What I've Been Up To Lately
What I've Been Up To Lately
A project wrapped up and I had a bit of a gap before the next one. I've never been the type to just let time drift by, so I spent it doing whatever I could to level up professionally. Training sessions, seminars — I kept busy.
Recently, I started thinking about what I could do that would actually help the company, so I built an onboarding guide in Notion. The idea was to help new hires get up to speed on project workflows quickly. Once I got into it, I ended up creating a project schedule management template too. These kinds of things pay off over and over once you build them right.
I'm also building a phishing email training system right now — with help from OpenClaw and AI, of course. I'll write a separate post about that later, but it lets me design phishing email scenarios, send them out, and track the results. The whole process of building it has been pretty fun.
It's only February and I've already read 5 books. I got a Palma 2 e-reader as a birthday gift last year, and it really kicked my reading into gear. Once I start a novel, I end up flipping through at least a few pages before bed — that's the power of fiction.
I also got into vibe coding with help from my boyfriend, who's a developer. This blog was actually built that way too. As a non-developer, the experience of working with code directly has been more fun than I expected. I don't understand everything perfectly, but there's something great about the feeling that I can build what I want.
I've also started preparing for the ISMS-P auditor certification exam. Starting this year, the system switched to relative grading — only 100 out of 2,000 applicants will pass. It's a lot of pressure, honestly. I signed up for Risium's (라이지움) online course and I'm studying whenever I can, planning to document the process on the blog too. I wrote about that in a separate post.
Looking back, AI was part of almost everything I did during this gap. The blog, the phishing email system, the government notice monitoring bot — all built with AI assistance. Things I would have dismissed as "that's a developer's job" before, I'm now doing myself. That feels kind of surreal. Of course, AI doesn't do everything — I still need to know what I want to build and how it should be structured. But the distance between having an idea and actually making it happen has shrunk dramatically. I really feel like the way I work has changed.
There's so much interesting stuff in the world and so much I want to learn. And there are so many people around me who give me good energy and inspiration. Looking back at last year, I think I kept really busy — but this year I want to be twice as busy, with things that are twice as meaningful. I really want to do great work on whatever consulting projects come my way this year.
It's funny how the older I get, the list of things I want to do doesn't shrink — it only grows.