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Learning goals for the Q4 2020

This year’s been a blur! I completed a couple of Salesforce certifications, but it took way more time that it should have.

Here are the learning goals I have set for myself for this coming quarter

Sometimes your value is deemed and judged by others

Platform app builder

This one is easy as I have done the learning part and revision. All I need is the voucher and I can go take this up. It is still important though, since it’ll help kickstart my Salesforce architect path.

Even though I have done a lot of solutioning for processes that need to be built on the platform, the certification can actually prove to the universe that I know what I know. Without it the first few weeks or days are spent in proving my worth, which is really tiring.

Certified Sharing and Visibility Designer

In Salesforce ecosystem you need a bunch of certifications and you get an Application Architect certificate. Sharing and Visibility designer is one of those, along with Data Architecture and Management Designer, Platform App Builder (mentioned above) and Platform Developer I.

Sharing one and Data architect one are going to be tricky as we are really going into depths of knowledge here, but I honestly believe I can clear these if I focus my mind and get down to it.

Platform Developer I is something that scares me a bit as I have never tried to write APEX, though I can read the code and make sense of it.

Javascript basics

I have been working with developers using Javascript for ages, but never made an effort to learn it. That is on me. That said, now feels like a great time to correct that mistake. I’ve enrolled in a Udemy course and hopefully I’ll at least know the basics by the end of it.

Practical knowledge would take more time and I’m yet to chart out a roadmap for that as yet. I’ll take it up in Q1 2021 I think.

balu

September 18, 2020

Learn

certification, development, learning, Salesforce
Day 5: Strokes

My brain thinks faster than my hands can follow. At least that has been my justification for my bad hand writing for a while.

I already decided to write slow and with more intent, but it just didn’t feel right no matter how hard I tried. Solution is to get the basics right. With each single stroke.

When we learned how to write, we were learning the letters of the alphabet. Learning how to write neatly came much later. I remember the hours and days of summer vacation I lost to cursive handwriting. Now I must do the same, but for blackletters.

To excel at Blackletters aka Gothic style, I need to be better at the basic strokes that form the basis of each letter. I found the right set of instructions, but even following this has been an uphill struggle.

Consistency has been elusive, but I don’t plan to give in as yet.

balu

May 3, 2019

Calligraphy

blackletter, calligraphy
Day 4: A great luxury

Do you take time out to enjoy a sunset any more? Most of the time we don’t even have a good view of the sun as it goes across the horizon. If you do, would you let such a view pass?

Mostly, I feel that those with the luxury, don’t appreciate it enough. Those who do not have this view, may not realize what they are missing. So will you please take 15 minutes out tomorrow to watch the sun set?

balu

March 30, 2019

Photography

Photography, Sunset, Travel
Day 3: Back to basics

Fashion is cyclical and I feel so is our writing. We have gone from pictographic script to runes, to decorative alphabets to minimalist web fonts and then back to pictographic with emojis.
Is it time to bring back the runes?

I was fascinated with them after reading Lord of The Rings when I was in school and at some point I completely forgot about it. I don’t see runes used anywhere these days except as as old school reference. Will this style ever make a practical comeback? After all it’s the only script you can write in all caps without giving the reader an impression they are being shouted at.

balu

March 29, 2019

Calligraphy

art, calligraphy, handwriting
Day 2: First words

I decided not to tire myself immedietly and perfect each letter. After all this has to be art. What if I approached each word or phrase and treated them as individuals?

This is how I would write my name

I tried this style when I was in school and I keep revisiting it now and then. I haven’t seen any font of this typography. I wonder why.

balu

March 28, 2019

Calligraphy

art, calligraphy, handwriting
Day 1: We got to start somewhere

I never had a great handwriting and always envied those who could write well. These days I barely write anything and when I do it’s barely legible.

The solution

Instead of trying to improve my general handwriting, I will try learning to write again. This time I will do it not with an intent to write fast, but to write slow and beautifully.

balu

March 27, 2019

Calligraphy

art, calligraphy, handwriting

Learning goals for the Q4 2020

Platform app builder

Certified Sharing and Visibility Designer

Javascript basics

Day 5: Strokes

Day 4: A great luxury

Day 3: Back to basics

Day 2: First words

Day 1: We got to start somewhere

The solution