Vincent Tang
Fullstack Developer and cohost of CodeChefs
story of restaurants
- software developer on BDAMAX
- from Orlando, FL
- like telling stories
- table of contents
- background
- story
background.
and fun facts about myself:
- Grew up going to pine hills
- Grew up near Disney
I grew up in many environments
- Grew up in esports/
video games/mmos
- Grew up travelling abroad
- software developer on BDAMAX
- known for giving polarizing presentations
- about things you may have not yet realized
- from Orlando, FL
- like telling stories
- from different worldviews and industry perspectives
- became an material scientist
- became a kitchen designer
...later in life
- became an aerial acrobatic performer
- became a community organizer
tldr
- It's not for everyone
- can be too much to handle
- saw and did many unique things
- handled a lot of unique problems
- had to make sense of it on my own
- I find stories of things I can relate to, whether real or fiction
- I make up my own explainations of how I see the world
- Example: Fire juggling, scuba diving, and flying a plane require the same level of concentration
presentation.
a story of a shiba inu (dog)
opening up a restaurant
and the life lessons he learns
DALLE4 generated images (g-rated, noncontroversal)
nothing political, religious, or work specific
about the presentation:
...
0 - you
1 - life growing up
2 - schooling
3 - eighth life crisis
4 - quarter life idea
5 - quarter life in action
6 - quarter life in expansion
7 - quarter life crisis
8 - quarter life tenacity
9 - quarter life success
10 - midlife crisis
...it was not your dream
college best friend's dream
family dream
american dream
you were too much in the moment to realize it
11 - The decision
grow it
sell it
grow it
sell it
12 - Selling the business
who you were
who you are now
10 years ago
now
...you repeated the same mistake again
...because you didn't know any better
...but now you do
13 - internal reflection
...opening up a restaurant
...is just a metaphor to major life challenges
- Stepping down
- Breaking Relationships
- Letting go
- Unlearning
- Self Sabotage
- Stepping up
- Building Relationships
- New experiences
- Learning
- Self Mastery & Preservation
- its okay not to be understood
- be compassionate and patient with yourself
- its the journey not the destination
lessons you learn in life at some point
- no timeline
- no social media
- no expectations
be who you want to be
not what others think
you should/need to be*
*core work hours being the exception
~End
this is all a work of fiction
bottoms up MVP
- Friends
- Catering
- Commisary Kitchen
- Work in a restaurant
- Restaurant Equipment
- Managerial operational manuals
- Work with a kitchen designer
Top down approach
Your specialization
- The food culture you grew up and know well, passed down from generations
- Your unique skillsets (interior designing, branding, business-level automation, creative fusion food design)
Lateral approach
story of restaurants
a story of restaurants
By Vincent Tang
a story of restaurants
A story about opening a restaurant portrayed as a Shiba Inu
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