Michael's Blog

Now

Updated August 2025. More on /now pages.

Relationships

Preparing documents for my wedding this October. My high school friends and I have decided to catch up every now and then, I meet them at least twice a year since 2021. I'll be meeting them again at August's end.

Health

I stopped doing weights because my back hurts whenever I lift. I walk when I run my errands.

Self-improvement

I'm learning programming through TOP. I'm also investing some of my time on how to communicate better. In my practice, I'm taking leverage of my interns by reiterating the fundamentals in optometry through its application in the retail set up.

Decluttering my digital life

I should have full control of my devices, not the other way around.

One of my ways to not be addicted to all these doomscroll apps is to log out from these platforms and manually log in every time I want to use them.

I had forgotten most of my passwords already so I installed a password manager called BitWarden. If you don't have one yet, get one. Here's why.

Before, I would reuse my passwords for all of my accounts, adding a few tweaks at the end of them depending on the site's password requirements. With BitWarden, I don't need to remember all of them. Just the one for the app.