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When I realized my biggest gap wasn't technical — what an outside review showed me
Approaching a career change at 27, I asked someone outside my circle to do a gap analysis on me. The most important line in the report wasn't about new skills or certifications. It was about turning the experience I already had into transferable knowledge, and seeing my own thinking habits more clearly. A reflection on the gap mid-career engineers most often miss.
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An Objective Self-Portrait — Five Strengths, Five Weaknesses
Subjective intro is on the profile page. Here is the third-party fact-based view: five strengths and five weaknesses with evidence, plus what I am improving.
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Claude for life, not just work — 18 patterns for writing, career, emotions, and daily tasks
Claude is powerful in non-technical domains too. Here are 18 ready-to-paste prompt patterns for writing, career decisions, emotional support, and everyday tasks — with a developer's real-life examples of each.
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Don't Bring Motivation to Work — Deliver Consistent Results Through Systems, Like Brushing Your Teeth
Motivation-driven action inevitably burns out. Understanding how self-preservation instincts block change, and how systematizing actions like brushing teeth enables consistent output regardless of mood.
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Get to Know Teppei Suyama in 5 Minutes — A Guide to This Site
A navigation map for first-time visitors to quickly understand who Teppei Suyama is — career, dreams, philosophy, side projects, and the shortest routes to each section of this homepage.
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What Money Really Is — Connecting People
An essay on what money really is. Money has no inherent value; it pays for human labor. With Zimbabwe hyperinflation, an engineer view on why value attaches.
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"No Effort Goes Unrewarded" — How the Concept of Accumulating Luck Changed My Work
I used to believe some efforts are wasted. A single book changed my definition of effort: time spent for others accumulates as luck. Here's how this shift transformed my approach as an engineer.
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Janet's Law — How to Counter Time Feeling Shorter as You Age
Janet's Law: why each year feels shorter as we age. Countermeasures using new experiences and continuous learning — stretching subjective time as an engineer.