Jimar Garcia

I first heard of Rich Roll back in 2013, when I read his book Finding Ultra, which is his amazing story of battling alcoholism and becoming a wildly accomplished endurance athlete, completing 5 Iron Man length triathlons on 5 Hawaiian islands over 7 days (I think he originally tried for

It was my exit interview. I was having dinner with the CEO of the company which I had just quit after only working there for only 9 months. “If you were me Jimar, what would you do?”, I was asked. “I would fire all of the executives,” I responded. It

Working in Professional Services broke me. For years, I have been trained to “maximize utilization”, which is shorthand for maximizing billable hours. As a consultant, I was taught and incentivized to spend as much time as possible billing customers and minimizing the time that wasn’t billable. This works great

Last night, my wife and I sat down to watch Guy’s Chance of a Lifetime, a reality competition show where seven candidates compete for the chance to run their own Chicken Guy! franchise. I love watching most shows on Food Network, and I probably binge watch “Triple D” more

I was recently invited to be the alumni speaker for the commencement of the Master of Computer Science (MCS) and Master of Software Engineering (MSWE) programs for the School of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine. The commencement was on December 10, 2021. When I was writing the speech,

This year, I decided to make a New Year’s Resolution to write and publish on my blog daily. I have always wanted to keep a regular blog. In the times that I have started to keep a blog in the past, I was able to maintain momentum for a