My Way of Logging Life

How a project manager keeps records

I work as a Project Manager.

My job involves organizing schedules, spotting issues, and aligning different opinions to produce a single result. Perhaps because of this, I often find myself thinking in a similar way during my daily life.

I write down what I want to do, and then I execute it. If the results differ from expectations, I look back at the reasons and think about what to change next time. Many days don't go as planned, but through that process, I am gradually building my own standards.

I started this blog to capture those experiences.

I share what I learn while working, the trial and error I go through during projects, and the things I deliberate on while building new services. I also document more personal stories, like places I discover during trips, food that left an impression, and thoughts that came to mind on those days.

Each topic may seem different, but in the end, they are all things I have experienced firsthand.

The process, not the success story

I don't want to only leave neat success stories. I want to honestly log why plans fell through, the parts that were harder than expected, and choices that seemed like the best at the time but turned out to be regrettable later.

Logging experiences ensures they don't simply fade away.

It allows me to look back on what decisions I made under which circumstances, and helps me make slightly better judgments when facing similar problems. If my thoughts change over time, that evolution itself becomes another record.

Where I want to go

In the long run, my goal is to run a company I started myself and grow it into a business valued at over $1 million.

It's still in the beginning stages, and there are many details to define. So rather than just showing a finished outcome, I plan to leave the process of heading toward the goal. I will consistently document what I tried, what went wrong, and what I changed next.

This blog is not a space for grand success stories.

It is closer to a personal project notebook to avoid forgetting the things I experienced in work and life. It is enough if it is a record that lets me understand my thoughts and choices when I read it again later.

Rather than starting after being perfectly prepared, I plan to record things one by one starting now.

What has piled up since (November 2026)

When I wrote this in February, it was the only post on the blog. Since then I've passed the PMP, and posts about travel, restaurants and lunch breaks by the Han River have piled up. They're now gathered into topic hubs, so start wherever interests you.

• PMP & Project Management: how I passed the PMP in seven weeks, from the application to PDUs afterwards
• Working and Building with AI: what a PM learned building products with AI coding tools
• Career & Onboarding: the onboarding series, and the day a scholarship student became a mentor
• Travel: Europe 2023, Jakarta and Bali 2024, Mexico 2025
• Where I Eat: from Yongsan lunches to old market spots
• Seoul Days & Running: lunch breaks by the river, night runs on Namsan

Things I built

I said I'd write about “building new services”. Those services are live, and you can try them.

• First Run: an onboarding RPG that turns a new hire's first weeks into quests. Why I built it is in the onboarding series.
• AttractiveWebAI: paste a URL and get the site's structure as an IA spreadsheet. What building it taught me is in how to doubt the quality of AI-written code.
• Which Chiikawa character are you? and the Chiikawa PM-type quiz: three-minute personality quizzes.