About
Juan F. Lam
Juan Lam is a storyteller and creative technologist born in Miami, Florida. He works across various mediums to forge experiences of wonder and moments of magic. His interests include virtual experiences, interactive media, novels and stories, and above all: swords, robots, and lasers.
As a student, Juan studies creative writing and mixed reality technologies to create interactive experiences. As a storyteller, he writes fun, hopeful, and exciting stories through every medium he can. As a human, he procrastinates very much on doing all of the above.
📊 Stats
Projects & Tracking
Using Notion, I keep track of everything about an ongoing project: hours spent, what skills are involved, and their overall progress using objectives. As a result, I have a robust amount of data concerning how my skills, projects, and time is distributed. This helps me keep an eye on how I'm spending my time. Plus, I like data! All stats are relatively rough estimates -- it's just for fun, after all.
| Skill | Time Spent | Progress to "Pretty Good" |
|---|---|---|
| 👾 Game Dev | 478 hours | |
| ✒️ Writing (traditional modes) | 230 hours | |
| ⌨️ Web Dev | 207 hours | |
| 🤖 3D Art (Modeling, Animation, Painting) | 124 hours | |
| 🎬 VFX | 40 hours |
| Category | Projects | Time Spent |
|---|---|---|
| 📑 Short Story | 33 | 89 hours |
| 🕹️ Interactive Experience | 10 | 494 hours |
| 📒 Essay or Blog | 9 | 13 hours |
| 💻 Web App | 8 | 221 hours |
| 📖 Longform Writing | 7 | 101 hours |
Juan has spent 1094 hours working on 79 projects, and has written ~149764 words (so far).
📖 Quest Journal
Goals & Quests
I plan my life very loosely -- I look no further than 3 months ahead at a time (a season) and I give myself deadlines only begrudgingly, to make sure I'm somewhat focused. To make things more fun, I've developed a simple "productivity" system. Every season, roughly a financial quarter's worth of time, I give myself "Quests", which you can explore below!
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Q1 2023
Quests
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2023
Quests
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Epic Quests
Quests
⚒️ Workbench
Projects In Progress
Everything ultimately revolves around projects for me, so here you can check out a few of the projects I'm working on right now!
Web App
A supplementary update to the V3 update. Not a full overhaul, but a feature drop!
⌛86 Hours Spent
Interactive Experience
A game where you are a Cuban refugee escaping on a boat in a search for freedom.
⌛70 Hours Spent
Short Story
Story about a man’s night out in Miami
⌛3 Hours Spent
This Site
This website is my little spot on the Internet. It's a repository of my thoughts, my stories, and the things that I find wonderful. The primary purpose of this site, besides serving as a resume, a project log, and a blog, is to house my stories. My philosophy concerning sharing my work is simple: I do it for free. The reason for that is partly selfish. I realized that my writing was harmed by the pressure to be a "good writer", where good really just meant "good enough to get published." By sharing my stories for free, I am myself freed from that pressure, and I get to do the thing I love most: create without bounds or limitations. Internal or otherwise. As such, your support would mean a lot to me, and I hope you consider donating.
Buy me a coffee ☕Wonder Box
You might be wondering what this is... The wonderbox is my personal treasure chest of influential stories, games, movies, ideas, books, videos, etc... enter if you dare to find something awesome.
Enter the Wonder Box
