Hello World

As technology continues to reshape the world around us, I often find myself imagining what if the world could be formatted back to its original state? Like wiping a hard drive clean, returning to the starting point, but this time with all the knowledge we’ve gathered.In the tech world, two words always stand out to me: Hello world.
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It’s simple, yet powerful. A greeting from a blank screen. A symbol of new beginnings. It represents the original form, full of infinite possibilities. But to me, it also feels like a reset button, one that brings something back to life.

It made me wonder: is there a reset button for us as human beings?
Maybe there is. But pressing it takes courage. And the older we get, the harder it becomes. Life grows heavier as family, bills, loans, daily responsibilities. These things matter, but they also become reasons we hold ourselves back. They turn into excuses. Then doubts. And eventually, regrets.

I felt all of that after I left my full-time job last year. It was my first time resigning from something steady. But I knew I needed space. Space to feed my curiosity. Space to learn.

Taking the first step was hard. I doubted myself. I found excuses to delay. But eventually, I jumped in starting with stock investment and AI machine learning. It was confusing at first, and I made plenty of mistakes. But slowly, I started to understand. I built skills in options trading, stock investing, prompt engineering, and even trained my own AI model.

It turned out to be a meaningful career break. Not just to rest, but to grow. To keep learning, even while relocating back to a place I hadn’t lived in for over 20 years.

A month ago, I took on another challenge, one that had lingered in the back of my mind for years: coding.
People often say, “Designers don’t need to code.” For a while, I believed that too. But the more I worked in product and UX, the more I saw the truth. Without understanding development, I couldn’t be a full-stack designer. I couldn’t fully bring my ideas to life. I couldn’t collaborate with developers effectively or hand off work smoothly.

More importantly, I wanted to bridge the gap between design and development. That “in-between” where things often get lost. That place where good ideas get stuck.

I’m still a beginner. I make mistakes. But I’m proud that I faced that fear and started anyway. It’s not easy, especially when I’m already juggling work as a UX and product designer, graphic designer, videographer, and illustrator.

But it feels like a new beginning. Like I’ve hit format on my career, and now I get to restart with intention. There’s still so much I don’t know. But there’s also excitement. And possibilities.

Uncertainty will always be there.
But so will I.
Still learning. Still growing.
Still saying,
Hello world.