CoderCorgi Connection: inspiring snapshots for your future selves
CoderCorgi Connection: inspiring snapshots for your future selves

CoderCorgi Connection: inspiring snapshots for your future selves

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Interviews with CoderCorgi about life trajectories, inspirations, authentic aspiring, and more! Disclaimer: I made this podcast for myself, approaching it with intentionally minimal prep, no editing, just record-and-upload — to capture spontaneity and inspiration of the moment, distill the pure fun of podcasting without any extra effort -- /effort/ would make it /work/ ;). "no-effort podcasting"

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Vibes from my writing meditation
MAR 12, 2024
Vibes from my writing meditation
<p>~ originally intended as just a piece of writing, decided to turn it into a podcast ep! ~</p><p><strong>audio intro</strong></p><p>Hi, and welcome back to the CoderCorgi Connection podcast! How are you feeling?</p><p>Right now, I'm standing in my studio, drinking some ginger tea, feeling grateful for life. </p><p>In this episode, I'll be reading something I wrote during a writing meditation last week, held by my favorite writing community <a target="_blank" href="http://Foster.co">Foster.co</a></p><p>We start with a check-in with ourselves, "what am I bringing into this space?", before commencing with the meditation.</p><p><strong>vibes from my writing meditation</strong></p><p>To a friend, I want to say: "Just wanted to say, I love your vibe! Thanks for being in my life."</p><p>Thought: MY PURPOSE ON THIS EARTH IS TO <strong>MAXIMIZE THE VIBES</strong>!</p><p>In each interaction, to elevate the vibe!</p><p>To go up to people in life and say, "Hey I like your vibe, so thought I'd saunter over!"</p><p>To gravitate to the <strong>best vibes in each situation</strong> — to inhabit those vibes, to mirror those vibes~</p><p>To facilitate vibe immersion — with a repertoire of vibes, a reservoir of vibes, with which to draw from!</p><p>===</p><p>In meditation, I breathe in deeply and fill my breath with vibes.</p><p>Feel my beating heart, feel its warmth and its rhythm. Feel how that's part of the vibes I receive and the vibes I express!</p><p>A vibe emerges: </p><p>Make what you want to make! Write what you want to write! Build what you want to build!</p><p>Live with desire, live with passion!</p><p>And in <strong>doing</strong>, express the vibes, inhabit <em>your</em> vibes! "Your purpose is <strong>what you do</strong>."</p><p>Just write, don't stop writing, write out the vibes! I am energy! I am strength! I am love! I am expansiveness! I am surplus! I am alacrity! I am aspiration! I am passion! I am joy! I am aliveness!</p><p>What feels most alive for you in this moment? I <em>am</em> aliveness!</p><p>===</p><p>"Just wanted to say, I love your vibe! Thanks for being in my life! What feels most alive for you in this moment?"</p><p>I want to go down my list of friends, and holding each of them in thought, and with great passion and curiosity and courage, express that to them!</p><p>From a place of love and heart and feeling and good vibes! </p><p>A place of "I care about you and want to bring good feelings into your life!"</p><p>A place of "I care about you and want you to feel fulfilled!"</p><p><strong>Sharing</strong> <em>energy</em> through this expression, lifting up each other's vibes!</p><p>Vibes and aliveness! Vibes and joy! Vibes and love!</p><p>Love — to fall in love with my friends, to fall in love with myself!</p><p>To love myself — is to, in mindfulness, notice and promote the vibes I want to have!</p><p>Vibes! The vibes in our dreams, our individual dreams and our collective visions! </p><p>What's our shared experiences if not a bundle of vibes?</p><p>"I want to feel love, I want to birth strength, I want to feel joy and give thanks." — riffing off of one of my fav vibe songs, Satsang's "Be Love"</p><p>“Language is built on top of vibrations” — <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/1826960-dan-hunt">Dan Hunt</a> </p><p>appendix</p><p>The actual lyrics from Satsang's "Be Love" are even better:</p><p>"<em>I’m gonna be love</em><em>I’m gonna birth strength</em><em>I’m gonna be where I’m at and give thanks</em><em>Take my time, admit when I’m wrong</em><em>Write it all down and sing a new song</em><em>I’m gonna be free, gonna be me</em><em>Cause I know that it's all that I have to be</em><em>I'm a be bold, find strength thereof</em><em>Now I’m gonna be, gonna be</em><em>I’m gonna be Love</em>"</p><p><em>Special thanks to </em><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/1826960-dan-hunt"><em>Dan Hunt</em></a><em> , </em><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/169751667-foster-stewards"><em>Foster Stewards</em></a><em> , and everyone at Foster for inspiring this post and supporting my writing journey! </em></p><p><em>Special thanks to the folks at Wake Up Austin</em> <em>for intro’ing me to Satsang and sanghas!</em></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://codercorgi.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">codercorgi.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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How to Maintain Momentum
JAN 13, 2024
How to Maintain Momentum
<p>* Curated Timestamps</p><p>* 6:25 main podcast ends</p><p>* song (singing ends 8:27), 8:48 quotes, 10:50 asks & offers</p><p>* <strong>Show Notes</strong></p><p>* Interested in private coaching? Schedule a discovery call with me: <a target="_blank" href="http://calendly.com/codercorgi/intro">calendly.com/codercorgi/intro</a></p><p>* I specialize in helping mid-career software engineers land fulfilling roles, but would love to help with other areas as well!</p><p>* <strong>Speaker Notes</strong></p><p>* Welcome back to the CoderCorgi podcast! I'm your host CoderCorgi, and today it's just me.</p><p>* My mission for this podcast is in just a few minutes, leave you feeling inspired. The feeling of not just learning, but internalizing, that deep satisfaction of CANI. </p><p>* This podcast has been about getting people into an inspired state and capturing that essence. I created it from myself being in a slump, a feeling of lostness — and wanted listening to it to be a salve or an antidote for any listeners and myself.</p><p>* Today's topic: Momentum</p><p>* Running through walls — a company's value</p><p>* felt burnt out, running into the wall multiple times — you'll just denting the wall, and eventually you're so tired the wall doesn't even get a dent — the wall's denting me!</p><p>* I could feel dented, broken, traumatized, burnt out, like ragequitting, questioning my self-worth, do I belong.</p><p>* Pool or billiard balls — bounce off walls — todo: resilience & adaptability</p><p>* covers more ground! life → gets more experience</p><p>* The Obstacle Is The Way — it's like we're being issued a quest, on our hero's journey!</p><p>* so how do we make what's in the way <em>on the way</em>?</p><p>* There's this story, where a father with a business empire passes</p><p>* and his lawyer says to claim this inheritance, you have to go to a place</p><p>* and going to that place he's led to another place, until two years has passed, he's traveled across hundreds of countries, med thousands of people, tented in harsh rains, climbed mountains, braved deserts and raging rivers and jungles.</p><p>* and he comes back and goes to the lawyer saying I went to all the places, I've come back to claim my inheritance</p><p>* and the lawyer said your inheritance is the journey</p><p>* your inheritance is the experiences and the person you've become through that journey</p><p>* and now you're ready to lead this business empire</p><p>* Samadhi (the Pathless Path) documentary</p><p>* the path that exists beyond Thought, beyond Self</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/327469-paul-millerd">Paul Millerd</a> 's unrelated book The Pathless Path</p><p>* leaving conventional careers and finding the work <em>that matters to you</em></p><p>* Creating your own path — lots of turns, the path is full of squiggles</p><p>* So for these turns on the path of our lives, not <em>on a detour</em>, we're on the path!</p><p>* <strong>Song</strong></p><p>* Avicii's "The Nights" — beautiful song</p><p>* "live a life you will remember"</p><p>* <strong>Quotes</strong></p><p>* "The arrow doesn't seek the target, the target draws the arrow" — Matthew McConaughey's book Green Lights</p><p>* Lighthouse on mountain & GPS</p><p>* "I’ve heard it said that hell is to meet the person you could have been at death and realize you’re not even a shadow of that person, and that heaven is to meet the person you could have been and to see yourself staring back at you. ... the thing that matters is you have potential and that you do something with that potential." — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fearlessmotivation.com/2019/02/11/this-is-how-you-create-a-life-worth-remembering-tom-bilyeu-speech/#:~:text=%E2%80%99ve%20heard%20it%20said%20that,potential.%20You%20actually%20actuate%20it.">https://www.fearlessmotivation.com/2019/02/11/this-is-how-you-create-a-life-worth-remembering-tom-bilyeu-speech/#:~:text=%E2%80%99ve%20heard%20it%20said%20that,potential.%20You%20actually%20actuate%20it.</a></p><p>* "The Obstacle is the Way" — Ryan Holiday, Stoicism</p><p>* "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal" — Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret</p><p>* <strong>Asks & Offers</strong></p><p>* I launched private coaching a few months ago, specific niche is helping mid-career software engineers land fulfilling roles!</p><p>* <strong>Episode Creation Process</strong></p><p>* Had idea during a run. Expanded upon it + recorded ideas during cold shower.</p><p>* Outline: riding the momentum, outlined the episode.</p><p>* Record: Had a few false starts. Then, zero rehearsals, zero editing, publish!</p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://codercorgi.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">codercorgi.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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