Well, I looked into my personal blog after quite a while. I could see few of my posts during past year with a smile and got reminded of the feverish enthusiasm which I experienced at discovery of a new passion in AI/ML during last year. Of course, there had not been any subsequent posts in past 6 months not because I lost steam in my academic pursuit rather it was due to the fact that I had no time for any relaxed actions like blogging off late. No exaggeration intended.
Past 6 months I have been relentlessly studying - sharpening my concept knowledge, revising my course materials and have tried to work on new ML areas which I never tried learning earlier and last not least getting into GenAI learning these days.
One significant development during the past couple of months is getting started on projects with support from Chat GPT. I just completed my 3rd project yesterday. All the three of them explore Time Series - one of my newfound topics in my learning which I finding to be extremely enticing and intoxicating.
With few official priorities, I was unable to dedicate enough time on fine tuning the documentation and GitHub upload yesterday. Today I woke up late quite deliberately as I slept very late last night and sat for documentation as first thing. It took me close to 4 hours to bring it to a shape and after uploading in GitHub I was lying in bed during noon hours with an empty mind experiencing the vacuum which happens at the end of any major milestone. In fact, I had experienced this at the end of two earlier projects too but this time it was too intense. This third project was a spectacular one where I learnt art of using ChatGPT effectively and I was zooming into lot of exploratory initiatives balancing with my time management giving me best out of my experience from various perspectives.
Well, the word Project may mean different things to different people. A simple definition for a person trying it for the first time could be something like this - a project is turning a vague problem into measurable outcome using data. Does that sound ok ? This simple definition may put him with right perspective on how position himself.
If he is still unclear, we can also induce him by saying that a project is a proof that he can think end-to-end and make decisions, not just run codes.
For a casual reviewer, it could be crystal clear story where the problem, method and result are easy to grasp.
A critical reviewer may look at it as evidence for forming judgement.
Being a Project Manager myself for the past 12 years, I have been evolving with my own definition about project at various stages of my career both before becoming a PM and after becoming one. The amusing aspect is that the terminology changes its colors based on my own evolution.
From being a set of planned actions towards a goal with a definite time frame - in my own mind - it moved on to something that manages triple constraints and later evolved as an art & science of managing a cocktail of men, money and methods.
Today, with the kind of the mind frame after completing a nice project, I feel like re-defining it once again. Shall I?
To me, today and this time, a project is a thing that moves us towards our full potential! It can be synonymous to a projectile, something that is thrown or launched and moves through the air outside but - by paradox - helping us to discover ourselves deeply.
After all we find our baseline at the end of every single project and get delighted only when we see that it increased by at least a notch. Yes... A small upgrade at the end of each project makes us climb the mountain of our true potential.
Nothing more........ Nothing Less!!
Regards // Suren
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