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
- Grew up years of my life in pine hills
- Daycare at Disney
- Started career writing plugins (obsidian, airtable)
- Formerly a material scientist & kitchen designer
- Climber and a dancer
- Founded Tampa Devs
fun facts about myself:
- Expertise in
product sourcing, kitchen design and startup consulting
previous careers
- Grew up years of my life in the hood (pine hills)
- Daycare at Disney
- Started career writing plugins (obsidian, airtable)
- Formerly a material scientist & kitchen designer
- Climber and a dancer
- Founded Tampa Devs
fun facts about myself:
- Grew up years of my life in the hood (pine hills)
- Daycare at Disney
- Started career writing plugins (obsidian, airtable)
- Formerly a material scientist & kitchen designer
- Climber and a dancer
- Founded Tampa Devs
fun facts about myself:
weird facts about myself:
walks of life
- Grew up half my childhood in the hood (crime hills)
- But also watched fireworks growing up (disney)
career
- Started my career writing plugins for YC startups
- But used to be a material scientist & kitchen designer
worldview:
- Did product manufacturing and brokered deals in China
- Lived in Germany and traveled to many parts of the world
fun facts and accomplishments
- Former Aerialist and dance performer, student pilot, competitive video gamer/streamer
- Published in Tampa, FL
- software developer on BDAMAX
- known for giving polarizing presentations
- for entertainment and education purposes
- from Orlando, FL
- like telling stories
- from different worldviews and industry perspectives
- 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
result
- I have different perspectives on many things
- Sometimes I will say loaded sentences sponatenously
- Example: Fire juggling, scuba diving, and flying a plane require the same level of concentration
- it is not for everyone
- can be confusing, shocking, and enlightening all at the same time
fun facts about myself:
I grew up with 6 identities in parallel
- Esports
- Disney
- Hood
- K-12 schooling/college
- Vietnamnese culture
- Chinese culture
fun facts about myself:
...educational schooling
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:
- a story about opening up a restaurant
- portrayed as a shiba inu dog
forewarning
- insightful emotional rollercoaster story (edutainment)
- if you've gone through a lot in life, this might hit hard
all pg13 topics
DALLE4 generated images (g-rated, noncontroversal)
nothing political, religious, or work specific
about the presentation:
Text
forewarning
all pg13 topics
DALLE4 generated images (g-rated, noncontroversal)
nothing political, religious, or work specific
as a result...
- I have really different perspectives
- on just about everything
- I can weave stories
- from seemingly unrelated industries, hobbies, worldviews, and walks of life naturally
- it can be incredibly confusing, shocking and enlightening at the same time
- Example: Fire juggling, scuba diving, and flying a plane requires roughly the same level of concentration
- not for everyone, potential emotional and information overload
as a result...
- I have really different perspectives
- on just about everything
- I can weave stories
- from seemingly unrelated industries, hobbies, worldviews, and walks of life naturally
- it can be incredibly confusing, shocking and enlightening at the same time
- Example: Fire juggling, scuba diving, and flying a plane requires roughly the same level of concentration
- not for everyone, potential emotional and information overload
...
a story of a shiba inu (dog)
opening up a restaurant
and the life lessons he learns
warning:
your worldview might change
disclaimer:
nothing political, religious, or work specific
DALLE4 images (g-rated, non controversal)
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
6 - quarter life in expansion
7 - quarter life crisis
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
- Stepping up
- Becoming a leader
- Marriage
- Raising kid(s)
- Self Mastery
- Stepping down
- Passing the torch
- Divorce
- Letting go
- Self Sabotage
- 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
Learn without boundaries
Emotional based approach
- Culture
Business based approach
- Bottoms up approach (MVP)
- Top down approach (learn existing infra)
- Lateral Approach (bring different industries in mix)
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)