted in me realizing that I want a place for freedom and creativity. That’s how this website was born [1 - website creation] — with a few adventures, but at the end of the day (or rather, at the beginning of the next day) it was up and running. Well, not online yet..
..Dear article, there were times you looked like this http://127.0.0.1:4000/blog/fifty-two-sundays-manifest, remember?..
ChatGPT made me more fearless in a way. Before, I wouldn’t have known how to approach certain gaps in my knowledge, but now experiments feel so accessible.
Just try them out and commit. Now, that’s a role model.

I saw this image recently and was amused and inspired by it at the same time.
Here goes.
I find cross-links within articles distracting for reading, so I provide references to related articles here, in case you're interested:
[1] GitHub Pages & Jekyll: How My Website Came to Be