Design Thinking My Goals

Udochi Okeke
6 min readJun 14, 2024

This morning, I texted my friend that the following:

“I have been reading these articles about people who cut out TV and do all these great things and I think “I don’t watch TV, why am I not more productive?”

The articles I am referring to are these:

5 developer certifications and a software developer degree in one year https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-i-got-a-second-degree-and-earned-5-developer-certifications-in-just-one-year-while-working-and-2b902ee291ab

Qualified for Olympic marathon trials and got a PhD in a year http://www.readingeagle.com/ap/article/i-gave-up-tv-then-qualified-for-olympic-marathon-trials-and-got-my-phd&template=mobileart

I then told my friend that I think the problem is that I have not set any goals. I then proceeded to list some things that I would love to accomplish. Those being:

  1. Run a marathon
  2. Learn to cook vegan dishes
  3. Get some programming certifications
  4. Build my software developer project portfolio
  5. Write that urban, African, sci-fi, romance novel I have been thinking about for years

She then proceeded to tell me about Design Thinking. She works at NPR, and shared a podcast they posted recently about how a woman used…

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Udochi Okeke

I am working to translate educational resources to the indigenous language of Igbo. If you can financially support me I sell jewelry at https://olaobi.com