Welcome to my thoughts

Hello! My name is Eric and welcome to my “blog”. I use quotations because I'm not really sure what this is. I think for now my main goal is to write my thoughts and just put them on the internet somewhere. I’ve never really done this before and I don’t really like having an online presence but i’ll consider that this is for the future me. Just to look back on and peek inside my younger self’s mind. I think I have at least somewhat interesting thoughts and my personal interests and hobbies span a plethora of things. To be honest, I think of myself as pretty average but who knows, maybe I just need to start believing in myself a little bit more.

Now that that’s out of the way, I wanted to intro this whole thing with a couple of sections. First, who the heck am I? And second, what am I gonna be writing about here.

Who is Eric?!

Ha! I don’t really wanna divulge my true identity but I’ll mention things characteristically (and tbh if you tried hard enough I bet you could find me somewhere online lol). I used to really like this podcast called The Eavesdrop Podcast - it was hosted by someone named Optic Hecz, a content creator in the esports space. But the thing that I found interesting was how he intro’d all his guests, and that always started with the question “Who are you today?”. So i’ll try to answer that as well.

I’m Eric. By trade I’m a software engineer currently struggling to cope with the onslaught of AI, but outside of that I’m just a guy. I care about my friends and family and try to maintain those meaningful relationships. I’m a coffee snob, a die hard soccer fan, a gamer, a food experimenter, a consumer, a dreamer, a... I guess I’m a lot of things. I thought I could sound cool for a second, but as I tried to answer that question — I really had a hard time answering it. I’m not yet sure if that bothers me, or if it even should, but I sort of wish I had that answer. And maybe writing these posts will help get me there eventually — to the point where I can not only answer that but also all the other forms of it too. “Who was I before” and “Who will I be later”. Anyway, I hope that gave a little bit of glimpse of me, enough to at least let the future me remember how jumbled my brain was in the past. Now for the next part.

What am I gonna write about

Without being too cliche, I was imagining kind of like anything I wanted to lol. But, and maybe you’ll learn this about me as we go, I need things to be organized (I’m a 0 email unread, 0 new notifications kinda person). So I'm definitely planning on creating various sections on this site to keep my brain happy while we do this thing. To preview a few topics though:

• My American-ist view of soccer as a dedicated fan - and through this there will be posts related to my favorite team (its a secret for now until then 🙂)
• AI and how it’s affected my life day to day (in and out of work)
• My bagel making journey as a home chef/baker (I’ve been at it for the past 2 months so far 🥯)
• etc.

Whether or not these are of interest to you, I don’t really care. Like I said before, this is more for me. But if you happen to vibe with me, find my stories interesting, or think my writing is in anyway entertaining, feel free to come along for the ride. I’m trying to do my best to keep things in my natural tone and character of voice because it makes me feel like I'm actually talking and I hope it comes across decently well enough.

Lastly, I am not committing to a schedule of any kind. I just want to write when I feel like it, so you’ll see me when you see me. Other than that, if you made it this far, cheers! Not really sure why you did but you’re here now so whatever I guess.