September the Steady

Hello everyone!

I’m finally employed! It lowkey feels good to have an external authority plan out 50% of my time - takes a lot of the decision paralysis out of my day. Now, for the million-dollar question: What do I actually do? I’m an Outbound SDR, which is a fancy way of saying that I cold call hundreds of people a day. Those annoying spam calls? It might just be me.

Just kidding, I only call construction workers. But if any of y’all are working at a site right now… can I get your digits 👀?

People are really out here doing the most random stuff. My friend took me outdoor bouldering the other day. We were out till 11 pm on a Friday with our headlamps and crash pads, surrounded by a pitch-black forest. I thought to myself, “Gee, two years ago I would’ve been lining up for a club right about now. A normal ass Friday.” Who could’ve imagined that people were just climbing some damn rocks instead? I certainly did not.

Latest Happenings

• Backpacking Garibaldi Park: 27lbs of stuff. 45km hiked. ~30 mosquito bites. 1 ex-Bain consultant on the mountain who literally didn’t know how to filter water until we helped her. The sunset at the summit of Panorama Ridge was fucking priceless. So much processed, packaged food though.

• Raging at Black Myth Wukong: I played 10 hours of this game the week it came out. Even my mom had heard about the cultural impact of this game, and this is the lady who used to turn off the wifi at night. Got boring quick though. Trailer here.

• Going for walks with friends: This is slowly becoming my favorite type of hangout - cheap, effective, and healthy! Good shit.

Content for Consumption

• Two minutes, 10 life hacks. Watch a Singaporean man with a heavy-ass accent talk to his camera here. Is he speaking facts?

• Every word in Wolf Tify’s Quit Your Job is masterfully written. If you have thirty minutes to digest this essay (which, let’s be honest - you probably don’t), it will change your worldview. Don’t let the title scare you because it raises much more than that cliché.

• Trending worldwide - Scott Galloway’s brave TED talk on how our generation is getting straight robbed.

Hou’s Hacks

• Free monies: $550 dollars! This is the best offer I’ve seen in all my years tracking deals.

  • All you need to do is open a No Fee Chequing account with Simplii & add a direct deposit. After three months, you’ll get $500 + $50 for my referral. Zero impact on your credit score.

• 12ft.io: Nifty tool to bypass paywall for most online news sources. NYT, New Yorker, etc. Use by: “12ft.io/[ARTICLE LINK]”

• Vancouver International Film Festival Tickets: $10 for a seat at their cozy VIFF theatre. Replaying classics such as Jurassic Park, Nope, and Tron Legacy! They didn’t check my “student” status. Heh.

Joint Ventures

1. If anyone’s been to South America, especially Brazil, Chile, Argentina, or Belize - please lend me your brain for 15 minutes.

2. Looking for 3 people to start a book club. Every month we’ll meet up for 90 minutes and share what we’ve read. Serious. 3:1 Non-fiction to fiction ratio. DM me.

Thanks for reading, loving the email replies!